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Yahweh Nissi - The Lord is my Banner Exodus 17 8-16

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  1. You've tuned into a mega church. We are people hungry to

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  8. page through the links below. How God fights for his people.

  9. Basically God fights for you. So we see in the last verse or

  10. the 15th verse, we see that Moses says Moses built an altar

  11. and called it the Lord is my banner.

  12. Everybody says the Lord is my banner.

  13. You know, this is very important.

  14. We were singing, I sing the name of Jesus.

  15. You know, it's something similar.

  16. You are saying the Lord is my banner, you are declaring His

  17. protection, you are declaring His victory, you are declaring

  18. His blessing, you are declaring His provision, you are declaring

  19. His guidance. You declare that God means

  20. something to you. So in the Hebrew it says Yahweh

  21. nisi. Everybody say that Yahweh nisi.

  22. So how? I mean, whenever God gives

  23. himself a name in the Scripture, and that has got deep meaning,

  24. and this is just a very small story where these people have

  25. just experienced a miracle from God.

  26. They have been fed by mana and they drank from the rock.

  27. Their thirst was satisfied by splitting the rock.

  28. God gave them water. Remember, when you have a

  29. miracle in your life, when you experience a miracle in your

  30. life, that's the time they will attack you.

  31. You have a big time and immediately the devil wants to

  32. make sure that you are discouraged.

  33. So he attacks. This is his strategy, this is

  34. how he works. So you need to know how God

  35. works. You also need to know how devil

  36. works. Why you will be prepared to

  37. face. When you know how he works, you

  38. will be prepared to face the devil.

  39. Think of Elijah, he went up on the Mount of Carmel, challenged

  40. the people of Israel, decided today whether the Lord is God.

  41. And then he called all the prophets of Baal, and then he

  42. killed them on the mountain. When the fire came down,

  43. consumed the sacrifice. He killed all the prophets of

  44. Baali, took them captive and killed them in the valley.

  45. But Jezebel, she sent a small message.

  46. Tomorrow by this time, if your head will remain on your

  47. shoulders, that's all she said. And this man ran from there to

  48. Beer Sheva with his servant and left the servant there, then

  49. kept on going, So tired, no energy, no food, no sleep, no

  50. rest. He fell, I mean, under the tree

  51. Bush. He fell asleep until the Angel

  52. came and woke him up and gave him bread and water a second

  53. time. And then he walks 40 days, day

  54. and night, you know, for 40 days he walks and reaches Mount

  55. Sinai, Mount Horre, wherever the Lord was speaking to him.

  56. But how did the enemy attack after the big victory?

  57. Jezebel challenged him. Tomorrow by this time, if your

  58. head will remain on your shoulders.

  59. So here they had the mighty experience of being fed with the

  60. food of the angels, the aid mana, and then they grumbled for

  61. water and God split the rock. Moses went and hit the rock and

  62. it split and gave water. And now in the in NIV doesn't

  63. come out very very strong. NIV says the Amalekites came and

  64. attacked the Israelites, but in some other translation says then

  65. Amalek attacked Israelites, then came Amalek.

  66. So Amalek stands for devil. Amalek stands for the heart of

  67. the devil. Resistance to God, resistance to

  68. the rule of God, resistance to the power of God, resistance to

  69. the plan of God. Amalek is representing the

  70. devil. And what is here happening?

  71. Who is Amalek? Amalek is the descendants of

  72. Esau. Who is Esau?

  73. Esau and Jacob were brothers, he was the eldest basically.

  74. And then God says even before they were born, what does God

  75. say? Isa.

  76. I hated Jacob, I have loved Jacob before anybody does

  77. anything good or bad, how does God say such things?

  78. Now think of that. What I am talking here is a

  79. revelation from the Lord. Yesterday I was sitting there

  80. and studying. The Lord gave me this

  81. revelation, so you may think it is not right.

  82. Why does God reject the eldest son Esau and give a blessing to

  83. the younger? 1 Jacob?

  84. But God foresaw what is going to happen in the future.

  85. He foresaw the descendants of Esau not going to honor God, not

  86. going to fear God, not going to follow God, not going to be part

  87. of God's plan. And they were opposing the work

  88. of God. And you know, very

  89. interestingly, when you look at this last verse of chapter 17,

  90. verse 16, it says he said for hands were lifted up to the

  91. throne of the Lord, The Lord will be at war against

  92. Amalekites from generation to generation.

  93. For how long? Forever.

  94. And they were completely wiped out.

  95. If God had chosen Isa, what would have happened?

  96. They will be working against the plans of God.

  97. God will finish them off. And how will Jesus come into the

  98. world? How can Jesus come into the

  99. world? That is why he saw into the

  100. future. And he said he saw I hated, but

  101. Jacob I loved. My question is, God is looking

  102. at your future, at your heart, at your future, at your children

  103. and children's children and children's children and

  104. children's children. And because you are fearing God,

  105. those descendants are going to be blessed, going to walk in the

  106. blessing of God. He says so.

  107. And so I choose. And you don't fear God and your

  108. children don't fear God. And they are all going to be

  109. atheists and they are going to work against God.

  110. God will say so. And so I have rejected.

  111. It is very simple. Your faith is going to bless the

  112. future generations. It is not in vain.

  113. You believe, you don't believe in vain.

  114. You believe because God is not only God of Moses, is God of

  115. Joshua, He is not only God of Abraham, God of Isaac and Jacob

  116. Forever and ever. He is God S when you believe in

  117. Jesus, what is what is? What you are getting is that God

  118. is going to stand with you and your family forever and ever.

  119. What a great blessing. Can I hear a shout?

  120. Hallelujah. Yeah, Amen.

  121. Whatever. So it is not in vain.

  122. Remember your faith is not in vain because God is putting His

  123. finger on your life and blessing you and is going to bless your

  124. generations. Now I was just thinking about

  125. it, how God plans and changes things.

  126. You know, sometimes He likes something, sometimes he rejects

  127. something. Why does he do it?

  128. Think of Adam and Eve, They ate the fruit, but then he stationed

  129. A flaming sword so that they will not reach out and eat from

  130. the tree of life and live forever.

  131. That was an act of mercy. Otherwise they will be sinful

  132. and living forever. So God wanted to stop it, so he

  133. put a flaming sword. If God does not accept Jacob and

  134. reject Esau, it is going to be like allowing Adam and Eve to

  135. eat from the tree of food, from the tree of life.

  136. That's the reason why he doesn't want to make that happen.

  137. So Selex chooses Jacob and not Esau.

  138. Think of Saul and King David. Saul God made, he chose him as

  139. king, but he did not live up to his expectation.

  140. He disappointed God. He disobeyed God all his life

  141. and as soon as he disobeyed, God said I take your Kingdom and

  142. give to your neighbor. I am taking a Kingdom and giving

  143. to your neighbor. But yet Saul ruled for 40 years.

  144. It took 40 years for God to deal with the family of Saul until

  145. everybody died, until everybody died.

  146. And then God gave the Kingdom, transferred it to David so that

  147. he can establish that Kingdom forever and ever, so that Jesus

  148. can come through that and he can sit on that seat on the throne

  149. of David, and the kiss of David will be on his shoulder and he

  150. will be King of kings, Lord of Lords, forever and ever.

  151. Can we appreciate the wisdom of God, sovereignty of God, His

  152. power, his wisdom, his foresight, his knowledge?

  153. I tell you, the more you think of God, the more you are going

  154. to be humbled by God. They are going to be humbled

  155. before God. So this is this Amalek.

  156. They came and attacked. And why did they attack?

  157. When the Israelis came out of Egypt and crossed through and

  158. all these things were happening, when they came to that area

  159. where Amalek was living, they came and attacked Israel from

  160. behind. From Deuteronomy chapter 25,

    Deuteronomy 25 chapter mention

  161. Deuteronomy chapter 25 verse 1718 says remember what the

    Deuteronomy 25 chapter mention

  162. Amalekans did to you along your way from Egypt, how they met you

  163. on your journey when you were tired and weary and they

  164. attacked all your stragglers. They had No Fear of God.

  165. What what was the main problem? They had No Fear of God.

  166. And the last verse of 17 chapter is difficult to translate, very

  167. difficult to translate. You read some strict one

  168. translation. It says a fist has been raised

  169. against the throne of God and then God says I will fight

  170. Americans from generation to generation.

  171. So when they attack the Israelites, they attack the plan

  172. of God for his his plans and purposes.

  173. An attack on Israel is an attack on God himself.

  174. They raised a fist against Yahweh and God says because of

  175. this I will fight and finish you.

  176. I will fight and finish you and some other places it says no,

  177. no, no, it doesn't mean that. It means Moses lifted up his

  178. hand to the throne of God and because he prayed, God said I am

  179. going to defend you. I am going to protect you.

  180. I will fight the Amalekites from generation to generation,

  181. whatever way you like you take it.

  182. But one thing is clear, that God will not allow anybody to

  183. challenge him and let them go just like that.

  184. He will not. When Saul persecuted the

  185. Christians, what did Jesus say to him?

  186. Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?

  187. You cannot touch the people of God and not touch God.

  188. That is the reason why we need to be having fear of God.

  189. And when you come under the fear of God, when you worship Him,

  190. you are establishing His. When you have established His

  191. throne over in your life, you are going to come under the

  192. banner of God. Everybody said banner, now

  193. banner. What does banner actually mean?

  194. The Yahweh nisi, the word nisi, the root word is Ness in Hebrew,

  195. and that stands for a flag, that stands for a banner.

  196. In the war, when you win, you're walking with the banner because

  197. you're victorious and you got a pole.

  198. Sometimes when when Moses lifted up the pole in the wilderness,

  199. whoever he was bitten by snake, they looked up to the bronze

  200. snake and they were healed. And Jesus refers to it in John

    John 3 chapter mention

  201. chapter 3 when he was talking to Nicodemus.

  202. And he says as Moses lifted up the serpent on a pole in the

  203. wilderness, so shall the Son of Man be lifted up so that whoever

  204. looks to him may be saved. So the word pole is also Ness.

  205. So when God raises a banner, he raises a pole.

  206. You have this is a this chapter 17 is a prefigurement or a

  207. future prophecy of lifting up the name of I mean Jesus himself

  208. on the pole. He because that word Ness stands

  209. for pole. And in the fight against the

  210. enemy, he gives you victory. He fights for you.

  211. He leads you into victory and what we have to do is to

  212. proclaim that he is the banner over my over our lives.

  213. So every day what you have to do is you say Jesus is my Lord when

  214. you are saying you are lifting the banner over your life and

  215. you say Jesus is Lord over my wifes life.

  216. Jesus is Lord over my children's life.

  217. Jesus is Lord over my job. Jesus is Lord over my health.

  218. Jesus is Lord over my promotion. Jesus is Lord over my future.

  219. Jesus is Lord over my destiny. You that banner, Yahweh is

  220. banner over your life. That is according to your

  221. confession, as you confess with your mouth, His protection

  222. descends on your life. His blessing comes upon your

  223. life. That's the reason why Moses,

  224. after the victory, he built an altar and named that altar

  225. Yahweh Nisi, Yahweh Nisi. Everybody say Yahweh Nisi, when

  226. you say it with your mouth, the protection of God, His blessings

  227. descend on you. And when you say it every day,

  228. over your family, over your children, over your finances,

  229. over your destiny, God works out His plan and purposes in your

  230. life, and then He Amalekites. They cease to be a nation.

  231. Today you do not have any country.

  232. Their descendants of Americans are living here.

  233. You cannot point out anywhere they are gone. 2600 years ago

  234. they were eradicated as a people.

  235. You do not have the DNA now anywhere.

  236. Why? God said I will fight Amalekites

  237. from generation to generation. So on that day God told Moses,

  238. tell Joshua to engage them in the war.

  239. Let him take the men who are capable to fight and fight the

  240. Amalekites tomorrow. But you go up on the mountain,

  241. hold the stuff that you have in your hand above, in your above

  242. like this, with two hands. And that's what happened in

  243. chapter 17. Next day Joshua goes with his

  244. army and is fighting in the on the on the playing field.

  245. And Moses goes up along with Aaron and Hood.

  246. And with when Moses was lifting up the hands with the rod was

  247. up, they were winning because his hands get tired and he

  248. brings it down. I'm gonna get start winning.

  249. What does this mean? It is prayer that wins the war.

  250. Not your power, not your weapons, not your horses, not

  251. your Spears, not your sports, not what you have is going to

  252. save you, deliver you. It is prayer.

  253. Everybody say prayer to enforce that idea.

  254. God says in verse 16 sorry, not 16 in verse 15 later 14 sorry in

  255. verse 14 he says then the Lord said to Moses, write this on a

  256. scroll as something to be remembered and make sure that

  257. Joshua hears it because I will completely blot out the memory

  258. of Hamalek from under heaven. From under heaven.

  259. I am going to remove the memory of Hamale 100% people will not

  260. remember them anymore because I am going to finish last one of

  261. them. I am going to kill everyone of

  262. them. You know when God says something

  263. like that is the end of that matter.

  264. May He never look at our life and say, I want to finish this

  265. case. Let there be faith in our heart

  266. that will attract His grace. Let there be trust in Him that

  267. will attract His blessing. Let there be joy at the mention

  268. of the name of Jesus because that joy will trigger you to

  269. live for Him, gives you energy, gives you power.

  270. It gives you, it motivates you. Let the name of Jesus motivate

  271. you to live for Him, because that will attract a blessing.

  272. And he said write it down. This is the first time you see,

  273. even though already many things were written down here for the

  274. first time, here he is writing down for the future generations.

  275. Why let Joshua hear it? You know the name Joshua comes

  276. basically from the Hebrew root word Hosea, that the Lord is my

  277. salvation. And Joshua is another another

  278. the another name for the name of Jesus, the name of Jesus.

  279. So you have Moses who is on the mountain fighting the battle and

  280. you have Joshua fighting on the field.

  281. Both represent Jesus. Both represent Jesus.

  282. You need Jesus interceding for you by the right hand of the

  283. Father right now he is praying for you day and night.

  284. You may be sleeping and get up in the morning.

  285. What a refreshing sleep, but Jesus was praying for you when

  286. you're asleep or you say I got this money, I got this

  287. promotion, I got this job. I he is sitting by the right

  288. hand of the Father is praying for you.

  289. He's fighting a battle. He's fighting a battle.

  290. That's why you can exist and flourish because he's praying to

  291. the Father Day and night for you, making intercession.

  292. So Moses was doing that lifting, lifting up the staff in his hand

  293. was basically prayer. And that prayer was helping

  294. Joshua to win. And when his hand was tired and

  295. was going down, Amalekatsu was winning.

  296. The enemy was winning. That's why you have Aaron and

  297. who they said OK. If this is how the game has to

  298. be played, they bring a big stone and roll it under him and

  299. say sit on it. Now think of sitting 8 hours on

  300. a stone, hard stone which is not polished, not is it very

  301. comfortable. Try it sometime when you have

  302. free time. Just sit on a rock, 30 minutes.

  303. It's not easy Job. They didn't have a cushion.

  304. Oh, let's put this little small cushion under Moses.

  305. He was sitting on the Hard Rock because there's a little

  306. support. That was a little comforting

  307. prayer he needed. And they had to hold his hands

  308. up one side and another side who they held his hands up so that

  309. until the evening they held it up until the battle is won.

  310. Prayer is not for a few minutes. Jesus wanted the same kind of a

  311. support like Moses needed Aaron. And who to lift his hands up.

  312. Jesus was in the Garden of Gethsemane and he comes to the

  313. disciples, three of them. He says, Come with me and pray,

  314. pray. He goes little more, little more

  315. distance. He fell on his face.

  316. God my Father, let this cup pass from me.

  317. Not my will, but thy will be done.

  318. And he was in great agony, even to the point of death.

  319. And he comes again and looks at Simon, and he says, what?

  320. He was sleeping. Simon, are you sleeping?

  321. Get up, watch and pray so lest you enter into temptation.

  322. When you pray, you are not doing God a favor, you are doing a

  323. favor to yourself. Why Simon?

  324. He neglected to pray in the Garden of Gethsemane that day to

  325. support Jesus. That is why he had to deny him

  326. three times before the rooster crore.

  327. He had to deny. I don't know this man, I don't

  328. know him. I don't know him.

  329. What you are saying, I don't understand.

  330. I don't know this man. Why?

  331. Because he did not pray when children hit the hard places in

  332. their life. Its parents who fail to pray

  333. When the spouse is not doing well in some area is another

  334. spouse that is not praying. When future is bleak and dark

  335. and there is no hope and you don't know where you are going,

  336. that's because we have not prayed.

  337. We have not prayed and young Joshua, this is the first time

  338. his name is mentioned and he is going to lead after Moses.

  339. He is going to take over the reins and he is going to become

  340. the leader of the Israelites to lead them into the Promised

  341. Land. So this is his first battle lest

  342. he be puffed up with pride. God told Moses.

  343. Write it down and let Joshua here.

  344. Why pride can destroy Joshua. So God is protecting Joshua from

  345. being destroyed by pride, saying write it down.

  346. It is an answer to prayer. In answer to prayer, the hands

  347. are lifted up. I have fought.

  348. So today this is the most beautiful process I am telling

  349. you, where you have convergence of God's sovereignty and God's

  350. power, meeting human weakness and the plans and purposes of

  351. God being fulfilled through prayer, where man cooperates

  352. with God, Man cooperates with God.

  353. Does He need you and your prayer?

  354. Can you send one Angel finish off the Amalekites?

  355. He can, but God chooses to use you to join him in prayer.

  356. I can sense the presence of the Holy Spirit right now.

  357. Here He is moving over on everyone of you who are

  358. listening to me now, and He is impressing on your heart.

  359. My son, my daughter, will you rise up and become a prayer

  360. warrior? It's not just pastor who prays

  361. and the church is filled up with people.

  362. It doesn't happen like that. It is a bunch of people who will

  363. be praying and then the revival comes.

  364. We need Aaron and Hulu and we need the people on in the field,

  365. on the plane fighting the Amalekites.

  366. We need Joshua, we need the Israelites.

  367. It is entire church has to be praying to see a revival.

  368. It's not just one man's job. The question is, are we wanting

  369. to see revival? Do we want this name of Jesus to

  370. be spoken over the city of Christchurch, over Selvin?

  371. If we want to, then we need to become men and women of prayer.

  372. Why are we so hard pressed and say no, no, no prayer?

  373. I skipped this time, this week. I'm not there, I'm busy.

  374. If that becomes your breath, if that becomes your life, if that

  375. becomes your either win or loss, and if you are going to fight

  376. like that, then prayer makes sense to you my friend, it is

  377. not easy. What did Jesus say to the

  378. disciples? Can you not keep awake and pray

  379. For how much? One hour?

  380. He did not say Simon. 2 minutes. Please pray for me.

  381. Did he say? He said how long?

  382. One hour. Many people don't like me.

  383. Whenever I mention one hour, they resist in their heart.

  384. I am telling you, in 2 minutes nothing happens.

  385. Nothing happens in 2 minutes. When you have prayed for an hour

  386. every day and then you are in a crisis and you cry out for two

  387. seconds, still the two seconds will work because you have

  388. prayed for one hour every day. If you only pray for two

  389. seconds, you will never work. Why would God have to come down

  390. and rescue you when you have only two seconds for Him?

  391. Think about it. You go to work for 8 hours,

  392. that's why you get a full pay and you say I am here 5 minutes

  393. in a day. You think your employer is going

  394. to give you full money everywhere?

  395. The laws are the same, spiritual laws are not different.

  396. So now Amalekites were fought by Joshua that day, but they were

  397. not completely defeated. They were defeated but not

  398. completely eradicated. You see them up showing their

  399. head again and again. Saul fights Amalekites, but he

  400. did not kill the king of Amalek and Samuel came and pushed the

  401. sword through him and killed him.

  402. And after Saul, you see they were fighting the Amalekites,

  403. but still they were not gone. You see the king Hezekiah's time

  404. a tribe Simeon, I think it is tribe of Simeon.

  405. They go and fight the Amalekites and eradicated last one of them,

  406. everyone of them that is 2600 years ago.

  407. Amalek is finished. Now you may be thinking, oh they

  408. must be very horrible people. They are not the only people I

  409. will show you in the scriptures, lot of people who have been

  410. finished. And one more thing is why did

  411. God have such kind of a dislike for Amalek with Amalekites?

  412. The king Balak was hiring Balaam to come and curse the

  413. Israelites. He took him on the mountain,

  414. looked down on the plane how all these Israelites are 2 million

  415. people are there. You put a curse on them so that

  416. I can defeat them in the war. So many times he tried.

  417. Every time Balaam ended up blessing him, not cursing.

  418. But when he when he uttered a Oracle against Amalek, he said

  419. Amalek is the first among the nations.

  420. But he will be destroyed by whom?

  421. The same people on whom he is trying to put a curse, they are

  422. going to destroy Amalek. And Amalek is a symbol of the

  423. enemy, the devil. Devil will be finished, but who

  424. is going to finish the devil the church to the church Jesus said

  425. I will put I give you authority to turn up on snakes carpet all

  426. the power the enemy in no, no by number means he is going to harm

  427. you hurt you. The devil cannot hurt you.

  428. Why? Jesus has given you authority

  429. and He given you under your feet.

  430. You have to crush the enemy. It is given, but you don't want

  431. to fight, you don't want to pray.

  432. He is going to have a good field day.

  433. They will laugh at you when you don't pray.

  434. Ah, I don't worry about this man.

  435. Why he have only pressed 2 minutes?

  436. He says he sets the target of 5 minutes before 2 minutes is

  437. finished. How do you they will knows you

  438. more than you know yourself and particularly they will knows you

  439. more than you pray. He knows your strength, He knows

  440. your weakness. He knows what is going to happen

  441. tomorrow because he has watched thousands of Christians who are

  442. not prayed and he finished them. He will have a list of people.

  443. If you want, can I have a list? There's a list in the back, you

  444. know, some kind of warriors and all that, but the devil also

  445. will have a list of people he defeated, He is captured, he

  446. ruined, and he will look at you and say, hmm, look at the list.

  447. I want to put your name there. What do you want to say to him?

  448. What do you want to say to devil?

  449. Ah, you are right. Come on, go ahead and put my

  450. name. No, challenge him.

  451. Put him under his feet. God is waiting for you to rise

  452. up to fight his battle. He wants to cope.

  453. See, we need Moses, we need Joshua, we need the army of God.

  454. Without anyone of them, the fight is going to be incomplete.

  455. So God, Jesus has defeated Satan already upon the cross.

  456. He defeated death, He defeated sin, He defeated the devil.

  457. But he wants you to defeat him once more.

  458. Once more He wants you to defeat the enemy.

  459. And there is no other weapon stronger than prayer, no other

  460. weapon stronger than prayer. That's the reason why we need to

  461. pray. And if Jesus is telling Simon,

  462. can you not wait for one hour and pray for me?

  463. Keep awake in one hour. And I tell you, that's what in

  464. the in the Gospel of Mark, it says the flesh is weak, Spirit

  465. is willing. The church has not come out of

  466. that condition yet. Every time we hear about prayer,

  467. hmm, from tomorrow and that tomorrow never comes, I am going

  468. to pray for one hour from tomorrow and that tomorrow never

  469. comes. And the day you can prevail in

  470. the presence of God, you prevail over the enemy, and you cannot

  471. prevail in the presence of God. The enemy will be winning.

  472. Your hand is going down, he wins, Your hand is up.

  473. When you put both of your hands in the air, what you are trying

  474. to say is you are expressing full dependence on God, full

  475. dependence on God, saying no, no, no.

  476. It is not my strength, it is not my power that is going to

  477. accomplish it. I lift my hands up, my Lord, my

  478. God, you fight for me. I depend upon you completely.

  479. And then God says, Son, you have so much of trust in me, I will

  480. fight for you. Daughter, you have so much of

  481. trust in me. I will fight for you, I will

  482. fight for you. I will bless you, I will guide

  483. you, I will protect you. Then you will have a testimony

  484. and you say Yahweh nisi, you will have a testimony.

  485. I am telling you there is no testimony.

  486. Your Christian life is insipid, it is lukewarm, it is dead.

  487. You must have a testimony. You know, worship service.

  488. We used to have a testimony time.

  489. Somebody spoiled it and then they are when we give time.

  490. Nobody is there to say anything good about God because they do

  491. not have an experience of God. What kind of a church is that

  492. where you have no single testimony, 1 testimony, No one

  493. testimony or not a single person has a testimony in a week.

  494. What kind of church is that? You are not experiencing God.

  495. It is just not right. If God is a living God and you

  496. have a living faith, we must have a testimony.

  497. Cool, so much I said, which is not written down here.

  498. So we need to build a prayer altar.

  499. We need to build a prayer altar in our life.

  500. Learn to fight in prayer, but learn to fight in prayer.

  501. And the staff that Moses lifted up the stands for authority of

  502. God in Psalm 23, verse 4, thy rod and thy staff, they comfort

    Psalms 23:4

  503. me. That rod is Ness.

  504. The rod is Ness, which is the sameness that he is holding in

  505. his hand is the sameness on which Christ died upon the cross

  506. is the sameness. But we need to come under that

  507. Ness, under the authority of God, enforce the authority of

  508. God in our life over situation, over Amalek, over devil and you

  509. will win. You will win.

  510. There is so much there to talk about in the book of Isaiah,

  511. verse, Chapter 11, verse 10, it says the root of Jesse will

  512. stand as a banner for the peoples.

  513. Who is the root of Jesse, Jesus Christ of Nazareth?

  514. What is he going to become? He will become a banner over the

  515. peoples, not singular plural. Peoples is people group, people

  516. group, people group. Many, many people groups.

  517. The whole world. He is the banner.

  518. He is the banner. And again, there's one more

  519. verse in Isaiah which says 14 and 22 extends the picture.

  520. I will lift up my hand to the nations and raise my banner to

  521. the peoples. They will bring your sons in

  522. their arms. This is talking about the end

  523. times when the Jewish people are scattered all over the world.

  524. God says I am going to raise a banner and the peoples are kings

  525. are going to bring the children of God in their hand.

  526. Basically you like you carry a child.

  527. They are going to bring the Jewish people from all over the

  528. world and gather them in Jerusalem.

  529. What a beautiful promise for Israel.

  530. So we need Aaron, who in Exodus 1712, Aaron who held up hands on

  531. Moses, one on the one side and the other on the other side.

  532. And Jesus asked for the help, saying, my soul is overwhelmed

  533. to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch and

  534. pray. That's what Jesus asked, and

  535. that what He asked disciples is not yet over.

  536. He is sitting as King by the attention of the Father, but He

  537. still depends on the Church to pray between upon you and upon

  538. me. He is depending on our prayers

  539. to accomplish His will, His plan, His purpose, His Kingdom

  540. to come with power. He is looking to us to pray

  541. because He wants to answer. He is ready to answer, but if

  542. there is no one who is praying, what is he going to answer?

  543. You have nothing to ask. What is he going to give you?

  544. So Joshua could not have succeeded without Moses, and

  545. Moses could not have prevailed without the support of Aaron.

  546. And who? Not everybody can be a Moses or

  547. Joshua, ADL Moody or a Billy Graham, but all Christians can

  548. be like Aaron and who and help hold their hands as they obey

  549. God. We need to hold the hands of

  550. your leaders so that they can obey God.

  551. God is looking for people who will share in the battle and the

  552. victory because they continue straight firstly in prayer.

  553. There was a single mother in the United States who was diagnosed

  554. with the terminal cancer. So there will be good days and

  555. bad days. There are days when she goes for

  556. chemo, and she is a woman who was praying very fervently.

  557. She is a prayer warrior. But there will be after the

  558. chemo, no strength, no energy to pray, no motivation to pray.

  559. It is the psychological condition caused by the chemo

  560. that does not allow her to pray. So she cried out to the church

  561. and the church said we will play the role of Aaron and her in

  562. your life. So one lady said, I'll pray for

  563. you every morning. Another one said, I'll pray for

  564. you every afternoon. Another said, I'll pray for you

  565. every night. And people took up different

  566. sorts of time and they started praying for her.

  567. And when she is on the table undergoing chemo, she knows that

  568. somebody is praying because something changes in her body.

  569. She feels the presence of God, the hand of God, because

  570. somebody is crying out to lift her up and say God touch her and

  571. heal her. And she came through completely

  572. healed. God gives the church so that we

  573. fight together, not on our own individuals.

  574. Don't be ashamed to say I have prayer need.

  575. Don't be ashamed to say I have prayer need.

  576. Why? Because the church is wanting to

  577. pray and support you so many times.

  578. I am praying for you guys. I don't just speak in the air

  579. individually by name. I pray sometimes and sometimes

  580. God shows something and I say this is what God is saying and I

  581. want all of us to do the same thing.

  582. Pray and wait. If you begin to pray one hour a

  583. day, before long you will begin to hear God very clearly.

  584. You will hear his words. You will see what is what is

  585. going to do like a video, you will see it and you will hear

  586. his voice explaining things to you.

  587. And before long you will become you will be having words of

  588. knowledge, words of wisdom. Somebody will be encouraged by

  589. your prophecy. Somebody will be healed by your

  590. prayer. And somebody is going to be set

  591. free from the demonic oppression because you have set aside that

  592. one hour every day. Do you want Yahweh to be nisi?

  593. Do you want Jesus to be banner over your life?

  594. Do you want to say Jesus is Lord over my life, my future, my

  595. children, my spouse, my job, my finances?

  596. And do you want to have a testimony where you can always

  597. say Yahweh is nisi? He is my banner.

  598. You know, you identify, you identify a team that is just on

  599. yachting races. You know, you got to every year

  600. you got that races going on and look at the sail.

  601. Oh that's New Zealand. You say.

  602. You look at the sail and say, oh, that's Morocco.

  603. I look at the sail and say, oh, This Is Us team.

  604. Will somebody look at your sail and say he she belongs to Jesus?

  605. Can somebody look at your cell and say you have made him a

  606. banner of your life? Can they see Jesus as a banner

  607. over your life? Let's pray.

  608. Father God, we thank you for your word.

  609. Again, thank you for challenging me.

  610. Thank you, Lord, for you have spoken.

  611. I know you have spoken, my Lord, I know you have spoken.

  612. I call upon the Holy Spirit to move powerfully now in the name

  613. of Jesus. I ask you to touch people, raise

  614. up errands and hooves and Joshua's in this congregation,

  615. people who will become men and women of prayer and who will

  616. partake in your plans and purposes, who will bring your

  617. Kingdom into the city. Oh my God, I pray that you will

  618. touch your children now to the glory of your name.

  619. Their life will change today because, Holy Ghost, you are

  620. stirring their heart. You are touching their heart.

  621. You are touching their mind in the name of Jesus.

  622. Appeal to you now in the name of Jesus.

  623. If you want to see his Kingdom come, his will be done.

  624. And if you want to say, I want to make Jesus my banner, I want

  625. to spend time, one hour a day, whatever it costs, I want to

  626. partake in His plans and purposes.

  627. I want His blessing to come, His protection to come.

  628. I want His guidance. I want to hear His voice.

  629. I want to be guided by Him. I will give my time to pray in

  630. His presence. Just commit yourself to that

  631. kind of a commitment and I want to pray for you.

  632. Just stand where you are and say if you want to commit yourself

  633. to prayer, just stand where you are.

  634. Don't be ashamed. It's not about anybody looking

  635. at you, it is Jesus. Make him banner over your life.

  636. Make him banner over your life. Make him banner over your life.

  637. Let somebody look at you and say they belong to Jesus.

  638. I see Jesus, I see the banner of Jesus over their life.

  639. Father, as your children have responded to your word in the

  640. name of Jesus, in the mighty name of Jesus, I come against

  641. Amalek. In their life, Amalek, I speak

  642. to you in the name of Jesus, be lifted off of their life.

  643. I command Amalek, take hands of their life.

  644. I curse you, Amalek, in the name of Jesus, spirit of Amalek, that

  645. works against the Kingdom of God, against the plan of God,

  646. against the throne of God. If you raise your hand against

  647. the children of God, I curse you, you Amalek, in the name of

  648. Jesus. And I command you, take hands of

  649. these people now in the name of Jesus.

  650. They are the children of God, Yahweh nissi.

  651. For them it is Jesus over their life is Jesus is Lord over them,

  652. their children, their finance, their finances, their future,

  653. their destiny. Jesus is Lord.

  654. And they will like, come on you take your hands of their life

  655. now in the mighty name of Jesus. I resist you.

  656. In the name of Jesus, my Father, I have prayed in your name and

  657. you look at the hearts of people and Holy Spirit, touch them.

  658. Now, every heart, touch it, touch it, touch it, touch it,

  659. touch it, my Lord, touch their heart, touch their heart, touch

  660. their heart. To the glory of your name.

  661. Make us men and women of prayer and bring your Kingdom down into

  662. the situation where we live to the glory of your name Jesus.

  663. Mighty name, we pray and everybody says Amen.

  664. Thanks for joining us at Omega. If you need prayer for healing

  665. or breakthrough, or simply to find out more, please head to

  666. our website or Facebook page in the links below.