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Refusing to Fear - Kingdom Empowerment with Pastor Angie Krulcik

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  1. So I want to start with Psalm 27 and I'm going to read to you

  2. verses one through 6. Psalm 27 verse one says the Lord

  3. is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear?

  4. The Lord is the strength of my life.

  5. That ought to be your confession.

  6. That's got to be a confession that I want you to leave here

  7. tonight. And and I want it's, it's

  8. different if I say God's your strength.

  9. It's different if I say don't fear, if God says don't fear.

  10. But it's way bigger and way more impactful.

  11. If you go home and say God is the strength of my life, I will

  12. not fear, I will not be discouraged.

  13. That's what provides power. You can know that the Word of

  14. God says it, but if you're not saying it out of your mouth,

  15. then it's not affecting you. So this, says the Lord, is the

  16. strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?

  17. When the wicked came against me to eat up my flesh, my enemies

  18. and my foes, they stumbled and fell.

  19. Though an army may encamp against me, my heart shall not

  20. fear. Though war may rise against me,

  21. and this will I be confident. One thing I have desired of the

  22. Lord, and that will I seek, that I may dwell in the House of the

  23. Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord,

  24. and to inquire in His temple. For in the time of trouble He

  25. shall hide me in His pavilion. That is His thicket.

  26. That is A1 translation, says His Hut.

  27. It means you're totally fenced in and totally protected.

  28. He shall hide me in His pavilion.

  29. In the secret place of His Tabernacle He shall hide me.

  30. He shall set me high upon a rock, and now my head shall be

  31. lifted up above my enemies all around me.

  32. My head shall be lifted up above my enemies all around me.

  33. Therefore I will OfferUp sacrifices of joy in His

  34. Tabernacle. I will sing, yes, I will sing

  35. praises to the Lord. And when the scripture says the

  36. Lord is the strength of your life, that word strength there

  37. is your quickening. It is a place of safety,

  38. protection, refugee, huge and a stronghold.

  39. But you know the word of God, it has power in it.

  40. And so when you speak that the the Lord is the strength of my

  41. life, it quickens your body. It quickens your mind that the

  42. Lord is the strength of your life.

  43. Not that I can just tell you tonight you can walk out of here

  44. and go awesome. The Lord is the strength of my

  45. life. But if you go out of here and

  46. you make that confession your own and starts you get up in the

  47. morning and say, God, you're the strength of my life.

  48. I will not fear, I will not be discouraged.

  49. I will not be moved to the right or to the left.

  50. God, you're the strength of my life.

  51. Although the, the the mountains may move, things may fall into

  52. the sea. I will not, my heart will not

  53. fail. And I'm just telling you in the

  54. last days, the things that are happening, the things that we're

  55. seeing happening, you need to get on top of your mind and your

  56. heart and you need to tell yourself you need to do like

  57. what David did when he said soul, why are you downcast?

  58. He had to talk to his his own soul and say, why are you

  59. downcast? Oh my soul, put your hope in God

  60. and you got to do that. Sometimes you got to look in the

  61. mirror and go, why are you downcast?

  62. Why are you discouraged? Put your hope in God and the the

  63. quicker you learn how to not be led by what you see and what you

  64. feel, the anxiety that tries to come, the better off you'll

  65. because you're living by faith. OK, so let's go to Psalms 118.

  66. Here's David again. You know, sometimes it's easy

  67. for us to put our, our trust and our strength and our resources

  68. and our connections and our, our status, our, our money, our

  69. relationships, all of those things.

  70. Sometimes it's easy for us to feel good about ourselves when

  71. we have those things. But but really, the Bible says

  72. your own righteousness is like filthy rags, and you ought to

  73. think about that every day. There's not anything in my own

  74. strength. It's all God and every good and

  75. perfect gift comes from Him. And so I'm just going to give

  76. him all the glory. It's not anything I can do.

  77. If he gave me the ability to to make money, if he gave me the

  78. ability to own a business, if he gave me the ability to do

  79. anything, it's because He did it.

  80. And I'm going to give him all the glory.

  81. I'm not going to be like the Scripture and Deuteronomy that

  82. says once you get into that land and that blessing, now don't you

  83. forget, Don't you forget who gave that to you.

  84. You ought to be real quick all the time to say, God, I'm so

  85. thankful, Father, you're worthy. I'll give you all the glory all

  86. the time, all the time. Psalms 118 says I called on the

  87. Lord in distress and the Lord answered me and set me in a

  88. broad place. The Lord is on my side and I

  89. will not fear. What can man do to me?

  90. Now listen to this next part. The Lord is my strength and my

  91. song, and He has become my salvation.

  92. You know, and I know probably a lot of you know this, but inside

  93. of salvation is everything that you need.

  94. It's everything that God has done.

  95. It's the peace that you need. It's the the quietness that you

  96. need. It's the provision, it's the

  97. health that you need. But one of the definitions for

  98. salvation is that you're no longer molested by the enemy.

  99. You're no longer, you know, tossed to and fro by every wind

  100. of doctrine or every voice that comes at you.

  101. You got to get really good when all those things come at you

  102. that every day. I've shared this before.

  103. When I was a little girl, I ran out of the house without my

  104. shirt on and and I was little, so it wasn't that big a deal.

  105. But but, but I was horrified. And I remember I ran outside

  106. talking about being distracted. I ran outside and I was like, I

  107. don't have a shirt on and I ran back in the house and I would, I

  108. cried and I was so upset. And you know, a lot of times we

  109. walk out of the house and we don't got our britches on and we

  110. don't got our shirt on. I'm talking about in the spirit

  111. now we come on, get, get, get back over.

  112. We got to make sure we're putting on the full armor of God

  113. every day, every day that the helmet of salvation.

  114. I know who I am in Christ and I know in whom I believe the, the

  115. belt of truth buckled around my waist, the breastplate of

  116. righteousness in place. That means I I know that it's

  117. him that gave me that righteousness and that's

  118. protecting all my vital organs. So anytime something tries to

  119. tell me different, I say no, no, I got my breastplate of

  120. righteousness on. I got my feet fitted with the

  121. gospel of peace. I've got the sword of the

  122. Spirit, which is the word of God.

  123. And that's the part that's the offense.

  124. And that's the part that you got to be saying that you got to be

  125. speaking out. Now let's go to Philippians

  126. chapter one. I'm going to read Philippians

    Philippians 1:27–30

  127. chapter 1 verses 27 through 30 in the amplified classic edition

  128. because it just breaks it down so good.

  129. Verse 27 says only be sure as citizens so to conduct

  130. yourselves, that your manner of life will be worthy of the good

  131. news of the gospel of Christ. So that whether I do come and

  132. see you or I'm absent, I may hear this of you and this.

  133. We want this to be said of us, that you are standing firm in

  134. united spirit and purpose, striving side by side, and

  135. contending with a single mind for the faith of the glad

  136. tidings, the gospel. Now listen to verse 28 and do

  137. not for a moment be frightened. Do not for a moment be

  138. frightened or intimidated in anything by your opponents and

  139. adversaries, no matter what your opponents, no matter what your

  140. adversaries bring to you, the scripture says.

  141. Don't even for a moment be frightened or intimidated by

  142. anything that they bring, for such constancy by you and

  143. fearlessness will be a clear sign, proof and seal to them of

  144. their impending destruction, but a sure token and evidence of

  145. your deliverance and salvation and that from God.

  146. I don't think y'all got that. So I'm going to read that verse

  147. again. And do not for a moment be

  148. frightened or intimidated in anything by your opponents and

  149. adversaries, for such constancy and fearlessness will be a clear

  150. sign, proof and seal to them of their impending destruction, but

  151. a sure token and evidence of your deliverance and salvation

  152. and that from God. And all of that is because you

  153. didn't. For a moment, for one second,

  154. you didn't allow fear or intimidation to stay in your

  155. mind. Not for a moment in Luke 2119,

  156. that scripture is talking about, you know, the last days, and it

  157. says in your patience possess ye your soul.

  158. And that scripture in another translation, what it means is in

  159. your steadfastness, you possess your soul and all these things

  160. that are happening in the these last day, last days that we're

  161. living in, all the things that we're seeing, the scripture says

  162. you need to possess your soul. You need to get on top of what's

  163. happening up here. Because if you give, if you give

  164. fear one second and then you give it 2 minutes and then you

  165. give it about half an hour and then next thing you know you're

  166. down in the ditch having a stronghold of the spirit of

  167. fear. You can't give it a minute.

  168. You can't give it a second. Second John chapter 2 says, I

  169. wish and desire, brethren, above all things, that you would

  170. prosper and be in health even as your soul prospers.

  171. And that word prosper means that there's a, there's a direct way

  172. in your mind, There's an easy flow in your mind.

  173. And how do you know that you're, that you are prospering in your

  174. mind and that you're not yielding to fear, that you're

  175. not worrying? Brother Hagin used to say, if

  176. you're, if you're constantly thinking about something, you're

  177. probably worrying about it. You wake up thinking about

  178. something, you're probably worrying about it.

  179. You got something on your mind all the time.

  180. You've probably allowed worry to come in.

  181. Worry and anxiety is really fear.

  182. So in this time that we live in, if you're going to have the

  183. victory, if you're not going to lose your mind, you can't let

  184. any of these things have even a second.

  185. And you got to be that fiery about it.

  186. The the Bible says the Kingdom of heaven is advancing and the

  187. violent take it by force. You got to be that violent about

  188. it. You've got to practice peace.

  189. You've got to be skillful about it.

  190. It cost him everything for you to have a sound mind.

  191. It cost him everything for you to be able to walk in peace.

  192. So why do we walk around disturbed?

  193. Why do we walk around with anxiety and fear and worry and

  194. and being agitated about stuff? He paid for all of it so that

  195. you could have a sound mind. Psalm 42 five is the Scripture

  196. that I gave you about David saying, why are you in despair,

  197. O my soul, and why have you become restless and disturbed

  198. within me? Hope in God and wait expectantly

  199. for him, for I shall again praise him for the help of his

  200. presence. Psalm 23 from the Scripture we

  201. just read about the the enemies. Don't you give them a second?

  202. Don't you give them a minute? They're there and they're

  203. talking. Psalm 23 says the Lord is my

  204. shepherd. I shall not want.

  205. He makes me to lie down in green pastures now Is that peaceful?

  206. Green pastures is pretty peaceful.

  207. He leads me beside the still waters.

  208. Is that peaceful? He restores my soul.

  209. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's

  210. sake. Yeah.

  211. Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will

  212. fear no evil, for you are with me.

  213. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

  214. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.

  215. You're seated at a table in the presence of your enemies.

  216. You anoint my head with oil and my cup runneth over.

  217. Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my

  218. life and I will dwell in the House of the Lord forever.

  219. I remember the first time I realized that I was seated at

  220. the table and and my enemies were there and they were talking

  221. and I was a Rhema student. I've shared this story before.

  222. I was a Rhema student and I had pulled into my apartment and I

  223. was listening to a, a teaching by Brother Hagin called Casting

  224. Your Cares. And in that, in that teaching,

  225. he started talking about Psalm 23 and how we're seated at the

  226. table and how our enemies are there and they're talking to us

  227. and they're saying stuff. But he started, he started

  228. saying, well, just pass me the bowl of victory and then just

  229. pass me the bowl of joy. I'm, I'm, I'm going to stay

  230. seated right here. And I know they're talking and I

  231. know they're saying stuff, but just pass me the bowl of, of

  232. joy. Just pass me the bowl of peace.

  233. Just pass me the bowl of provision.

  234. And I got so excited listening to that, that I opened my car

  235. door and took off running. It was at night and I just took

  236. off running down the street and I didn't care.

  237. And I didn't care who was watching because I learned that

  238. I was seated at the table. And I learned that I had

  239. authority over those voices that were talking to me.

  240. And when I learned that that I had authority over them, I was

  241. able to go, no, no, no, no, no. I know who you are.

  242. I recognize that all you can do is lie.

  243. All you can do is tell me who I'm not.

  244. All you can do is tell me what I don't have and I'm just going

  245. to, I'm going to stay seated in my place of victory.

  246. Far above. You know, the scripture says

  247. you're far above all rule and authority and power and

  248. dominion. Far above it, You're far above.

  249. You just sit here and and all those enemies and all those

  250. little things are down there and they're under your feet.

  251. Cygnus is under your feet. Whatever it is, it's under your

  252. feet. And you can know it and you can

  253. say, yes, Amen. But if you don't walk out of

  254. here and you don't say it yourself and you don't get it in

  255. your spirit and in your mind yourself, then you're just

  256. sitting up in here like Saul was when David came and played the

  257. harp for him. And, and, and every time David

  258. did that, there was an anointing and, and Saul was comforted and

  259. he had peace. And this church is not going to

  260. be like those religious leaders who walk up in here and say

  261. Hallelujah and then we walk out of here and we're all bound up.

  262. That's not who we are. That's not who you are.

  263. You get too good of teaching here and there's too great of a

  264. body right here for you to be connected for you to walk out of

  265. here and look all bound up. And if you're married and you

  266. got a spouse that is all bound up, you better keep them

  267. accountable and help them get out of their little thing.

  268. Speak the word to them. You know, I was that way in the

  269. beginning of, of my marriage. We're teaching marriage class

  270. right now and, and we've shared this and I was a mess.

  271. I was a Rhema student and I was, my mind was being renewed and,

  272. you know, I was growing a lot, but I still had a lot of baggage

  273. that I was carrying. And I was still emotional.

  274. And I had, you know, some fits here and there.

  275. And I remember I threw myself on the bed and I can't remember

  276. why. I don't need you to pipe in.

  277. I saw his eyebrows go like that. But I threw myself on the bed

  278. and was pitching a fit. And he didn't, he didn't look at

  279. me and say, what's wrong with you, woman?

  280. He didn't do anything like that. He just stood there, just

  281. watched me and said, you're a woman of God.

  282. You're a woman of God. And, and in the beginning, and I

  283. shared this with our class, in the beginning, I was like,

  284. you're a liar. Quit saying that.

  285. And and what he was doing was speaking faith to me.

  286. And eventually it caused me to stand up a little taller, and it

  287. caused me to go, yeah, I am that woman of God.

  288. And you got to do that for your spouse.

  289. If they're all bound up in the house and not live, and they can

  290. come in here and run a lap and shout a victory and do

  291. something, but they go home and get in their little depressed

  292. bed, you better say something to them.

  293. I don't know who that was for, but don't look at your spouse.

  294. OK, Let's go to Acts 20, verses 22 through 24.

    Acts 20:22–24

  295. Oh my goodness, Acts 20 verses 22 through 24 says, and now you

    Acts 20:22–24

  296. see, I'm going to Jerusalem. This is this is Paul.

  297. And there was all kinds of stuff that he was had to deal with

  298. leading up to these verses. I'm going to Jerusalem bound by

  299. the Holy Spirit and obligated and compelled by the convictions

  300. of my own spirit, not knowing what will befall me there,

  301. except that the Holy Spirit clearly and emphatically affirms

  302. to me in city after city that imprisonment and suffering

  303. awaits me. You heard that right.

  304. OK. That imprisonment and suffering

  305. awaits me. The Holy Spirit told him that

  306. some of y'all would say, devil get behind me, that I'm.

  307. That's not happening. I know that's the devil.

  308. You better know the Holy Ghost well enough to know who's

  309. talking to you. So he said the Holy Spirit

  310. clearly and emphatically told him that imprisonment and

  311. suffering awaited awaited him. And he said, But none of these

  312. things move me. None of these things move me,

  313. Neither do I esteem my life dear to myself, if only I may finish

  314. my course with joy. And the ministry which I have

  315. obtained from which was entrusted to me by the Lord

  316. Jesus faithfully to attest to the good news, the gospel of

  317. God's grace, His unmerited favors, spiritual blessing and

  318. mercy. Everybody say none of these

  319. things move me. That's another great confession.

  320. When something comes, some trial comes right in your face that

  321. you say. None of these things move me.

  322. I will not be moved by this. Isaiah 12 two says, behold God

  323. is my salvation. I will trust and not be afraid

  324. for Yahweh. The Lord is my strength and my

  325. song. He also has become my salvation.

  326. Psalm 18 says verse one, I will love you, O Lord, my strength.

  327. The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer.

  328. Listen to this what David says. I love this scripture.

  329. The Lord is my rock and my fortress, and my deliverer, my

  330. God, my strength, in whom I will trust my shield and the horn of

  331. my salvation, my stronghold. I will call upon the Lord, who

  332. is worthy to be praised, So shall I be saved from my

  333. enemies. The Lord is my rock and my

  334. fortress, my deliverer, my God, my strength.

  335. In him I will trust my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my

  336. stronghold. What a great confession of

  337. faith. Psalms 28 verses 7 and 8 says

    Psalms 28:7

  338. the Lord is my strength and my shield.

  339. My heart trusts, trusts in him and I am helped.

  340. He is my strength and my shield. My heart trusts in him and I am

  341. helped. Therefore my heart greatly

  342. rejoices, and with my song I will praise Him.

  343. The Lord is their strength, and He is the saving refuge of His.

  344. Anointed. Anointed, that's you.

  345. Ephesians 610 says, finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord

  346. and in the power of his might. You know where the word of the

  347. King is, there's power. So when that says be strong in

  348. the Lord, that means you can be strong in the Lord.

  349. When he tells you do not be anxious, that means you don't

  350. have to be anxious. When he tells you don't worry,

  351. that means you don't have to worry.

  352. That means he's giving you the power to do it, the power to

  353. walk it out, the power to live it.

  354. His commands are empowering Ephesians 610 and the classic,

  355. amplified classic says in conclusion, be strong in the

  356. Lord. Be empowered through your union

  357. with Him. Draw your strength from Him,

  358. that strength which is His boundless, His boundless might

  359. provides. Draw your strength from Him,

  360. that strength which His boundless might provides.

  361. The greater 1 is in you, the greater 1 is in you.

  362. You have the Holy Ghost in you. You have the same Spirit that

  363. raised Christ Jesus from the dead living within you.

  364. If you don't encourage yourself in the Lord, nobody's going to

  365. do it. Nobody's going to do it for you.

  366. I had to Get Me Out. What's his name?

  367. Eddie James song today about being it's deliverance from your

  368. enemies and they stumbled and fell and it's a song and I was

  369. doing all that. Nobody was home and I was just

  370. dancing, right? Because I had to get myself

  371. together. I had, I had to get some stuff

  372. off me. I had to get myself in a

  373. position of joy. And it didn't take much for me

  374. to step out in faith and do a little jig and the Holy Ghost

  375. come and say I got you. I'm your strength, I'm your

  376. shield, I'm your strong tower, I'm your peace.

  377. It didn't take long for that to happen, but I had to.

  378. I had to step out and do something.

  379. Sometimes we get so stuck in our patterns and our ruts and our

  380. strongholds and our our routines that we don't want to get out of

  381. it. You got to get uncomfortable.

  382. You got to step out and do some stuff, sometimes by faith.

  383. I'm not talking about right now. I'm not asking anybody to take a

  384. run right now. You can, but I'm not asking you

  385. to do that. I'm talking about when you're in

  386. your quiet place. I'm talking about when you're in

  387. your car, when you're in the shower, when the bombardment of

  388. thoughts is coming at you like this, that you're able to say

  389. the Lord is the strength of my life.

  390. I'm seated far above this, and you've got to do that.

  391. We've got to do that. I feel like I'm basketball

  392. coaching right now, like I need everybody to huddle up.

  393. I need everybody to just come huddle up and let's get together

  394. and let's do some kind of chant or something.

  395. We might have to do that. Thank you, Mr. Arraign Beast,

  396. being strong is not just encouragement, it is the power

  397. infused of the Holy Ghost on you.

  398. Isaiah 4110 says fear not for I am with you.

  399. Do not be dismayed for I am your God.

  400. I will strengthen you, yes, I will help you.

  401. I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

  402. These are Old Testament scriptures.

  403. Isaiah is is talking about the day we live in.

  404. But even the Psalms, when David sings and cries out and lays

  405. things out before God, sometimes we are not doing that with God.

  406. We're not in a position to say, OK, Lord, I'm casting the weight

  407. of my burden on you. There it is.

  408. I see it. But I'm casting all of my care

  409. on you because you care for me, because you sustain me, because

  410. you quicken me. It's too easy for us to to do

  411. this. It's too easy, easy for us to

  412. get on social media. It's too easy for us to to be

  413. busy about so many things that we're not taking time with him,

  414. that we're not dwelling with him every moment that you can.

  415. And if you don't do it the minute you get out of bed, those

  416. little, those little, now, a lot of times it's your flesh most of

  417. the time, like Pastor Chase said on Sunday and like the scripture

  418. says. But those little demons, if they

  419. know what your weak spot is, they're ready to send.

  420. Do you ever wonder why people of the same offense and the same

  421. stuff, they just all find each other?

  422. Why does that happen? Why does that happen?

  423. You think that's a coincidence that that happens?

  424. Nope. That that, that the demonic, the

  425. spirit realm is more real than what you see right now.

  426. And if there's a weakness and you've released it out of your

  427. mouth and there's an offense and you've released it out of your

  428. mouth, then there they are. There they are to, to go and,

  429. and, and get everybody all together and on the same page.

  430. But we have authority over them. That's why you got to watch what

  431. you're saying and what you're thinking.

  432. Psalm 46. God is our refuge and strength.

  433. Oh my Lord, thank you, Father, thank you that you're our refuge

  434. and our strength in this season of life.

  435. Thank you, Father God, with everything that's going on in

  436. the last days, I thank you, Lord, that you're our strength

  437. and you're our refuge. And we will not fear.

  438. We will not fear. We will not give way, we will

  439. not yield. We'll be strong in you and in

  440. the power of your mind. We thank you, Lord, that you are

  441. our strength and our refuge. We can run up into You and we

  442. are safe. We can run up into your

  443. pavilion, we can run up into your refuge and we're saved.

  444. And we thank you for that. We honor you for that.

  445. We give you all the glory and all the praise and we won't

  446. forget. We won't forget.

  447. We won't walk out of here and forget who you are and that the

  448. Holy Ghost is right there to help and to guide and to

  449. quicken. Holy Spirit, we thank you.

  450. What a gift you are to us. What a gift you are.

  451. Holy Ghost, we're so grateful and we will do everything that

  452. we can not to grieve you, not to quench you, not to put you out

  453. in our own lives, in our own heart.

  454. When you speak, we'll be quick to trust, quick to obey.

  455. Have your way, Holy Spirit. We give you all the praise and

  456. all the glory, all the glory. God is our refuge and He's our

  457. strength. He's our very present help and

  458. trouble. Therefore we will not fear.

  459. Even though the earth be removed, and though the

  460. mountains be carried into the midst of the sea, though its

  461. waters roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with

  462. its swelling, we will not fear. Isaiah 5414 says In

  463. righteousness you shall be established.

  464. In righteousness you shall be established.

  465. So much I could say right here. I need to flip my hair.

  466. OK, I'm sweating, all right, righteousness, is it bigger?

  467. All right, right. They're not videoing so I can do

  468. what I want up here. Isaiah 5414 and righteousness

  469. you shall be established. That is His righteousness.

  470. That is who you are in Him. This is your foundation.

  471. This is who you are. When the Hebrews talks about

  472. those who are are still babies are not skilled in the word of

  473. righteousness, you know what that means?

  474. It means we don't know who we are.

  475. It means we haven't learned. This word of righteousness is

  476. not a religious word. It is.

  477. That's why the the Bible says seek first the Kingdom of God

  478. and his righteousness and all those other things will be added

  479. to you. Because in Isaiah 54, you know,

  480. in the church world, not y'all, but in the church world, people

  481. love to quote verse 17, No weapon formed against me shall

  482. prosper. I'm more than a conqueror.

  483. And it does say that, but you got to scoot up, back up to

  484. verse 14, where it says in righteousness you shall be

  485. established. You shall be far from oppression

  486. and you shall not fear and from terror, for it shall not come

  487. near. Terror shall not come near to

  488. you. 1000 may fall at your side, 10,000 at your right hand, but

  489. it will not come near you. You shall be far from

  490. oppression, you shall not fear, and from terror shall not come

  491. near you. And then jump down to verse 17.

  492. Because you understand this righteousness, no weapon formed

  493. against you shall prosper. Because you understand who you

  494. are in Christ, no weapon formed against you shall prosper.

  495. And every tongue which rises against you in judgement you

  496. shall condemn. This is the heritage of the

  497. servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is from me, says

  498. the Lord. Psalm 34.

  499. Psalm 34. I will bless the Lord at all

  500. times. His praise shall continually be

  501. in my mouth before I finish reading this.

  502. When we went to Rhema, Keith Moore was one of our instructors

  503. and and he taught a class called Praise Life.

  504. And in Praise Life, every single day we had to quote this

  505. scripture. And you didn't always feel like

  506. it. You didn't always want to, but

  507. he didn't care. He didn't care if you wanted to

  508. stand up every. I'm not telling you stand up,

  509. but He's everybody. Stand up.

  510. And we would say, I will bless the Lord at all times.

  511. His praise shall continually be in my mouth.

  512. My soul shall make its boast in the Lord.

  513. The humble shall hear of it and be glad.

  514. O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together.

  515. I sought the Lord, and He heard me, and He delivered me from all

  516. my fears. The scripture says that I just

  517. read, I'll bless the Lord at all times, and His praise will

  518. always be in my mouth. And then it goes on to say, He

  519. delivered me from all my fears. Now jump down to verse 7.

  520. The Angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear Him and

  521. delivers them. Oh, taste and see that the Lord

  522. is good. Blessed is the man who trusts in

  523. him. Oh, fear the Lord, you his

  524. Saints. Listen.

  525. There is no want to those who fear him.

  526. There is no lack to those who fear Him.

  527. The Young Lions lack and suffer hunger, but those who seek the

  528. Lord shall not lack any good thing.

  529. Come, you children, listen to me.

  530. I will teach you the fear of the Lord, who is the man who desires

  531. life and loves many days, that he may see good.

  532. Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit.

  533. Depart from evil and do good. Seek peace and pursue it.

  534. The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are open

  535. to their cry. The face of the Lord is against

  536. those who do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the

  537. earth. The righteous cry out, and the

  538. Lord hears and delivers them out of all their trouble, all their

  539. troubles. Are you troubled?

  540. The scripture says He delivers you out of all your troubles,

  541. all of them. The Lord is near to those who

  542. have a broken heart and saves such as has a contrite spirit.

  543. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers

  544. him out of them all, all of them.

  545. Second Timothy 110 says, God did not give you a spirit of fear,

  546. but of power, of love, and of a sound mind.

  547. You cannot leave your mind unattended, not for one second,

  548. not for one second. Pressure is going to come, cares

  549. are going to come, worries going to come, fear is going to come.

  550. You cannot leave this alone for one second.

  551. You're the one that has to take authority.

  552. Everything is brand new in Christ, in your spirit man.

  553. God lives in you. But then he tells you now, OK,

  554. now be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

  555. So you're the one that has to grab hold of these scriptures.

  556. That's why I said this should be a, a shot in the arm for you

  557. tonight, that you go home and go, I'm going to Psalm 34.

  558. I'm going to say that Psalm 27, the Lord is the strength of my

  559. life. That's going to be my confession

  560. of faith that you do it, that you grab hold of it, that you

  561. say it, that you meditate on it. God didn't give you a spirit of

  562. fear. Don't give place to it.

  563. You know the Bible says don't give the enemy a foothold.

  564. Well, if you think long enough on something, yeah, he's going

  565. to have a foothold. If you remember for not one

  566. second, not one moment, don't yield to fear.

  567. Not one moment. Isaiah 26 verses 3 and 4 says

    Isaiah 26:3

  568. you will keep him in perfect peace.

  569. Whose mind is stayed on you, You will keep him in perfect peace.

  570. Whose mind is stayed on you because he trusts in you.

  571. Trust in the Lord forever. For Yahweh the Lord is

  572. everlasting strength. Psalm 5522 says, cast your

  573. burden on the Lord and He will sustain you.

  574. He will never permit the righteous to be moved.

  575. He will never permit the righteous to be moved.

  576. John chapter 14, John chapter 14, verse one says let not your

    John 14 chapter mention John 14 chapter mention

  577. heart be troubled. In other words, do not let your

  578. heart be troubled. And then if you jump down to

  579. verse 27, it says peace I leave with you, and my peace I give

  580. you. Not as the world gives do I give

  581. you. Let not your heart be troubled,

  582. and neither let it be afraid. Peace is not feeling good.

  583. Peace is a supernatural power. And you know if you've

  584. experienced the peace of God or not, because the peace of God

  585. will come in the middle of a trial.

  586. The peace of God will come in the middle of what feels like

  587. the hardest thing of your life. The peace of God will come and

  588. flood your mind, and that's where it is is in your mind.

  589. You'll have peace in your spirit, but you'll have peace in

  590. your mind. There's not anxiety, there's not

  591. fear racing around Psalm 5522. Cast your burden on the Lord and

  592. he'll sustain you. He'll never permit the righteous

  593. to be moved. Peace He leaves with you.

  594. We can't be double minded. You know James talks about the

  595. double minded man is unstable in all of his ways.

  596. Wrong thinking opens the door. Wrong meditation opens the door.

  597. You cannot give the enemy a foothold.

  598. You know, the Bible says that God sits in the heavens and he

  599. laughs. All these things are happening,

  600. all these things are going on. His enemies are there, but it

  601. says he sits in the heavens and he laughs.

  602. Can you sit and and just laugh? Can you by faith just get peace?

  603. I've shared many times and I've had many laughs since then.

  604. But in the beginning of our marriage, my husband, while we

  605. were laying in the bed, decided and I was frustrated about

  606. something and I think he was too.

  607. There's something going on. I don't remember what it was.

  608. And he just laid down and went ha ha, ha.

  609. And I was like, cut it out, what are you doing?

  610. And he was like, ha, ha, ha. I am not going to be moved.

  611. And I thank God for that example because that example of faith is

  612. what caused me next to the Lord Jesus to be where I'm at today,

  613. to be. We're in a position where I can

  614. say I won't be moved. Ha, ha, ha.

  615. I'm not moved by that. Yeah, I see it.

  616. Yeah, the enemy's there. But I'm not moved by that.

  617. I want to. I want to close with Psalm 27

  618. again, again. I want to read it again now that

  619. we've gone through some of these other scriptures.

  620. The Lord is my light and my salvation.

  621. Whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my

  622. life. Of whom shall I be afraid?

  623. When the wicked came against me to eat up my flesh, my enemies

  624. and my foes, they stumbled and fell.

  625. Though an army may camp around him against me, my heart shall

  626. not fear. The war may rise against me, and

  627. this will I be confident. One thing I have desired of the

  628. Lord, and that will I seek, that I may dwell in the House of the

  629. Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord,

  630. and to inquire in His temple. For in the time of trouble He

  631. shall hide me in His pavilion, in His thicket, in his in His

  632. Hut, in his fence, in his strong tower, in the secret place of

  633. His Tabernacle, He shall hide me.

  634. He shall set me high upon a rock, and now my head shall be

  635. lifted up above my enemies. All around me, therefore, I will

  636. offer sacrifices of joy. In His Tabernacle.

  637. I will sing. Yes, I will sing praises to the

  638. Lord.