A Mind To Fight - Bro Samuel Howell 12-29-2024

Man.

It's certainly good to be in the house of the Lord.

I appreciate the spirit that we felt already, would trade anything.

In the world for it.

I too wanna say that I miss our pastor gravely

when ship was him behind here tonight bringing us the word.

I'd love to hear that our Pastor preach every service

it's food for uh for the soul.

There's much nutrition in it. It's never lacking anything. And

that comes from a praying man. Right. He is a

praying man.

I grew up listening and hear any pray all hours

of the night, and no doubt he still does.

We miss him.

We missed our first lady uh she is also a

praying woman, loved him both dearly. We'll be looking in

the Book of uh Me and Maiah chapter four s

the miss whether jumaiyas so many everybody said, all those

that are out, we miss him.

Keep our Pastor in our prayers.

Namiah chapter four, verse six, and then we'll just get

down to verses thirteen and fourteen. I do have a burden.

I had one of the best prayer meetings I've ever

had today, felt like I got filled with the Holy

Ghost again. It was the most amazing experience I've ever had,

and just looking for God to help the us. I

really want someone to be provoked tonight, if you will,

into a good way, and to push them to strive

to do better. But Neamiah four and verse six. So

we so built we the wall, and all the wall

was joined together, unto the half thereof for the people

out of mind to work.

And then skipping down to.

Verses thirteen through fourteen, therefore said I in the lower

places behind the wall, and on the higher places, I

even sat the people after their families, with their swords,

with their spears, and.

With their bows.

And I look, and I rose up and said to

the nobles and to the rulers, and.

To the rest of the people, be not afraid of them.

Remember the Lord, which is great and terrible, and fight

for your brother your sons, your daughters, your wives, and

your house. I want to take the latter portion of

verse six right here. It says right here and the

people had a mind to work. And then the latter

part of verse fourteen, it says, remember the Lord, which

is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons,

your daughters, your wives, and your sons for a little

while to night. The Lord lady has fought on my heart.

I'd like to preach on a mind to fight. If don't,

my friend, ask God to help us in the Gordess.

Lord, we ask you God, Wally seeks the old King God,

to do what you have been enough to do.

Go to break up the word of Jesus PRIs Oh, Lord,

God had to deliver the bird in Lord, what you

have placed to burn our eyes?

God in the great, But you have sid before us.

God like to say anything that jentleman said, God, but

to do the will of God wanted to warm the

will of God.

God has to give you all the movies, all the

prince and all they'd the Lord, it will Magnifie saying,

Lord God, we'll give you the praise Lord of your

precious stuns Sun's game with praise a man and Amen.

Now we all kind of know this story.

Here in the book of Themiah, they're building the wall

that had been destroyed. And uh. They had a reason

for building this wall because it was up. It was

a source of protection for him. It was a sore

to keep the enemy out. Keep those betters want those

that wanted to be safe men and those.

That were against them out. It said there that they had.

A mind to work, but I believe they also had

a mind to fight. If you would read further on

in that story, it says why they built the wall,

they had swords with them.

They were determined to build the wall. They were determined because.

Why it was a secure place of protection from the enemy.

They had a made up mind that whatever it took,

they were gonna get it done, and they were gonna

get it filled real quick. I'd like to share a

story with him. I didn't realize it until I was

in prayer about making up your mind. I'm sure brother

Philip will probably remember the story. But back in twenty

twenty two of December, I had a conversation with him

on the washpad. There were were repressure wash racks and stuff,

and I told him, I said, I'm tired of being

the same old way. I'm tired of being stuck in

the same run. I said, I have determined that twenty

twenty three will be by year. I made it my goal. Now,

I didn't make some silly New Year's resolution. It was

something that finally clipped in the heart where I had

a determination where I was tired of being stuck behind,

where I was tired of being laughed behind, and I said,

I've got a maid of mind that I'm gonna fight

this year, that I'm gonna get what God has for

me this year because my family's sake, and if I

will remember rolling around into February twenty three, a life

changing revival that change the life of many young men

in this service to this stage, thanks be to God's grace.

But it only comes because we had a mic to fight,

We had a mic to work, We.

Had a diligence about it where we said it's time

that we built.

The wall her.

Betters, time we clive and we reclaim. We're progressing to

the regrets.

I look, I've reached a point of where I was

tired of living among my broken down walls. And I

didn't want to watch my children grow up in the

rubble of.

My unbuilt walls and then be at rest for the

devil to come in and take them. If the card away,

you take good children because they're living in your shelter.

I didn't want to watch my girls and my son

grow up now bring I didn't have the sun at

the time, but I had.

My wife and two girls. I didn't want to grow up.

With them playing among the stones because I let it

lay waste, because I refused.

To gravel, breaking water and begin to bill wall. It

says they had a mind to work, and they had

a mind to fight. Do you have a mind a work?

Because I know that I have a mind a fighter,

give a thirst, have a mind to work?

Now I knew it was gonna be a fight, but

I remember I made up my mind.

Now a hell old children, and I'm sure some of

the other children could say a man to this year.

We know what it's like to grow up in a

house where we hurt our mom and our dad, praying

for our souls.

I can still.

Remember several times getting up to get something to drink

in the middle of the night, only to hear my

fr my dad crying out downstairs.

Haven't echoed across the town floor, praying in the hole?

It ghost and it broke conviction to me, Parry, can't

you say that? Will your children being able to know

that you're fighting?

Ever?

Will they grow up knowing the long praying for my

thought my dad had the burden for me.

Because they have a mind to fight for you.

Thank y'all for your prayers.

I know what it's like to hear our pastor pool

and to reach for our souls. Y'all all too now

know what it's like for sister how my pastor has

a burden of the Lord to begin to cry out

and know all it goes as she realizes that our

pastor is a mom of a fight and he needs a.

Little bit of reinforcement. He needs someone who has his back.

Husband, do you have your wife's back when it comes

to praying?

Why do you have your husband back when it comes

to praying?

Do?

It's better than what?

Too?

It's better than why?

We need a little help, hallelujah.

Now, I'm not sure.

I know for my dad, and he grew up with

a mother that would cry out for him.

That's for my mom.

I don't think so, But I'm glad that she has

learned how to fight for us. Hello, child, she not

only fight for us now, she's fighting for her grandchildren

and every everybody else that's in here.

That woman had the burden for you. I promise you.

Now, as soon as you make up your mind that

you're going to start to build and start to fight

the enemy's going to start their plan to attack and

destroy what you're trying to protect.

How do I know that?

Go to verse uh in chapter four, verse one, when

it came to pass and sandal I heard that.

We build the wall and it was rot and took

great indignation and mocked the Jews.

That's where his planning began. And he's faked the forest

Brethren in the Army of Samara.

And said, what do these people Jews ain't know?

They're not as people as you think. You can catch

the devil up dard and talk. They're not as people

as you act.

It's not gonna be easy to fight for your family.

The devil's gonna fight every time you turn to wield

the sword.

He's gonna have one right there as well.

But you gotta be constantly on guard. Without a fight,

that will be no future for your children. I felt

that those strong in prayer without me.

Taking a fight, and that's hold is fuck.

That will be no future for my children, at least not.

In this way.

Maybe in the world, yeah, but I don't want them

to have a future in sin. I want to watch

my children know what it's like to be shocking by

the power.

The Holy goes. They to watch your mother shouts, they

to watch her mother shout. I know what kind of

conviction it wrought to.

Me to watch my mother and my father get in

and for me to know that, hey, I'm missing something.

I'm not taking this fight seriously. Everybody came together to

building the fight. I don't think they were fighting one another.

I think they worked together. They had a purpose. They

weren't only fight for their children. You don't need the

Holy Ghost, only fight for you, and she would do

fucking children's children. There's other child as will. They had

a sore at the ready white build. There needs to

be something in you that says I'm not coming down

to mess you. Further on in there in that book

in ne A Mayah Neo Mayah, Yeah sorry, thought.

Of his pronounce it. He tried to get him to

come and meet him, but then, no, I'm not coming

I know the way you work. The moment I come down,

you'll take seach of this late. You have to stand

your clown, plug your ears to the enemy. They say, no,

I'm not coming down.

This is my fight.

I shall be that kas red with a fighter, rising

you with the fighter go away. What they gonna take.

I hope I can provoke the fighter and somebody that

I now, I can promise you ain't.

No Whimpson has been like a troll with you that

I'm preaching the maybe just one or two. I feel

like I want the fighter to be awoken. I know

it's in it.

I don't wake it.

Where's the fighting you? Is it dead?

It just doesn't need to be provoked. I hope it

just gotta be prood I realized yourself vulnerable. My children were,

I mean not being in the fight.

I was ahead on my house.

And I realized I had no sword in my hand.

I realized that I'm supposed to be leading them.

I'm supposed to be the strong one, and I have

no weafort by my side. I'm in my house, though, and.

I began to be attacked by the enemy with no weapon.

What are you gonna do when the enemy comes in

like a flood and.

You have no weapon. I beg you to get equipped. Tonight,

I was sitting a bunk with the rubble of my

own ruins.

Hell.

That shook me when I realized my house was so vulnerable.

I reminded of the Screwdy Brothers. Yesse that he got the.

Holy Ghost and staid he was praying with brother Nathan

and his family because they had been attacked by the enemy.

They had been attacked by the enemy constantly.

And he pastor call for some spiritual people, and he realized,

who's gonna.

Catch a burden for my son's all right? Like he's

tacking for us a party for him. Who's gonna be letting.

The lord to go to the bedroom to night and

a sack and throwing up and get your partner to

pray for him? Who's gonna be letting the lord chockland

up and blocked in there until living on some cold floor.

It begins to bet God to.

Save their so this matter their so to lead on.

God bade us the head, which means we're the ones

that need to be leading our family right through the

battle as God leads us right. But without having the

Holy Ghost and God leading you, you're heading headlong into

a trap. You walk down off the wall without a

second thought thinking that you're gonna fix the problem.

But he chose to stand and stay with the sword

and just stay with his people and to fight for

the families that are in the wall. Children will fight

the way you fight.

When it comes to parenting, I try to parent my

parents my children the same.

Way that I was raised. I try to tell them

not to the same thing. Not try I knew.

Because I'm when it comes to this, I'm new to

raising my children. So I'm doing it the way I

saw to do it. Your children will worship the way

they see you worship. They will stand there the way

that you say you stand there. They will wield the sword.

And hold it the same way you hold it, whether

it be up in the air or in the scabbard.

Where's the placement of your sword? They just in their

go away, ready away, spit out a quick brief wonts

to the enemy? Come up?

You're around them more than anybody. They're watching your ador.

Every action, every action you make, will be the action

they take when they get older. Will you have the sword?

Or will they have a mind to fight? Or will

they be builders for those that sit them under the rubbing?

Right there in verse number fourteen, again rita with me.

It said, I looked rose up and set up to

the nobles, the rulers, and to the rest.

Of the people.

Send it to all of them, to the nobles. If

you're a preacher. If you're a pastor up, you're a

pure sinnery He rose up and said it to all

of them, and said, being out of pray, the Lord,

which was great and terrible, Remember the Lord, which is

great and terrible.

As you began to fight, remember the Lord which is

great and terrible. Remember who's on your sign. There's your

fight for your daughter, has your fights for your daughter.

That's your bite to your household. Remember who has your back.

Don't be wary and well doing Tark saying me and I.

Won't take him by foreigner. God on your side. What

have you to fear? The Lord is with you, Chark

saying a man, put your thoughts down.

Chart saying, Ame, who had just spared out within your

boat riding our shoes.

The good fighter shot a fight, but God has given

you to fight for. Don't turn loose real good almost.

First Samuel, Chapter thirty, First Samuel, Chapter thirty. We're going

to three other places, I believe here and.

It came to pass with David and his men come

to Zicklag on the third day that the anl heights

and invaded the south and Zicklag and smitten Zicklag and

burned it.

With fire, and had taken the women captain.

They ain't not with therein slew, not any either great,

either great or small, but carried them and went on

their ways.

So David and his men came into the city, and

behold it was burned.

With fire, and their wives, their sons, and their daughters

were taken Captain stripping down the verse six.

And David was greatly distressed, for the people.

Speak of stoning him, because the soul of the people

was grieved, every man for his son and for his daughters.

For David encouraged him himself and the lords number eight.

And David inquired at the lord, saying, shall I pursue

after the troop? Shall I overtake them? And he answered, pursue, short,

sweet pursue.

Then he said, thou shall surely overtake them, and without

fail the color all. Can you imagine David and the

men as they come home and to find everything that

they have left.

Their families are.

Gone, their homes are burnt to the ground. No wonder

they fuck is stolen David, because their heart was grieved,

and that they wept until they had no more stream

the cool and were weak.

Because that would say go for what's gola. That would's

gonna tanga, That wouldn't have realized that what fault for?

It's gol. You gotta week, but you gotta get over

and they gotta go after him. Even go over a week,

you still got a battle of fighting. You still got

children of reason. David, remember it's God and was who

was on his side in one side he was fighting for.

And he began to encourage himself. He remembered how many

times the Lord had took care of him. He knew,

that is my children, this is my wife.

You may think that you're too weak to fight anymore

for what is yours, but remember the Lord is on

your side. God wolves, whatever God wants we do. Whatever

we lost, God will return. David said, shall we go

after it?

For what is ours?

Sounded like he still had a mind to fight. The

Lord said, go and without fail, you shall recover all?

And what happened?

They win? Did they lose everything? No, what God said

took place.

They recovered all. They recovered all everything that they were lacking.

They fouled everything that they were lacking.

It was just where the enemy had left it.

Not a thing of the harm, not a thing of

one of the harm.

They didn't sail, they were still there. They recovered it all.

Don't give us you shall be covering it all. If

God promised you that didn't be her, then I fight

for it. I don't care what the enemy says. He

said his dollar, it ain't worth fighting for. Fight.

It's gonna take a fight to get your promise. And

it's not because God don't really want you to have it.

It's because the devil don't want you to have it.

Mother Caven preached this morning about preserving your life. Brother,

it's time to fight for what you're preserving for your

children and your household.

It's time to put up for resistance and saying this

is my field, this is my land, this is my children.

I'm not gonna give over. I won't turn it over

because this is my inheritant. God give it to me,

and I won't turn it loose without a fight. That

they will tell you naked and there ain't nothing worth

fighting for, and he'll tell you not to join the fight.

But I tell you, grab your sort from out.

From under your bed, give me the ball that gets

your boo, whatever it is, and fight for a good fighting.

You gotta have a mind, to fight.

You gotta have the purpose and determined that come what may,

no matter the hindrances, God and the Holy goes to

fight God.

I need more than iron to fight.

God take my mind towards the fight. God give me

a hunger for the fight. God give me a storm

to clean. But God has given to you. You're gonna

keep it, but you're gonna fight for it.

If the enemy hasn't the children in here tonight right now,

the enemy don't have your parents fight.

For him, that they get what they need to stay

in to fight for their children.

Everyone of us jumped me in in here, well, sooner

or later probably become parents.

And you need to have the holdiggers. Yeah, come on,

it's important. I'm not saying you're gotta have the holgast

to go to him by no means, but I think

every leader.

This is my perspective, every headhold of the house should

have the holiers. I mean, that's just me. You don't

gotta take it for that. But I know for myself

then I felt like for my head hold, for me

to do it the way God wanted it to be done,

for me to fight the right battle, for me not

to be chasing.

Some racked off, trail off and through the lawyers, and

then the enemy come behind him because I didn't have the.

Leading of the lord, and to ambush me.

That's you can feel like prayer. Come and pray and

ask God to set your mind towards the fight, to

fight what is riding, and to have a mind to fight.

Long road, but I'm gonna make it home hotime. It's

a long long road, but I'm gone make it home

at time.

They don't do don't stopping.

We have done a baid of well it's a long

long I'm gonna make it all.

All time, rooting the long long road. But I'm going

to make it all all time.

I'm gonna stop me shop.

Well I started up for Jesus, selling every turn that

we'll say. He got behind me, trying to throw me

up the track his head.

It's a long long I'll never make it home all

the time.

Will it to long long, But I'm going to make

it hard long time. It's a lor long, but I'm

not gonna make you har all time.

He do devil, lot of stuffy under the name. Will

it alone, no.

Thaking whole long time?

Got all.

I'm gonna back home. They're gonna go, guys happy.

I'm gonna bay.

When I'm starting up for Jesus saying never well, turn back.

Don't say it got behind me.

To had to drop me off the tag.

He said, it's all.

No no, then you'll never make it a long time.

I said, take it behind me.

I'm gonna where turn.

But I'm gonna thank you, oh long time.

This turn all all love, stand up, cover.

Thak me for a hour. They don't have a lot

of stopping after the dag