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Take Your Stand (Standing In The Midst of Adversity)

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  1. M okay.

  2. I just want to give you a little warning before

  3. I get started this morning. I'm gonna touch some golden

  4. cows and if you and if you get if you kim,

  5. you can't leave. I'm about to offend people. Ah, you

  6. already remember I'm your pastor.

  7. You gotta love me.

  8. Well.

  9. I guess you don't have to, but it's not gonna

  10. work out well because Jesus got my back. I'm his favorite.

  11. So for each of you, in case you didn't know it, Karen,

  12. don't don't be caring it.

  13. I know her.

  14. She knows not to take that personally. I love you too, okay, y'all?

  15. Oh?

  16. Update, uh, Rob is out of surgery. Yes, how do

  17. you say that last name? Darn Stett darnt. I'm not

  18. saying darn like darn it, but like darnst Okay, he's

  19. out of surgery. So that's good. How are you coming down?

  20. You got the macro going, oh okay, that's our sound

  21. guy and our probers, and our guy was like, why

  22. are you walking down the stairs right now?

  23. Get in your cave. So yesterday I was.

  24. Talking to somebody and they started talking about next year

  25. six and the last few years.

  26. As you all know.

  27. We pray into the year, and the Lord has given

  28. us a prophetic theme, not necessarily a detailed prophetic word,

  29. And the last couple of years have seemed to be

  30. accurate enough that I don't know that I always want

  31. to ask anymore about the next year. This last year

  32. the theme was standing in the gap and fighting for

  33. those that can't fight for themselves, and unfortunately we have

  34. seen that theme repeat, repeat, repeat.

  35. Throughout the year. The year before was we do hard things.

  36. Taking grabbing hold of the promises of God, and there

  37. was there was another little piece in there that I'm

  38. having a moment, can't remember. But as I went to

  39. ask the Lord Lord, what about next year? A word

  40. came out and it was not intentional, and I said

  41. the word stand instead of instead of another word. When

  42. I was asking him, I was supposed to say, Lord,

  43. what do you have in store for twenty twenty six?

  44. And what came out of my mouth is what do

  45. you have stand for twenty twenty six? And I felt

  46. an emphasis on the word stand. And you know, with anything,

  47. we get pieces, we see in part, we know in part.

  48. But I want to tell you that in this next year,

  49. you're going to be challenged over and over and over

  50. to take your stand and stand for truth. We are

  51. going to see truth challenged like never before. And it's

  52. not time for the Church to fall asleep. It's not

  53. time for the church to get the fear of man

  54. and be scared of what's coming. I want to tell

  55. you that there are moments, prophetic moments in our nation

  56. that we have to.

  57. Pay attention to.

  58. For instance, nine to eleven, things massively shifted and did

  59. not turn back. You had COVID twenty twenty, which was

  60. a massive shift. You understand that New York is a

  61. spiritual gait to our nation. And you also need to

  62. understand that Islam, if they hold to the Kouran literally literally,

  63. they are not peaceful. They cannot be I told you

  64. I was going to start touching some stuff, and it's

  65. important that we understand things that we pray for our nation.

  66. We pray for the safety of our nation. I've said

  67. for years that persecution was coming to the United States,

  68. that it was going to start to cost us something

  69. to say that we actually follow Jesus. And I want

  70. to tell you that the martyrdom of Charlie Kirk was

  71. another shifting moment concerning.

  72. Persecution, he was not persecuted because of his political belief.

  73. He was persecuted because of his faith, and because of

  74. his faith, that's what led him to hold that particular

  75. political belief. Islam is way more of a political system

  76. than it is a religious system. Now, there are people

  77. that are peaceful, that consider themselves Muslims that just don't

  78. literally hold to the Quran. Literally.

  79. When I was in Egypt, to my interpreter, I asked him,

  80. I said, hey, Macon, I said, what percentage of Islam

  81. is We may end up with a second strike on

  82. our count, but we get three, so let's go for it.

  83. I said, how, what percentage of them is actually a Jihattist?

  84. And he goes, justin, I can't, I can't give you

  85. a percentage. He goes, but we have a saying here

  86. in Egypt, and this is his words. He said, a

  87. Muslim will have you over for dinner until eventually you

  88. are the dinner.

  89. Now, if it sounds like I'm warning the or sounding

  90. the alarm on.

  91. Things, I am. The church must wake up there. The

  92. beginning of the year, I told you there were prophetic

  93. events coming, epic prophetic events, and they're gonna continue to come.

  94. They're going to continue, the shakings will continue to increase.

  95. I'm not saying any of this to scare you. It's

  96. all in time stuff. You know, AI is gonna drastically

  97. change the earth in the next couple of years. And

  98. if you think that the digital idea is not coming

  99. to the United States, you better pay closer attention to

  100. what was just announced and how that is a back

  101. door for that to come in.

  102. Am I right? Yeah?

  103. And so what am I saying. I'm saying we must

  104. know the times and seasons we're in. And Jesus said,

  105. stay awake, and I will promise you, with every breath

  106. of my lungs, for the rest of my life, I

  107. will speak truth and I don't give a crap if

  108. it offends people as long as I know I'm speaking

  109. truth and love and that is Greek for crap ola.

  110. But we have got to be about our father's business

  111. now more than ever, y'all.

  112. We've got to keep our love on. We have to

  113. the moment.

  114. The moment you think this fight is about flesh and blood,

  115. you've already lost the moment. You can't dissert the moment,

  116. you can't decipher the diffference between foe and friend. You've

  117. already lost the battle, and the church historically has been

  118. really good at beating each other up, and the enemy

  119. doesn't even have to come and mess with anything half

  120. the time because we have thin skin and hard hearts

  121. too many times when we should have thick skin and

  122. soft hearts. Take your stand, You better determine now, how

  123. are you going to stand in the future. There's a

  124. spiritual battle raging right now, and everything that can be

  125. shaken will be shaken. We are currently in a reprieve

  126. to some degree, but don't fall asleep. The one thing

  127. that we have done as the Body of Christ historically

  128. over the last few decades is we have had moments

  129. where we're shaken away and all you know, like nine

  130. to eleven hits, all the churches fill up and everybody's

  131. wide awake.

  132. And then you fast forward.

  133. And now there's an extremist who has just been voted

  134. in as mayor.

  135. Are y'all with me?

  136. Your faith should put action to your voting, Like if

  137. so many people set back this last election, and that's

  138. why some of these things turned out the way they did,

  139. we have to vote. Do you understand that the United

  140. States is the last light, It's the last frontier. It

  141. is the last frontier of freedom that you can literally

  142. come together on a Sunday morning and preach the gospel

  143. without fear of being taken out.

  144. For the most part. I mean, I know.

  145. Things are escalating, but if we don't stay awake and

  146. understand that it's our responsibility to be the light and

  147. assault to preserve, we're gonna wake up very so soon

  148. to realize that half of the freedoms we thought we

  149. had were taken because the water's been turned up slowly, slowly, slowly,

  150. and all of a sudden it's boiling. Last week, I

  151. had such an intense time for forty five minutes that

  152. I've never been shaking and weeping for forty five minutes

  153. straight like that. And I can't tell you everything that

  154. we're going to navigate in the days ahead, and I'm

  155. glad I can't, But I will tell you that we

  156. have to learn how to stand in the midst of adversity.

  157. We have to take our stand. Now.

  158. You can't figure out what you're going to do in

  159. the heat of the moment when stimulus hits. You have

  160. to know your choice. Now, you with me, Ephesians six'

  161. eleven to. Seventeen put on the whole armor Of, god

  162. that you may be able to stand against the schemes the.

  163. Devil for we do not wrestle against flesh and. Blood.

  164. Stop It's god's heart that all come to, repentance not

  165. just to select. Few jesus shed his blood for the,

  166. world not just for those that will say, yes, period

  167. but against the, rulers against the, authorities against the cosmic

  168. powers over this present.

  169. Darkness if you.

  170. Recall one of the reasons why we pray over our,

  171. leaders and we're commanded to pray for our leaders so

  172. that we will live a peaceful, life is because there

  173. are principalities over, nations and that principality its whole, goal

  174. if it's a fallen, principality is to turn the collective

  175. thought process and belief system of a nation towards lawlessness and.

  176. Sin when a good principality is in, place its whole

  177. goal is to help influence the thought process and belief

  178. system of a nation towards, righteousness towards. Truth and, then

  179. and this is what we're dealing. With we're not wrestling

  180. against flesh and. Blood when you see an over an

  181. outpouring of evil and lawlessness in a certain. Place when

  182. things heat up and get, intense then you know and

  183. this you know what's happening in the. Natural it started

  184. in the spiritual, realm and so you have to deal

  185. with it, spiritually not. Physically now there is righteous, war

  186. and there is and you have a right to defend.

  187. Yourself if somebody tries to come into your, house you

  188. don't turn your, cheek you pump your.

  189. Shotgun you're.

  190. Welcome but if you are preaching the gospel and somebody gets,

  191. offended then you turn the cheek and you offer them

  192. the other. Cheek AM i touching any sacred?

  193. Calls?

  194. Yet, listen There's joel's army that rises up in the last.

  195. Days pay attention read.

  196. It they know they're, Laying they know their, honor they

  197. know their, king and they know their, assignment and they

  198. go in.

  199. Unity you, know we have a tendency like when recession.

  200. Hits, right if you're good and you're, prospering you don't

  201. think much about. It your neighbor could be losing their

  202. hind d and they're in the heat of the. Battle

  203. but if you're if you're, good you, think, well you

  204. know you.

  205. Don't you don't seem, to we don't seem to take

  206. it as. Serious but then if it hits, you then

  207. it changes your.

  208. Perspective, therefore take up the whole armor Of god that

  209. you may be able to withstand the evil. Day, remember

  210. gross darkness will cover the. People this is we are

  211. watching two sides of a coin right now that crescendos.

  212. Until the return Of.

  213. Jesus and if you want to learn more about, eschatology

  214. sign up For Daniel.

  215. Unsealed ye, wait, Y'all, okay let me take a sip

  216. of coffee for.

  217. You but our, defense our first line of defense to

  218. stand because it says stand and when you've done everything to,

  219. stand stand. Firm our first line of defense is the

  220. armor Of. God who's ever, Prayed i'm putting on the

  221. armor in the, morning rite, peace by, peace let me

  222. help you all. Out jesus is the, armor and if

  223. you know, him you have the armor On He every

  224. piece points back to. HIM i, Mean i'm not saying

  225. that you can't pray and think about, this but when

  226. it says take up the whole armor Of god that

  227. you may be able to withstand in the evil.

  228. Day having done all to stand.

  229. Firm stand, therefore having fastened on the belt of, TRUTH i,

  230. Said i've shared this first service with my mother in, Law,

  231. grandy her, Dad ASA's grandfather had suspenders and his older,

  232. age you. Know and one DAY i was there and

  233. he didn't have his suspenders on that snug and you,

  234. know sometimes you don't have as much padding back there,

  235. to you, know to hold things where they need to.

  236. Be And grandy got up out of the chair and

  237. H and when he got up because the belt buckle

  238. of truth was not quite tight, enough his pants in.

  239. Place but that, truth WHICH i have a black Belt Jcy, pennies.

  240. My dad actually is a third degree black beltman. Instructor

  241. so watch, out he taught.

  242. Me but fastened on the belt of, truth having put

  243. on the breastplate of. Righteousness if you study the breastplate of,

  244. righteousness you understand that in The Old covenant it was

  245. called the breastplate of. Judgment then it is called In

  246. romans the breastplate of. Righteousness the armor is actually called

  247. the armor of light In, romans and the breastplate of

  248. righteousness is called the breastplate of faith and love By.

  249. Paul so what does that tell you that tells you

  250. if you want to fortify that, breastplate then you better

  251. understand that you must grow in this issue of faith and,

  252. love because that's what fortifies the breastplate of. Righteousness so

  253. in order to pursue righteousness, consistently you have to understand

  254. that you have to grow.

  255. In love and faith.

  256. And as shoes for your, feet having put on the

  257. readiness given by The gospel of.

  258. Peace anybody ever have.

  259. A dream where you're frantically running around barefoot and a

  260. dream anybody had a dream where you didn't have your shoes,

  261. On you're looking for your, shoes or your.

  262. Shoes didn't quite fit.

  263. Right, well shoes represent, peace AND i can promise you

  264. more than likely you had that dream when you were

  265. in a place of, chaos our anxiety and you were

  266. trying to find your. Peace or it could be that

  267. you're trying to walk in somebody else's. Shoes that happens

  268. when we don't truly understand who we are and him

  269. and that he didn't make a mistake when he made.

  270. Us he's not interesting interested in you being a cobbin

  271. carbon copy. Man that was like An East coast.

  272. Accident for a, Second i'm a, Cabin i'm not from

  273. The east.

  274. Coast if you're, wondering.

  275. He's not interested in you being a carbon copy of somebody.

  276. Else he's interested in you and being Who he created

  277. you to. Be and the anointing is attracted to. Authenticity

  278. so find out what he's called you to, do and

  279. be at peace with, it and do, it and you'll

  280. Find god's favor on your life a whole lot more.

  281. Than you trying to act like somebody else that was.

  282. Free and it goes on to, say in all, circumstances

  283. take up the shield of, faith with which it can

  284. extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil.

  285. One what are the flaming?

  286. Darts the flaming darts are what are shot at Your

  287. they are the thoughts that all of a sudden you,

  288. get that begin to burn and you can't stop thinking

  289. about that.

  290. Thought and you're, thinking what is wrong with? Me even shot?

  291. Spiritually and those are the fiery.

  292. Darts but when your faith is, right it actually extinguishes

  293. those fiery darts from hitting.

  294. You they don't. Burn it's like.

  295. Trauma when you've gone through, trauma trauma is like an

  296. automatic replay on your. Mind subconsciously until that trauma is

  297. dealt with in your subconscious it is literally replaying. NonStop

  298. and that's why your anxiety level never. Drops that's why

  299. your mind. Races if you've not broken generational curses from

  300. The masonic, order your mind will race too because of the.

  301. Witchcraft sacred cow boom number. Ten making sure you're, Awake it,

  302. says If satan cast Out, satan he's divided against, himself

  303. how then will his kingdom stand what's the first thing he?

  304. Does?

  305. Divides because he understands a kingdom or a house divided

  306. cannot stand what's the first thing he? Does when he

  307. wants to take out a church that is threatening its,

  308. division he comes. In leviathan twists what you see and

  309. what you. Hear you get, Offended you pack up your,

  310. legos and you go, home and all of a, sudden

  311. when that offense isn't dealt, with that root of bitterness

  312. springs up in, you thereby defiling. Many the enemy doesn't

  313. need a lot of, tricks, y'all because what he has.

  314. Works but what if you had a community of believers

  315. that we're more concerned about loving each other and outdoing

  316. each other with honor rather than using each other and

  317. viewing each other as. Enemies but if we had thick

  318. skin and a soft, Heart what if we got rid

  319. of bitter jealousy and selfish, ambition and we allowed the

  320. fire Of, god his fiery love to purify our. Motives you,

  321. understand we can look good on the. Outside you can

  322. look at somebody's life and think that it's the most

  323. amazing thing in the, world and every one of their

  324. motives could be. Wrong and he says he doesn't look

  325. on the. Outside he tries the reins of the heart

  326. be with. Me sometimes we're obedient on the, outside but

  327. not on the. Inside like the little, kid mom, says sit,

  328. down and they finally sit down with their got this

  329. face going. On they're not sitting down on the. Inside

  330. they are only sitting down on the. Outside AND i

  331. would petition to you that their motive might need a

  332. little adjustment in that. Moment that's where some fivefold ministry comes, in,

  333. right the belt of truth will bring an. Adjustment do

  334. what my wife, said not everybody. Spinks let me say

  335. something along those, lines Since i'm in the mood of offending.

  336. Everyone part of the mess we're in is because people

  337. have not properly disciplined their. Children NOTICE i said properly,

  338. right that says spoil the. Rod that doesn't mean you

  339. beat your. Kids SO i mean spare the, rod spoil my.

  340. Language but, seriously, y'all my mom used to, say don't do,

  341. that And i'd, say, well, mom you do, That and

  342. then what would she? Say don't do? WHAT i? Do

  343. WHAT i? SAY i look at my, Mom i'm, Like,

  344. mom you know that's not, right, Right, like you can't say.

  345. That that doesn't. Work who's having? Fun if a kingdom

  346. is divided against, itself that kingdom cannot Stand mark three twenty.

  347. Four now let me take it. DEEPER a house divided

  348. when your heart is, fragmented and there's many rooms in your,

  349. heart then guess What you're.

  350. Divided and it's very difficult to.

  351. Stand so this issue of the, kingdom it has to

  352. advance inside of you, first so that you can stand

  353. as a living stone In christ in his, righteousness with his,

  354. peace and then as living stones come. Together, First, peter

  355. we're building up a spiritual. Home jesus is the. Fulfillment

  356. we do not need a physical third temple to fulfill any, scripture.

  357. Y'all it's not.

  358. Biblical i'm not saying there won't be a physical third,

  359. temple because it sure looks like there will, be but

  360. it does not fulfill. Prophecy my wife's looking at me

  361. Like i've.

  362. Had way too much.

  363. Coffee First gritians sixteen. Thirteen be, watchful stand firm in the,

  364. faith and act like. Men be. Strong women don't act like.

  365. Men men act like, men. Y'all it is time for

  366. the men to stand up and not be ashamed of

  367. their masculinity for any. Reason in, fact some of y'all

  368. probably need a ribbi steak to kick that tea? Up

  369. AM i offering if you're? Paying but, y'all when the

  370. divorce rate is just as high inside of the church

  371. as outside of the, church what are we modeling as a.

  372. Family we're, Saying, god your covenant is important until it gets.

  373. Hard next, Month december, fifteenth will be twenty.

  374. Six Years i've been, married.

  375. And as y'all can, Tell lisa should probably get a

  376. trophy for putting up with me for twenty six. Years

  377. BUT i can tell but you're not supposed to clap that.

  378. Hard BUT i can tell you this that it takes.

  379. WORK i literally am like we do things to keep

  380. our relationship.

  381. GOOD i bring her fresh, FLOWERS i bring her coffee

  382. in the. Morning but it takes.

  383. Work just like you can't just spend your only spiritual

  384. life or your only spiritual time On sunday morning and

  385. expect to have a close relationship with The. Lord salvation's

  386. free intimacy is very, costly it really. Is and we

  387. have been sold bag of goods when it comes to

  388. this issue of walking With. Jesus in case you hadn't

  389. figured it, out it's not always your best life. Now,

  390. no sometimes it's. Hard sometimes you feel like you're the

  391. one in the garden saying not let this cup. Pass

  392. and there's cups that we have been given that we

  393. can't pass. Off there are cups that you're given in

  394. your life that you can't explain why they, came and

  395. you still have a question mark of why did this?

  396. Happen but how you respond to that is.

  397. Everything, See i'm convinced if we would be willing to

  398. give up our right to know that this, journey this

  399. destiny that we have In, him would get a whole

  400. lot more. Exciting some weeks, ago WHEN i was WHEN

  401. i was At streams for The TABERNACLE i was feeling

  402. very beat up and drained because it's been such a

  403. hard season AND i just didn't have any not much.

  404. Left and The lord spoke to my heart and he,

  405. says if you'll give up your right cart to carry

  406. all this, stuff we can go on a. Journey See i'm.

  407. Convinced See Holy spirit's. Moving i'm, Sorry i'm convinced that

  408. too many. Times the reason why we battle with false

  409. responsibility is because we're still convinced that somehow we're the

  410. ones that are gonna.

  411. Fix, it.

  412. And so we keep going back to these. Places we

  413. keep trying to carry everybody on our shoulders because we

  414. have The i'm gonna fix.

  415. It i'm the saber.

  416. Syndrome that job was taken twenty twenty five years, ago

  417. and he said it's, finished. Y'all if you give up

  418. the false, responsibility give up the.

  419. Burdens you know the result of.

  420. That his peace when it says let the peace Of

  421. christ rule and rain every single, day we have a

  422. choice to Let his peace rule and.

  423. Rain so here it, is you hold onto your life

  424. and you lose.

  425. It.

  426. Because he who seeks to save his life show what lose.

  427. It but if you lose his life for his, sake

  428. then you find. It so every morning you wake, up

  429. to the degree you choose to surrender your life and

  430. embrace the, cross you find. Life and to the degree

  431. that you don't do, that then you stay stuck in

  432. cycles of. DEFEAT i want to challenge you this, week

  433. go back and look through the script and how many

  434. times From genesis To revelation was it just this easy

  435. cake walk of walking into promises.

  436. Some of you'll have Read.

  437. It's Not He's jesus said in this life you're gonna have.

  438. Trouble NOW i agree with.

  439. You that should be.

  440. Capitalized in big red, print the word. Trouble but he,

  441. says take, Heart i've. Overcome and with every trial there's

  442. an answer attached to. It so perspective the next time

  443. you go into a suddenly not not a good, Suddenly

  444. YEAH i can IT'S i can feel it. Moving then

  445. guess what? Happens oh, man the some of y'all are,

  446. going what is wrong with? Them they're not drunk as you,

  447. suppose for it is only twelve fifty in the. AFTERNOON

  448. i was really in A i had a really good

  449. thought for a. Segment, lord bring it. Back what WAS i, saying, oh,

  450. yes thank. You calm, down y'all are messing me. Up

  451. so when a bad suddenly, happens it's all.

  452. Perspective how do You.

  453. I'm not even landing the, plane. Y'all how in the. World,

  454. YES i.

  455. Got it back away from there a little. Bit.

  456. Okay if you go in with the right, perspective.

  457. Then come, on.

  458. Well last, Week i'm. Crying, now, Man i'm getting. Hot

  459. then you're not gonna fall apart when things Hit.

  460. Get them lord the back at two to.

  461. ONE i will take my stand at my watch post

  462. and station myself on the tower and look out to

  463. see what he will say to me and WHAT i

  464. will answer concerning my. Complaint this is WHAT i call

  465. intercessory whining at its. FINEST i can just see hebacchic

  466. BECAUSE i know how Often i've done. This get in

  467. my watch. Post i'm tired of, This, Lord this is not.

  468. Cool this should not be. Happening what are you gonna tell?

  469. Me and how many times have you complained and then

  470. he didn't answer your? Complaint what does he think about

  471. our complaining.

  472. Kept israel out of The Promised?

  473. Land you understand, that every single one of you right

  474. now should literally be up against something that you can't

  475. fix on your.

  476. Own you're.

  477. Welcome that's my stellar Pastoral, look.

  478. That's ALL i.

  479. Got, Sorry but.

  480. Why DO i say?

  481. That because we're supposed to be living in the. Impossible

  482. you're supposed to get to the Dark knight of The,

  483. spirit As John paul used to talk. About and what

  484. is the Dark knight of The? Spirit you never leave.

  485. It it is if he doesn't show, up nothing. Happens,

  486. now you may have taken out seven of your, enemies

  487. seven giants in the, land but there's still three that

  488. you can't, conquer and you will stay stuck in your

  489. destiny exactly where you're at for the rest of your

  490. life until you recognize that because it's in your surrender

  491. in worship that The father comes forward and fights those

  492. battles on your, behalf and he brings back the head

  493. of your enemy while you were. Worshiping and that's how

  494. you inherit the fullness of your inheritance In, jesus recognizing

  495. that there's giants in the land that you can't, beat

  496. but the fruit is worth. It who shall ascend the

  497. hill of The lord and who shall stand in his holy?

  498. Place but he who has clean hands in a pure,

  499. heart who's not lifted his.

  500. Heart up to an.

  501. Idol galatians five to one, says for, Freedom christ has

  502. set us. Free stand firm, therefore and do not submit

  503. again to yoka. SLAVERY i want you to think of

  504. an area of your life right now that you're, stuck

  505. that you just feel like you can't break the. Chain

  506. now ask The, lord what lie AM i believing about?

  507. This Because i'm already freeing. You you set me free

  508. from the power of. Sin some people hold on do

  509. un forgiveness because they believe it protects them from getting. Hurt,

  510. further some people hold on down forgiveness because they think

  511. they're punishing the other. Person, sorry you're not the. Judge

  512. where are you stuck this? Morning where are you not

  513. standing firm this? Morning where does that buckle of truth

  514. need to be tightened up at.

  515. So we don't see your hind?

  516. Parts that's a GLORY i don't want to. See daniel

  517. eleven thirty two says he shall seduce with flattery those

  518. who violate the, covenant but the people who know Their

  519. god shall stand firm and take. Action so he will

  520. seduce with flattery those who violate the.

  521. Covenant so the.

  522. Anti christ spirit will bring seduction and encouragement to be

  523. a covenant. Breaker but the people who know They're god

  524. shall stand firm and take. Action are you standing? Firm

  525. are you ready to give a reason for why you

  526. believe the way you? Believe because it says we're to

  527. be ready in season and out of. Season and when

  528. somebody comes and, says, hey why are you?

  529. Okay?

  530. Phil you've been how many weeks now without a check

  531. because of the government? Shutdown?

  532. Six?

  533. Yeah, Yeah so he's been six weeks without a check

  534. because these knuckleheads are playing politics at our. Expense you

  535. want to know WHAT i think about. It but yet

  536. here he is at, Peace maybe a little nervous at six,

  537. weeks but he's still, smiling still, laughing still got a

  538. good attitude because he knows That god is his.

  539. Provider gross darkness.

  540. Will cover the people in the last, days but the

  541. glory of the knowledge of The lord will cover the

  542. earth as the waters cover the. Sea we've got to

  543. stay focused on the.

  544. Knowledge of the glory of The.

  545. Lord we've got to stay focused on the reality that

  546. the wind blows where it. Pleases The Holy spirit does

  547. not ask your permission to do, anything and nor do

  548. you direct.

  549. Him the wind blows where it.

  550. Pleases so if you want to See god, move then

  551. you adjust your life to.

  552. The, wind not the other way. Around, Right michah. LEFT

  553. i was gonna, say bring me a, musician but.

  554. Not air. Guitar i'll tell you. What, yeah y'all ever

  555. see him doing air? GUITAR i, mean this guy is

  556. amazing air guitar.

  557. Player CAN i have the per team come?

  558. Forward One corinthians ten twelve says. This, therefore let anyone

  559. who thinks that he stands take.

  560. Heed lest he.

  561. Fall so if you are, standing take, keed stay, humble stay,

  562. kind stay, loving stay. Understanding and when your brother, stumbles

  563. don't get. Arrogant help him out of the ditch.

  564. Each.

  565. Other there are no long rangers in the. Kingdom proverb

  566. says that if you, isolate you're not. Wise we cannot

  567. afford right now to. Isolate oh, sure thank, YOU i.

  568. Forgot we still have a piano player, Here.

  569. Thank, You.

  570. Elizabeth and let me finish with this last Scripture One

  571. corinthians ten. Thirteen no temptation has overtaken. You that is

  572. not common to. Man god is, faithful and he will

  573. not let you be tempted beyond your. Ability but with a,

  574. temptation he will also provide the way of escape that

  575. you may be able to endure. It, y'all temptation is

  576. not a. Sin you understand that. Right the enemy loves

  577. to bring, temptation and then can you for that, temptation

  578. hoping that you take the, bait believing that you sinned

  579. when you. Didn't it Says jesus was tempted in every

  580. way as a, man and yet without. Sin so when

  581. you come under, temptation whether it's to smack somebody in

  582. the face or or give him the the evangelism finger

  583. when you're driving, fivefold, minister you know What i'm. Saying and,

  584. whatever whatever your temptation, is there is a way of.

  585. Escape all these people acting like they've Never, YEAH i

  586. want to AS i close for the second, TIME i

  587. just WANT i want to invite you to come. Forward there's,

  588. there there's an invitation for, freedom for. Healing if you

  589. want to know Why times Of laughter comes is because

  590. it's like a holy, anesthesia says the.

  591. Joy of The lord's our.

  592. Strength but it's also like an anesthesia where The lord

  593. addresses the soul for. Surgery and that's also why you

  594. can find yourself one second laughing to the point where

  595. you're like instant ebs in two, minutes and then all

  596. of a sudden you're, crying and then you're, laughing and

  597. then you're, crying and The lord is literally doing spiritual

  598. surgery on.

  599. You in that.

  600. Moment you're just too full of anesthesia to realize the

  601. depths of.

  602. It so.

  603. When the water, stirs it's our responsibility to respond to the.

  604. Invitation AND i just want to tell, YOU i feel

  605. like every week we're seeing more and more signs Of god,

  606. moving just little love taps here and.

  607. There So, FATHER.

  608. I truly pray that you would be our first, Love,

  609. lord that we would always be ready to give a

  610. reason for why we have the hope that we. Have,

  611. lord there are people all over the place.

  612. Right, now.

  613. Some wondering when they're going to get their next, check

  614. some wondering where the next meal is going to come,

  615. from some wondering if we're going to get through all

  616. the chaos that's happening in the, world all the floods

  617. and earthquakes and volcanoes, erupting and just craziness.

  618. Happening, lord.

  619. And you, said come to, me all you who are

  620. weary and heavy, laden AND i will give you. Rest, So,

  621. LORD i pray that you would heal our hearts where

  622. we need. Healing, Today, LORD i pray that you would

  623. renew our minds where we need to be renewed in

  624. the spirit of our. Mind, LORD i pray for that holy. Anesthesia,

  625. lord as you do spirits, Surgery so fill us anoon afresh. Today,

  626. lord would you give us eyes to see and ears to?

  627. Hear would you pull the scales off our eyes and

  628. the wax out of our?

  629. Ears?

  630. Lord and would you see fit to move in a

  631. mighty way in our?

  632. Region, lord.

  633. As we lift up the holy matchless name Of. Jesus,

  634. lord thank you for your, Word thank you for your.

  635. Goodness thank you that we have freedom in this country

  636. to gather together in the name Of. Jesus AND i

  637. pray that we would never take that for. Granted So,

  638. lord have mercy over our. Nation, lord we pray for

  639. the peace Of. Jerusalem we pray for the protection of

  640. so many innocent lives taken in the name of. War,

  641. lord we pray for. Peace thank you that you are

  642. The goddess. Shalum, So lord put people in our paths

  643. this week that need to hear The, word that need

  644. to be loved, on encouraged and strengthened by, You, lord

  645. that we would be your mouth piece this, week that

  646. we would be your hands and feet this. Week thank, You,

  647. Lord thank you for your love And jesus'.

  648. Name if we need, prayer y'all come on.

  649. Forward otherwise we're gonna get ready for The Leader connect

  650. training and dinner or.

  651. Lunch bless you.

  652. WELL i trust that you were blessed by The lord

  653. today and we look forward to seeing you online Next.

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