Battle and Build | PM 1.21.23

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Lovequest International Church Sermon Podcast.

It's a brand new season. Matter of fact, it's homecoming

season. Sons and daughters are coming

home. So you know what to do.

Get your Bible, get your water, get some coffee, get some tea

and get yourself ready to receive.

The time is now and if you don't know the drill, then you better

learn the motto. Did you love things, man?

Nehemiah 4 I want to give you this little context about

Nehemiah. Nehemiah was not a priest.

Nehemiah was not a prophet. He was not particularly

religious. Of the religious order, Nehemiah

worked for a king, which means what?

He was either government or the marketplace.

Nehemiah is more like you than pastor.

So the charge, the battle and the charge the bill is even that

much more on you, us who sit on that side than on this side.

So this message tonight is for you.

No one's disqualified from it, no one's exempt from it.

It's for everyone, and maybe even more so those that spend

more time outside the church walls than inside the church

walls. Secondly, battle and billing is

about the false choice that people make between one or the

other. I don't have time to come to

church and to serve because I'm doing this in my life.

I don't have time to battle and build.

I ain't got time for it though. I got to give this up.

God is saying in this time you got to learn how to battle and

build because that's where your protection is, that's where your

blessing is. That's where the power of God

is. That's where your restoration

is. You can't flip back and forth

each time. Y'all seen the movies when the

when the enemy guy runs out of bullets and then he goes to get

another magazine, another set of bullets.

It's when he runs out of what it takes to battle that he gets

taken out. You can't pause between battle

and building in this time because in the midst of your

transition from one to another, that's opportunity for you to be

taken out of your destiny, doubt of God's will for your life, and

if not taken out, definitely to be delayed.

So this message is for you who want to do one or the other.

Who don't want to come to church and get rooted and serve, but

want to spend your time making money and building up where you

need to be over there. Or who want to come to church

and serve all the time but don't want to take the gospel to where

you live. Don't want to open up your

mouth, don't want to encourage anybody.

Don't want to win souls for for the Lord any place that you go.

OK, in this day we got to do both battle and build.

Amen. Next one.

So we go to the scripture here. It's taken from Nehemiah chapter

Nehemiah 4 · chapter mention

4, and from that time forth, half of my service worked at the

task and the other half held the Spears, Shields and bowls and

coats of mail. The city is down, Jerusalem is

down. Nehemiah has it on his heart to

go rebuild the city because it's the home of his father's.

His family's buried there and he and he got put it on his heart

and he went to his king and said that he worked for.

He said I want to go back and build my city and the king says

I got your back. Whatever you need from me, you

got it. So he's in the process of doing

this now. OK, but this is important where

we pick up at the point we pick up this scripture specifically.

They've built half the wall. You got to learn how to battle

and build, particularly when you've already had some success

doing one or the other. The halfway point is out of time

for you to coast. I'm feeling good.

My my joy is up. I got time to miss church every

two weeks and come only every other week.

I'm just saying. So you have half that worked and

half that killed Spears. That's the battle.

And the bill since gone down the other piece of yellow.

There everyone who worked with one hand.

Everyone worked with one hand and held a weapon with the other

hand. Everyone, Everyone.

It's not the job of the worship team to do your battle and

building for you. It's not the job of the pastor

of the clergy. Your mama's prayers, your

daddy's prayers, your uncle prayers, your Uncle Ray Ray

prayers, cousin, whoever prayers you two minister, pray.

It's not their job to battle and build for you.

It's everyone's job, everyone's job to battle and build.

Every builder had his sword girded by his side, every and so

worked. That's all of our

responsibilities. It's on all of us, particularly

those of us that are out there in the marketplace, that see the

destruction, that see the broken lives, that see the desperation,

that sees the despair, that sees the fakery, the charades of

happiness on your face, knowing you're crumbling inside and

asking yourself, is there something more?

There's a lot of folks sitting in offices right now.

When you walk past, you see the light on the computer change.

What does that mean? I just closed the window and the

window they just closed is the window that says best way to

kill yourself. And you walk past and they close

because they don't want you to see what's on the inside.

And you say, how's it going, Profits up, margins good.

We're getting all our goals. Engagement is great.

We get a lot of clicks and likes.

You don't know what they're dealing with on the inside.

That's why you got to take it to the marketplace and to the

school place. With students in particular, the

pressure to excel and perform in school is extraordinary.

The verse 19 and I said to the nobles and officials and the

rest of the people, the work is great and scattered go down to

the yellow part or whatever place you hear the sound of the

trumpet rally to us there. So while you're building and

battling or by your battling and building you got to be listening

for what God is saying Now you got to be listening.

So let me give you an idea of what the 40 days is about and

gathering in person. We go through our regular time

battling building, go to church on Sunday at 1 experience and

then maybe we double dip to two experiences.

Maybe we go to. Work during the week.

Maybe if we have a Wednesday or midweek experience, we go to

that and we're doing that. Back and forth, rally around.

We need to gather up every day for 40 days.

There's a breach in the wall. The enemy's trying to plant

something coming this way. When you hear the sound of the

horn rally together, come run to the sound of the horn that we

may stand together in the breach and overcome the enemy that's

trying to attack us. That's what the 40 days of

prayer and fasting is about. The in person gathering is

about. It's the sound of the horn.

So you can't just even get comfortable with doing your

Sunday and then doing your Wednesday and doing your work

the rest of the week. You got to be listening for the

sound of the horn. So the title that I want to

speak to you is Building Battle. Now the word is battle and

build. Is there a difference?

Just I want to start here and get there.

OK? Build and battle.

You have to understand that it's a family affair.

The purpose of it is to build by 4 and through your bloodline.

Building and battling is a family affair.

It's by 4 and through your bloodline everyone say bye.

Y'all got to speak faster because I'm on the clock.

You gotta have give me energy. I can't talk.

Stop and energy you for the second one.

OK. Ready.

It's by for and through your bloodline.

My bloodline. Thank you very much.

Newton Nehemiah 328 says this and above the horse gates.

This is Nehemiah as he's in the city building the the walls and

the gates above the horse keep. The priests repaired, everyone

opposite his own house. The work you have to do in and

around your house is what's going to be most important for

this phase. It's great you want to battle

and build overseas on a mission. It's great you want to battle

and build. I'm going to come help you with

your with your stuff. What about what's in front of

your house? It's your ability to battle and

build what's in front of your house that's gonna make a

difference in getting this wall up, he says.

In verse 13, he says So I set armed men behind the wall in

places where it was least protected.

I even thus use the people as families with their swords and

Spears and bowls. It's a family affair.

You can't quit on your bloodline 'cause it's a family affair.

The battling and building is first and foremost to bring your

bloodline through, but I also recognize this, he says.

I use the people as families. When you come to this local

church community, whether you have nobody or bunch of bodies,

God can use you and us as a family if you let on, because

the power in battling and building comes through the

family. Remember the Lord, it says, and

imprint him. Get him on your mind in a way.

We can't be removed, right? How many y'all like tattoos,

body art? OK, cool, cool, cool, cool,

cool. Right.

Right, Right. You ought to be as desiring to

tattoo the imprint of God on your soul as you are to get your

art. Be as picky about that as your

art. Be as willing to show that as

you do your art, discuss that as much as you do your art.

Imprint him for and then he says this.

Why fight for your brethren, your sons, your daughters, your

wives, your homes. It's about the family.

Fight for each other. Build for each other.

Battle for each other. Battle for my bloodline.

I'll battle for your bloodline. I'm a battle for the uncle that

left me. I'm a battle for the Mama that

quit on me. I'm a battle for the daddy

that's never around 'cause it's something bigger than just them.

It's about my bloodline that's in the family.

We'll see the restoration fully. Come.

You have to be able to build as strong as you battle, and you

got to battle as strong as you build.

You got to build as strong as you battle and battle as strong

as you build. You got to build as strong as

your battle, and you got to battle as strong as you build

first. Chronicles says this about

Bowman's another country. We already told you there was

half that was work and half with the weapons, right?

Half suggests equality, parity. No difference in weight,

influence or authority. First Chronicles 12 says this.

They were bold men that could use the right hand and the left

to sling the stones. You can't be able to build with

your right and battle with your right.

Build with your left, battle with your left.

It don't matter which way it is. You got to be able to do it and

everywhere. You have to be able to build and

battle with the same strength and intensity.

If you don't, you're giving the enemy and access to you.

You're tired, you're battling, or you're weak on your building.

You'll wear out your building knowing you're weak on your

battling. You can't give them an edge, any

way, shape, form or fashion. You have to build before you

battle. Everyone say before you battle

why you got to build before you battle?

Because what's the point of the fight?

There's nothing to build for. The build is why you're

battling. What did he say?

Fight for your families. Fight for your sons and for your

daughters. Now, I didn't tell you this

part, but part of what he said when he went to the king was

this. The Sepulchres of my father's

are in ruins. Fight for your bloodline.

Fight for the people on whose shoulders that you stand.

You're not here because of your own comfort.

You're not here because of your own grace.

You're not here on your own merit alone.

You are here because you stand on the shoulders of others that

have prayed for you, fought for you, declared for you.

We are in this place because years ago, people who owned

these businesses walked the streets and said, God, bring a

church. God, create a witness.

We stand on other people's shoulders.

So fight for the legacy. I ain't going to let you down,

Mom. I'm going to take it as best I

can. Hey man, you have to build

before you battle because that gives you a reason to battle.

It also teaches you how to battle because of my battles

that help protect what I'm building.

If I'm building tall, then I know I got to have to what

battle tall. So I'm not interested in things

that distract me to try to battle wide.

If I know my family broken with addiction, it's great that the

end times are coming and Jesus and this and that and all that

kind of thing. Cool.

That's not why I need to battle right now.

I need to battle in the area of addiction.

So I'm going to get off YouTube, stop searching end times trying

to get it all figured out in my pride and say God, I'm going to

battle why I need to battle. I'm a battle, what you're trying

to build, which is my family more than my religious thought

base. Hey man.

See, when you're part of the family, no matter what Home

Alone, says the movie, your parents will remember you.

Your protection and not getting left behind is to be a part of

the family. Say LA, you use a shovel to

build and use a sword to battle. OK, use a shovel to build and

sword to battle, but don't get it twisted.

I'm going to get through examples in just a bit of how we

really apply this in our life. Someone asked me, So what does

that mean? That you only use one thing to

build and you can't use that to battle.

Next slide. Now you can use a sword to apply

mortar. You can use the tool you

normally use the battle with to put.

What's more, that's the cement that holds bricks together.

Anyone ever turned a screw with a butter knife?

That's an example. OK, you can use your sword to

help you build, but you can also use shovel in a fight.

You can hurt a man with a shovel.

And I mean male and female and all other things in between.

OK? I mean people, animals,

everything, right? You can hurt somebody with a

shovel, right? So we're not saying these are

mutually exclusive, but we are saying understand that you can

use one to do one thing, and there's something else that

helps to compliment it in a certain way in a season.

OK, you got it. So here's some examples.

Worship builds prayer battles. Worship helps you focus on who

God is, and you become stronger and builds the revelation of who

he is in your relationship with Him on the inside of you.

So when you go to prayer, you're praying with confidence, knowing

what God has done. Worship helps to build you.

Prayer helps you battle. Now can you battle with worship?

Sure. But battling worship sounds much

different than building worship. I also won't tell you that I'm

making sense, right? But yeah, you can use you.

You can use those things. But worship really helps to

build, and prayer can really help you to battle in the way

you need to. The purpose of prayer and

battling is not Even so much all those people around you.

It's your own insecurities. It's your own weaknesses.

It's your own flesh. It's you doubting you.

A lot of the purpose of prayer is to get rid of the tapes in

your own head that you played, that you put that your family

place and people who you let esteem who you esteem let place

in you to say you can't, you won't.

You ain't good enough. Or only if I'm with you when you

make it that codependence. That's a lot of what the

battling is for Thanksgiving bills and your testimony

battles. Thanksgiving bills, your

testimony battles. When you're thanking God.

I'll skip the slide there. When you're faking God, you're

saying this. God, I thank you for what you've

done. You're remembering God's

goodness. You're remembering His Amazing

Grace towards you. It's building your confidence in

that he did it, and it's confidence that he'll do it

again. You're building your you're

you're building who he is on the inside of you.

And the fact that he has you, It's your building big.

You're building him in you and building him through you.

Now you battle with your testimony.

How do you battle with your testimony?

I'm sure how it works. God, I thank you that you've

delivered me. He delivered me.

He can deliver you. You see, I'm battling with my

testimony now. You ain't too hard.

You ain't too lost. You should have seen where I

was. And by His grace, he picked me

up and carried me right here. See, your testimony helps you

battle. Which means if your testimony

helps you battle, you always got a prayer on your lips.

God, what you did for me, do for them.

Why you did it in me. Do it for them now, if you

really want to get agape with your battle, this is how you do

it, God, How you did it for me. Do it better for them, God, how

you did it for me. Do it shorter for them.

God, how you did it for me. Bring more of their family with

them than you did with me. Your testimony helps you to

battle. Thanksgiving helps you to build.

And I want to tell you something.

How can you use? Again, I want to make sure it's

clear we're not talking about these things as being wholly

separate. You can use your Thanksgiving to

battle. How do you battle using your

Thanksgiving? Who?

Who wants to play? Troy, come up here for me,

please. I thank you that I'm free from

everything you brought in my life.

I thank you that I'm say I'm trying to get free from

something. I thank you that I'm free.

I thank you. I'm free.

I thank you that I'm free. I thank you that I'm free.

I thank you that I'm free. I thank you that I'm free.

I try to walk away. I thank you that I'm free.

I thank you that I'm free. I thank you that I'm free.

I thank you that I'm free. I thank you That I'm free.

That I'm free. That I'm free.

I thank you Lord that I'm free from this.

I'm free from this. Your Thanksgiving will be

getting to wear out your enemies.

It's alright enough. It's like when your kid is 3 and

they're like Mama again, Mama again.

Play the song again. Play the song again.

Your testimony will battle for you.

Your Thanksgiving will battle for you.

Shout out to my boy. That's if you have a little

That's what that's called. Everyone says we're about to be

educated. That's called importunity.

When you willing to keep thanking, thanking God for your

freedom in the face of what's battling you to the point where

it says, man, you gonna wear me out?

I got to leave town now I'm gonna leave you alone with your

healing 'cause. You're wearing me out with all

that Thanksgiving. It's called importunity.

I won't give up. I won't quit until I see the

goodness of God in the land of the living.

Tithing builds, offering battles.

Tithing helps you remember how good God has blessed you.

Tithing was Abraham's idea. He came from a big battle.

He saw Melchizedek coming down. Melchizedek, the high priest of

God, the God Most High. A symbol and type of Jesus said,

I'll bless you, and out of the gratitude of the blessing and

recognizing what that meant, he said, I'll give you a tithe.

I want to give you a 10th. 10th partly means complete.

I know that you may have blessed me in one area, but your

blessing extends to every area of my life.

Your blessing is more complete than any battle, than any

victory, any paycheck, any freedom, any deliverance.

The blessing of God on my life. Tithing helps you build, your

offering helps you, helps you battle.

How do you know? When Abraham came to

Melchizedek, he gave him a tithe out of Thanksgiving for the

blessing. You got it.

But when it came time in the war for his legacy, he offered up

his son as a seed. See, the seed helps you fight

the secrets. War creates a space.

It goes all day back to Genesis that when man had failed and

lost a blessing. The enemy say battle is on with

the sea baby 'cause it's gonna be one that's gonna come gonna

destroy you, my brother. Or if he was a brother, I don't

know who how you characterize Satan anyway, but he didn't pay

anyway. God is saying, Listen man, I'm

gonna notice that happened. I'm gonna send a seed.

A seed can be a person, but a seed can also be a gift.

It can be whatever you want to give unto the Lord.

It's money, It's time. It's it's Thanksgiving.

It's praise. It's everything in our life can

become a seed that can battle for us.

So understand, when we have time to give, like we have in the

remedy campaign, that's God saying to us, put your seat to

work, Nehemiah said this. Let us do our part, and God will

fight for us. Put your seed to support the

work of God in rebuilding the wall and what that can mean to

the community. And watch God fight for you on

behalf of that seed that you sow.

Amen. We'll go through a few examples.

Number one, here's an example with God.

God made the earth. That's called building after you

make the earth. Genesis 11 He said in Genesis

1-2 now the earth was in chaos. So God said what?

Let there be light. First he built.

God created the heavens and the earth and then when disruption

entered He said, I'm a battle with light, with revelation,

with understanding my presence. Adam did the same thing.

He did the same thing with Adam. He said this what Adam be

fruitful build but also so do it.

That's the battle part. What what am I trying to do with

this. I'm trying to give you examples

that build your momentum of a successful pattern of

effectiveness. OK, I'm trying to do something

better for you than what GPS does.

When you on your way somebody what you do, you plug in GPS

coordinates and say what? And GPS says, says, says this to

you based on the pattern of those people that have gone

before you. I am telling you it's safe to

travel through here and you'll arrive in X amount of minutes.

And you so believe that that you will say to people, I'll be

there at 2:37. I'm trying to let you know this

is better than GPS coordinates. God has been using this

combination of building and battling, building 1st and

battling all throughout time, all throughout the covenant, all

throughout history. If God did it, then it's

available for me and I'll get God results.

If Adam did, it's available for me.

I get Adam results. If Moses did it, it's available

for me. I get Moses results.

If Jesus did it, it's available for me.

I get Jesus results. God's trying to give you the

cheat code of how to stand in this time and how to rebuild

that which has been torn down in your life.

It's a pattern and it's proven completely, totally man.

One more I want to go to you is this Jesus.

Jesus as the lamb came to build, he came to build who we were,

came to restore, restore our relationship with God.

But guess it says what? He's coming back as a lion.

He ain't coming back to build. He coming back to battle.

Build my people first. Now I'm going to come back to

battle and make sure we get everything that belongs to them.

And they have everything that I promised for them.

Man, building is the why you battle.

We talked about that, right? But building also draws the

battle. Say draws the battle.

If you don't want to battle, don't build.

I guarantee you you won't have any battles.

But you won't have nothing either.

You won't have nothing for now, nothing for later, Nothing to

pass on, nothing to give. OK, But you won't have any

battles, though. Building draws battles.

Pastor said this, that we're ready for the blessing.

We're also ready for the battle. Nehemiah says this.

Nehemiah, I think 46 says this. So we built the wall.

All of it was joined together at half its height.

Man, this half part was pretty easy.

I don't feel any obstruction. I don't feel anything.

I don't have to learn how to battle.

I just focus on building. I'm going to leave my sword at

home because we've had some success.

But watch out. He goes on to say this though.

Those fellas I listened to, they heard that the walls of

Jerusalem were going up, that the breaches were closed, and

they became very angry. Their bat, their building,

attracted a battle and the success of their building

attracted a battle. And notice one of the responses

to them was to do what? To try to cause confusion and

failure in it. What's failure?

Fatigue. I'm going to get you confused

and get you to quit. That's one of the tactics that

undermine your building. So you got to learn how to

battle those things. Battle confusion, battle

fatigue, Worship helps you battle confusion and prayer

helps you battle fatigue, all the things we're talking about.

So building will draw a battle. Building is the reason for the

battle. So not only is building the why

you battle, what's the reason for the battle.

I want to go to the next slide that talks and touches on but is

there a difference between building and battling and

building, battling and building? Is there a difference?

Yes, there is a difference between building and battling.

And when I saw the Lord say Lord, is there a difference

between the two? I thought God was saying, yeah,

there's difference, OK, And here's and here's what I got.

What's the difference to share with you?

Building before battling is when you're trying to do something in

your generation. We got to build something,

right, in our context, and that gives us not only equipment to

battle, preparedness to battle, but it's going to draw a fight

to battle because we're building something for our generation,

and that's great. So we got to build first before

you battle. But if all the time you're

always building first before you battle, understand, you're

really just focusing on your generation, OK?

Right. But battling before building is

when you focus on the next generation.

OK, here's how it works. When I'm worshipping God, you're

God, Great God almighty, You're doing amazing things.

God and I pray that we receive everything we need to receive in

the midst. I pray the enemy's bounds so we

can continue our work. That's building and battling for

now, not only before. Billy looks like this.

Father, I want to pray for the next generation coming.

Father, I thank you even before they hear, hear.

Equip them, Protect them. Watch out for them, Care for

them. Save them, deliver them.

Give them places to encourage their life.

Your prayers can go ahead to battle for the next generation.

And if we did more battling for the next generation, the next

generation would have an easier time to start to build for their

generation. There is a difference.

So in this love, love, quest, context, you want to see us do

both. We want to do some building

before battling. We're also going to do some

battling before building because we believe what God's trying to

establish here in our context and what God's calling us to, is

something that's going to go beyond our lives, but for

generations to come. There's specific things we're

going to battle for through prayer, battle for through our

giving, battle for through our service, battle for through our

fasting, for those generations that are coming so they can walk

into a better footing, a better blessing, walk into greater

clarity and greater efficiency for what God's calling them,

calling them to do. Here's an example from the

scripture I want to share with you, John 17 This is Jesus

battling before building. OK, When?

When Jesus has spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to

heaven and said, Father, thou has come, glorify and exalt in

honor and magnify your Son so that your Son may glorify and

stole and honor and magnify you, just as you granted him power

and authority over all flesh, so that he may give eternal life to

all whom you have given him. And this is eternal life, to

know you the one only true in real God, And likewise said, no

him, Jesus the Christ, the not the one who you sent.

I've glorified you down here on earth by completing the work you

gave me to do. I built.

Now, Father, glorify me along with yourself, and restore me to

the majesty and honor Your presence which I had before the

beginning of the world. I've manifested your name to

them, to your people. They were yours.

You gave them to me, and they have obeyed and kept your word.

Now they know an understanding they've given them.

No one understand the words you gave me.

I've given them, and they've received and accepted and have

come, continue to know positively to positively and in

reality that I came forth from your presence.

And they have believed and are convinced that you did send me.

I am praying for them. You hear the battle.

I am praying for them. I'm not praying for the world,

but for those you've given me. All of mine are yours and yours

are mine, and we're going to stop there.

But Jesus goes on to pray is this.

I'm praying for them. When the enemy comes, keep them.

I'm praying for them. When the work gets hard.

Let them know you love them as much as you love me.

Be with them as much as you going to be with me.

I'm praying. I'm battling first because it's

not about me here. It's about them carrying on the

work. And if you get a little farther

down, it says this. And I pray not only for these

that are in my presence, but for all of those that will believe

on me through the work that they do.

That means you, you, you, you and me.

Jesus was battling for you in that moment.

Amen. Then he went to acts.

He prayed to battle, and in acts two he began to build.

So when suddenly they came aside from heaven like the Russian of

a violent Tempest blast, it filled the whole house in which

they were sitting. And there appeared to them

tongues resembling fire, which was separated and distributed,

which set on each one of them. And they were filled with the

Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit

gave them utterance. Keep going Now they were

residing then in Jerusalem, Jews devouting God, free men from

every country under heaven. And when this sound was heard,

the multitude came together, and they were astonished and

bewildered, because each one heard the apostle speaking in

his own language, particular dialect, and they were beside

themselves with amazement, saying, Are not all these who

are talking Galileans? Then how is it that we hear each

of us in our own tongue through which we were born?

You keep posting up to list a lot of people there, right?

Then. Then how is it that we hear each

of us in our own tongues? Keep going.

Next one. All over the globe.

It's important. All over the globe.

All over the globe. OK, tell me, if the mighty works

of God, then what are they telling us?

The mighty works of God. The mighty work that's called

building. They're telling us the mighty

works of God, who God is, right? And they were beside themselves

with amazement. And we're puzzling and beworded,

saying one to another, what can this mean?

Keep going Down, brothers. Others made a joke of it.

One of the ways that enemy caused you to stop building is

to ridicule. You make a joke of what you're

doing, who you think you are. I know where you come from.

We used to get high together. Come on.

What? You think you're all that?

Now? We're going to stop there.

But I will tell you this. You know what it goes on to say

that Peter get up to preach and when he preached the power of

God came and because God of the prayer of Jesus in John 17 the

outpouring the bill came in Acts 2.

With all the language required to start it.

And in that moment people heard the gospel preached in all

language, they gathered there from all over the world, and

this was the cry in different languages.

What must I do to be saved? Imagine one man preaches in a

moment and people from Italy says in Italian, what must I do

to be saved? And Croatians say what must I do

to be saved? And languages all throughout the

earth being a cry, what must I do to be saved?

And in a moment it says I think a few thousand were added to the

church because the battle had already been won in the prayer

before the building came and asked.

Because it wasn't about Jesus being here.

It was about what happens when I go.

I prayed before I left in order to build the next generation

after I'm gone. We're called to build and to

battle, but that also leads us to battle and build for the next

generation. And that's a place where prayer

in particular has a unique space and place and ability to

accomplish that task. So I want to just say this,

here's our charge, say my charge, say my part.

Understand this, before coming home, somebody got to build a

home. That's why we're battling and

building. That's why we're building and

battling. The Lord want me to share this,

he said. This build the house because

they coming. Build the walls because they

coming. Build the gates because they

coming, they coming. So you want to build ready.

You want to battle ready because they coming, they coming, they

coming, they coming, they coming.

So feel like they coming battle like they coming feel like they

coming in a short time and battle like they coming in a

short time because the urgency with which you build in battle

can often quicken and hasten their pace of getting here.

So you always want to remember you going to build ready, you

going to battle ready, as well as every other kind of ready,

'cause that's the kind of people we are.

Amen. Amen.

Come on up. Not right.

Not right here. What you see right here is this

build or is this battle what you think?

It's both. But I'm going to tell you, I can

battle some stuff with this that I can't build with it.

Father, we thank you. We thank you for what you're

doing, God. Hopefully you've received

something tonight that have transformed your life, changed

your life. Because that was the intent.

We can come and just listen. We can come and be changed.

The one part I didn't tell you about Nehemiah is that there was

some who watched the people build with swords on their hips

and sat back and didn't do anything.

And when the wall was built and the gates were set, they were

protected. But you know what they didn't

get is what happens in the other chapters of Nehemiah, where the

Spirit of God lists the Richmond family helped build the wall.

Swain family helped build the wall.

It's listed there, the families you stood up, the ones that

didn't receive the blessing, but they never received the full

testimony, to never receive that acknowledgement by God, that

eternal gratitude that comes with him.

Having said, I want you to know how grateful I am for what you

did as a family, so you can sit and not partake of the building

or the battling and you'll still be.

Protected long as you stay close.

But how much better it is for your children to go up and say

that's MyHeritage, that's whose shoulders I stand on.

It's in me, it's in me, it's in me.

I won't let you down. I'll pick up the mantle.

I'll carry it for you. And sometimes, as it happens,

when generations get missed, a grandparent passes before a

grandchild can really know them. The grandparent passes.

The parent can take their child and say he didn't know you Your

granddaddy, what a fought. Let me tell you, you should be

who he is. This wall was built.

See that name right there? That's your granddaddy.

That tells you everything you need to know about him.

He did it with his hands. He did it building.

He didn't fight. He wouldn't give up.

Because he was thinking about you.

That's where you come from. Be a legacy.

Be a testimony. Just don't sit and receive the

benefit. Get your name in there.

For those don't know about talking about something, put

your name on a gold plaque. I'm talking about in heaven what

God says Thank you. That's what I'm talking about.

You'll have an opportunity. Just a moment, Think they're

going to bring the tables up? We're going to have some

opportunity for our remnant giving.

It's for finishing the work next door so we can do more, so we

can grow more and serve more and love more, so we can have shifts

and be open all night if we need to.

We encourage you to listen to what God is asking you, how to

participate and understand. It's not about what you have,

it's about what you're willing to let God get through you.

Because God can speak something to your heart, and in the midst

of speaking that to you, He's showing you what he's going to

do in your life in a way that you never expected.

It's just for you to open up your hearts for God to fulfill

His promise to you. So we're going to encourage you

to be generous during that time. If you want to proceed and give

with your regular ties and offerings, you can do so in the

back. We ask you to bring the Remnant

giving up here at this time so we have an opportunity to put

into practice what we're just talking about.

Building and battling, worshipping and praying, putting

it together. I love it when we can give

action to the Word, because the Bible says that God comes to

watch over His word to perform it.

Hey man, and I will tell you this, you need both.

You got to be equally strong at both.

Now we're battling through our giving, but you can battle

through praying. God bless that Givi.

God increase, send more givers. God let me be able to

participate in a greater way next time.

God you can build by opening your mouth to worship the Lord

in this moment as our worship team sings and leads us in.

This time you don't have to be left out if you don't want to be

left out, but you are going to have to open up your mouth.

And engage with the work. Amen.

So, as we worship would have this opportunity of giving.

Amen. Amen.

One of the ways you can. How do you stand on God's

faithfulness? It's not bricks and it's not

mortar. How do you stand on God's

faithfulness? You thought about that?

See, sometimes I like to take a pause to challenge myself, like

I sing words. I get caught up in the melody.

But what was it really mean to me, right.

And This is why it's part important to be part of a body

and to gather together. Because the way I'll stand on

God's faithfulness, remember how he brought you out and remember

how He did in your life. And I said, then I go down the

line. I say faithful, faithful,

faithful. Without evidence of his

faithfulness, it's harder to understand how to stand on it.

But when I see what God's done in your life and your life, and

your life and your life and your life and your life and your life

and your life, surely I can count and stand on that very

same thing. That's how you stand on the

faithfulness of God. One of the ways is to remember

not just what He did in your life from day-to-day and week to

week, but what he's done in the lives of all of those around

you. So when you say you're standing

on God's. Faithfulness.

You're remembering all of the testimonies, all the victories,

all of what it took for you to get here, all of what your.

Family's been through all of what you've been through.

God, I'm not going to be moved. And you know the great thing

about standing on faithfulness when it's based on testimonies?

If, if, if. Mark, can you come here very

quickly? If I was to stand on the

faithfulness of God, but on his testimony, turn around and you

act like I was standing on his shoulders.

If these were my feet, what would you do with your hands?

If I stand on your shoulders? I'm not just standing on what

God's done in his life because of what God done in his life.

He's holding me to make sure I don't fall.

It's not only am I standing on this faithfulness, but my

brothers and my sisters and the people around me saying we don't

keep you standing, we're going to hold you together.

We going to keep you. We're going to watch.

You're not. Going to trip, you're not going

to. Fall, lift your hands up.

We got you in every air in every way, just encouraging you with

that illustration of why we're gathering on Mondays to pray

online and women's prayer calls encourage you to participate in

those. Men starts at 8:00 and women

starts at 8:30. But also we're gathering during

the week from Tuesday to Saturday, because when you

gather together, you build together, you battle together,

you send prayers and things to the next generations together,

and you stand on each other's shoulders together.

It's something amazing when you know, if I just get there,

somebody got me. All I got to do is get there.

And that's what we're doing, is we encourage you to challenge

yourself. There's a grace to get here,

reach out for it. God give me the grace.

There's a grace to reorganize, to prioritize, to get the rest

and all those kind of things to get here and to be faithful to

all of the other things we're doing in our fast.

So really encourage you. Challenge yourself.

Come see what maybe what you might be missing and what God

Extra has for you in Jesus name. We appreciate your generosity

and your giving and this time and these moments are

significant. I can remember when my kids were

learning to play my daughter, particularly playing piano and

she would play something. I can just listen to her all day

play that one, that one little scale she was doing because she

wasn't playing a scale. She had a hold of my heart.

So these moments in these times are we basking in.

Sometimes it's the father's like it may not seem like much to you

but you got my heart. I can just hear you do twinkle,

twinkle little star all day. It's like this like we say

again, daddy. Daddy says get child again,

child in Jesus name. So Father, we thank you for this

time and our gathering. Now what I'm going to do is this

and I'm going to say a prayer and the prayers of prayer

release a master worship team if they can lead us in one more

song at least, and we'll just see what God leads and what God

goes. It's not about trying to stay,

it's just about saying God. We're grateful for what you're

doing and what you started. You know what it says about in

Nehemiah? That's the challenge.

It says that they would take shifts so they could be there

all through the night. Keep and watch.

They build and battle all through the night.

I'm not saying we won't be all through the night.

Father, we thank you for this time.

We thank you for what you've done.

We thank you that every heart is received And every heart has

been transformed. We thank you for your grace

that's come and taken. The words that have been sung

and that have been prayed and the gifts that have been given,

and you multiply that as a blessing to those that have

given in the hearts and whom it's been received.

Father, we thank you that even as we go out of this place, we

don't leave your presence. God, And we thank you God.

That will mean be out of time for this particular moment, this

particular segment of time. We're never out of your

presence. We're never out of the grace to

build and the grace to battle and all that comes along with

that. So you know what time it is.

Ready. Amen.

Get your love fixed, man. Amen.

David, You give me handclap. Glory to God.

So we're officially done. We're going to sing one more

song to send us out. You have been listening to the

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