Sermon
August 28 (PM) - My Praise is my Weapon
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What's going on? Love quest Nation.
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Thank you for tuning into the Love quest podcast.
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Get your Bibles ready? Get your notebook, get your
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coffee, get some water, whatever you need to do and get ready to
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receive the time. Is right now.
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Let's go. We just direct our attention to
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two Mighty women of god, let's just extend amen.
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Extend your hands to them right now and say Mighty women of God
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preached teach this is your time you are anointed for such a time
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as this walk-in Authority walk in power lead us to revelation
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we will pull on you. Thank you in Jesus name.
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Amen. Come on.
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Hello, hello. Hello everyone.
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How are we? You can take your seats.
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So before we get started, whoo. I just want to thank.
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First of all, thank God. Thank God, he is good and he is
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faithful, and he shows himself faithful week after week after
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week in this house. And so Lord, we praise you
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today. Also, I want to take a minute to
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thank Pastor Terrance, and Pastor Julia for giving me an
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opportunity to speak also for pouring into my life and for
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calling out the anointing and the gifting that God placed
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Within Me. You bless me beyond words and I
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know y'all are watching. So thank you sending all my love
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to California. Hi Nana.
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Hi family. I love you all and I appreciate
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you and I thank you again for giving me this opportunity.
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So Today, I want to talk to you about God.
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Specifically the power that he's given us in worship worship
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isn't just a singing songs. There's actually power that
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comes from it. It's a weapon that we wage war
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fare with something changes in the atmosphere when we release
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the word of God to song. And so that's what we're going
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to dive into today and the title of mine and sion's two-part.
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Sermon here is the battle belongs to You there it is.
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The Battle Belongs to You. Shout out Grace Rose for helping
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me with the title slide. So I want you to turn to your
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neighbor. You can hit the next slide and
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tell them my God is a great God. Watch him, prove it in your
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life. All right, that was cute.
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Now, find somebody else and tried.
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Again, I want you to say was forever.
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My God is a great God, watch him, prove it in your life,
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that's better. Alright, next, slide So what we
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need to do church is we need to stop worrying about Warfare.
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What we need to do instead is to wait on the Lord and watch him
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work wonders in our lives. Because like I said before, I
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love quest. We wage war with worship, like
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Ephesians 6. Verse 12 says the struggles, the
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Warfare that we wage. It's not against flesh and blood
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but it's a spiritual war that we are fighting.
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And spiritual battles require spiritual weapons are weapons,
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our worship and the word of God. So stop worrying about your
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Warfare. Wait on the Lord and watch him
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work wonders and we're going to dive into the word real quick
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here. We're going to go into a little
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story found in second Corinthians. 5:21 a friend King
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Jehoshaphat say King, Jehoshaphat, perfect.
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You can go onto the next slide. So, King, Jehoshaphat found
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himself in a bit of a pickle. He was a man after God's Own
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Heart and someone that the Lord delighted in and he was an
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obedient King. But what ends up happening is he
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finds himself faced with an attack from the moabites, the
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ammonites, and the Mets. Unites say that's a lot of nice,
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get it because it's a battle, and they're Waging War.
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You're welcome. You're welcome.
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So, there were three nations that decided to set up attack
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against this single King, King Jehoshaphat, Who was the Of
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Judah. And what is Judah mean, my
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friends? Praise coincidence.
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I think not. So we going to next slide.
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Oh no. Sorry actually stay here.
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Stay here JK go back. So we find there's a great
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multitude that is come against King Jehoshaphat but Jehoshaphat
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for a second he feared he was I way, hold up but also I think
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feared it's not just he was afraid within himself, I believe
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he also feared God. And what he did.
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His reaction shows that because he set himself determinately as
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his vital need to seek the Lord and He proclaimed a fast in all
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Judah, he's like, whoa, hold up. Three nations are coming to
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attack knee. Okay, I'm a little skirt, but
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wait, I fear the lord and the Lord only.
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So what am I going to do? I'm going to seek wisdom
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determinately. I'm going to seek with
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everything in mean, it's not just me, there's power in unity.
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So Nations, come on, let's eat. Gather and fast and pray and see
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what God wants to do and how he wants to handle this situation
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next. So there's three questions that
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kind of popped up in my spirit and I'm a teacher.
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So y'all have homework, take a picture, write it down, do what
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you need to do. But there are three questions
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that I want you to go home and answer.
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First, are you set in your seeking so to be set in
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something is to be immovable. It's also to be led f as in to
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be set in a direction and it's to be productive because when
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trees or a blossom are set, they actually develop into produce.
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So are you set in your seeking? Are you immovable in?
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You're seeking, are you lead in your seeking and are you
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productive in your seeking? Is it empty?
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Or does it give you something in return?
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The second question is, are you determined in your hearing and
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listening to different things? You can Here.
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But it doesn't mean it registers hearing and listening.
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That's the register portion. Will you allow God's
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instructions to be a decisive factor in your decision making?
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That's what it means to be. Determined that his instructions
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are a decisive factor in your decision making.
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It's not a factor. It is the factor and it is
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decisive, are you determined in your hearing and listening?
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Meaning to the word of God. And finally is his voice and
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guidance, a vital need in your life Elder, Pam.
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Correct me if I'm wrong. But when you go to the hospital
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and your vital signs are being checked, those are the things
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that show whether or not you're alive whether or not you're
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doing good, whether or not, you're okay, okay?
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Us. Checking in with God, it needs
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to be a vital need. If we don't, something's wrong,
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something's off something within us is not okay, you cannot
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survive. On your own in this spiritual
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battle without God in your life. Is he?
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Your vital me? That's what he needs to be.
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So check yourself is God your vital need?
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Check your vitals. Alright, next first, so we come
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to verse 4 King Jehoshaphat, he's proclaimed a fast for all
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of the people of Judah, the people of praise.
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And so they fasted they I prayed, they seek the Lord
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together in unity with all their desire.
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Its Judah gather together to ask for help from the Lord, even out
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of all the cities of Judah, they came to seek the Lord yearning
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for him with their desire. It wasn't just a cute prayer
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meeting. It was like, no, we are coming
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together as a nation yearning with all of our desire because
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God, we know without you we will be destroyed.
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There are three nations coming against us.
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We need you. So we are willing to seek you
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with Everything that we have. And then from there, King
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Jehoshaphat, he does something interesting.
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You can see here, it seems like he starts questioning God, or
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asking questions to the Lord, but he doesn't publicly, he
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doesn't in front of people and this caused me to pause and
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wonder. Okay, what is happening here?
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But what I realized, as I read is actually Jehoshaphat.
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Wasn't questioning God, these are rhetorical questions with
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widely known answers. He's like, Let's see here.
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For example, he says, are you not God in heaven?
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Well, duh, right. Do you not rule over all the
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kingdoms of the nation? If you were a Hebrew person at
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this time? This is common knowledge.
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Like, these are rhetorical questions.
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And actually, what they are meant to do is to bring people
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into remembrance and it's a communal remembrance.
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And what that does is it unifies, the people that
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communal Is an act of worship. And so what Jehoshaphat is doing
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in front of the people is worshipping and uniting them
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next slide. So similar to exhortation in
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corporate prayer. This moment of recounting is
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used to unify the people and build up their faith, because as
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we know in Psalm 133, where there is Unity, that's where the
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Lord commands his Blessing to rest.
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And so, King, Jehoshaphat new A wise King that he was.
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I need to unite these people together.
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Let's recount the goodness of God and the things that he has
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done, not just for us, but for Generations, bring us onto the
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same page, unify us. So that God doesn't just speak,
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but his Blessing is commanded over this situation next slide.
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so then, He addresses the people again, and he says, behold they
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reward us by coming to drive us out of your possession, he's
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talking to God which you have given us to inherit.
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And I think this is like really key because It's not just a
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piece of land that they've come across, not even a piece of land
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that they've been Victorious over, but it's actually an
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inheritance given to them by God, it's his gift to them.
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And what I believe, and what we are going to see in the
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description is the things that God has placed for you to
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inherit. You don't have to work for those
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things. What you do have to do is you
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have to stand and you have to worship and you have to seek God
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with everything that Have and he will bring those inheritance is
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where they need to be. It's not a striving, it's not a
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working. It's not a greedy collecting of
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things. It's not going.
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We read grinding and grinding and grinding stand firm.
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And where God has placed you on, what he's called you to do.
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And his inheritance will come into line with your life.
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You know what I'm talking about day, allow the inheritance of
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the Lord to come in line with you as you fervently seek.
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Him. And then it's, he says, oh God,
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will you not exercise judgment upon them?
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We have. No might to stand against this
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great company. That is coming against us.
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We do not know what to do, but regardless, whoo, our eyes are
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upon you. We do not understand the
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situation that's ahead of us, but our eyes are upon you.
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I don't get why this person has been treating me this way.
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But Lord, regardless, my eyes are on you.
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I don't understand why I was fired.
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From this job. But God, I'm going to take heed
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of what you said and keep my eyes on you.
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My circumstances do not align with your promises and what you
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play. It's God with everything that I
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have because I do you have proven yourself.
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That's key. You need to get this.
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It doesn't matter what's going on in your life.
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Seek Him First. Keep your eyes on him and allow
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him to speak directly into your situation.
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He will not leave you hanging next slide.
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And then, it gets better. The spirit of the Lord Came Upon
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a little homie. I'm not gonna go try to say his
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name, and then he said Harkin, was Harkin.
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Mean, listen, listen, listen to the words that are coming out of
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my mouth for. They are life for you because
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they are from God, he says, Be not Afraid or dismayed at this
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great multitude, three nations that are coming against you.
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For the battle is not yours but it is God.
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The battle is not yours, but it is God's but how it could have
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been so easy for doubt to creep in, but how God, how that
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doesn't even make sense? And then comes instruction,
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praise God. Next slide tomorrow, go down to
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them and you shall not need to fight in this battle.
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You shall not need to fight in this battle.
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Take your positions. Stand still.
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See the Deliverance of the Lord. Who is with you Judah and
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Jerusalem and fear. Not nor be dismayed tomorrow.
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Go out against them for the Lord is with you.
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You need to know in your Circumstance.
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The Lord is with you. The Lord is with you next slide.
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This is what you need to do. You need to listen, you need to
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take your position, whatever that position is teacher,
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engineer nurse mechanic. Take your Position, take the
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assigned position. God has given you stand still?
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Because in the Stillness, he's there and he speaks.
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And then see the Deliverance of the Lord and fear.
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Not, he's with you. His word says it.
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He is present in your situation. He is present in your
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circumstance, so fear not The Battle Belongs to him next slide
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and then Jehoshaphat bowed his head.
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It's his responsibility. Ponce y'all.
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This is key. All he's been given this
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instruction he doesn't and it's crazy.
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Instruction don't fight stand worship but his response is so
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telling he bowed his head with his face to the ground and all
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Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell down before the
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Lord and worshiped him. And then remember how many
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nations were coming against? That's it.
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So, what does he do in response? He sends out the Levites.
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The And the Kora Heights and they stood up to praise the
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Lord, the god of Israel with a very loud voice of these are
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three different types of priests.
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The Levites lot of time were the instrumentalists and they were
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the guards and the temple. The coal have fights, they took
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care of the temple things made. Sure everything was speaking
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Spanish and that things were being treated properly.
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And the Cora Heights, the sons of Korah.
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That's the The choir they were the singers.
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So in response to the three attacking Nations, three types
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of Praise are sent out, God takes care of it, all he won't
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leave, Loose Ends is 3 for 3. The battle is 343 do.
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Does who does your response to instruction?
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Cause you to worship when you're given instruction, do you
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worship before? You know, things are for sure,
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because that's what's being presented to us.
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Here, not one type of worship three, and it's the whole show.
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It's the whole shebang, if you have the high priests involved,
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it was serious. Understand, God will give you
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what you need. Exactly what you need for, what
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you're facing three for three next slide, please.
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And they Rose early, obedience in the morning and went out into
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the Wilderness and as they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said
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and I changed it a little bit because I'm addressing this to
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us. Hear Me O love quest and you
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inhabitants of Wally believe in the Lord your God and you shall
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be established. Published believe and remain
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steadfast through His prophets and you shall prosper.
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This is what God is promising over you, whatever your battle,
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whatever your situation is, stay steadfast heed.
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The word of the Lord, respect the mouthpieces that God has
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placed in your life. And you shall prosper here in
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obey my friends next slide. And when he consulted with the
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people, he appointed singers to sing The Lord's Prayer.
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Raise. And they went out before the
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Army. Sing give thanks to the Lord,
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Our God enki his blood. Exactly.
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Now we won't go there because I don't have enough time but they
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went out and they worshipped. They went out before the Army
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and they praised next slide. I'd remember church.
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We don't worship for victory. We worship from Not far from
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Victory because because when they began to sing it, to praise
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the Lord sent ambushment against the men of Ammon Moab.
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And Mount Si are who have come against Judah and they were self
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slaughtered and none escaped. Now listen, God is doing,
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they'll keep it. Go back, go back, go back.
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God is doing a complete work in your life. 343 enemies.
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Don't stand a chance. Understand worship.
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Them to self. We're get down because there's
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something that's very important. I want you to skip to the verse
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27. I might be the next slide.
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Yes. The Lord had made them to
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Rejoice over their enemies. The word Rejoice, my friends.
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The word Rejoice. Oh Jesus!
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Y'all about to be blessed. The word rejoice when broken, in
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its two parts re means expressing intensive, foil,
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force and jaguar is experiencing Joy.
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So, what you need to understand is the intense force of Joy
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released through the wave of expressive worship, literally
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repositioned the enemy's attacks from Judah and onto one.
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Another sound has waves sound makes a Kle impact, your praise
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has a physical impact and not only does it actually affect the
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physical atmosphere that's around us.
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That's the basis of hearing waves.
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Hit your ears and you here, not only does it affect the physical
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atmosphere around us, it affects the spiritual because remember
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the weapons that we wor with, they are not flash flesh and
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blood but they are Spirit its word at its worship, and the
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people were physically Louvered against each other because the
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Lord send the troops to Rejoice over the Army Rejoice, over the
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situation, Rejoice, over circumstances, Rejoice over
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problems, but can I encourage you rejoice over your
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circumstance choice? Pulling your leg.
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Rejoice Rejoice over your marriage because God is going to
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physically change things in your life, as you release a sound of
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praise next slide. Last one and remember, above all
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else, The Battle Belongs to you because the spirit of God lives
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inside of you and if he's won, the battle is yours.
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If he's won. The battle is yours.
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If he's won, the battle is to our.
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So if you agree, Say Amen. Oh, y'all can do better than
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that if you preach that.
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Y'all. You know, when you get this like
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holy nervous feeling, it's not like a bad nervous but it's
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like, God, put something on you and you just can't wait to
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release it. That's why I feel right now.
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Okay. All right.
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Hi, I'm see on nice to meet y'all.
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So, glad to be here, first, and foremost, like if he said, we
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thank Jesus for this opportunity.
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We don't take it lightly that he trusts us to speak to his
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people. So Lord, I Thank you for
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trusting me. And I before I came up, I said,
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Lord, anoint me was a little little quiver in my voice.
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He said you are anointed see on so go up there and speak like
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you're anointed. We put a timer on that thing
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because I know I will For ten years, if it's not up there.
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And then of course, I got to take my pastors.
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And I'm not gonna cry because I told myself I wasn't gonna cry
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because I always cry. Are we good over there?
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Yeah. Can we put that graphic up?
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Why do we honor this is so so important.
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You guys I'm sure would have been hearing.
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Why do we honor why? Why do we keep saying thank you
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Pastor Terrence, thank you Pastor Julia.
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Well let me lead you to a scripture real quick.
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It says for in 1st Thessalonians 5 12.
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Now we ask you Brothers to give recognition to those who labor
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among You and Lead You In The Lord and admonish you next
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slide. Just Like A Champion cheat.
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A championship team. Thanks their coach, for leading
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them into Victory. This is the same way that I'll
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honor our pastors for leading me into a Godly Championship life.
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Hallelujah. All right.
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Next slide. Like we said The Battle Belongs
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to the Lord, but my little twist, is my posture remains
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because the, Because The Battle Belongs to the Lord next slide.
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Now, how many of us have ever lost our posture when we're
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driving to church? And you already know you late,
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don't lie, don't lie, you lost your father, whether it was your
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face, your body, something shifted, right, or when someone
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ahead of you in line, gets the last As you already said that
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you weren't gonna get, but then they get it.
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And now you feeling some kind of way, don't lie, put your hands
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up. I know me.
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This is me all the time. Listen, when I had covid last
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year and I was in the hospital sick and everything around me
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told me I wasn't gonna make it hypothetically, I had the right
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to kind of lose my posture, right?
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Right. Well, the test, I remember
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watching this sermon and I tried to put a clip on there, but it
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didn't work, so it's okay. I'm just going to read a little
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part. I remember watching the sermon
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on Monumental faith. That pastor preached on October
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21st, at 5 p.m. service and I had been in bed in the hospital
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for 8 days at this point. And I remember thinking to
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myself, God, did I not have enough faith for you to heal me?
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I worship God. I give Did I not have enough
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Faith? Listen.
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I felt like, my pastor was deteriorating a little bit and
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all of a sudden I'm just going to read it because I can't have
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the clip out there all of a sudden I'm in my bed.
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Okay, oxygen and everything, really sick and then I hear see
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on If your Lis, if you're watching this, you are healed
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from the crown of your head to the soles of your feet.
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In Jesus name, you are coming out of that hospital right now.
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In Jesus name, don't let go. Don't let go, don't let go.
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And he kept saying that don't let's go see on the the Lord is
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turning it around for your good dog.
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Go Pastor prayed. Yes.
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Lord Heal her. Yes, Lord.
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She is healed from the crown of her head to the soles of her
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feet. Pam was with me in the hospital.
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She saw me. But what I really hear now is
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don't lose your posture. See.
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Come on, see increase your faith.
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Come on. See, I know you may not be
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feeling it, but let me release Faith over the stream and
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reminds you that God is good. Let me remind you that she wear
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heels from the crown of your head to the soles of your feet.
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Feet. Ephesians 6:18 says, in the same
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way, prayer is essential in this ongoing Warfare, pray, hard, and
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long. Pray for your brothers and your
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sisters, keep your eyes open, keep each other's spirits up.
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So there's no one falls behind our drops out.
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This is why we need each other. Stop China, Walk life alone.
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And in that moment with Pastor Terrance and see on, you know,
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as a pastor says, see on it's not see on he yelled.
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See on I remember something in me, leaked That little bit of
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faith and belief and when I thought I wasn't gonna make it
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there is this little seed that said you're getting out of this
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hospital soon. See on sooner than you think.
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And listen, this is the miracle that night was the first night I
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slept with no oxygen? No.
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Sorry, I let me rephrase that. I did sleep with oxygen.
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I need oxygen to live. Let me correct myself.
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There's some nurses and Is over here, I did have oxygen, but I
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didn't have that oxygen oxygen tank, and what that did, is it?
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Hypothetically was giving me more life, but let me tell you
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what Jesus did. He said your enough see on
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They came in, they took off that oxygen thing, whatever that
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thing is called, I slept the best, I'd slept that night, the
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next morning, my blood pressures were stable the day after that
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the doctor comes in girl. What happened for you to be able
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to go home today? I know that my God is alive
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everything changes when a spirit filled believer walks by faith
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and talks with faith. All right y'all, I'm going into
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second and second chronicles 20. Now after this and excuse my
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eyes, Okay, I for sure am going to pronounce him incorrectly on
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my letting, you know. Now after this the Mo B, the
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ammonites and some of the men I want to say many nights, not
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many nights, munites came to wage war against Jehoshaphat.
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Some people came and told Jehovah's Jehoshaphat, a vast
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Army is coming against you from Edom, from the other side of the
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Dead Sea, it is already in, has his own tomorrow, that is an
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equity and the land which with the this land here, I don't want
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haze's on tomorrow, I need to highlight this for a moment.
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This is what this actually means is Drawing Near to bitterness
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why this is important is because at the end of the story, The
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Lord changes the story of what this land is and he changes it
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to a valley of Baraka. The land of Praise next slide.
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Sometimes your place of battle becomes your place of blessing.
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How many of us have seen the heart of God and the hand of
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God? So much greater in the hard
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places than the easy Places. Come on, be honest.
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I know I have Second chronicles, 20 alarm, Jehoshaphat resolved
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to inquire of the Lord and He proclaimed the fast for all of
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Judah. The people of Judah, came
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together to seek help from the Lord indeed, they came from
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every town to seek to, to seek Him, Jehoshaphat had an urgency
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to seek an urgency and hear from the Lord and knowing how to
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defeat the enemy for this specific battle.
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The Lord has wisdom for every single battle Jehoshaphat called
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a corporate fast, not an individual fast, he saw an
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opportunity for the people to be United and that's what if he was
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talking about. It wasn't just, okay.
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Let me go bask in the, in the glory for myself to hear from
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God, but he said, hey, people of Judah, we need to be one Accord.
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We're going too fast, and it's not about fasting is not going
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up and not going without, but it is going within, right?
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They were looking for something. When turbulence arises stop
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seeking man's Wisdom and first seek God's wisdom whenever
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you're seeking man's Wisdom. Make sure, you know that they
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live a life of seeking God's wisdom fruit or else their
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wisdom. Can keep you bound.
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The holy spirit is my helper second chronicles 25:6 as then
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Jehoshaphat stood in the Assembly of Judah and Jerusalem
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and the Temple of the Lord in the front of the courtyard and
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said, you know, every went through.
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I'm not going to go through The whole thing.
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But can you go to the next part? Vicki.
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And I like the Revelation that if he gave, it's not that he was
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fearing. But he had a fear of God in him.
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There was something in him that said and we've all done it,
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where we've been like? Okay, God, you said this but
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God, I know he's, you showed me this but God why did this
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happen? Because I know, x, y, and Zed,
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but what is their weight? They were what they were really
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what I believe Jehoshaphat was he was waiting and waiting is
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not I said the word weight is actually to expect to look into
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long next side. Waiting may not look busy
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physically but it sure is active spiritually.
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Next, slide when you're waiting you're trusting, you're praying,
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you're believing, you're praising, that is are forever,
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posture? This right here.
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This right here. This is how I fight my battles.
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Next slide. When the spirit of the Lord came
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on brother, that we said, that has yell son of Zachariah, the
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son of Ben. And I are the son of the son of
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all the sons. He said, listen, King,
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Jehoshaphat and all who live in Judah and Jerusalem.
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This is what the Lord says to you next slide fasting and
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praying increases your intimacy with Jesus.
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It's not about going without like I said, but it is about
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going within it gives you Clarity to has y'all didn't I
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didn't think the Lord, I don't think the Lord is saying he said
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with assurance and confidence. This is what the Lord is saying
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to you next side. Do not be afraid or discouraged
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because of this vast Army for the battle is not yours, but is
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God's tomorrow March down against them.
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They will be climbing up by the passives is and you will find
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them at the end of the gourd. In the, in the desert of drool.
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Next, you will not have to fight this battle, but take up your
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position, stand firm and see the Deliverance of the Lord will
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give you Judah and Jerusalem do not be afraid.
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Do not be discouraged. Courage.
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Go out to face them tomorrow and the Lord will be with you next
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Slide. The Lord will always give us
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clear. Instruction, he is not a
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confusing. God, he is a clear God.
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He is the beginning and he is the end.
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If he is the beginning, then he knows how it starts.
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And if it's the end, then you best believe that he knows how
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it should be done next. So take your position stand
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firm, see the Deliverance. The Lord will give you do not be
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afraid or discouraged and go we don't want to go though.
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We don't want to go though. We do want to just kind of
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You're from this side but there was a part of it that had to go.
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But listen, is this the next time?
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Jehoshaphat bowed down with his face to the ground and all the
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people of Judah and Jerusalem fell down and worship before the
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Lord, then some Levites from the all the ayats' and praise the
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Lord, the god of Israel with a very loud voice.
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Next, Their only response was to worship really?
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How many of us when Trouble Comes are our response is
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worship. I can definitely tell you that
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my response has increased in worship.
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Am I growing? Absolutely, but I'm noticing now
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OKC on. You have the power to worship
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right now, or you have the power to bow down to whatever it is,
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and I'm making the decision, and I'm continually growing in that.
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As Roll with the Lord, is the Lord continues to equip me and,
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and lavish himself upon me to remind myself, you can worship.
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See if nobody thinks it's cool. If everyone around, you thinks,
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it's weird worship. Next, slide, Sorry, one second.
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Early in the morning. Hold on, let me sing for y'all
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one time and the scanner. Say Lord help.
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See on there, it is see early in the morning, they left for the
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desert of Toccoa and they set out Joe.
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They set out Jehovah's at Jehoshaphat stood and said
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listen to me, Judo people of Jerusalem, have faith in the
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Lord your God, and you will be upheld.
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Have Faith In His prophets, and you will be successful.
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And after, Salting the people Jehoshaphat appointed meant to
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sing to the Lord and to praise him for the Splendor of his
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Holiness, as they went out to the head of the army.
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They were singing. Give thanks to the Lord for his
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love endures and forever. Can you imagine?
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I just need to get this visual, so you got the enemies.
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You got all of them over there and then, what do you see?
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What do you see? Give thanks to the Lord for his
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love endures forever. Can you imagine how crazy that
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would look? No, seriously.
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Can you imagine how crazy that would have?
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Looked, listen, I'm telling you for the next next slide for we
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wrestle. Not against flesh and blood.
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The world's gonna look crazy when you bow down when you say,
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give thanks to the Lord for his love endures forever.
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Give thanks to the Lord for his love endures forever.
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Give thanks to the Lord for his love endures forever.
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Give thanks to the Lord for his love endures forever.
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I will bow down only to Jesus for we wrestle, not against
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flesh and blood. But against principalities
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against Powers against the rulers of the darkness of World
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against spiritual wickedness. In high places next.
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Slide for though, we walk in the flesh.
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We do not war, according to the flesh for the weapons of our
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Warfare are not carnal, But Mighty in God, for pulling down
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strongholds, casting down arguments and every High thing
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that exalts himself against the knowledge of God.
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Bringing every thought every thought into the Captivity of
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Christ. The arm me of The Army.
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Sorry I think I wrote their own. What are some of the things that
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the weapons of our Warfare? Scripture tells us how many of
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Salvation the breastplate of righteousness?
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Shield of Faith belt of Truth shoes of peace.
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Sort of the spirit Ephesians 6:14 tells us that and in second
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chronicles again as we continue as they began to sing and to
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praise the Lord set ambushes against the man of Ammon.
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And Moab and mount seir who are invading Judah and they were
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defeated and I love this this other version and if he kind of
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Shawna the NLT it says at the very moment, they began to sing
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and and to give praise the Lord caused the armies of Amon and
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Moab and mount seir to start fighting among themselves that
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really got me. Praise worship, gratitude
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Thanksgiving, are all weapons, why?
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Because it confuses the enemy when you worship before the
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battle when you Worship in the battle.
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And when you wash it through the battle, and when you worship out
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the battle, come on somebody. When the people of Judah began
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to sing and praise the enemy turned on himself.
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The army of Judah did nothing physically, but everything
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spiritually and let the Lord take over and do what only he
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can do. And the rest of scripture, the
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ammonites and mobile. It's more vital Moab but no rose
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up against the new men from mounts here to destroy and to
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any weight them after they finish slaughtering the men from
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Seer, they helped to destroy one another.
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When the men of Judah came to the place that overlooks the
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desert, and look toward the vast army.
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They saw homie dead bodies laying on the guy laying on the
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ground. No one had escaped.
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What makes you think? The Lord would deliver?
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The whole nation of Judah and not delivery.
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You. No.
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You better think about that. Can you imagine how many people
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were in the nation of Judah? And you think your circumstances
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are too big for God to deliver you from?
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That's a challenge to think about.
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So Jehoshaphat, and his men went to carry off their plunder and
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they found among them a great amount of equipment and clothing
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and also articles of value more than what they could take away.
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There was so much punter that it took three days to collect.
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Remember what I said earlier, sometimes your place of battle
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becomes your place of blessing, On the fourth day, they
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assembled in the valley of burkha where they praise the
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Lord. This is why it is called the
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lat, the valley of America to this day.
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Value Barrack of the land of Praise, then led by Jehoshaphat
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and all the men of Judah and Jerusalem returning.
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Joyfully to Jerusalem for the Lord had given them to cause a
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Rejoice over their enemies. They answered Jerusalem and went
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to temples in the Lord with Harps and leaders.
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They started to worship K, the Lord or sorry.
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The fear of God came on. All surrounding kingdoms when
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they heard how the Lord had fought against the enemies of
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Jerusalem of Israel. Sorry.
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And the kingdom of Jehoshaphat was at peace for his God, had
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given him rest on every side. What convicting me in this part
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is I thought the blessing, the blessing was, oh my god, there
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was so much that it took them three days to collect it.
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The holy spirit said, uh-uh girl, the prize and the king,
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and the kingdom of Jehoshaphat was at peace for his God.
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Had given him rest on every side Earthly, Treasures come and go.
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It's our and are temporarily near of materialistic and
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limited. But transitions are Treasures,
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in Heaven artist hurdle David how can't courage to face and
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kill Goliath because his posture remain, as he knew the battle
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belong to the Lord, Shadrach Meshach, and Abednego had bonus
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to not only, not bow down to their Idol.
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But a result gets thrown into the fiery furnace to come out,
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not only not smelling like fire, but the wards Later them, for
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their posture remains, as they knew the battle belong to the
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Lord job loss. Absolutely everything is still
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in it curse, God, because his posture remain, as he know the
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battle belong to the Lord. Pastor, Dan, yella a pastor,
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Danny worship through lost. This is how we fight our battle.
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They amen. Amen.
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And we don't fight for victory, we fight from Victory.
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The battle does not belong to us, but the Battle Belongs to
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the Lord. Amen.
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All we gotta do is get into position.
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Right? Anybody here.
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Tonight gonna make a decision in their heart, to hold a position
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of Praise when we faced opposition on our life.
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That the Lord may show himself strong on behalf of his people.
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I know, I will, I know, I will, what a powerful work and we just
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lift up another block. As for this Mighty women of God.
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Amen. So father, we just thank you
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that you are our Jehovah, Nissi. You are our Banner of Victory.
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Father, we thank you that The Battle Belongs to You Lord, and
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we choose this day to be a people of praise.
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We choose to fight our battles with praise father.
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We thank you, that heaven moves on our behalf.
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We thank you that you inhabit, the Praises of your people and
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that you show Yourself Strong through Hearts which are turned
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towards you. So father, we just thank you
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that our Victory is in you and we walk.
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We choose to walk in Victory out of these doors and into our
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week. Father, we choose to rejoice in
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every situation for you are good and your mercy zandor forever.
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In Jesus mighty name we say, amen.
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Amen. Has anybody encouraged in the
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house? God is so good.
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God is so good. God is so good.
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Well, we are currently out of time but we are never out of
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Jesus. And at this point, Point, you
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know what we say? Get show love fixed, man.
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