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August 28 (PM) - My Praise is my Weapon

Love Quest International Church

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  1. What's going on? Love quest Nation.

  2. Thank you for tuning into the Love quest podcast.

  3. Get your Bibles ready? Get your notebook, get your

  4. coffee, get some water, whatever you need to do and get ready to

  5. receive the time. Is right now.

  6. Let's go. We just direct our attention to

  7. two Mighty women of god, let's just extend amen.

  8. Extend your hands to them right now and say Mighty women of God

  9. preached teach this is your time you are anointed for such a time

  10. as this walk-in Authority walk in power lead us to revelation

  11. we will pull on you. Thank you in Jesus name.

  12. Amen. Come on.

  13. Hello, hello. Hello everyone.

  14. How are we? You can take your seats.

  15. So before we get started, whoo. I just want to thank.

  16. First of all, thank God. Thank God, he is good and he is

  17. faithful, and he shows himself faithful week after week after

  18. week in this house. And so Lord, we praise you

  19. today. Also, I want to take a minute to

  20. thank Pastor Terrance, and Pastor Julia for giving me an

  21. opportunity to speak also for pouring into my life and for

  22. calling out the anointing and the gifting that God placed

  23. Within Me. You bless me beyond words and I

  24. know y'all are watching. So thank you sending all my love

  25. to California. Hi Nana.

  26. Hi family. I love you all and I appreciate

  27. you and I thank you again for giving me this opportunity.

  28. So Today, I want to talk to you about God.

  29. Specifically the power that he's given us in worship worship

  30. isn't just a singing songs. There's actually power that

  31. comes from it. It's a weapon that we wage war

  32. fare with something changes in the atmosphere when we release

  33. the word of God to song. And so that's what we're going

  34. to dive into today and the title of mine and sion's two-part.

  35. Sermon here is the battle belongs to You there it is.

  36. The Battle Belongs to You. Shout out Grace Rose for helping

  37. me with the title slide. So I want you to turn to your

  38. neighbor. You can hit the next slide and

  39. tell them my God is a great God. Watch him, prove it in your

  40. life. All right, that was cute.

  41. Now, find somebody else and tried.

  42. Again, I want you to say was forever.

  43. My God is a great God, watch him, prove it in your life,

  44. that's better. Alright, next, slide So what we

  45. need to do church is we need to stop worrying about Warfare.

  46. What we need to do instead is to wait on the Lord and watch him

  47. work wonders in our lives. Because like I said before, I

  48. love quest. We wage war with worship, like

  49. Ephesians 6. Verse 12 says the struggles, the

  50. Warfare that we wage. It's not against flesh and blood

  51. but it's a spiritual war that we are fighting.

  52. And spiritual battles require spiritual weapons are weapons,

  53. our worship and the word of God. So stop worrying about your

  54. Warfare. Wait on the Lord and watch him

  55. work wonders and we're going to dive into the word real quick

  56. here. We're going to go into a little

  57. story found in second Corinthians. 5:21 a friend King

    2 Corinthians 5:21

  58. Jehoshaphat say King, Jehoshaphat, perfect.

  59. You can go onto the next slide. So, King, Jehoshaphat found

  60. himself in a bit of a pickle. He was a man after God's Own

  61. Heart and someone that the Lord delighted in and he was an

  62. obedient King. But what ends up happening is he

  63. finds himself faced with an attack from the moabites, the

  64. ammonites, and the Mets. Unites say that's a lot of nice,

  65. get it because it's a battle, and they're Waging War.

  66. You're welcome. You're welcome.

  67. So, there were three nations that decided to set up attack

  68. against this single King, King Jehoshaphat, Who was the Of

  69. Judah. And what is Judah mean, my

  70. friends? Praise coincidence.

  71. I think not. So we going to next slide.

  72. Oh no. Sorry actually stay here.

  73. Stay here JK go back. So we find there's a great

  74. multitude that is come against King Jehoshaphat but Jehoshaphat

  75. for a second he feared he was I way, hold up but also I think

  76. feared it's not just he was afraid within himself, I believe

  77. he also feared God. And what he did.

  78. His reaction shows that because he set himself determinately as

  79. his vital need to seek the Lord and He proclaimed a fast in all

  80. Judah, he's like, whoa, hold up. Three nations are coming to

  81. attack knee. Okay, I'm a little skirt, but

  82. wait, I fear the lord and the Lord only.

  83. So what am I going to do? I'm going to seek wisdom

  84. determinately. I'm going to seek with

  85. everything in mean, it's not just me, there's power in unity.

  86. So Nations, come on, let's eat. Gather and fast and pray and see

  87. what God wants to do and how he wants to handle this situation

  88. next. So there's three questions that

  89. kind of popped up in my spirit and I'm a teacher.

  90. So y'all have homework, take a picture, write it down, do what

  91. you need to do. But there are three questions

  92. that I want you to go home and answer.

  93. First, are you set in your seeking so to be set in

  94. something is to be immovable. It's also to be led f as in to

  95. be set in a direction and it's to be productive because when

  96. trees or a blossom are set, they actually develop into produce.

  97. So are you set in your seeking? Are you immovable in?

  98. You're seeking, are you lead in your seeking and are you

  99. productive in your seeking? Is it empty?

  100. Or does it give you something in return?

  101. The second question is, are you determined in your hearing and

  102. listening to different things? You can Here.

  103. But it doesn't mean it registers hearing and listening.

  104. That's the register portion. Will you allow God's

  105. instructions to be a decisive factor in your decision making?

  106. That's what it means to be. Determined that his instructions

  107. are a decisive factor in your decision making.

  108. It's not a factor. It is the factor and it is

  109. decisive, are you determined in your hearing and listening?

  110. Meaning to the word of God. And finally is his voice and

  111. guidance, a vital need in your life Elder, Pam.

  112. Correct me if I'm wrong. But when you go to the hospital

  113. and your vital signs are being checked, those are the things

  114. that show whether or not you're alive whether or not you're

  115. doing good, whether or not, you're okay, okay?

  116. Us. Checking in with God, it needs

  117. to be a vital need. If we don't, something's wrong,

  118. something's off something within us is not okay, you cannot

  119. survive. On your own in this spiritual

  120. battle without God in your life. Is he?

  121. Your vital me? That's what he needs to be.

  122. So check yourself is God your vital need?

  123. Check your vitals. Alright, next first, so we come

  124. to verse 4 King Jehoshaphat, he's proclaimed a fast for all

  125. of the people of Judah, the people of praise.

  126. And so they fasted they I prayed, they seek the Lord

  127. together in unity with all their desire.

  128. Its Judah gather together to ask for help from the Lord, even out

  129. of all the cities of Judah, they came to seek the Lord yearning

  130. for him with their desire. It wasn't just a cute prayer

  131. meeting. It was like, no, we are coming

  132. together as a nation yearning with all of our desire because

  133. God, we know without you we will be destroyed.

  134. There are three nations coming against us.

  135. We need you. So we are willing to seek you

  136. with Everything that we have. And then from there, King

  137. Jehoshaphat, he does something interesting.

  138. You can see here, it seems like he starts questioning God, or

  139. asking questions to the Lord, but he doesn't publicly, he

  140. doesn't in front of people and this caused me to pause and

  141. wonder. Okay, what is happening here?

  142. But what I realized, as I read is actually Jehoshaphat.

  143. Wasn't questioning God, these are rhetorical questions with

  144. widely known answers. He's like, Let's see here.

  145. For example, he says, are you not God in heaven?

  146. Well, duh, right. Do you not rule over all the

  147. kingdoms of the nation? If you were a Hebrew person at

  148. this time? This is common knowledge.

  149. Like, these are rhetorical questions.

  150. And actually, what they are meant to do is to bring people

  151. into remembrance and it's a communal remembrance.

  152. And what that does is it unifies, the people that

  153. communal Is an act of worship. And so what Jehoshaphat is doing

  154. in front of the people is worshipping and uniting them

  155. next slide. So similar to exhortation in

  156. corporate prayer. This moment of recounting is

  157. used to unify the people and build up their faith, because as

  158. we know in Psalm 133, where there is Unity, that's where the

  159. Lord commands his Blessing to rest.

  160. And so, King, Jehoshaphat new A wise King that he was.

  161. I need to unite these people together.

  162. Let's recount the goodness of God and the things that he has

  163. done, not just for us, but for Generations, bring us onto the

  164. same page, unify us. So that God doesn't just speak,

  165. but his Blessing is commanded over this situation next slide.

  166. so then, He addresses the people again, and he says, behold they

  167. reward us by coming to drive us out of your possession, he's

  168. talking to God which you have given us to inherit.

  169. And I think this is like really key because It's not just a

  170. piece of land that they've come across, not even a piece of land

  171. that they've been Victorious over, but it's actually an

  172. inheritance given to them by God, it's his gift to them.

  173. And what I believe, and what we are going to see in the

  174. description is the things that God has placed for you to

  175. inherit. You don't have to work for those

  176. things. What you do have to do is you

  177. have to stand and you have to worship and you have to seek God

  178. with everything that Have and he will bring those inheritance is

  179. where they need to be. It's not a striving, it's not a

  180. working. It's not a greedy collecting of

  181. things. It's not going.

  182. We read grinding and grinding and grinding stand firm.

  183. And where God has placed you on, what he's called you to do.

  184. And his inheritance will come into line with your life.

  185. You know what I'm talking about day, allow the inheritance of

  186. the Lord to come in line with you as you fervently seek.

  187. Him. And then it's, he says, oh God,

  188. will you not exercise judgment upon them?

  189. We have. No might to stand against this

  190. great company. That is coming against us.

  191. We do not know what to do, but regardless, whoo, our eyes are

  192. upon you. We do not understand the

  193. situation that's ahead of us, but our eyes are upon you.

  194. I don't get why this person has been treating me this way.

  195. But Lord, regardless, my eyes are on you.

  196. I don't understand why I was fired.

  197. From this job. But God, I'm going to take heed

  198. of what you said and keep my eyes on you.

  199. My circumstances do not align with your promises and what you

  200. play. It's God with everything that I

  201. have because I do you have proven yourself.

  202. That's key. You need to get this.

  203. It doesn't matter what's going on in your life.

  204. Seek Him First. Keep your eyes on him and allow

  205. him to speak directly into your situation.

  206. He will not leave you hanging next slide.

  207. And then, it gets better. The spirit of the Lord Came Upon

  208. a little homie. I'm not gonna go try to say his

  209. name, and then he said Harkin, was Harkin.

  210. Mean, listen, listen, listen to the words that are coming out of

  211. my mouth for. They are life for you because

  212. they are from God, he says, Be not Afraid or dismayed at this

  213. great multitude, three nations that are coming against you.

  214. For the battle is not yours but it is God.

  215. The battle is not yours, but it is God's but how it could have

  216. been so easy for doubt to creep in, but how God, how that

  217. doesn't even make sense? And then comes instruction,

  218. praise God. Next slide tomorrow, go down to

  219. them and you shall not need to fight in this battle.

  220. You shall not need to fight in this battle.

  221. Take your positions. Stand still.

  222. See the Deliverance of the Lord. Who is with you Judah and

  223. Jerusalem and fear. Not nor be dismayed tomorrow.

  224. Go out against them for the Lord is with you.

  225. You need to know in your Circumstance.

  226. The Lord is with you. The Lord is with you next slide.

  227. This is what you need to do. You need to listen, you need to

  228. take your position, whatever that position is teacher,

  229. engineer nurse mechanic. Take your Position, take the

  230. assigned position. God has given you stand still?

  231. Because in the Stillness, he's there and he speaks.

  232. And then see the Deliverance of the Lord and fear.

  233. Not, he's with you. His word says it.

  234. He is present in your situation. He is present in your

  235. circumstance, so fear not The Battle Belongs to him next slide

  236. and then Jehoshaphat bowed his head.

  237. It's his responsibility. Ponce y'all.

  238. This is key. All he's been given this

  239. instruction he doesn't and it's crazy.

  240. Instruction don't fight stand worship but his response is so

  241. telling he bowed his head with his face to the ground and all

  242. Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell down before the

  243. Lord and worshiped him. And then remember how many

  244. nations were coming against? That's it.

  245. So, what does he do in response? He sends out the Levites.

  246. The And the Kora Heights and they stood up to praise the

  247. Lord, the god of Israel with a very loud voice of these are

  248. three different types of priests.

  249. The Levites lot of time were the instrumentalists and they were

  250. the guards and the temple. The coal have fights, they took

  251. care of the temple things made. Sure everything was speaking

  252. Spanish and that things were being treated properly.

  253. And the Cora Heights, the sons of Korah.

  254. That's the The choir they were the singers.

  255. So in response to the three attacking Nations, three types

  256. of Praise are sent out, God takes care of it, all he won't

  257. leave, Loose Ends is 3 for 3. The battle is 343 do.

  258. Does who does your response to instruction?

  259. Cause you to worship when you're given instruction, do you

  260. worship before? You know, things are for sure,

  261. because that's what's being presented to us.

  262. Here, not one type of worship three, and it's the whole show.

  263. It's the whole shebang, if you have the high priests involved,

  264. it was serious. Understand, God will give you

  265. what you need. Exactly what you need for, what

  266. you're facing three for three next slide, please.

  267. And they Rose early, obedience in the morning and went out into

  268. the Wilderness and as they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said

  269. and I changed it a little bit because I'm addressing this to

  270. us. Hear Me O love quest and you

  271. inhabitants of Wally believe in the Lord your God and you shall

  272. be established. Published believe and remain

  273. steadfast through His prophets and you shall prosper.

  274. This is what God is promising over you, whatever your battle,

  275. whatever your situation is, stay steadfast heed.

  276. The word of the Lord, respect the mouthpieces that God has

  277. placed in your life. And you shall prosper here in

  278. obey my friends next slide. And when he consulted with the

  279. people, he appointed singers to sing The Lord's Prayer.

  280. Raise. And they went out before the

  281. Army. Sing give thanks to the Lord,

  282. Our God enki his blood. Exactly.

  283. Now we won't go there because I don't have enough time but they

  284. went out and they worshipped. They went out before the Army

  285. and they praised next slide. I'd remember church.

  286. We don't worship for victory. We worship from Not far from

  287. Victory because because when they began to sing it, to praise

  288. the Lord sent ambushment against the men of Ammon Moab.

  289. And Mount Si are who have come against Judah and they were self

  290. slaughtered and none escaped. Now listen, God is doing,

  291. they'll keep it. Go back, go back, go back.

  292. God is doing a complete work in your life. 343 enemies.

  293. Don't stand a chance. Understand worship.

  294. Them to self. We're get down because there's

  295. something that's very important. I want you to skip to the verse

  296. 27. I might be the next slide.

  297. Yes. The Lord had made them to

  298. Rejoice over their enemies. The word Rejoice, my friends.

  299. The word Rejoice. Oh Jesus!

  300. Y'all about to be blessed. The word rejoice when broken, in

  301. its two parts re means expressing intensive, foil,

  302. force and jaguar is experiencing Joy.

  303. So, what you need to understand is the intense force of Joy

  304. released through the wave of expressive worship, literally

  305. repositioned the enemy's attacks from Judah and onto one.

  306. Another sound has waves sound makes a Kle impact, your praise

  307. has a physical impact and not only does it actually affect the

  308. physical atmosphere that's around us.

  309. That's the basis of hearing waves.

  310. Hit your ears and you here, not only does it affect the physical

  311. atmosphere around us, it affects the spiritual because remember

  312. the weapons that we wor with, they are not flash flesh and

  313. blood but they are Spirit its word at its worship, and the

  314. people were physically Louvered against each other because the

  315. Lord send the troops to Rejoice over the Army Rejoice, over the

  316. situation, Rejoice, over circumstances, Rejoice over

  317. problems, but can I encourage you rejoice over your

  318. circumstance choice? Pulling your leg.

  319. Rejoice Rejoice over your marriage because God is going to

  320. physically change things in your life, as you release a sound of

  321. praise next slide. Last one and remember, above all

  322. else, The Battle Belongs to you because the spirit of God lives

  323. inside of you and if he's won, the battle is yours.

  324. If he's won. The battle is yours.

  325. If he's won, the battle is to our.

  326. So if you agree, Say Amen. Oh, y'all can do better than

  327. that if you preach that.

  328. Y'all. You know, when you get this like

  329. holy nervous feeling, it's not like a bad nervous but it's

  330. like, God, put something on you and you just can't wait to

  331. release it. That's why I feel right now.

  332. Okay. All right.

  333. Hi, I'm see on nice to meet y'all.

  334. So, glad to be here, first, and foremost, like if he said, we

  335. thank Jesus for this opportunity.

  336. We don't take it lightly that he trusts us to speak to his

  337. people. So Lord, I Thank you for

  338. trusting me. And I before I came up, I said,

  339. Lord, anoint me was a little little quiver in my voice.

  340. He said you are anointed see on so go up there and speak like

  341. you're anointed. We put a timer on that thing

  342. because I know I will For ten years, if it's not up there.

  343. And then of course, I got to take my pastors.

  344. And I'm not gonna cry because I told myself I wasn't gonna cry

  345. because I always cry. Are we good over there?

  346. Yeah. Can we put that graphic up?

  347. Why do we honor this is so so important.

  348. You guys I'm sure would have been hearing.

  349. Why do we honor why? Why do we keep saying thank you

  350. Pastor Terrence, thank you Pastor Julia.

  351. Well let me lead you to a scripture real quick.

  352. It says for in 1st Thessalonians 5 12.

  353. Now we ask you Brothers to give recognition to those who labor

  354. among You and Lead You In The Lord and admonish you next

  355. slide. Just Like A Champion cheat.

  356. A championship team. Thanks their coach, for leading

  357. them into Victory. This is the same way that I'll

  358. honor our pastors for leading me into a Godly Championship life.

  359. Hallelujah. All right.

  360. Next slide. Like we said The Battle Belongs

  361. to the Lord, but my little twist, is my posture remains

  362. because the, Because The Battle Belongs to the Lord next slide.

  363. Now, how many of us have ever lost our posture when we're

  364. driving to church? And you already know you late,

  365. don't lie, don't lie, you lost your father, whether it was your

  366. face, your body, something shifted, right, or when someone

  367. ahead of you in line, gets the last As you already said that

  368. you weren't gonna get, but then they get it.

  369. And now you feeling some kind of way, don't lie, put your hands

  370. up. I know me.

  371. This is me all the time. Listen, when I had covid last

  372. year and I was in the hospital sick and everything around me

  373. told me I wasn't gonna make it hypothetically, I had the right

  374. to kind of lose my posture, right?

  375. Right. Well, the test, I remember

  376. watching this sermon and I tried to put a clip on there, but it

  377. didn't work, so it's okay. I'm just going to read a little

  378. part. I remember watching the sermon

  379. on Monumental faith. That pastor preached on October

  380. 21st, at 5 p.m. service and I had been in bed in the hospital

  381. for 8 days at this point. And I remember thinking to

  382. myself, God, did I not have enough faith for you to heal me?

  383. I worship God. I give Did I not have enough

  384. Faith? Listen.

  385. I felt like, my pastor was deteriorating a little bit and

  386. all of a sudden I'm just going to read it because I can't have

  387. the clip out there all of a sudden I'm in my bed.

  388. Okay, oxygen and everything, really sick and then I hear see

  389. on If your Lis, if you're watching this, you are healed

  390. from the crown of your head to the soles of your feet.

  391. In Jesus name, you are coming out of that hospital right now.

  392. In Jesus name, don't let go. Don't let go, don't let go.

  393. And he kept saying that don't let's go see on the the Lord is

  394. turning it around for your good dog.

  395. Go Pastor prayed. Yes.

  396. Lord Heal her. Yes, Lord.

  397. She is healed from the crown of her head to the soles of her

  398. feet. Pam was with me in the hospital.

  399. She saw me. But what I really hear now is

  400. don't lose your posture. See.

  401. Come on, see increase your faith.

  402. Come on. See, I know you may not be

  403. feeling it, but let me release Faith over the stream and

  404. reminds you that God is good. Let me remind you that she wear

  405. heels from the crown of your head to the soles of your feet.

  406. Feet. Ephesians 6:18 says, in the same

    Ephesians 6:18

  407. way, prayer is essential in this ongoing Warfare, pray, hard, and

  408. long. Pray for your brothers and your

  409. sisters, keep your eyes open, keep each other's spirits up.

  410. So there's no one falls behind our drops out.

  411. This is why we need each other. Stop China, Walk life alone.

  412. And in that moment with Pastor Terrance and see on, you know,

  413. as a pastor says, see on it's not see on he yelled.

  414. See on I remember something in me, leaked That little bit of

  415. faith and belief and when I thought I wasn't gonna make it

  416. there is this little seed that said you're getting out of this

  417. hospital soon. See on sooner than you think.

  418. And listen, this is the miracle that night was the first night I

  419. slept with no oxygen? No.

  420. Sorry, I let me rephrase that. I did sleep with oxygen.

  421. I need oxygen to live. Let me correct myself.

  422. There's some nurses and Is over here, I did have oxygen, but I

  423. didn't have that oxygen oxygen tank, and what that did, is it?

  424. Hypothetically was giving me more life, but let me tell you

  425. what Jesus did. He said your enough see on

  426. They came in, they took off that oxygen thing, whatever that

  427. thing is called, I slept the best, I'd slept that night, the

  428. next morning, my blood pressures were stable the day after that

  429. the doctor comes in girl. What happened for you to be able

  430. to go home today? I know that my God is alive

  431. everything changes when a spirit filled believer walks by faith

  432. and talks with faith. All right y'all, I'm going into

  433. second and second chronicles 20. Now after this and excuse my

  434. eyes, Okay, I for sure am going to pronounce him incorrectly on

  435. my letting, you know. Now after this the Mo B, the

  436. ammonites and some of the men I want to say many nights, not

  437. many nights, munites came to wage war against Jehoshaphat.

  438. Some people came and told Jehovah's Jehoshaphat, a vast

  439. Army is coming against you from Edom, from the other side of the

  440. Dead Sea, it is already in, has his own tomorrow, that is an

  441. equity and the land which with the this land here, I don't want

  442. haze's on tomorrow, I need to highlight this for a moment.

  443. This is what this actually means is Drawing Near to bitterness

  444. why this is important is because at the end of the story, The

  445. Lord changes the story of what this land is and he changes it

  446. to a valley of Baraka. The land of Praise next slide.

  447. Sometimes your place of battle becomes your place of blessing.

  448. How many of us have seen the heart of God and the hand of

  449. God? So much greater in the hard

  450. places than the easy Places. Come on, be honest.

  451. I know I have Second chronicles, 20 alarm, Jehoshaphat resolved

  452. to inquire of the Lord and He proclaimed the fast for all of

  453. Judah. The people of Judah, came

  454. together to seek help from the Lord indeed, they came from

  455. every town to seek to, to seek Him, Jehoshaphat had an urgency

  456. to seek an urgency and hear from the Lord and knowing how to

  457. defeat the enemy for this specific battle.

  458. The Lord has wisdom for every single battle Jehoshaphat called

  459. a corporate fast, not an individual fast, he saw an

  460. opportunity for the people to be United and that's what if he was

  461. talking about. It wasn't just, okay.

  462. Let me go bask in the, in the glory for myself to hear from

  463. God, but he said, hey, people of Judah, we need to be one Accord.

  464. We're going too fast, and it's not about fasting is not going

  465. up and not going without, but it is going within, right?

  466. They were looking for something. When turbulence arises stop

  467. seeking man's Wisdom and first seek God's wisdom whenever

  468. you're seeking man's Wisdom. Make sure, you know that they

  469. live a life of seeking God's wisdom fruit or else their

  470. wisdom. Can keep you bound.

  471. The holy spirit is my helper second chronicles 25:6 as then

    2 Chronicles 25:6

  472. Jehoshaphat stood in the Assembly of Judah and Jerusalem

  473. and the Temple of the Lord in the front of the courtyard and

  474. said, you know, every went through.

  475. I'm not going to go through The whole thing.

  476. But can you go to the next part? Vicki.

  477. And I like the Revelation that if he gave, it's not that he was

  478. fearing. But he had a fear of God in him.

  479. There was something in him that said and we've all done it,

  480. where we've been like? Okay, God, you said this but

  481. God, I know he's, you showed me this but God why did this

  482. happen? Because I know, x, y, and Zed,

  483. but what is their weight? They were what they were really

  484. what I believe Jehoshaphat was he was waiting and waiting is

  485. not I said the word weight is actually to expect to look into

  486. long next side. Waiting may not look busy

  487. physically but it sure is active spiritually.

  488. Next, slide when you're waiting you're trusting, you're praying,

  489. you're believing, you're praising, that is are forever,

  490. posture? This right here.

  491. This right here. This is how I fight my battles.

  492. Next slide. When the spirit of the Lord came

  493. on brother, that we said, that has yell son of Zachariah, the

  494. son of Ben. And I are the son of the son of

  495. all the sons. He said, listen, King,

  496. Jehoshaphat and all who live in Judah and Jerusalem.

  497. This is what the Lord says to you next slide fasting and

  498. praying increases your intimacy with Jesus.

  499. It's not about going without like I said, but it is about

  500. going within it gives you Clarity to has y'all didn't I

  501. didn't think the Lord, I don't think the Lord is saying he said

  502. with assurance and confidence. This is what the Lord is saying

  503. to you next side. Do not be afraid or discouraged

  504. because of this vast Army for the battle is not yours, but is

  505. God's tomorrow March down against them.

  506. They will be climbing up by the passives is and you will find

  507. them at the end of the gourd. In the, in the desert of drool.

  508. Next, you will not have to fight this battle, but take up your

  509. position, stand firm and see the Deliverance of the Lord will

  510. give you Judah and Jerusalem do not be afraid.

  511. Do not be discouraged. Courage.

  512. Go out to face them tomorrow and the Lord will be with you next

  513. Slide. The Lord will always give us

  514. clear. Instruction, he is not a

  515. confusing. God, he is a clear God.

  516. He is the beginning and he is the end.

  517. If he is the beginning, then he knows how it starts.

  518. And if it's the end, then you best believe that he knows how

  519. it should be done next. So take your position stand

  520. firm, see the Deliverance. The Lord will give you do not be

  521. afraid or discouraged and go we don't want to go though.

  522. We don't want to go though. We do want to just kind of

  523. You're from this side but there was a part of it that had to go.

  524. But listen, is this the next time?

  525. Jehoshaphat bowed down with his face to the ground and all the

  526. people of Judah and Jerusalem fell down and worship before the

  527. Lord, then some Levites from the all the ayats' and praise the

  528. Lord, the god of Israel with a very loud voice.

  529. Next, Their only response was to worship really?

  530. How many of us when Trouble Comes are our response is

  531. worship. I can definitely tell you that

  532. my response has increased in worship.

  533. Am I growing? Absolutely, but I'm noticing now

  534. OKC on. You have the power to worship

  535. right now, or you have the power to bow down to whatever it is,

  536. and I'm making the decision, and I'm continually growing in that.

  537. As Roll with the Lord, is the Lord continues to equip me and,

  538. and lavish himself upon me to remind myself, you can worship.

  539. See if nobody thinks it's cool. If everyone around, you thinks,

  540. it's weird worship. Next, slide, Sorry, one second.

  541. Early in the morning. Hold on, let me sing for y'all

  542. one time and the scanner. Say Lord help.

  543. See on there, it is see early in the morning, they left for the

  544. desert of Toccoa and they set out Joe.

  545. They set out Jehovah's at Jehoshaphat stood and said

  546. listen to me, Judo people of Jerusalem, have faith in the

  547. Lord your God, and you will be upheld.

  548. Have Faith In His prophets, and you will be successful.

  549. And after, Salting the people Jehoshaphat appointed meant to

  550. sing to the Lord and to praise him for the Splendor of his

  551. Holiness, as they went out to the head of the army.

  552. They were singing. Give thanks to the Lord for his

  553. love endures and forever. Can you imagine?

  554. I just need to get this visual, so you got the enemies.

  555. You got all of them over there and then, what do you see?

  556. What do you see? Give thanks to the Lord for his

  557. love endures forever. Can you imagine how crazy that

  558. would look? No, seriously.

  559. Can you imagine how crazy that would have?

  560. Looked, listen, I'm telling you for the next next slide for we

  561. wrestle. Not against flesh and blood.

  562. The world's gonna look crazy when you bow down when you say,

  563. give thanks to the Lord for his love endures forever.

  564. Give thanks to the Lord for his love endures forever.

  565. Give thanks to the Lord for his love endures forever.

  566. Give thanks to the Lord for his love endures forever.

  567. I will bow down only to Jesus for we wrestle, not against

  568. flesh and blood. But against principalities

  569. against Powers against the rulers of the darkness of World

  570. against spiritual wickedness. In high places next.

  571. Slide for though, we walk in the flesh.

  572. We do not war, according to the flesh for the weapons of our

  573. Warfare are not carnal, But Mighty in God, for pulling down

  574. strongholds, casting down arguments and every High thing

  575. that exalts himself against the knowledge of God.

  576. Bringing every thought every thought into the Captivity of

  577. Christ. The arm me of The Army.

  578. Sorry I think I wrote their own. What are some of the things that

  579. the weapons of our Warfare? Scripture tells us how many of

  580. Salvation the breastplate of righteousness?

  581. Shield of Faith belt of Truth shoes of peace.

  582. Sort of the spirit Ephesians 6:14 tells us that and in second

    Ephesians 6:14

  583. chronicles again as we continue as they began to sing and to

  584. praise the Lord set ambushes against the man of Ammon.

  585. And Moab and mount seir who are invading Judah and they were

  586. defeated and I love this this other version and if he kind of

  587. Shawna the NLT it says at the very moment, they began to sing

  588. and and to give praise the Lord caused the armies of Amon and

  589. Moab and mount seir to start fighting among themselves that

  590. really got me. Praise worship, gratitude

  591. Thanksgiving, are all weapons, why?

  592. Because it confuses the enemy when you worship before the

  593. battle when you Worship in the battle.

  594. And when you wash it through the battle, and when you worship out

  595. the battle, come on somebody. When the people of Judah began

  596. to sing and praise the enemy turned on himself.

  597. The army of Judah did nothing physically, but everything

  598. spiritually and let the Lord take over and do what only he

  599. can do. And the rest of scripture, the

  600. ammonites and mobile. It's more vital Moab but no rose

  601. up against the new men from mounts here to destroy and to

  602. any weight them after they finish slaughtering the men from

  603. Seer, they helped to destroy one another.

  604. When the men of Judah came to the place that overlooks the

  605. desert, and look toward the vast army.

  606. They saw homie dead bodies laying on the guy laying on the

  607. ground. No one had escaped.

  608. What makes you think? The Lord would deliver?

  609. The whole nation of Judah and not delivery.

  610. You. No.

  611. You better think about that. Can you imagine how many people

  612. were in the nation of Judah? And you think your circumstances

  613. are too big for God to deliver you from?

  614. That's a challenge to think about.

  615. So Jehoshaphat, and his men went to carry off their plunder and

  616. they found among them a great amount of equipment and clothing

  617. and also articles of value more than what they could take away.

  618. There was so much punter that it took three days to collect.

  619. Remember what I said earlier, sometimes your place of battle

  620. becomes your place of blessing, On the fourth day, they

  621. assembled in the valley of burkha where they praise the

  622. Lord. This is why it is called the

  623. lat, the valley of America to this day.

  624. Value Barrack of the land of Praise, then led by Jehoshaphat

  625. and all the men of Judah and Jerusalem returning.

  626. Joyfully to Jerusalem for the Lord had given them to cause a

  627. Rejoice over their enemies. They answered Jerusalem and went

  628. to temples in the Lord with Harps and leaders.

  629. They started to worship K, the Lord or sorry.

  630. The fear of God came on. All surrounding kingdoms when

  631. they heard how the Lord had fought against the enemies of

  632. Jerusalem of Israel. Sorry.

  633. And the kingdom of Jehoshaphat was at peace for his God, had

  634. given him rest on every side. What convicting me in this part

  635. is I thought the blessing, the blessing was, oh my god, there

  636. was so much that it took them three days to collect it.

  637. The holy spirit said, uh-uh girl, the prize and the king,

  638. and the kingdom of Jehoshaphat was at peace for his God.

  639. Had given him rest on every side Earthly, Treasures come and go.

  640. It's our and are temporarily near of materialistic and

  641. limited. But transitions are Treasures,

  642. in Heaven artist hurdle David how can't courage to face and

  643. kill Goliath because his posture remain, as he knew the battle

  644. belong to the Lord, Shadrach Meshach, and Abednego had bonus

  645. to not only, not bow down to their Idol.

  646. But a result gets thrown into the fiery furnace to come out,

  647. not only not smelling like fire, but the wards Later them, for

  648. their posture remains, as they knew the battle belong to the

  649. Lord job loss. Absolutely everything is still

  650. in it curse, God, because his posture remain, as he know the

  651. battle belong to the Lord. Pastor, Dan, yella a pastor,

  652. Danny worship through lost. This is how we fight our battle.

  653. They amen. Amen.

  654. And we don't fight for victory, we fight from Victory.

  655. The battle does not belong to us, but the Battle Belongs to

  656. the Lord. Amen.

  657. All we gotta do is get into position.

  658. Right? Anybody here.

  659. Tonight gonna make a decision in their heart, to hold a position

  660. of Praise when we faced opposition on our life.

  661. That the Lord may show himself strong on behalf of his people.

  662. I know, I will, I know, I will, what a powerful work and we just

  663. lift up another block. As for this Mighty women of God.

  664. Amen. So father, we just thank you

  665. that you are our Jehovah, Nissi. You are our Banner of Victory.

  666. Father, we thank you that The Battle Belongs to You Lord, and

  667. we choose this day to be a people of praise.

  668. We choose to fight our battles with praise father.

  669. We thank you, that heaven moves on our behalf.

  670. We thank you that you inhabit, the Praises of your people and

  671. that you show Yourself Strong through Hearts which are turned

  672. towards you. So father, we just thank you

  673. that our Victory is in you and we walk.

  674. We choose to walk in Victory out of these doors and into our

  675. week. Father, we choose to rejoice in

  676. every situation for you are good and your mercy zandor forever.

  677. In Jesus mighty name we say, amen.

  678. Amen. Has anybody encouraged in the

  679. house? God is so good.

  680. God is so good. God is so good.

  681. Well, we are currently out of time but we are never out of

  682. Jesus. And at this point, Point, you

  683. know what we say? Get show love fixed, man.

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  686. September 4th. You do not want to miss it.

  687. Have a blessed week and we'll see you at Wonder Wednesday

  688. 6:30. God bless you.

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  695. but we ain't out of Jesus. So till next time get your love

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