Still Standing - Pastor Will Roos

OK, So I want to talk to you about position of power.

Now. That's the theme of today and

the title that I put up here, I'll put it up in a minute.

It's over here. I'm so great.

Still standing. Somebody says still standing.

OK, so after everything, all these years, everything that we

have been through, we are still, yeah, we are still standing.

Can you save me somebody? We are still standing.

Somebody say still standing. I feel the anointing of God in

this place. Courage is rising.

Faith is already in this group. So I'm going to go straight into

the word, OK, Are you ready for the word?

If you're ready for the word, somebody shout Amen.

OK, All right, so if your neighbor shouts louder, just

borrow their faith, OK? If your neighbors shouts louder,

Amen. And I mean yes and Amen, borrow

their faith, OK? Because faith is shareable, you

can share faith. Borrow your neighbors faith.

If the Amen is louder today, OK, Hallelujah, praise God.

So let's open the Word together in Ephesians chapter 6,

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Ephesians chapter 6 and we are going to read from verse 13,

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right? I'll put it up on the screen for

us like usual, verse 13 and 14. Now this is very powerful.

I've had Apostle Paul talking about the full armor of God.

Therefore, put on the full armor of God so that when the day of

evil comes, you may be able to stand everybody.

Say stand your ground. And after you have done

everything right, you've done everything to stand.

Stand firm. Then stop standing.

Father, we honor your presence. Lord, speak clearly.

Holy Spirit, move freely, do what only you can do, touch your

heart. Let no one live the same way.

In the mighty name of Jesus, we pray.

And God's people say a man, Yeah.

So Ephesians chapter 6, Paul the apostle talks about the armor of

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God, and he says put on the armor of God, stand your ground.

And then after everything he says, keep on standing, stand

firm. Now notice he did not say OK fun

when life gets difficult. He did not say run when when it

gets rough. He did not say hideaway or

shrink back when you feel afraid.

He did not say hideaway, escape or run away.

He says stand firm. So after you've prayed, after

you've praised and worship, after you've done everything

that you know what to do. The Bible says stand firm after

everything, keep on standing. That is a position of power.

Okay, Are you getting this somebody?

So after everything, after the praise, after the stand is what

he says. And so the revelation in actual

that when you stand for God, heaven stands for you.

Come on, somebody shout Amen. Amen.

That's right. That's the word of the law.

And so standing is not passive. It's not weak.

Standing is not just doing nothing.

Standing is not folding your arms and just hope for some

things to work out. It's not staying like, you know,

hoping things are waiting for the worst.

OK? Standing is a faith choice,

right? And so it's saying to God that

God, I trust you, I am not going to panic because you fight my

battles. The battle belongs to the Lord.

Come on, somebody. So standing is not weakness.

Standing is strength. Standing is a weapon.

So when you stand your ground on God's peace, peace say God.

That's what peace says. God is here and God is in

control and God is bigger than any problem.

Somebody shout Amen. OK, so are you getting this

somebody because your apostle Paul talks about the armor of

God, put on the armor of God. And then he shows us how to

stand in life when life gets tough, when it gets difficult,

how to stand and make a stand for God.

And he says keep on standing. And he says it over and over

again. When you read that chapter, it's

all over it. That's one of the most powerful

chapter 6, the last chapter in the book of officials.

Paul says I have lived the the most important things for last

and he goes through it and he keeps on saying the same thing

four times. He says verse 11, he says put on

the armor of God so that you can take your stand.

Verse 13, put on the full humble of God so that when the evil day

comes, you might be able to stand your ground and after

yours are able, everything to stand.

Verse 14, stand firm then. And I love it because God is

putting his highlighter on that phrase, on this revelation, this

principle. It's all throughout the Bible.

And today we're going to run through the Bible.

I'm going to show you a scripture of the Scripture, this

powerful principle that's going to help us in these last evil

days that we are living in. How do we stand in these days?

Now God is saying something powerful because the very next

verse, He connects it to the shoes.

Now listen, His shoe stands for peace.

I want you, I want you to grab hold of this revelation about

standing and how it goes together with peace because

what's the shoes? Verse 15, very next verse and

with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the

gospel of peace. Somebody say peace.

So think about shoes. Shoes don't necessarily make you

faster shoes gives it it keeps you from slipping.

OK, gives you grip. So in the storm speed don't save

you, but grip wall. OK, so the the shoes, the piece

that is your grip. This is the grip, OK, in a very

slippery on a slicky wall, this is the grip of your soul.

That's how strong peace is. It's an anchor.

That's peace in your life. And so when the ground shakes,

this helps you to stand firm on the ground planted with your

feet. And so when the enemy tries to

push and the enemy cannot get a grip because peace is your grip,

this is the thing that gives you the anchor in your life.

Now, maybe today you are here and you feel like you are right

there in the middle of a store in a difficult situation and you

got a bad report pressure at work.

And there's a relationship that feels really shaky and things

feels really difficult in your life at the moment with bad

reports. Listen, here's the key right

here. Often, let's start straight into

stand steady, stay anchored. That's the key today.

So make a decision today that I will not be shaken, OK?

I will not be slipping and sliding.

I'll be standing. And when everything is over and

everything is done and everything, I'm still standing.

So when the dust settles and when the smoke clears, I'm still

standing. Somebody said I'm still

standing. I'm still standing.

Yeah, yeah, Yeah, I'm still standing.

And I want you to picture this, this anchor deep in the ocean

floor, buried on the ocean floor, grounded, solid deep

down. Calm stop.

On the surface, It's it's all stormy.

The winds are howling and the the rain hits and it's waves and

it's all stormy on the surface, but deep down and in the ocean

floor, the anchor is grounded, buried under that ocean floor,

solid, calm, peaceful right there.

It's anchor, this anchor of your soul.

And so your peace, your position of power, you're standing on

your ground on the peace that is your anchor.

Peace is your anchor and that anchor is deeper than your

storm. It's deeper than your difficulty

situation. That is shakening in the world

because you have got an anchor of your soul and it's peace.

Somebody shot peace. Hallelujah for peace.

So that is standing. Standing is dropping your anchor

and being anchored in a very shaky world where things are

shaking. Now, let me give you like

another picture. You've seen a like a camera

operator taking footage. Now let's say it's at the

sporting event and the camera opera is moving around to get

all the sporting events and moving through the crowds and

the people bump and the surface is uneven.

So it's bumpy, it's uneven, it's everywhere.

But the footage is smooth. The video footage is smooth.

Why is the video footage still smooth even though in Rihanna

it's really bumpy and it's shaky.

People are bumping, the person is moving around, the camera is

moving. Everything is moving and

shaking, but the footage is why? Because of a stabilizer.

Now, I don't know if you've seen a gimbal or like these days with

the Gopros, they have a stabilizer both in and so the

stabilizer absorbs the shake. Can you say, I mean, somebody,

OK. And so that is what peace and

the Holy Spirit is doing on the inside of you.

The Holy Spirit inside of you is a stabilizer.

He stabilizes the shakes the Holy Spirit in you.

It stands for peace, and it absorbs the shaking.

So wherever in life there shakes, Maybe life's up and down

lives wobbly, people shake, the economy shakes, politics shakes,

everything is shaking everywhere.

But the Spirit keeps your frames steady.

The Holy Spirit in you is your stabilizer.

And the bump won't break your frame, OK.

And so the bump won't break you because the Holy Spirit is your

stable. It keeps your frame steady.

And so you are not defined by what's going on in the world.

You are not defined by the shakings and the difficulties.

You are not defined by the shaking.

You are defined by the stabilizer.

Somebody shot. Hallelujah.

Put your hands together for the Lord, Hallelujah, because I want

to show you the power of these things coming together.

We've got the Spirit and now we've got the word.

Now let me give you a picture of that, the word of God.

I remember travelling on an airplane and I was flying, I was

flying to South Africa, and at one point in the airplane we hit

heavy turbulence and it was shaky.

And the airplane, the cabin, it was really like shaky and pumpy

heavy turbulence and dawn on me that yes, it's shaking in the

cabin and there's a lot of turbulence and shaking, but that

doesn't mean there's trouble in the cockpit, OK.

And so that pumps. It was just going on.

You know when you travel and you're on the plane and that

turbulence hits and it's pumps start, hands grabs the arm

rests, hearts are racing, sweat coming and people are.

The pilot comes on and says, ladies and gentlemen, we are

going to look for smoother air. And all of a sudden, now

nothing's outside change yet. But all of a sudden people are

relaxed. It's a relaxing.

The cabin is relaxed. The whole cabin suddenly

relaxes. Why?

Because the pilot spoke. When the pilot speaks, the

calmness comes, the peace comes when the pilot speaks, the panic

loses power When the pilot speaks.

Now God's word is the calm voice.

God's word is like the pilot speaking.

God's word sets all your soul. It brings calmness.

One word from God brings calmness into your situation,

one promise from God. And so I don't fly by feelings,

I fly by the voice. And the voice says peace, be

still, calm. And so you don't have to see the

pilot. You don't have to see God to

believe. You don't have to see the pilot

in the carpet, OK to trust the captain's word that gave you

reassurance. And the same with God's Word.

One word from God sets all your soul.

One promise from God gives you calmness and peace in the midst

of your storm, in the midst of your shaking, in the midst of

the shake. Now maybe you came in today and

you're carrying a lot of weight and pressure and difficulty,

health issue, a financial payment that is due.

You're carrying family crisis, a difficult situation in a

relationship. Maybe it's a family member or

child far from God. The enemy whispers, listen,

panic, run away, hide, get away, worry, worry more, stress more.

And the enemy keeps on pushing, pushing, pushing.

But listen, panic is not power. This is this is power.

And so life is 10% what happens to us, but 90% of how we

respond, 10% what happens to us, and 90% how we respond.

Now the greatest victory is to stay calm when everything around

you is shaking in fear. Make peace your position of

power. Somebody say peace is my

position of power. Yeah.

You plant your feet when the economy shakes, when there's

trouble in the world, when people misunderstand you, when

there's rumors about you, gossip about you, things flying around.

That is the time to stand in peace and stay calm and know

that God will defend you. Leave the rumours under gossip,

leave it alone. God will defend you.

God will fight for you. Now, I know some of you might

think well past the world. That sounds really good.

That sounds very encouraging, but you don't know the detail of

my situation and the difficulty and the challenges and the

pressure that I am going. And yes, you may be right.

I might not know the details of your situation, but I know the

God of peace and the God of peace.

He promises that if you stand and remain calm, He will back

you. He will cover you.

Heaven will stand for you. Heaven will defend you.

Heaven will cover and stand and fight for you.

That's the God that I know that he promises if you will take

your stand, heaven will stand for you.

That's the God that I know. Somebody showed.

Hallelujah. Come on.

Yeah, he will back you up. And every believer reaches a

point where we have done everything.

You've prayed every prayer you've done, you've fast, you've

prayed, you've been teacher, you've praised, you've worship,

you have literally quoted every scripture that you can remember.

You've declared the scripture you've declared you have spoken

every promise that you you have done everything that you know

what to do and thank the Holy Spirit whispers now stand.

Oh, I know, oh, is somebody getting this word today?

You're getting this and the Holy Spirit comes and we have done

every right fast and the Holy Spirit now stand no stand, stand

your ground. And God sent me you today to

tell you it's time to stand your ground.

Now is not the time to give up. Now is not the time to throw in

the tower to collapse. Now is the time to stand your

ground, to plant your feet and say, I trust God.

I made somebody. Come on, give God some praise.

OK, now this is what I've learned.

There's something else that helps.

Just like we put our phones on airplane mode, sometimes you

have to put your mind on airplane mode for for a few

minutes every day. Put your mind on airplane mode.

Turn down the noise, turn down the clutter before the emails

are text. Turn it down to yeah, because a

quiet heart, yes, from God. And so for me that helps.

I'm on every morning, first thing in the morning, quiet my

heart. It's the first thing when I wake

up, I'm on airplane mode, anchor down TuneIn my ears to hear what

the pilot is saying because the pilot's words is going to give

me calmness. And the first thing when I when

I listen and I'm on airplane mode for those few minutes I

receive peace as an anchor, calmness, wholeness.

Before the day gets busy, before the crisis hits, I first anchor

down and get the pilot's voice. Now let me show you a man who

modelled this in Daniel. Now remember in Daniel chapter

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5, the king of Babylon died and then a new king from the Medes,

Rosa, and he became king. Doris became the new king and

the very next chapter Daniel 6A new law was signed.

No prayer. OK, it sounds like the days we

are living in right now because when I grew up prayer was a big

thing in our school. And so they say no prayer

allowed. No prayer.

You cannot pray to nobody or anyone except to this new the

Mead, the new king. And so Daniel heard this.

Now listen, this wasn't just a suggestion.

This was punishable with death. This is a death sentence.

And so Daniel used the news, and here's what he does.

Daniel 6, verse 10. But when Daniel learned what the

Daniel 6:10

law had been signed, he went home and knelt down as usual in

his upstairs room with its windows open toward Jerusalem.

He prayed 3 times a day, just as he had always done, giving

thanks to his God. I love that phrase.

Just as he had always done, just as always like as usual.

Now picture this. He went home in now town and he

prayed like usual. Open his windows to Jerusalem.

Did not hide his faith, did not shrink back in fear or stress

about the new law. But he kept his schedule.

Nothing in his routine changed as usual.

The Bible says he didn't hide his faith.

He simply kept on doing what he always did, and that was pray.

So he kept his peace. He stood his growl.

That's the kind of peace that wins battles.

That's the kind of stand. And what helped Daniel to stay

steady and to stay calm? Anchors kept him shorted.

Now there's many. I'll give you just a couple of

anchors. The first anchor that kept him

calm was memory. Daniel never forgot what he's

God has been faithful, had always been faithful and so he

could look back and he's like God was faithful then and so God

will be faithful now. And he remembered back when they

were taking captor from their country and they were brought

into and he's like God protected us through all these years.

He's built up a history with God over all these years.

By now he's already been advanced this build up a history

with God and you remember. So memory builds courage.

And he says in Psalm 77, verse 11, I will remember the deeds of

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the Lord. Yes, I will remember your

miracles of long ago. So when anxiety triggers, when

anxiety rises, when anxiety or stress or worry comes, think of

your own story. Think of your history with God

where God's answered your praise.

Think how God's carried you, where God's open doors for you,

given you jobs and opportunities, where God has

opened doors and opportunity. I carried you every day and you

thank God, He said, I thank you Lord, that you have done that

and you did it before and you will do it again.

It's so powerful when we remind God, well, I guess you did it

then and you'll do it the same again.

He will do it again. And so a second anchor years

number 2 was routine. Peace doesn't show up by

accident when there is a crisis or when there is difficult.

Your childhood stuff, it grows in a daily routine, every day

prayer, it grows. Daniel didn't start praying when

the Lord came in, OK, When the Lord, he kept on praying.

And the Bible says morning, midday, evening, three times a

day. So Daniel's prayer routine, that

was his strength, that was his rhythm.

He got into a routine rhythm, and so he kept it firm and that

kept him from the pressure. He could stand strong.

And so that daily prayer in your life, that is your routine,

that's your rhythm. You pull the rhythm every day

you meet with God. And so that's why spending time

with God in the morning, sleep matters, spending time with the

Lord before you go to a before you the the text and the emails

before the noise of the phone, before everything else, meet

with God. OK, take a few minutes, pray,

read a verse and you are connecting with God.

You're connecting with heaven in those moments and you're talking

to God before the crisis, before life pushes, before the

difficulties and the challenges that rhythm, it keeps you from

sliding in the times of pressure when pressure hits.

And so Daniel was drove into the lives then.

But God send forth his angels to shut the lions mouths.

God was fighting for him. Somebody shout Hallelujah.

Yeah. Because when Daniel stood in

peace, the Angel stood on duty. OK, your job is to stand.

God's job is to silence the the mouths of the lions.

That's God's job. Your job is to stand.

God's job is to shut the lion's mouth.

The battle belongs to God. And then somebody shout

Hallelujah, somebody say the battle belongs to God.

Yeah, it is the Lord's battle. And so this isn't just the story

for some time far along ago. This is the strategy for the

season we are living in right now.

Yes. And so we all face lions in our

lives with modern names. We all face it.

Medical report that draws at that.

OK, a legal letter on the kitchen table.

Maybe it's a workplace that marks your faith.

Maybe it's a child far away from God so that the strategy is

still the same. And here it is.

Remember God's faithfulness. Keep the prayer routine, the

rhythm. Keep the prayer rhythm and stand

your ground in peace. Yeah, I meant somebody.

And so Psalm 91 says that God gives his angels charge over

you. And so I call them the night

shift angels. So they work while you sleep.

They're working on your behalf while you wait.

God still sends helps. And so heaven answers an

unshaken stand. Can you say Amen?

And so it brings me to my next point, that when you stand, you

don't stand alone. When you look at the ancient

wars and the battles, the soldiers, they would March in

formation, and it's called the phallus.

They put those Shields against one another.

And those Shields were so large, so big that that large shield

doesn't just cover the soldier, but also the one next to him.

That's how big those Shields. So they cover 1.

And so in case one of the soldiers stumble or slips, they

could quickly shift over and close the gap.

And So what happens in that soldiers in that formation,

there's a very powerful strategy is they could cover one another.

They very quickly 1 soldier stumble, quickly cover.

That's a picture of the church. When a brother or a sister feels

weak, we cover one another. We very quickly cover one

another. Learn to stand strong and watch

this with the gladiators because he said, listen, whatever comes

out of that, whatever lion is coming out of that thing, and

remember in the Colosseum what he said is stand together.

Listen, we are stronger together church and God is bringing His

church together because whatever is going to come against us, we

have got to stand together and we are standing in the age where

we are now learning to cover one another.

When a brother or sister force or feels weak and you feel like

finding you feel like oh, I want to throw in the towel.

I want to give up. A brother or sister says listen,

lean on my shield. Now when you look at the full

armor of God, what does this shield talks about?

The shield represents come on the armor of God.

The shield represents what? Thank you. 5 There is a five

that is transferable. There's a faith that can be

shared. We are sharing faith.

We are stronger together. Church, somebody say stronger

together. Come on, shout it stronger

together. Put your eyes together, give God

some Christ, somebody Hallelujah, stronger together.

And so maybe you feel right now lions are circling, but when you

stand and you refuse to flinch, you are following the example of

Daniel. And listen, he simply stood his

ground in peace. And look at the result.

Daniel's stand changed the nation.

Oh my God, I believe God is raising up people in the UK in

this nation right now that will take a stand against evil.

It will shake our nation. God only needs one.

And Daniel what 1 stand changed the nation so much so that the

king Diaries wrote a new decree and said everyone should

reference and respect the God of Daniel.

It's coming church. It's coming to our nation.

I must somebody give God some faith.

Daniel 6 verse 26. Let me read that out to you.

Daniel 6:26

He says for you, this is king Darius for he's the living God

and he induce forever his Kingdom will not be destroyed.

His dominion will never end. He rescues and saves.

This is the king speaking. He performs science, oneness in

the heavens, and only he has rescued Daniel from the power of

the land. Your stand for God can shift

your region, your neighborhood, your community.

Your stand for God can shift laws.

Your stand for God can shift entire workplace, schools,

communities, campuses shifted to see the glory of God.

Your stand for God. Somebody shot Hallelujah.

So let me ask you, where is God asking you to stand?

Is it in a business situation or is it in a family to keep on

loving where there's constant conflict?

God asking you to stand and keep on loving.

God asking you in your workplace, business career,

maybe it's in your health to keep on believing God for

healing when the report, the medical report says it's

hopeless. So where is God asking you to

make a stand stand in your position of power.

Now I want to show you what happens in heaven.

Can we go a little deeper here? What happens in heaven when a

believer choose to stand because we're going to see this in the

book of Acts Chapter 7. Think about Stephen made a

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stand. Now he was being stung for his

faith. The Bible says in verse 55, but

Stephen full of the Holy Spirit looked up to heaven and saw the

glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.

Look he said, I see heaven open and the Son of man standing at

the right hand of God. Somebody say standing.

Now usually the Bible shows Jesus as seated, finished, work

on the cross finished, victory done, Jesus seated.

But yeah, when Stephen stood firm and he refused to bow to

fear, Jesus stood up. My God, I feel the anointing in

this place. The seated king stood up and he

rose. Think about that.

The King of Kings, he stood up, he rose up to his feet.

The King of Kings rose up to his to honour, to honour somebody

who will not back down. Oh, I feel the power to God.

Jesus standing up. Oh yes, my son, Oh, I feel

heaven in this place. Oh Lord Jesus standing, honoring

a brave soldier, standing up in a wicked, hostile culture while

he's being stored Jesus to them. Oh, I want that.

I want that somebody. I want that.

Yes, God. Oh yes, holy Lord, Oh yes.

We honor the courage of Charlie Cook, who's standing up for

righteousness in a wicked generation, standing up for the

truth and for what is right. And I believe that God is

turning that tragedy into a holy revival.

Oh, somebody shout out Hallelujah.

Oh yes, it's standing around Pampas is awakened young people

standing for the truth, a generation standing for revival.

Hallelujah. And yes, Stephen's martyrdom,

being martyr, who was standing there next to Stephen when he

was martyr Saul and his martyr triggered the conversion of Saul

who was persecuting the church. Saul became the apostle that

planted mortal. He triggered A worldwide

evangelism explosion, ignited a fire.

Holy goes where? I believe the same thing.

Like for God, he's bringing about a global awakening, a

global revival on campuses, colleges, schools, universities.

He's opening already, people of God.

He's breaking loose. The devil has gone too far.

He has at least revival. He's touched the wrong person.

You should never have touched Charlie.

There's no we are all sorry. God is raising up a standard

when the enemy comes in and that standard is a man and a woman of

God and his wife Erica says you should never have done that.

You have unleashed revival, a global awakening, and he's

touching every corner of this globe.

Are we going to see the greatest harvest of souls coming before

Jesus comes back very soon? Hallelujah.

I feel the glory of God in this place.

And so, yes, what the enemy meant for evil, Oh yeah, God

will turn it, forgive it, because God is always one step

ahead of the enemy. God is large, God is in charge,

and God's got this all covered. Hallelujah, somebody shot.

Hallelujah. Second Chronicles 69 For the

eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth to

show himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to

him. God is looking for people right

now. His eyes are looking to see who

will stand, who will be the one that will be loyal, that will be

committed, who will be the one who will plant their feet in

trust so that he can show himself strong.

Just when you stand for God, heaven stands for you.

I want you to always remember that.

And when you make a stand for God, wherever wake up a campus,

wherever workplace, wherever might be rough in the natural at

that workplace, they might mock you and laugh you and think that

you're strange. But listen, heaven stands.

When you make a stand at the PILF Centre and you hand out

Flyers and you walk up to people and you tell them the gospel,

heaven stands with you. Heaven goes with you wherever

you evangelise, wherever you go, heaven stands right there with

you. That is how God's Kingdom

operates over and over. The Bible shows up.

When you stand steady in faith, God moves in power, and so when

you stand, you invite heaven's divine intervention.

Remember Jehoshaphat in Second Chronicles chapter 20?

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When three nations came against them, three nations came in,

three armies came against Judah and the prophecy.

Do not be afraid, the barrel belongs to the Lord.

You will not need to fight this. Just stand the prophet of God.

Take this. Just take your position.

Just take your position, judge your position of power in this

hour. Just stand still and you will

see the salvation and the deliverance of your God.

He will come through. Somebody shot Hallelujah.

Let me read it to you. 2nd Granular 20 This is what the

Lord says to you. Do not be afraid or discourage

because of this vast army, for the battle is not yours, but

God. The 17 You will not have to

fight this, but take up your positions, stand firm and see

the deliverance of the Lord will give you stand, stand your

position. Take note of that.

The position talks about the position of power.

This is used. The same idea is used in the

book of Ephesians Paul used he says stand, stand firm.

That's what Paul the apostle gives us this revelation to

stand firm and Jehoshaphat obeyed and the Bible says that

when the choirs sang their songs, oh the Lord, we thank you

Lord, your love endures forever. That's when God, heaven fought,

God said ambushments and he turned the enemy on itself.

Somebody shout Hallelujah, Oh glory, beat your God.

The battle belongs to the Lord. So I want to throw these

scriptures in because I want you to see heavens responds when a

believer stands, when you choose to stand.

The Bible says in first John 2 calls Jesus our advocate.

Imagine standing in a court and the advocate, let's say it's a

court of heaven in the heavens and the devil, the enemy accuses

and throws all your failures shows, all your mistakes, all

weaknesses, every reason that you disqualify.

You have to give up your advocate.

Your defender stands. What does the advocate do when

they're in court? They stand up for you.

That's what your advocate will do in a court situation, the

court case. They will defend you and Jesus

will defend you with his life. He's not going to run out the

back door when things get rough. He's going to defend you with

his very life. And your advocate stands up and

he rises and he says, listen, that place, that one is mine.

You devil, you liar, you offering all these fighter, I've

paid for all of that. I've paid it in full.

And you know what? And the advocate says, I've even

paid it with my own blood. I was a martyr.

I sweat blood. And I wasn't just inside.

It was a long drawn out suffering on the cross dripping

blood. That blood is still speaking.

The martyrs blood are still speaking today.

They are crying out. Oh, we can hear the blood, we

can hear the bloody Speaking of mercy.

And Jesus said, I paid it in full.

And the judge lowers judge, the Father lowers the gavel and he

says case closed. You are the righteousness of

God. You are called righteous.

Come on, somebody. Come on somebody, you are called

righteous, favour protected. Yeah, because the Bible talks

about the almond of God, about the righteousness of God.

The brace plate. Come on, what is the brace

plate? The brace plate talks about the

righteous of God. When you stand on what Jesus has

done, you silence every table in hell.

You silence every accusation and allegation of hell.

When you stand on what Jesus has done #2 heaven respects courage.

Now imagine, just think of this picture of a captain of the

army. And this captain is standing,

and he's saluting the captain of the armies of heaven.

And he's saluting a brave soldier that refused to give up,

a brave soldier that refused to retreat.

And here comes the commander of chief of Heaven's armies, the

captain himself, and he salutes the soldier, the brave soldier,

and he looks them in the eye, and he says, well done, good and

faithful servants, come on, see Jesus saluting.

You see Jesus serving soldier brave once living in the year

2025, saluting your bravery, your courage, Oh yes, heaven

respects courage. Now let me give you one last

scripture and this is incredible.

Estral is standing in front of the Red Sea.

No bridge, no boat, no way out. Moses stands up and he says the

same thing. It's I told you it's all

throughout the Bible. This is a very powerful

principle for the anytime Church.

He says this in Exodus 1413. Do not be afraid.

Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the Lord will bring

you today. The Egyptians you see today, you

will never see again. The Lord will fight for you.

You need only to be stopped. You only need to stand in a

position of power. Church, When you take your

position of power, when you stand your ground, you hold your

peace. The Bible says the word declares

that the Lord himself will fight for you.

Oh Hallelujah. He will fight for you, He will

conquer for you. He will defaint you, He will

stand for you. And I feel a prophetic push

right here and I want to declare this over your life that the

Lord will fight over you and your family.

I just feel this urge in my spirit right now to release

this, to tell you today, church, God will fight for you.

He will defend you, He will stand up for you.

He's your champion, He's your commander in chief.

He will fight for you. And the Bible says, and God will

deal with your enemies, the enemies that you see today,

whatever. If it's citrus, depression,

anxiety, the enemies that you see today, you will see them no

more. You will see them no more.

I decree on the play in the name of Jesus.

The enemies that you see today, you will see them no more.

Hallelujah, somebody shall keep us a praise in this place.

Hallelujah, God. Yes, cherish.

You will see the victory. You will see the salvation of

the Lord. You will see the deliverance of

the Lord. You will see because the battle

belongs to the Lord. God is fighting for you.

God is fighting for you. I feel the anointing of the Holy

Ghost. Whatever enemy has been

troubling you in the night, in the dreams, whatever nightmare,

whatever attack you've been, God will deal with it.

God will deal with the lies. And that's for a fear that's

been tormenting God's people. God will deal with that spirit

of fear. You will break that oppression,

that intimidation, that spirit of traceable.

God will deal with her. God will fight.

Tell your neighbor God will fight for you.

God will fight for you. Come on, God is fighting for

you. Get this revelation today

Church. But notice the condition that a

stance required and is a position of power of standing on

peace. Stand firm, hold your peace.

So if the Bible says hold your peace, then God is saying that

there is something that is trying to steal your peace.

There's something that's trying to steal it, something that's

trying to rob it, anxiety, fear, doubt, trying to.

But if you can hold on to peace, if you can hold on to it, if you

can stand steady, remain calm, stand your ground, then the

Creator of the universe goes to work and he works on your behalf

and him. God fights for you when he

stands and works for you. Nothing can stand against him.

Nothing or Novak can stand against God.

He's the creator of the universe, somebody that's got

all power, all strength. There's no problem or enemy

that's too big for God. He's the one on the front ruling

the universe, Hallelujah. And so he's the one that we see

in the body. He shut the mouths of the lions.

And I believe that God is about to shut the mouth of the enemy

on the social media, on Facebook, on Instagram.

God is about to shut them down. He's going to shut down the

enemy. He's going to shut down the

lies. Jesus is coming back soon.

And the kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our

God. We went, we went, we went.

The Bible says we were church because the battle is we are the

winners because God fights for us.

God has chosen us and He will work on your behalf.

All that we do is you will hold your peace and you will stand

your ground and remain at race. And God promises to fight your

battles and He will make a way where there seems to be no way.

When Israel saw the Red Sea, there seems to be no way.

But God overrules the Red Sea and he right away through the

Red Sea, somebody shout Hallelujah, the battle belongs

to the Lord. So hear me, Church, let God

fight for you, Let him fight. Your battles He takes.

When you stand at peace and you stay calm, God will take the

fight. Let him fight.

That's a position of power. Maybe you've been saying I'm

outnumbered, I feel I'm not good enough.

I've been surrounded by loud voices, illegal notice, a letter

from a solicitor, a court case, a financial trouble, family

trouble. Heaven is saying you are not

alone. You are not fighting that

situation alone. Heaven is standing with you now.

I think about a time we met in Crownwood.

This is going back years now, seven years, not far from here.

And we're in the meeting and there was a gentleman and he had

a very, very difficult immigration case.

It was had to do with his passport, his work visas.

This was before breakfast. And so the lawyer said this, and

this is hopeless. But that gentleman, we prayed

and he decided I am going to give this case into the hand of

God. God is going to fight this case

for me. The battle belongs to God, the

battle belongs to the law. And he just stood his peace.

Hypers that should have taken months and years were approved

in weeks. Yeah, doors opened.

They could not explain it. And later, he testified, he said

it was like God himself went to the Home Office and got himself,

fought the battle for me at the Home Office himself and sorted

out the permit, the passport, everything.

That's what happens when you give the battle to God.

Give him the battle. Somebody let him fight your

face. Let him fight your battle.

Let God do the fighting and you do the standing.

Because when you stand, heaven stands.

So plant your feet and say to every storm, every accuser, I

will not be moved, I will not be shaken.

Listen, the battle is the Lords. Somebody shout, the battle is

the Lords, the battle is the Lord's.

So when you stand and you stay calm, God fight your battles.

Now let me give you 1 simple picture.

Lifeguard training. OK, lifeguard training, they

will teach you in an emergency, in a situation of drowning.

Stay calm. Anybody's done lifeguard

training. You lifeguards.

OK, so they teach you this, that wolf lifeguard training in the,

let's say, open sea or something.

What they say is do not splash. Do not flash the water and

splash the water. Why?

Because you will sink faster. I remember this.

I've done this training and they say do not splash and do not

flash because you will sink. You will sink down there.

Tease makes you to float and when you relax and you at peace,

you float until help the emergency service, the rescue

services come. So you relax and you float.

That's what happens when you stay calm, OK?

Because the more that you fight the water, the more that you

fight and splash and thrash and panic, the more you're trying to

sort out the the thing at work or the family situation or the

relationship. I'm trying to sort out this

relationship type this e-mail. The more panic you get, the more

water you are fighting, the quit.

You drain me, you tire when you drowning, that's what it's a

drowning. It's a training exhaustion.

It's an exhaustion the more you fight the water and and

drowning. And so when you stay calm, when

you stay at rest, when you relax and you're like give it to God

and you relax. I'm not going to worry.

I'm not going to stress. I'm going to relax.

The stronger you get. That's a revelation.

Come on, Sasha, I met somebody. Are you getting this?

Let God fight your battle. Let him fight for you.

The battle is the Lord. This is over and over in the

Bible when you do a study of this, I've seen it over and over

the years researches the battle belongs to the Lord.

The battle belongs. This is a powerful revelation

says that you need to get you know who had this revelation?

David. He also David said it on the

field against Goliath there there's a one David said it the

prophet said it in Jehoshaphat's time.

Moses said it to the Israelites at her AC over and over all the

apostle again he refers to it in the New Testament and he's a

standard because your job is to stand.

God's job is to fight the barrel belongs to God.

So in closing this week, step into this week with a steady

heart. Stand your ground, hold your

peace. And after you have done

everything, after you've done prayers and stand, stand in

peace, stand in trust, stand in the Word of God and watch what

heaven does. Because when you stand, heaven

stands for you. And he stands as your advocate

in the courtroom. He stands as your captain, the

commander in chief in the battle, the Amish of Heaven.

He stands right beside you in the turbulence, in the storm.

He stands over you in the night. He stands in front of you on the

path. He stands.

And you will look back and you will say I have been through

winds, I have been through waves, and the waters should

have washed me under. But I have learned and I have

found out something in the storm that my anchor speaks it louder.

I have found out something in the turbulence that when the

pilot speaks power, lose panic, loses power.

When the pilot speaks, calmness settle my soul.

And so I am not going to bow down to fear.

I am going to stand up my ground with peace.

And after everything, when it's all through the after

everything, I am still standing. Somebody say that I am still

standing. Come on, everybody, let's all

stand. Everybody on your feet.

Stand with me. Stand like you're experiencing

and expecting God. Stand like this is your moment

right here, right now. When you stand for God, He

stands for you. Now maybe you are badly health

condition or financial condition or tension in the family.

Hear the pilot's voice that I am your shepherd and you will not

lack, whether it's finances, whether it's healing.

I am the Lord that healeth thee, I lead you to still waters, I

bring revival, and I am your source, I am your provider, I am

the one that fights for you. I will deal with your enemies.

OK, now the battle belongs to the Lord.

So if you are in a heavy fight, a heavy difficulty today, give

it to God. Give him your battle.

Give him that case, that situation in the family, give it

to him. If it's a legal issue, if it's a

court case, a medical family, storms workplace, just give it

to him because God and you say, Lord, if that's you, I want you

to raise your hand right now. If you say God, I want to give

you my battle, just raise your hand before the Lord.

If that is you and you're saying God fight for me, you know, I'm

planting my feet on the rock that cannot be shaken, Raise

your hands to heaven. And if that's you, I want you to

pray out loud with me. Say Father, thank you that the

battle belongs to you. I give you every fear, every

battle. Anchor me in your peace, Follow

me with your spirit, and from this day on, I will stand strong

in your strength. Amen.

Now put your hand on your heart and I want you to receive this.

Pray Father, in the name of Jesus, pour out your peace on

every person in this place. I speak to every storm and Lord

I pray peace be still. Silence every lion, every

accusation, intimidation, every spur of fierce silence.

Send the night shift angels favour in courtroom, healing in

hospital rooms, reconciliation in family rooms.

Surround us with your presence, Lord.

Settle our hearts, anoint our feet, anoint feet with the

gospel of peace. Lord God, stabilize and kill

your people. Lord, I pray right now that you

mobilize everyone, that you stabilize everyone with the

presence, with the anointing, with the glory of God in this

place. I cover each person with the

blood of Jesus, the powerful of the blood of Jesus, in the

mighty name of Jesus. Somebody shout Hallelujah, give

God glory, Hallelujah. Yes, yes, please be stall.

Please be stall. God is fighting for you.

So let's declare out loud together, say peace is my

position. When I stand for God, he stands

for me. The battle belongs to the Lord.

God is fighting for me. The lion's mouths are shut.

I am anchored, I am stabilized, I am still standing.

Hallelujah. Come on, somebody give dance

your face. So if you would say today that I

need peace with God, the first stand of all, Romans 5 says that

we have peace with God through Jesus Christ.

It is only through Jesus Christ. It starts with surrender.

So if you have never given your life to Jesus, I want to give

you an opportunity today to give your life to Jesus.

Maybe you have drifted and you need to come back.

This is your moment, this is your day.

So if that's you and you ready to say yes to Jesus, raise up

your hand. If there's anybody, yes, I see

that hand. Anybody else?

Yes, yes, thank you. OK now I want us to pray this

with life in your heart with a genuine spirit.

Write this out loud. Everybody say Jesus, I'm fight

you to come into my life to be my Lord and my savior are afraid

of my sins. Come into my heart.

I give you my life. Follow me with your spirits from

this day forward, I am yours. I'm a child of God.

Come on somebody celebrate Hallelujah.

Keep God some glory.