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From Winepress to Warrior - Pastor Will Roos

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  1. Welcome to the Revival church Bracknell Podcast joins us

  2. asbestos, Will and Michelle Rose share inspiring insights that

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  6. We've got to go for it. And so this morning I just want

  7. to go right into this because God just sent me over the word

  8. from the book of Judges chapter 6.

    Judges 6 chapter mention

  9. And so we're going to have a look at a.

  10. Story there, the story of Gideon, how God takes an

  11. ordinary person hiding in a wine place and he transformed him,

  12. OK, into a mighty warrior. Listen, God transformed him he

  13. was hiding in a wine press. God transformed it into a

  14. history making warrior my God and that's what I want to share

  15. this morning about the from white press to warrior.

  16. That's the message God gave me, and so I'll.

  17. Put it up on on the screen here for us from Wine Crest to

  18. Warrior. That's the one about yes.

  19. Awesome. OK, let's go in in Judges

    Judges 6 chapter mention

  20. chapter 6 and we're going to go in this and I thank God for

  21. this, right? Awesome.

  22. Are you ready everybody? Because this graffiti word is

  23. just from here for now. And so the same card.

  24. Who? Called Gideon out of the wine

  25. press. The same card is about to call

  26. you into a whole new season. Can you say I mean somebody?

  27. Okay, Hallelujah. And you see, because God is

  28. calling the kiddies out of hiding, out of the wine press,

  29. He's awakening men and women right now.

  30. People that have been pressed now overlooked, underestimated,

  31. okay, I believe. That by the time we are done

  32. today, OK, that you won't just hear about Gideon's story, that

  33. that you're going to be stepping into your own revival story.

  34. Can you say, I mean, somebody, come on, somebody shot

  35. Hallelujah. Are you ready for me somewhat?

  36. OK, Hallelujah. We're going to go straight into

  37. this because something is about to happen in this place.

  38. I feel the anointing of God spoke to me.

  39. Something is about you. This is a new day.

  40. This is a new season, OK? You are becoming the warrior

  41. that God's using you. Hallelujah.

  42. Super. So wall with me this morning.

  43. We're going to go through this. Are you ready, Somebody?

  44. Are you ready for this? OK, there's reading Judges 6,

    Judges 6:11

  45. verse 11. The Angel of the Lord came and

  46. sat down under oak in Oprah that belonged to Jayastha Abrazai,

  47. where his son Gideon was stressing weeds in a wine brace.

  48. It was a white brace. To keep it from the.

  49. Midianites. OK, so the enemy has been stowed

  50. attacking you now when? The.

  51. Angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon.

  52. He said The Lord is with you, mighty warrior.

  53. Hallelujah. How powerful is that?

  54. My God, let's pray. Father, I thank you for your

  55. presence in this place. I thank you for the anointing.

  56. Holy Spirit, come have your way, Holy Spirit, anoint my lips open

  57. every heart touch, every heart. Move freely, Holy Spirit, move

  58. them. I'm sure people.

  59. Oh Holy Spirit, come and speak, Holy Spirit, bring The Word

  60. Alive. Make it alive in every heart.

  61. Raise up and awaken mighty warriors in this room, and you

  62. will all receive the glory, because unto you belong all the

  63. glory and the power forever. In the mighty name of Jesus,

  64. somebody shout Amen. Hallelujah, Robert, somebody.

  65. We got to deal with this word today.

  66. Grab hold of this today because when we meet Gideon, he's in a

  67. wine place. He is tracing wheat.

  68. He's hiding from the enemy, the milliners.

  69. He's just trying to get enough food for his family.

  70. Now this wine place where Gideon is tracing wheat.

  71. This is a picture what God is about to do in Gideon's life.

  72. You understand what I'm saying? Let me explain this to you

  73. because when you fresh wheat, you separate the grain from the

  74. chaff. OK, So the grade is this, this

  75. to be removing from the chaff for the grain.

  76. Now the grain. Listen, how many?

  77. Of you know, OK, it's not bread yet, it's grain.

  78. Now those of you that buy bread, you you have to crush the grain

  79. needs to be crushing to find flour.

  80. Then with the flour you mix well in water, right?

  81. Then what do we do when we we needing OK, we need the until it

  82. is flexible, until it's pliable, OK, and then finally.

  83. Bikes in the fire and then it's ready to feed the hungry.

  84. Then it is bread. OK.

  85. And that is what catch what God was doing in Gideon's life.

  86. He was fishing. The wine place was a freshing

  87. floor. God was fishing.

  88. Gideon. Oh, Hallelujah.

  89. Are you with me? Somebody you understand what I'm

  90. saying, OK. So God was removing the chuff

  91. God from Gideon's. God was removing the unbelief,

  92. the chuff of unbelief from him. He was crushing the fear that

  93. held him back. He was mixing in the the

  94. obedience into his life, OK, mixing that courage, it's with

  95. obedience. And so that was the question.

  96. And then he was needing faith, OK, into his calling.

  97. You understand what God is doing here, how he's working with

  98. Gideon, OK. And then finally with Gideon,

  99. preparing him for the fire of Tasty.

  100. And so, of course, God, before God could rescue this nation, he

  101. first had to rescue Gideon from his own unbelief.

  102. Can you say it means somebody? You're getting this, OK?

  103. And so just like wheat is. Transformed.

  104. Into bread to feed the hungry, Todd was transforming Tydian

  105. into a deliverer to bring deliverance to feed the nation

  106. with hope and victory. Can you shout?

  107. I make somebody. Hallelujah.

  108. OK. Are you with me?

  109. Because I'm going to go fast. Because maybe you feel like you.

  110. Are in a crushing time right now?

  111. Maybe you're in a crushing. Place right now and you.

  112. Feel that you are pressed on every side, hidden away maybe.

  113. You feel underestimated, overlooked, OK, hidden away and

  114. wondering if anything good is going to come out of where you

  115. are. Listen to us.

  116. Let me just tell you, crushing is not punishment.

  117. Crushing is preparation. Oh, OK, listen, they need to

  118. tell you the why. Praise is not the aid.

  119. The flu show is not the aid. That's the beginning.

  120. OK, so God is getting you ready for the battlefield.

  121. Mike Bars to me. He's putting you ready.

  122. Somebody He's shaping you in. Someone who's going to feed

  123. others with the brain of life. He's transforming us into the

  124. brain of life to feed so many others.

  125. Hallelujah. Can you shout Hallelujah?

  126. I mean, here's Gideon. Just picture him.

  127. He's here on the wine press, racing wheat and dust in the

  128. air, and he is scared. He's hiding.

  129. His heart is racing and it is grains and separating the child

  130. from all. And he's worried.

  131. He's like thinking. Oh my God, is this the day today

  132. that the enemy is going to find me?

  133. Because these many. Nights have been attacking us

  134. from every area and is. This going to be the day that

  135. the enemy is going to find me here.

  136. And in the middle of his fear, in the middle of his mess of the

  137. terror of the frustration, in the middle of the survival mode,

  138. all of a sudden, Boo an Angel showed up make up there is an

  139. Angel of a Lord appeared to all in the Angel all say the Lord is

  140. with you mighty. Warrior Oh, I feel the

  141. anointing. I feel an appearance in this

  142. place. My God, Angeli, the glory, the

  143. Princess of God is in this place.

  144. Mighty Warrior. Now Gideon probably looked over

  145. like mighty Warrior. OK.

  146. Who me? You must.

  147. Have got the wrong guy Because mighty warriors don't hide.

  148. Mighty warriors are brave and courageous.

  149. They don't hide the white pits. Somewhere in wine, pray.

  150. OK, you must got the wrong guy. OK, But you know what's amazing?

  151. Even though Gideon was afraid and fearful, Gideon means Are

  152. you ready for us? Gideon means warrior.

  153. My God, my God said this is awesome.

  154. The one who cuts down, referring to cutting down idols.

  155. Oh, Hallelujah. And so God has put destiny in

  156. his identity. Can you say I mean somebody.

  157. OK, are you with me? Right.

  158. Lean in and grab this word, OK today.

  159. Because listen, God. When he speaks, he speaks

  160. prophetically. God speaks to you where you are

  161. going. Come on, you're getting this

  162. because God speaks to you where you are called to be, OK?

  163. And he calls him murder. Because listen, God is not

  164. intimidated by your insecurities, by your past.

  165. He's not insecure. He's he's not intimidated by

  166. your past failures, not even your excuses, OK.

  167. And God says mighty warrior. And when God says mighty

  168. warrior, he's pulling into your true identity of who you really

  169. are. When he scores mighty warrior,

  170. he pulls on the courage, the strength, the anointing that

  171. he's putting you before you even pour my gun.

  172. Hallelujah, Hallelujah. So yes, you may feel the

  173. circumstance. You may feel small, but God

  174. calls you significant. You may feel defeated, but God

  175. calls you victorious. OK, you may feel unqualified,

  176. but God calls you chosen. Somebody shot Hallelujah, Rory

  177. to God. So Gideon comes up with all

  178. these excuses, OK. And this I you know, I'm the

  179. spoilest, I'm the weakest. I'm not your man.

  180. I'm the wrong, you know, you've got the wrong guy.

  181. Yeah. It's like his reply shows he's

  182. low self esteem, he's low self view of himself.

  183. I'm weak, I'm spoiled. That's how he is, he And so he

  184. says Judges 615. Gideon replied.

  185. But how can I say visual? My clan is the weakest in

  186. Manasseh. I am the least in my family.

  187. And so yes, he was saying anything.

  188. Listen, hold. OK?

  189. I I am not warrior material, OK? I am the weakest.

  190. I am swole. You've got the wrong guy.

  191. Yeah, OK. But God doesn't agree with his

  192. insecurities. God doesn't say, OK, yes,

  193. Gideon, OK, you are right. You are too small, you are too

  194. weak. You're from the smallest family.

  195. No, God comes and he said, I will be with you and you will

  196. win. Then you will strike down all

  197. those Midianites. You'll strike down all those

  198. enemies. My God, that's the God we serve.

  199. Hallelujah. Praise God, while some of you

  200. are in a wine press pit, you have been hiding, living below

  201. your calling, OK, living, just ducking from your destiny and so

  202. hiding away, trying to survive another day.

  203. But God is stepping into your pits.

  204. He's stepping into your wine press, your situation, your

  205. family, and he's calling you out.

  206. Somebody shout Hallelujah. OK, because that voice that says

  207. you too small, that voice that says you are just a nobody, that

  208. voice that says you cannot do it or you just feel insignificant,

  209. you are not enough. That's the voice of fear.

  210. The voice of the Father says you are stronger than you think.

  211. What do you push higher than this place?

  212. You are stronger than you think. You are stronger than you think.

  213. You are stronger than you think. Hallelujah, somebody.

  214. Let's declare this out there. I'll say I am God, says I am

  215. God. I am a mighty warrior.

  216. I am stronger than I think. Give God some praise, somebody

  217. this month. Hallelujah.

  218. That's in me here today to tell you that you are stronger than

  219. you think. You are stronger than you think.

  220. You are stronger than you think about church.

  221. You are stronger. You are stronger than you think.

  222. Tell your neighbor you are stronger than you think.

  223. Thank you, Lord, you are stronger than you think.

  224. That's the word from heaven. And so when I read about the

  225. story of Gideon hiding in the wide priest, it reminded me of

  226. another unlikely hero, a 26 year old coal miner working in the

  227. mines by the name of Evan Roberts.

  228. Nineteen O 4 from a small town with waves.

  229. Oh yes, my cards anointing is at this place now.

  230. He wasn't a preacher. He wasn't famous.

  231. He was a shy quiet guy if most of his time spent most of his

  232. time on the ground 13 years pray Lord bend me now that night a

  233. small parity presence of God comes strong presence of the law

  234. and he knew he cannot stay in hiding anymore.

  235. He knew the days are over no longer stay he did.

  236. He knew God has awakened it go and shake a nation.

  237. Well that is the word at all. And so God told them to wake in

  238. a nation. And so when a man or a woman

  239. step out of a wine place, anointed of God, anything is

  240. possible. Within months over 100,000

  241. people gave their life to Jesus. We're talking about whales,

  242. 100,000 people. OK listen, cry and drop so much

  243. the the pups shut down. OK, listen, this is documented

  244. in Wales. The PUP shot down the crime drop

  245. so much that the policemen, they formed their own gospel players

  246. because there was nothing else for them to do.

  247. Nothing. Else the judges had no cases.

  248. The crime drop 0 crime. Okay, listen, the sporting

  249. matches was cancelled. Please read out this is

  250. documentation. The football matches were

  251. cancelled. Sorry footballers, but listen,

  252. let me just be honest, that's what happened in revival.

  253. The football matches were cancelled because there was

  254. nobody in the stadium because the people were in church.

  255. Oh, she oh listen, I love I sports, but nothing comes close

  256. to Jesus. OK, this is just.

  257. This is the revival in Wales, the Wales Revival.

  258. And you know, the, the, the miners, the coal miners, their

  259. language got so cleaned up. So what happened?

  260. Was the pit ponies in the mines? They had to retrain the pit

  261. ponies to learn the new commands because they put planers used to

  262. understand that bleep bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep.

  263. But then they're born again and safe and their language has

  264. changed. People got born again and safe.

  265. They had to retrain the pit ponies.

  266. Do you understand that? You she.

  267. That's a wild survival. Come on, somebody.

  268. It's time for the UK. Somebody said he signed to the

  269. UK. Come on.

  270. Come on, somebody. It's time.

  271. It's time you listen. Evan Roberts didn't start in a

  272. pulpit. He started the wipers in the

  273. mines, the coal mines. OK.

  274. God freezed his heart but removed the chuff of unbelief

  275. out of his heart. And a warrior emerged that could

  276. change and shake a nation. Hallelujah, God can do it again.

  277. Somebody come on. If God could take a coal miner

  278. in Wales and use him to turn a nation upside down, God can take

  279. you and turn your street, your region, your school, your inner

  280. praise upside down, your city upside down.

  281. Come on, somebody, you ready for the Bible?

  282. We could do this. And I hear the Spirit of God.

  283. He's saying that there's kittens in this room.

  284. Do you have been hidden, overlooked, underestimated even

  285. by yourself? But I hear the Spirit of God.

  286. He's saying the Lord is with you, mighty warrior, this, this

  287. the seated in your spirit tonight made that word from

  288. heaven. Somebody shot Hallelujah.

  289. The Lord is with you, almighty warrior.

  290. The Lord is with. You come by, tell your neighbor,

  291. say the Lord is with you, mighty warrior.

  292. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The Lord is with you.

  293. Yeah, yeah. Declare that and prophesied that

  294. every someone's life has said the Lord is with you, mighty

  295. warrior. This is your moment, Church, the

  296. same God. Who?

  297. Called Gideon out of the wine place is calling you.

  298. The same God, the same anointing, the same spirit of

  299. revival that fell in Wales, that same spirit is here.

  300. This place calling us. He's calling you.

  301. He's calling the Gideons. He's calling you out.

  302. Can I preach this somebody? Because you came in as weeds

  303. feeling crushed. You are walking out of this

  304. places break. Oh, you're walking out of break.

  305. You might have feel like we've been crushed in your workplace

  306. in your future. You're walking out here today as

  307. bread. Really.

  308. That's going to feed nations, nations.

  309. Just nations. I see why the warriors in front

  310. of me. Are you ready for this church?

  311. Because listen when the Angel of the Lord.

  312. Cheered up and that Angel of God appeared on the Gideon.

  313. It wasn't just little chat, chat, small talk, little casual.

  314. That was a divine commissioning. Oh, Hallelujah.

  315. And now this way it happened not on the mountainsop where

  316. everything was great in Gideon's life, everything was good and

  317. everything it happened in the. Wine press, the freshing floor.

  318. OK, that is a place of sifting. OK, it's a place where that was

  319. useful is separated. What holds you back?

  320. That's the place of a fishing floor.

  321. OK, so it's a place of refining where God prepares something for

  322. his purpose. It's a fishing floor moment.

  323. It's a season where God comes and he cuts things away.

  324. He cuts away relationships. He cuts things steps away.

  325. Insecurity, doubt, fear, unbelief.

  326. He cuts those things out of our lives.

  327. Why? Because you cannot carry the

  328. chaff into the old chuff into a new calling.

  329. You cannot hold out to Mr. This crock give you the.

  330. Growth. You don't want to be stuck.

  331. We thank God for refining moments when we are refined, we

  332. cuts and strips away the things because the old stuff cannot go

  333. into the new calling. And I don't want to be stuck

  334. forever in the same mountain and on the same white place.

  335. No, we want to move on. We want to go on to the

  336. battlefield. OK, so that's preparation.

  337. So before he sends you, he shares you.

  338. OK. Before Gideon faced the

  339. Midianite army, God first gave him an assignment.

  340. And this is a private assignment.

  341. It was a private assignment to set him up the stage for public

  342. victory. And God says to get in key and

  343. listen. I want you to go and cut off the

  344. altar, your father's altar, to bow.

  345. So listen, I want you to go and peel with the idols in your

  346. family. Listen, this is this is the word

  347. of the law, OK, Because didn't first had to deal with the idol

  348. stronghold in his family before he can break the stronghold in

  349. his nation. Are you getting this?

  350. Are you with free somebody? OK.

  351. And so the Church, we must first take down the idols of

  352. compromise and of unbelief in our hearts before we can.

  353. Deliver a nation. Hallelujah.

  354. And so before Gideon fought Midian, he first fought the

  355. compromise at home. OK.

  356. And so before revival can flow in your city, revival must first

  357. it has to flow through your house.

  358. Somebody give God some flesh. Are you getting this?

  359. OK, so every public victory, OK, every public revival or

  360. breakthrough or move of God is first born within a.

  361. Private place of surrender. I met somebody.

  362. OK, now can we go a little deeper?

  363. OK, let's go for this. Because Gideon asked God for two

  364. confirming sights right now. The first one, remember Gideon

  365. laid down a fleece before the Lord.

  366. Right now, I want you to see this in Judges City 636 for

  367. those of you don't want to check up on the documentaries or on

  368. there right now. It says here Gideon.

  369. Say to God, if you will say this role by my hand as you promised.

  370. Look, I will place a wool fleece on the freshing floor.

  371. If there's dew onion on the flesh and all the ground is dry.

  372. OK, Now did you catch that dew on the flesh?

  373. I want you to see that. OK, dew on the freeze because

  374. the next morning the fleece. Was soaked with dew, OK, so much

  375. so heavily that it could run out of bowl full of water.

  376. That bowl full. That is a prophetic picture of

  377. the anointing A. Favour OK dew from heaven

  378. soaking a surrendered. Life.

  379. Did you get that that's. When you when somebody comes and

  380. you surrender your life and you say God, I surrender, I give you

  381. Ioffer it up. That is a surrendered life.

  382. God yes, my life. Yes, my offering I give you.

  383. I surrender everything. I place my all, I give it to

  384. you. When you lay down your life in

  385. surrender, you give your life over to God, and you say, God,

  386. soak what I give you. Soak this offering.

  387. My body is a living God. Will soak you.

  388. God will trace you until overflowing.

  389. Come on, it's a surrender of light, and you become a pole

  390. full of blessing, of favour in the hand of God.

  391. Amen. And so Gideon did not hold the

  392. fleece, but for himself he laid it down.

  393. He laid it way before the Lord in the wine praise.

  394. That's listen, revival comes. It starts at an altar.

  395. Revival always starts at an altar, a place of surrender, the

  396. wine place, the freshening. For that was Gideon's altar of

  397. exchange, his fear for God's boldness, his weakness for God's

  398. strength, his doubt for God's confirmation.

  399. So it's. Gideon's altar of exchange.

  400. Amen. So church, we are not called.

  401. To live dry, we are called to live dressed.

  402. I meant some of you as we just want God to confirm his word,

  403. but we've not laid down anything.

  404. OK, it takes a surrendered life. The fleece had to be placed, had

  405. to be laid, had to be placed before it could be sought.

  406. You see that? OK, so Gideon's first.

  407. The fleece. The first one was personal, but

  408. now he was not satisfied with that confirmation just to stay

  409. with him alone. So he pray now.

  410. The second one he prays again. Judges 6 verse 39.

    Judges 6:39

  411. And now let the crown be covered with deep OK.

  412. Gideon understood something very, very powerful, that if he

  413. was going to go into battle, he did not want to go in the only

  414. one carrying the anointing, but the whole army to be anointed.

  415. Somebody's getting this, somebody's getting this today.

  416. The whole Army to carry the anointing OK, he didn't want

  417. just to be the only one carrying the anointing if he was going

  418. into but but the whole army OK also needs to be anointed.

  419. The army also needs to be drenched to revival is about a

  420. whole company of believers saturated with the same annoyed

  421. the same spirit of God, the whole come on somebody the whole

  422. company of believers OK, filled with the Holy Ghost.

  423. Gideon was saying Lord if if you are really with.

  424. US. Then soak the ground, let all

  425. the people that's going to go in battle with me also be anointed.

  426. Everyone of them this fighting going into battle also be

  427. anointed and let the ground be wet and let them carry what's on

  428. me. Therefore we carry what you

  429. place on me. Oh I feel this transferable and

  430. waiting in this place this morning.

  431. Oh, I feel this anointing and it starts for the ball and that's

  432. what Kitty say. What's on me?

  433. I want on the Army, not just on one.

  434. I just 111. To.

  435. Fight the the entire army. And so the next morning the

  436. ground was wet and heaven was showing Gideon.

  437. Oh yes, I am drenching the whole army with my presence.

  438. Oh yes, I'm drenching. That whole army.

  439. Come on, somebody. Oh yes, that's right, Kitty, and

  440. I am showing you this time I am telling you, this is not just

  441. your battle. Oh, kidding you.

  442. This is our battle. Oh, the battle belongs to the

  443. Lord. This is our battle.

  444. Hallelujah. This is our battle.

  445. Somebody shot Hallelujah. Listen, it reminds me of Numbers

    Numbers 11 chapter mention

  446. Chapter 11. When Moses got Veda, he was so

  447. tired and exhausted. He really struggled and he was

  448. so overwhelmed by the weight of leading Israel.

  449. And God says surround yourself, bring in 70 others and I will

  450. put what's on you. Moses, the same Spirit that's on

  451. you, I'll put it on 70 others. It's transferable.

  452. I'll put the annoy, I'll put in, Oh my God, I'll put that same

  453. spirit that's on you and I'll share it among seventy others so

  454. that they can help you carry the murder.

  455. This entire 100 Bible is not just one person behind the pool,

  456. but it's going to take the whole army.

  457. It's going to take the every person.

  458. God is rising up an army, Hallelujah.

  459. And so God says, listen, I'm going to put that what's on you,

  460. Moses? I'm going to put it on.

  461. So that means what was on Moses was so abundant, What was on

  462. Moses was so potent, so overflow, that God could share

  463. it in 70 others 70 other ways. That's how strongly I was on

  464. Moses that God could spill it over.

  465. Listen, just that's what God wants to put on your life.

  466. It's the saturation anointing of overflowing spilling over onto

  467. your family, your workplace, your Reacher, the area where you

  468. are. Come on, it's an overflow

  469. anointing, overflowing. That's the anointing God wants

  470. to put on you. It's an overflow which spills

  471. over into your families, teams, generations.

  472. I believe God is releasing an anointing into your circle, your

  473. spouses, your families, your children.

  474. It's overflowing, it's contagious.

  475. It's spread like wildfire faster than any COVID, flu, or any

  476. fire. It spreads faster.

  477. It spreads faster like wildfire. Yes, raising a people around you

  478. who will carry the same fire, the same vision in that company,

  479. in that business, what God has called to that ministry, the

  480. same courage people around you. Not anointing that God placed on

  481. you to overflow. It's an overflowing anointing.

  482. It's an overflowing anointing. Are you with me?

  483. Yeah. Now I want to show you something

  484. amazing. This is one of my favorite

  485. verses in Gideon's story, Judges 6, verse 34, it says here.

    Judges 6:34

  486. And the Spirit of the Lord came on Gideon.

  487. Now the Hebrew, this is amazing because it literally means that

  488. the spirit of the Lord drove himself with Gideon.

  489. OK, that's powerful. I love that because think about

  490. it, because God didn't just put an anointing on Gideon, but God

  491. put Gideon on the. Spirit of God.

  492. Stating to Gideon, my God, it's like, let me give you an

  493. example. It's like someone that puts on a

  494. garment like a like a cloak. So for instance, let me show

  495. you. So they say, I go.

  496. I represent the Spirit of God. This is Gideon, the Spirit of

  497. God, the bow, says Cubs. Clove himself with Gideon.

  498. I'm going to weigh this into battle and the Spirit of God and

  499. Gideon and the Spirit of God says, right, I'm going to wear

  500. this into battle. Gideon, Ayuri, let's go.

  501. You're getting this. Yeah.

  502. OK. So when God wears you, it means

  503. God thinks through you. When God wears you, it means

  504. that God speaks through your mouth, He walks through your

  505. feet. When God wears you, when God

  506. comes and he puts you on, it means.

  507. He flows through your hands. Be healed in the mighty name.

  508. What? Jesus?

  509. Christ, it's for God stepped into gate when revival breaks

  510. out, it's because the Spirit of God have found a people that's

  511. willing to be his comet, willing to be his comet.

  512. And he's not. Looking for a perfect foot is

  513. looking for a willing foot. Gideon was not perfect, but he

  514. was available, Yeah. Gideon was a.

  515. Farmer. OK, not, not a fighter, but when

  516. the Spirit clothed himself, the Spirit of God comes clothed

  517. himself with Gideon. The fearful farmer becomes a

  518. fearless general, killed and rotten of a space.

  519. I feel the anointing. I feel the Spirit of God

  520. searching, rising, awakening. Oh, Hallelujah.

  521. He's searching. He's looking for Guineans right

  522. now. Men and women.

  523. He's looking for people right here.

  524. The Holy Spirit is asking. He's looking.

  525. Well, you wait. And so we just say, yes, Lord

  526. Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit, yes, way.

  527. Me. I will be your garment.

  528. I will be, I will be yours. And that's that's what happens.

  529. Can we give God some praise? Yeah.

  530. OK. Now let's turn to Judges 7.

  531. And yes, we're engaged. Wealth.

  532. Are you ready for wealth? How much can we take today?

  533. How deep can we go? Because this is really where

  534. it's get wild, OK? This is going to get really wild

  535. because listen, if I was Gideon, OK, I would sort of expect God

  536. now to write, OK, thanks God, we got this summon and all that.

  537. I would start expecting God now to start building his arm and

  538. start adding some numbers and all that.

  539. God starts doing the opposite. OK.

  540. I'm like, Lord, okay, are we going to build this?

  541. Are we going to go? But it's still God starts

  542. cutting away. Wow, starts cutting away, starts

  543. stripping away, starts removing. Okay, start sending people.

  544. Away. Wow, start sending people away.

  545. Lord, I really need every soldier I really need.

  546. That's why I thank God even in the beginning days when we

  547. started this church, when I preached to one person, I

  548. preached my heart on, when I preached to 5 to 100, when I

  549. preached to in South Africa, I was at the Pretoria school.

  550. I was understand there was hundreds of people criticized.

  551. We I preached the heart. I preached with everything I've

  552. got. Because I know God knows what

  553. he's doing. And God says here and judge the

  554. seven, he says, now announce to your army, the army.

  555. Anyone who trembles with fear may turn back and leave Mount

  556. Gilad, Right. OK.

  557. And 22,000 people walked away that day.

  558. Wow. Why?

  559. Because of fear. OK, They're going to go in the

  560. army. They're going to face an enemy

  561. here, right? The problem with fear.

  562. OK, it neutralized the power of God.

  563. OK, so same packing Gohan 22,000 bit because it was a taste of

  564. courage and they're going through these tests.

  565. Now remember here comes the second test, Gideon Oscar for

  566. Tuesdays and God says right, I'm going to tap with you through

  567. Tuesdays. Now second test, take them to

  568. the water and watch how they drink.

  569. Watch how they drank the water. OK, because this taste now

  570. Gideon took them through and now some knelt down and they put

  571. their face in the water with no awareness.

  572. So they dragged water. So they put their face in the

  573. water with no awareness. That's the problem.

  574. No awareness. OK, without awareness they

  575. missed it. But then.

  576. There's a group. They scooped the water.

  577. They went, scooped the water to their mouth, eyes lit up, eyes

  578. up there, eyes lifted up, alert, ready for they watching their

  579. surroundings for any surprise attack.

  580. And God says face your people because it's the taste of

  581. readiness. God spoke to me.

  582. He said the church needs to get ready.

  583. This is the taste of readiness. Get ready.

  584. It says here Judges 77 and the Lord said to Gideon, you have.

  585. Too many men, I cannot deliver median into their hands or

  586. Israel would boast against me and Israel would say, listen,

  587. this is my own strength that has saved me.

  588. And that's a very dangerous boasting when people say it's my

  589. talent, my gifting. My dad got the victory and got

  590. the breakthrough. Listen Church, I just want to

  591. tell you that God is the only one that will get the glory to

  592. God be the glory. Listen the 300 so there's 300

  593. leftover. OK, so this is I want to go 1

  594. back. So 300 it says 77300 men that

  595. will save you and give them many lights into your hands.

  596. Let all the others go home. That's Judges 7, seven.

  597. So the 300, that's a prophetic picture of a time church that

  598. God is raising up. A church that's alert, a church

  599. that's ready, a church that's staying alert.

  600. Eyes open, wide awake, weapons ready for what's coming.

  601. OK, for the assignment. They stay alert.

  602. This is not time for little casual Christianity, okay?

  603. Like just like church on a Sunday.

  604. This is not a time for just Luke warmers, okay.

  605. This is a time for the church to be alive, to be on fire, a blaze

  606. fervid, ready, okay, to be vigilance, a time to be ready.

  607. So get ready, get ready, get ready, get ready.

  608. Come on. Get ready, get ready.

  609. Get ready, Get ready, Get ready. Come on, toast.

  610. Get ready. I'm speaking that over your

  611. line. I say get ready, Get ready, Get

  612. ready. The mighty warriors.

  613. Get ready. Come on.

  614. Tell your neighbor. Get ready.

  615. Go. Come on.

  616. Get ready. Get ready, Get ready, Get ready.

  617. Get ready. Get ready.

  618. Get ready. Get ready.

  619. Get ready. Get ready.

  620. Get ready. Somebody get ready.

  621. Shake your neighbors. I get ready.

  622. Come on. Give them a start to say.

  623. Let's say you got to be ready. We got ready.

  624. Ready, ready, ready, ready, ready.

  625. Come on, somebody shout. Get ready.

  626. Come on, shut it again. Get ready.

  627. Lovely. And so the time when the dust

  628. settled, Gideon's army has literally gone from 32,000 to

  629. 300. OK, Can you imagine Gideon,

  630. right? We had like 32,000 and now we

  631. got like 300. And you know, we up against the

  632. million eyes, my God, the million eyes, 135 a 135,000

  633. enemies and we are 300. OK, if you do your maths, that

  634. is 450 to 1:00. AM I right?

  635. The ratio 450 to one with the yen, We're going to calculate

  636. the right, OK. But listen, humanly speaking,

  637. that's a suicide mission. OK, this o'clock is complete

  638. suicide. Listen, you've got 400, so

  639. 132,000 so. But spiritually speaking, that's

  640. a setup for God's glory. Yeah.

  641. Because when the odds are stacked that high, OK, there's

  642. no mistaking who gets the credit, OK, OK.

  643. Yeah, yeah, there's no mistake. Listen, it's it's not going to

  644. be, it's going to be God that will get the glory.

  645. OK, Glory to God. Somebody shout glory to God.

  646. Yeah. OK, Now it said there that.

  647. My aunt straight has saved me. So listen, sometimes God will

  648. reduce your numbers, your opportunities, your options, so

  649. that when the victory comes, when the breakthrough comes,

  650. there's no question, there is no undeniable that it.

  651. Was him. This can only be God.

  652. This can only be God. It was God.

  653. It's pure God. It's not me.

  654. It's not my talent. It's not my goodness.

  655. It's not the It's God. It's the grace of God.

  656. It's His. Somebody showed glory to God,

  657. glory to come on, come on, glory, glory, glory to God.

  658. Oh, glory to God. It's not me, it's not getting,

  659. it's it's God. God will get the job done.

  660. I've read the last chapter of the Bible.

  661. We went and it's God's doing. God's got this over.

  662. Pastor will look at the chaos, chaos in the world wars, rumors

  663. of God's got this. God's the creator.

  664. God is in control. He's large and in charge.

  665. He knows exactly. What he's doing, he's the

  666. highest creator of entire universe.

  667. Nothing is so difficult for our Gulf.

  668. And so Gideon, he was still struggling, but I love our God

  669. how he helps Gideon. He had compassion on Gideon

  670. because this is the first stop. Gideon has never LED an army

  671. before, OK? And so God says, OK, get in.

  672. This will help you. Go down to the enemy's camp and

  673. hear what what your enemy is saying.

  674. You're what the enemy is saying. So take your servant and go

  675. down. And yet Gideon goes to the

  676. servant. Slip down and the cover of

  677. darkness creep close enough to over here, a conversation over

  678. here, conversation in the enemy's camp.

  679. OK, and so there's one Midianite, He's telling his

  680. friend how God had given Midian, the Midianite and the whole camp

  681. over into giddy attacks. And so isn't that amazing,

  682. Church, that the enemy already knew they were defeated?

  683. Come on, Isn't that amazing? The enemy already knew they were

  684. defeated. The enemy already knew they were

  685. defeated even before even one sword was lifted.

  686. Even before the Battle War. You're getting this.

  687. OK. What the enemy knows is Tommy

  688. Short. He knows.

  689. He's defeated. He knows.

  690. But now, yes. The The thing is that the devil

  691. knows sometimes. He knows more about your

  692. potential, your calling, than you know.

  693. That's why he works so hard to keep you locked in fear, OK?

  694. Because if you ever believe what God says about you, if you ever

  695. believe and realize and know that you are a mighty warrior,

  696. you will be unstoppable. Come on, somebody give God some

  697. prize. Hallelujah.

  698. If you ever see yourself, you truly see yourself as a mighty

  699. warrior, you will be unstoppable.

  700. And so here's Gideon. He's struggling with insecurity,

  701. wondering, can I really do this? And he's struggling.

  702. But at the same time the enemy's struggling, the enemy's

  703. dreaming, the enemy's whispering, you know if Gideon

  704. shows up, we finished. And the enemy isn't panicked,

  705. trembling, fear. Let me tell you, the forces of

  706. darkness, they know about you. They know.

  707. They know your name. They know you call it.

  708. They know you're calling the forces of darkness.

  709. They know you. They know your name.

  710. And they panic, they trembling. They know.

  711. They have seen how your prayers shake the heavens.

  712. They've seen it. They know your name.

  713. They know they see it. They have seen no worship.

  714. The forces of darkness. The devil's a demon.

  715. They have seen your worship. They have seen your.

  716. Praise and your worship are shifter room.

  717. They know you by now. They know they they trembling.

  718. They fear because they have seen.

  719. Like your obedience opens the windows of heaven.

  720. They've seen this. The enemy is trembling.

  721. The enemy's panic is afraid of you.

  722. They've seen OK. And so the enemy already knows.

  723. The devil knows it's over. He knows it's over.

  724. He knows it's a fear. The cross sealed the victory.

  725. You are not fighting for victory.

  726. You are fighting for victory. The devil vows is over.

  727. The church. Once the church, once the church

  728. wins, we win. It's all throughout the Bible.

  729. Somebody shout Hallelujah. Yeah, we are winners more than

  730. conquerors. The devil is defeated.

  731. He's a defeated foe. He's scared.

  732. He's in panic, running away. We are not in reaction.

  733. We are. In fact, we are coming devil run

  734. run devil we chasing the devil wait to kill this and get her

  735. because when we show our peace gone.

  736. Oh you don't understand people the authority and anointing that

  737. you courage. You are stronger than you think

  738. you are stronger than you think mighty warriors.

  739. Now what's this in verse 15 it says when Gideon heard the dream

  740. and its interpreter, he. Bowed down and worship.

  741. Somebody say worship went back. It's like worship, worship

  742. created to worship. That was his battle cry.

  743. The praise and worship was his battle cry.

  744. And so now Gideon's faith is alive, his courage, his his

  745. faith is stirred up full of courage and he's 300 ready for

  746. the battle. But then God's strategy doesn't

  747. make any sense. It says here this 16 dividing

  748. the 300 men in three companies. He plays trumpets and empty jars

  749. in the hands of all the men with torches inside.

  750. OK, let's be honest, if you are facing 135,000 soldiers, OK, You

  751. want Spears, You want swords, You want OK?

  752. No kidding torches. Sorry, but.

  753. I'm just so close. Think of the heart.

  754. God's just like, OK, that's tortures.

  755. So there, there's a trumpet, there's a jar of torture.

  756. Imagine this tree out. I was like, where's the swords?

  757. Where's the Spears? Where's the Spears?

  758. Listen, the king, you've got victory in God's Kingdom.

  759. It doesn't come with natural weapons.

  760. It comes from obedience to the voice of God.

  761. You're in. Yeah, God's chose a strategy and

  762. that would make it impossible for anyone else to get the glory

  763. but him. Amen.

  764. Glory to God. Somebody shout.

  765. Glory to God. Glory to God.

  766. Glory to God. God, God.

  767. This isn't amazing. Strips him right down.

  768. Cut it away. Trumpet now.

  769. OK, Trumpet, Maybe just explain to you the.

  770. The spiritual principle, Yeah, because the trumpet is a picture

  771. of your praise, OK. And so the torch that speaks of

  772. your testimony and the jaws, that's our lives that we carry

  773. the treasure of Christ, the jaws of clay.

  774. But the jaws of clay, remember, it needs to be broken if you

  775. read the story for the light, the torch to shine, OK.

  776. And so brokenness is very, very powerful, especially brokenness

  777. in the hands of God for God's glory, where our jaws of clay

  778. broken in God's hands. That is a powerful spiritual

  779. weapon against darkness. OK.

  780. And so this is how I fight my battles.

  781. This is how I fight my battle. Battles.

  782. Yeah. Because listen for the spirit of

  783. heaviness put on the government of praise.

  784. This is how I fight my battle. So sometimes God will ask you to

  785. fight in a way that doesn't make sense.

  786. Singing in the middle of a store, OK Giving when the

  787. resources are low, forgiving when he seems unfair, OK.

  788. But so it's our obedience that is the key to supernatural

  789. breakthrough in our lives. And so at midnight years, Gideon

  790. with his 300 army. And so they blew the trumpets.

  791. And so they smashed the jars and lifted up the torches.

  792. They gave the sound of a thunderous battle cry.

  793. And so the midnight camp just goes into chaos, erupted in

  794. chaos and confusion everywhere, and they turn on each other.

  795. And so they Gideon's got the victory.

  796. Somebody shall Hallelujah. This is how I fight our battle.

  797. Come on, This is how we fight our battles.

  798. This is how I fight my. But let's sing it together.

  799. This is how I fight my battles. This is how I fight my battles.

  800. This is how I fight my battles. This is our oh, come on, give

  801. God the loudest prize. Come on, give him prize.

  802. Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah.

  803. Win your prize. The moment you prize, you are

  804. confusing darkness. That's powerful.

  805. Praise in your kitchen, praise in your loud, praise in your

  806. car, praise at work. I go for walks and I praise and

  807. I look at all the dog walkers and they're like, wow, that

  808. guy's happy. I'm just praising my loud Yeah,

  809. at the lake, at the bar where everyone's fishing.

  810. Praise Jesus, My God, you just confuse the enemy.

  811. The Father will come when the church learns to raise a sound

  812. of praise. That is a weapon that is

  813. powerful. Yeah.

  814. When you hold up that testimony, the light of your testimony,

  815. when we offer our jaws in brokenness in the hands of God,

  816. when those three comes together, Oh my God, darkness scatters,

  817. confusing the enemy, and the Bible will come.

  818. Somebody said Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, revival

  819. over the hill cry revival of Africa, the Bible.

  820. Yes. Glory to God, that's when you

  821. lift up a sound of praise or you scatter every enemy.

  822. And so God is still calling kittens out of hiding, and he's

  823. still taking people who feel small and overlooked to shake

  824. nations. Let me tell you about one more

  825. testimony. In 1966, a 22 year old young

  826. lady, her names Jackie Pullinger, boarded a ship from

  827. England to Hong Kong. She had no mission board, almost

  828. no money, but she had a burning, fiery Commission from the Lord

  829. and just conviction. And so the mission agency, they

  830. told her, listen, you are too young, you are too

  831. inexperienced. But she went anywhere.

  832. And when she arrived, God LED her to no Loon Walled City.

  833. And if you look, there's a movie in a documentary on this walled

  834. city in Hong Kong as a city of crime, ruled by gangs, violence

  835. on every corner. And so Jackie, she had no

  836. resources, no strategy, no protection.

  837. But when she started praising and worshipping in the streets,

  838. preaching the simple gospel, and God used the spiritual powerful

  839. weapons of praise and worship, and gang leaders surrendered

  840. their lives to Jesus. And soon a whole community, a

  841. former gang leader, started praising and worshipping Jesus

  842. together. Hallelujah is powerful.

  843. The city that was once famous for violence now began to hear

  844. the sound of praise. This is how we fight our

  845. battles. Hallelujah.

  846. Just do you see, God took a young woman to push back

  847. darkness in a city that is dangerous.

  848. A 22 year old OK ex cat leaders my God, what kind of a God do we

  849. serve If you could do that and he took that young lady 22 year

  850. old sender from the UK to Hong Kong.

  851. When you look at that, that wolf city, I reached it.

  852. And So what God did, He frisked the fear out of her heart before

  853. she goes. There's a chance you don't just

  854. do this at home. I just you do it with the

  855. anointing of the Holy Ghost. When God freshes and removes the

  856. fear. And you guys know when we go to

  857. Africa, these things, you go with the anointing of the Holy

  858. Ghost. We don't play around with fear.

  859. OK, God comes and he fresh the chuff.

  860. He removes the unbelief, He removes the fear, and he sends

  861. her into that battlefield as a warrior.

  862. Warriors are brave. Warriors are courageous.

  863. And she wrote a book chasing the dragon.

  864. Oh, my God, Come on. There's a brave warriors.

  865. God is raising brave warriors. We're chasing the Dragons.

  866. OK, Hallelujah. And I believe God's looking for

  867. jackies, Gideons in this room, those who have been hiding.

  868. God is looking for those who've been hiding, those who've been

  869. whispering. Lord, I am just too small.

  870. I am too weak. I'm just young, I'm

  871. inexperienced, I'm unqualified. But he's saying the Lord is with

  872. you, mighty warrior. That is in the word of the Lord

  873. today for you. The Lord is with you, mighty

  874. warrior. Somebody shout Hallelujah.

  875. And so if you could do that with a young lady, push that blood

  876. darkness, what could he do with you?

  877. You are stronger. Than you think you are stronger

  878. than you think Turn closing. Gideon's story did not end in

  879. the wine place. It did not end with him hiding

  880. from the enemy. It did not end in him doubting

  881. if God was worth it. It ended in a nation, was set

  882. free. It ended in Levar.

  883. That's how the state is. Yeah, in this.

  884. Because he did. To believe what God said was

  885. more than what fear said. OK, so God didn't bring you here

  886. today to leave you the wine place.

  887. He came to call you out to anoint you for battle, to send

  888. you as the warrior you were mourned to be.

  889. Amen. Let's all stand together.

  890. Let's give God some praise in this place.

  891. Let's stand to your feet. And so I'm here to tell you the

  892. wine press season is over. You're stepping into your

  893. Warrior season. It's time to rise, mighty

  894. warrior. Take your place.

  895. Come on now. Yes, maybe you're here today and

  896. you have been hiding and you've been hiding in the wine press,

  897. pressed down by fear or doubt or the whites of life.

  898. But today the Angel of the Lord is here, and he's calling.

  899. You now maybe you've been praying for family and yes,

  900. that's good or the workplace or city, but God says the answer

  901. begins with yes. So if you're ready to leave the

  902. wine press, if you are ready to step into your warrior calling,

  903. if that is you and this word is stirring in your heart, I want

  904. us to respond by raise your hands right where you are if

  905. that's you. And Father, I pray for your

  906. people in the name of Jesus, Lord.

  907. Let them be. Anointed for battle, Lord, I

  908. declare that every lie of the enemy is broken off.

  909. The chaff of unbelief is removed and freshed away.

  910. The pure wheat of faith it remains.

  911. I call forth the warrior within them.

  912. To arise, they will no longer hide in the wine press.

  913. Fun, fear and change, but I declare that this is how we

  914. fight our battles. Hallelujah, Our prize and our

  915. worship is how we fight our battles.

  916. So mighty warriors, be commissioned, be released, be

  917. sent forth to go forth anointed, empowered, in the mighty name of

  918. Jesus. Somebody shot Hallelujah.

  919. Now let's declare out loud together.

  920. I am who God says I am, a mighty warrior.

  921. Fear will not hold me. I stepped out of the wine press

  922. into my calling. I am anointed for this hour.

  923. The Lord is with me. I will see the victory.

  924. I will be out. Come on, somebody give God

  925. surprise. So walk out of that doors today,

  926. OK, like a mighty warrior, Amen. Now, if you've never given your

  927. life to Jesus or you've drifted away from the Lord and you need

  928. to come back, this is your moment.

  929. Don't wait another day, don't hesitate.

  930. So if that's you today, if you are ready to say yes, I want to

  931. pray with you. If you want to invite Jesus to

  932. come into your heart, into your life, just raise your hand.

  933. If that's you, I see that hand. Thank you.

  934. Let's all pray together. Jesus, I invite you to come into

  935. my life to be my Lord and my Saviour.

  936. I repent of my sins. Come into my heart.

  937. I give you my life. Follow me with your spirit from

  938. this day forward. I am yours in Jesus name.

  939. Hallelujah, Christ. God save you.

  940. Pray that queer heaven is rejoicing.

  941. Thank you, Moises worship team. We're going to praise and

  942. worship God, and we're going to pray for mighty warriors to be

  943. further commissioned into God's battle.