His Battle, Your Faith. 2 Chronicles 20:15-17 - Minister Tanequa Wimberly

Almost sure. I didn't give my sister the media team

my title, but the title of my message on this

morning is his battle your faith. And if I had

to have a subtitle for it, it will be replacing

panic with faith. This morning I'm gonna be coming out

of Second Chronicles twenty verses fifteen through seventeen. When you

have the scripture, just say, hey, man, Second Chronicles twenty

verses fifteen through seventeen. Everybody got it? Amen? Amen, y'all

quiet today. Amen, Second Chronicles twenty verse fifteen through seventeen. Okay.

And the scripture reads, and he said hearken ye all Judah,

and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou King Jehosaphat. Thus

said the Lord unto you. Be not afraid nor dismayed

by reason of this great multitude. For the battle is

not yours, but God's tomorrow. Go ye down against them. Behold,

they come up by the cliff of Ziz, and ye

shall find them at the end of the brook, before

the wilderness of j jer Ye shall not need to

fight in this battle. Set yourselves stand ye still and

see the salvation of the Lord with you, O Judah

and Jerusalem, fear not nor be dismayed. Tomorrow, go out

against them, for the Lord will be with you. Amen. Amen,

y'all can be seated, You may be seated. All right,

let's get into some meet y'all again. The title of

my message is his Battle your Faith, and my subtitle

is replacing panic with faith. A little background on this story.

We're talking about King Jehosaphat. Now, King Jehosaphat is like

most of us, right, he had true faith for God.

He loved the Lord. He ran a kingdom and he

loved the Lord, and he wanted everybody under him, under

his leadership to have the fear of the Lord. That's

what he wanted, and so that's how he ran his kingdom.

Not all of the kings back then done that. It

was a lot for Jehosaphat that were running the kingdom wrong.

So when Jehoseph fact got in play, he loved the

Lord and he honored the commandment. So that's how he

ran the kingdom. Well, Jehosaphat, like most other people, you know,

he had made some bad decisions. You know, he got

in bed and entangled hisself with some people who didn't

even love the Lord, with some sinners with some wicked folks,

and he laid down and he played with us. You know,

he entangled his self with him. And even though God

was sending word to Jehosaphat to tell him, hey, this

is not where I need you to be. These are

not the people who I need you to be affiliating

yourself with, he still, like most of us, made his

own choice in decision and said, but I'm gonna hang

out with them anyway. Even though this ain't the crowd

that I'm supposed to be with. He went hung out

with him anyway. But even instill him making those choices

and decisions, the reason he had so much faith in

God is because God always kept him. God kept him.

God showed himself faithful to King Jehosaphat. Now, when we

get to verse twenty and this, I'm sorry to chapter

twenty and this, and we get to verse fifteen, what's

being told to Jehosaphat is a prophecy from one of

the members of his congregation. See, it was rumors that, hey, man,

even though things been going good for you, Jehosaphat, it's

some trouble brewing somewhere. Y'all ever had that moment in

your life where everything seemed to be going real good

and real perfect. You know what I'm saying, everything going

smooth sailing, ain't nothing going wrong, and then bam, out

the blue, it's like problem, problem, problem problem, And you're

saying to yourself, Man, I'm doing everything right. What's going on? Well,

this is where Jehosaphat is at this moment, right, So

this morning, I'm gonna give you three points that I

would like to I have three points that I would

like to give you to encourage you and to help

you to replace your panic in the midst of the

battle with faith. See, everybody's gonna go through battles, that's inevitable.

But God, because God says in his word that trials

and tribulations will come. Well, if you're facing trials and tribulations,

that mean it's a battle somewhere you're gonna face it. It's inevitable.

We can't avoid those things. They're gonna happen. Well, we

have to learn how to conduct ourselves in the midst

of the battle. So I got three points that's gonna

help you learn to conduct yourself if you already don't

know how, and if you do high five and kudos

to you, because guess what this word was for me? Baby,

because I be struggling. I struggle when the battles come.

I mean, I'm good before they come because I'm like

team Jesus, Team Jesus, you know what I'm saying. And

then in battles hit and I'm like, what is that?

What is that? I don't know nothing about this level

of faith because I ain't been here yet. Right, all right,

So my first key point that I would like to

give you is surrendering contry. In the midst of the battle,

Verse fifteen tells us that the battle is not yours,

The battle is not yours. Can y'all say that the

battle is not yours? This ain't your fight, This ain't

your fight. When we were younger, it's four of us.

It's four siblings, two older brothers, two younger sisters. My

sister probably can't remember this because she's the baby. One

time we got into it with a group of kids

when we first moved to Slaton, Texas from New Mexico. Right,

but these kids didn't know us. We didn't know these kids.

But what we did know was they was picking on

the baby. They were picking on her. So my two

big brothers told them little kids leave alone. They didn't

pick on me, they didn't pick on Duffy, they didn't

pick on Brandon, but they decided to pick on her. Now,

it wasn't Duffy and Brandon's battle, but they was gonna fight.

They was gonna fight. And in the midst of the battle,

when they was fighting for her, her faith said, stand

here and watch because I believe in them. Even though

this ain't thay battle. I believe in my brothers, and

I believe they got my back. This ain't my fight.

It's not for me to jump in and start swinging.

I'm gonna let them do what they do. Sometimes we

get ahead of ourselves, y'all, and stuff start happening, and

we be like, oh Lord, let me gonna give you

some help. Jesus, he don't need that from us. He

don't need us at all. He don't need not even

an opinion of what we think should be done. He

don't even want us to say. But now he don't

need that because it's not your battle. The first thing

that King jehosaphat done once he was informed that there

were three armies coming against him and that there was

a battle bruin like everybody else, he became afraid because

it's something happening and I don't know why it's happening,

and I ain't did nothing for this to happen. I

ain't mess with them people. Why they over here bothering me?

Why they bothering me? So now I'm scared because it's

not one on one, it's three on one. So natural,

Oh man, I'm scared. But what his fear did. His

fear led him to seek the Lord in fasting and

in prayer. And that's exactly what we should allow our

fear to do for us, because sometimes things are gonna

happen that's gonna cause us a little fear, like I

ain't got no money for nothing in my rent do well?

You know your baby's got to have somewhere to lay

they head. So yeah, yeah, that's gonna shake you up

a little bit. But that shouldn't shake you up to

the point where you coward. That should shake you up

to the point where you follow on your knees and say, God,

this is what I need from you because I'm going

through something. That's what your fear should do. Your fear

should allow you to surrender your control to know. This

ain't my battle. God. I can't do this. I wasn't

prepared for this. I don't know how I'm gonna get

through this. So guess what, God, you got it. This

s your fight. Now, this s your fight. I'm gonna

surrender that. Throw your hands up, rave your right flag

because this ain't your fight no more. Philippians for six

through seven says, do not be anxious about anything, but

in everything, by prayer and supplication with don't forget that

part with thanksgiving. Not just come to me in a

wooistan spirit, but he said, by prayer and supplication with

they have to go hand in hand. Don't just come

to me crying saying I need this, I need this,

I need this. Come to me and say, God, this

is the issue that I have, this is what's going on.

This is what's troubling me. But I thank you because

you're good. I know that you can fix it. I

know that you will work it out for my good.

Not just God, shower down the gift because I need

it thanksgiving. Let your request be made known to God.

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will

guard your heart and your minds. In Christ Jesus now again,

Jehosaphat couldn't understand why these three armies were targeting him

because he hadn't done nothing to these three. He ain't

done nothing to them. But all of a sudden, y'all

picking on me now, y'all picking See sometimes we've done

nothing like Job, right, y'all read the book of Job. See.

Job hadn't done nothing to nobody. He was just sitting

in there, minding this business, raising his kids, praying for him,

praying for the people, being a good steward over what

God had gave him. And here comes Satan upthir in heaven.

Don't mind me, I'm paraphrasing. Oh God, I'm bored. Ain't

got nothing to do. I'm just going around seeing who

I can pick on what you got? And God say,

what have you tried my servant? Job? Have you tried him?

Because what I do know about him is he faithful. Sometimes, y'all,

we don't have to be doing absolutely anything for the

battles to arise in our life. But because God might

want to temperature check your faith, things might pop up

out of nowhere. He might want to just temperature you sometimes,

so stuff start popping up because he might want to

see how you gonna react. You gonna bend, or you're

gonna fold, or you're gonna stand your ground and have

faith in God, who you keep saying you got faith

in when it's all good and everything is perfect, because

you got total faith in Him when it ain't nothing happening.

But when it gets shady, and it gets shifty and

stuff started looking funny, people start talking about you and

acting weird, and your money get all funny, your jobs

start tripping, your card on work no more, your husband tripping,

your kids act like they ain't got no sense where

your faith at? Can he temperature check you on that?

Are you gonna surrender that to him when it all

started acting bad? Or you're gonna be like, nah, I

know what to do, because that's what he don't want

you to do, is say no, I got it, because

if you got it, what you need him for? If

you got it what you need him for, hey, ma'am,

So for some of us again, one thing can happen

on Monday, right, So Monday you go to work, your

car and missed up. Now your car is stuck at

your job because in an overheated right, that's Monday. Tuesday,

it's a double whammy. Your lights off and you got

fired because you ain't got no car. Remember, because your

car was acting up on Monday. So Tuesday your lights

got cut off and you ain't got no job and

you don't have a car. So now, on Monday though,

when your car was messed up, you was like, okay, God,

let me make my request and supplications now to you.

My car is messed up. If you could just you know,

help me to get through, even if somebody can't give

me a ride, I would appreciate it because you're so gracious,

and you so good, and you so merciful to me. Right,

you let your requests be made known. That's what the

Bible say for you to do. Well, Tuesday happened, then

you got hit with that double whammy. Now it's a

three on one attack because you ain't got no car,

you ain't got no lights, and you ain't got no job. Well,

if I could be honest, even for myself, us the flesh,

You're looking up at God like what you doing it? Like?

What is that? What is that?

Like?

Ain't no way, ain't no way? This the God I

served you done took my car Now I ain't got

no lights and I can't even pay the light bill

if I wanted to, cause they get them fired me

from my job. I'm a pig, you know what I'm saying.

So now you ain't at the position of where you're

on your knees making your prayer and requesting supplications known

to God. Now you like, how can I rob Peter

to pay pow Who can I go to the scam

out of something so I can get them to fix

my car on the lolo. I ain't gotta pay for it,

cause I ain't got no money, no way, you know

what I'm saying. So let me go on back to

my little waige because I used to have somebody I

can call all they'll come do a little something strange.

You know what I'm saying. You back to that now,

you back looking at yourself, ask how can I move

this mountain on my own? Not? How can I surrender

all of this to God and allow him to work?

And how is this going to work in my favor? Now?

You self advocating for yourself, and the whole time you

done read the Bible and you done heart, this is

not your battle. This is not your battle. But it

looked like your battle because you're looking at it. Because

you're looking at it, so you're thinking, I gotta do something.

And the whole time, God is waiting on you to

surrender your total control so that he can move and

do what he needs to do because he does not

need our help. He does not need your help, am'am.

Psarums fifty five and twenty two says, cast your burdens

upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee. He shall

never suffer the righteous to be moved. That's a promise,

shall mean, I promise you, I promise I'm not gonna

let nothing move you, baby. If them lights off, I

promise I'm gonna sustain you if you don't have your

card work, and I promise I'm gonna sustain you if

that job don't hire you back. He promises that he

will sustain you. And it may not look like what

we think it should look like when he's sustaining us,

because we don't see through his lenses. We see through

all us, so it may not look like what we

think it should look like. But when he say shall,

that's a promise he gonna come through and he gonna

do what he say he gonna do. But where your

faith at? Where your faith a Because you gotta have

faith in you gotta believe in trust that when he

said I'm gonna do it, baby, he gonna do it. Amen. Amen.

Now my second point that I want to make is

in the battle, you have to learn how to stand

firm verse seventeen. In Verse seventeen, God tells them, ye

shall not need to fight in this battle. Set yourselves

stand ye still. Set yourselves and stand ye still. All

he said was what you don't have to do. The

only thing he said you do not have to do

is fight. But what he did tell you to do,

because he did tell you to do something. He said,

set yourselves stand ye still. God never once told Jehosaphat

in his army to just sit at home, don't do nothing.

I don't show up, don't go to the battlefield. Just

sit there and I take care of it from here.

He never said that what he was calling for them

to do was to show up, show up on the

front line of the battlefield, hold your ground with confidence,

with faith, and with belief that God was going to

show up. And when he showed up, he was gonna

show out cause he'll big God, he don't do nothing. Smile.

He wanted them to have a front row seat to

the God show. God going to show out. But I

need you to be there because I need you to

see it. I need you to understand who I am

and that when I give you my word, baby, I

want you to see it and fruition. I don't just

want you to hear it. God wants you to see it.

So in the battle. It's not for us to just

I'm just gonna I ain't gonna do nothing. I ain't

got no job. But you ain't put in no applications

in three months. You ain't gonna never get a job.

You're just waiting on them to just drop it off

on you. You just gonna sit there with nothing nothing.

He never causes us to sit down and do nothing.

He says, stan firm. And when he says stan firm

and be still, hold your position in faith, hold your

position in me. You ought to be on your knees.

You ought to be on your face somewhere. You ought

to be on your face. You ought to be crying

out every day until you see it. He said, show

up to the battlefield, show up to the front line.

The front line of the battlefield is right there at

the foot, right there, at his feet. Show up right there,

show up right there, and you don't stop showing up

until you see him show out. That's what God say,

you don't start. I'm showing up to my throne because

he says, you come to the throne, and you come

to it boldly, boldly, unashamed, unashamed. If I'm ugly crime

for nine days, oh well, I'm ugly crime for nine

days because I need something from you, God. I need

you to show up for me. I need you to

turn this thing around. My marriage is in shambles. I

need you to fix it because I can't fix it.

My kids acting up and I don't know what to

do with them, and I can't do it. So I

need you to do it. So if I got to

lay on my belly for nine days crying out to you,

that's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna stand firm on

what I believe in. What I do believe is that

you are the God who said you will go before me.

So if you are going before me, you better believe

I'm on the battlefield, because if I'm on the front line,

you in front of me. You in front of me.

Who I'm scared of? If he be for me, who

who can be against me? If he be for me,

I mean, who can be against me? Ain't nobody else

in front of me but him? Can't nobody defeat him.

He is an undefeated god. He don't say, sit down

on your butt till you get bad swords. Maybe get

up on your knees until they hurt. But when you

on them knees, baby, things is working. Things are working.

And if your knees get too tired, like I said,

lay down, prostrate on your face, lay down on your face,

and let them tears hit that floor. Because the one

thing that the word does say is I hear the

cries of my people. Even if you can't say no words.

He didn't call you to sit and do nothing. Cry.

If that's all you can cry, go to the battle

line and cry. Just go there and cry, because he said,

I even hear your cries. He holds our tears in

his hands. He don't want you to be sitting back

there like he can't fix it. He wants you to

know that. You know that, you know I can't do it.

But I got a god who can. I got a

God that I serve who gonna show up for me.

And when he show up for me, y'all, he gonna

show out. He gonna show out. So I'm gonna go

to the battlefield and I'm gonna stand firm. I'm gonna

go to that job every day where they talk about

me and they dog me behind my back, and I'm

gonna stand up for I'm gonna just stand there. I'm

gonna go every day and I'm gonna face it, and

I'm gonna face it, not with them, not for them,

but I'm gonna face it with God and for God

and with my faith. I'm gonna stand firm on that.

That's what God tell us to do. He say, go

set yourselves and stand ye still. First Corinthians sixteen and

thirteen says it reminds to be on your guard, stand

firm in the faith, be courageous, and be strong. It's

hard to stand firm if you do not have total

trust and dependency in God. And Matthew chapter thirteen and

chapter eighteen, verse three. Jesus told his followers to become

like little children. What he meant when he said that

was to learn to embrace humble, dependency, simple and unquestionable

trust in him. Have a conversation with my kids a

couple weeks ago, and they asked me something, and I said,

I don't know. Why do y'all keep asking me all

these questions? Like I got all the answers, And Malanico

said you do, and I said, no, I don't. He said, yeah,

you do, because you're my mama. And I said, just

because I'm your mama, don't mean I got all the answers.

I can't fix everything, Malacotta. He say, yes, you can,

because you my mama. And I said, but I can't.

He said, yeah, you can't. He said, you know, like

whenever I get like boo boo's on my hands and stuff,

when you kiss them, they better well see, I know,

they don't make the booboo better. But for him, because

he got unquestionable faith in his mama, I could do everything, y'all,

like everything, I got all the answers. Why because his

child like faith says whatever I don't know, my mama

know it. Whatever I can't do, my mama could do it.

Whatever my mom says, I believe it. He don't know

if I'm lying to him, I can tell him that

I don't know, and he's still gonna tell me, Yeah,

you do, because I'm his mama, And that's childlike faith.

That's how we should see God, because he is Abbah Father,

yes Father. Everything that we don't know, he know whatever

we need. He can fix it. Even if we don't

think that he really know it. He know it, you

know what I'm saying. Like that little boo boo we

got when our car broke down and we was like, Lord,

we will know. We gonna he know because he daddy.

He wants us to trust him that much like we

trust Mama and daddy because he daddy, like he for

real father. He is really Abba father, the same trust

that that those babies that us even as kids. Let

me tell you, I'm a daddy's girl. I'm a daddy's

girl to my core. I didn't grow up with my daddy,

but I'm still a daddy's girl. You get my drift.

My daddy was on crack majority of my life. My

mom was a single mom. I'm still a daddy's girl.

Even when my daddy said I'm coming and he didn't come.

Guess what, I was still a daddy's girl. I believe

my daddy. At the end of the day, nothing could

not make me have the childlike faith to believe anything

anyone said about my father, even when I seen him

in the stages of doing what he done. That was

my daddy. That wasn't no crackhead to me. That's my daddy.

And I was proud of my daddy. Childlike faith. It

was unquestionable, the love that I had for him, the

trust that I had in him, was unquestionable. God wants

us to stand so firm that we never question it,

that we never have a thought to say. But if

you don't like you, can you really do this? Are

you gonna do it? If it doesn't happen in the

time that you don't expect it to happen, That don't

mean it ain't gonna happen where your faith at, where

your trust that. Like I said a while ago, everything

ain't gonna look like what we think it should look like.

It's not. But do that mean that God ain't gonna

move like he said he was gonna move, not at all.

That just means he moving on his own time. He

moving on his own time, and he won't to see

if you trust him when it don't look like what

you think is gonna look like. Amen. Amen, uh oh, okay,

there we go again. God knows, and he already knew

that everybody will face battles. That's why he also encourages

us in Ephesians six ten in verses ten through eighteen,

to put on the whole armor of God, the whole armor,

not part of it. He said, you need to be

fully suited and booted. See again, he didn't tell Jehosaphat

in his army to go home, and I got this

on my own. He said, go to the front line. Well,

if you go into the front line, you still need

your armorron because you in battle. You just ain't gotta work.

But you need your armor on because they still shoot

darts even if you at the back and war right,

they have the front line go first, even if you

at the back, if you ain't got your armorron, and

you on the fifth row and they shoot and there

you baby, you good as God, you dad, because you

just showed up unprepared. So God says, be prepared. Put

on the whole armor, because you're gonna stand on that battlefield.

Ain't no way you're gonna get away from not being

on the battlefield. All I'm telling you is I'm gonna

fight for you, but you gonna You're gonna be on

the battlefield. I'm gonna fight because it's my battle, but

you got to show up. So when you show up,

I've given you a list of armory that you need,

So get suited and booted because you come into the

battlefield with me. Not only did he tell us to

put on the whole armor of God, but the Word

also says to us when we stand firm on the

front line. The Word says, the Lord himself goes before you,

he will be with you. He will never leave you,

nor forsake you. That's dude, Romedy thirty one and eight.

It also says, do not fear, for I am with you.

Do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I

will strengthen you. I will uphold you with my righteous

right hand. And that's out of Isaiah forty one and six. See,

God gives us these promises to let us know you're

finna go through some stuff. Now it's my battle. I'm

gonna fight it for you because this battle ain't yours.

But you gonna come stand on the front line with me,

and don't be scared when you on the front line,

because I've already given you some promises to let you know.

You ain't out here by yourself. You might not see me,

but I'm here. You might not see me, but I'm

holding you up. You might not see me, but I

got your hand. You might not see me, but I'm

going before you. You might not even see me when

I go before you. But guess what his word also say,

I'm gonna come up from behind. He's giving you what

you need to encourage you to say. Baby, stand firm

and hold your ground. Can't nothing shake you When I'm

for you. I got you. Hold what you got. Be

still and know that I am God, because that's who

I am. And if I said it, I mean it. Amen. Now,

My last and final point is knowing how to activate

your faith in the battle. See, it's useless to have

faith if you don't activate it. What's the point of it.

That's like having a car you don't never drive. It's like,

what's the point, Like I don't understand that. You know,

people like collect my mama, she got like a lot

of stuff at the house. Like me and my kids,

they young and they already know Like if we need

some stuff. She got like a lot of stuff, like

six coffee makers, faux ice machines, like me and them grandkids,

like we know, like if we don't have it, she

gonna go to Amazon as soon as they put an

Amazon Prime sell on and she gonna order it and

buy another one even though she got four of them.

So we gonna get it anyway. You know, she don't

use it, She just puts stuff in the store. Shit,

you know what I'm saying, Like, you just got stuff

everywhere you don't use. So what's the point of faith

if it's never activated? Just to say you have it?

Because what good does it do you to have it

and never activate it? It's wasteful. Why would you waste that?

Why would you waste that? Of all things? Faith, your

faith can do what God says. Faith moves what mountain? Man,

you got something small as a mustard seed that can

move a what. And it's small as a what and

it can move a what. See that don't even add up,

like the math and mathing when you think about that

in real life. It's like it's a musta seed in

a mountain Like that don't even make sense. You can't

find the must to seed if you go to the mountain,

because it's that small. So the math ain't mathing. But

God is God. So the math math to God and

he say, I'm gonna just need you to have that much.

You can't even see it. You can't see it. But

if you have that much of it and you put

it to good use, oh man, when you put it

to use, baby, you can do above and beyond anything.

Once you put that little bit, I can't even see

y'all when I look through it. You can't see it.

But you just need that much, and when you activate it,

oh man, it'll change your whole life, It'll change your

whole entire life. At the end of verse seventeen, God

gives King Jehosaphad and his people some assurance. He says

to them, go out against them, for the Lord will

be with you. Those last six words were all King

Jehosaphat needed to hear to activate his faith. When your

faith is activated and you begin to remember who you

are and who's you are, who goes before you, it

begins to make your soul happy. It make you bubble

up on the inside. You know what I'm saying, Because

sometimes we can get so down by looking at the

circumstances and situations in front of us, that we forget

who we belong to. And when you start forgetting that

if God be for me, who can be against me?

Depression starts to sit in, worry start to take over.

Doubt is your best friend. Because you no longer remember

that you just needed this much, just that, just that

could have took away all of that other stuff. You

begin to praise him and thank him for the victory

ahead of the wind. You stop looking at the armies

and the troubles that are surrounding you, all the battles

that are coming from left and right, and you begin

to zone in on the hills from with comage your help.

Six words, six words the Lord will be with you.

Those six words, if you allow it, will completely change

your mindset of how you look at any and everything

that you go through. Because what he has promised you

number one, was that this battle not your is no way.

Number two, what he said to you is all I

need you to do is show up and stand still

and watch me work. And then he said to you,

just to give you some little assurance, because you know

we I'll still be a little like Okay, as you coming,

he said, I'm gonna be with you, don't worry about it.

If I said I'm coming, I'm coming, I'm gonna be there,

I'm coming. Well, the Bible say he is not a

man that he should lie, nor that he shall repent.

So if the word says the Lord will be with you,

he coming because he can't lie. He can't lie. He

can only hold his self accountable to his word. He

don't have to hold his self accountable to you. He

has to hold his self accountable to his word. His

word six words, the Lord will be with you means

I got your back. You don't have to worry about

what you're going through. You don't got to keep thinking

about what you can do. You don't need playing a

B or C. For me. Sometimes it's like ABCDE and

like F Sometimes it get like to It just depends

on the circumstance. But I'm just being honest. Sometimes I

got a lot of backup plans I do before I

finally be like girl, you the child of the most,

How you better chill out? He don't even you know

what I'm saying. He like a one hitter quitter. He

don't need an a b C d EFG type plan.

He hits you with a one quick wonder. That's it.

That's that's what he hits you with. He don't he

don't need you to have all of them plans, because

sometimes all of those plans that we may distort the

plan that he has for us, because then we move

in our own way, we move into our own way,

and he can't do what he needs to do because

we're standing in our own way. He can't work if

we keep putting ourself in the position that he's supposed

to be in, which is this is his battle, not yours.

Get out the miss. All he needs you to do

is stand there and watch, watch, and pray. That's what

he needs you to do. He don't need you to move.

He don't need you to make a plan. He don't

need you to write nothing down in your tablet and say,

after tomorrow, we're gonna try this one if the other

one don't work, and then that that don't work, we'll

try this on Thursday. He don't need none of that

from you. He don't. He just needs you to trust him.

He needs you to trust him and believe that when

he says the Lord will be with you. You say,

I trust you, Lord, and I wait for you to

show up. And even if it takes longer than what

I expected to take, I'll wait for you to show up.

Because what the word says is you go from glory

to glory and faith to faith. You can't ever get

to the next faith if you don't use that little

bitty faith that you have in this battle. If you

don't activate that faith here, you're not gonna have what

it takes to get to the next battle because cause

you didn't even use the faith that you had here

and activated, he just needs you to use your faith.

That's all he needs from you is his battle. He

just needs your faith. That's it his battle, your faith.

That's all he need from you. If you don't activate it,

what he got to work with, he don't got nothing

to work with. Because the more he keeps trying to

move on your behalf and move on your behalf and

move on your behalf, you keep saying, I don't see it,

I don't see it, I don't see it. I don't

see it. It ain't working in, ain't working in and

working in ain't working. And the whole time it's really working,

it's working you just choosing not to see it because

you ain't activated your faith because you won't trust him.

You won't trust him to be God. If you won't

trust him to be God, you're never gonna see that

he's moving in your life. You won't ever see. It's

just gonna look like stuff. You'll never see that he's

moving because you haven't fully trusted him. I'm sorry, I

lost my place. Shot Okay, okay, So it's enough just

hearing those six of the words the Lord will be

with you, it's enough to just shout about. And I

seriously mean that. I think when I was studying this scripture,

like that was enough for me, y'all, because I've been

going through some things and I hadn't activated my faith.

I hadn't and I thought it was some other good

stuff in here. And in my notes I had to

put in red the Lord will be with you, because

that's just simple words to me. When I you know,

because I was, like I said, I'm honest, I'm human.

I've been going through some stuff. I've been going through

some stuff, and I really thought it was some stuff

that I needed to fix on my own. I didn't

know that wasn't my battle. That's why it ain't fixed.

That's why I've been still going through it because I've

been trying to fix it and it wasn't mine to

fix it, wasn't my battle. So I prolonged God fixing

it because I've been trying to fix it in my

own way instead of reading the words the Lord will

be with you. Man. That was enough for me to

shout about. That was enough for me to get happy about.

Because I'm not in this by myself like I thought

I was in this by myself. I'm not in this

by myself. I'm not alone, and I don't mean like

other people. We was talking in Sunday School and I

explained to some of them, Man, I always kind of

been like a loaner. I ain't really been no into

having friends type of person, even with my family, like man,

I like to go out on my own. I've always

been that. So coming to God for me, man, that

give me comfort, That give me somebody who I know

ain't gonna never leave me, somebody I can come to

with everything. Everything. It ain't nothing I can't tell him,

and everything I tell him is between me and him,

me and him, me and him. I'm never by myself

because it says the Lord will be with you. That's

enough to shout about. It's enough for me to know

that this ain't my fight. It's enough for me to

know I can put my armor on, stand on the

front line, watch God work show up big, and I

ain't even got a bustle sweat, you know what I'm saying.

I don't got to do nothing. It's enough for me

to know that this is not no ordinary fight. This

ain't no ordinary fight. See, I used to fight, so

this ain't no ordinary fight. I'm used to fighting in

a different type of way. Most of us probably is.

Have you ever seen the difference between UFC fighting and boxing,

total difference. Right. If you ever put a boxer up

against a UFC fighter and they don't know UFC fighting,

I'm gonna tell you right now, as soon as that

boxer come out the ring, totally different fight, they gonna

get knocked out. And let me tell you why, because see,

they used to fighting a certain way. They used to

only using them hands. They only know hands. They footwork

is learning how to stand up on your feet and

be quick. That's footwork in boxing. UFC fighters, right, they

do a little different. See they don't just use their hands, baby,

they use their feet. I'm finna conpal kick you dad

in your chest and then put my legs around your

neck and twist you up in a little pretzel thing

and then like like that, you know what I'm saying.

Like they do different stuff. So it's a different battle.

It's a different battle. So then boxers they only coming

out swinging one way, you know what I'm saying. And

then they get in the battle with the UFC fighter

and they out, you know, they ready as soon as

they come out, conner, they get kicked in the chest.

They don't know what to do. They wasn't expecting that.

They didn't got the wind knocked out of them because

they don't even know how to use they legs. They

think they legs is only for standard a UFC fighter. Know,

I'm getting muscle in my legs to take your head off. Well,

that's the same thing with the enemy. See, he only

expects us to fight one way, one way. He expects

us to get stressed out, act the food, go crazy,

go figure out how ma duty is on my own.

And God is telling me, baby, we fight different over here,

we fight different over her. When he said the Lord

will be with you. Hey, So we're finna fight different.

We ain't coming out swinging. We don't throw hands no more.

When we fight. Now we say glory, We shout holy

LOUI thank you Jesus, glory in your name, Oh God,

I thank you God, Thank God, glory hot he Loujah,

thank you Lord. See, the enemy don't know what to

do with that. He don't know what to do with that.

You on the battlefield, and you ain't throwing no door

to me, because see that's what jehosahfect them did. God

had them people to go to the battle line and

start singing praise and worship.

Don't they look crazy? They in a for real war, y'all.

We in a for real war for our life. And

God said, don't act no fool. We don't throw hands

like that over here, not for the Lord. We don't

confuse the end of me confusing because He wants you

to show out. He wants you to act the fool.

He wants you to start back cussing.

Man. Look hery I used to cuss something serious. When

my mama tell y'all, she used to cuss. I was

her protege, baby, I was her protege. I learned that

thing I knew from her. I would cuss you, smooth

out you, yo, mama, and everybody you know, even if

they were dead. It didn't bother me. I was just

gonna cuss, just to cuss. The devil waiting on me

to act the fool when I get mad. He waited

on me to cuss somebody out. He waiting on me

to get mad enough that I'm finna crying. I'm gonna

go swing off on somebody, because that's the old men,

that's how I used to fight. That's my fight. That's

all I knew to do. I know, if you make

me mad or if something don't go my way, I'm

finna show up. I'm finna act the food, and I'm

gonna flip over all these chairs in here because I'm mad,

and Jesus says, but I'm gonna change all of that

in you. I'm gonna create something new in you, and

I'm gonna still allow you to fight. I'm just gonna

teach you how to do it in a better way.

But teach you how to do it in a better way.

I'm gonna teach you how to fight on your knees.

I'm gonna teach you how to come to the throne

in prayer. I'm gonna teach you how to call on

me instead of trying to go out there and do

it on your own. I explained to them this morning

in Sunday School. And I have no shame in saying it.

I said to everybody I know, Baby, when I was

in seeing I was good at it. I made sure

I was good at it cause I like doing what

I would doing. So now that I'm living Christ, Oh,

I gotta make sure that I'm good at it because

I like living the way I'm living. I like serving

the way I serve. I like being blessed the way

I am blessed. I love it. There is nothing better

for me. If I could act the fool and my sin,

why would I not at the fool for the Lord.

I'm not gonna half step him, he said, Activate your faith,

show up and show out. It don't matter who looking.

I don't curve. Nobody think I'm crazy. All the people

at my job know. All day long, Baby, that hole

I work in laundry, I'm in a room by myself. Baby,

that whole lounge room is filled with praise and worship

and they know it. If I forget my headphones over, well,

y'all listening praise and worship today, that's what y'all gonna

listen to because that's that's the atmosphere that I like

to be in. That's how I fight the enemy. And

I'm gonna fight him all day long because i know

I'm battling some stuff. I know it's some battles going on.

So instead of me getting mad and being enraged and

swinging like crazy, no, I'm just gonna praise him. I'm

just gonna think him. I'm just gonna worship him. I'm

gonna tell him how good he is. I'm a thanking

for keeping me. I'm a thanking for saving me. I'm

a thanking for delivering me. I'm a thank him for

redeeming me. That's what I'm gonna do. That's what I'm

gonna do. I'm gonna thank him repeatedly, over and over

and over. The fight don't stop. The fight never stops.

But if you want to win, after vate your faith,

after vate your faith, and your faith says praise, y'all

continuously be in my mouth, continuously, don't matter how I feel.

Don't matter. If it don't look like what I think

is the supposed to look like, don't matter if they

talking about me, don't matter. If I don't got it,

don't matter. If it ain't working like I want it

to work. I'm still gonna say thank you you, Jesus,

Thank you, Jesus, Thank you Jesus. It don't matter. I'm

gonna praise him continuously, continuously, over and over and over.

That's how you activate your faith. What is the point

in having it if you're not gonna use it. There

is no point in having it. Use what you have.

He has filled you up with his word. Use it

because it works for you, not against you. Sometimes we

work against our own selves. God never works against us, y'all.

He always works for us. If the Word says he

can even make the bad work for our good. Why

I'm not thinking, Because even when it looked bad, God,

you turning it around for my good. So in the

midst of the bad, Hallelujah and glory to your name. God.

It don't look good right now, but I know it's

gonna turn out for my good because you got faith

on me. God, because you give me grace. God, because

you just God, Thank you Lord, that everything is gonna

turn around for my good because your word says that

you would never leave me nor forsake me. So I

know that you are gonna be with me. And if

you are with me, then everything's working for my good.

Thank you Jesus. We don't fight how we're used to fight,

because we don't fight our own battles no more. When

we went in the world, yeah, we fought them battles.

We fought them battles. We fought them because we didn't

know no better. We didn't know we had a Noah,

but Father, we didn't know we had him. We didn't

know we had somebody that had our back like he

got our back. We didn't know we had somebody that

was never gonna leave us nor forsake cause we didn't

know something that we had a god like we have

a God. We did not know. But now that we do,

we don't have to stay stuck. We don't have to

keep fighting how we fought. We don't have to keep

talking how we talked. We don't have to keep moving

how we moved. He has given us the opportunity to

activate your mustard seed activated. He gonna beat her because

it's his battle. He just needs you to show up

with some faith. All of that panic and anxiety that

you go through when the battles is coming and things

start looking weird and funny and it ain't doing what

you needed to do. That's not what God. He don't

want you to see that. He wants you to look

straight ahead, stay focused, and know that God will be

with you. That's what he told them. Don't get in

your own way because you want to move how you

want to move. Don't get in your own way because

you don't know how to activate your faith. If you

are seeking God in everything, everything in your seeking, he

gonna let you know what you need to do. And

it's not gonna take nine different people coming to you

saying God said do this, God said do that, God

said do this, God said do that. Because some people

wait for that, they oh, well, they said nothing to

me the past. They ain't gave me a word yet

you know the briphend ain't gave me a word. Yes,

so I don't know what to do. You don't have

to wait for that God to speak to you. This

right here, I open it up for thirty am and

He speaks to me. And he don't always say what

I want him to say. And I'm just gonna be

being honest. It ain't always what I want to hear,

because it ain't always good. It ain't always patty Cake,

sweet girl, you the bomb, it ain't always that. But

he speak to me. This is his word. This is

how we talk. If you need him to speak to you,

it's in here. He'll talk to you. He'll tell you

where to go. He'll tell you what to do. He'll

tell you how to move, he'll tell you where to stand,

he'll tell you where to sit. He will, he will.

And guess what, even if you're in it and you

feel like, oh, I don't even understand it this even

say ask If you don't understand me, ask me, and

I'll can help you to understand it. I'll help you.

So even if you're reading and you like, nah, that

can't be for me, asking, he'll till whether it's for

you or not. He'll tell you, God, I'm going through

a battle. What I need to do asking asking, But

what you don't need to do is getting his way.

That's what you don't need to do, because now you're

prolonging some things. Now you're prolonging some things, and it's

probably gonna be a process, because everything's a process. But

God is decent and he is in order, and he's

not gonna go out of his order just because you

don't like it, just because it don't feel good to you.

Mine just told you, ma'am, I'm going through some stuff,

and baby, it don't feel good. And God keep telling

me come back to the throne, and I'm like, I

already been there and I was hon this a couple

of days ago, and I told my husband, I just

told God, I don't even I know I ain't pass

the test. I don't want to pass it. I just

you know, you know, sometimes in school you just like,

I mean, when I was in college, I'm like, I

just want to fail me out. You know, I don't care.

I just want to fail, because sometimes you be in

positions like that where your faith is so low You're like,

I don't care if I ever passed this test. I

don't care to pass this test. I just want to

be out. Count me out. I'm done. That's where God

say this much, give me that much, and then activate

it and begin to go back to where you originally

were before the tests came and start praising me and

start seeking me and worshiping me, because victory is mine,

says the Lord. If the victory is his, you're his.

We in victory. That means we can't lose it. We

can't lose. Learn to be in the battle without fighting

the battle because it's his. But learn how to stand

in it. Learn how to relinquish control over the situations

in your lives while standing firm and trusting and believing

God and activating your faith. Because when all three of

those things come together, the battle becomes easy. Because then you,

like jehosephad in his army, you're now standing on the

front line doing praise and worship and you watching three

armies kill themselves. Because that's what happened in this story.

The three armies that were against them, they start taking

each other out. They start taking each other out, just

like that. God don't need you to do nothing, he said,

come and watch me show out. And when they came

to watch him show out, when they got there, one

of the armies was already dead on the ground because

they had already started flipping out their minds and killing

each other. They thought they they were supposed to be

fighting the hosaph at them, they start fighting each other.

So when you activate all three of these points and

you put them together, the battle is easy because now

you just going to the front line to sit pretty

and basking the blessings of the Lord. That's it. You

just basking in the blessings of the Lord, and you're

watching God show up and show up as he promised

he would do for you. Hey man, that's all I

got