The Lord Is On Your Side

and every breath that I have I'm gonna give to him if I can at all give him the

praise would you give him the best praise you brought with you today

hallelujah

hey man you can be seated

I know our giving is not a reflection of his goodness but it is a testimony of

it every every time you pick one of those up or walk by the bucket and put

one in put something in or you you go to the church app and you give online

it's a testimony of God's goodness it's a testimony to God's faithfulness I've

always said once I figured it out for myself you know you got to figure it out

for yourself tithing is not an affordability issue it's a trust issue

has nothing to do with being able to afford it or not it's do you trust God

or not and when you have that financial crisis moment of your own that you you

gonna decide to trust God and then he proves himself it's never ever an

affordability issue then for sure because of his goodness amen heavenly

father I love you this morning so grateful for your presence that I feel

here today and that father I pray over the household of faith those who are

here today I pray for them and their faithfulness and they're giving Lord

jobs and better jobs increases checks in the mail refunds rebates the best sale

in town inheritance in any other way bless your people as you prosper our soul

and spirit through your word according to that word you supply all of our need

according to your riches in glory and we're grateful and the church says amen

but David carrying that bass line this morning hey man I heard him earlier I

thought that's David they'll be glad I wasn't on soundboard today cuz about all

you'd have heard was David crank that bass up where I can hear it good amen

hallelujah have your Bibles be turning with me this morning to Psalm Psalm

Psalms 20 · chapter mention

chapter 20

mm-hmm I was in another world I guess y'all wonder where I went I was singing

that song in my mind let us tell him all about our trouble he will hear you know

what County when I preach this you're gonna think I asked them to play that but

I did not when I get through here you'll think well that just works just fine and

it does God works that way I need things like that for confirmation in my own in

my own life and ministry to know that I'm on track a man another note remember

brother Billy Jacobs in prayer this morning just right before service got

started sister Sandra got a call right if they finished practicing in the

billy fail and he did his head and they had to call the ambulance and she had to

run home to help take care of brother Billy so remember them brother Billy

this morning amen Psalm chapter 20

Psalms 20 · chapter mention

the Lord hear thee in verse 1 in the day of trouble

the name of the God of Jacob defend thee send the help from the sanctuary and

strengthen thee out of Zion remember all thy offerings and accept thy burnt

sacrifice say law this pause and look at that grant thee according to thine own

heart and fulfill all thy counsel we will rejoice in thy salvation and in the

name of our God we will set up our banners the Lord fulfill all thy

petitions now know I that the Lord saveth his anointed he will hear him

from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand some trust in

chariots and some in horses but we will remember the name of the Lord our God

they are brought down and fallen but we are risen and stand upright save Lord

let the King hear us when we call simple thought this morning the Lord is on your

side the Lord is on your side I'll pray for you if you pray for me and we'll

make this expedient today father we love you we thank you for your mercy and your

grace your goodness and Lord we know you're on our side now I asked God that

you would help us this morning to preach that which would be edifying to the body

glorifying to your name for this is what it's about that the Saints be lifted and

you be exalted so encourage us today and may we that have ears hear what the

spirit said to the church and the church says amen amen you can be seated tell

your neighbor the Lord's on your side this 20th Psalm is actually coupled with

the 21st they go together and they are both battle songs songs of battle the

20th Psalm precedes of course the battle and the 21st follows the battle from the

heart of the King

the praise for victory of the battle belongs into the Lord the 20th Psalm

anticipates victory while the 21st declares that victory David is the author

of these songs Psalms and they are songs and possibly during the period of his

many wars recorded in 2nd Samuel possibly between the 8th and the 10th

chapter David as the warring King one thing you need to know about David his

sword may have been worn but it wasn't rusty he never let his sword get rusty

the psalm this morning records an unnecessary prayer of the multitude on

behalf of the King as he's about to encounter the enemy in battle there's one

thing for certain battles will arise enemies will roar

so therefore we must have the goods to get us through the hard times we got to

have what it takes to lift our head up have our eyes open as we walk in to

battle as we think about this 20th Psalm there's some things in it that the King

prepares himself with in this prayer and this psalm as he

approaches the battlefield

you and I have to prepare ourselves as we approach the battlefield I think it's

page 268 in that old red back him there's a song that declares I'm on the

battlefield for my Lord

that's where you and I exist today every day is a battle don't be alarmed when

you wake up tomorrow and the enemies facing you don't don't be alarmed when

you're frustrated flabbergasted disgusted and you're you're longing for

a little relief anybody ever been there because it's one battle right after the

other because something you you've got to understand about your enemy is he's

never going to give up trying to destroy you he's never going to stop so the

sooner that we as believers understand that that lion roars every day the

adversary gets up in the morning and roars in your direction he roars in my

direction he wants me to know that he is a relentless foe and I have to be on my

guard every single day you have to be on your guard every single day and we can

do that when we have a mental concept knowing that God is on our side before

we ever step on the battlefield amen that the Lord is on our side so the first

thing is the psalmist begins to record we see this enduring fact that the Lord

truly indeed is on our side when you think about enduring that word means

lasting it means continuing it means stable you have a stable force you have

a stable resource on your side it's ever enduring he is ever enduring he never

weakens he's never diminished hallelujah I don't know how that makes you feel but

it really makes me feel good when I understand and know that the Lord is on

my side and he is enduring for me and on my behalf greater is he that's in me

than he that is in this world greater is he that's in you then he that is in this

world so we have this enduring fact the Lord hear thee now when you think about

that in that verse one that the psalmist records it well the Lord hear thee in

the day of trouble understand this morning and know no trouble can approach

you what God doesn't already know that it's approaching you remember he knows

the end from the beginning and the beginning all the way through the end he

knows all of the factors that's going on against your life he knows the plot of

the enemy he and like brother Mill said last week he already knows what he's

going to do for you if you just simply believe and trust in him and that

enduring fact that the Lord is for you and he is on your side and he hears you

a man in the day of trouble now I don't know about you but far as prayer goes if

I'm not recognizing that the enemy's coming against me in full force I don't

pray as much throughout the day as I do when I know that he's really out to get

me that day those are the days that I kindly end up in praise I praise more I

wake up with a song on my heart I wake up with a song the funny thing about it

is I can only remember about a half a stanza and I just repeat that stanza all

day long and the one that's been stuck in my head for the past month is that I

what is it baby I've been saying that see there I can't even get it now and I

wake up and it just starts coming out every morning I saw the Lord and he

heard me and he answered and that's why I trust him so I go all day long that's

the only thing I can get out of that I've got enough sense to look it up on

my phone but that's really not the whole issue the whole issue is is I saw the

Lord and he heard me and he answered and that's why I trust him and that's why I

trust him I saw and it just plays looped over it's like a scratch on a CD or an

old 45 come on some of you you know I'm clicking and it rolls back click it

rolls back click it rolled back I saw the Lord and he heard me and he answered

and that's why I trust him because I I begin to let my mind rush over the days

that I've sought the Lord and he did hear me and he did answer and it reminds

me that the Lord is on my side hallelujah and so those are the days

that praise just flows out of it then there's those other days when I wake up

to the echo of the roar of the lion who's standing there before me and I

know the battle is on today and I need to know that the enduring fact that the

Lord is on my side is in my mind so now I'm engaging in prayer I pray constantly

throughout the day no I'm not always in a closet no I'm not always at an altar

but my mind is before the throne all day long and I'm interceding and I'm praying

and I'm seeking him and tomorrow when he moves and he answers I wake up I sought

the Lord and he heard me and he answered and that's why I trust him and it goes

on throughout my life the psalmist had sought the Lord and he heard him and

that's what his declaration he is the Lord hear thee in the day of trouble if

it's not trouble amen we're not really calling on him but when you call on him

in the day of trouble he does hear you and it's an enduring fact to know that

the Lord is on our side it encourages me to know that he's there that he always

hears me when I pray but it's also he's always prepared to help me in my trouble

Jesus said in John 15 and 7 if you abide in me and my words abide in you you shall

ask what you will and it shall be done unto you doesn't that make you want to

shout it does especially if you're living out the contractual agreement with

this scripture the secret is that little two-letter word if hello you can seek

him you can cry out all you want but if you're not abiding in him he's not

obligated because you have broken the contract my my my my but for one who is

abiding it's a conditional promise there if you're where you're supposed to be he

will do what he's promised to do a man so if you're not where you're supposed

to be and he's not doing what you're asking him to do I don't think the

shortage is on his end it's always on our and can I get a witness in here it's

a it's it's always on our end it's not on his end if we're abiding if we're

living if we're dwelling within him and living in a life of righteousness and

holiness but right and that and we're just seeking him out daily and our mind

is continually on him if we're doing those things if we are abiding then he

will answer why because he is obligated to his word and nothing else

hallelujah but if we are where we are and know that the Lord is on our side and

if you're there he will answer favorable answers follow the condition of the

prayer first John 5 14 15 and this is the confidence that we have in him how

many of you are confident in him this is the confidence that we have in him that

if there it is again if we ask anything according to his will he hears us that

leads me to believe if I'm praying contrary to his will he ain't heard a

thing because the only thing that he aligns with is being in accordance to

his will and abiding in his presence but if I'm trying to live out my life in

accordance to his will how do I know what his will is well he's written it

out for you his will and testament both old and new for our life and for our

understanding if we are living in accordance to his word and obedience in

our life as he speaks and directs to us and we are living obediently before him

then we are contractually fulfilling the obligation and the agreement if

hallelujah and then we're praying in accordance to his will he hears us and

if we know here I love this part and if we know that he hears us whatsoever we

ask we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him the first

condition was abide the second condition is according to his will and the key to

answered prayer is holy living and discernment of the will of God and if

we abide in him and he and us and we ask according to that will then we position

ourselves for answered prayer this is the enduring fact of God's faithfulness

we are positioned in an alignment for him to answer when we seek the Lord and

he hears us always hope there's always hope no matter the situation because we

have the obligation in prayer no matter the battle no matter who the enemy

presents themselves to be every child of God has the opportunity to pray we are

afforded prayer and if we are abiding in him and we are in praying in accordance

to his will he hears us and if we know that he hears us I have confidence in

him because see I have confidence in my own life do you have confidence in where

you are in God right now in your relationship I have confidence in knowing

that when the spirit convicts me I repent

that's a that's an unheard of term to the church anymore you mean I got to

keep repenting well if you keep it on sinning yes you do but my prayer for us

is that our faith grows and the sanctifying and the washing of the

regenerating power of the Word of God finally equips us and gets us where

we're no longer practicing sin it's a wonderful work of sanctification I got

I got to get on we'll get to that later sometime that's another plow for another

field he hears you when you pray Psalm 3 & 4 I cried unto the Lord with my

voice it always helps if you're going to cry out use your voice I know there are

places and situations sometimes where we can't just let it out and we do from the

inside our soul cries out don't we I mean I'm screaming to the top of my

spiritual lungs and I may be in a place where I just can't shout it out but on

the inside I'm screaming to the heaven Lord hear me I'm here before you in this

day of my trouble and he hears chapter 6 verse 9 the Lord has heard my

supplication the Lord will receive my prayer the Psalmist was confident in God

hearing him because he was confident in his condition with God chapter 18 verse

6 in my distress I called upon the Lord and cried unto my God he heard my voice

and out of his temple and my cry came before him even unto his ears 34 and 4

I sought the Lord and he heard me and he delivered me from all my fears verse 6

this poor man cried and the Lord heard him and he saved him out of all of his

troubles Proverbs 18 and 10 the name of the Lord's a strong tower the righteous

run into it and he saved the name of the Lord is a strong tower understand

knowing that when you are in the day and time of trouble the Lord hears you it's

an enduring fact for my life he hears me then the answer sort of becomes dependent

upon my condition with him he hears me if I'm abiding and I'm praying in

accordance to his will I know he hears me a man I know he hears me Micah 7 7 and

8 says therefore I will look unto the Lord I will wait for the God of my

salvation my God will hear me and this is how he knows he's going to hear him

because of his condition rejoice not against me oh mine enemy when I fall I

shall arise when I sit in darkness the Lord shall become a light unto me I

don't know what that might do for you maybe it'll hit you a little bit later

as you begin to meditate on those two verses of scripture Micah 7 7 and 8 go

home and read them again get them placed in your heart get that in your mind

because there comes a time when we do fall when we get knocked over on the

battlefield but I love what the prophets said rejoice not over me oh mine enemy

when I fall he immediately said I shall arise let me tell you what the water's

parallel looks like in that passage of scripture it looks like this devil don't

you dare stand over me and grin don't you look down on me because I'm down

because I'm gonna get up my Lord and when I get up from here when I have you

ever told somebody like that you may not be down but when I get up from here

hey man I'm gonna get up my mama used to tell me that don't make me get up from

here hello because I knew trouble was on its way if mama had to get up from there

you know what I mean and that's what the prophet is trying to tell the enemy

rejoice not over me oh my enemy because I'm gonna call on the Lord I'm gonna

talk to the God of my salvation and I know he hears me and because he hears me

I may be down but I'm not out I may be down I may have fallen but I'm not gonna

stay here and when I get up from here you've had it when I get up from here

I'm gonna take my vengeance on you when I sit in darkness the Lord shall be my

light the Lord is on your side you may feel like you're in the dark room in the

developmental process of life and it's okay the Lord will be your light

hallelujah hey my soul that's one of my favorite verses don't make fun of me

devil I may be down but I'm gonna get up and when I do get up from here hello

grief may have me down sorrow may be welling over me but peace peace peace

is coming my way and when peace gets to me like sea billows roll I'm gonna get

up from here when the anguish of my soul is quenched by the grace of God Almighty

the enduring fact to me knowing that he has heard me in my plight he has heard

me in my dilemma and I sit in my dark room and the devil's looking down on me

I will you gotta make a personal declaration I will arise

well hallelujah that enduring fact is transformed to a strengthening force

that second verse said he's gonna send the help from the sanctuary and

strengthen thee out of Zion out of the same Lord said he's coming out himself

he's sending you help from the sanctuary out of that holy place the most holy

place where his grace and mercy and his might abides from there he's coming and

he's gonna strengthen you that word strengthen means to support to hold up

to refresh I just got a feeling down in my soul as I was studying and going over

this again this morning I just feel like somebody needs to know God's gonna

strengthen you today his strength is on his way for you he's gonna uphold you he

is going to support you he's gonna refresh you it's coming your way he said

out of his sanctuary he's gonna dispatch his help and it's gonna

strengthen you out of his glory out of the realm of heaven I'm here to tell you

this morning God is gonna dispatch a refreshing for you and he's gonna

strengthen you out of Zion Zion means that desert parts place and also the is

the inference of the city of Jerusalem the place of Zion but God said from

there out of your parts place out of that desert moment I'm gonna strengthen

you I'm gonna refresh you even in the hardship of where you are even in the

hardness of where you've been living even in that desert place he's gonna

send a refreshing he's gonna encourage you because the Lord wants you to know

he is on your side this morning well glory he's the strength of our soul the

strength of the Lord is the force that enables us to not just make it through a

battle but to be victorious in the battle

you know sometimes surviving is victory hello there's something to be said for

survivors because you're victorious in your surviving

sometimes survival is the victory we look at it like if we just run in the

aisles we're not victorious but I'm here to you sometimes after the battle you

don't have strength to run hello sometimes after the victory you all you

can do is just sit and soak up his goodness and let him strengthen you for

your shout and may have ever done that you've come through a spiritual war and

you do all you do just kind of wipe your head you might have to shout your way to

the victory but you finally got there and it's like I'm out I'm out I'm empty

my tanks empty well when you go into battle know this the Lord's gonna

strengthen you out of his sanctuary he's gonna send hope he's gonna send the

endorsing factor of his grace into your life and he's gonna enable you to be the

victor that he's called you out to be from the beginning Paul the Apostle

learned that valuable lesson with his storm in the flesh he said I prayed three

times have you ever really got a hold of God more than once for a situation it'd

be nice if you just got a hold of the heavens one time and it was done

sometimes you get a hold of heaven a couple different times Paul got a hold

of heaven he said I prayed through how many remember the old term praying

through not praying do you get finished but praying through to heaven touches

you right one person put it this way pray do you touch heaven and pray till

heaven touches you and pray that you can touch somebody else when you get up amen

Paul said I prayed through I prayed three times on behalf of this thorn I've

got this this messenger that Satan sent to come against me every day he was in

that battle he's weak he's tired he's frustrated he's at a point where he

doesn't think he could go on and he gets hold of heaven and heaven gets a hold of

him and he hears this from the Lord's mouth himself my grace is sufficient

for you for my hear this for my strength is made perfect in weakness when we are

at our weakest in the flesh the power of God the glory of God becomes the

strongest in the spirit and enables us in our weakness so that we could have

the same testimony that Paul would let her have to the Philippians I can do all

things through Christ who strengthens me and the only way you know that is if you

have that wonderful touch of his grace when you've prayed over and over and

over and God still doesn't move it as far as I know he died with his thorn

whatever that might have been a lot of speculation out there I don't know so

I'll not speculate Paul had a problem he had an issue evidently it was very

tormenting to him because he didn't just pray once and go on with it hello how

many of them problems you got you pray once or twice and you learn to live with

it he never learned to live with it God had to grace him through it this I can

tell he never accepted it and always remained a fester and I know what a

little briar in your thumb can do I've got one right now aggravates the life

out of me got in there the other day just a little bitty thorn every time he

touched something you know I'm saying it's got a little fester to it I'm gonna

have to dig it out my lord with that right there not preach

sometimes you just gotta let him dig it out I hate the old up to it but I got a

knot right here on side of this finger it's from a big piece of pool cue from

back in the day that's not funny baby if anybody remembers what the day was you

should remember it's a constant reminder but David it's a constant reminder that

not right there never down there now I hit something with it and it still hurts

I dug and I dug and I couldn't get it out somebody says why didn't you go to

the doctor and let them get it out well if I have to answer that you know as

intelligence I think you are redneck lifts enough holler in a hole in the

wall with a pool cue and then you think I'm going to get that dug out no

there's reminders that you carry around daily that you prayed about but they're

not gone

you've sought the Lord and he heard you and you just didn't like his answer I'm

sure Paul wanted a different answer wouldn't you love wouldn't it have been

wonderful to read that the Lord spoke to him and said okay I'm going to take care

of it it would make a whole lot better preaching by this time tomorrow you know

by this by four o'clock tomorrow evening it's going to be taken care of and then

we read on at 410 it was done and Paul shouting but that's not what we get we

hear the Lord say my grace is sufficient for you in your weakness my strength is

magnified and I'm going to keep on dispensing my grace somebody needs to

hear that today you may have to keep on dealing with it you may have to keep on

living with it but you're not going to live with it alone you're going to live

with the addition of his grace daily that amazing grace that enables you to

shout in spite of it hallelujah to sing over the top of it and to magnify him

because of it amen his grace will strengthen you now that really is not

good I'll run in preaching right there because that means we're kind of stuck

sometimes well yes it's not as rosy as the prosperity preachers like to make it

hello it's not as happy-go-lucky as the free grace people like to proclaim it oh

just do what you want to do it's covered honey hit ain't covered till you get it

covered this cheap grace place huh when I see the price he paid there's nothing

cheap about it come on if you abide in him he's

abiding in you the moment you stop abiding he stops listening the moment

you start transgressing his will he stops listening well you're not helping

me I'm helping you better than you think I am

he strengthens too many times in the battle we try to go in our own power

don't we we fail every time when we do that we need to remember the battle is

not ours a man the battle isn't yours you know what David said when he went

down to face Goliath in the valley of Elah as he's picking up stones along the

way Goliath cursing him making fun of him making fun of God cursing God

you come to me with spear and sword the battle is not mine but I come to you in

the name of the Lord all I'm coming for is the victory my god all I'm coming for

is your head my lord when you get that tenacity about you and the devil starts

roaring at you and God has graced you daily all you need to know is the battle

isn't yours you get to relish in the victory

Psalm 63 and 7 because thou hast been my help

therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I praise 121 the beautiful Psalm of

the sin I will lift up my eyes to the hills

from which cometh my help my help comes from the Lord

the maker of the heavens and the earth

the

psalmist moved through to a steady faith

for seven we will remember

the name

of the Lord our God

we will remember the name

of the Lord our God

of how God had heard and answered prayer over their life expanse

they probably remembered Jehovah-Roy

God who sees and answers

Jehovah-Jireh

Jehovah-Shalom he's my peace

Jehovah-Rapha he's my healer

we're gonna remember the name of the Lord our God

El Shaddai the Almighty One

El Ohim the self-existent one the creator

and when they look when they just started talking to each other about the names of God

they got excited because they began to remember who their God was

and we're about to go into battle

and when we begin to remember he's the God our peace

he's got our sanctifier he's our banner and his banner over us is love

Jehovah-Niss is his name and my Lord they got themselves worked up into a frenzy

when they began to go into battle because all they had to simply do was

remember who the God that they served was

and can I remind somebody in here you may have to get up in the morning and go

into battle but would you just remind yourself who it is you serve

for you and I he is all encompassed and we have the extra benefit

of the revelation of the incarnate one through Christ the I am's of our life

the bread the light the life the door hallelujah

the true vine we have all of those extended into us

we have God don't forget in whom it is you serve

and remember always that the Lord is on your side

Amen

Faith endures

our faith thrives on the blessings of God

my faith grows every time the Lord blesses

every time I hear a testimony from one of you

every time I get a picture of a check for three dollars and eighty five cents

that you got from the middle of nowhere in the mail

then you get those checks for the hundreds of dollars that people get in

the mail makes me want to pray harder that we all

get one of those but every time something that simple

that simplicity of that prayer that we pray every day

every time sister sandy tells me and testifies about the sale that she found

in town

getting stuff for a fraction of the original cost

does that matter well sure it does if you can pay 20 instead of 120

hello then I hear of how the Lord touches people in body

and they're healed or the peace of God wells over

and calms it encourages my faith and it causes me to thrive in God

even though I may be looking at the battle even though a Goliath may be

standing in front of me because David had faced Goliath and won

it lets me know that greater is he that's in me than he that is in this

world and if God is for me then who can be

against me you have to encourage yourself in the reality of who you are

as a child of God and let this prayerful psalm enter into

your heart and prepare you for battle

a steady faith too many Christians fall in battle because they have failed to

realize who God really is

we're living in very dangerous times troublesome times amen

we've got to remember the name of the Lord our God

remember his promises to us

remember the prophecies concerning the world

instead of becoming distraught and living in fear and withdrawn

no we step out knowing that our God is working and moving because his word

is being fulfilled right before our very eyes

we become excited I think part of our problem is

we've become too attached to this old world

we're too attached to this old world

but we will remember and if we can only commit the word of

God to our memory we'd be far better equipped for our

battles

the key to success in the work of God is the kind of study and

drawing near that we do concerning the word of God

faith I know it's all cliche and I know it's those that just roll out

faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God

we become steady in our faith and trusting God

when we hear the word proclaimed what we are this morning

we hear his word brought out before us and when I face the devil in a different

way maybe tomorrow or Thursday or Friday I remind myself of his word

and I remember that he is faithful and he is true

and he's not a man that he should lie and what he has said

he will perform if I abide in accordance to his will he's going to

do it for me

you end up with a defeated foe

verse eight they are brought down and fallen but we are risen

and stand upright

they would sing this song as they would get ready to go in the battle

that some trust in chariots some trust in horses but we're going to

trust in the name of our lord because his name is a

testimony of his faithfulness over their life his name is a testimony

over his faithfulness in your and my life

all my life you have been faithful

all my life you have been so so good with every breath that I am able

sister Kim come on do that

of the goodness of God why because the Lord's on your side

the Lord is on my side so we end up with a defeated foe they are brought

down and fallen one spiritual principle that

the average believer has never understood is that

they think that Satan still has the upper hand

in all earthly matters and that's just not so

he was defeated he is the prince and the power of the air but let me tell you

there's a king

over every prince

he rules in darkness but I've already read to you that in darkness the Lord

becomes you light

a defeated foe

and lastly what you end up with

is a sheltering place

that little prayer save Lord

Isaiah 59 and one reads behold the land the Lord's hand is not shortened

that it cannot save neither his ear heavy

that it cannot hear

the apostle James remind us that we have not because we ask not

the Lord himself encourages to Matthew 7 saying asking it shall be given seeking

you shall find not and it shall be open unto you

prayer turns hope into a certainty

in the fact that

he may not remove the thorn

but he will dispatch grace

and if grace isn't enough for you I don't know what to tell you this morning

if grace isn't sufficient for you then I have nothing else for you

because you've come to the end of the resource if grace isn't enough

for you I've talked to a lot of folk in my short time

and I've read a lot of other testimonies of God's goodness and grace

and I don't know that there exists in this room

anything that his grace hasn't already been sufficient for

I don't know what it would be

your situation your dilemma

his grace is sufficient it's enough

that little thorns been in there long enough now it's become something I do I

just caught myself again feeling that fester

thinking I really need to get that out of there

there may be some things in your life you really need God to get out

and he may get it out but he may not

what he may just do for you is when you're so weak

he adds his strength into you through his grace

I'd love to be able to stand up here and tell you that he takes everything away

I can't tell you that

but I can tell you this he'll make you better

he'll touch you he'll strengthen you

and the enemy is not going to rejoice over you because he will not allow that

you're not going to get washed away because his promise in his word is when

the enemy comes in like a flood he'll raise up a standard against him

maybe you feel like you're just hanging on standing with me this morning you're

just barely hanging on

you're in the middle of the battle and it's raging

and you're kindly questioning this victory part of this thing

you're going to survive it

you're going to get through it

there may not be a parade waiting on you when you come through it

but there is this

come unto me all you that are labored and heavy laden

I'll give you rest

take my yoke on you

I'll swap with you

I'll carry you load for a little while

everybody just come on down to this altar let's just get in here tied together

because we've all got battles come on in here

Abraham

I know some of the war that some of you are in

because I'm praying with you already about them

some of the battles that you face some of the thorns that are festering

you don't know what you're going to do with it

you don't know how you're going to deal with it you've been dealing with it

you may be on your second time praying through

my god I feel the holy ghost this morning just wanting to love on you

the lord wants you to know he's on your side he's on your side

heavenly father your sons and daughters are standing before you at the altar