Living The Sweet Life Through A Renewed Mind - Pastor Nicole Rainey

Welcome to the Lone Star Church Podcast.

Pastors C.F.

and Nicole Rainey are here to share the Word of God with you each week, helping you grasp the fullness of God's plan for your life.

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How many of you want to live the sweet life?

Amen.

Do you know?

Can I tell you something?

You're called to live a beautiful life.

Every single one of you, you're called to live a sweet life.

Now that doesn't mean that things don't come up and that trials don't happen, but you're called to live a sweet life.

And so we're gonna look at how we do that.

Part of living the sweet life, can I tell you something?

You may or may not like this, is you're gonna have to learn how to fight the fight of faith.

You're gonna have to learn the to fight the fight of faith.

We um I went out to lunch today with Pastor Kylie and Shannon, and we were just all talking.

And by the way, uh Pastor Kylie brought her sweet friend Shannon with her, and we are like twins.

Kylie Kylie called it.

Um she's a fighter.

I'm a fighter, we all know.

And we all know that we're um coming for your throat type of person, and um so, but in your faith walk, you're called to fight.

And there's a way to fight right, and there's a way to fight wrong.

And the word of God will tell you how to do that.

And so um, I wrote these down after tonight.

I I wrote this down.

We are not going to be lazy Christians anymore.

We're done being lazy in our thought life.

You know, you can be lazy in your thought life.

Um, Pastor Kylie has a great book talking about your thought life and how to overcome things.

Um, but we you can't be lazy in your thought life if you want to live a sweet life.

So, how many, how many of you know we we've taught on this before, and we've talked about this so much that when you wake up in the morning, your thought life is automatically in default mode.

Automatically.

And you can wake up.

Do you know the easiest flow to flow in is a negative flow?

Negative flows are the easiest flow to flow in.

Do you know that you have to, on purpose, on purpose, you have to take the gear shift in your thought life and put it into drive.

You have to put it into drive and you have to say, This is the day that the Lord has made.

I will rejoice and be glad in it.

I will choose to rejoice and be glad in it because your flesh is your default mode.

And so you automatically just don't feel like doing any of it.

And so if you'll purpose in your heart and create a habit in your life, guess what will happen?

Pretty soon, and habits aren't bad.

There are good habits you can form.

How many of you know making your bed every day is a great habit?

It's a great habit.

I know, I know.

I'm looking at teenagers, preteens, I don't know, maybe 50-year-olds, maybe you don't make your bed every day.

But I encourage you, make your bed every day.

It just sets the tone for your life.

It really does set the tone for your life.

It just keeps keeps things orderly.

Plus, if you're there all day, you're not tempted to crawl back into it once it's May.

You're done.

You're done for the day, right?

So, but after tonight, your fight is coming back.

And I believe that.

Your fight is coming back.

Um, and after tonight, song, songs, hymns, and spiritual songs are coming back into your life.

And I feel like that was for someone very specific.

I wrote that down under the inspiration.

That was for someone very specific.

Songs, songs, psalms, and spiritual songs are coming back into your life.

Amen.

So if you want to live the sweet life, you're gonna have to know how to fight the fight of faith.

Let's go to 1 Timothy 6.12.

Let's go look where he tells us how to fight the good fight.

So in 1 Timothy 6.12, it says, fight the good fight for the true faith.

Hold tightly to the eternal life which God has called you, which he has declared so where so well before many witnesses.

So there should be a fight with your faith.

There should be a fight from your faith.

Here's the thing about the fight of faith that you must understand.

Um, let me find my scripture here.

That the one thing that you must understand is that um you are not fighting from a defeated place.

You're not fighting from a defeated place.

Brother Hagin said this, let me find.

I wrote this down, I'm getting a little ahead.

Brother Hagin said this in his book, The Triumphant Church.

We are not a defeated church, we're not a warring church, but we're a triumphant church.

We're a triumphant church.

So we don't fight from behind.

We're not defeated, and we're not trying to get the victory.

That's that's the big thing.

You're not trying to get it, you're not defeated, but you are a victorious church.

You fight from the place that Jesus called you to stand on.

It's a place of victory.

He tells you in the gospels maintain what I've done for you, be an occupying force in this earth.

Meaning, I've done everything that that needs to be done.

Now just enforce what I've done.

Be a voice in this earth.

Amen.

So let's look at a couple scriptures that will verify that for you.

1 John 3.8.

1 John 3.8 says that um for this purpose the Son of God was manifest that he might destroy the works of the devil.

So he was the purpose of his life in 1 John 3.8 was that he that he would destroy the works of the devil.

I'm gonna flip through really quick, so you might want to just jot these down.

Colossians 2 15.

It says, and having spoiled principalities, powers, and he made a show of them openly, triumphing them, excuse me, triumphing, triumphing over them in them all, in them all.

So he disarmed principalities, powers, and then he made us he made a public spectacle.

When and where did he do that?

In hell.

In hell.

Jesus spent three day three days down there, and he bore everything that he needed to bear.

And then when it was time, he stripped every demon of all of their power and authority over our lives.

And he took the keys back that that the devil took from Adam, came back, laid his blood on the mercy seat, then came back.

I know you're like, wow, this is Jesus did a lot.

There was a lot going on.

Then he came back into earth.

You know what he says, now I give you the keys.

Now I give you power, I give you authority.

Do something with what I've called you to do.

So he defeated the devil.

Amen.

Hebrews 2:14, that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is the devil.

Hebrews 2:14

So we've been the moment you were translated from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of light, you have freedom from all of the enemy's work.

Every plan, every thought, every uh uh, I guess plan.

I already said that.

I had another word, but every plan of the enemy that he would have for your life, the moment that you came into the kingdom of God, you have authority to stop those plans in your life.

So here's the thing about here's the thing about Christianity is Jesus did his part, but now you have a part.

And you think about the head and you think about the body, because sometimes I think, well, it's like, well, just Jesus, you know, and and he does do things for, he does things for you.

Don't get me wrong, but I'm talking about when it comes to exercising your authority and taking authority in your life over your family, over your town, over your home, over your children, over your nation, that's on us.

We have we have the responsibility to do that, but sometimes, sometimes, and it happened and it can happen so easily, we can slip into the this lazy mode and in and look at something and just look at it and think, well, why in the world did that happen?

Oh my god, look at that.

My God.

What happened what is wrong?

What what why did they do that?

Why why did this happen, or why is my kid this, or why is that?

When when most of the time, especially if it's in your realm of authority, you should be using your authority to speak against it.

Praise the Lord.

So, the number one thing that you must know when you're fighting the fight of faith is that the enemy is already defeated.

Don't you love that when you step into a ring to fight someone or something?

Not that not, I mean, maybe you've never done that.

I have.

A lot of parking lots, some hallways.

Um, but don't you wouldn't you wouldn't you like to know if you showed up to a fight that you're already the winner?

That you already saw the reel, the playback, and you're like, I already won this.

Look at this.

Man, look at that.

Yes, totally sweatless.

Look at that uppercut.

Yes.

I could throw a good punch.

Wouldn't you, wouldn't you like to know that if you showed up to a fight that you've already won?

Can I tell you?

Every time you show up, you've already won.

You've just got you've got to renew your mind to to the process of it.

You have to renew your mind to it.

If you want to live the sweet life, you're gonna have to renew your mind to the thought, to the fact that you are not a defeated person, that he is defeated, that he is under your feet, and that you've been raised up far above him.

So far above him, and every every demon, every principality, every power, every might has been placed under your feet.

Amen.

So in every situation, um, and here's the thing.

We I know I mentioned, you know, like we I fought, you know, like whatever.

We don't fight people, we don't have authority over people.

Now we could pray in uh against the devil over people, but we don't have authority over people, but we have authority over the enemy, and we have authority over his plans and his devices that would try to come and influence our family and um the the realm that we have authority over, the places where we live and in our church and with our pastor, you can pray for your pastor.

Pray against the enemy that would try to come against your pastor and your leaders.

There's all kinds of ways that you can pray.

So we we fight from a place of victory.

You ever heard someone say, You better know your place?

You better know your place.

You're like, thank you.

I do.

I'm seated, yeah, far above in heavenly places.

And Keith Moore, okay, it's okay.

Um, and so so you are seated in a place, and it's a victorious place.

But in order, and I'll say it again, and I'll say it, you know, um to the very end tonight.

In order to live the sweet life, you're gonna have to renew your mind.

You're gonna have to know how to fight.

You're gonna have to know how to fight the fight of faith.

And that means you can't be lazy.

I know I don't have lazy people in this place.

You you want to know how I know that?

Because you're here.

You put effort to come to be here tonight.

It's number one, it's it's just hard.

We we've we've made it so busy in our lives, so busy to get to places.

So it is hard to get to places, but it's even harder to drive out here and to make a plan to get here.

I understand that.

So there, I'm telling you what, I don't think we have lazy people in this place tonight.

I think we have hungry people in this place who are thirsty for righteousness, who hunger after righteousness, who hunger after God, that want the things of God, that want to see a move of God in their life, and they want to see a move of God in their family, and they want to see a move of God in their church, and they want to see a move of God in their nation.

We're not lazy tonight.

And so we we come, we we elevate the plate, we elevate to the place that God, you know, the the Bible says we go from glory to glory to glory.

How does that happen?

With with your thought life, that's part of it.

And you and you shed things off that you're not supposed to think about.

You let go of things and you come up to a higher place of thinking.

And you come up to a higher place of thinking, and sometimes getting to that place might not be easy.

I understand that.

I do, I get that, because there is a battle between your spirit and your flesh.

Your fresh, your flesh will scream things, and then your spirit will be like, no, no, no, come on, come on, you're healed.

Stay healed, stay, stay, get your come on, you are healed, but I gotta get your get your mind connected with your heart.

Get your mind connected with your heart.

No, no, no, no, you're blessed.

I know, I know that this bill came in, or maybe, maybe this is what your finances look like, but you're blessed.

Come on, stay with me, stay with me.

The Holy Spirit on the inside of you.

Come on, stay with me.

Keep your confession right.

That's a that's the fight that we fight.

That's the fight we fight.

We fight the fight of faith from our spirit man, full of the Holy Ghost, full of the Holy Spirit.

Hallelujah.

Hallelujah.

And then what happens, thank you, Lord, then what happens is all of a sudden you're you're you're you're fighting the fight of faith, and then you realize, huh, that ain't bother me anymore.

You go from glory to glory to glory to glory, then you start to see, oh, this doesn't bother me anymore.

Ah, Jesus.

Then you get a rest for a minute.

There is a rest, you gotta rest in that for a minute.

You kind of walk, and then Lord's like, all right, come on up, come on up.

Let's shed some things.

We're going up to higher levels, we're going up to higher places, let's shed off some of that thinking.

I talked about this uh a while ago about when God begins to prune things in you and He begins to cut things away.

He's gonna cut things away, he'll prune things in your life so that you can produce more fruit.

And so we go through that process.

So we hang on to, we we fight the fight of faith.

Thank you, Jesus.

Another thing that you must know, let's look at let's uh write jot this down, Matthew 16, 19.

I will give you, Jesus said these words, I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatsoever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven.

So back to our victorious place.

We've been made victorious.

We stand on a platform of victory.

That really is the triumphant church.

You stand on a place on a platform of victory.

Now I'll say this: there are times in your thought life you don't feel like it, or you don't you don't feel like you stand on that place.

That's where you fight, not to get there, but to see yourself standing there.

What's the best way to do that?

Can I tell you the best way to do it?

Begin to worship him.

There's just something about worship.

There's just something about worship that'll bring you to a place and you begin to lift him up and begin to magnify.

We see that in the book of Acts early on when they were having trouble with um with priests and religious people and even uh the law, they were having trouble and they told him, You're not gonna preach the name of Jesus.

And they released him, they went back to their own company, and they reported unto them everything that had been done.

You know what they begin to do?

Grumble and complain.

No, they prayed, they didn't even pray.

They said it says in the scriptures, and it's in Acts chapter 5.

Acts 5 · chapter mention

Um, it said they began to lift their voice.

Because there was something about the lifting of the voice that brought them to a place where they were even ready to pray and to fight, and magnifying who God was in their life.

And you know how they did that?

They begin to look back.

You're like, well, I have to put my hands to the plow.

I can't look back.

Yes, when you're going on with God and you're going on with your life, you put your hands to the plow.

But there's just something about looking back and thinking about everything He's brought you out of.

It stirs your faith.

It'll stir your faith.

And you're like, God, I thank you that you saved me from that car wreck that rolled over.

God, I thank you that you delivered me from drugs and alcohol.

God, I thought you thank you for bringing me out of that miry clay, out of the pit, out of things that the enemy tried to ruin my life.

He tried to kill me.

But I thank you, God, you brought me out and you set my feet upon a rock, and now I know.

I know.

That's right.

And so praise will get you to that place where maybe you don't feel like you're victorious.

But when you begin to lift, begin to declare who he is and the things that he's done in your life, I'm telling you, it puts you on a place of victory, and now you're ready.

Now you're ready.

Now you're ready to handle the enemy.

Now you're ready to handle the devil.

Praise the Lord.

The number, the number one thing, the number, excuse me, I'm gonna back up here just here.

Uh the number, number two thing, I gave you the number one thing.

You must know that uh that the devil's defeated.

Number two, you must know that all the blessings of God belong to you.

So number one, you must know that the devil's defeated, that you have victory over him.

He's under your feet.

Number two, you must know that all the blessings of God belong to you.

So again, you don't have to fight for them.

The only thing you have to do is possess them.

It's possession.

Praise the Lord.

Lucy, let me see your phone.

There was resistance.

If I said this is her phone, it belongs to her.

I mean, we pay for it.

But you know what I mean.

If it belongs, it belongs to her.

If I said, Lucy, come get your phone.

No, go ahead, just sit there, just sit there.

And Lucy just sat there and she's like, oh my god, I don't even know if that phone belongs to me.

Are you sure?

Like, I don't know.

Are you sure that belongs to me?

I mean, I sinned the other day.

I don't know.

I mean, and here's the thing as for forgiveness.

Oh, she's got a notification.

Who is this?

I could, I could just do all kinds of fun stuff right now in this house.

I won't.

Um she's like, um, but I could say, I and she could she could have all kinds of thoughts.

Well, I just don't know if it belongs to me.

I, you know, I've I can I just say something to you.

I've heard people say this.

Please don't ever say this again.

Well, I just I think God has better things to do at this time than to to give me stuff.

I'm like, my God.

And used to, I would try to correct that.

Now I'm just like, uh, I don't really correct it anymore because you know there's just a time and a place to do that kind of stuff.

So I just don't, but I think, man, if you only knew if you only knew the price he paid for you to have those things, you would never, you'd be like, I'm running to get my phone.

Now, now now Lucy knows this phone belongs to her, it's hers, and it's for the taking.

So I can say, Lucy, come get your phone.

Guess.

What Lucy does.

Yes.

With with a with she just takes it with a smile.

She takes it.

It's so good.

And can I tell you something?

God loves that.

How many of you ever been around a person who's just generous?

A generous person.

I talk about my mother-in-law.

She was so generous.

She was the most generous person I'd ever met.

And she just would be like, oh, and the food in her home, I mean, the food we ate in her home.

I'm a product of the food that we ate in her home.

I am the result.

I really can't, I really, I think I just burped.

I'm sorry.

It's fine.

But I I am I am a product of her food and her generosity.

But she was so generous.

And I never felt like she withheld anything.

She never withheld anything from us.

It was just like, hey, um, Connie, this and this.

She's like, oh yes, let's go.

Let's do it.

Let's go do that.

Let's have fun.

She was generous.

She was generous with her time.

She was generous, generous with her words.

Can I tell you something?

God is so generous with his time.

In fact, time doesn't even exist.

You could go and spend, and he would never get tired of being with you.

He loves you.

He loves your face.

Have you have this is so interesting?

How many of you ever just looked in the mirror and thought, I don't I don't want to look in the mirror?

Or will avoid even looking in a mirror?

I know.

Right?

It's a serious thing.

It is serious.

How many of you just like avoid even looking at yourself in the mirror?

If if is is anyone willing to be honest and raise their hand?

Yeah, thank you.

Thank you.

That is a because it's a real thing.

Some people just don't.

Can I tell you something?

God is so in love with your face.

He does.

Can I tell you something else he loves?

Your voice.

He loves your voice.

Can I tell you something else God loves?

He loves your ideas.

He loves your thoughts.

When God created Adam and He was setting up all the stuff in the earth, you know what God said?

Okay, Adam, you name all the animals.

I just want to hear what you have to say.

I just want to hear.

I mean, could can you imagine the God of the universe wanted Adam to do?

I mean, I and that would have taken a long time.

Can you imagine?

You're like the fifth day, you're like, I'm done.

I'm over it.

This is exhausting, Lord.

But in my mind, the picture I have in my mind is that God was like, I just want to sit down here and I want to hear what you have to say.

And this animal came and stood before Adam, and it was a dog.

And he was like, Let's call it a dog.

I don't know what the Hebrew word would have been for that, but dog.

Um, but so he called it, so he called it a dog.

And the Lord, you know what the Lord was like?

I love it.

Oh, that's the best, Adam.

I I don't even know if I could have come up with that.

That's a great name.

And then this other uh this uh cat came and he said, demon.

I'm sorry for my cat lovers.

I hate cats.

Sorry, sorry, sorry.

He did not do that.

Spawn, spawn.

But this cat came, and you know what God said and Adam did?

He said, cat, and you know what God said?

I love that too.

Oh tell me more of your thoughts, tell me more of your ideas.

Hallelujah.

He loves you so much, he loves every part of you.

Can I tell you something else?

He's not even afraid of your brokenness.

He looks to it, he looks at it.

He looks at it.

He doesn't turn his head, he's not disgusted with you, he's not afraid of the insecurities, he's not afraid of your failures, he's not afraid of your past, he's not afraid of your decisions.

He just wants you to come to him because he loves you and he loves your face.

Amen.

So we fight, we fight the fight of faith.

And and let me tell you, it's a fight of faith to believe like that.

Because the easiest road to take is a road of shame and unrighteousness.

That's the easiest road to take in this life.

It's it's a system, it's a flow.

Ephesians chapter 3 talks about the flow and the system of this world.

Ephesians 3 · chapter mention

It it's it's it's such an easy flow to take.

The path of resistance takes the thought life of God's way, God's system.

And people like, well, you just think you're so righteous.

I do.

Thank you very much.

Because I am, I've been made the righteousness of Christ.

So you fight the fight of faith, you believe the things that God has He's called you to be, that He's set you to be.

Hallelujah.

And just like in Ephesians chapter 2, when he says, You've been raised up and made to sit in heavenly places.

Ephesians 2 · chapter mention

You fight the fight of faith to believe like that and to act like that.

They're just leaving.

They're good.

Where they're good.

So you fight the fight of faith to believe and to act like that.

Amen.

That you've been made to sit in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, right?

So we we so even when you don't feel like it, your faith will say things like, I am made to sit in heavenly places.

It doesn't matter what it looks like, I don't care what I feel, I don't care what it looks like.

I'm seated right next to the Father in Christ Jesus, right next to him.

This is a place I function from.

Fight the fight of faith.

Every blessing belongs to you.

Ephesians chapter 1, verse 3.

Ephesians 1:3

Blessed be the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, who would bless us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places.

Here's what belongs to you: salvation, forgiveness, forgiveness of sins, the promise of the Holy Spirit, healing, the promise of peace, soundness of mind.

I love that one.

He said he was gonna write his law in our heart.

Thank you, Father.

He he took out that hard heart and he put in a soft one for us.

Then he wrote his law in our heart.

Says that we can know him, we can have access, we we have access.

We've been given a new identity.

We were chosen, we've been made prosperous, we've been given grace, we've been given mercy, and all of our needs are met.

There are more things, but I'm telling you, that's enough just to go possess right there.

You have access, all of your needs are met, but all these things must be possessed.

Everything that everything in the Christian walk must be possessed.

We're gonna finish here, and um, we're gonna go to numbers real quick, and we're gonna look at Moses.

How many of you remember Moses?

Yeah, so Moses, uh Moses, God, God used Moses.

He used Moses to bring Israel out of Egypt.

And he talked to Moses early on in Numbers, and he told him, you know, at the burning bush, and excuse me, in Exodus, and he was like, Hey, listen, there's a land that I've called my people to possess, and I'm gonna use you to go do it.

And so um, you know, Moses kind of battled that a little bit because he had a he had a speech issue, and so he had a little helper with him.

How many you know it's good to have a helper?

And so Numbers 13, Moses gets them out of Egypt, and um they're in the desert.

And he tells finally, God, God told Moses, he's like, I want you to take tens or take spies.

I think it was 10, maybe 12.

I'd be corrected.

Um, and he said, I want you to go spy out the land.

And it says in um Numbers 13, 17 through 18, it says, And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and he said unto them, Get you up this way southward, go up into the mountain and see the land, what it is, and the people that dwelleth there, whether they be strong or weak, few or many, and what and what the land is that they dwell in, whether it be good or bad, what the cities that they be that they dwell in, whether in tents or in strongholds, and what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein or not, be of good courage, bring of the fruit of the land.

Now is the time of the grapes.

So God had uh God had um instructions for them, he had a plan for them, and here he had taken them out of Egypt, he'd done some of the hardest things.

Well, I mean, not hard for him, but you know, we you would think that you would if you saw a a sea part, you're like, I think they forgot what God could do.

Because some time went on, and they're like, Well, they they went to go spy out the land, and they came back and gave a very evil report.

And there were two men that said, No, we can go on and take it.

But the thing that I want to I wanted to focus here was the part where he said, Here's your instructions.

Go look at the land.

Go look at the land.

Go look at it.

See the land.

See the land, what belongs to you.

You you've got to get to the place where you start to see yourself healed.

See it in your imagination, create things in your mind, like, oh man, I see my my hip doesn't bother me.

I figured this is pre-menopausal stuff today.

They helped, they helped me.

We we diagnose each other today, and we're pretty sure that this back pain and all this pain is pre-menopause.

Yeah, Perry.

We don't like Perry.

We figured that out.

But see yourself healed, see the land, see what you're supposed to possess.

Look at the people.

Are they strong?

Are they strong?

You ever size someone up?

You ever go places and you're like, you walk into a room.

Okay, so this is me being very honest.

I will go places and I'll walk into a room and I'm like, I could take them.

I don't know why I'm like this.

I swear to God, I don't know why I'm like this.

I've always been like this my whole life.

And in fact, today I was like, I God has surrounded me with people who are very similar.

They're the same way.

They're like, oh, we walk in, we're like, all right, I could take that person, I could take that person, I could take that person easily.

You know, you just go for this and then hit here and kick there.

And and I'm and I'm older and overweight now, so I gotta make it quick because I'm gonna I'm gonna be out of breath.

I'm gonna be out of breath.

I can't run, so I gotta make this quick.

You go for the groin, okay?

That's what you do.

I plan these things out in my mind.

But you you know, you you see, you you look at them, size it up.

Yeah, I can I can I can win that.

Let's go.

My God.

But man, be like Samson.

Come on, be like Samson.

He took, he took foxes and he tied their tails together, lit them on fire, and had them run into the enemy's camp.

Oh, God, just do something to tick off the devil tonight.

Just stir it up.

You ever just want to just do it?

Just start something, start a fight tonight.

That's why I'm telling you, I'm telling you, there's a song, and I don't encourage you to listen to this, but there is a song by Pink.

She's like, We're gonna get in a fight tonight.

I'm telling you, we're gonna get in a fight tonight, but it's a fight that's already been won.

It's a fight that's already been won.

You don't fight from a place of defeat, you fight from a place of victory.

And some of you have lost your voice, you've lost your fight, and you're ready to give up, but I'm telling you, you get back on that platform and you begin to declare the promises that have been given to you in his word and in through his spirit.

Those are twofold.

You hang on to the promises that have been given to you in his word and by his spirit.

Two things.

Thank you, Jesus.

Thank you, Jesus.

So we're getting our fight back.

Look at them, see them.

Are they strong?

Are they weak?

Size them up, look at them.

See how see how many they are, how many they got?

Five thousand?

My God, we just need three.

You just need three.

That's all you need.

You just need three.

Five, oh, ten thousand.

I just need three.

Come on.

Three people that will stand with me.

Come on.

What cities they dwell in, go look at your house.

Go look at the land.

You're supposed to.

Oh, there's my that's my that's my property.

They think that's theirs, but that belongs to me.

You've got to learn how to talk some trash.

I'm telling you, you you cannot.

This life, this life you live right now is so short.

It's so small.

It seems big whenever you get eternity out of your mind when you're just looking in the moment.

It seems like a long time, but it is short.

You've got to learn how to talk trash.

And I'm here to help you.

I am here to help you.

Go look at your property.

Oh, that looks good.

My God, my God, that looks good.

And this is not for heaven.

This is now.

This is now.

Amen.

What cities they dwell in, tents or strongholds?

I'm telling you, mansions are gonna go where those tents and those strongholds are.

Amen.

My house is being built there.

Hallelujah.

In the land, fat is the land fat or is it lean?

And is there wood?

So the thing that you need to understand that no matter what the land looks like, no matter what is going on, no matter who's on it, if the enemy's taking stuff from you, he says in this, be of be of courage.

I'm telling you, grit.

Get some grit about yourself.

Have faith.

Have faith.

And get around someone that's gonna be like, my God, let's do it.

We're gonna do it.

Hold my earrings.

Hold my earrings.

Get around someone that's gonna be like, who are we fighting?

Who are we fighting?

Amen.

It really is an encouragement and a charge tonight to get your voice back.

To stir yourself up in your most holy faith.

To go back and look at the promises you write you wrote down in places that maybe five years ago or ten years ago that you had things about your family or things about your children that you're like, I I let I let it go.

I'm here to tell you tonight, get it back.

Get it back.

Hang on to the promises and charge with them.

Go with them.

Go with them.

So we fight the fight of faith.

Be of courage.

Because in order to live the sweet life, you're gonna have to learn how to possess.

I'll finish back, I'll circle back to 1 Timothy 6 12, and we're gonna lay hands on people.

It says, fight the fight.

This is the English standard version.

Fight the good fight of faith.

Take hold of eternal life.

Take hold.

You just you just take hold of it.

You grab hold of it, meaning you don't let it go.

You ever seen two toddlers fight for a truck?

Right?

One truck, two toddlers.

The strong one wins.

And I'm here to tell you you're strong in the Lord and the power of his might.

The strong one always wins.

Especially when you're drawing from his strength.

You go from his strength to the next strength to the next strength to the next strength.

And guess what?

That means you win and you win and you win and you always win.

Hallelujah.

So get your win back, get your fight back tonight.

Hallelujah.

But it says, which you were called about, which you were made.

Here, listen this.

This is from the English Standard Version.

The good confession in the presence of many witnesses, you can't fight the fight of faith and be quiet.

You just can't fight the fight of faith and be quiet.

Your faith requires your voice.

Your fight requires your voice.

And you're gonna have to learn how to lift it up.

You're gonna have to learn how to take scriptures and how to answer with the word.

You're gonna have to learn how to take the promises and stand on them and not retreat.

You don't ever throw in the towel, you don't wave the white flag, you take your you take that flag and you push forward over the mountain and you gain victory every single time.

Amen.

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