From Hunted to HUNTER: How to BATTLE a Stronghold | Pastor Drew

We are in the middle of a series called

Hunting Phoenix and it is all about

defeating the the lies and the sins that

just keep on coming back. These are

strongholds in our life. And this is our

opportunity. And it reminds me about

when Morgan and I first got married and

I was so excited about marrying my best

friend. Y'all marry your best friend,

okay? Like it is just it's so fun if you

can learn how to be friends as you

before you even start dating. It's such

a joy to get like I love spending time

with my wife. And one of my expressions

of this when we first got married was uh

when we lived in this little 700 square

foot apartment. Any time that we'd be

walking somewhere within the apartment

from one room to the next, I would sneak

around the corner,

wait for her to come, and then

and guys, she gave the best reactions.

She would scream. She would right like

slap me. She would hold nine yards. It

was so fun. And then she'd say, "Stop."

And then I do it again 30 seconds later

and again and again and again. And

eventually then what I started doing is

I started sneaking around the corner and

then running over to the couch and just

doing nothing. And she's like, "Drew,

don't you don't you dare scare me around

this corner. Stop it. Don't do it." She

and she sees me and I'm just sitting on

the couch silently. So she doesn't know

where I'm at. She's like, "I hate you."

Right? And she eventually she came to me

and she said, "Babe, I want you to know,

I don't like that."

And it's not like a cute little, "Oh,

stop it." Like that. It's like, "I don't

like that at all. It's not funny to me.

It's not cute. It's not I need you to

stop." And I reluctantly stopped

because I recognized that it is kind of

like like we live our lives with sin

like that. Like I don't know when it's

hiding around the next corner. I don't

know where like am I about to get am I

about to get attacked? Am I under attack

right now? Like I I always have this

thing that feels like it's about to come

at me again. And that's what we're

talking about today. We're talking about

the the moving from hunted to hunter and

moving from this idea of I the this

giant flaming phoenix bird is coming and

hunting after me and now instead I am

flipping the script. And we've talked

about this in a few different ways.

We've talked about first of all coming

broken, coming weak. that you cannot do

this without Jesus. You will not be able

to overcome the strongholds, the things

that just keep coming back without

absolutely soaking this thing in prayer.

And then last week, we talked about how

to catch our sin or the triggers, how to

identify the actual power, the

authority, and the lie that's going on

inside of my heart, and then how to

confess that not just to the Lord, but

to an ally. If you missed the message

last week, please go back and listen to

that one. If you want to see a victory

in your strongholds, in your life, you

can't skip that step. It's the most

uncomfortable one. It's the one that you

will have the most excuses to avoid. And

I promise you, that's because the enemy

wants to be able to keep this stronghold

in your life. And then we talked uh

about the whole idea of like sins or

sometimes it even just looks like a

trigger that causes me. Uh but I I want

I want for us to have this if you're if

you're going through this and you're

like this series is for me a thousand%

in whatever capacity it may be. It may

be an addiction that you have. It may be

a stronghold that you can see. It may be

a trigger that just keeps on showing up.

I want to encourage you to take a little

inventory

on these trigger moments on what's

happening when suddenly the temptation

is strong. What am I experiencing? Am I

experiencing stress, anger? We're going

to talk more about this about how to

take that inventory. And then the

inventory of the lies. What's the thing

that I'm believing? What's the thing

that I'm comforting myself with with

this idea that ah it's not going to

happen because you're not good enough.

What's the idea that that and what's the

counter truth? And use your ally in

this. Use the people alongside of you

that that can help to ask the wise and

help you to discern. Use a Christian

counselor to come alongside you, a

therapist, use a pastor or a spiritual

leader, uh a a group host to be able to

come alongside you and help you to

discern what's going on in this

spiritual battle. Uh because Genesis 4:7

Genesis 4:7

describes sin like this. says, "Sin is

crouching at your door right around the

corner, right? It desires to have you,

but you must rule over it."

So Christ, his death, burial, and

resurrection gave us the authority to be

able to, but it is still now the

authority is in your hands to rule over

the sin that is in your life. the

triggers, the things that are that that

cause me to submit to the plans of the

enemy instead of the plans of the

father. And what we need to recognize is

that this is not an addiction issue.

This is a spiritual issue. This is not a

habit issue. This is a demonic there's a

a spiritual component to this. And

here's the unfortunate reality.

The reality is Satan is bigger than you,

stronger than you. He's smarter than

you. He's more devious than you. And

he's been doing this for a lot longer

than you have.

You don't stand a chance trying to fight

the demonic on your own.

This is why in Ephesians chapter 6

Ephesians 6:10

verse 10, this is what the Apostle Paul

says when he's talking about spiritual

warfare, overcoming these things in the

plans of the enemy. Final word, be

strong in the Lord. Be strong. Fight the

enemy on your own. Uh-uh.

This is way too big for you. Be strong

in the

>> in the Lord and in whose

his mighty power. Put on all of God's

armor so that you will be able to stand

firm against the strategies of this

powerful enemy, the devil. For we are

not fighting a battle against flesh and

blood. We are not fighting something

that we can attack with swords and guns

and gloves. We can't do that. This is

not We can swing as much as we want and

it's not going to do anything. In this

battle, we are not fighting against

flesh and blood enemies, but against

evil rulers, against authorities of the

unseen world, against mighty powers of

this dark world, and against evil

spirits in the heavenly places. I don't

even know where to aim if I'm punching

right. And my punch, even if it lands,

it ain't going to do a thing. The whole

reality of I've got to learn how to

fight this thing in a different way.

I've got to move from the one that's

being hunted, sin is crouching at your

door, but instead now I will overcome. I

will be the one to carry authority over

the sin in my life in the areas that I

want to see victory in. And that's my

prayer collective. Why are we talking

about sin for an entire series? Because

I desperately want to see you, every

single one of us living in freedom.

sin. There's there's this correlation

between sin uh the the the sinful life

and the life of righteousness. And Paul

says, "Ah, this isn't a great

illustration, but it's kind of like

being a slave either way." You're either

a slave to sin and you're bound with

these chains inside of a cell that you

can't get out of by your own power. Or

you choose righteousness and you're

like, "No, no, no. Now I've set my I've

got these boundaries of righteousness,

of following the Lord. I've got these

new ways that I do things and I it

sometimes feels almost like slay like

I'm stuck doing just this stuff. But

here's the thing, the keys always in

your pocket at all times where God's

like, you can leave. You can abandon

this thing whenever you want. You can

ditch this whenever you want. That is

true. I got freedom over here. I am

stuck and trapped and being led into

death when I submit to sin and allow for

it to have authority in my life.

For me, I've shared this a little bit

and I want to dive a little deeper into

this. I've got a lot of areas in my

heart that has had triggers, that has

had uh lies that I believe from the

enemy. But probably one of the biggest

surface area sins, addictions that I

have faced in my life was with

pornography from 7th grade to uh

sophomore year in college. And uh I I'm

going to talk openly about this. And so

I always say, I've said this before, we

have an amazing kids ministry. Uh if you

if you're like, I don't want my kids to

be hearing this, check your kids in

right now. Say, Pastor Drew told me I

could, even if it's too late, right?

Like uh because I want to talk openly

about one of the more shameful uh

struggles that I've had in my life. So

it was seventh grade and I was

introduced to pornography and by a

fellow athlete uh uh friend of mine,

acquaintance of mine and it started this

I probably it liked pornography for

about like three months

and then I started to see the decay of

my soul from it

and I I felt the conviction

I felt the the death within in me and I

go, I don't want this thing. And I

started to fight it. And I fought it a

lot of different ways, all of them

unsuccessful. For seven years,

I tried. I'd have seasons of success and

then I'd fall back into it. I had I I

started to see success uh with with this

church group that I was in and these

other guys that were helping to be

allies together. And then we moved and

I'm stuck in this place where I don't I

don't know if I have as many Christian

friends and and I just feel really

depressed and I'm just all this stuff

and I fell back into the sin and I just

I submitted to that thing and I would

fight it again and again and again and I

remember my sophomore year of college I

was talking with someone about this

addiction about this problem about how I

couldn't get over it and I'd always find

ways around these these little cheats

and and I went to a Christian college

and so on the the Wi-Fi network there.

You couldn't even access this these

sites. And I'd try to find ways to get

around that. And and all and and this

person I was talking to, a mentor, a a

kind of a a a leader that I looked up

to, a student that was older, and they

were talking about it, and they said,

"Do you want to get rid of this sin?"

And I was like, "Yes."

And he said,

"Do you really

truly

with everything in you want to never

look at that again? want to never see

that again. I need you to look in your

heart and ask yourself that question.

And I looked in my heart and the honest

answer in my heart was I think I want a

three-w weekek break.

The honest answer, if I'm serious about

transparency,

it was

I want to feel like I'm overcoming, but

I think I kind of want to go back to

that thing again. I think I kind of want

whatever you're s I think I kind of want

like I I want to stop drinking but but I

don't know if I I want to stop the

poison that the sin brings but I want to

hang on to the benefit that I feel the

lies that it it promises me and I don't

know if I fully want to let go of that

and this this became this struggle that

I was like I've there's my problem

I don't actually want to kill this

thing. I want to kick it out for a

little bit. That relationship like, "Oh

man, that was a bad relationship. I keep

going to these bad unhealthy things and

I got to stop that and I'm going to say

goodbye to that until maybe someone else

comes along and they say the right

things. They look the right way and they

promise the right promises and it's just

like, "Oh man, I see some of the same

signs, but this one's going to be

different. This one's going to be

different." Right? It's the like, man,

food has had a vice on me. And whenever

I'm stressed, whenever I'm in trouble,

that's where I go. And I just I feed and

I eat away my problems and I and but but

I'm going to stop doing that. I'm

finding this diet. I'm doing this stuff

and all this. It's starting to work out.

And then guess what? Guess what? Did you

hear what that person at work said?

Did you do you know how stressed I am? I

just need to I just need to step back

into this. Right? It may be things that

that you're like, "Oh man, I have been

addicted to my phone. I've been addicted

to whatever it is." And then suddenly

when anger comes and I'm like, I don't

know what to do. I'm over stimulated.

I'm just going to and I'm back to doing

the same thing. How, oh my goodness,

it's been hours and I've just been stuck

here, stuck on a screen, whatever it may

be. And I find myself in that same

place. And I got to ask, do you really

want to kill this

That's got to be the first thing that

you change. Not just take a break, but

actually kill this thing

and actually figure out how to battle

this stronghold. That's what we're going

to be talking about today, battling a

stronghold. And so, this is Jesus gives

us the key to this in the Lord's Prayer.

In the Lord's prayer, he gives this line

and it says, "Lead us not into

temptation, but deliver us from evil."

And this is actually in prayer. This is

actually how we fight the enemy. This is

actually the step first step is to we've

heard of fight and flight, right? This

is the first step is actually obvious.

First, it's flight and then it's fight.

First, this is the problem. This is what

I found in my addiction and my problem.

I would try to I I would try to fight

this thing first every single time. And

I remember countless times I'd be in the

basement of our house growing up and

there was a computer act that I had

access to down there. And I'd go, "You

know what? It's late. Everybody else is

upstairs. Everybody else is in bed." And

uh and I'm just going to I'm just going

to go on and play solitire. That's what

I'm going to do. And I'd lie to myself.

I can fight this. I can fight this. And

I'd put myself in the middle of a

battlefield when I'm weak. And guess

what? I would lose the battle 10 out of

10 times because I chose to first fight

it before flight and avoiding it. The

very first thing if I'm being attacked

by an enemy, I've got to get away first.

Lead me not into temptation. This is

what this is is this is setting up this

idea of flee.

Run away. Okay. 2 Timothy 2:22, we see

2 Timothy 2:22

uh that that Paul says to his son in the

faith, he says, "Flee all these youthful

passions and pursue righteousness. Run

away from darkness. Pursue

righteousness, faith, love, and peace

along with those who call on the Lord

from a pure heart. Seek him. Seek godly

accountability. Run away from this." 1

1 Corinthians 6:18

Corinthians 6:18 says, "Flee. run. Get

out of the way when you are in

temptation with sexual immorality.

Every other sin, did you know the Bible

actually highlights some sins as worse

than others? When it comes to salvation,

it doesn't matter. The tiny little white

life, that's all you've ever done,

you're done. Right? In terms of

salvation, all sin is the same. Sin

separates us from God. But some sins are

more egregious against the Lord. And

this sexual sin is one of those. Every

other sin a person commits is outside of

the body. But the sexually immoral

person sins against their own body, the

temple of the Lord. So it's like a

double sin in one. And it creates this

offense against the Lord. And so this is

in fact the New Testament has eight

different vice lists like flee, get away

from this stuff, all this darkness. And

did you know sexual immorality, sexual

sin is the only type of sin found on all

eight lists. Oftentimes it's either the

first in listed or the last in

emphasized. It is described in even many

times it's described with multiple terms

within the same list. It is such a

powerful vice and that is why we s see

sexual sexuality and sensuality

throughout all of the world around us

all the time which is why we have to set

up boundaries.

How do we avoid sin in our life? We got

to set up boundaries. Boundaries are

convictions that I create that are not

sin, but I must treat as such in order

to protect from the strongholds that the

enemy has. One thing I noticed when I

was in college and I was like, you know

what, I actually want to defeat this

thing. I noticed that when I would just

go online and look up like sports

articles and stuff like that, that that

was one of the ways that would actually

introduce me into the laziness and into

the mindset that would then lead into

pornography.

Is there anything wrong with looking up

sports articles?

Probably not.

But for me, that became a sin. And I I

went, I need to take it. I I need to

stop.

If you see me and I told my

accountability partner, I told my

roommate, I say, "If you see me looking

up articles about Nebraska football,

anything like that, that's not bad. But

I know what it leads into. So, for right

now, I'm setting up this boundary and

I'm not going to cross that." And as at

at this point now, because I don't want

to walk over the edge, I'm not going to

get close to the edge.

>> I'm not going to I I had lived my whole

life right here going, I think I'm going

to be fine. I'm probably going to be

okay. I think I'm going to be just just

okay. and I'm living right on the edge,

right? Flirting with sin, looking like

sin. And then guess what? I would fall

again and again and again. So, how do we

set up boundaries? We got to look at our

our our areas of our life that we go,

these are the access points that the

enemy has. And one of the best ways to

see uh I I call them red flags. I call

them like I'm just finding these red

flag moments. These are the times when I

find that the Lord is trying to attack

me spiritually. These are the time or

sorry that the enemy is trying to attack

me spiritually when usually it's because

the Lord is working. When God's starting

to do something good, I expect the enemy

to come in and try to do something

against me, right? There's times when I

see that I'm like, I know when I'm weak.

I learned this this uh acronym years

ago. Halt.

Stop. Wait. Halt. What does it mean?

Hottie, angry, lonely, tired. Hottie

means prideful, stuck up. I think I've

got this. I've got this thing figured

out. It's on me and I'm doing it right.

It's this idea of like, I think I look

good. I think I feel good. I think I'm

in this. Guess what? That's an area

where I'm already giving Satan a a

foothold in my life. And so now he is

going he's probably going to that's a

point of weakness. And I got to look at

this. When I'm angry, I can't believe

what that person did to me. Guess what?

I've already got a door cracked open for

Satan to then enter in. I'm lonely. I'm

all by myself. I'm going onto my

computer late at night when no one else

is looking. Watch out. Right. No one

else knows. Everybody else in the house

is if you're living alone. Like, that's

hard. You got to learn how to fight this

and get yourself surrounded by community

again and again and again because you're

going to be by yourself a lot of times.

And you got to learn how to find purity

in the midst of that. So part of it may

just be don't be alone. Be alone for as

little as possible, right? Get a godly

roommate to come in and live with you.

Like whatever it may be, things like

that. Hotty, angry, lonely, tired. And

when I say tired, just think low energy.

Sometimes it literally is I'm physically

tired. I need to take a nap. Sometimes

it's I'm exhausted after a long day.

Sometimes it's I'm hungry and I'm just

weak. Right? These are all different

things that we got to think of this

because if I'm full of myself hottie,

then I'm empty of God. If I am lonely, I

got to get I I I find that the only

person that I give permission to to

enter into that room often times is the

enemy. I got to choose who I'm allowing

in. If I'm tired, sometimes the best

thing you can do for your spiritual walk

is take a nap, go for a walk, get a

healthy snack. You know, that's what God

did with Elijah after the fire came down

from heaven. And he runs away and he's

like, "This is terrible. Everything's

miserable. I hate all this. This is so

bad. I just Everybody's chasing me. They

all want to see me die." And he's like,

"Shut up. Take a nap. I'll get you a

snack when you're when you wake up,

okay? Everything will be better after

that promise." Right? And it was

suddenly had a clear mind, right? Just

get up, go for a walk, go do something

else. It doesn't feel that spiritual,

then turn it into prayer. Make it a

prayer walk. Do it. Right? Sometimes

it's just learning how to utilize the

body that God has given me, the mind

that God has given me, and to counteract

the plans that the enemy is trying to do

in that moment. Okay. So, here here's

homework for today. Put a list of

boundaries and access points. What are

the access points that the enemy has?

Start to build a list of this all and

then the boundaries that you want to set

up and share these with your ally. is

part of that vulnerability, that

transparency about going, hey, here's

the things that aren't sin, but to me

right now, they are sin.

Here's the things I'm going to avoid so

that I don't step into this lie in the

stronghold that the enemy has had over

me. And there's so many different What

we need to do is we need to learn how to

get uncomfortable with these boundaries.

If I'm going, ah, that just seems really

inconvenient,

right? There's some apps. I got an app

on my phone called Covenant Eyes. It's

all It used to be called Covenant Eiz.

Now it's called Victory. It's a great

app that will report. It'll screenshot

my phone and it'll send it'll send those

to my wife. It'll send, "Hey, if there's

anything that's concerning, watch out."

Why? Because I dealt with the same

addiction for seven years. And I don't

want to find myself standing out,

putting myself in the midst of a

battlefield. And am I going to find out

that I'm just as despicable of a human

being that I always was for those seven

years?

I don't want to find out

because I've let my I've trusted myself

too many times. I've let myself down too

many times. I'm not even going to find

that out. I'm not even going to do that.

So, I got these inconvenient apps that

take up space and make my phone slow and

like get frustrating like ah and like my

screen time and like all the like all

that like if it's inconvenient, you're

doing it right.

>> Right. I got to delete all these apps

and I can't download these apps unless

someone else puts the code and the

password into my phone. That's annoying.

That's a nuisance. That's good.

>> These are boundaries that make it hard

to be able to access. So, first we got

to fight. We got to run away. We got to

avoid it. Second is we got to fight. We

got to actually defeat this enemy. Once

I've run away, you will undoubtedly

face times of temptation that you did

not enter yourself into. The battlefield

will follow you. The enemy will follow

you. sins crouching at the door. And

it's not just the door that I need to go

out. It's the door that that that that I

that I'm flirting with. It's the door

that I actually I need to cross. I need

to go across this thing. And and guess

what? The enemy is going to keep on

coming. But if I've spent my whole life

battling him, then when he comes and he

attacks on his own accord, guess what?

[music] I'm going to be tired. I'm going

to be weak. I'm going to fail again. But

I've spent time avoiding him, seeking

the Lord, setting up boundaries. Then

when the fight comes, I go, I'm ready.

I'm going to conquer this thing. I'm

going to fight this temptation. I'm

going to see this thing defeated. James

James 4:6–8

4:6-8

says, "God opposes the proud but gives

grace to the humble. Submit yourselves

therefore to God. Resist the devil. He

will flee from you. Draw near to God and

he will draw near to you. Cleanse your

hands sinners." Right? phys. This is

these are the outward things. Purify

your hearts, you double-minded. The

inward things that are leading us into

that, right? This is this is the whole

idea of learning how to then fight this.

But because it's a spiritual

it's a spiritual battle, I got to fight

it with different weapons. In Ephesians

Ephesians 6 · chapter mention

chapter 6 13-20, it goes through a list

of the weapons that we use in spiritual

warfare. And nowhere [music] on this

list is your will.

Try harder performance. Do these things.

Want to know what else is not on this

list?

Fight against the enemy. Like go to

church. Read your Bible. Pray more.

[music]

Join a group. Join a team. Here's the

problem with that. All of those things

are great. They've increased proximity

with the Lord and with community. These

are the things that you actually see

listed. How do what are the weapons I

use against the enemy? Truth.

I stand on truth because there's always

a lie being presented, right? We talked

about that. I stand on righteousness. I

actually I'm pursuing righteousness

within my heart. Not just against this

thing, but just in all areas. I just

want to become more like Christ today

than I was yesterday. readiness for the

gospel of peace. I want to be the type

of person that's on mission and not on

mission like, "Hey, you need to get

saved or else you're going to hell." But

the gospel of peace, right? Not the

gospel of attack, and the gospel of

aggression, the gospel of peace,

readiness. I want to be on mission for

the gospel of peace. I want to have

faith. I'm believing more for what he's

going to do, and I focus on that more

than what the enemy is doing. On

salvation. No, no, no, no. I've been

saved. I've got victory over this. And

so I already know I've got this helmet

of salvation that protects my mind of

going, "Wait, wait, wait. I got

authority over this temptation." The

word of God is the sword of the spirit.

Do not try to I promise you, don't try

to battle with your own words. Battle

with the Bible.

Battle with the Bible. God's words are

so much better than your words. I

promise you, it comes with authority

that you do not have. Have some verses

that you capture in your heart that you

can't let go of. Psalm 119 9-11. [music]

I'll think about this. How can a young

person keep their way pure in this world

that's surrounded by all this sin, by

all this depravity? How can they do it?

By living according to your

word. I seek you with all my heart. Do

not let me stray from your commands.

That's righteousness. I have hidden your

word in my heart so that I won't sin

against you.

Then the last weapon that we see is

prayer. Specifically talking about

praying in the spirit. Using a spiritual

battle against a spiritual enemy.

Don't expect to win a spiritual [music]

battle with natural weapons.

And I promise you what I [music] want to

do. Uh Romans 6 12-14. I want to

highlight [music] this as we get ready

to leave. Can we stand up in here?

Do not let sin control the way you live.

Do not give in to sinful desires. Catch

it. It doesn't say do not have sinful

desires. That's what temptation is.

The Lord Jesus himself was tempted.

Sinful desires aren't sin. It's giving

in to them is the sin. Right? Do not

give in to sin uh sinful desires. Do not

let any part of your body become an

instrument of evil to serve sin. This is

letting things in. What am I listening

to? What am I allowing in through my

eyes? Who are the people that I'm

surrounding myself with that are feeding

certain spiritual aspects of my soul?

Right? What am I surrounding myself

with? And how do I need to build

boundaries? [music] Instead, give

yourselves completely to God. For you

were dead, but now you have new life. So

use your whole body as an instrument to

do what is right for the glory of God.

Your whole body, physically, my mind,

mentally, right? All of it. Sin is no

longer your master. For you no longer

live under the requirements of the law.

Instead, you live under the freedom of

[music] God's grace.

So this is what I want us to do. I want

I just want this is super practical.

Look at your access points. Begin to

take notes of these things. Maybe you

got a big sin that's super clear and you

know your access points. I know people

here who've dealt with uh addiction,

with alcoholism, and they said, "You

want to know what I had to do? I had to

add an extra 10 minutes, 15 minutes onto

my drive home because the way I would

drive home would I'd pass by my bar, the

bar, and I'd have to go this way, and

[music] I have to go around it. And it's

really annoying. It's really

inconvenient, which means I'm doing it

right. [music]

And I would avoid. So, what are the

entrance points and then what are the

uncomfortable, inconvenient boundaries

you need to set [music] up? Share that

with your ally. Talk with your ally

about the areas in your life that you're

like, I still I'm trying to discern the

lies that I'm believing here and the

truth that Lord the Lord is speaking

over this. And then use the word, right?

This is where like I I want I want you

let Google let AI lead you to the word.

Don't [music] let that become your word.

AI is a terrible counselor. It'll it'll

just support whatever you want to

believe all the time. Okay? So, stop

doing that. Right? I let the but I I

will let it. But I may go, hey, help me

find some verses that deal with this

type of addiction. And then I'm going to

go away from that and I'm going to get

into this and I'm going to okay, I'm

going to read the whole context around

it. I'm going to let this thing soak

inside of me and I'm going to let this

change me, right? I'm going to let the

word impact my heart. I'm going to let

that become my battle. I'm going to

memorize some verses so that when the

temptation comes back up, I'm ready to

fight it. [music]

Okay. Lastly,

use the community, the body of Christ

[music] around you. Find these

boundaries. Fight the enemy. Flee from

temptation. Run towards the father.

Resist the devil. He will flee from you.

Draw near to God and he will draw near

to you.

>> I believe that this is going to be a

church full of victory, full of freedom.

Amen. Amen. Heavenly Father, I pray

right now in the mighty name of Jesus.

Lord, I believe that there's going to be

victory in this place. [music] Lord, may

we live in the practical discipline of

saying, "I refuse to let this sin in my

life anymore. I refuse to allow this. I

want God, I pray for a change of hearts.

I pray for a change of minds. I pray for

a change of practice. And I pray for

clear boundaries to be set. I pray for

powerful accountability to be made. And

Lord, in the mighty name of Jesus, I

pray that victory would start to be seen

again and again and again, the [music]

stronghold released more and more and

more as we follow through according to

your word. In the mighty name of Jesus,

we [music] pray. Amen. Amen. Come on,

can we give a hand for the word of the

Lord?

>> [applause]

>> Hey, thanks so much for watching today's

[music] message. Our prayer is more than

the words that were spoken in the

message [music] that you would remember

the things that God spoke to your heart.

>> Yeah. And no matter what it was that God

spoke to you, I know that part of your

journey is other people being in a

community because we [music] are better

together. So, if you made a decision to

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[music] This is going to help us so that

we can celebrate with you and equip you

with some tools so that your next steps

are [music] great steps.

>> Yeah. Thanks so much for watching. We're

praying for you. We're cheering you on.

We believe that the best days are

[music] ahead of you.

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