Air Strikes! - Bishop T.D. Jakes

the book of exodus chapter number 17 verse 8 through 15. amen the pmts are receiving your seed now it's time to go to the word exodus 17 8-15 when when you find this amen then came amalek and fought with israel in re-freedom i used to say referendum but it's actually repeatable and moses said unto joshua choose us out men and go out and fight with amulet pay close attention choose us out men and go out fight with amalek tomorrow i will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of god in my hand so joshua did as moses had said to him and fought with amalek and moses aaron and her went up to the top of the hill and it came to pass when moses held up his hand that israel prevailed and when he let down his hand amalek prevailed but moses hands were heavy and they took a stone and put it under him and he sat there on and aaron and her stayed up his hands oh god thank you for the people that stay up my hands thank you jesus excuse me the one on the one side the other on the other side and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun and joshua discomforted amalek and his people with the edge of the sword and the lord said unto moses write this for a memorial in a book and rehearse it in the ears of joshua for i will utterly put out the remembrance of amalek from under heaven and moses built an altar and called the name of it jehovah nessie can you say man give god a praise i want you to go to the 10th first and take a look at it so joshua did as moses had said to him and fought with amalek and and watches moses aaron and her went up to the top of the hill today i want to talk from the subject air strikes air strikes holy spirit you are so amazing you move in a mysterious way you don't do things in a conventional way you do them in a mysterious way i thank you right now for what you gave me to give to them i am excited about what you gave me to give to them imparted unto them in such a way that they receive what they need for their lives and their circumstances and their situations in jesus name somebody shall a man you may be seated somebody say air strikes [Applause] you know i'm going somewhere don't you [Laughter] let's be clear we are in the midst of many blessings any blessed people in the building it might sound strange but we have unbelievable opportunities unspeakable resilience we've seen the hand of god in our seeing the hand of god move in spite of everything that's going on around us god has been good to us he's still open doors he still made ways he still provided he's still spoken to us he's still encouraged he still uplifted us and it is an odd situation but nonetheless we are in a season of great warfare also you're blessed on one hand and attacked on the other you're going forward on one hand but it's pouring down rain on the other you have to deal with i found out a long time ago is that you don't get more of what you want without getting more of what you don't want to deal with you don't get more wheat and not get more tear more means more if you get more this you're going to get more of that come on you don't get more income and not pay more taxes unless you want to go to jail you don't get the house of your dreams and not pay hoa fees you got you more means more you you don't get more children and not have to buy more groceries more school supplies more responsibilities more always means more my sister and i when we were raising our children we used to laugh because my sister would buy a dozen eggs for all week because she had one child a dozen eggs would last one day in my house so her idea of groceries are my idea groceries were two different things because i had more so you have to pay more and you have to deal with more and you have more incidents and you have more adversities and you have more more just simply means more you cannot ask god for more and be shocked when more pressure more tension more anxiety more trouble more haters more discord more disruption more affliction more adversity more problems more crisis more simply means more you got to deal with that you got to deal with that the children of israel cried out to god for example and asked god set us free from the bondage of the egyptians well that and he did that he did just that and he did it so eloquently that god fought the egyptians god fought the egyptians it was a kind of legendary massacre that would become the substratum of their belief system of their faith system that throughout all ages god would always refer to it and say am i not the god who brought you out from under the hand of pharaoh am i not the god who delivered you from the red sea this is a point of reference everybody in here ought to have uh am i not the god story so that when you face new trials you have a point of reference that draws you back to something that you know that you know that you know that you know that that that god did for you in your life am i not the god their army was advanced they they were they were the superpower of the era their embalming methods are so strong that the bodies are still well kept today that were bombed by the egyptians the egyptians were known for their pyramids that people still travel to see the pyramids that were built in the ancient days of egypt egypt was a superpower with their advanced army and their warfare techniques and their chariots and their armies and they had a economic process that was unbelievable to the degree that others had to come seeking food and other stables in order to survive but god didn't care nothing about that because when you wage war with god's children god will tear down everything you got and come get you and rescue you and deliver you out of the hand of the fowler and there's some people in here that have been delivered out of the hand of the fowler some of you have been delivered you weren't even supposed to make it through kovid but god just stepped in and delivered you and brought you out of it and you owe him a pray if you got any kind of breath you owe him a prey you owe him a pray while over 600 000 dead bodies are buried all over america and you're still walking around here you better not be arguing about no parking space you better open your mouth and start praising god oh you too cute you too cute to come to church you too you better get up and start praising god and thank god that you're not in the icu you ought to thank god that you're not in a crisis sinner that you're not gasping for breath oh yeah you've been in a fight you've been in a fight if the enemy couldn't get you that way he wanted you to have a nervous breakdown completely lose your mind feign up under the pressure and some of you came real close but you still here and you survived and some on boards and some on broken pieces made it through things that would have drove other people crazy but somehow other gods sustained you and even though you got to the edge god pulls you back off the edge and you ought to thank god for what he's doing in your mind in your emotions in your body in your sensitivities in your limb you better thank god cause you still know your name you still know your address you still know your phone number you still know who your mama is you still know who your daddy is you still know you know you know there are people who are who are your age that cannot tell you what their name is to god be the glory forget praising him for your card forget praising him for your cute shoes forget praising god for your red bottom shoe praise god for your breath praise god for your kidneys praise god for your liver praise god for your lungs your tissues your soul your soul does make her boast in the lord the humble shall hear thereof and be glad oh magnify the lord with me and let us exalt his name together [Applause] and if you don't praise him for you praying for your mama if you don't pray that for your mama praising for your daddy your prayers for your dad and praising for your children praising for your big brother praying for your older sister praise them that they're still doing good i thank god i thank god i thank god i don't know about you i thank god i'm gonna be thankful now god is never gonna have to say to me i took them because you didn't appreciate them i thank god for everybody god kept in my life i thank you right now in front of the world for everybody for every tear i didn't shed for every funeral i didn't go to i thank you for that and the lord brought them out [Applause] [Music] god brought them out on eagle swings he brought them out with his right hand he brought them out god fought them all kind of ways with lice and frogs and pestilence and destruction god sent lucas into their field see it's a bad thing to mess with a praying person [Music] they don't have to cuss you out they don't have to cuss you out they don't have to pop their neck and flip out they don't have to take their if they start praying god has said locusts stuff you never thought about that's why your car won't run that's why your teeth falling out that's why you got no peace because you spoke against the wrong person you bring curses on yourself you bring damnation on yourself because when god fights god fights with stuff you wouldn't even think of who else but god would think of fighting you with frogs [Music] you better watch your mouth you better watch your mouth you better watch what you say i don't care that you don't like them if you speak against somebody that god loved god will shut it down and they prayed god delivered them even though pharaoh wanted them god delivered them even though pharaoh was considered the strongest leader of his era god delivered them even though pharaoh got 600 chosen chariots and chased him god delivered them even though they came to a stopping place where they couldn't go forward and the red sea was in front of them and mountains on either side of the god delivered them even though they were scared god delivered them even though they murmured and complained god delivered them even though they were flawed and imperfect god delivered them even though their leaders didn't know what to do god delivered them because when moses didn't know what to do god knew what to do and god still delivered them they taught moses how to use what he had somebody ought to pray god teach me how to use what i got i got more than i think i got this walking stick got power in it and when moses stretched forth his rod the waters parted and they went across on dry ground and they went on free pharaoh and his horses in a serious drowned in the red sea and miriam grabbed the tambourine and about beat the skin off it and started praising god and all the women went forth and started dancing we didn't create dancing all the women went forth and started dancing and praising god that's not a denominational thing i don't dance i'm methodist i don't dance i'm catholic that's not a denominational thing that's a grateful thing that's a victory thing thank you jesus i saw jabari jumping a while ago i can't jump like that no more i might can but i don't know what happened when i come back now but i tell you what i was bobbing he was jumping i was bobbing i'm gonna get some licks in some kind of way don't you get old and just start sitting i'ma if i can't jump i'm above if i can't bob i'm a weed from side to side if i can't weave from side to side i'm gonna wave my hand i'm gonna do something get up show some sign that i've been liberated that i've been set free that the great emancipator has liberated me from that which i feared and from that which chased me he delivered me from that which chased me that which was pursuing me he delivered me he brought me out by his own right hand i can't take credit for this delivery this is a deliverance for which they did not participate they didn't have to fight the egyptians the egyptians would have ate them up they didn't have to fight the egyptians but just because you don't have to fight the first time doesn't mean you won't have to fight the next time see we get spoiled when god fights for sometimes we get so small when god fights for us that we never learn how to fight and the only way to learn how to fight is to get into a fight and when you get into a fight you learn how to fight and it doesn't mean that god doesn't love you and it doesn't mean that god isn't there but he's teaching you how to survive in freedom if you was a slave you wouldn't have to fight but but now that you're free you got to take on some people because your freedom is intimidating to other people you see what i'm saying your freedom is intimidating to other people and other people resent you just because you're free and so this group of people called the amalekites became intimidated because of of the freedom of the hebrew people they became intimidated not just because they were free but because they had moved into a territory that scared amalek according to the bible that malachites are descendants of amalek there was a character named amalek who was the son of elfaz himself the son of esau and amalek is described as the chief of amalek among the chiefs of the sons of esau from which it is surmised not known not proven controversial that he ruled a clan or territory territory named after him called the amalekites are you hearing what i'm saying to you and if that is true that would mean that jacob and esau are still fighting [Applause] that that that would mean that the descendants of one are fighting with the other now according to the mid-ration the mid-range is a group of people who studied the talmud they were ancient jewish historians according to them the amalekites were sorcerers they were sorcerers who could transform themselves to resemble animals in order to avoid capture thus in first samuel 15 3 it was considered necessary to destroy the livestock in order to destroy amalek [Applause] the amalekites weren't just descendants of esau they were demonic they dabbled in witchcraft and sorcery and evil and debauchery they were also known for their willingness to attack the weak they were merciless they would kill they would take the women and children and you remember at zig lag how they took the women and children and david came back from ziggler and they had captured women and children what kind of army kick goes after kids and women that's who's fighting them ruthless sorceristic demonic infused people because the children of israel were free they had faced obstacles they they had faced being admirable where the waters were bitter they had faced not having enough food and god had to magically provide food for them they had a second bout with thirst and moses had to smite the rock so that they could drink from the waters but when they came down to refeed them all of a sudden all hell broke loose because the amalekites were concerned you see refreedum is the last oasis between the red sea and mount sinai and when you start getting close to my signing i'm outside give me some time because i'ma lay a foundation mount sinai is the place where god authenticated and legitimized them as a people and not just a family where they became a nation it was a coronation service when they give the ten commandments and they get the judgments they get all of this because god is setting up a nation of people and so just when they were about to come into this inaugural service of being they come to graffiti rafita means oasis rafita means oasis because refreedom was a place of support and rest with palm trees and beauty and it was a desired piece of land because once you got past your freedom you went into the desert of the wilderness of sin leading up to sinai so this is the last beautiful place and when you're getting close to what god has for you that's when the amalekites come to attack you that's when all hell breaks loose that's when problems begin to arrive so they they faced mirror but they had faced not having enough food they had faced about with thirst they had faced the sneaking ambush of the amalekites and all of a sudden they find themselves in this situation it seems they've gone from knowing him as a savior in egypt to knowing him as a provider in the wilderness however they're about to experience him as a protector god will always protect his children but that doesn't mean that we can rest while he fights that doesn't absolve us of our responsibilities he is teaching them the responsibility of faith faith is aggressive not passive faith is aggressive not passive faith is strong not weak faith is confrontational not hiding faith will march on you and even though the hebrews were not experienced in warfare and they were more experienced in being slaves than anything else and they were not trained in hand-to-hand combat and they were not equipped with the kinds of equipment that they needed to fight people who fight for a living they still had to fight with the odds up against them they had to fight aggressively and they had to fight by faith and we will see joshua's first attempt at leadership and in our battle and what happens in this text is an amazing amalgamation of a huge strategy as moses begins to lay out an attack command for the people he's leading and he's never done it before has god ever given you something to do that you've never done before whether it's as simple as starting a business or raising a child has god ever given you something to do for which you have no experience and you have to strategize in the dark you have to strategize the unknown without a model without a mentor without a pattern you had to make it you had to build it from the ground up [Applause] i told somebody about this church i said there's not a rafter in this church i haven't walked through i've been on the roof of the church i've been in the rafters i've been in the walls i know where everything is i know how it was poured i know how this was laid i know how that was like when you build something from the ground up you know what's in it you know what's under it you know what's done to it that's why it's good to build from the ground up when people hand you something you don't know what you got but i remember when kovya first started and we were all sheltering in place and i was telling my wife you can get on the app and order food which we eventually did but it took her a long time to order food she said no i'll cook it because if i cook it i know what's in it if you build it yourself you know what's in it if somebody hands you something you don't know what you don't know where they've been you don't know what they've been doing and you don't know what's in the food and in the abundance of of caution sometimes you have to build it yourself and so god has put them in a situation where moses has to strategize for the first time so he says to joshua who is going into the battle for the first time because slaves don't battle he says joshua you take the bulk of the people and go down there and fight this experienced group of witches this experienced army of hateful people that are trying to attack us who have already started to pick off the stragglers i neglected to tell you that the malachites had already started picking off the stragglers that's why i wouldn't be a strangler in church i wouldn't be a straggler in the kingdom of god it's not good to follow too far in the rear because the enemy picks off stranglers we're better together we're stronger together we have more power together we have more resources together don't let the enemy first you was on the front row and then you move to the middle and then you're on the back row and then you're not on no row and little by little he's getting you further and further back so he can get a good grip on you but the devil is alive you need to move up and stay in the stream you need to sing your song do your dance i don't care where you sit you ought to clap your hand you ought to praise the lord don't start strangling because the enemy likes to pick off stragglers so in our text today they've already started picking off stragglers and moses says all right joshua we we got to fight what i like about it is it is not it is not moses's inclination to lead an army into battle it is not his inclination but i don't care how nice i am if you push me far enough if you back me in a corner i'm a nice guy i swear i am i'm a really nice guy but if you back me in the corner if you push me where i can't get around if you keep coming up in my face talking about your finger at me you're going back the inner corner they backed moses in the corner and moses had to come up with a strategy his strategy is joshua you stay down here and i'm going up here because moses strategy is high-level war high level war somebody say that with me high level war say it again high level war when i was developing this message the holy spirit told me to tell you this is not no fight on a school bus the fight we're in right now is not a school bus fight it's not a meet me after school fight it's not some kind of little fight you and your siblings had fighting over whose bunk bed you was going to sleep in this is high level war this is demonic warfare this is satanic warfare this is where the enemy has come after you in ways that you cannot imagine and many of you need to recognize in order to fight this kind of devil seeing as it is a high level war you can't fight this from down here you can't fight it on an eye-level basis you can't fight it in your flesh you can't fight it in a natural way sometimes you gotta go up high to get the job done you gotta move on up a little higher to get the power of god i'm not up here worshiping just so jabari never feel good i'm worshiping so i can get high enough to do what i got to do to break through what i got to break through to get what god has for me somebody praise the lord and let's go on up a little higher let's go up a little higher let's go up a little higher let me rephrase that everybody who's in a fight praise the lord [Music] so watch this you're gonna learn something today you're gonna learn something david said he teaches my fingers to war it means that that god will teach you how to fight he'll teach you how to fight the good fight he'll teach you how to fight the good fight of faith cause you didn't learn that in the street you didn't learn that in the club you didn't learn that in the gym class i know you was on the wrestling team but you can't wrestle this devil you can't box this devil you can't shoot this devil you can't cut this devil this is a spiritual battle and in order to fight a spiritual battle you got to be a spiritual person you got to be a spiritual person i get nervous when people start telling me they spiritual because i want to know what kind of spirit are you talking about because there's all kind of spirits in the world today what kind of spirit are you talking about i know your spiritual demons are spiritual witches are spiritual come on tell me tell me what kind of spirit are you talking about i'm not spiritual i'm a child of the king i've been washed in the blood of the lamb i'm filled with the holy ghost i got the power of god walking down inside of me and so go tell me you spiritual we are all spiritual what kind of spirit are you moses says i'm going overhead and he takes aaron and her with him and he goes overhead and you can always tell when it's spiritual warfare because spiritual warfare uses strange weapons moses goes up joshua goes out this is a two-dimensional warfare moses without using a sword or a slingshot or a chariot just goes to the top of the mountain and does an air strike [Applause] he does an air strike he does an airstrike he doesn't do hand-to-hand combat with the enemy he's not wrestling with the enemy he's wrestling with the spirit that's controlling the enemy he's wrestling with the principality and power that is using the enemy he oh you all don't hear what i'm saying i'm about to get ahead of myself and so in order to do this moses went as high as he could go and then he stretched as far as he could stretch and he raised up his hand and looked like a fool because spiritual warfare looks stupid that's why some in some intellectual people won't do it because they're worried about what they look like some cute people won't do it because they're worried about what it looks like but if you get hit hard enough you won't care what you look like you will go into some spiritual warfare and moses was willing to look like a fool because he said i didn't bring them this far not to take them to the destination that they're supposed to go to and won't be unto the devil that tries to stop me when i'm after something did you hear me whoa be unto the devil and try to stop me when i'm after something i'll cut right through you when i'm after something you better move up out of my way moses stretched forth israel and the lord told me to tell you because this is a high level warfare you're gonna have to stretch you're gonna have to be willing to be uncomfortable you're gonna have to be willing to get out of your comfort zone you're gonna have to stretch you're gonna have to stretch in a way that doesn't even look like you're doing what you're doing and it doesn't look effective and it doesn't look like you're in the battle and some people are saying you're a turncoat that you went up on the mountain when you should have been down there fighting with the people but you know what you're doing you're gonna have to stretch forth your rod moses is interceding this is intercession this is what's gonna break the yoke when you take them cute earrings off and get down on your face and start saying devil you can't have my house the blood is against you when you go back to your grandmama stuff and get you some good old anointed oil and start anointing your door post and start anointing your bed and start anointing your children in the sleep i know it looks stupid but sometimes you gotta stretch to get the breakthrough that you need is there anybody in here that remembers the old-fashioned power of the holy ghost you this is the time you're gonna have to go into warfare you're gonna have to get up out the bed and pray for them kids before you send them to school they're going into all kind of stuff anoint them with oil cover them with the blood please the blood and wear man do everything you can do you got to fight high and you got to fight low you got to fight high and you got to fight low you got to fight high and you got to fight low moses affects the battle without ever drawing a sword because moses knew the power of intercession he knew the power of prayer he knew the power of aligning himself with god he knew that he had a principality to break over that region and while joshua is fighting in the flesh moses is fighting in the spirit works goes to the valley faith goes to the mountain works goes to the valley faith goes to the mountain now you can't have one without the other you got to have both because faith without works is dead so you got to have somebody fighting on the ground while somebody's going air strikes from above but you're gonna get a break through whoever i'm preaching to i know you've been in a spiritual battle but the lord said if you listen closely at this message it's a prophetic word of direction to show you how to break the thing that's trying to break you we're going to break it we're going to break it we're going to annihilate it we're going to destroy it we're going to break its grip on us and we're going to bring it through the power of the holy ghost faith goes to the mountain works goes to the valley faith does air strikes works does hand-to-hand combat and you got to have both [Applause] look at somebody saying it's going to be a hair strike the devil's not even going to know what hit him he's not even going to know what came at it because he's going to be looking down here fighting at what he can see because he can only see eye level he doesn't know that i'm up here working in the heavenlies that i'm rebuking the principalities of the powers in the air that i'm standing in total agreement for a breakthrough that's how i got my breakthrough that's how i got my finances that's how y'all didn't hear what i'm saying that's how i got out of debt that's how i got up on my feet i had to send works down here i had to send prayer up here i don't care what's got you today shake yourself it's coming off today it's coming off today it's coming off today it's coming off today it's coming off today it's coming off today it might not have come off your mama it might not have come off your daddy but it's gonna come off for you we're gonna ride it till we break it we're gonna ride until we break it we're gonna ride until we break it we're gonna pray all up in the balcony we're gonna paint all out in the vestibule we're gonna pray all out in the hallway until we rebuke the powers in the air that are coming in the spirit of all heart there's a spirit in the air there's a spirit in the air hell has loose fresh demons to control the airways but we're gonna get us some air space today it's about to be some air strikes going on somebody take about three minutes and go into holy ghost phrase you got a minute and a half to launch an airstrike drop a bomb this morning drop a bomb you're watching it out you're watching me online you're watching me online drop a bomb this is an airstrike it's an airstrike you're gonna hit him in the spirit you're gonna hit it in the spirit you're gonna break it in the spirit you're gonna be healed in your spirit before you get healed in your body you're gonna get loose in your spirit before you loosen your body your finances are coming in your spirit before they come in your wallet it's an ass strike it's an airstrike [Applause] [Music] [Applause] sit down i got to go more i got more i got more i got more i got more i got to get this to somebody i got to get this with somebody because the devil's been having his way with you he's been picking off your stragglers he's been eating up your crops he's been after your field he's been after your stuff but you came on the right sunday this morning because you're about to get a breakthrough up in here up in here it's going to be some delivery up in here up in here [Applause] and i'm going to show you why moses had to go high because it changes your point of view see when you're fighting eye to eye you think your opponent is eye level but when you get high enough you get perspective [Applause] [Music] [Applause] the problem is the battle goes on for a while and this is the problem in the church today and respectfully we don't have no endurance you can call the church to prayer and they good for about three minutes maybe five large do you remember when we used to add in shut-ins [Applause] it would be after the revival and you stayed over for the shut-in and you didn't come out till in the morning you didn't come out in the morning till in the morning and 24 hours you were just praying and talking in tongues and praying in the spirit we we don't have the endurance of our elders we want to have church but got to be quick because we got stuff to do until we don't have stuff somebody called it over there i said i know you busy you're a busy woman of god you're a businesswoman i'm a businesswoman i'm a boss yeah you you're a boss till you don't have nothing to boss you better take time to be a prayer warrior and an intercessor and get down on your knees or you won't have nothing to run i feel like i'm preaching to somebody i don't know who it is but i'm talking to somebody right now and you all upset because it's not working out on paper and it's not working out on the books and it's not working out in the record you you you fighting our level you got to get up on the mountain and start saying say god i know you started this you began a good work in my life i know you spoke this into my spirit and lord as i stand here with you i rebuke every demonic principality that has hovered over my family for generations and generations and generations i'm going to be the david that breaks the yoke over my family that changes the trajectory that stars such lineage of kings i'm gonna break through i know i wasn't in line to be a king i know i'm not saul's son i know the church didn't like me the people didn't like me and the neighborhood don't like me and when i go on the grocery store they don't even like me but i'm coming anyway and i'm going to break this yolk until i start a new order i'm going to be the first johnson i'm going to be the first wilson i'm going to be the first matthews i'm going to be the first jameson i'm going to be the first one to break to break this curse i'm going to ride until i break it i'ma ride until i start a new order and moses went on top and he broke it up high but he had to have endurance because the truth of the matter is even though moses is the preferred prophet of the old testament the one who god said other prophets have i spoke to through dreams and visions but of my servant moses will i speak face to face and if he were not only a profound prophet he is also the first pastor of the old testament church that's why he was trained as a shepherd because he would lead the children of israel and he is an amazing man of god he is full of miracles he has stretched forth this same rod across the red sea and the waters have parted he has smoked a rock and turned it into a gushing waterfalls moses is back moses is bled he's cracked his hands and quail covered the sky moses was bad anybody would want to go to moses church moses was bad he didn't take no junk god heard moses god heard moses god parted siege from moses god broke yokes from moses god sent pestilence from moses enemy moses was a bad man of god they'd seen him demonstrate they'd seen his mighty power they'd seen his mighty way they had seen the anointing on his life even when they didn't like him they had to respect him because was a bad man [Applause] to my wife is bad is an african-american colloquialism that doesn't mean bad it really means good so when i say he's bad don't mean he's bad i i explain to you later he was amazing [Applause] he was profound he was prolific he was articulate he would [Music] but just because you're bad don't mean you don't get tired oh i wish i had a witness in here i wish i had somebody that everybody thinks you're strong and everybody thinks you're invincible and everybody brings you all their problems because you always know how to fix everything and after a while they start relying on you and then they start taking you for granted and they don't understand i don't care how anointed you are how powerful you are how gifted you are how wise you are how blessed you are after a while you get tired moses he stretched he stood and every time he stretched forth his rod the same rod that parted the waters every time he did it joshua started winning in the valley so joshua isn't just winning because he's a warrior he's winning because he's got an intercessor and every time the intercessors intercede joshua's driving back the amalekites but every time moses got tired and dropped his hands the amalekites started to defeat the hebrews because the truth of the matter is you can only hold your arm up so long and after a while you get tired can i talk to tired people who've been through battle after battle after battle you throw trees into the bitter waters of america you serve quail to people who didn't even appreciate you you've helped people that grumbled and complained against you you fed them you gave them water as as if they were close while they murmured and complained and questioned your leadership and you stood up to all of it but the truth of the matter that you don't even want to tell anybody you don't tell your husband you don't tell your wife you don't tell your kids you got nobody to talk to but me and so since you ain't got nobody but me let's talk you tired it's okay said i'm tired yeah say it again i'm tired see some of us need permission to be able to say it because we can't even say i'm tired in our own house we can't admit it to anybody because we got an image to maintain and we got to always know what to do and we got to always be strong and we got to always be invincible and we got to always be mighty but the truth of the matter is i stress this law and i can stretch and god i'm tired [Applause] to all my tired brothers and sisters you need to develop a sustainable system and you by yourself is not sustainable when all roads lead to you and you have to answer all questions and you have to do everything and you have to fix everything that you can do that for a while but it's not sustainable you've had great success being a one-man man you've been an amazing woman you've done some awesome stuff by yourself took them on knocked them out packed your bags and carried them [Applause] threw them in the trunk drove yourself you bad [Applause] you're bad you're bad he left you thought you weren't gonna make him you showed him you took night classes worked part-time got an extra job pull yourself up did your own hair sent the kids off to school bought the groceries came home did the homework and still sing songs and still made it to choir rehearsal you bad but you're tired and it's okay it's okay to be tired you just have to develop a sustainable system because you cannot too much is at stake for your arm to fall if your arm falls right now everything you work for dies if your arm falls right now everybody who depends on you dies if your arm falls right now amalek is going to win they're going to divide the people you were born to deliver if your arm falls right now you're going to go into bankruptcy if your arm falls right now your kids are gonna backslide and go back to where they came from if your arm falls right now [Applause] but you tired so first of all they put him on a stone they put moses on a rock they said we're gonna show up your foundation we're gonna put you on a rock you sit on the rock this rock is jesus have you ever noticed that half of moses with miracles were with sticks and stones [Laughter] sticks and stones the stick is in his hand he's sitting on the stone and aaron and her got up under his arms and in order to get the victory you're gonna have to let somebody help you who am i preaching to holla at me i know you used to do everything by yourself but now in this season you're gonna have to let somebody help you [Music] and aaron and her lifted up his arms all day long that's a long time hoya leave it up to 10 o'clock tonight [Applause] i want i want you to sense the reality of this text do you know what your arm would call you back by four o'clock by about 12 o'clock by five o'clock it would go numb by eight o'clock it would feel like it fell off you're gonna need some help because this is not a quick fight the fight we're in right now pastor bao is not a quick fight this will not be over this weekend it is a long fight fought by people who are used to quick solutions it is a long fight you're not used to making buttermilk you don't know nothing about homemade ice cream and those of you that do this because you bought a machine at jcpenney's you don't know nothing about long grain rice or slow-cooked grits you don't know nothing about making pancake batter and waffle batter from scratch and beating egg whites and folding it over it it's and i'm not belittling you i'm just saying you're not used to long fights so you grow weary quick and the lord said this will not be quick you're gonna have to develop a system that's sustainable now let me go quick to where i'm trying to go the two-prong strategy is a spiritual warfare it has to be supported spiritual warfare isolated without physical action is impotent physical action without spiritual warfare is incapable joshua fought with a sword moses fought with the rod joshua fought with his troops moses fought with his god joshua fought with soldiers and moses fought with the source joshua fought on an eye level moses fought from the air you gotta have both i'm almost where i need to be ephesians 6 12-14 put it up we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities against powers against the rulers of the darkness of this world against spiritual wickedness in high places in high places wherefore take unto you the whole armor of god that you may be able to withstand in the evil day and having done all the stand i don't care if you got to get on a rock and you got to get two people to hold you up stand therefore having your loins gird about with truth and having on the breastplate of righteousness this is going to be an air strike somebody say it's going to be an airstrike we are not battling against flesh and blood and you know what really goes takes us to the mountain our mountain is not a geographical location our mountain is going into the spirit when we go into the spirit we defeat what is fighting in the flesh that's why when paul teaches about praying he says i will pray in the spirit and i will pray with an understanding also one does not negate the other you have to do both look at first corinthians 14 14-15 i'm almost done for if i pray in an unknown tongue my spirit prayer but my understanding is unfruitful do you hear what i'm saying see a lot of us got a prayer language but we don't use it anymore but for this level of demonic attack you are fighting the amalekites you are fighting witches you are fighting the prince of this air do you not know that satan's name is the prince of the air and in order to air is is it's a root word where we get the greek word pneuma spirit this is a spirit battle and when i say air strikes i'm not just talking about air like 40 000 feet above the ground i'm talking about pneuma i'm talking about the breath of god i'm talking about ruach i'm talking about spirit you don't have to fight this in your spirit you have to get in the spirit because when you get in the spirit let me tell you what get praying in the spirit will do the bible says praying in the spirit will build you up praying in the spirit will strengthen you praying in the spirit will fortify you praying [Applause] and start praying in the holy ghost weighing in the holy ghost praying in the holy ghost praying in the holy ghost because the more you pray and the more you pray the highest [Laughter] [Laughter] see the more i pray in the spirit the higher i get the higher i get and once i get above it i can handle it what is it then i will pray with the spirit and i will pray with the understanding also praying with the spirit is not just praying under the anointing it's praying in an unknown tongue or it sounds stupid to say i will pray with the spirit and i will pray with an understanding also praying with the spirit means that i don't understand it i read the previous verse the next verse says you have two options i'm going to pray with an understanding that's my joshua i'm gonna [Applause] i'm gonna send my joshua in i'ma pray with an understanding but my understanding is limited because some of these demons i'm fighting right now i don't understand i don't know what to tell god to do i don't know how to tell god to fix it but i'm still going to send my joshua ahead and when i start praying with an understanding that's an eye level prayer but when i start praying in the spirit that's a high mountaintop prayer that's an airstrike and whoever i'm preaching to today god says you're gonna have to do an air strike to bring this devil down you gotta be able to work on both dimension understanding and spirit you're gonna have to be able to sing in english and sing in tongues you're gonna have to sing in the language y'all don't know nothing about singing until but i come out of the old church and in the old church we use this heart singing in tongues you're gonna have to do an air strike if you do an air strike there's gonna be a healer yeah if you do an air strike there's gonna be a miracle if you do an air straight the yoke will be broken somebody do an air strike right now somebody online go into an air strike i'm gonna ride it till i break it i'm gonna break it i'm gonna break it i'm gonna break it amalekites i don't care what you turn into i don't care if you turn into a goat if i do an airstrike you gonna come down if you turn into a lion the lion will fall if you turn into a bear the bear will fall if you turn into goliath goliath will fall because i'm about to do an airstrike i need 30 suckers of airstrikes in this place right now in this place in this place online in your living room in your kitchen in your bed sitting in your living room sitting at your kitchen table i feel an air strike i feel an air strike i feel it air strike i feel the air strike the church has got to go back to old-fashioned power and do an air strike on the enemy the anointing of god is in this room and glory to god if you open your mouth something is going to break loose break loose break loose break break break break break break in the name of jesus somebody say yes lord somebody say yes slowly i will pray with an understanding i'mma pray in the spirit also i'm sending my understanding here and i'm sending my holy ghost in and i will defeat the amalekites somebody go to jumping up and down i'm gonna stomp on them i'm gonna press them under my feet i'm gonna bring them under my feet i'm gonna bring it under my feet i'm gonna bring it under my feet i'm gonna be there oh i'm gonna bring it under oh i'm gonna bring it under my feet i'm a fighter i'll fight you all day long i'm gonna bring it under my feet i'm gonna tread on serpents i'm gonna pray on serpents if you turn into a snake get ready to be stepped on because i'm coming through in the name of jesus i'm coming through in power i'm coming through in victory i'm coming through up under the anointing of the holy ghost i need about a hundred praises better break this yoke in this place open up your mouth and begin to praise your god praise until hell gets nervous praising tell demons tremble praise until you feel a breakthrough he's greater than cancer he's greater than leukemia he's greater than failure he's greater than defeat open up your mouth and shout out to god [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] i'm almost finished i feel the enemy weakening and i feel the trash getting stronger i feel the believers catching on fire i feel the anointing coming back get your strength back get your courage back get your fight back get your drive back drive the devil out of your house drive the enemy away drive him back this is my territory you can't have my daughter you can't have my son you can't have my peace you can't have my power you can't have my provisions you can't have my prophecy i find you satan in the name of jesus somebody shout yes [Music] [Applause] stand on your feet and listen to this you already standing [Music] [Applause] hmm [Music] hallelujah hallelujah [Music] kill the amalekites kill them out kill them out they wouldn't be fighting you if you weren't close they wouldn't be fighting you if you weren't on their heads they wouldn't be fighting you if god didn't have it for you they wouldn't be fighting you if you weren't near the mount of your promise kill the amalekites don't pet them don't counsel them don't cuddle them kill the amalekites say that you've gotta die everything you're trying to do has got to die it's gotta die come on it's gotta die it's not a fighter it's getting the whole shot it's gonna die somebody open your mouth and give out god the praise i have to feel the power of the holy ghost open up your mouth [Music] [Applause] [Music] i'm gonna give you this remain strength i'm gonna give you this i'm gonna give you this oh yes i'm gonna give you something you're not in this by you're not in yourself by yourself romans 8 26 says in the same way the spirit helps us in our weakness i want everybody who's been tired the holy spirit stands alongside to help us in our weakness you know who god is anointing today he's anointing tired people he's renewing their strength are there any tired people in here i got an anointing i got an anointing for tired people he's anointing you with new strength the bible says the spirit helps us in our weakness hallelujah to god some of you can't get help because you always try to be strong but in order to get this help you gotta admit i'm tired and if you tell daddy i'm tired he'll help you in your weakness he'll help you in your weakness the spirit helps us in our weakness we do not know what we ought to pray for we do not know what we ought to pray for i'm praying with an understanding but i do not understand what i ought to pray for but the spirit itself intercedes for us with wormless groans that cannot be uttered the spirit is lifted up a standard against the enemy shall yes what i'm trying to make you see [Music] is that the holy ghost is your intercessor he sits on the high with classified information and he intercedes for us with groanings that cannot be uttered moses didn't open his mouth he just stretched forth his rod it shows you what the holy spirit will do when you're in a battle am i helping anybody over here if i'm helping somebody over here make some noise yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah if i'm helping anybody over here make some noise yeah yes it's a few of y'all yes yes if i'm helping anybody over here make some noise if i'm helping you online make some noise make a chat send an emoji send out a signal shoot off a player let hel know i'm getting stronger if i'm helping anybody over here make some noise yeah if i'm helping anybody over here make some noise make some noise make some noise make some noise let the whole church make some noise [Applause] [Music] and he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the spirit because the spirit intercedes for god's people in accordance to the will of god somebody shake yourself and say it's not his will for me to be defeated it's not his will for me to be sick it's not his will for me to be broke it's not his will for me to be depressed it's not his will for me to give up so i know what the spirit so i know what the spirit i can hear you so i know what the spirit is praying for it's praying for the freedom it's praying from a strength it's praying from a victory it's praying for oh god i feel like preaching whoa it's praying for my power he's praying for my revival he's praying for my anointing he's praying for my fierceness he's praying from a fight it's praying from a drive it's praying for my stability it's praying for the fortitude shall ya [Applause] and we know that all things god works for the good of those who love him who have been called according to his purpose i'm going to close here i'm going to stop right here he almost shot the bible said that when it was all over they call the name of the place jehovah nisi it means the lord is my banner that means he's the flag i fight under he's the flag i fight under i know i'm gonna win because jehovah nisi said it online jehovah jehovah nessie jehovah nessie the lord is our banner hallelujah got to get through him before you can have me the lord is our you thought i was up here by myself what kind of fool are you i would never try this by myself the spirit helps me in my weakness the spirit bears my infirmities the spirit gives me wisdom the spirit gives me power i want every born-again believer to lift your hands and open your mouth and begin to worship god [Music] began to worship god [Music] you've been complaining you've been frustrated you've been self-medicated you've been doing all kinds of stuff trying to get through this but what you need is a praying spirit you need a praying spirit you need a praying spirit you need a praying spirit you need a praying spirit lift your hand over your mouth we need a praying spirit what you need all the way up in the balcony we need a praying spirit you're watching me in nigeria you need a praying spirit you're watching me in london you need a praying spirit in birmingham you need a praying spirit south america you need a praying spirit belize you need a praying spirit jamaica botswana you need a praying spirit cuba yes you need a praying spirit brazil in order to get out of this [Music] how many will make a fresh commitment to praying in the spirit [Music] god told me he wants to do an air strike but you need to release that holy ghost that's trapped up in your belly buried it's buried up under all your feelings and all your opinions and all your ideas god's waiting for you to start praying in the spirit to fix that thing okay he'll fix it [Music] he'll fix it if you open your mouth and start praying in the holy ghost [Music] if you start praying in the holy ghost you do an airstrike [Music] [Music] lord give me [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] a praying spirit [Applause] [Music] [Music] yes [Music] [Music] yes [Music] lord when i pray give me the words [Music] lord [Music] [Music] i don't trust myself to pray right now [Music] to break it to destroy it to bring it down to its knees i'm gonna bring it down i'm gonna bring it all the way [Applause] [Music] yes [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] oh [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] yes [Applause] [Applause] [Music] you got it from me you got it for me whatever you say it's a yes from me lord from my heart i'll give you my ass lord from my heart i'll give you my guests lord [Music] [Applause] [Music] i'll give you my ass you got a yes for me i'll give you my yes hello help me too [Music] help me to say yes lord give me [Music] [Applause] [Music] see [Music] lord help me to say [Music] lord as we come to the close of this service i want you to understand a few things i was never preaching about mla and i was never preaching about moses [Music] i was never preaching about reef for this i was always just using them as an example to show you how to launch a multi-level attack i was trying to show you that you can fight on the ground [Music] and fight from the air and i was doing it because the holy spirit said for that demonic influence that we are fighting right now [Music] unlike anything we have ever seen in all of our lives [Music] we're gonna have to do an airstrike we're gonna have to strike it up here and here faith and works understanding and spirit and i wanted you to know that god is standing alongside to help your infirmity and not just the idea of god but the holy spirit in particular who is god but it points to a different aspect the holy spirit is waiting on you to admit i don't know what to say i don't know how to understand it i don't know what to do i need your help [Music] to give me a sustainable strategy [Applause] my arm hurts my arm hurts [Music] [Applause] get up under me because i can't drop down lift both your hands straight up in there i can't drop now holy spirit come on in and help me help me with this [Music] if you say that from your heart ain't no way you can leave here to save if you say that from your heart there's no way you can watch this broadcast and still be the same this is an air strike [Music] [Applause] there it is that is [Music] he's moving around the room right now [Music] somebody's getting a breakthrough you better get yours this is an airstrike [Applause] this is an airstrike [Music] it's an airstrike it's an asteroid it's an airstrike it's an air strike holy ghost holy ghost holy ghosts we will strike back [Music] we're not slaves anymore [Music] the hebrews were slaves they're not slaves anymore i'll fight for i go back [Music] [Music] i fight i fight you in the holy ghost i'll fight you in the flesh i'm launching a new warfare i'm gonna fight on both levels i'm gonna fight on both levels [Music] you will not drive me back to the red sea [Music] if there's a person in this room that doesn't know jesus you ain't got nothing to fight with [Music] i love you but you ain't got nothing to fight with because this is a spiritual warfare and if we was in a club you know what to do and if we was in the street you know what to do and if we were in the strip club we you know what to do and if if we were fighting in the flesh you're good but this is a spiritual battle [Music] and in order to fight a spiritual fight it starts with giving your life to jesus look here look here listen to me you're living in the book of revelations [Applause] [Music] before one plague is over here comes another plague before that other plague is over here comes another plague all of this was prophesied thousands of years ago all of it was prophesied thousands of years ago men becoming lovers of their own said all of this was prophesied years ago you are living in the book of revelation races against racists ethnos against ethnos generations against generation all of that's biblical everything you're reading in your bible is biblical the conflict in the middle east is biblical the war for jerusalem is biblical all is you're living in the book of revelations and if you don't know jesus getting high ain't gonna help you [Music] if you don't know jesus getting drunk won't fix it ain't none of them girls you got gonna fix it ain't none of them boys you got gonna fix it this is serious people died [Applause] six hundred thousand people died in america and america has paid little attention three thousand people died in the world trade centers and america every year heart almost stops meeting over 3 000 people 600 000 people died and they didn't even turn around the white house is breached completely breached people climbing over the walls into the building and everybody tourists i mean the people they were protecting for power are willing to ignore it this is the book of revelations if you don't know jesus right now i mean like right now no more excuses you won't let sex send you to hell [Applause] that's it's that good that you're willing to ignore jesus what kind of drugs that got you so high that you can't see i don't believe in preachers fine don't believe in me i don't care i don't care i don't care you don't believe the bible that's fine believe your newspaper believe the news believe the white house wall scale believe the war in afghanistan and the unrest in israel believe the plagues that's killing in your community your relatives your friends relatives and then go back and get the bible and maybe you'll pay the preacher some attention not cause i'm good not cause i'm perfect i'm weak i'm flesh i'm dust i'm just like you only difference is he called me to be a watchman on the wall to warn you to tell you what's up if i was you if i was you man please hear me black man white man red man i don't care how you describe yourself blue man democrat republican millennial ex-boomer i don't care what kind of name you put on it you're a soul and you're gonna die [Applause] you're gonna die like you came you came naked you're gonna die naked not one suit not one diamond not one necklace nothing you got is going with you you gonna die just like you came naked strip naked no titles no power no degrees over your casket you can't take none of that stuff you got with you it's all gonna stay here the only thing that matters is do you know jesus [Music] i wouldn't let this service close if i was a backslider or i was a setup i would let this service close it's just as dangerous as walking through the hood at midnight unarmed unprepared you have no weapons for this kind of fight this is a spiritual fight it's like being dropped into a war zone and you ain't got nothing but a butter knife you got no weapons you need jesus you need he don't need you he'll be jesus whether you come or not you need him and whether you're in the balcony or the back row or the front or the stage or watching online i invite you to jesus i invite you to jesus every head about every eye clothes if you are in this room i will not beg you [Music] i will not plead with you i will just invite you and if you are in this room and you you are not right with god come right yes now right now right this minute if you're online there's a number on the screen to call [Music] if there's one i'm almost finished if you're trying to outweigh me you're gonna win because god's been good enough that if you don't want him now your life is in your own hand i i'm gonna wash my hands i'm gonna wash my hands i'm gonna wash my hands cause if i don't warn you your blood is required on my hair but if i warn you you don't come the blood is not required on my hands [Music] [Music] i'm getting ready to wash my hands come stand right here come stand right here stand right here i'm getting ready to wash my hands you need jesus you can't live without him you can't live without him you need him in your life it's not about being perfect it's not about being perfect it's about being sincere you need jesus this planet is going crazy the whole planet it ain't just america the whole globe is going absolutely nuts i've never seen anything like it [Music] there's nowhere to hide there's no way to run there's no place to go where this stuff ain't going on you need jesus [Music] anybody anybody else last call anybody else anybody else come on down you need him you need it if you folk in the balcony or come and hold your hand up or if you're just trying to sneak out that's fine if you come and hold your hand up so i know to wait on you this is real this is real you need jesus you need him you need him in your life you need him in your life you need him in your business you need him in your mind you need him in your heart you need him in your soul you need jesus you need it you need it i don't care what you got on i don't care what it looks like i don't care about the color of your skin i don't care what you think of yourself you need jesus you're not prepared for this without jesus [Music] [Applause] you're not prepared you're not prepared without jesus i'm not asking you were you baptized when you were 12 because your grandmother pushed you to the pool i want to know do you have a real vibrant relationship with jesus don't fake the funk get up here this is real this is real you talk about keeping it 100 this is keeping it 100. you need jesus you need jesus [Music] nothing works without him ow nothing works spread out we're going to keep distance spread out nothing works without jesus nothing works without jesus nothing works without jesus spread out nothing works without jesus nothing works without jesus nothing works without jesus i'm not saying getting saved and you don't have problems i'm just saying that when you get saved you got help you got real help with crazy stuff [Music] [Applause] i'm saying i'm tired of burying y'all i'm tired of the graveside services i'm tired of the funerals i'm tired of the senseless killings i'm tired of the murder rate being out of control i'm tired of young people dying before they get to see who they are i'm tired of it you don't have to live like that you don't have to be that way it's not supposed to be that way it's not supposed to be that way you're not supposed to be dead at 30. it's sick that's sick man that's sick [Music] you're supposed to live to walk your daughter down the aisle you're supposed to live long enough to say goodbye to your parents you're supposed to be at your kids graduation you're supposed to survive [Applause] the storm that's in louisiana today could be in dallas tomorrow nothing keeps us safe anymore we're not safe anywhere so you better be saved because you sure ain't safe your show ain't safe your show ain't safe your soul ain't safe i don't care how much money you got i don't care what you pay for your house you ain't safe in it hurricane don't look at the price of the house and just pull it up by the roof pastor phillips i want you to come [Music] and i want you to pray for these that are gathered around this altar today is the day of salvation [Applause] look at these souls look at these souls [Applause] [Music] [Applause] you singers come up here come up here come up here [Applause] you helped to bring these young people to jesus because they saw you sing his praise and worship his name and glorify him you are important i cannot do this without you [Applause] i can preach but you can convince him singing that song lifting him up that's all lifting my arms up that's that that song lift my arms up it it gives it lifts my arms up it lifts my arms up it lifts my arms up the man of god i chose to come pray for you if it were not for but the grace of god would have been locked up in jail [Music] for drugs i can't tell his testimony like he can now he's preaching the gospel [Applause] [Music] [Applause] you watch it online do not miss this opportunity to give your life to christ you that believe this ministry is effective support this ministry support this ministry is one of the few left [Music] that operates on both dimensions [Applause] come on man of god god has brought us into this moment because this is your new beginning the bible says that any man that's in christ is a new creation old things are passed away behold all things are made new the wonderful thing i love about giving our lives to christ is that it's just you have to be willing and that he will come down and find you in any place and in any posture [Music] i got saved high [Music] and if the power of god can come and get me hallelujah hallelujah in a church service [Applause] while i was high he certainly can come and get you so lift those hands everybody at this altar everyone watching online every young man every young woman god loves you more than you will ever know and this is your day your new beginning and as we pray over you i hear the spirit of the lord saying he's sending an airstrike to every demonic force hallelujah that will try to keep you bound and keep you held today is your day come on let's pray spirit of living god we thank you for every soul every life every individual who are lifting up their hearts before you father you said in your word that if you if we were able to confess our sins willing to do it that you are able to forgive us of our sins so father we stand before you today not perfect but just willing you said whosoever will call upon the name of the lord shall be saved that means we qualify today we're all whosoever wills so father we thank you right now for coming into the life of each and every individual who stands here at this altar and changing their life forever satan we serve you notice at this moment that you are no longer their lord but jesus is their lord and their life belongs to him father we plead the blood of jesus over every life and we thank you that this is their new beginning that this is their new moment that this is their new day and we give you praise ford in this moment right now in jesus name if you prayed that prayer with me go ahead and give god a shout of praise right where you are and thank him for come on come on thank him for coming into your life thank him for rearranging your life thank him for changing you in this moment here's what we want to do here's what we want to do if you're at this altar and you don't have a home church and you want the potter's house to be your church we want to open the doors of this church to you so here's all you need to do you see those hands extended up over there just turn that way and follow them right over there they're going to give you some information come on if you're at this altar and god is calling you to come this church come on y'all lift your hands over there come on church let's thank god let's thank god let's thank god come on church come on church come on church as they go come on potter's house hallelujah come on lift those hands let's give the benediction may god bless you and keep you may his face shine upon you may god be gracious unto you give you peace may he surround you with his favor like a shield as angels and kept himself round about you and may his precious blood cover you from now until eternity in jesus name somebody say amen god bless you we love you you

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Length: 109min 12sec (6552 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 29 2021