BATTLEFIELDS | The God of Wonders | Philip Anthony Mitchell

welcome to the victory broadcast if this ministry has impacted you in any way please consider supporting the spread of the gospel by visiting us online and choosing the giving option that works best for you now we pray that this message will stir your heart and build your faith get ready to receive the word of god victory family grace and peace to all of you wherever you're watching this message in the city of atlanta or um in areas around the city to all of our family members and friends our online family that are watching in cities around the country and even in pockets around the world so glad to be with you uh today um you know i i just want to uh just take a moment before we we jump into the proclamation of god's word they just acknowledge that i am acutely aware [Music] in my spirit that uh there are a lot of you dealing with a lot of difficulties in this season and i just want to encourage you to not let go the hem of god's garment i want to encourage you that god is with you i want to encourage you that the same god who allowed you to go in is the same god that will bring you out [Music] and that you are not alone and i want to say to someone watching me right now in the chat um just don't give up uh sometimes the victories we need to see is it's just a matter of keep showing up you know and you just don't give up you you you you wipe that tear from your eye and you you get back up you you shake yourself off and you get back up you you go into a dark place and you climb out of that dark place and you just keep getting back up so i just want to encourage somebody um to uh to just not give up and uh and maybe by the grace of god you would be you would be encouraged as we prepare to close out this last message of a narrative series that we've called battlefields that we've called battlefields and uh i'm taking this last week of three to kind of walk us through uh an intense story that happened in my life in the month of february and again i felt led of the lord to not let that experience go to waste i just want to encourage somebody right now in the chat that god does not let our experiences go to waste he uses everything for our good and for his glory romans 8 28 applies at all times for those of us who have been called by god chosen according to his purpose for those of us who love him and so he does not let our experiences go to waste and i'm not letting this experience go to waste i am taking my drama and turning my drama into your blessing that if you're listening to what i'm sharing with you week by week in the series you're appropriating these principles my prayer is that they will teach you how to be more battle ready teach you how to fight and help you to navigate through some of the challenges that you may be dealing with right now in your life and uh this is the last part of a five day story that took place in my life a drama that gave birth to this series and birth to the principles that i'm sharing with you in this series i will say it again at the beginning of this message for the last time that battles are inevitable but how you fight them and who you fight them with is a choice that you will not make you you will not get through this life without fighting battles you're standing on battlefields right now but how you fight those battles and who you fight them with that's the choice that you and i make and uh you know some battles are very very minor in adversity but they do add value to our life in terms of the experiences we take from them other battles in our lives they are very consequential they have the power to shape who we are as people there's some of you watching me right now in the chat you can look over your shoulder to battles that you have fought with god battles you have fought for god and it transformed who you was on the inside it transformed how you saw the world there's some battles we fight and we're never the same when we come out of those battles they shape us they mold us they make us stronger right they're more consequential to our lives and then for some people there are some battles that we will fight in this life man they they are battles of a matter of life and death whether you survive them in your mind whether you survive them in your heart whether your marriage survives or your ministry survives or whatever it is survive some battles are consequential to survival they must be fought with everything in us right because some are more consequential than others some of us will some of them will will break us if we don't navigate them through right right and so some of them are minor in adversity but the experiences are important others are major and consequential but um no matter the intensity whether it's small or great i love that the scripture teaches that we serve the god that does not allow us to fight alone especially for those bibles he has called us to fight and uh and that no one battles alone in week one i preached a message to you called snared but not subdued we talked about some of the common tactics of the enemy to set snares for us subtle traps to lure loras away from god and to distract us to discourage us to get us off track to derail us we talked about how we overcome the snares of the enemy through wisdom and discernment last week i preached a message to you called fashioned for the fight and i talked to you about you being dressed for warfare we talked about ephesians chapter six we talked about you being battle ready we talked about manners in which you fight who you fight with how you fight and the wages for fighting what you occur for your battles and i'm gonna close out this series with the divine events of friday i talk to you about monday through tuesday wednesday through thursday i want to share with you about the unlikely events that happen on friday and close out this message series with this final talk that i'm just going to tag the god of wonders the god of wonders [Music] eternal god and of a wise father you who are the god of wonders the god who works miracles father god i pray as the word goes forth in this message right now i pray you would arrest the attention of your people and that as the word goes forth i pray god you would build the faith of your people i pray you would strengthen the hearts of your people [Music] i pray you would comfort the hurting you would give hope to the weary you will give tenacity and grit to the one who needs it you will give us confidence let this word not fall on bad soil or death is [Music] i pray you would be glorified in the mighty name of your son i pray amen and amen amen somebody drop in the chat for me the god of wonders the god of wonders the god of wonders the god of wonders the god of wonders keep dropping that in the chat for me the god of wonders the god of wonders the god of wanders the god of wonders family last month in the month of february on the third day of this this drama i flew to california and in my flight to the west coast on the latter end of that flight maybe about an hour out from landing in san francisco i looked out my window having raised the shade and noticed that we were flying over the mountain range on the west side of our country as i stared out the window at that mountain range i took good notice of first the beauty of god's creation that this long mountain range had peaks that were very very high and it had valleys that were very very low some of those valleys were shallow and some of those valleys were very deep some of those mountain peaks were very high and some of them were not so high and i saw deep ravines and water running between those mountains and for all of maybe 45 minutes i stared out the window at those those beautiful majestic mountain peaks and those deep valleys and as i was in awe of god's creation staring at those mountain peaks and valleys i sense the holy spirit begin to speak to me and also not only give me an awe and wonder of the god of creation but also the god of revelation that as i was staring at those mountain peaks and valleys i begin to sense the holy spirit speaking to me that in a sense the beauty of these mountain peaks and valleys that i'm staring out outside this window from thirty thousand feet also gave me another vantage point not only a thirty thousand foot vantage point of the mountain peaks and valleys but also a thirty thousand feet vantage point of this beautiful revelation that those mountain peaks and valleys in a sense reminded me of the christian life that the christian life in a sense is no different than all those mountain peaks and valleys that the christian life in a sense is a walk of mountain peaks and valleys it is the walks of us climbing up to the top of mountains and a walk of god leading us down mountains it is a walk of us going through valleys and coming out of valleys some of those mountain peaks are taller than others and some of those valleys are deeper than others in a sense for the purpose of this sermon for the purpose of this series those mountain peaks can easily represent the victories that we celebrate the high times that we celebrate are moments of joy our moments of victory our seasons of victory our seasons of joy our seasons of peace and rest our seasons of enjoying all that god is doing around us and in a very real sense the backside of those mountains can also represent in our lives those times when whether through our own bad decisions or the snares of the enemy or the will of god he leads us down those mountaintops or our decision leads us down those mountain tops or life leads us down those mountain tops into valleys valleys of temptation valleys of trouble valleys of battles valleys of wariness valleys of fights valleys of all manner of things that represent seasons of peace and sorrow seasons of battles and calm seasons of victories and fights and and the question is not will we go through peaks and valleys because as i flew over that mountain range i realized the revelation that this is inevitable in life we are fooling ourselves if we think we're gonna have a life a void of battles a life void of troubles a life void of fights we will not live a life void of battles and even as i talk to you right now so many of you in this chat room right now you are standing on some battlefield some fight that you're battling right now in your mind in your heart in your family for your faith for your marriage whatever it is the battles are inevitable that mountain range was long it's inevitable and the issue is not whether or not you walk through valleys you will walk through valleys the issue is not whether or not you have battles you will have battles the issue as i was staring at those deep valleys flying at 30 000 feet is whether or not you come out of them and how you come out of them the first question is survivability will you make it out your next valley and then the second question is how it's conditioned how would you survive that next valley you can go through a valley and come out strengthen with testimony with experience knowing how to climb through the next one because you made it out the last one or you come out that valley bloodied broken up bruised having lost your faith no courage for the next valley that's coming and i'm telling you right now we better learn to come out of these valleys with something i don't know who i'm talking to right now but listen life listen i i fight too many battles that just keep coming out of them with nothing somebody say amen somebody in the studio saying man y'all gonna talk to me today even in the studio god allows us to go through too many battles to come out of them with nothing and at some point in time man we got to be wise enough to know we will go through but we got to come out of them with something it's about will you survive and the survivability of these valleys and how you come out of them your condition the condition of your mind your heart your home your marriage every time you come out of another valley you can't escape battles you can't run from them you cannot hide from them you cannot circumvent them listen if you don't walk onto those fields like david did they listen life will put you on battlefields the devil will put you on battlefields god will put you on battlefields some of the things you praying for god make me strong make me rise he responds to that with a battle god take me to another level he responds to that with a battle some of the levels you paying on you praying for you're not ready to walk on those levels because you haven't been battle tested yet he knew if he put you on that next level you would get killed on that next level because you haven't been conditioned to fight for that next level decisions put us on battlefields the devil puts us on battlefields your flesh will put you on battlefields your spouse will put you on the battlefields don't look at them if they're in the room just saying man in your heart your boyfriend will put you on battlefields your girlfriend will put you on battlefields sickness in your body will put you on a boundary i got pain right now in my back got me on a battlefield preaching this message to you life will put you on battlefields the loss of a job will put you on battlefield somebody bullying your kid will put you in a bad step into that battle quick warfare we'll put you on battlefields demonic opposition will put you on battlefields your teenager will put you on battlefields a diagnosis will put you on a battlefield man there's all men of things that will keep happening life that will continuously keep putting us on battlefields and again the issue is not whether or not we fight battles it's how we fight them our survivability and how we come out of the battles that we fight last week i ended my message talking to you about thursday night i'm not gonna go through everything that happened on thursday i'll talk to you about that last message but i will connect friday with this detail from thursday on thursday night i had to climb out of a low place when my friend brantley disharoon sent me the song this is how we fight our battles for michael w smith and i listened to that song over and over and over for hours i got that song down in my spirit because he's preaching the word through song and so in essence i was getting the word in my spirit this is how we fight our battles that although it looks like i'm surrounded but but me i'm surrounded by more there's more people with me than they are with the enemy and so i'm getting that song in my spirit fighting my way out of a low place a low place of being discouraged i still don't have my account they're still mocking jesus on my account and i told you last week that my prayer switched man forget that forget the account i could get my pictures back my admins were saving my content the battle switch from a battle to the account to a battle for the glory of god these anti-christ individuals this anti-christ organization is on my page mocking yahweh mocking jesus mocking the pastor mocking the church and then it switched from a battle for an account to a battle for the glory of god whose god is god the god of heaven and earth the god of the scriptures or the false deity of this anti-christ organization that false deity of this other monotheism it's a battle for influence in a battle for ground a battle for watch who will have the last word the devil or god almighty and i remember getting down on my knees on thursday night and switching my prayers from god i need my account back because of the tens of thousands of people that's on there to god for the glory of your name restore to me the spoils of war let not my adversary have dominion over me prepare a table before me in the presence of my advocacy i'm praying his word back to him now my prayer is not for just an instagram account that's shallow and now my prayer is god will you be glorified in all of this as i transfer this now battle from my shoulders to your shoulders god this is all about you now and less about me it's less about what i want and more about what represents you i set my alarm for 3 45 for a five o'clock flight the next morning and i pillowed my head in peace trusting that now the battle was fully in god's hands friday morning i wake up at 3 a.m a live wire i'm not tired i'm full of energy i'm not wiping my eye and i know from walking with god for 17 years that whenever god wakes me up before my alarm and i have energy yeah i know how to go down right you get up before your alarm and you don't want to look at the clock because you're so afraid to see how much time you have left to sleep and so you don't look at the clock just hoping that it's not close to the time you're supposed to wake up right and we snooze or we but but whenever i wake up with that amount of energy long before my alarm i already know from experience god is calling me to spend time with him three o'clock in the morning on friday i wake up in the hotel in san francisco a live wire full of energy it is 45 minutes before my alarm clock was supposed to go off and i knew that in that moment god was calling me to spend time with him god was calling me to get into his presence and so i got up on friday morning i got up on friday morning to spend time with god and i slipped out of my bed to spend time with the lord long before my alarm long before my flight long before i was supposed to do anything and and as i get out of my bed i have some thoughts before i spend time with god you know i'm thinking about the fact that now this battle is no longer a battle for my account but now it's a battle for the glory of god i'm also thinking about the fact that you know these type of battles for god's glory they're not foreign to the believer right they're not they're not foreign to the people of god right they're not foreign to us like i i'm thinking about in that morning for example i'm thinking about the prophet elijah from the old testament a man who the scripture tells us rolls up on a mountain called mount carmel where my wife and i had a chance to stand in the nation of israel and how he was facing a battle with himself and some 450 prophets of a false prophet named baal and and and the scripture tells us that these false prophets they stood on a mountaintop crying out to a false deity from from sun up to sundown cutting themselves and dripping blood and putting stuff on altars and calling out today god and elijah said to them maybe your god is asleep maybe he hasn't he hasn't answered you yet go ahead and continue to call on him and he let them continue to call on their false god to show them that there is only one god and his name is yahweh the scripture tells us that same prophet elijah said now let me call on the god that i serve right i want you to pour water on that altar put all that stuff on the altar and the scripture tells us god called or elijah called on god and god responded to elijah's prayer by sending fire from heaven and consumed all the water on the altar he consumed everything around the altar and then elijah would go on to slay all those false prophets of baal and so in that moment elijah wasn't fighting for himself look right at me he was fighting for the glory of god another person i thought about in that morning was david a man i mentioned to you last week the man who was the second king of ancient israel david when he was 17 years of age when he was 17 years of age a teenager his father sends him with a food lunch down to the front line of a battlefield where his brothers was in war and the nation of israel was in war against an enemy army called the philistines and david arrives to the front of the battle and he sees a giant a nine feet tall man mocking the armies of israel saying someone come out here and fight me for 40 days a stalemate because the armies of israel were afraid to step out against goliath and david 17 years of age turns and asks a question what does the man gets who kills this this giant he gets a wife he gets exempt from taxes man he gets honor and david thinks himself man for 40 days y'all let this giant talk trash about god and nobody had the courage to do anything nobody had the balls to do anything nobody had the testicular fortitude to do anything for 40 days y'all let this man taunt the god that we serve the god that delivered us from egypt the god that parted an ocean the god that led us by a cloud by day and fire by night the god that fed us by manna in the wilderness the god that let us walk 40 years and our shoes never wore out the god that raised the dead the god that fought for us the god that destroyed all of our the god that worked miracles and toppled the greatest nation the god that did all of this for our forefathers you like this one tall dude talk so much trash that you froze in fear yeah we don't don't laugh right how much trash has the enemy talk to us in our battles that frees us up in fear huh how many times have you been punked out by some circumstance right punked out by some change punked out by some wind of adversity the wind blow we get punked out something changed we tuck our tails the enemies start lying we go the opposite direction we forget all about the god that fought the battles for us last week the god that fought the battle for you last season the god that brought you out of the hospital out of a bad marriage out of a bad situation out of your crazy mind out of aloha the god that delivered you from depression delivered you from killing you the god that saved philip from committing suicide twice the god that brought you out of the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of light how do we forget about that god every time the devil flex every time the devil flexed man christians go running man we american christians we're so soft and wishy-washy man every time the devil rises up like goliath man we get paralyzed for 40 days man i just wish my we just need to pause right now man i want to ask the question do i got any david's in the chat right now staring at me do i got a david in the chat i just need three davis in this chat to say i'm here come on if you're in there just say i'm here i'm here i'm here i'm here i'm here i just need at least three davis in the chat to say i'm here we forget all about the god who brought us through god knows we have a tendency to forget that's why in the scriptures he's always telling us to remember to remember to remember to remember and i'm thinking about god uh how he he moved on elijah's behalf how he moved on david's behalf now look right at me look right at me eye contact look right at me right i know that's old testament that's all pastor philip that's that's elijah i'm never gonna stand on on mount carmel and and fight false prophets for the glory of god maybe you won't oh that's david i will never stand on on the battlefields of an israeli countryside and fight giants and armors with stones for the glory of god right right maybe maybe you won't maybe you won't stand on an israeli battlefield but you're still standing on an american battlefield you're still standing on battlefields right now you're still standing against the battles right now that are raging all around us some of you you stand on battlefields as raging in your mind as i'm talking to you right now you're standing on a battlefield that's raging in your mind and you know it some of you as i'm talking to you right now you're not on an israeli battlefield but you're on a battlefield that's raging in your heart and you know it your tears prophesy of that battle the the the depression and the lowliness of your heart they testify of that battle some of you you're not gonna stand on an israeli battlefield but you're standing on a battlefield for your home for your teenager for your marriage for your ministry for your peace of mind we're standing on all different kind of battlefields battlefields that's raging all around us some of you you're in a fight right now for your kid and you don't even realize that the devil is all in their dms while you're sleeping at night you're in a battle for the life of your teenager you're a battle for your child some of us some of us don't even realize we're in a real spiritual war until it come close to the house until it come close to your mind close enough to your heart we just keep doing life ignoring the fact that we are in a real spiritual war until somebody you love gets affected man i i just wish i could grab everybody right now in this chat and just shake you and wake you up and remind you that we are in a spiritual war right now this award is being fought all around us on social media in entertainment it's a waters being fought for the hearts and souls of men it's a war that's being fought for glory this award is being fought for ground and influence in terms of the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of darkness we see it all in our culture we see it in our politics we see it in our policies we see it in our schools we see it in our media man it's a war against everything that that's making the atmosphere we live in more hostile towards christians more hostile towards christ more hostile towards the gospel ain't nobody trying to fight you if you mention muhammad or allah just mention jesus they're going to fire you from your job censor you on social media man you gotta look and see at the hostility towards christ we are in a spiritual war for the glories of god it is the most consequential battle happening right now not wars being fought overseas with young men in the military wars that's being fought on the spiritual battlefield for the hearts and souls of men what's that being fought that's going to end up where people land in eternity but christ himself is being mocked and probably the most disgraceful part of the war is that there's a war going on in the church and we are we are helping the devil in that war with all of our foolishness and our shenanigans now i think i need to camp out right here we're helping the devil with that war with all of our foolishness and our shenanigans the shenanigans that's being preached right now as i'm talking to you all across america the shenanigans that go on in our churches people fighting for titles and fighting for positions and well i didn't get a chance to sing my song and man we are helping the devil with all of our foolishness we're helping the devil with all of our immaturity we get offended and we leave we get offended we cut people off man we helping the devil dismantle the very thing god built and said not even the gates of hell will prevail against it but we help satan with our foolishness and our immaturity and our lack of submission and a lack of respect and authority and our lack of honor and our ignorance of the word and our anemic spiritual life we're aiding the devil in the battle against the church itself and with all of our shenanigans especially all of these preachers not janae you know we do we're diminishing the credibility of jesus there's no wonder people don't want nothing to do with the church i love god but i don't want to go to church it's not god it's the people that represent him we're supposed to be salt and light right but if you don't even have no awareness that we fight in a battle man you won't even see the importance of you being salt and light or silence in your flesh or being submitted to authority or understanding the word or whatever the case may be or get into the chat early enough to be in worship all of these things eclipsing the virtue of jesus we're standing on battlefields and if we're aware man when we're aware man it it it'll change the way that we pray to change the way that we live or change the way we see you'll see something on tv and you won't just think oh that's cute you think man that's that's satanic that's demonic you see ground being taken for the enemy and it might move you to pray no no how about how about how about just just last week right when when eight people was killed in massage palace right asians were targeted we see that we're just all so unfortunate but but when you understand we're in a spiritual battle when you understand it is the forces of evil that works in the hearts of people to do that not god right let me pause because i get tired of all this foolishness with these christian funerals when we go where people get shot in the head and then we say oh it was god's will to call them home this way no it wasn't god's will to call them home with a bullet in the head or for a baby to get hit by a car is because we live in a genesis 3 world we live in a fallen world where evil happens because of the choices of people being led by evil and the flesh but the god we serve knows how to bring good out of all that stuff somebody say amen we can stop blaming god for every tragedy that happens in the world he's not to blame for those tragedies we have to run to him in spite of them and in the midst of them right it's it's evil that caused those eight people to lose their lives and what did i do when i saw that because i'm aware of the spiritual battle i sat down on the floor and i prayed for those families i prayed against this evil i prayed for our asian brothers and sisters as being targeted i pray because as a black man i know what it is to be targeted i know it is to have a gun upside of my head i know what this feels like okay and so i prayed for them because when we understand we're in a war we seek we look we pray like my brother frank's father will tell me all the time stay on the wall man of god and i'm talking to somebody in the chat right now stay on the wall my brother stay on the wall my sister pay attention to what's going on around you if the people of god are ignorant of the warfare man god help the world around us let me finish the message i'm almost done friday morning i get up 3 a.m i get down on my knees i'm reminded of the psalm that says when the psalmist said i look up to god when he prayed he said i look up to heaven in the morning in the morning time you will hear my voice and i look up it's teachings like that in the word of god that trains me in my prayer time and i got through my knees in the morning and i looked up at the father and i said lord on this friday morning i prayed to him i said let not my enemy and your enemy have dominion over me and over you god may you have the final say-so i've done everything i could possibly do in california i've done my part on the ground i'll turn everything over to you god and i trust you god to bring glory to your name god return to me the spoils of war not because i want my account but i want your name to be exalted and i got off my knees i got dressed and i headed to the airport i boarded my flight and uh you know my wife and i my wife she's really serious about stewardship of finances and so you know i didn't pay for the wi-fi when i first got on the five-hour flight and i said because we got t-mobile we get an hour free of wi-fi and so i'm gonna wait for the last hour of the flight to turn on my wi-fi and i'll just text my wife during the flight and i'll wait for the last hour wi-fi to check all my other status and my notifications and so i'm flying for four hours and talking to my wife and she's up early and she's uh she's still sending emails to instagram and facebook and she's pounding the ground and my wife is a soldier and so she's she's fighting in atlanta while i was fighting in san francisco and uh we talked for all the four hours via text on that flight and uh in the last hour of the flight i'm almost done family in the last hour of flight i don't want to say my cheap self but my steward the stewardship of me taught by my wife paid or went on there and got my my last hour of wi-fi wi-fi and uh i turned on my wi-fi and as soon as i turned it on my phone started getting flooded with all of these different notifications look right at me the very first notification i got when i turned on wi-fi was from a stranger in africa who sent me a quote quote-unquote random message to my facebook insta ins my facebook messenger it just it just pops up in my facebook messenger a stranger from africa i would say it was random in retrospect i knew it was divine and i want to read to you the very first notification i got on my flight home from san francisco it was psalm 77 verse 14. you are the god who performs miracles another translation said the god who performs wonders i like this next part of the verse part b you display your power among the peoples that was the very first notification i got on the flight you are the god who performs everybody look right at me miracles for some of you you need one you display your power among the peoples now i want you to look at the details of the text you are the god who performs miracles you display your power amongst the peoples i want to show you some important details in the text and i'm going to pray for you this was the first notification i got when i turned on my wi-fi i knew immediately in my spirit that god was gonna move on my behalf i knew immediately in my spirit god was gonna move and be and this is why it's so important for us to be sensitive to the ways that god communicates with us because we're always looking for god to send gabriel down from heaven sometimes he'll he'll whisper to your soul right through you right through his word right i began to quote this passage over and over to myself you are the god who performs miracles you display your power among the people you are the god who performs miracles you display your power among the people and i want you to notice some details in the text first detail i want you to notice in the text it says you are the god who performs miracles notice the definitive article in the text the before god not you are a god who performs miracles you are the god who performs miracles pastor i don't get it not you are a god who performs miracles you are the god who performs miracles pastor i don't get it not a god who performs miracles but the god who performs miracles pastor i don't get it you are not a god a is plural as in multiple you are the god definitive article the one and only god who performs miracles if there is a definitive article in front of the name yahweh that means there is no other god who performs miracles did you peep that in the text the writer didn't say you are a god plural amongst many he said you are the god definitive article in the hebrew as in there is no other god besides you i don't care what you name them i don't care what that thing on your on your on your altar is i don't care what you name that crystal that rock that deity of another monotheism there is only one god and he has a name and his name is yahweh jehovah his name is jesus the christ you are not a god amongst many you are the god definitive article there is no other creator except you there is no other being that can wrought miracles besides you there is no other being that can move and create besides you all other gods are lowercase g capital f false gods they have no power to create miracles or to perform miracles you are the god not a god that performs miracles and watch this you display not me god watch puts on display for the world to see watch this is so powerful watch your power amongst the peoples now i want to draw your attention to one word the word peoples not your people oh pastor i don't get it peoples s not your people ah pastor i don't get it he doesn't show off or display his glory only for christians man god will show his power even in the face of the unbeliever he would show his power in the face of the heathen in the face of the canaanite hittite jebusite all these lights every false monotheism every people group on the planet god will display his power it's just whether or not they're paying attention he don't flex his might only for christians he flexes might for the whole world to see proof of that is in the scriptures he let pharaoh know you're not the most powerful man in the world with ten plagues i'll topple your whole kingdom not only for my people to see but even for unbelievers to see that there is only one god one god the god that you and i serve the god of heaven and earth the god that created all things that god who has watched the final say-so and all things not not the fl the god who has the final says on all things not some doctor's report not the threat of the adversary i feel the spirit of god not the threat of some some what up not the wind blow not some circumstance change not the house that you lost the business you love the god who has the final say so in all things he displays displays watch he does not hide his power he don't tuck his tail and run he's not in a cave behind man he's on full display for the world to see and he's on display through me and through you that is being salt and light the god who displaces wonders amongst the people he performs miracles what are miracles they're not spooky pixel dust spraying and floating around on clouds miracles is an extraordinary extraordinary extraordinary extraordinary event manifesting divine intervention in the affairs of human beings let me read that to you again a miracle is an extraordinary event manifesting divine intervention in the affairs of human beings it is when god invades the realm of the natural in order to flex the supernatural power of his intervention is when you are facing something that seems unlikely and seems impossible and god flexes his muscle in that situation is when the doctor told me that your daughter abigail will be crippled up in the mine because she had a massive cyst in her brain was draining liquid into her spinal cord in the womb of her mother they said she will be born brain damaged she might not talk she might not walk it is the parents that laid their hands on the word of god and prayed in faith god we can't do anything from the outside but god we pray you would heal this child and abigail is running around right now with no problems that's the god of miracles it is the god who invades invades invades the realms of life watch who flexes his supernatural muscle and those things that look unlikely and impossible is the god who snatches the body of a three-day dead man and raises him from a tomb it is the god that raises lazarus from the dead the god that parts oceans the god that healed abby the god that gave israel my daughter breath when she was born stillborn in duke hospital with no heartbeat and i got down on my knees and said god be merciful to us and gives her life that god the god that can save a marriage that's on the rocks the god that can heal a body that's racked with cancer the god that can move on you the god that can snatch you from your depression with a song the god that can save your child we serve the god of miracles the god of divine intervention we serve the god who said watch me i'm almost done the god who said nothing is impossible for him who believes the god who sees listen to me carefully watch watch me the god who cares the god who knows watch look right at me look right at me the god look right at me who's not bound by anything except his word and unbelief the god who's not bound by anything i'm trying to put faith in somebody somebody you've been wrestling in your mind in your heart in your home you're fighting for your teenager your job what let's look right at me i'm i'm about done family the god who is not bound by anything except his word and your unbelief for jesus went to his hometown and could do but a few miracles there only because he did not have the power to do it no that's not what the bible says because the people did not believe the god who keep hearing you wish you wash your prayers but are you praying with faith the god who's not bound by anything except his word and your belief i get that notification i'm laying in the plane i go into my email and there it is in my email a secret link from an inside source at facebook saying use this encrypted link to recover your account watch what time did i get up and pray 3 a.m what time did i set my alarm for 3 45 what time did i get that email 3 30 am i got that email 30 minutes after i prayed 15 minutes before my alarm i prayed at 3am that encrypted email came 30 minutes later from an inside source at facebook saying use this secret link to recover your account now watch the dope thing about it it's morning time in the u.s these hijackers was in turkey it's night time in turkey when did my account get stolen from me while i slept the bible says the enemy comes in like a thief in the middle of the night he steals he kills and destroy but the bible also tells that somebody else moves at night sometimes too the god of heaven who who comes into the enemy's camp and slays people while they sleep destroys whole armies while they sleep the hacker got me at night but god got him back at night he stole from me at night but god returned to me the spoils of war at night and i hacked back the hacker while he slept changed my picture back on my profile put back everything on my profile and then posted that scripture on my page psalm 77 14 you are the god who performs miracles you display your power among the nations i made that post from 30 000 feet the last pokes he made on my page i left it there hacked the next post i put it there recovered yahweh will not be mocked and i'm reminded right now this passage in deuteronomy 24 for the lord your god is he who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to give you the victory that we serve the god who watch who goes with us in the fights and the battles that he calls us to that we don't battle alone when we've been called to those battles and as i look back on that friday and that week i just want to give you these three things that i was reminded of about how we should fight number one man you got to fight your battles on your knees you got to fight on your knees you will be toughest and most battle ready when you're on your knees you fight on your knees you enlist the god of heaven and earth who commands the armies of heaven earth you enlist them in prayer we fight our battles first in prayer we don't swing our fist at a person with no body i told you that last week that enemy don't have a physical body you can't punch you punch the enemy in prayer you use your prayers strategically to target everything that's hurting you somebody said i don't know what to pray you don't know what to pray let me ask you a question what's bothering you target that in prayer what's taking your peace target that in prayer what is your husband agitating you about target that in prayer what is your wife agitating you about target that in prayer which one of your children are not saved target them in prayer you fight your battles on your knees you say i don't know what to pray what's bothering you what got you stressed what took your peace what got you up at night pray about that you know we got to stop going to god with this laundry list of all these things we think he wants to hear you know what he wants to hear my son my daughter what is bothering you when my children have a problem i tell them get to the point you don't need to impress me with three hours of jargon just tell me what you're crying about and let's get to the fight together you gotta fight on your knees you fight battles on your knees you pray you be strategic you use your prayer like arrows and you shoot them towards your problems how else should we fight you fight with truth with the word of god you don't fight in ignorance god gave you uh he gave you clothes for warfare ephesians six he gave us the sword the word he gave us a belt a helmet a chest plate breastplate he gave us his tell us take every thought that leads us that's that sets itself up against god and and cast it down and bring it captive he even taught us how to deal with our crazy mind we got to fight with truth you trying to fight with articles you're written on google you're trying to fight with somebody's podcast you got to fight with the truth from the word of god that's why some of us keep getting beat down in these battles because we don't know the word of god you don't even know you got armor you don't even know you got help you don't even know that there's more with you than there is with your adversary that's why prophet told his servant he said to serve god open up the eyes of my servant who was afraid of an enemy army and show him that there's more with us than there are with them man we serve the lord who the scripture says in revelation commands the armies of the legions of heaven i like what the bible says about jesus and that when he returns he comes riding on a horse with the armies of the saints behind him armies paul wrote his protege timothy mandejus please the one who has enlisted you as a good soldier all of these terms communicate warfare and if you don't know you're in a battle you're going to keep getting beat down and bloodied and you won't know how to fight out of those corners fight out of depression fight out of anxiety fight out of fear fight out of some of you the devil stole stuff from you and he still got it he took stuff from you that you rightly own you own peace go and get it joy belongs to you go and get it [Music] that count belonged to me i went and got it lena and i ain't tuck our tail and roll over so allergic to start a new one we went and got what belongs to us because we felt the spirit of god leading us to do so what has the devil taken to you that belongs what has he hacked that belongs to you [Music] so we gotta fight with truth and lastly we gotta fight for god's glory you gotta fight for god's glory if you only fight for your glory you're gonna lose a lot of battles man something shifts when you fight for god's glory you know what god i'm fighting for you but pastor i don't understand that in application why is your marriage worth fighting for because it's a picture of christ in the church fight for his glory why is your teenager worth fighting for because that's your lineage of producing godly seeds in the earth when you're gone fight for your teenagers why should i calm my flesh and be submitted to spiritual leadership and be in my word and not cause trouble in my church because we fighting for the advancement of the gospel and the preparation of the church and we want to make sure that god's church is not it's not it's not toppled various churches by the flesh of the people who are in it so we're fighting for god's glory i calm my flesh for god's glory i'll apologize to my wife for god's glory you don't get that right i i can't listen i go through my own valleys i get depressed i get sad sometimes my pastor teach me all the time you got to be relentless philip he said i get discouraged too just like you phillip but listen you can't stay there he tells me all the time don't stay there we gotta fight our way out of these corners for god's glory and god's work that'll keep going we don't got time to stay on the side bloodied and crying there's a war being fought there's spoils to recover there's souls to save people to disciple a jesus to please and a crown to obtain and lay down at his feet [Music] we fight for his glory fight with the right motives this this little series was born out of my little battle against evil for god's glory this may not be your battle but you have your own battle and i pray you take all the principles in the series and work them for your good and for god's glory because battles are inevitable i just want to say to someone god is with you god is for you he has not abandoned you he will fight with you and in this life look right at me i'm serious about this we will see many victories for watch but sometimes we won't see the victories we want in the in in the flesh or in life sometimes the victories won't be what we touch sometimes the victory will be well how god changes us in the battle sometimes the victory is one in us that is this may not end the way that you want it to end but that doesn't mean it has to take your joy and your peace or your praise or your worship sometimes the victory is the transformation of character we experience going through a battle although it may not end the way that we end the person may still die the marriage may still end the business may still close but i have my testimony anyway [Music] we serve the god of wonders the god who performs miracles the god who's with you and the god who fights for you my brother my sister look right at me please i know i'm talking right to you i see you with those tears in your eyes all that you've been going through in your mind that's a battlefield you got to fight your way out of that all that you're going through right now in your heart that's a battlefield you got to fight your way out of that all that you're going to do in your home and your family those are battlefields you got to fight your way out of that god comes alongside you in the fight some battles he fights for you others the scripture says he'll fight with you as you fight you don't fight alone and i'm fighting for you right now praying for you in this difficult season this pandemic season this lack of gathering season keep fighting my brother keep fighting my sister and come out of those battles come out of those valleys with a testimony and renewed character and strength in the god of wonders let me pray for you eternal god and ever wise father the god of wonders the god who fights our battles for us the god who returns to us the spoils of war the god who recovers peace and brings back joy the god who sends water in dry places the god who breathes on us when we need the wind of your presence the god who sets us on fire when we have grown cold the god who provides in times of need and lack the god who can heal with the cry of one of his children the god who can save the god who delivers the god who breaks chains the god who sets us free from bondages and vices the god who keeps picking us up the god that leads us through every valley the god that leads our soul into peace and leads us near calm waters the god that makes us lie down in green pastures the god who restores the soul [Music] i pray for every single one of your sons and daughters all of them because all of us are standing on a battlefield and if our life right now is in a state of peace we're still in the matter of middle of the spiritual warfare that's being fought all around us if not for anyone else we can pray for our christian brothers and sisters and so father i pray right now you would strengthen the weak you would encourage the discouraged you would wrap your arms around the one who needs a touch and a hug you would wipe the tears of the one who needs to be comforted you would embolden the one who has been afraid [Music] you would give righteous indignation to the one that's being punked by the adversary you would give tenacity to the one who feels like they can't throw another punch will give vision to the one who can't see the next mountain of victory you would even strengthen the man with the microphone you the god of wonders i pray you would sprinkle miracles all up and down this chat [Music] and that you would move on behalf of your people though we battle god we thank you we do not battle alone you know we walk through many battlefields we thank you we don't walk through them alone and i thank you for your wisdom that did not allow this experience to go to waste you are the god of wonders [Music] i pray you sink this word deep into the hearts of your people and we will go out of here tenacious fighting conquering and recovering everything that you have ordained for us to have in the mighty and majestic [Music] and matchless name of jesus the king of kings and the lord of lords everybody in the chat just say amen if you receive that just drop amen in the chat if you receive that in the studio shout amen now they can't hear you at home if you receive that in the studio shout amen come on everybody in the chat right now just shout it just put amen in the chat amen it's not spooky it just means so let it be amen amen amen amen amen amen amen family look right at me look right at me so many of you on this chat right now you're kind of in a season where you're just all over the place trying to figure out where you need to land maybe you've been watching us online during the pandemic you don't have a church home your church is closed you don't know where you're supposed to be i invite you to be a part of our family maybe you've been listening to my voice and you feel like man i need to keep listening to pastor philip i need to hear what philip anthony mitchell has to say i never met you in person but i feel like you're my pastor we invite you to be a part of our family keep logging on to these streams you can send us an email you can jump into a small group or if you don't want to take any big steps just keep logging onto the stream and we'll move you through the channels to get you connected to our family others of you i want a pause to say listen if this message blessed you in any way would you do me a favor when this message goes live tomorrow or monday would you take that link and share it with somebody that needs to hear this word snatch it from youtube snatch it from the victory app wherever you feel comfortable and just text it to somebody or put it on your own social media and if you don't want to you don't want to post it on your page that's fine you want to keep your page clean that's fine man text it to somebody who needs to somebody's going through a battle they might be on the verge of suicide man send them this message you might save them in the middle of the night and to everybody else i just listen one of paul's on behalf of my wife and i our leading lady miss lena mitchell for all of you who have kept the church alive during the pandemic it is not prayers only but it is prayer serving and generosity is why we have a studios while we still have lights it's why we still here those of you who are honoring god with the first portion of your income according to the scriptures man thank you so much for your generosity and for partnering with us in the gospel and i would just encourage more of you who are not involved i'm not trying to beat you up and if if you're new i'm not talking to you family man would you join us in the support of the spread of the gospel just being faithful with your giving not to make me rich it's to first honor god according to the scriptures and it's to help us spread the gospel even further um you know we are not sure if we're going to be able to return to our gathering location i'm going to be honest with you i wasn't planning to talk about this but just we're not sure uh and we are looking for alternate locations but watch they are not free and uh and sometimes people say well i'll support when you put a building in front of me or something in front of me and i get that but sometimes you know like a farmer if you don't wait for it to rain to plant seed a wise farmer just plant seeds in preparation for the rain and so like a church we want to be ahead of the reign we want to know that if god opens something for us whether it's another building or another we want to have the resources and be prepared to capitalize on those opportunities we can't do that we're just wishful thinking so i'm asking you especially in this this season where we don't even know if i'll get out of this studio we are young church but we're not an incapable church i could sacrifice five dollars from mcdonald's and put that in the offering i don't have to have the new pay of every jordan's i could put that in i could sow my money into something that's gonna outlast me that maybe if god says here is what i have for you we don't have to go begging we'll be ready with what we have saved up to capitalize on what god so in this season i'm just asking you would you help me my wife and i we we practice this be faithful with your giving because we don't know if we're going to be able to return back to csk and that's why we're still in this studio some of y'all been emailing us how can we not do an in-person gatherings where that's the whole thing it's like we're trying to work through that behind the scenes but it takes generosity and sometimes the difference between what where we are where we could be it's just one more person saying you know what i'm going to be faithful and so would you just be that next person that said i will be faithful um so we could be prepared in this season listen family our emcee's coming behind me to share with you some very important announcements when i see you next we will be celebrating the resurrection of our lord and savior jesus christ on easter sunday morning for he has risen i'm going to be preaching to you and i believe we're going to have a great time on resurrection sunday uh mc's coming behind me to announce some things to you and then we're going to hang out for a couple minutes in the chats love on each other say hello to each other holla at each other in the chats i love you family and i'll see you next week for resurrection sunday easter at victory i love you stay tuned and then go in peace in jesus name thank you for listening to the victory broadcast we prayed that message was a blessing to you if you have a story or testimony to share we want to hear all about it send us an email to share at victorychurchatl.org or visit us online under share thanks for listening go in peace

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Length: 67min 39sec (4059 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 29 2021