Fight Like A Mother || Battle Ready (Part 3) || Pastor Bianca Olthoff

we'll welcome the TF hoc wherever you are joining us from we are so glad that you're with us hey we want to invite you to worship with us go ahead and get to your feet let's seem together come on [Music] [Applause] [Music] if you fight for me what was meant for evil romantic my defeat [Music] victory I'm ready I'm ready for the fire the times of fear [Music] the time [Applause] it's Travis [Music] [Applause] you say [Music] this one [Music] the one on the stone [Music] is the culture in the finish this the this [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] cuz he and the man to feed it I'll take it back this ground by the power of the name of Jesus [Music] me come on someone declare to say it's time to stand today it's time this [Music] ready if you said it the sadness [Music] [Music] [Music] well I just I love our worship team I'm just I feel ready to go in this moment and hey welcome to the father's house we're glad you're here wherever you're watching from in whatever state that might be in your living room pajamas whatever that looks like we are glad you're here and today is Mother's Day so happy Mother's Day and then you know I know my mom's watching happy Mother's Day and when I just just take the time today just to expecially moms that are at single moms type mom's moms with young kids you know like they're all homeschooling now just man they need extra love today and so make sure that you just give that extra love to your mom today and you know as a church and a community us as all this started happening with quarantine and we always we were just honored to be the hands and feet of Jesus that was our goal is that we just want to love our community well and we said hey what if we could feed a hundred thousand meals during the season and we just had this huge goal and I just I'm so excited to announce that last week we were able to feed over a hundred thousand meals in Southern California man God is good and here's the thing it's it's because of your generosity is because of your investment into the father's house that we get to be the hands and feet and here's the great thing is that we're not done we're not done we're gonna continue in the coming weeks to go out and bring more food and more meals and whatever resources people need because here's what that's what the church does and it's because your investment that we get to do that and so I just want to Brian right now as we we continue to worship and we get to give back to God what he is so graciously given to us and and if you're new to the father's house this isn't for you but this is your tribe this is you've been kind of watching and hanging out wherever you might be we want to encourage you that giving is about worship we get to give back to God because of what he's done to us it's not about a dollar amount it's about aligning our heart to what God is doing in our life and so you can do that a couple ways you can go to web site you can text 7 7 9 7 7 you can give on the app and we just want to pray over that offering right now then we want to continue to worship right now look we just thank you again that we get to beat your hands and feet but we thank you what you are doing we thank you for the Opera you need to be a voice we thank you for the opportunity to love people all across the country Lord and so we thank you for what you've done and send your son for us Lord we thank you and we are just believing that you're gonna multiply and multiply and multiply so that we can bless and bless and bless that we are blessed to be a blessing we thank you pray this in Jesus name Amen [Music] that you present silver [Music] we love addresses Jesus you don't know anything you can do I just want you we just one more and I'm sorry when I've just gone through the motions I'm sorry when I just sing another song take me back I open [Music] when I've come with my agent when I forget then you remind me back hi [Music] Oh I never [Music] me [Music] good morning [Music] you come on let's sing that together I just want you I just want nothing and nothing and nothing will do ha [Applause] [Music] and nothing [Music] ha nothing well conscious [Music] [Music] hate search this is your invitation as always we don't want these lyrics to simply be a song to kill time this is our mode of worship so right where you are will you join us when you stand to your feet to honor God to honor God with your voice to honor God with your worship and then here's the challenge who uses a declaration as an anthem over your skull will you sing these words and allow them to pierce your heart in a way that you believe [Music] when you gather your being join us in worship [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] well good morning T of hoc we we are excited we are honored that you are here hey whatever time zone whatever country and whatever continent you are tuning in from we just want to say you have a seat at the father's house hey last week I didn't teach last week a strata and I got to digitally connect with friends from New Jersey to New Mexico to New England and also come on for this one Newcastle come on Jesus so hey we believe that God is doing something new if you are with your family will you say hello to them high five then maybe you are in the chat box we want to know where you are from you could way that someone say hi to someone as we go ahead and get today started but listen wherever you are at we want to give a special shout out to two groups of course our second campus which is the Norco Prison campus to the men there we love you we pray for you we are thinking of you often and cannot wait to be back with you in person and and secondly hey it's Mother's Day I think we need to have a huge shout out for the the moms that are watching online and for those that are in here that are not hollering for your mama I mean shame on you come on show your momma some love but if we are in a new series called battle ready we're actually three weeks in to the series battle ready and given the holiday and given just where we are at and who we are celebrating I've entitled this message if you're a note taker of entitled this message fight like a mother okay that is the goal that I want you to hold on to it and here's the thing we are all fighting for freedom here at TF hoc the reason why battle ready was put together is because we are fighting for freedom and we want to teach you how this is how you become battle ready now before we dive into the message if you are joining us for the very first time here's a little bit of a synopsis here's a little bit of a recap a little bit of some history of what we've been going through but what we've been going through is part of the freedom process here's the thing there is a battle and we must be battle read and ready there is an enemy that has come to steal kill and destroy and we will get to that in a second but we must be on guard to fight and the message I'm bringing today maybe you're thinking well that really doesn't pertain to me it's not gonna change my life listen listen when you understand that we are in a spiritual batter battle no longer will we be victims to life circumstances I firmly believe that we will become victorious we will become more than conquerors in Christ no longer victims but we will become victorious against the kingdom of darkness now when we talk about spiritual warfare kingdom of darkness demons and devils and Satan I remember as a kid I was like that is so scary I want nothing to do with that and every time that people would talk about these things especially when I was little I would be like la la la la la I don't want to hear it it doesn't pertain to me but then as I got to get older I realized by witnessing Christians strong in their face overcoming temptations getting over addictions and sin setting free of strongholds and I realized they knew something about spiritual warfare and when I begin a deep dive of understanding not just spiritual warfare but this series battle-ready I awaken to the fact in the truth of why didn't anyone talk about this earlier why did anyone spend time and unpack the the the the kingdom of darkness and the assault on our faith the assault on our life and so I am praying and believing in the name of Jesus as he floods wherever you are at your car your cubicle your office wherever you are at wherever you are watching that today the Spirit of God so penetrates your heart that you are awakened to the fact that there is a battle now have you've been with us you will know that this series looks at the Apostle Paul he wrote a letter to a region a city called Ephesus and the book is entitled Ephesians so in this series we've gone three seasons four five and six now we're encouraging our church read chapters four five and six read and four five and six read four five and six so that when we come together to learn which is deep dive into a couple scriptures and we have an understanding of what Paul has been talking about so on week one I kicked off the series reminding us that we are going to battle I mean just step up like warriors and then last week pastor Matt talked about this thing called strongholds and he will help us identify the battle that's going in our minds how do we take authority of the battle of our mind now if you were here and if you weren't you can go back and watch his message from last week but he gave us four ways to overcome a stronghold the first one he listed was identify it identify your stronghold well today get ready because we're gonna take this one concept of identifying a stronghold and going deep with it I firmly believe that this is going to set people free if if you do the work if you're willing to go to some of the most broken and painful parts of your heart I believe that you will be able to experience freedom and that's we're going after for battle ready now I'm identifying the enemy's tactics his moves to get you it's gonna be an assault on your spiritual freedom and today what I want to identify is the lies that hold us down the lies that keep us bound from inheriting what is rightfully ours see I want you to grab your notebooks your Bibles and your pens because today we're gonna have a little bit of a teach all right I hope you came prepared because today is gonna be a teach so I want you to turn with me in your Bibles to Ephesians chapter 5 so last week we're in the fusions chapter 4 this week we're in Ephesians chapter 5 and as you grab your Bible and flip to Ephesians chapter 5 I'm gonna be reading Genesis chapter 3 we're gonna go back to celebrate one of our early faith mothers of the faith and her name is Eve and there's this conversation that Eve has with Satan the serpent who has been deceiving us from the beginning of time now we pick this up in Genesis chapter 3 verse 1 it says now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals that the Lord had made he said to the woman did God really say you must not eat from any tree in the garden the woman said to the serpent we may eat a fruit from the trees of the garden but God did say you must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden and you must not touch it or you will die you will not certainly die the serpent said to the eye to the woman for God knows that when you eat your eyes will be opened and you'll be like God knowing good and evil from the beginning of the Bible at the beginning of time the enemy has been sent to deceive the enemy has tried deceiving us why because he wants to leave us naked and afraid like he did Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden he has been lying and deceiving and conniving like some dirty ex-boyfriend that you can't get away from that is like the enemy and that's a word for some of y'all right now this little frizzy on Mother's Day if you have some dirty ex-boyfriend that's trying to holler at you it's time to let them go he is a serpent from the pit of hell amen now the enemy lied and deceived Adam and Eve and the hope for today whether you are married or single whether you are young or old whether you are male or female is that we get to learn from the mother of our faith and learn how to fight like a mother okay for stepmoms like Sarah in the Bible like adoptive moms like the princess of Egypt hey for pseudo moms like Naomi in the Book of Ruth for barren moms like Hannah for fertile moms like Leah for holy moms like Mary and for some hood ratchet moms like Rahab my hope is that we rise and we honor our moms on this day while also honoring the mother of our faith and the mothers of our faith so you should be in Ephesians chapter 5 and this is where we pick up Paul is writing to his friends and he says this for you were once darkness you were darkness and now you are light in the Lord live as children of the light for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness righteousness and truth and find out what pleases the Lord I have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness but rather expose them and this is what Matt had said last week hey take off and put on take off the deeds of darkness put on the deeds of righteousness jump down to verse 13 but everything exposed by light becomes visible and everything that is illuminated becomes light now whether we want to or not we find ourselves in warfare between the kingdom of darkness in the kingdom of God now this might feel a little bit much but I need you to hold on because we want freedom for our lives if we want freedom from the battle of our minds we have to be aware of what's going on now when we speak about kingdoms of darkness some circles refer to it as like spiritual warfare this all feels very theoretical now according to statistics if I were to ask Americans do you believe in God and a God 92% of Americans will say yes but then if you ask the same group of Americans do you believe in Satan almost 70% of them will say no why is that ever since the historical enlightenment period Oh humans have separated the supernatural from the natural according to the enlightened thinkers at that time there was natural causes there was scientific explanation for what we would consider evil and according to a research that came out of the New York Times an article that was speaking about God and Satan and good and evil what they said is that Westerners like to believe in supernatural good like God in angels but do not want to believe in supernatural bad like the devil and demons so before we continue on in this series I just have to ask you a very real question do you believe in evil and I'm not just talking about you said a bad word or you've had an evil thought or you'd really like to kill that person I'm talking about straight-up do you believe that we are at warfare between a kingdom of darkness do you believe that there is a kingdom of darkness that opposes you opposes your marriage oppose your children opposes the call of God upon your life we have said this verse repeatedly in week one and week two I'm gonna say it again and if you're sitting here like our dino John Denton great that means we've done our job scripture says that the feast Satan has come to steal kill and destroy well what the enemy Satan the thief has come to kill the experiencing of a good God the enemy has come to destroy experiencing the goodness of God the enemy has come to kill experiencing the goodness of God a Charles Spurgeon one of my favorite dead guys he says this about Christians in battle he says to be a Christian is to be warrior the soldier of Jesus Christ mutton that must not expect to find ease in the world it is a battlefield and his occupation is war whoa listen up warrior it's time to fight look at what Paul says in Ephesians 5:11 have nothing to do nothing zero zilch nada have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness but rather expose them so over the next two weeks of this series we want to expose evil and the kingdom of darkness and the tactics of the enemy that keep us bound last week we discussed strongholds today we're gonna be unpacking lies accusations so here's a little context in Revelation 12 revelations the last book of the Bible in Revelation 12 we are actually told the descriptors of Satan and Revelation 12 it says that that Satan is a deceiver and an accuser and we see this in the beginning of the book of the Bible Genesis is the last and we just Genesis is the first book of the Bible and revelation is the last and we see in the book of Revelation Satan lied to Eve and he hasn't stopped lying to humanity up until now men and women of God I need you to hear me I need you to write this down I need you to holler in the chat box the devil is a liar and not just because it sounds cool to say oh the devil is a liar know what you need to know is the devil is a liar he's an accuser he's a deceiver he wants to throw you off your game you've got to recognize how he's gonna come at you or else you'll be taken down in the throw of life now to understand or to wrap our minds around we could easily understand deceiver most of us realize that to deceive is to lie so we know that the enemy is a liar but this word accuse is interesting now if you're sitting here thinking like well how can you just say the devil is a liar like back it up I'm glad that you're sitting there sanctimoniously I'm fair aesthetically questioning my theology I want you don't don't don't turn there because we have put the scripture on the screen but in John 8:44 it says this Jesus says to the evil one the evil was a murderer from the beginning not holding to the truth for there is no truth in him he's sucking about saying when he lies he speaks his native language for he is a liar the father of eyes there's a battle for our heart there's a battle for our mind there is a battle for our soul and the enemy wants to use strongholds to hold us down and to make if make us captive so that we don't walk into the fullness of our calling and we need to be woke we need to realize no there there there's a there's an enemy I'm a child to God and as he deceived Adam and Eve I don't want to be that dumb I want to realize that the enemy is a liar the enemy wants to accuse you and then after he's accused you he wants you to agree with that accusation he wants you to believe the lie that he sold you the father of lies will accuse you as sin the enemy will come and say these things about you sometimes they're true sometimes they're not true but he's talking about some sinfulness again could be true it could be untrue this is as a warrior of God you are just gonna have to use your discernment because the enemy's gonna come at you and say you lied to your boss you cheated on your taxes you cheated on your spouse again you got drunk again you hit the pipe again you wrote again no you slept with that person's a wife again you cheated you stole from her mom again hey those are sins and they grieve God they agree they definitely grieve God but there are two things that I want you to know one sin is wrong sin grieves God but this is what I want you to write down the accusations of the enemy against hat that the enemy has brought against you have no power to condemn because Jesus nailed those claims to the cross say the enemy comes to accuse you and you oh you're this and you're that and you're this and you will never and you can't but you need to stop the voice in the enemy and you fight it with Scripture look at what Paul says in Colossians 2 he says you were dead as in past tense brother and sister see you weren't dead because of your sins and because of your sinful nature was not yet caught away look at King continues on then God made you alive with Christ he forgave you of your sins he cancelled the record of your charges against us and took it away by nailing it to a cross in this way he disarmed the spiritual rulers and authority that's devil and demons he shamed them publicly by his victory over them on the cross Paul says because of Calvary because of the cross you are innocent you are innocent the enemy's lies cannot stop you see Satan is not your judge he's your accuser evil is not your judge it is your accuser and the enemy wants to come in and hold shame and sin as a weight of yoke a bondage around us making us feel like we have to be quiet live in silence and in darkness but child of light flick on the light reveal what the enemy is doing you are no chump see evil works and will shame you by accusing you of something ugly by accusing you of some frailty some weakness maybe even some sin dr. dan Allender out of the Allender Center for psychology and theology up in Seattle to which I'm in debt for a lot of the research so he put together for this series he says something interesting he says that in our story there is a sense of fitness there's a sense of fitness to the accusations of the enemy in other words the tactics the tactics of the enemy the tactics of evil have been strategic they've been long and they've been concerted since you were a child so how do the accusations of today mess with you how do the lies of the enemy wreak havoc when do those accusations first begin I firmly believe that if we don't stop and recognize the accusations we won't be able to wrestle against the tactics of the enemy so here are the accusations that have assaulted me in the past you are fat and fat is ugly you will always be fat so you will always be ugly the church will never be able to accept you in the fullness of who you are now I have spent several months working on where the enemy has come in and found resonance in my heart I've spent a couple weeks even going to this series of identifying the strongholds and learning to break them in the name of Jesus because I am a chosen child of God and I cannot lead people where I have not gone let me tell you my favorite bible teacher she says to teach where you're living otherwise your words will be dead so let me share very vulnerably where these accusations started and there's multiple but I just picked three I was 11 years old it was midweek Bible study on a Wednesday night at Montebello intermediate high school and I remember leaving after the Bible study and we played kickball in the courtyard the 10 and the 10 through 12 year olds played kickball and there was this one boy I was absolutely in love with I was obese at the time and didn't realize it I figured if I could kick a really good ball and score a home run he'll pay attention to me so that day he was a pitcher and he rolled the ball I kicked the ball sailed over his head and with such pride as I'm turning first base heading towards second I see him out of the corner of my eye doing one of these things saying whoa Bianca's running she's so fat she's causing an earthquake if I push her down she'll cause a black hole by second base I realized one I am fat and there is shame and to church cannot handle me at the age of 12 years old my sister and I were at church again do you see where the enemy is coming in church and wait church and wait by the age of 12 years old my sister and I were messing around with some kids at church and there was this one boy Michael who would always make fun of my twin sister and I because of our weight well he started messing with jasmine jasmine is no chunk she jumped she pushed back and Michael fell back and broke his arm surrounded by a group of adults all looking at us I remember staring at them shaming jasmine for for picking on a boy much skinnier than her and I remember that day seared in my mind that my weight is a threat to people at church the enemy has tried weaving in church the place where God has called me to and marring my identity to keep me out of the calling that he's purposed me to and he didn't stop when I was a kid I can go on year after year but let me just speak about a recent one not even three years ago I'm speaking at a conference one of the largest conferences I have ever spoken in my life I mean the speakers there if I were to say their names you actually know that I am nervous and I'm believing like I'm I'm walking in the calling and the fullness that God has called me to I'm about to walk into the auditorium and out of nowhere I see a woman bum-rush up to me with a brown paper bag and she thrusts this bag my hands and said I lost 30 pounds doing these magic pills and I wanted to give them to you I was about to preach the Word of God and what she handed me reinforced the lie of the enemy I am fat and fat as ugly I will always be fat so I will always be ugly the church will never be able to handle me do I think that this woman was intentionally tried to Mar my identity no but see the enemy will use words to attach to wounds and make us bound B won't church be woke so those are my accusations do you see how my accusations weaved into the broken parts of my heart and that's just like the enemy he's looking for moments of pain of your broken heart to slither right in and whisper lies over you and I'm sharing these embarrassing moments because I believe that we're a church where we give permission to go second that if we are not honest and if we don't have the courage to be honest what we expected of anyone else in your community groups this week would you be this honest because if you are not willing to shed light in the dark areas of your life you will never experience the fullness and freedom that Christ has promised us so those are my accusations I'm gonna ask you a pointed question I'm gonna let it hang in the air what are your accusations maybe it might be too much this early in this time zone and this day with screaming kids so let me fill in some blanks let me give you some possible accusations you are so incompetent you never work hard enough you're just like your father you are a liar you are dangerous to yourself and everyone else you're a horrible mom you will always be obese you're a drunk you're a failure you're a fraud now ask yourself this simple question how old are those accusations and when did they begin because you inevitably can route it back to a trauma to a pain to something that's hurt now remember what we just read in Ephesians 5:13 but everything exposed by light becomes visible and everything that is illuminated becomes a light so let's turn on the light so it's where we gotta do some work hang with me the tricky part of accusations is that there's always a grain of truth you're gonna believe like wow yeah yeah yeah that is true so it's hard to differentiate between guilt and condemnation so so let's just highlight a few things cuz I my fear is that you're hearing this and saying well then there's nothing wrong with my sin no the scripture is very clear about sin getting drunk is a sin lying is a sin jacking up free marriage is a sin and some of y'all are like you gotta have sex before marriage no go look at the talk on YouTube you'll get more information now all of those things are sin yes and they grieve God yes but you need to learn and recognize whose voice are you listening - are you listening to the voice of God are you listening to the voice of Satan now in Psychological language I love psychobabble I have studied therapy and psychology and it fascinates me and I read that when they talk to clients and therapists or doing therapy with clients they're like are you listening to your inner critic or your inner advocate they are so close to the truth let's talk instead of a psychobabble let's talk some biblical babble okay because in Scripture Revelation tells us that saying is an accuser are you listening to the voice of the accuser or are you listening to the voice that John that Jesus tells us in John 14 the voice of the Advocate the Spirit of God is alive in you see the enemy wants to whisper falsities the enemy wants to whisper lies but the Holy Spirit is within you and is speaking truth over you I love this beautiful example I want to back this up it have a deep understanding this there's this example out of John chapter 4 Jesus has his conversation it's kind of a sketchy conversation Jesus has his conversation with a woman at noon at a well in Samaria now he says something confrontational to her and talking about her ho tendencies ok now he was very loving about it but he made no they even don't get a twisty he came for her he read her mail he was on her doorstep he would spend some truth and this is what he says he said hey go call your husband and have him come back here and she said Oh sir I died I don't have a husband and she said to her you're right to say that you have no husbands the fact is that you've had five and the one that you have now he's not even your husband that same dialogue that same conversation to be read in two different ways two different tones one of confrontation and condemnation and consternation and guilt in judgment or one with fierce kindness how do we know which one and which tone and what body language that was here Jesus offered this woman such amazing kindness that she went back to her city she went back to her city and she told all her neighbors she told her friends let me tell you about a man who read my business let me tell you about a man who called me out on my crap how do we know that she felt no shame because she went home and told everyone and guess what shame month makes us do the opposite shame causes us to hide in the Garden of Eden like Adam and Eve this woman was bold about this transformation and I want to be set free from shame and accusations I want you to be set free from shame and accusations and so I want to walk us through an assignment very quickly dr. Adam young and gave me this assignment and I'm giving it to you I want you to pull out a notebook or a piece of paper that you will have for the week and every time that you hear in accusation I want you to write down the accusation and every time that you hear the accusation repeated make a little tally mark by it and every time that you hear maybe a different accusation maybe for some of us it's multiple applica who use Asians keep a tally mark by every time you hear that accusation at the end of the week I want you to look at that piece of paper and see how many tally marks are there and then ask yourself this question how long have the words that I just wrote down been at play in my life when did those words first come alive in my story for my weight in my shame I had over 75 tally marks a week and that's one accusation the accusations that we suffer from today there is a fitness to our story and until you come aware of these accusations you might just think it's a truth about you you might just think well it is what it is but you need to recognize brother/sister you need to recognize that evil has a voice evil has a voice and his whispering falsities it is whispering accusations over you now how do you know if this is accusation or if this is conviction well what's conviction maybe someone there is like I don't get all this Christian e-language conviction is when the Spirit of God tells you whispers your heart hey what's your doing ain't cool I got something better for you put the cookies down cuz I got a seven-course meal for you that's conviction so I want us to make sure let's go a little bit deeper with this when the Lord is convicting you of a sin you made a mistake that's a sin the Lord is convicting you of sin it feels like love and gentility and kindness and compassion and it feels if we could visualize this like the prodigal father running after the prodigal son chasing him down saying welcome home if it is condemnation it is gonna feel heavy and sad and the tonality is gonna be weighted down it's gonna feel like dark and ominous and here's how you can separate the different narratives if it's conviction you're gonna have an awareness oh gosh I need to change if it is condemnation you're gonna say I'm a failure and this will never change conviction condemnation and you have to be careful because evil is deceptive evil it's cunning and and in your sin though it's wrong the enemy wants to come in and make you feel that your sin will separate you from God there is no hope for you and you can never change so let's play this out I want to make sure you know how to identify this let me give us a hypothetical situation say you were a 14 year old boy and you grew up dirt poor or maybe let's pull this out a little bit more let's say that you're a 14 year old boy and you grew up not recognized by anyone maybe you were overlooked people at school made fun of you maybe they didn't know your name they ostracized you they didn't include you and they said things like who is that person what a loser they will never become anything at all what's seated in your mind at that age was that it was not safe to be you the enemy is cunning he woke to this you took that accusation that you will never amount to anything that no one will ever care and you made a vow with the enemy saying it is not OK to be me that vow with the kingdom of darkness allowed you to believe that you are weak that you are feeble that you are ineffectual and nobody cares about you the enemy will use word wounds to wreak havoc on us and to combat what those people said and those people listen listen it could be your mom it could be your dad it could be your neighbor it could be friends that could be cousins it could be friends it could be enemies that they will use word wounds they will use these wounds to go and break your heart and the enemy will come in and echo those words from now into eternity you're a loser you're worth nothing you will mount to nothing so you build your life on lies and pride which by the way our sin creating a false narrative of who you are I've got to pretend to be someone that I'm not or or people won't love me you begin to spend money and buy clothes and do and buy status creating the illusion the false sense that you are a person of influence that people should care about you you hustle and you grind to suffice the illusion to be who you think people want you to be and you believe the lie that you were insignificant and unworthy maybe in the strong hole assessment that you did last week you it was revealed that there is a stronghold of pride and insecurity and a feeling of not being worthy here's my fear we did the stronghold assessment that past Matt gave us and he's just like Europe got a stronghold of pride and insecurity and we pray some feeble anemic prayer and slap a verse on it like rub-a-dub-dub thanks for the blood God break that stronghold I'm telling you it doesn't work like that we need to manhandle and take authority of the accuser we need to tell him not any more I recognize your tactics and I rebuke it in the name of Jesus through the shed blood of my Savior Jesus I get to come at you enemy see I'm not going to Jesus and say take this stronghold away no no Jesus already defeated Satan now it's my turn I get to tell the enemy you will come in me with accusations and I am going to bring them down no longer are you gonna choke me out no longer you can have authority over me I'm a free child of God if you don't know this let me tell you I am anointed to tear down strongholds my voice is a prophetic declaration over people around the globe letting them know that they are free wake up you are not blind you are not dead rise up because the Spirit of God is in you blocking the accuser from the lies of the enemy this is how we break strongholds we recognize a stronghold we identify the lie and we come after the enemy look at what Paul says in 1st Corinthians 10 pastor Matt read this over us last week we use God's mighty weapons not as worldly weapons to knock down the strongholds of human reasoning and destroy false arguments what is that BAM that's a lie straight from the pit of hell we destroy every proud obstacle that keeps people from knowing God we capture the rebellious thoughts and make them obey Christ the words of the enemy need to obey Christ I'm a chosen child of the Most High King no matter what the enemy tells you mighty warrior this is what you need to hear today that that you are not a mistake that you are not a bad decision that you are not a poor choice that you are not at your dress size you are not a scale number you are not your head and sin you are not your addiction you are not your lust you are not your anger you are not your layoff notice you are not your social media number no you are a child of God you're a miracle in the waiting you are a story of grace poured out you are a magnet of blessing you are a child of God your success in hibernation you are one step towards greatness you are one decision away from freedom you are one decision away from liberty and the only thing separating you from what you're not from what you are is recognizing that the stronghold of the enemy is nothing but a lie renouncing it in the name of Jesus and declaring I know who my God is I know my identity and I rebuke the lies of the enemy right here I believe that the word that the band are gonna sing over us today will you worship because here's the thing when we come to God there is no shame there's no embarrassment maybe the broken parts of your heart feel embarrassed maybe the the sexual abuse but put my Dennett e on you of shame that made you feel like you had to live your life in secret maybe the financial stress that you're hiding with the illusion of perfection and this perfect image brings a sense of embarrassment or shame maybe the lie enemy has put over you you will never be able to tell the truth because if you tell the truth and people won't like you are you ready to identify the lie here's the greatest sense of freedom that we can have the greatest lie that the enemy told you that you cannot receive salvation that you are unworthy of a relationship with Jesus that is a lie from the pit of hell right now right where you are wherever you're watching from whatever time zone whatever day whatever nation whatever language guess what you can enter into salvation you today my brother and sister you can receive the gift of salvation here's what we're gonna do we're gonna renounce the stronghold of doubt and skepticism and lie and we're gonna replace it with faith and believe so right where you are whoever you are maybe you've never heard about this man named Jesus maybe you've never heard on a kingdom of darkness we get to shed a light on the fact that you are loved that you are chosen that God sees you maybe maybe you're the other side maybe you used to walk with the Lord and you've walked away now is your opportunity to come back to God there is no stronghold there is no lies at the end we can hang on you there is no sin that will separate you now is the time to get back in right relationship with God so that's what we're gonna do I'm gonna count to three and wherever you are you're gonna raise her hands declaring that Jesus is your Savior I'm gonna wrap some some understanding around us you recognize the decision that you're making won by raising your hands you are saying Jesus Christ is the Lord and Savior of my life - I believe that Jesus can forgive me of my sins because he resurrected from the grave and three the same spirit that rose Jesus from the grave can live in me if that's you and you are ready to make that decision one two three we raise your hand I'm believing in fact that there's hands going up if you're in the chat box and you said yes to Jesus hey give us a hand emoji if you want to take your next step on the fold below we have a way for you to say I said yes to Jesus text another click link we want to put resources in your hand but Saints around the globe I want us to pray a prayer of declaration can we always save it can we say Jesus forgive me of my sin did I choose you I've met Lord and Savior cleanse my heart Clint my minds and cleanse my conscience today I choose you fill me with your spirit to do what I cannot do in the mighty name of Jesus amen and amen hey Church can we tolerate will you give lots of praise and his do get what we're great yeah what a day there's no snitches here's a good neighbor can we [Music] three you are bringing the name of Jesus [Music] Oh God [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] hey church you are a warrior and you need to know that whatever you're facing right now whatever you're dealing with right now you have victory because of what Jesus did man what a great message today we hope you enjoyed it how does one give you a couple next steps as you're sitting there there's some links in the in the box there and you if you said yes to Jesus go ahead and just click on that link and as pastor Bianca said hey we want to walk with you in this journey we want to get your resources we want to get you connected so that you can take your next step and here's the thing is if you need prayer for any reason if you have anything going on that you need pray for we have a team of people that they would love to pray with you they would love to connect with you and just pray with you stand with you pray for you whatever is happening and if you are interested in the father's house in Orange County and you want to be part of what we're doing here there's a next step so that you give in to groups you can get in to volunteer digitally we want you to be part of the family hey thank you for watching we'll see you guys next week [Music] you

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Published: Sun May 10 2020