Priscilla Shirer: How to Win the Battle

[Music] [Music] well hi y'all it's a privilege to be able to be with you this morning and to be able to do what I love and that is to just share with you a little bit from the Word of God believing the power of the word of God anybody else I believe it it gives us life and so it is my privilege to be able to serve you in this way I told the ownerle er service this and I will say it again that your ministry your women's ministry in particular through shine has been such a personal specific blessing to me the past seven years that I have been engaged in one form or another I have been a beneficiary of the ministry that has come out of this house and so to be able to just pour back into you in this small way this morning really really is a privilege and to have been able to hang out with the girls all weekend at times that we had a lot of fun didn't we y'all we had some fun God was here and I'm so excited now to be with you on this Sunday morning I want to say this as well I had the opportunity to already again say this at first service but I want to say it again because I mean it on Jerry and I my husband and I and our boys have the privilege to be in a lot of places to share God's Word and and to serve and you need to know that at this church the leadership that God has given you in your pastors but not only pastor Stovall and pastor Kerry but the leadership team that God has given to Shepherd this house y'all that the pastors and the leaders that God gives us in our lives at my home Turk at your home Church these these people have given their lives to help to shape our souls they have given their lives to make sure that when we see Jesus face to face we hear well done people are given their lives to do that and God at this church has given y'all some great shepherds and I hope you never take that for granted and so it is a privilege of mind today to be able to serve under the authority and leadership of great folks like this it's a privilege and miss an honor I want to pray for you Lord Jesus thank you so much for your word thank you that it is living in sharper and active than any two-edged sword I pray Lord in these few moments we will spend together that you will do what you do and that is take one message divided thousands of different ways so that every single person under the sound of my voice hears directly from you in Jesus name everybody says amen amen we have been so excited to be here over these three or four days that we've been here not just my husband and I but my boys are here as well I've got a 10 year old named Jackson an 8 year old named Jerry jr. and our little surprise one his name is Jude he's four years old we don't really know how he got here and I named him Jude because that is as close as I could get to revelation because it is finished so Jackson JC and you they're actually in the kids ministry I think they're they're serving over there today we all wanted to jump in where we could and serve so I think they've helped to take up offering a prayer of the offering and stuff over where your children are so we all just love diving in together and my boys are little athletes they just like whatever is in season at the time they want to play it right now it's baseball and my second son is our one that really is engaged in baseball now you need to know about my my children my husband's not in here for me to introduce him to you he's in the back but Jerry is a big guy six foot three and just looks like a football player you know 250 pounds or so and my boys are following suit these little boys are giants my ten-year-old is nearly as tall as me he wears a size 10 men's shoe already my 8 year old looks like he's probably 11 or so and so anytime we go out on that little league baseball field the referees and all the officials that we always have to show a birth certificate because they don't believe so our children are the ages that they are and they they already eat too much I am in big trouble big trouble and so my little boy is in baseball right now we love the bee in the beginning of the baseball season because it's still cool outside you still can actually enjoy the baseball game on Saturday but y'all know what happens in the summer months I live in Dallas Texas I'm assuming it's not too different from Jacksonville Florida what the summer is feeling like I mean it's just excruciating ly hot and I'm already thinking back to last summer when we were sitting through the Little League World Series cuz my boy is a pretty good baseball player because of his size he can already knock a ball over a fence he's a good first baseman he makes lots of catches and stops and gets pokes out and he's got a great team so they did pretty good last year we went all the way to the Little League World Series which i think is hysterical because by world they mean the people who live right in our neighborhood so we were out there at the Little League World Series and you know what happens those of you who have sons you know what happens when they get to a series in any sport it means that you go out early in the morning and you play one game and then if they win they go to the next game if they win they go to the next game you are just out there all day basically until they lose over a series of days whenever they lose and they've disqualified themselves in the series so we're sitting out there in the hot Texas Sun playing game after game waiting for our next turn playing another game and I don't you know you're hot I don't know if it ever is okay for you to pray that your kid loses so that y'all can go home I don't know if that's ever okay and I will neither confirm nor deny that I ever did that but you're just hanging out there pouring sweat and we were getting ready for the next game and my son realized who the next team was that they were playing and he got a little insecure these boys on this other team that we were getting ready to play that were the next in the series for us to contend with they had already played my son's team earlier in the season and when my son's team which was a pretty good team met up with this other team those boys on that team had annihilated my son's team I mean these were serious baseball players you know where the kids are serious and the parents are serious and everybody is serious on that team over there little boys that seemed like they were born and immediately their parents gave them a baseball and a mitt and decided that they were going to play baseball I mean these are just those kids that you want to race out there on the field and knock somebody out from method with your kid it was kind of kids and my son saw that this was the team that they were going to be playing and his hands got all sweaty and his heart was beating in his chest he was getting all nervous and his head was hanging down as we walked over we gathered up all his gear we were walking over to the field and he just was insecure and lacked courage and as we walked over to the dugout to get ready for the game we had to actually pass the other team they were seeing all on the grass underneath the tree trying to get some shade and as we passed them me and my son JC my second son's nickname is JC we heard the other team two of the members of the other team say this there's JC you know he's the kid remember him he was the first baseman that made all the stops when we played them it's JC the one that hit the ball and it went over the fence that's him my son heard his name crossed the lips of two members of the opposing team and all of a sudden that head that had been hung down was straight up in the air all of a sudden he poked his chest out all of a sudden his palms weren't sweating anymore and confidence overcame him it's amazing what happens to you when you over hear what the enemy really thinks about you there is a man in Scripture that I want to talk to you about today whose circumstance pretty much I'm sure in a group to size mirrors your own circumstance because there's a man named Gideon that is going up against the battle where he feels outnumbered he's completely insecure he lacks courage and confidence because he feels like he does not have what it takes to contend with what's in front of him and many of you are in your own personal battles there's a battle in your marriage there's one in your finances there's something going on with your parenting right now or there's a struggle happening on your job and you're feeling you feel like you're in the fight for your very life and don't you know that when we have physical struggles there is always a spiritual reality that is underneath them that we are literally waging spiritual warfare really the physical things that are happening are really just symptoms of the real problem the real problem is that we have an enemy that is waging war against our soul you and I are in spiritual warfare we are in a battle and if we're not careful we can look at the battles that we are fighting look at look at the symptoms the marriage struggles the struggle with our children or in our own hearts or in our own minds or in our bodies we can look at the struggles and deal with the daily rhythm of those struggles and we can lose our confidence and like my boy JC we can see the difficulty in front of us in our so wringing our hands and hang our head down because we lack security but everything changes when you know what the enemy thinks about you because what's in my friend even if you don't believe what the Bible says about you your enemy knows that what God says about you is absolutely true so so even if you don't believe it you need to know that that he knows that you and I are already victorious even if you don't believe it he knows that you have been forgiven even if you don't believe it the enemy knows that he is already under your feet he knows that you have been given power and authority that he will never ever have access to he knows that he can form a weapon against you whether that weapon will never be able to prosper he know that since God is for you nobody not even him can ever be against you he knows that you have been made competent by God's Spirit it would be ashamed for the enemy to know all that stuff about us but us not know all that stuff about us it would be a shame for the enemy to be more convinced about our potential and about our power than we are everything changes when you know what the enemy thinks about you when you know brother/sister that when he sees you coming he is shaking in his boots there's that child of God that has the blood of Jesus Christ sprinkled on her there is that man who is fighting for his family because of the Holy Spirit's power that works within him Gideon is afraid he's got 300 soldiers they are going up against the Midianites camp the Midianite Army has 135,000 soldiers the ratio is 450 to 1 talk about being the underdog Gideon lacks courage and has complete overwhelming paralyzing insecurity but right before the battle God sends Gideon down to the enemy camp he stations him right beside a tent where two men are talking Gideon hears his name past the enemy's lips he hears the enemy say that Gideon in the 300 comes that they know they are going to be annihilated Gideon can't believe they even know who he is much less that they're afraid of him but once he hears the enemy weak his name and realized that the enemy is so insecure thinking about Gideon and the 300 coming a confidence overwhelmed him he is ready to go to battle knowing that the Lord will give the victory it's the same way that you and I can leave this place on this Sunday morning approaching the battle that are in our daily lives we can have security because now we know what the enemy thinks about us now we know that he already knows we have the victory and so Gideon confident and secure is getting ready to go into battle and in judges chapter 7 he is getting ready to show us how to win a battle anybody interested in how to win a battle in your life if you have your Bible with you turn to Judges chapter 7 or your iPhone your iPad any manner of imus just flip on over to Judges chapter 7 because there are some details in here there are many actually but I'm going to pick three of them to share with you three things that are going to help us know how to advance into battle and claim the victory that is ours judges chapter 7 verse 15 starts this way and it came about when Didion heard the account of the dream and its interpretation from those two men that he bowed in worship let's just start right here Gideon was one pin secure and timid and paralyzed because he had no courage Gideon now is closer to the battle than he has ever been the rumors of the battle are what had permeated the verses leading up to this point but now the battle is imminent he is more clothed and more up-close and personal with the dilemma than he has ever been before but we see him making a decision to worship God it had been he doesn't know how he's going to fight the battle he doesn't have a strategy for what specifically he's supposed to do he has no details yet on how he's supposed to instruct the 300 as to how they are to advance in battle and yet he shows us that if we want to win a battle we have to begin the battle on our knees we have to choose to worship in advance before we see how God are going to work out the situation and so he worships in the face of impending danger he worshiped in the face of adversity he worshiped even though he was still outnumber and stretched far beyond his reach he worshipped before one instruction of strategy for warfare was given he worshiped because the enemy was already afraid of him before the battle was already was begun and so even in your circumstances my friend even if you have no idea how in the world God is going to fix the dilemma that you are facing in your life right now the way you win a battle is to begin that battle on your knees to make a decision to be the kind of man to be the kind of woman that worships God in advance even though they have no clue of how God is going to work that situation out think about Joshua he goes into the promised land with the children of Israel and as soon as they cross the Jordan River there is a battle to fight Jericho sitting right there the scriptures say that the wall were tightly shut up that means they were pretty much impenetrable they wanted to be secure they had closed themselves up and tightly shut up walls so that people could not get in and and wreak havoc in their city but Joshua and the people of God surround them God gives them instructions he says for six days you walk around the wall on the seventh day here's what I want you to do walk around the wall seven times and then shout and then the walls will come down don't wait for the walls to come down and then shall shout first before you have seen one brick fall from that impenetrable wall shelf in advance and in response to your worship I'll make those walls come tumbling down I just wonder if the wall but you're waiting to come down in your life you're waiting for the bricks to start falling God's waiting for you to start falling down on your knees with your arms out threat thanking him in advance for the victory in your life you want to win the battle whatever battle you're facing whether it's in your own mind or in your own heart or in your marriage or in your family with your children and your singleness on your job if you want to win the battle if I want to win the battles of our life we have to make a decision to begin the battles on our knees I have the opportunity to go to Kyiv I was in the Ukraine just a couple of weeks ago and it is a a community a city a country that is really steeped in a lot of history and tradition and I had an opportunity to visit a lot of sites while I was there one of the things that I could not wait to see was the Orthodox Christian temples and churches that are still set up there from centuries ago and so I was able to go in into these very ornately decorated kind of golden of the churches are just unbelievably beautiful and you walk inside of them and all the things that you might expect just golden ornate designs and candles lit everywhere and their logs tourists like me that come in just to get a glimpse of it you can walk down into some stare down some stairs that go down underneath the church buildings and many of them where there are caves and labyrinth of tunnels that take you to where monks used to live centuries ago and underneath they not only are there rooms you can see where monks used to live but there are caskets glass caskets that contain bodies of people that were considered to be the face of old those bodies are wrapped up in towels and they're there in glass caskets and again there are tourists just like me but there are also people who very much still believe that there is power in those saints the bodies of those saints from centuries ago so we saw Thrones of people thousands of people coming themselves bringing their babies bringing their spouses bringing to us the sick the people that needed healing whether emotionally financially or otherwise so that they could come in and touch that casket or kiss that casket so that some of that power would leave this casket and and come to them that person that dead person and come to them and while I was watching a happen I thought to myself but that person dead certainly can't do anything for you because when they were alive they couldn't do anything for you but our Jesus it's not dead he is alive and seated at the right hand of the Father and all power is in his hand right to mobic to help us wage the battles in our life and not only that in one of those churches I went in it was a beautiful platform kind of like this when it was ornate and gold and candles everywhere and people were coming in to kneel in front of that platform and there was an entryway almost like a parting right in the middle of this this staging that was at the front of this church and you could look through this entryway like someone could walk through the middle of this stage and you could see there was another golden ornately decorated room through the center of the others of that church the stage there and I said to the woman who was with us who was helping us to figure all this out and kind of giving us a tour I said to her who goes back there and she said well we can't go back there because women aren't allowed back there only men can go and she said not all men can go you have to be a certain kind of guy from a certain Escalon and life of certain affluence in the community everybody's not allowed back there and I said well what's back there she said well it's kind of considered like the Holy of Holies and only certain men can go back there and as I watched people literally at bay from what they considered to be the glory of God the presence of God the ability to worship God when I watch them standing back and away from that because they weren't the right gender or they weren't the right way so they weren't the right absolu intial status in society to be able to go back there I thought thank you Jesus Christ at 2,000 years ago when you died on Calvary you tore the veil from the top to the very bottom and so we all have the privilege we all have the privilege to worship God so we should never take that for granted but no matter what your gender no matter what your race no matter what your background no matter what educational level you come from you and I all have the privilege to go boldly to the throne of God Hebrews says and worship Him in spirit and in truth we should never take for granted never take for granted that we have the privilege to begin the battle on our knees because Yohe listen now he doesn't need our worship he receives it because he wants to but he doesn't need it he's still God whether we worship Him and or not he just is who he is so we have the privilege while others right now in the year 2013 still don't think they have access to him you and I can come boldly to the throne of grace he gives us the privilege to win a battle by beginning the battle on our knees the question is why did Gideon think our what gave Gideon the courage to worship God even though the Midianites were rallying their troops for battle right there in front of him what gave him the courage to do that I think we find our answer at the end of verse 15 it says Gideon returned to the camp of Israel and he said arise for the Lord has given somebody say has given the Lord has given the camp of Midian into your hands I love this so much Gideon goes back to the 300 and he says to them get up boys the Lord has already given the victory into our hands he does not say to them y'all get up because I hope God's gonna give us victory today he doesn't say arrived let's go in hopes that maybe possibly if we work hard enough we can claim the victory that's not what he says he says guys let's go because the Lord has already given us exactly what we've asked him for you know how you win the battle you begin the battle on your knees and you face the battle from a stance of victory there are some things in your life my friends simply because you are a believer in Jesus Christ that have already been accomplished for you they have already been done you are not fighting in your battle right now that you're facing in your life you are not fighting for victory you are fighting from victory you are already victorious I am already victorious because we are part of the family of God he has already overcome the world Satan knows it you and I need to know it as well that victory is already ours you begin the battle on your knees and you face the battle from a sense of victory what does that mean you know what it means listen the Bible is filled with promises that are available to believers in Jesus Christ in fact there are over 8,000 promises over a thousand promises that are written in the scriptures that can be claimed by believers in Jesus Christ a thousand opportunities for us to experience what the Bible says because I don't know about y'all but listen I don't want to just know that he's powerful because I read about how he can divide the Red Sea in the Old Testament how he raised Lazarus from the dead in the New Testament I appreciate what he did in the scripture but what I want is to see all of that experience in my own life I want to experience God for myself so he has given us over eight thousand opportunities to experience him through the scriptures to experience him personally in our life but most of those promises he did not place in our hand he placed them within our reach that means that there is a process involved you have to cooperate with him in order to experience the victory that's already yours it's not that you don't have the pro it's just that you have to cooperate with him in order to experience it and grab hold of it in your life you and I have the opportunity to walk in victory to claim the victory to experience the victory that is already ours do you remember when Joshua and the children of Israel when they went into the Promised Land Joshua chapter 1 God said to Joshua every place you put your foot that land it's yours it's already yours but you have to put your foot on it and claim it in order to experience it and to enjoy it do you know that the children of Israel spent many years dozens and dozens and dozens of years holed up in a little side of Canaan when the entire land of milk and honey the entire promised land of milk and honey was available to them they were holed up in one little corner of the Promised Land because the enemies were over there and they didn't want to risk what what it might take to fight those enemies they were so intimidated by the enemy in Canaan they stayed in one corner instead of experiencing all that God had for them it wasn't that it wasn't theirs it's just they weren't willing to go get it what would happen if you and I decided we're not going to be intimidated by the enemy over there anymore so we're going to decide to stand on the victory that the scripture says is already hard and then place our feet firmly on the promises of God believing that what he said is exactly what he can accomplish in our lives you win the battle my friend you win the battle by beginning the battle on your knees and facing the battle from a stance of victory think about how the 300 must have been affected when Gideon came back and said arise the victories already ours I didn't think about that because the last time they saw Gideon he was leaving the camp in fear and insecurity to go down to listen to those two men on the enemy's team talk about him when he left he was insecure and he lacked confidence but now he's coming back and his head is up in the air and he's saying guys let's go get us a victory how do you think the morale of the 300 changed when their leader came back in what God had said the whole camp was completely 100% different the morale rose their confidence all row that swept through there like a wildfire because one person came back believing in God what would happen if you were the one that went home confident that that maybe our marriage can be safe mm-hmm I'm going back short because on the authority of God's Word the two of us we can make it on the authority of God's Word I am standing confidently on what God says believing that victory is already ours what kind of environment would change in your life on your job in your home at your high school in your university if you just went back believing that God is who he says he is and that he can accomplish what he says he can accomplish everything hinges on one person believing God on one person choosing to be the one that will take God at His Word I have a friend that lives across the street from me her name is Rachel she's actually been one of my closest friends for about 10 years now so it's neat to live to be a neighbor with a very close friend and as Jerry and I live in a very rural part of Dallas Fort Worth we like it that way there are creeks and trees and mud and bugs and all the things need in their life and so we like living there for that reason I like to send them outside to play any time they come inside and say mom were bored I fell no you're not you see that tree out there go play with it you can eat it you can play tag with it I don't know what you do with it but you're not going to be bored today out in the country here boy so we love living out here but I'll tell you a problem we have we first moved out to this this little area of Dallas and I moved there because my friend was there and I would go visit her and we loved the area so much every time I would visit her we thought well let's see if we can find a place for ourselves out there we found a wonderful little house and this little house actually is we weren't as much as excited about the house itself which is a great little house but it was the land that I loved I loved that my boys could run and play tall trees I just love trees and this house is nestled underneath a bunch of tall trees and it's beautiful but it posed a problem because we could not get for the life of us a strong signal so that we could get Wi-Fi high-speed Internet access it was a problem it took us about 2 or 3 months to figure out how we needed to navigate on the airspace so that we could kind of peel through these tall trees and get the signal we needed for for this high-speed Internet access and you know it's hard to go back to dial-up once you've had a taste of high-speed it just it just doesn't work out too well and at the time I was in the middle of writing a Bible study and so I really needed the research ax easy access quick access of my computer in internet and had to send huge files back and forth to publishers and so I was really having a lot of trouble so I was so grateful for my friend Rachel because my friend Rachel even though she has a lot of huge trees around her house as well they had long since figured out this internet thing and so I would just grab up my book and grab my Bible and grab my laptop and I would grab my purse and I would march across the street and sit down in her kitchen table and mooch off of her high-speed Internet access in fact she began to expect to me one time I went over the door which is wide open just there was just a screen door there she knew I was coming she wasn't even home she just left the door open the screen door and I walked right in and there in her kitchen table she put a lamp right there and a pen a cup of coffee she knew I was coming so I sent right there every day for quite some time and just mooch off of her high-speed Internet access it was so great to have somebody near me that had the can affection that I did not have based on the positioning that I was in right then it should be that in your life and in mind that when our circumstances position us in a place where we're just underneath a lot of tough circumstances and issues and dilemma that are keeping us from having the high-speed connection that we want to have a peace or joy or faith we got to have people in our life where we can go over into their life and mooch off of a little bit of their high speed faith or joy or peace relationships worth having - there are people that change the entire environment of our home or our job or our organization because they come firmly established on the promises of God but even more important than us looking for somebody else to do it how about you do it how about you be the one that other folks can come to because you're the one firmly planted on the truth of God word God's Word how do you win a battle you begin the battle on your knees and you face the battle from a stance of victory now I don't know if it was while Didion was on his knees or while he was racing back to the 300 to tell them arise let's go I don't know when exactly it happened but at some point God downloaded to him the instructions the strategy for the battle verse 16 he says to his men or he divided the 300 men into three companies he put trumpets and empty pictures into the hands of all of them with torches inside the pitchers verse 18 he said to them when I and all who are with me bro the trumpet then you also blow the trumpet around the camp and say for the Lord and for Gideon now in my Bible there are headings that are above I read from the new American Standard Bible and there are headings above each chapter just a little synopsis of what that chapter is about but also inside of each chapter there are verses grouped together they're actually called pericope they're these sections of Scripture that are grouped together and above each pericope there is another label in my Bible so you might have a couple of verses together in the Bible in your version and then it will have another label above it so you can see what these verses in particular about above the verses that I just read you are right right in that vicinity there's a heading in my Bible that says the confusion of the enemy now I know the Bible is completely inerrant and that nothing should be changed but if I had been writing this particular part I probably would have labeled this part the confusion of the 300 because of Guinean had come back to if I was one of the 300 and Gideon had come back to confed go get a jar a light and a trumpet and let's go to battle I would have said you have got to be kidding me you mean you don't want me to get a sword you don't want me to get a bow and arrow you don't want me to take off my jewelry and check on my earrings and ball up my fists and get some Vaseline and get ready to rumble you got to be kidding me what kind of battle strategy is this it makes absolutely no sense and here's the deal my friend most of the time God's strategy doesn't make sense you want to know how to win the battle you begin the battle on your knees you face the battle from a stance of victory and you choose to plan for battle using divine strategy God's strategy will rarely match up with your strategy in fact Isaiah 55 puts it this way his ways they just aren't your way his thoughts they're just not sure sup we would be so much better off if we stopped trying to make his stuff artha stop trying to make his ways not match our ways I don't know about you guys we'll listen I oftentimes rationalize myself out of being obedient to God because if it doesn't make sense to me I think it must not be God but the contrary is often true if it doesn't make sense to you it's probably God because only God could come up with something like that and some of you have had a solution for that problem bubbling up in your spirit for a long time you've been thinking about it and it wakes you up in the middle of the night but you keep discounting it because it doesn't make sense and maybe the Spirit of God is saying to you today plan for battle using that divine strategy Lord you want me to apologize to my spouse you know he started it right Lord you want me to give back 5 that will $5 financial gifts to this particular ministry that's not going to accomplish anything and it's my Starbucks money I know you don't want me to give my $5 to church Lord you want me to move here even though it seems like there's a better house over there Lord you want me to take this job even though they're gonna pay me more money at this job Lord you want me to leave corporate America and go to ministry it makes absolutely no sense at all nobody's going to understand cuz I don't even understand my friends are going to think I'm crazy that's the exact strategy that you might need to win the victory that's in front of you my friends you have to decide you and I have to decide if we'll be like Simon that when when God said to him push out into deep water and cast out your net again will we be willing to say it doesn't make sense but at your bidding I'm going to say yes Lord anyway battles are won when we begin the battle on our knees face the battle from a stance of victory and plan for battle using divine strategy I'll close with this I was thinking about a friend of mine that works well she worked for our ministry she was an intern for the summer as she travelled with us a bit she wasn't familiar with the Dallas Fort Worth Airport and if any of you have ever flown through Dallas you know that we have an airport in Dallas it is big so we've got terminal a terminal B terminal C terminal D and terminal E so before you can even start to begin to find your plane you have to at least get to the right terminal once you go to the terminal there about 30 dates or so in each terminal then some of those gates have an a part and a B part so it might be gate 30 a and gate 30 B so you really have to be detailed on where you are going and on this particular trip that we were taking we were leaving from terminal D so we drove up to terminal D with with my entire family and our new friend Katie and this was her first time really at the Dallas Fort Worth Airport and so we got into the airport we went through security and you know what that means we basically took all our clothes off to get through security and Katie happened to get into a line that was going really slow so my entire family made it through security before Katie had even gotten close to going through and so we saw her there on the other end of the line and my husband decided to texts and he said hey we'll meet you at the gate our date is 22a now once you came through security in the V terminal our gate was literally right to the Ryman it wasn't far at all just a few steps and so we said well meet you at the gate gate 20 to 8 she waved back at us and said I'll meet y'all there well we said there is a gate waiting for her and then they they started boarding the flight we were still waiting for her we got on the plane and we sat down man the minutes were clicking we were getting really nervous because I looked like he was gonna completely miss the fight we had no idea where she was she was just right there in security which was just a few steps away from our gate we sent her text she didn't answer them we could not figure out what was going on but after just a few moments and I mean literally right before the plane was getting ready to take off I mean to the point where they had started to call her name across the loudspeaker in the airport like you're the last person to board the flight we were getting ready to leave you you know you were in trouble when they start calling you name she finally raced down the jet bridge she raced onto the airplane she was sweating her hair was plastered onto her face she looks completely spent she plopped down on her feet in a Katy's what in the world happened she said well Jerry text me to come to 22a but I just I assumed that he meant a 22 so I went to a terminal I got on the tram that takes you all the way around the entire airport and went all the way to a terminal because I just assumed that's what he meant and Jerry overheard her say that and he just shook his head and he said Katie man if you would have just believed that what I wrote was what I meant it would have saved you so much time and energy and sweat I just wondered today it's a divine strategy you've been given the one that you've been discounting because it does not make sense I just wonder if the Holy Spirit of God today is saying to you if you will just believe that exactly what I'm saying is exactly what I mean victory will be yours and I'll save you a whole lot of sweat on the way you want to win the battle begin the battle on your knees face the battle from a stance of victory and plan for battle using that strategy yeah that one that sounds ridiculous to you you use that strategy and victory will be yours let me pray for you Lord Jesus thank you so much for this clear simple word from Scripture I pray Lord that you would cause it to be embedded and sealed into our hearts so that it changes us and transforms us I'm praying it's circumstances that are represented by those who are all over this room circumstances will be changed victory will rain down over them in Jesus name Amen

Channel: Going Beyond Ministries with Priscilla Shirer

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Length: 39min 23sec (2363 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 24 2017