"Spiritual Awakening" - Stephanie Ike

[Music] you may be seated we're gonna go on a journey with the word that God has put in my heart today I want us to what let's just go straight into the word I believe that this word is gonna help us to make have understanding about why sometimes it seems like the opposition looks heavier than what we are created to handle it will bring understanding to why you really have nothing to worry about it would awaken us to the identity of who God called us to be our spiritual identity and so I'm very excited about what this word is gonna do in and through our lives and so let's just head over to second Kings chapter 6 and we're gonna be reading from verse 8 to 18 and I'm just gonna as we go through it I'm gonna take my time with it so it begins by saying now the king of Syria was making war against Israel and he consulted with his servants saying my camp would be in such in such a place so first of all it's important to note that this war is against not a man but a nation that the king of Syria has a plan against Israel that's just let's just note that somewhere in our mind then he continues to say and the man of God sent to the king of Israel saying beware that you do not pass this place for the Syrians are coming down here you see the man of God introduced in this scripture is a prophet Elijah and what is happening is that while the king of Syria is plotting a plan God is exposing his plan because he tells the prophet Elijah he reveals the plans to the prophet Elijah and so the Prophet goes to the king of Israel and basically exposes the whole plan he says this is what is about to happen so do not go by this way you see family is so fascinating sometimes one of the things that you know I hear a lot is that someone may have what they assume to be a nightmare because in the dream that they had they perhaps saw themselves a loved one dying in such a strange way and so they wake up and say oh no this is a nightmare but what if it could be that God is giving you insight into the plans of the enemy so that you have the upper hand with the information and so it's not a nightmare and it's not something to frighten you but it's something to make your prayer strategic you see because when we are placed on this earth God gave us authority and so when things are coming against us he would reveal to us and say now if you pray you invite me you it and force my will on the earth so when you invite me to a prayer I can show you I can lead you I can protect you from what is happening you see what is fascinating about the scripture is that for God to intervene for God to reveal to the prophet Elijah about what is going on it tells us that what is really happening is more spiritual than it is natural that the king of Syria coming against Israel is not a natural thing that his that what is influencing him is not of God that what is influenced him to come against the PIPA the nation Israel is actually a plan of the enemy but what may seem dangerous is because when the enemy uses a person because the devil has many faces I like to say because we're never going to wake up one day and say wow that's the devil right there just look at him right there no he because remember in the Garden of Eden it was a serpent that he influenced but when God is speaking to the serpent he's speaking to the devil because that he had influenced the serpent to do his bidding and so one of the dangerous things is when the enemy uses a person to do his bidding because what happens is that he influences them to engage their will and free will is something that God will not violate and so when he influences someone to engage their will this is why the scripture tells us that rebellion is as witchcraft in the book of Samuel for Sam or the prophet Samuel has this encounter with with the King Saul at that time because the you know God had so instructed the King to do certain things that he disobeyed and for such reasons God ends up saying you know what I am gonna raise them man after my own heart I'm gonna raise up David because I cannot give you authority and you are rebelling against me because in your rebellion you are advancing the plan of the enemy not my plans and so in this passage we see that what is happening here is more spiritual than it is natural so God's that's exposing plans because in order to defeat someone who is using their free will against you there are certain there are certain things that could happen either you know that's why even when the Bible tells us to pray for our enemies to love those that persecute us because either we pray for them to have an encounter or something that causes them to repent because you cannot cast out a person's spirit that is what they have decided to do by the wrong influence so either that takes place or sometimes God will remove them from a position of authority that gives them access to influence your life so there are several ways that God can move I mean he's he's God in this situation he moves by revealing the plan to say tell the King to not go this way because there was something that is against him there and that it will be against the nation so he gives them strategic information you see it's interesting you know our Lord Jesus during his time on the earth when he was a baby there was a king named Herod and he had and he had this plan to kill all the children under I believe it was H - because he was looking for the Lord Jesus but that was not of his will that was him being influenced by the enemy and when that happened an angel of the Lord came to Joseph in a dream and said to him take him out of here and you moved the family to Egypt and when the angel visits him again he says those who sought his life are dead bring him back so sometimes in God protecting you he may change your boss in God protecting you he may reposition you in God protecting you he may cause someone to move out of state and God protecting you because these are human beings whose will have been engaged to work against you and God says the but I would be your covering and so in this passage it didn't matter what was coming against them while the enemy was plotting God was revealing while he was plotted and saying this is what we're gonna do God just brought the plan to Elijah and said look this is what is about to happen protect this nation so the scripture continues by saying then the king of Israel sent someone to the place of which the man of God had told him thus he warned him and he was watchful dare not just once or twice now this verse suggests who was that what is taking place is that that this the king of Israel has sent soldiers to watch had sent soldiers to observe what is going on he adults he had also sent soldiers almost to secure those passageways you know if any of us like all this like old movies you know NIV Game of Thrones countless those but um you see when you see how there are times where the soldiers will protect southern passage so they don't have access to the city in a way that the city would be vulnerable if no one is keeping watch but what I love about that verse is that it says they were watchful in I believe its first Peter 5:8 the Bible tells us be sober minded be watchful for your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for who to devour they were watchful and I remember when I thought about that passion I said Lord what does it mean to be sober-minded because everything what I love about the Bible so much is that it is so layered and so sometimes the Holy Spirit will give you an interpretation that is needed for what for according to the word that he has sent you with and so what the Lord revealed to me about being sober minded in this context and is that sober minded is living in the awareness of your purpose because when you live in the awareness of who you are when you live in their awareness of what you're assigned to when you live your awareness that I am a child of God God has assigned me to something I'm not my life is not random then you can be watchful because when you understand what is what is for you what God has said that you know our pastor preached such a powerful message called dominating your sphere and so when you understand that look I I recognize where you have called me to dominate and so if it's something does not look like that it's a distraction but we would not be able to be watchful if we're not sober minded you see not being soap not being sober minded is when we make decisions that feed our ego or our pride rather than the plans of God because this king of Israel could have said that you know what who is the king of Syria that he thinks he can come against me I will go there and if he went there he might have died because that would have been his pride speaking that would have been his ego speaking and sometimes we have to humble ourselves to the plans of God and say Lord this is a distraction this is not for me because that is how we can be watchful when we understand what what God is saying that this is what I'm calling you to one of the biggest distractions that often get us is fear because you see fear by itself fear creates a narrative of loss fear says that if it doesn't work out you could lose on this and so when you function from a place of I could lose out then you really don't give your all because it's like why would I put all my eggs in this basket and it may not work and so fear creates this narrative to us like you don't really want to try that hard you don't really want to you you are you sure you want to move what are you gonna do when you move but you have a word from God yet God has given you confirmation and so when you're living in the awareness of your purpose you're not worried about your reputation because God is the one who gives influence anyway you're not worried about okay people are gonna think is crazy because at the end of the day they were not there when God spoke it and so your part is to have confirmation and be certain of what God is telling you but you have to be sober-minded in order to act so that even when fear presents a decision you can say no this is against me this is actually a trap this is to keep me stuck that to prevent me from growing so they were watchful and it continues saying that therefore the heart of the king of Syria was greatly troubled by this thing and he called his servants and sets of them will you not show me which of us is for the king of Israel and one of his servants said none my lord o king but Elisha the prophet who is in Israel tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedroom this is the power of God he says he must already know Elijah was a prophet that was known that God reveals some crazy things to him that your problem is really not that one of us betrayed you but there is a prophet named Elijah and God reveals his secrets to him you see this by itself should encourage us this should encourage us in the sense that so many times with we we may find ourselves in this anxious state of paranoia wondering who is for us who is against us can I trust you can I not trust you and because of this we don't open our hearts to people because we're like you know what you may you may betray me you may backstab me I don't want to go through hurt again but we have to learn how to trust God because if you close your heart to pain you close your heart to love if you close your heart because your word that's all maybe trained you you close your heart to someone who is actually for you and wants to advance you and so and if we look at it from a natural perspective sometimes what may look like is for you may be against you then the people that might look like they're against you are actually for you it is God that knows the intentions of people and if there is something God needs to shift you from trust that he will direct you because the Bible tells us that the steps of the righteous are ordered by God if God wants to shift you from a bad relationship if God wants to shift you from a bad friendship if God wants to shift you from a bad business partner it's not your job to play the police of you know of trying to check people and say yes and no based on how things look we have to learn how to trust God isn't it fascinating that God would even revealed to Jesus who would betray him and yet Jesus you will never know who would betray him by the way he treated them because it's not if God did not remove him from your life that means they still serve a purpose and so it's not how we see things let us trust God to reveal that who is really for me and who is really against me you see it's very for me i one thing that even in my relationship with God as you trust God in certain areas because when the ability was something that I used to struggle with and I'm just like God I don't think I want to be opening my heart to people like that yeah because for me it was you know there was this thing and I never realized it until I got older and I sat with God I'm like what is this fear what is this fear I have with opening up to people and he traced it back to the fact that the the reality of not having my father there because he was murdered was now what was playing in my head that I would get that the idea of being too close to someone and losing them I don't know I don't want to feel that pain because even though I never knew my father so it gave it made me not feel the pain of his absence it made me because I didn't know him I was a baby and so I didn't I was running away from pain so that was my reader the fact that I was trying to shut my heart from people is because I never wanted to feel the pain of losing someone and so when God revealed this to me and said this is all part of life but if something is going to be against you I will reveal it to you and I remember some of this was years past I was in college at this time and there was a good friend of mine and I remember one day I had this vision it was crazy because at that time there was so much going on with our friendships and all kinds of thing you know college days and so it's just let's just put it you know hashtag college but I had this vision one day she calls me and the phone was on speaker and she's asking me questions but it was a setup it was she was asking me questions to put me in a weird position based on the people that were listening to the conversation and so I was like this is weird you know so I just kind of rushed it off the next day she calls me and so I'm just thinking that my friend is just calling me but then she starts asking me the very same questions that God showed me in the dream and in the vision and I was like wait this one might be a speaker and so I just played it off I just acted like you know everything was cool I changed the whole conversation that she rushed and got off the phone I said well if we have an audience I got a lot to say and so III kind of brushed it off and I remember sitting before God and the Lord said I did not reveal that to you for you to have a fence in your heart I did not reveal that to you for you to be angry I did not reveal that to you for anything the person is not even a bad person she's just in a weird predicament and I'm only revealing this to you not because there's a problem with her but way I'm taking you you can't this is not someone that is good for your journey so love her and actually have that conversation with her but this is not because this person is bad they're just in a weird place and if they continue to function in a weird place it could affect you and so what I even learned from that is that when God starts revealing to you things it's not for you to just be like I always knew it this person is against me no no it's not like because remember God is not Petty won and and the nature of God is love and so the revelation of God would not put you in the place that is outside of his love God would not bring a revelation to you that would rise up hate in you because that is against his very character and so even when God brings revelation and and one of the ways to confirm what is being revealed to you or what your discerning is how you feel because if he is what rises up in you you have to check it maybe it's your assumptions that is rising up because when God brings revelation he brings it in his character and so it's not for you to walk away with animosity in your heart it's just an understanding that you know what this person is not good for me that's just what it is it's not that it's you it's just we're not good to go where we're heading you know and what that is friendship business every kind of relationship trust and know that God will be the covering of your hearts don't be so afraid to open it because you're scared of what people may do let God hold your heart so let's continue in the in the passage then it says so he said that this is the king speaking he says go and see where he is now he's looking for Elijah that I may send and get him and it was told him saying surely he is in Duffin you see this is fascinating because in the beginning of the passage we learned that the king's battle the king's war is not against a man it's against Israel all of a sudden Elisha has become his target because the enemy recognizes that the real threat to what I am after is this man and so Elisha became a target because he became a threat because it was revealed that Elisha you were actually a threat you see what is interesting about Elijah's position as a prophet is that as a prophet he was called to stand in the gap for Israel every one's purpose in this house everyone's purpose watching is called to stand in the gap for something standing in the gap means that you expose yourself in order to protect something and so when God calls you what well honestly ever all our calls because even the often what would would describe those called by gods as shepherds and shepherds protect sheep and so when God calls you what it looks like in the spirit is that you are standing and protecting what is behind you and so in order for them to get to it they have to get to you Elijah the king is after Israel they recognize that the person that is the actual issue to get to Israel is Elijah so all of a sudden he becomes a target not because of him but because of what he's protecting you see when the enemy starts to recognize that way all of a sudden these people who used to be fearful and not fearful anymore all of a sudden they're not as distracted as they used to be you know there are movies that are out there there are people funding movies there people that are faithful in their tithes and in their offerings and it's advancing the purpose of God in this church there are people when he recognizes that in order to destroy what I'm really after I have to attack their finances in order to destroy what I'm really after I have to attack their health because you are the threat to what I'm actually looking for and so sometimes we think that the enemy is after us but we don't recognize that it's not us that he's looking for is because we are the second where is very secondary to his plan he's after what we are protecting because everyone's purpose is called to protect something everyone's purpose is called to create room for others to flourish in their identity that there is something that you have that unlocks something for someone else that maybe because of your testimony someone says you know what it's not that bad I don't have to commit suicide I don't have to stay in depression and when the enemy recognizes I used to have influence over this life and all of a sudden they're getting stronger they're getting bolder they're becoming more courageous because of a testimony that you shared now let me come after you because I can if I can't touch them anymore because of your influence in their life because of the influence of your story because of the influence you see the Bible tells us that we overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony every time that God presents a platform whatever social media whether it's whatever the books that God has put in your heart to write the nonprofit's that God has put in your heart to start whatever it is that God has put in your heart to do it is a sign to protect something and when the enemy realizes that what you're protecting he no longer has a hand on now he's looking for you Elisha was never a part of this picture until they recognized that he is a threat so the only reason we become a target is because it was recognized that we are a threat and so let's continue reading because the story doesn't end that way because if not it would end a little sad so it says therefore he sent horses and chariots and a great army there and they came by night and surrounded the city families in this fascinating for one man you sent a great army one man an army should be sent against another army but when the enemy recognized that this one man is the army and so we're not gonna just stand five people we're gonna send a great army what does this look like sometimes this looks like when your life just seems to be it's like one circumstance after the other one thing after the other all happening at the same time and we're wondering God like I'm just I'm just trying to pay my rent it's like everything is just trying to be against me and all I really want to do is pay rent but we don't recognize that the weight of the opposition against you is according to the measure of what you're protecting and so you may think that God this just looks unfair like what is all this about but it's not according to just you it's according to what you're protecting and so the king of serious ends a great army an army that he should send when fight in Israel he sends it for one man because that one man was actually the whole army you see we have to recognize that in our lives it may look like god why is there attack after attack after attack but it's not the opposition it's not you that it's looking for it it is coming after what you're protecting and so it's coming at you like you are what you're protecting that waits on your shoulder and the scripture continues and says and when the servants of the men of God arose early and went out there was an army surrounding the city with horses and chariots and his servants said to him alas my master what shall we do you see this was this was a statement of a panic the servant is panicking and what we're going to see in the scriptures are coming up is that the only reason that the servant is panicking is because he has not been awakened to something Elijah had no fear about what is taking place because Elijah would recognize that if the enemy is coming against me because of what I'm protecting he's really not coming against me he's coming against God because what I'm protecting is assigned to me by God and so if you're coming against me because of what God assigned to me this is not my fight you are actually coming against God you are actually challenging the authority of God who put me in the position to protect what he gave to my command and so Elijah is not bothered about the army does this great army that is against him because he recognizes when has the enemy ever fought and won a battle against God I mean this is not even warfare this is more of spiritual awakening because warfare would even suggest that the outcome is uncertain a real battle means that the outcome we don't know who is gonna win but who has ever challenged God in the first place and so Elijah is not bothered about what is happening and because of that heat and in order to bring his servant into the state that he's in we see that he says in the passage so he answered do not fear for those who are with us are more than those who are with them and Elijah prayed and said lord I pray open his eyes that he may see then the Lord opened the eyes of the young men and he saw and behold the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha family we must understand we don't have to see angels to know that heaven is backing us up when we're where God called us and so when something is coming up against you it is not your fight there's a scripture in the Bible that talks about when God went when God says that the battle is not yours the battle is the Lord's because what they're attacking is not you they're attacking my purpose there at their at their challenge in my authority and so without Elijah this is them you know they're waking up they're just having to know a cup of coffee and a croissant and they walk outside and this army is just looking for them Elijah was not even but we don't even hear that Elijah prayed that God send a great army this was just what came with a territory because family the place of your purpose is the place that you're in partnership with God and so you are never by yourself so when the when the Bible tells us that the Lord will never leave nor forsake us it means the day we came in agreement we came it was both ways that if you if you would be my vessel I would be your covering and it's not that God will just leave you out there by yourself heavens armies were already there in position the moment that the armies of the Syrian that the Syrian King started marching God released the angels on the earth so it was never a problem for Elijah but this is the one thing that I recognized and this is the one thing that I really want to speak about of what Elijah did and what we must do when we see a position it says so when the Syrians came down to him Elijah prayed to the Lord and said strike these people I pray with blindness and he struck them with blindness according to the word of Elijah you see family you can have the resources of heaven behind you but to access them is when prayer comes in because prayer is the invitation of God on earth prayer is saying God I acknowledge that we are in agreement over this thing I am NOT good I'm not willing to step back I'm willing to stand in my position I'm willing to stand in the gap for people and because of that I can boldly pray specifically knowing that you will answer me because the Bible tells us angels are not moved by your frustrations angels are moved by the Word of God and the Word of God is often released as a response to your prayer when Elijah prayed and said strike these people with blindness I mean this will away some a time and immediately it says then the Lord did according to the word of Elijah you see family what the Lord said to me to tell you today is that we have to that when the enemy makes you a target your prayers have to hit a target it is not about having vague prayers or vague prayer life when you see what is against you speak to it because you already have heavens armies on your side but what moves them is the Word of God and even the Bible God is so merciful that he tells us if anyone lacks wisdom ask me and I will give it generously and so even if you may not know what to pray seek the Holy Spirit and say Holy Spirit how do I attack this thing that is opposing me and so this is the position where we begin to take responsibility of who God called us to be because oftentimes we make it look like it's a god thing not our thing but partnership means that this is 5050 and so God is committed to you and and you ought to be committed to your assignments because your assignment is you it is what you were sent here for it is your identity and so when you take responsibility of who you are you don't easily back up when you don't easily run in frustration you look at that thing Elijah did not run he said God specifically strike them with blindness and when I didn't put the rest of the scripture but what basically happens is that elation leads them they're looking for him he's leading them like come I will show you where Elijah is and he leads them to the camp of the Israelite that the king of Israel he could have destroyed them in one second but he even had mercy on them he's like let them go feed them and send them back home because in that moment it was for them to understand that the god that is over my life you cannot touch me he was not even fazed he was not even angry he was not because if he moved from a place of anger because he lyza there was a time that Elijah was really hot tempered and he would just call our bears to eat people but Elijah had matured and he was not even fazed because he had matured to the place of knowing who is with me is more than what is against me that is why I love that song surrounded because it says that it may look like um what was the song like I'm surrounded but I'm surrounded by you because as you're standing the gap for people God is also standing in the gap for you and so in order for the enemy to touch you he has to go through God but in the natural we see it as a position but in the spiritual realm family you are surrounded by God and so how we invite him is through prayer our pastor said something once that I loved so much and he says that prayer gives miracles permission to happen and so sometimes and what it's we have to check what is my prayer life what what am i seeking God specifically about can I even remember what I prayed for two months ago so if it happened today I would know to give God the glory you see there was a there was a case in the Bible when two blind men came to Jesus and they said lord have mercy on us and it should be obvious that if two blind men are coming to me they want to see but Jesus asked them what do you want because if we're gonna move in this thing together you need to articulate to me what you really want because yes I see that you're blind and I know that you need you want to see but you might be living in another realm that says you know what we just need some money to get some food and we'll be good with that what are we praying for what are we actually what what what what targets our prayers hitting that yes opposition may be coming against you but no no no no it's really if it when you recognize this is not even about me this is about my assignment and so that's when we have to actually take a stronger place in our ground and say not today devil I'm not gonna respond to you in fear I'm not gonna respond to you and be intimidated I'm not gonna be timid I'm not gonna first I'm not gonna be frustrated I'm not gonna complain I'm going to go to the position of power and that is prayer because prayer shifts things and family that is the question I have for you what does your prayer life look like what are you if God is asking you just like he asks those blind man what do you want what are you gonna say and not from a vague place like who this is my laundry take it Lord I got a few things no from a place that you are connected you that that you're in tune with the Spirit of God because the power of prayer is not just what you say the power of prayer is that you're in agreement with what heaven is saying and so it is you say is echoing what heaven is saying now in this situation when Elijah says strike them with blindness it doesn't mean that that was you know God is like okay Elijah I'm waiting for you to tell me to strike them with blindness but what it meant is that Elijah I have given you authority here and so however you want this to go let me know because the angels are just waiting for a command so you let me know how you want this to play out because they're coming against the authority of God and God says you are the one I gave Authority and so show me how you want this to go and so sometimes it's not about it's not that okay maybe God is waiting for him to say strike them with blindness so he struck them with blindness if he told them God make them crippled he would make them crippled because whatever it is to show the enemy that no no no no no the god who is over my life it would defeat anything that you throw against me and so we have to come in the posture of prayer in the place that we are whole so that what we are poor we are praying when we target our prayers we know that it's not coming from a place of selfish ambition that is coming from a place of wholeness because that is the key if it's coming from a place of selfish ambition then we are not even praying from the Spirit of God but when it's coming from a place that we are whole and we say God I know what you called me to and I'm going to take my place I'm going to take responsibility I'm not gonna easily blame you every single time no I'm gonna understand that this is a partnership that we are in this together and as committed as you are to me I would be committed to you amen family rise with me halleluyah halleluyah halleluyah I want to pray over and I just want to invite you to the altar at this moment that if you're in this house and you know that your prayer life has not been what it ought to be I want us to take this moment to recommit ourselves to God and say Lord I'm not and not just your prayer life I mean that when things come against you your first response is to complain and to accuse and to be frustrated with God and God says no I want you to understand that what awakens you when Elijah told God to open the eyes of his servant it was a spiritual awakening that said recognize that those are though with us is more than those that are against us God is for you God is covering you but we have to engage through prayer and if so if you're in this house I just want you to come to the altar and you say God I'm choosing not to be someone who raises up complaints unto you if I have not even prayed about it that Lord I want to recommit my prayer life to you I want to recommit my prayer I don't want to just be be vague and I don't want to just live a random life I want to be sober minded and watchful I want to live a life in the awareness of the purpose that you have called me I invite you to this altar thank you Jesus thank you Jesus thank you Jesus if you're also in this house and you want to commit your life to God you want to commit your life to Jesus you recognize that I cannot do this life without him I want you to come down to this altar thank you lord thank you [Music] thank you hey Jesus have your way Jesus someday there's anyone that the biggest that what the issue has been is that you have not taken the place of responsibilities you have not taken your your responsibility over your call because your call is not just something that God is doing like a puppet show it says oh look at that i'ma use you in this way no that is the very reason that he formed you it is a part of your DNA and so God is calling you and he says my child I wants you I want us to be in this together I want us to be in this together you see there's a scripture that says that no weapon formed against you shall prosper and so in that scripture there is the awareness that weapons are forming there is the awareness because if the weapons are forming by a person's will yes the weapons are forming but then God said that's whatever because they will not prosper and we have to live in that awareness that I may see the opposition but your position does not have the power to stop me I I recognize it's not we're not being oblivious we're not being blind to it no I recognize that something is against me and I'm recognizing even now that it's not just against me because just because of me it's against me because of what God has assigned me to so I'm not blind to what is against me but I'm also choosing to recognize that there is a god that is for me and that if the enemy could touch me them is the enemy could affect God and that is impossible and so in recognizing that God I see that things are coming against me but I choose to stand my ground I choose to invite heavens resources to fight on my behalf and you see that posture of Prayer it doesn't mean that the moment you pray about it it's done it means that it creates a posture of faith and boldness that you recognize that it doesn't matter how long this takes you will not stop me it doesn't matter if I've been looking at this very thing for a year you will not stop me you do not have the power to and so when we do that because you see David as a shepherd there were things that came against his sheep when the lion came against the sheep here he went and attacked it when the bear came against the Sheep he went and attacked it he was said I understand that things are coming against what my father has put me in charge of but you will not stop me you will you do not have the power to I don't care how threatening you look I don't care if I've never fought your kind before you do not have the power to stop me and I want us to understand that in God and if you have been in the place where you feel like you have given in to the narrative of the enemy you have given in to the lie that because it has been standing in your face for too long you see the Bible tells us that God will create a table for you in the presence of your enemies and so sometimes he has to bring the enemies before the table and so perhaps it looks like it's been there for so long because the enemies are gathering to see the glory of God it is not that it is that that God is not powerful enough to bring you out of it or your prayers are not good enough for God to hear you know maybe he is just presenting an audience for what he is about to do in your life that will speak to his glory [Applause] family we have no reason to fear fear is the biggest tactic of the enemy to make us to build a barrier between us and the promise of God and that's why the one thing when the but when God tells us I have not given you a spirit of fear but a spirit of power love and a sound mind I mean he's mentioned three things that he has given us but one thing that he has not and it tells us that fear is the very roots of everything that comes from the enemy because everything that comes from God says that no this is a spirit of love God is love power the Holy Spirit is the power of God a sound mind when you have salvation you have the mind of Christ this is everything that speaks to the foundation of who God is to you and he compares all of that with one word I have not given you the spirit of fear everything the enemy would use against your life is rooted from a place of fear the fear that this is not gonna change the fear that this is not gonna work out the fear that this person is gonna break my heart the fear that God may not stand with me the fear that God may not show what it's all rooted from fear but Elijah said as Elijah said to his servant this is what God is saying to us do not fear for those that are with you or more than those that are against you it may look like you're surrounded but we are surrounded by God Jesus is our advocate yes we may have an adversary but we have an advocate we have someone who is fighting on our behalf family if you've been in this house and your life seems like it's been plagued with fear I invite you to this altar because God is gonna break that off that is not the spirit he gave you and that spirit is influence to you in the wrong ways and to make wrong decisions to keep you away from your promise but we ought to know that no matter how much it looks like I want you to just think about that in your mind if you feel like you've been looking at something for so long just imagine and say God you are preparing the audience for the table that you will prepare for me this is for your glory anyway this is for your name we were just singing that that we want our lives to glorify Him that we want all we want is for him to be lifted up and for him to be glorified and so if it's all about your glory anyway if my life is created to bring you the glory then Lord yeah maybe let the enemies gather that's fine because you create a table for me in their presence and so we need them for the table because this will bring glory to your name family you have nothing to worry about let us pray let's just bow our heads father God we thank you we thank you for your love we thank you for your affirmation for your confirmation of who we are in you we thank you Lord God that yes weapons may form but they will not prosper they don't have the power to prosper because all authority comes from you Jesus and as we come before you tonight Lord God we say Lord we lay down our fears we laid on everything that we know is a distraction presently in our lives but the reason that we have not let go of the distraction is that we fear that the real thing will not come and so we begin to tell ourselves the lie that the counterfeit is real we begin to tell ourselves that it's okay lord I don't need Isaac just leave me with Ishmael because we fear that could Isaac really come even though that is your word but Lord God we thank you that you are a faithful God then you are faithful to your word you say that you are watching over your word to fulfill it we are a word and you watch over us that we may manifest the fullness of why you have called us lord I thank you that in this house fear is broken that fear is broken that fear has no place in our lives but we will look at the thing that opposes us and we will speak to it Lord no longer are we gonna cry because of what looks like a nightmare but we would rejoice in you saying that Lord you have exposed the plans of the enemy and with my authority I can change what he met for evil thank you Jesus we shall live because I said that there are some in this house and that you have been having reoccurring dreams of seeing yourself die in strange ways dreams of seeing loved one die in strange ways and the Lord is saying no no no you you're getting it wrong I'm not sending that I'm not allowing you to have this dream to scare you but I want you to be strategic in your prayer life thank you Jesus Lord we thank you that you have spoken to our hearts that you have spoken to our mind you have spoken to the depth of who we are and we are gonna stand our ground we are gonna stand in the gap we are going to be bold and courageous about what you have called us to protect for some of us has stood the books you have called us to write it's still the place they stood the movies you've called us to do let's do the nonprofit's you've called us to create and stir the children you've called us to speak to it's to the ministries you've called us to serve because when we share and release our testimony and when we do the works that you have assigned our hands to do Lord it advances your kingdom and we are choosing to also be responsible with what you have given us to dominate the place you have called us to seal this word in our hearts in our minds in Jesus name Amen amen [Music]

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Published: Thu Nov 29 2018