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Bishop Hugh Daniel Smith teaching Spiritual Wrestling at Embassy Metro Detroit. Full sermon with transcript.

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Father, thank you. You know, I hear the Holy Ghost say that he’s finishing cycles in the lives of his people in this season. You know what it means to finish a cycle in him? His wisdom is at work in your life many times without you even knowing it. He can start a project a decade ago and we may not even know that he’s working in our life.

But when he gets to the end of the cycle, he releases a spirit of revelation and he allows you to connect the dots to see why he let that happen and why he allowed that to happen and why he let that happen. And it all comes to a certain end. And I want to declare the release of revelation life right now for the last 10 years. There are things that have happened over the course of your journey of walking with God that we didn’t understand.

But he’s turning on the lights. Those that can endure the lights. And perhaps you’ve given a definition and a meaning to an experience that was not quite right. He’s going back and he’s refraraming your experiences and he’s showing you why these things have happened and what they amount to. And when that happens and it all comes together, the spirit of wisdom fills your heart.

His wisdom is past finding out. But when you come to an end of a cycle, he reveals the things that he’s been doing and it all makes sense. And that wisdom will heal your spirit man. I want to declare the release of revelation knowledge on your life. Thank you.

But in order to get this, you have to be willing to withdraw your verdict. Maybe you’ve given definition to things and meaning to things that was inaccurate because you saw it in part. But God’s going to let you see it in whole. Right now, I declare the release of revelation. You’re going to have to have a hunger and thirst after the truth now.

You can’t tell yourself the lie that made you feel good to get through the thing you went through. If you want to see what God was doing, he was doing a deeper work on the inside. I’m declaring a deep healing in the room right now in the name of the Lord. God is connecting the dots in your life. I wish I had a church here that could receive divine wisdom over your life.

Shandorash God said I started working on it a long time ago and I allowed this to happen and that to happen but I had an expected end all the time and you didn’t know how things are connected but he said in this season revelation comes on your spirit if you hunger and if you thirst after righteousness. Father, I pray you would give us revelation knowledge of the last 10 years of our life and finish a cycle, oh God, so you can start a new thing in us. But this old thing is going to bring forth fruit, oh God. What you thought didn’t mean anything. The devil meant it for evil, but God meant it for good.

Finish a cycle. I said 10 years. 10 years. Finish the cycle. You think you’ve been wasting time? No.

No. Marking time. No. No. Finish the cycle.

Oh, finish the cycle. That’s what the Holy Ghost is doing between now and December. He’s going to finish the cycle. If you can believe it, he’s going to finish the cycle. He’s going to connect all the dots.

It is going to make sense. Revelation. Say the cycle. This time I want you to say it and then give him your best praise. Say it again.

Say it again. Jesus I go. This the last time and we going to give him our best praise. Jesus I go. Oh, he’s tying up the loose ends.

I promise you, he’s tying up the loose ends. Too many experiences that I were not answered, no understanding. He’s tying up the loose ends. And he’s threading understanding through them all. If you’ll let him finish the cycle and release revelation knowledge on your spirit.

Thank you father. Thank you for revelation knowledge. Thank you. Thank you for revelation knowledge. Just let him set on you right now with that just for a moment here.

That thing messed your personality uh uh shaped your personality that all those experiences has given you a certain disposition. But when he finished the cycle, it all come together. That’s what he did in Joseph’s life. He finished the cycle and it all came together. And then Joseph rose up as a ruler.

Woo. He finished the cycle in Joseph’s brother’s life and it all came together. He finished the cycle in Jacob’s life. Jacob didn’t believe Joseph was alive, but once he saw the wagons, his spirit revived. That was a long cycle.

And God finished it. and everything be came full circle the way it was meant to be. That’s where we are. Lift those hands in worship. Oh God. Oh God.

Thank you. Thank you that not one experience was for not. Not one experience, even the devil might have been in it and doing stuff, but God said not one experience was for not. We call him sovereign. He’s really trying to show us his wisdom.

When you walk with God, you learn the wisdom of God. You can’t learn the wisdom of God by reading about it. You have to walk with God to get wisdom. Wisdom comes from walking with God over a period of time. Then God finishing cycles and revealing to you all the stuff he was doing over that time period.

And you get his mind. You get his wisdom through your own walk. This is how God has imposed wisdom in me over the years of just simply walking with him. I learned how he thinks and I have much to learn. Don’t be the believer that refuses to walk with God.

That just wants an encounter, then walk your own life. Once an experience, then walk your own life. No. Walk with him. Walk with him.

If he’s in the valley, walk through that valley wherever he takes you. If he’s in the fire, walk through the fire with him because at some point he’ll finish the cycle and he’ll say, “This is why.” And it’ll all make sense. And you walk away with all that wisdom in your spirit. Glory to his name. Oh, praise the name of the Lord.

Ain’t that wonderful, saints? Come on, let’s thank him one last time for his wisdom. The choir’s coming. Hallelujah. The choir is going to come with the selection and then we’re going to go into the word of the Lord.

Receive the choir in Jesus name. Bubbles. Jesus. Invite me into your chambers. Draw me close to you.

Embrace me and I’ll embrace you in spirit and in truth. I am asking for nothing. Here’s my offering. In one moment in your presence is worth everything. Yeah.

To worship. I came before your throne. I came to love you. came to love you and adore you. Oh, King of Lord. I came to worship.

I came to worship. I came to bow down before your throne. I came to love you. Say hallelujah. Hallelujah.

Hallelujah. Hallelu. Sing hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

You’re forever. Hallelu. Halleluah. I came to worship. Hallelu.

Hallelu. I came to worship. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

We give you the highest praise. We give you the highest praise. We sing. Hallelujah. I came to worship.

I came to worship. To worship. I came to bow before you. I came to worship you. I came to worship you.

I came to lift my voice to worship you, oh God. I came to worship, worship. I came to I came to worship. I came to worship. Yeah. worship.

I came to worship you. I came to worship you, oh God. I came to came to lift my voice to worship. I came to I came to worship. I came to worship.

I came to worship. I came to worship. Worship. I came to lift my voice. I came to lift my head.

I came to worship. Sing worship. Worship. Worship. Worship.

Lift your voice and worship. Lift your voice and worship. I came to worship. I came to worship. I came to lift my voice.

I came to lift my voice. I came to lift my hands. I came to lift my hands to worship to worship to worship. Yeah. We worship worship.

We worship you. We worship. We worship. Yeah. Yeah.

Worship worship. Come on and lift your voice and worship. Come on and lift your voice and worship him. We’ve come to worship him. Oh, we came to worship you, Jesus.

We came to worship. We came to worship. We worship you, Jesus. Oh, we worship you, God. Awesome.

Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. Awesome.

Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. Awesome.

Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. We certainly came to worship the Lord. We’re going to ask you to turn the house lights up, please.

We’re going to ask all of our guests to stand so we can acknowledge you. Thank you for being with us today. Thank you. Thank you. I see you.

Thank you. I see all of you. Let’s thank God for the guests. There’s a QR code there. Uh should you desire to stay in touch with us, you can fill that out, take a picture, fill it out, follow the prompts, or you can come to a guest reception that’s going to take place immediately after this service uh right through those doors to my left in the green room.

My wife and I will be there to meet you, and we certainly hope uh to do that. We’re glad to be here. We’re grateful for uh our Lord and who he is. We we bear witness to the most high God, the possessor of the heavens and the earth, and to the Lord Jesus Christ, the redeemer of all mankind. His name shall be praised from the rising of the sun to the sitting of the same.

Those of you watching by live stream, thank you for permitting us for to come into your home today. And we trust that you sense the Holy Spirit just like we do here. We want you to feel welcome and participate and allow God to bless you. I’m going to ask everyone if you would uh turn in your Bibles to the book of Genesis, the book of Ephesians, chapter 6. And while you’re finding that, I want to thank God for, as we oftenimes say, the capable ministers who minister in our absent this past Sunday.

We had the uh incredible Prophet Nathan Cole who did an extraordinary job, extraordinary job last week. And so we’re thankful. Please stand for the reading of the word in the book of Ephesians. So many wonderful gifts in this house. So many wonderful gifts in this house.

And we’re grateful to God. We feel wealthy because of that. Again, Ephesians chapter number 6 beginning at verse number 10. This is the beginning of a brand new series. I told you that we were going to just stop on manifest Yeshua, but we’re not going to stop manifesting Yeshua.

Uh we’re just going to stop talking about it and we want to make sure we continue doing it. But but the Lord has put something else in my heart that I think is pertinent for this hour that we have to deal with. And this is an introductory lesson today from Ephesians chapter number 6 verse number 10. Let’s read together. It says, “Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might.

Put on the whole armor of God that she may be able to stand against the ws of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God that you may be able to withstand in you know this is that day saints this is what they call the evil day when I was younger the saints used to say pray my strength in the Lord that I hold out or something in these lasting evil days. Well, if it was evil then, it’s much more evil now. And having done all to stand, stand therefore, having your loins skirted about with truth.

Big deal. and having on the breastplate of righteousness and your feet shaw with the preparation of the gospel of peace. Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye are shall be able to quench some of the fiery darts all the fiery darts of the wicked. You got to understand they come and if you get hit, maybe you don’t have your shield up.

So, we want to make sure we get our shields up, saints, cuz the darts will come. and take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the spirit which is the word of God. Praying sometimes. Oh, all the time. Huh? Praying always with just a few kinds of prayers.

There all kinds of prayers to pray and supplication in the flesh. Oh, the prayers must be prayed in the spirit and not just pray. Jesus taught us to pray and watching there unto with all perseverance, supplication for some of the people you like. Oh, all the saints. I’m just trying to make sure I got it straight up here.

And we’re going to stop there. I could continue, but I’m going to stop. Well, I might as well read verse 19. He Paul said also pray for me that utterance may be given unto me that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel for which I am an ambassador in bonds that therein I might speak boldly as I ought to speak. And the new series, we just call it simply spiritual wrestling.

It’s my hope that before we’re done, everybody can wrestle spiritually to get things done. Father, thank you for talking to us today. I pray that you speak through this series and get your truth in this house. And to those that watch by live stream, teach us how to wrestle spiritually. really Lord teach us to become masters in this area that your name would be praised in Jesus’ name. You may be seated, spiritual wrestling.

While I was in my prayer closet this week, at some point the Lord spoke to me and he and I heard him say that the unusual tension and heightened intensity that many people are experiencing right now is a sign of an aggressive spiritual conflict. conflict that is occurring and active in the spirit world. Even some of the natural war wars that are unfolding in our country and in other nations are reflection of the spiritual wars that are being fought right now on behalf of the will of God and against the will of God. Believe it or not, there’s war in the heavenlies. And we say that so frequent that sometimes it loses its gravitas, its meaning, its strength.

But I need you to hear me with your heart today that the intensity and the stuff you feel around you uh is really happening. ordinary events seem to be surrounded by this energy that is an indicator that something’s happening in another realm. As a matter of fact, there are spiritual wars today being fought over resources. I said spiritual warfares over people’s bodies. Spiritual wars are being fought over souls. There are wars being fought over nations and boundaries.

There are wars being fought over families and ministries and destinies. And this is why the day feels so unusual. You might remember in the scripture, just to give you a quick example, um there was conflict in the heavens that affected Job’s life one day. the devil came and wanted to do something to him. Not only he you have the high priest Joshua who uh was a impacted because of a heavenly battle that took place that affected him and the nation of Israel. There was a time when the scriptures talked about uh the Grecian nation where Alexander came forth um because there was spiritual warfare that brought him forth.

The scriptures even talks about the time when Michael the archangel had a dispute with Satan over the body of Moses. They were fighting over Moses body. The devil will lay claim on your leg if he can get it and all of a sudden you start having problems in that leg and you just take a couple of aspirins cuz you think it’s just all natural. Sometimes it is natural, ladies and gentlemen.

But I just need you to know that there are things that are happening in the spirit world that are impacting our experience here in the natural. And it is my prayer that all believers would awaken to the belief that the spiritual world impacts the physical world. The things that we see physically do not come from things that we can see. That’s Hebrews 11:3. The things we see comes from things that we cannot see.

And we must come to the place where when there is a challenge in our life, our first reaction is not to remedy it in the natural. While we are working on natural things, we’re trying to ask ourselves the question, is this all natural? or is there something else going on that I cannot see? Just this past weekend, yesterday, I received a call from Dr. Lawler, our uh executive pastor, and she told me that we had a brown out here at the church and it was impacting Oathbound and the Sunday service might be in jeopardy. And my response to her was, “Let’s do everything we can do uh in the natural and and and then go harass de uh who are they called?

DTE, harass them and and let them know we got church and all that kind of stuff.” And she said, “Well, they don’t make priorities.” I said, “Harass them and let them know we got church.” So do everything you can do in the natural. But I said, “But before I hung up, I said, “But call the intercessors, too. because I sensed it was not just natural, ladies and gentlemen. Now, there are times when it is only natural. You deal with it and you overcome.

But I can sense that there are things behind what’s going on in this season. And the enemy is fighting so hard to obstruct what God is doing that he’s using people in the earth realm to sabotage the advancement of the kingdom of God. And so the intercessors prayed. I’m assuming they must have prayed. I just hung up the phone.

I was good after that. But I assume they pray cuz I got a call later on saying everything is good. All systems go for Sunday.

Amen. At some point, ladies and gentlemen, this DNA must kick in. It must kick in. This is how Jesus functioned. And the church cannot continue to operate from the bottom up.

But we must learn to operate from the top down. Everybody say top down. Top down. And that simply means we must learn to wrestle with spiritual things in order to bring about natural outcomes. And I’m utilizing the term wrestling because the scriptures actually framed it with that terminology.

We we must learn how to dominate and take over an environment spiritually. Before we try to fashion it in the natural. Far too many of us have run into natural battles and have been very light on our spiritual work.

But God said from this day forward, everybody is going to have to make a decision with your own life that you are not going to treat this world as if the spirit world doesn’t exist. And if people are got spirits are not calling plays against you from a different realm, you can ignore it all you want to your own peril. The Lord said that there are people the believers are about to wake up in this season and we’re getting ready to start dominating everything spiritually first.

Come on, somebody. Before we go out into the natural to bring things to pass, we want to make sure we got coverage. We want to make sure the intercessors are praying and we’ve fought devils and done everything we’re supposed to do because some of this tension is not natural, ladies and gentlemen. Some of the resistance is not normal. The devil has gotten into some things in our lives causing havoc in places and we’re trying to finesse it.

God said it’s not going to work in this last day. You must know how to wrestle in the spirit if you’re going to be victorious in this final season. So, I just want to release a quick grace right there for somebody to say, “I’m ready to wrestle. I’m ready to I’m ready to move on another plane. I’m making a commitment to address spiritual matters before I deal with natural things.

If if I need if I need a class, somebody teach me. If I need a mentor, somebody help me. But I am not going to sit back and allow the devil to destroy my life without me responding in any fashion. That’s where I’m at. And I know I’m somebody say me, too.

Come on, somebody. M. That’s And we’re not by ourselves. Let me give you a quick example of this before I go into the my primary text in Ephesians chapter 6. The Apostle Paul is discussing spiritual development in Christ and how it empowers believers to properly manage natural things as well as their interpersonal relationships.

He talks about how we’re seated in heavenly places and all of that powerful stuff you read in the first uh four and five books of Ephesians. And then he gets to the end of the fifth book going into the sixth chapter and he begins to talk about how all of that is supposed to help us manage these natural things. And so what he’s really teaching us is that the natural things that he mentions in chapter 6 verse one he tells the children to obey their parents in the Lord for this is right. Honor thy father and thy mother which is the first commandment with a promise. Then he goes on and talks about how fathers shouldn’t provoke their kids.

He talks about husbands and wives in chapter number five. And he says, “Listen, you can only do that stuff that I commanded you to do if you understand that it’s not just natural. It’s spiritual. It’s spiritual.” As a matter of fact, marriage is spiritual. Say it with me.

Marriage is It really is. If you think it’s just a natural thing, you got googly eyes for somebody and you just trying to get the hookup and all of that, that’s a very low level cuz all you got to do is live long enough and don’t though stuff stuff don’t look the same after a while anyway. It don’t Everybody change. I had a big fro back in the day, y’all. Everything changes eventually.

Marriage is spiritual. The two becoming one. Husband and wives to be should come together first spiritually. Spiritually. How do you come together spiritually with someone?

Number one, you have to recognize that that’s God’s child. You have the privilege of marrying them, but you’re marrying God’s child. And God has a plan for their life. And God has a design for their person. And you got to pray to God to find out who they are through his vision in his eyes.

I got to I can’t I cannot assume uh a perspective of them from observation. But I must have a perspective of them through revelation. Because if I don’t have a revelation of the person that I’m marrying from God, then I’ll never know the design of their spiritual essence. And I’ll only talk to them in a soloulish kind of way. And I’ll never connect spiritually.

You connect spiritually not just by going to church together. It’s a wonderful thing to go to church, but I need to know who they are spiritually. If your spouse does not have revelation of who you are spiritually, then you guys cannot connect in the spirit realm the way God intended.

And so that leads you only to the next level of connection which is intellectual and emotional connection. And that’s good too. After you connect spiritually with a person, you have to connect with them intellectually as well as emotionally. Emotional bonding is important, men. You have to learn to talk at the feeling level.

How do you feel? Well, I think so. And I didn’t say how you think. I said, how do you feel? Sometimes we’re not in touch with our feelings.

You’re going to bond with your spouse. This is not a marriage seminar, so let me hurry. But if you’re going to bond with your spouse, you must connect at the feeling level. Then you come together physically. Spiritual connection, intellectual, emotional, then physical.

Marriage is spiritual first. If I cannot dominate in the spiritual part of my marriage, I’ll never fully embrace the intellectual, the emotional, and the physical. And if only I have the physical and I have no emotional connection, no intellectual connection, no spiritual connection. All I need is something to go wrong in the physical and the union comes apart. God said connect first in the spirit.

The devil and the culture says connect in the flesh. Well, dogs connect in the flesh. Don’t even know each other. Don’t have each other’s name. No covenant, nothing.

They just getting it on in the flesh. That’s why they go their separate directions when it’s all over. And the devil’s trying to reduce this generation down to the level of animals acting like dogs. Fornication is an anim animalistic activity, but you were made from above, not from beneath. And you’re meant to connect spiritually.

Somebody say spiritual connection. Everything starts first with the spirit. Then you move to natural things. This is true of parenting. Parents can’t really parent their kids if they don’t have revelation of their kids.

Train a child in the way they should go. That means you got to know that way. You could be training them to be like you. Train them to do all the stuff you didn’t get done. Your career stopped.

So you going to make them do what you didn’t do. And they not even bent that way. Come on. You in the flesh raising your kids against the way God designed for them to be. Everything starts in the spirit.

And if we get that right, then we unlock the wealth of the relationship. Did you know that God there is inherent wealth in all divine relationships? Say it. Inherent wealth in all divine relationships. This is God’s method of providing for us.

He connects you to people and when you come together and manage the relationship according to his plan, it unlocks the wealth that’s in the relationship. But if we mismanage the relationship, the wealth remains dormant and it never comes out. And so the only way to unlock this inherent wealth is to manage the relationship.

And so that means as opposed to being uh agitated with human behavior, we must learn to wrestle in the spirit over our parenting, over our marriages, over our sibling relationships, friendship relationship. We must dominate that thing first in the spirit. God said in this season, there must be a spiritual takeover. When you don’t know what else to do, take over the whole house spiritually. Just snap out spiritually and say, “I’m coming after every devil in this house.

I I don’t care who. I’m coming after every devil and I’m establishing the lordship of Jesus in this place.” And we going to do it until we get in order. You will not destroy my home, my life. Somebody shout spiritual takeover. Say it again.

Spiritual takeover. This is that season. So those of you who are not into all of this and think this is too much and you’ll be calling us. You’ll be like, “Hey, we need a co-ad case. We need some kind of case.” You’ll be calling us.

I promise you because that’s because there is warfare happening be it we believe it or not. So God I just want to thank you for the grace to unlock the wealth in all of our divine connections. Oo I want to thank you for the grace. Hallelujah. To unlock the wealth in my marriage to unlock the wealth among myself and my children. to unlock the wealth in all of my brotherhoods and all of my relationships with females that you’ve connected me to.

I declare the grace to unlock the wealth in every relationship, to operate from the top down, to manage it spiritually, to dominate what the enemy is doing, and to wrestle until we bring things to pass. I receive that grace on my life. I don’t know about you, but I’m coming into an agreement because that’s what God is doing in this season. And I am apostolically announcing that God is releasing a grace to unlock the wealth in all of your relationship through right dealings with people. Glory to his name.

How y’all feeling about that? Let’s just stop and give him one praise right there for that. I I think that’s a good place. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

Hallelujah. Glory to God. go into the primary text. It starts at verse number 10. We read that text, but I need to make three points. Again, this is introductory lesson, so we can’t go into everything, but I’m going to make three points today, or at least two of them.

You know, I don’t always get to all three, but we’re going to at least make two, try to get to three. Number one, we have to talk about the wrestling position. Number two, we need to talk about the opponent. And we may get to some of the armor of God. We may get to some of it.

But I want to talk about uh the wrestling position. First of all, wrestling is an intense uplose and im in impersonal impersonal or impersonal uh attack or let’s say interaction with a benevolent being. We’re not talking about wrestling each other as you’re going to see, but we’re talking about up to up close uh personal engagements against a force that’s trying to disrupt divine order on the earth. There are forces that have been released designed to disrupt the divine order on the earth in relationships. Forces and in everything that the Lord is doing.

And to wrestle means to confront them and assume a certain position. And you see this here in verse number 10. Let’s read it again. What does it say? Verse 10.

Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord. And so, the first thing, and we’re not going to build this out, but I just need you to know, wrestling requires strength. Do we have any people natural wrestlers out there? Anybody who was on a wrestling team in school or something like that. All right, just a few.

Lyn was a wrestler. I didn’t know that. All right, check it out.

So, wrestling requires strength. It’s not like a sport like basketball where you can just rest, you know, and do like this because somebody else have the ball and and uh you know, or the ball’s on the other end of the court. Wrestling, you you relax one time. You see, you see, you can’t be taking breaks looking around and not with wrestling because it’s not a distant uh uh uh activity or a distant competition, but it’s up close and personal. And this is how you know when you’re wrestling with something, everything that happens seems very personal.

And you, you know, you say, “You didn’t got too close.” Now, come on. This is too personal. And when it was at a distance, okay, we can say this is the stuff that’s happening generally, but now it’s all in your face. When the stuff is in your face, it’s an indicator that you have been called into a wrestling match and you don’t have time to take breaks unless God permits that.

And so, there has to be a level of strength. Notice what he says. We have to be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might. So you cannot wrestle spiritual beings in your own strength. It’s impossible.

And those who have tried to have failed miserably. You cannot wrestle with just your understanding of scriptures. You must wrestle only with the strength of the Lord. And if you don’t know how to put on the strength that I’m talking about right now, that means you probably been defeated in several wrestling matches.

But after today and after this series, uh we’re going to raise up some champions in here. Come on, somebody. some people who know how to wrestle in the spirit and bring real change to their worlds because they know how to resist. Let me show you the terminology that he uses again. Finally, my brother, be strong in the Lord, in the power of his might. Put on the whole armor of God.

Uh, and I’m not going to deal with that just yet, but notice what he says. That ye may be able to Everybody say stand against the ws of the devil. stand against the ws of the devil. And so, and then verse 13, put the 13 up really quick. I just want you to see it. Verse 13, read, “Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God that you may be able to withstand in the evil day and have all.” So, so we hear the word stand and we hear the word withstand.

The word stand uh shows us our position. uh if I am in a relationship with with a parent or with someone that I’m supposed to honor and this is uh the role that God has given me to honor my parents or to honor my wife or to honor someone in relationship then the position that I take is that I will honor them in the relationship. The resistance that I’ll experience is the enemy attempting to cause me to justify dishonor or justify not fulfilling the position that I have taken. So when we say we’re wrestling against benevolent beings, we’re not talking about fighting them directly. We’re resisting what they are attempting to get us not to do. Because all believers must take a position on the things that God has assigned them to do.

So if I’m called to be an apostle and I’m called to do a certain work, then that becomes my position. I’m called to defend the spiritual rights of all people and to teach people and raise up champions and and I take that position. I’ve assumed that position many years ago and the enemy will do everything he can to get me to change my position. I’m supposed to stand where God has planted me and the opposition is to get me to change my position. So anybody who says, “Yes, I know God wants this for me and I know this is what I’m called to do.” and they take a stand, but next week they’re doing something else, then they have lost a wrestling match.

Because every time you take a position for God’s purpose that he’s ordained, then you will be confronted, a benevolent being that is designed to get you to change your position. If I say I love you and you’re my friend, then that has to be tested. If we make covenant and say we’re going to walk together, that will be tested. You cannot take a position for God and the enemy not try to move you off your square. And this is where the wrestling begins. as soon as you take a position.

There are many people that that don’t like to take positions because they don’t want to look like they can’t keep what they’ve taken. So, if you if you don’t even take a position, then there is no way that you’re going to ever fulfill what God’s purpose is. If you have to take a position number one, that I’m saved and and I’m going to heaven and I’m going to live the way God has called me to live. As soon as you make that confession, you’re taking a position and the enemy will send all kind of spirits your direction to get you to move off of that place. That’s where the wrestling is.

So, if you imagine that you’re wrestling against some invisible being, yes, that is true. But you’re not like saying, “Get back demon of whatever or you spirit of this or you spirit of that.” You can say it, but the bottom line is you’re wrestling to hold your position. That’s what the match is about. If I said I love you, I still love you today. If I said I’m with you, I’m still with you today.

It’s wrestling to hold your position. Everybody say, “Hold your position.” Say it again. Hold your position. If God has called you to be a prophet, if God has called you to be a pastor, if the Lord has called you to do whatever it is, you must hold your position because the enemy will do everything in his power to get you to bag up. If God says, “Go write a song and you say yes, hold your position.” If you can’t fulfill it, that means somebody pushed you off your square.

If God gave you a command to go buy somebody something or do whatever he gave you to do, you have to hold your position. And we have too many believers today that have not or cannot or struggling with holding their position. And it doesn’t mean that they uh are inept or that they don’t love God. It simply means they haven’t learned how to wrestle. It doesn’t mean that they’re just undisiplined.

They’re just weak in the Lord. They they have no skill base. Nobody trained them how to wrestle yet. They thought being saved would just walk a walk through the tulips and everything is going to be rosy. They didn’t know they was entering into the gladiator arena to fight against principalities and powers.

They had no knowledge they was going to move the kingdom of God forward. And demons was going to be busting in their family and breaking it in their mind, trying to get them to change their mind because of what happened to their child, trying to get them to change their mind because of what happened to their money to what happened in their world. You cannot let anything he throws at you to cause you to back up off of your square. Because that was the purpose of the assault, to get you to move away from what God told you to do. Look at three people and tell them to hold your ground.

Hold your ground. Hold your ground. Hold your ground. Hold your ground. I said hold your ground.

Ladies and gentlemen, God planted you there. You’re the plantings of the Lord. You’re a pillar in the house of God. You’re meant to stand up so you can hold the glory of God over your head. I need somebody to stand up.

Truth has fallen in the streets. Is there anybody still standing for holiness and for what’s right and what’s true? He says, “Hold your ground in this season.

Amen. Hold your ground because it’s your stance that’s keeping order. It’s your commitment to do what God told you to do that’s holding the order together. The devil knows if he can get you to move, all chaos is getting ready to break in your family. As soon as you get out of place, everything is going to break.

Smite the strong man, my God, and come in and spoil the house. He can only spoil the house if he can tear down the pillars, those things that are standing. You have to hold your ground for your children’s children. I don’t care how many hits I take. I’m going to stand still and see the salvation of the Lord because I got babies in the house.

I’m not going to let the devil get my baby. I’m standing still. Hold your ground, sir. If I fall, what happens to the house? That’s why men have to learn how to wrestle.

Oath bound. Woohoo. Oath bound. Yeah. Because when a man takes his stance, you secure order.

Listen, you don’t know how much of your success has happened because somebody stood. You have no idea. Wait until they’re gone. Then you’ll see the different kind of environment. He says, “I need you to stand.” He said, “Against Woo, I better hurry.

No way I’m getting to point three.” He says, “I need you to stand against the ws of the devil.” But before I talk about the ws, I need you to see this. He says, “Stand.” And in another text, he says, “Withstand.” Stand and withstand. Two different terms, two different meanings. So to stand means to what? Take your position and hold your ground.

To withstand means to resist what the devil plan is, in other words, to strike out at it yourself, to be more offensive. It’s to it’s it’s to hold your ground, but it’s also to strike the enemy’s work. You see, you see, some people want to be known. They say, this is what they used to say in the early 2000s, the church, uh, we don’t want to be known for what we’re against. We just want to be known for what we’re for.

That sounds so flowerish. That’s not a word, but you know, it just sounds like that. We want to be known for what we’re for. Yeah, I want to be known for what I’m for. We’re for standing our ground.

But you can’t say you love God if you don’t hate evil. Now, it’s about to shift. I’m telling you, it’s about to shift. It’s about to shift. If you love God, you also have to be able to talk against evil.

See, it’s a for and against. To withstand is to talk against the evil. To stand is to stand for the good. Job said he was a man that loved God, but he also assued evil. And we got many today who only want to talk about what they’re for, but they won’t talk against the things that are destructive and dysfunctional and ungodly and spell it out.

But God is raising up prophets and God is raising up uh apostles and God is raising up believers that won’t only that will not only share what we believe but also share what we are against. There are some things that we are against. And we’re going to prosecute those things with words from God to make it very clear. We’re for worship music, but we are against some of that other music with covenants that teach people to kill and destroy and to do things contrary to God. We’re not supporting the artist because we’re against that kind of stuff.

In other words, we’re getting ready to draw a line in the sand. We’re for this, but we’re against that. If you’re only for it, you’re standing.

But when you’re against it, you’re withstanding and you’re driving the enemy bad. And I believe in this hour, we’re going to have to both stand and withstand in order to be effective in our wrestling matches. I’m not just for you coming over here and for these good things, but I’m against that which is trying to kill you. and I’m willing to resist it with you. In other words, you have to renounce. Everybody say renounce.

And denounce. To renounce means I legally separate myself from something in my heart. I renounce it. To denounce, I make my renouncements public. There is a whole lot of stuff that I’ve renounced that I don’t really care about and I reject it.

But you don’t know them. But the time is coming where we going to have to denounce some things. Let the world know I’m against that. That’s what it means to withstand. Everybody say withstand.

Withstand. Withstand. And so we’re going to withstand the ws of the devil. That that Greek word ws there actually means the sophistic. Sophism is the word. of history which deals with the cunning schemes and the crafty uh wellthoughtout wellineered ps.

The enemy has targeted everybody’s life. He has a profile on all the believers and he’s watched patterns in your bloodline. He’s He has all the data that he needs. And from all of that data, he puts together a scheme to cause you to move off your square. And he knows exactly what if I touch this, they’ll they’ll they’ll fall apart.

Just like Job was uh God told or the devil told God in Job’s case that if you let me touch his body, he’ll curse you to your face. He knows our tendencies. He knows our uh appetites. He knows so many things about us. And he’ll give if he can’t get you to go back, then he’ll offer you something to move you forward.

Anything to get you off your square. He’ll offer you a promotion on your job that’ll put you in an environment that God never intended for you to be in just to get you off your square. If you’re praying too much, he’ll try to find a way to destruct get take steal your time so you can’t call on God’s name. Just when you start getting effective in the kingdom, that’s when the enemy says you have to launch a ploy against them in order to disrupt the forward motion that they are making. He calls your name in meetings in hell.

He launches angels, evil angels and demons out to your household to sabotage your marriage, sabotage your relationships. Every relationship that God has given you has been on his board saying, “Fellas, how do we stop this relationship? Cuz God put wealth there. How do we stop this relationship? Cuz God put wealth there.

What do we do? They have a huddle. They launch it. How do we stop Embassy Covenant Church? They are making strides disrupting the heavens.

What do we do? Go after Bishop Smith. Go after his family. Go after the headship of the church. Go after Prophetist Cole.

Go after the deacons. Go after the leadership. Go after anybody that comes into the leadership arena. Go after them. Kill their babies.

Do whatever you have to do to stop them. Mess up their mind, steal their money, mess up their household. This the only way to stop them. Ready? Break.

The enemy comes in like a flood. But the spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against that devil. Come on, somebody. The devils that come in our life one way, they’re going to flee seven ways. That’s the promise of the Lord on our life.

We shall tread upon scorpions and serpents and over all the power of the enemy because he’s given us authority in this earth in the name of Jesus Christ. I wish I had an army in here. I got my army suit on. I wish I had an army in here that wanted to wrestle. Come on.

I need a few. Just go hit somebody and say, “Get ready to wrestle.” Get ready to wrestle. Come on. Hit somebody. Tell her.

Tell somebody else. Get your game face on. Why you looking like that? Get your game face on. What happened to you before you came to church?

You mad or something? Get your game face on. We need everybody on the front line. We need everybody. We need all hands on deck.

We need everybody ready to rumble in this house. We’re not playing. The devil don’t like me and I don’t like him either. The feeling is mutual.

And so we’re going to stand and we’re going to withstand against the ws of the devil. the strategys, all of his crafty thinking, and he’s had thousands upon thousands of years to practice his art. We’ve only been on the planet for a few years. We have, but he’s had thousands of years. He was able to move a third of heaven off their square. He got a third of them who had seen God off their squares.

They left their position. They stopped standing. He was able to get one of Jesus’ disciples off his square. He was anointed and he had a bishop Rick. He had a position and he left his bishop Rick.

He was able to get Adam and Eve off their square. by lying to all of them, making them believe that God was different than he presented himself. And your opinion with God, your opinion of God reveals to me who you’ve been listening to. You angry at God, then you probably been listening to the devil. If you don’t think God is good, you probably been listening to the wrong one. Yes, you don’t understand him.

He said that earlier, but he going to if you keep walking, you’ll get his wisdom in your life because what he’s doing, he started a long time ago. God never works backwards. He always moves forward. God always does something and he has an intent behind it. And he’ll use all the devil’s ps to bring his purpose to pass because he’s much wiser than the devil.

So if you don’t understand it, just keep your head down and say, “When I can’t trust your hand, I’mma trust your heart because I know you are a good God all the time. All the time. I am never upset with God. Never. Ever.

He’s perfect in all of his way. I feel like praising him right there. My God. He’s perfect. He’s perfect in all of his way.

I believe it. I believe it. He’s perfect in all of his way. I ain’t trying to hype myself up. I believe it.

He’s perfect in all of his way. He is. and I don’t understand all of his way. I’m learning. That’s why I keep walking with him. I just keep walking and the wisdom comes from walking cuz eventually he brings it all together and he finishes cycles in your life.

Come on, let me hurry. Oh God. Oh Jesus.

And so I need to give you just my second point and we’re going to stop because it’s 10 minutes almost to 12. He says in verse 12, read everybody. Put it on the screen. What does he say? For we not for we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness, spiritual wickedness in high places.

Listen carefully to me. So, we’re wrestling not against people. Not against people. Not against the people. We’re trying to hold our position.

And he may use people to try to get us off our square, but I know it’s not the people that I’m really dealing with. We’re wrestling against principalities. Let me share with you what a principality really is. It is a fallen angel whose responsibility is to be the first principle in an environment or to lay the first patterns in an environment or the first doctrine, the first ideology, the first belief. The goal is to create belief systems.

A principality is the first one that comes in and the objective is to put a demonic philosophy in that land and they root the philosophy first. So what they do is they hover over a land and they release that thought in the land and they’re hoping that someone will pick it up and want to be a trailblazer one to carry the first thought in that land. Uh you have several people who have done this. Um you have uh who who is the uh BF Skinner uh who has carried the thought of theocratic not theocratic technocratic uh rule. There are those today who believe in a technocracy and what they’re suggesting is that the world should be run by systems, by data, by knowledge and by computers uh without souls, without uh intuition, without human uh and spiritual input.

The facts say this, you don’t measure up, you can’t be in it. Just a datadriven society. And there are those propagating that belief right now. And and many people believe that’s where we’re going.

But the point I’m making is BF Skinner was one who helped to promote or propagate this ideology. So that means he and others have embraced that first thing and then they become the fathers of it in the earth. They become the trailblazers and may get rich off of it in the earth.

But nothing happens until somebody embraces it in the earth and carries it out. Are you listening to me? Not only is that uh occurring, but we also have moral relativism which which teaches in so many words that uh there is no absolute truth. And this was a doctrine that came in uh early 2000s as well and maybe in the ‘9s. uh it was really older than that but it it was revived where uh they teach that everybody has their own truth and and this particular doctrine says that we all have our own truth. So there’s no way of holding people really accountable.

You can’t you can’t corner anybody because they’re living their truth. And so they’re they’re demeaning the truth and they’re giving everybody the right to declare what truth is to them. That’s a doctrine of devils. Are you hearing me? And you even hear the saints talking about my truth, your truth.

Forget your truth and forget my truth. All I want to know about is the truth. I I get what people mean. This is the way I see it. Well, say your opinion.

Say your perspective. Say your view, but not your truth. There’s only one truth. Let every man be a liar. Let God be true.

And let every man be a liar. that is not Bible. We all have opinions. We all have perspectives. We all have a world view.

But there’s only one truth. So this doctrine came in to eclipse the truth by giving everybody their own truth. And this kind of thing is propagated by people who are living in an atmosphere where the principality is releasing that thought. And it’s a demonic angel doing that, a fallen angel. Karl Marx is one who propagated a certain ideology in the earth and and became a father of a certain thought.

Uh you have all kinds of these. Uh Bugsy Seagull uh is is is an individual in the 40s who moved out to Las Vegas because he wanted to bring uh gambling uh make it prime time to the forefront. So he moved out to Vegas and he wanted to uh uh he was he’s cons he’s he’s accredited with being one of the organizers of the the Las Vegas strip. So the question is what what what influenced the man to move out to a desert to do something like that? uh unless there was a thought in the land that says if you do this then you can become rich and there’s a certain culture that goes with these kinds of things. So we have to understand there’s a principality over Michigan and there’s a certain thought that that principality is there and we’ll talk more about that later.

Uh but I want to share with you uh what happens. So first is is the principalities and we’re fighting against everybody say principalities. Secondly rulers. Rulers are those who are fallen creatures who come second or come after that and their job is to literally uh turn presence into policy. Their job is to make it legal in the land to cause it to be codified in the land.

In other words, uh it could become a actual law or or a law in people’s hearts. It could be the law of the street, the law of of somebody’s family. But as long as it becomes legal, then now what you’re doing is you’re making this thought permanent in a particular territory. These are demonic fallen angels whose job is to make sure it is codified in the land through demonic influence. Then thirdly, rulers of the darkness it says uh or after rulers it says or after power that was powers uh principalities powers.

Then thirdly he says it is rulers of the darkness. Then the rulers of the darkness come in they take this darkness and they rule to produce a certain outcome. In other words, since we have uh laws concerning this, let’s let’s let’s get a bunch of kids to commit suicide. That’s an outcome. Since we have uh the new law uh in the land that’s uh smoking marijuana is legal now and uh since since we had we got it codified and it’s legal, let’s take that and let’s let’s use it to disconnect children from society.

Let’s use it to cause them to to to throw their lives away in a car accident or something like that. In other words, the rulers of the darkness, their goal is to bring about a terrible end. And then you have spiritual wickedness in high places. And that spirit’s job is to make it a culture. Is to hold that culture in place.

So it’s just the way it is. And you got to understand, ladies and gentlemen, that there are demonic principalities that are trying to create culture in your household. demonic principalities that are trying to create an evil culture in this earth. And so when God calls you out of darkness, he calls you out of all of that culture and he tells you to stand against it and he gives you weapons of warfare to fight against the culture. Do you think these kids are just fighting or doing things because they want to? Many of them are are caught up in the culture.

A a culture is like a river, a current that carries you. It’ll carry you into things without you even trying to experience it. And and if we don’t pull the kids out and teach them how to wrestle against the culture, they’ll all be caught up with a culture of corruption. And the church, many churches are swimming in the same stream as the culture.

But God has called us to be a counterculture church that will be like the salmon and swim upstream against what’s going on in this world because we were born from above. We have a different commander. We have a different leader. His name is Jesus. And we’re not subject to principalities and power.

We’ll wrestle with them. We’ll stand against them. We’ll resist them.

But we will not bow our heads to the principalities and powers in this region. And I’m going to wrestle until the last breath that’s in my body. And I hear the Holy Ghost say, “Stand.” He said, “Stand. Hold your position and withstand. Call that thing out so we can break that yoke.” How many warriors are in the room right now?

You think you’re just fighting a little devil. You’re fighting a culture, ladies and gentlemen. You’re fighting belief systems. You’re fighting rulers of the darkness, laws that have been codified in people’s hearts. You’re fighting outcomes.

They have cogate or they have conjit or or or models of evil before them that influences them every day. Models of demonic people before them that mess with their mind. You’re fighting against the models that they see every day in their life. You’re fighting against a culture that everybody’s walking in that direction. You’re going to pull somebody out of this darkness, you better come with it more than a toothpick.

You better come with more than your Sunday school verses. You better come with the power of the Lord. Be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might. That’s the only way we’re going to pull people out and make a difference in this world. Somebody help me praise him right there.

If we got any soldiers in the room, there’s there’s a culture to failure. There’s a culture to poverty. There’s a culture to victimhood. There’s a culture to certain sicknesses and diseases that are prevalent in certain lands. There’s a culture behind it.

And when that culture is strong, it’s hard to pull people out. And this is why church cannot be something cute that only stands for. But we must stand against and have and having done all to stand. He said stand. And then he says put on the whole armor of God.

You better not go into this culture of battle without the whole armor of God. And I don’t have time to talk about the armor, but I can tell you, you got to put it on. I want to show you how to put something on. If you don’t know how to put on the armor, then then there’s no way you can fight this battle. There’s no way you can resist.

When my my children were young, I used to see them leave the house and say, “You can’t go out the house looking like that. You can’t be wearing that out there in the public. You can’t put that on. Well, what are you doing? You don’t dress like that.

You can’t put that on. Not out in the public. Or that was my thinking back then. Are you hearing me? Because some ways you got to sometimes you have to teach people how to dress.

And when kids are young, they don’t know how to dress. They’ll put they’ll put the left shoe on the right foot and the right shoe on the left foot. And they be standing like this in the kindergarten with shoes on the wrong feet, shirt buttoned up the wrong kind of way cuz no adult helped them get dressed. And when you got preachers that are more concerned about money and more concerned about buildings than they are about the believer, you got believers with shoes on the wrong feet, one shoe on, one shoe off, undressed, and being beat by the devil. Cuz nobody taught you how to dress.

But oh, that day is coming to an end right now. We getting ready to get strapped. Look at somebody and say, “Get strapped. Get strapped.” We getting ready to put on the whole armor of God. Don’t leave your house without your stuff.

You better be strapped because you don’t know what culture you’re getting ready to run into. Oh God. Oh God. Before I leave my house, I’ll be ready for somebody to act crazy. Are you hearing me?

I’m already strapped. All I need you to do is push me a little bit. I’m coming out with everything I’ve got. He said, “Put on.” That means you have to study the armor. Step one, you can’t put something on you don’t understand.

Study the armor. Number one. Number two, after you study it, you have to trust it. Being believe in it. You’ll never put on a piece of armor that you don’t trust.

You believe in it. Number three, you have to celebrate it. Number four, you have to align your life to it. Literally, this is what I do every day of my life. I say, “Lord, I start on the inside all the time.

Let your love, let the power of your love increase in me. Let the power of your love operate and increase in me now in the name of Jesus. After I’ve done all those other steps, then I just start asking God to let your love operate in me and increase. Let your peace operate in me and let it increase. Let your joy operate in me and let it increase.

Let your humility operate in me and let it increase. Let your faithfulness operate in me and let it increase. Oh God, I can feel him right now. When I start talking like that, I’m aligning myself to it. Let let let let your patience operate in me cuz it’s all his stuff.

You see? And let it increase. I want it to increase. I want it to increase. And then I say, allow your power, your gift of power to operate on me. and let it increase.

Let the gift of your healing operate on me and let it increase. Allow the gift of your faith to operate on me and let it increase. Let the gift of your wisdom and your knowledge operate on me and let it increase. Let the gift of prophecy operate on me and let it increase. Let the gift of tongues and interpretation of tongues and discerning of spirit operate on me and let it increase.

Let the grace of the apostle rest heavy on me and let it increase. Let the grace of the prophet rest heavy on me and let it increase. Let the grace of the evangelist rest heavy on me and let it increase. Let the grace of the pastor and the teacher. Let the grace of the priest and the intercessor rest heavy on me and let it increase.

Let the armor of God rest heavy on me. Let the sword of the spirit be in my hand. Let the helmet of salvation be on my head and my mind and let it increase. Let the breastplate of judgment be wrapped around me and let it increase. Let my throwings be girded with truth.

Truth on the inward part and let it increase. Let let let let let let let let let let let let let let let let let let let let let let let let let let let let let let let let let let let let let let let let let let let let let let let let let let let let let let let let let let let let let let let just just like he said let there be light let the my shoes be shone with the preparation of the gospel of peace and let it increase then I’m all wrapped up ready to go now I’m feeling like I’m covered in him then I look at that devil and I say let your strength come on me Jesus cuz I got to be strong in the Lord let me experience exusia the right to cut a devil in half let me experience dunamis power the strength to do Let me experience issu power, internal might to give me fortitude to keep moving forward. Let me experience Kryto’s power, governing power to bring about God’s end. I say this stuff every day. Let me be wrapped in your glory before I go out here.

I feel strong in the Lord now and in the power of his might and let me resist the devil now so he’ll flee from me. Because you said, “If I submit myself therefore unto God and resist the devil, he will flee from me.” If you get wrapped up in him, all you got to do is resist that devil and he’ll flee. Oh, clap your hands on you people. Shout unto God right there with the voice of triumph.

Come on, somebody. Get yourself together. Get back in the battle and say, “Tonight we wrestle. Tonight we wrestle. I’m not going to give you this territory.

I’m going to stand and I’m holding my ground. You can’t have my kids. You can’t have my house. You can’t have my portion. You can’t have my family.

You can’t have my ministry. You can’t have my future. You can’t have my anointing. You can’t have my resources. You can’t have my body.

You can’t have my money. You can’t have my time. You can’t have it. I belong to God. Come on and wrestle somebody.

Put it on. Get dressed. Get dressed. Get dressed. Get up in the morning and get dressed.

Get strapped every day of your life. Before you leave your house, get yourself dressed for battle. How many showing up at work half-dressed, no helmet, no peace, no joy? How you showing up at work like that? Everybody on your feet.

No. Two opposing powers can coexist in the same space forever. Come on, two people.

Come on, two guys. Come on. Face each other. I just need two. Just two.

You and Matt. He’s behind you. Oppose each other with your both of your hands together. Oppose. No, together.

Yeah, there you go. And pressed. Not hard. Just press enough. They can’t.

And if they’re struggling, they can’t do that forever. Who’s ever the strongest? If this is the territory you’re fighting over, come on, push. I want y’all to see who the strongest today. We trying to see this.

Push. Push. Matt cheated. Look at him.

Come on, push. I want to see you do it. Let’s do it. I need you. This This is what wrestling is like sometimes.

You’re resisting. You’re holding your ground, but you got to push at the same time. You can’t be like, “I just want to be people to know me for what I’m for.” Listen, you in a battle, man. What’s wrong with you? This This thing is trying to push you off of your destiny.

Push you off of your square. Push you off of everything God has promised you. Push, push, push, push, push, push, push, push, push, push, push. There you go. All right.

There you go. Cleveland say I’m old school. So the point is the point is wherever he planted you that’s your territory and if you move everything in it is up for grabs and so you have to stand. We’re going to talk about the skills of wrestling throughout this series. We’re going to talk about the different pieces of the armor throughout this series, but right now I’m just trying to convince you that you must wrestle against culture.

Think you’re fighting the Yeah, you’re fighting the spirit. It’s the spirit behind the culture. It’s the spirit behind the codes or the laws or the legislation. is the spirit behind the evil incidents that take place. The rulers of the darkness will take something and creates an evil incident that that’ll rock your world. It was the spirit behind it that was meant to rock your world to get you to bag up like this.

Cuz God let that happen. That’s what people say. It was a terrible thing, but there was a ruler of the darkness behind it and nobody taught you how to wrestle.

So, it happened. And yes, God will work it together for good, but listen to me. Some of that stuff didn’t have to happen had somebody stood their ground. Jesus, there is no pain he cannot heal. Would you play that?

Oh, I want to hear. There is no pain he cannot heal. Then we can go to stand. Come on team. Come on.

Josh sung that yesterday. Was that She didn’t sing that yesterday, did she? Oh, sing that.

Come on, Josh. Sing this song. Glory to his name. Let us not be weary in welloing for in due season you shall reap if you faint not. Don’t faint.

Come on Joshua. There is no pain Jesus can’t feel. There is no hurt. He cannot heal. All things work according to the master’s holy work.

No matter what you’re going through. Remember, God is always using you. For the battle is not yours. It’s the There is no sorrow. Jesus cannot feel, there is no hurt.

He can not heal. For all things are working according to the master’s holy work. No matter what you’re going through. Remember God is always using you for the battle is not yours. is the Lord. It is the Lord.

It’s the Lord. Is the Lord don’t you the Lord? It is the Lord. is the Lord. He is the Lord. No matter what you’re going through, remember God is only using no matter what you’re sowing through.

Remember, God is God is he’s using you. Say, “No matter what, no matter what you’re going through, the Lord wants to use you.” So put on the full armor of Christ. No matter what, no matter what you’re going through, he wants to use you. He wants to use you. So say yes.

Say yes. Yes to his will and to his way. Say yes to his will and his way. Yes. The battle is not yours.

It’s the Lord. The battle is the Lord’s. We’re We’re full of his weaponry. We’re full of his strength. We’re full of his armor, his life.

That’s what wins the battle when we dressed in him every day of our life. If you’re here today and you want to make Jesus the Lord of your life, you want him to be your savior, you want to give your life over to him, just raise your hand so I can see. Is there anybody that says, “I need help.” There’s a hand right there. Is there anybody else say, “I want to give Jesus my life.” Who else is in here that want to give the Lord their life? There’s another one right there.

Is there anybody? That’s two. Who else say I got to give Jesus my life cuz I got to fight these battles and I need his strength. Those of you who raised your hand, please come forth right now. These are two individuals that have come forth wanting to give their life to Jesus today.

If anybody else want to give their life to the Lord, Come on, let’s thank God for them. There’s some more. Look at they’re coming up. They want to give their life to Jesus right now. There’s some I didn’t call for special prayer.

I didn’t call for prayer. I only called for people who want to give their life to Jesus. Only for people who want to give their life to Jesus. We’re going to call There’s another one that’s coming to give their life to Jesus.

Come on, let’s thank God. They’re coming to give their life to the Lord. No, I didn’t call for prayer. I didn’t call for prayer. I will Oh, he’s giving his life to Jesus.

Very good. Thank you. Anybody else that’s given their life to Jesus? Anybody that’s given their life to Jesus, we want to pull you out first. You want to give your life to him.

Let’s thank God for these who have come. Glory to God. And make sure alter team you deal with them accordingly. Everybody else, you want special prayer? Come on.

I need you to come right now at this time. You can come now. Anyone that wants prayer, you’re in a battle. You know that the enemy is trying to destroy your family. You’re you need strength to stand.

Whatever it is, come on up to this altar right now in the name of the Lord. Or it’s on you now. Glory to his name. Come on and get some prayer.

Today is your day. Today is your day. You need to make a commit. You want to join this church. Make sure you let them know.

Anybody here that would like to be a member of this church? Come on up. Say, “I want to join. I want to be a part.” You’ve been moving up. You’ve been off your square.

Then you need to come and say, “I need to be restored to my square.” Come on up here. I got to get back in position. There are some people here that are out of position. God wants to put you back in your position. I want to be close close to your side where heaven is real and death is alive.

I want to hear voices of angels above singing as well. Singing me hallelu. Holy, holy, God almighty, the great I am. Who is worthy? None beside thee.

God Almighty, the great I am. The great I am. I want to be near near to your heart. Loving the world and hating the dark. I want to see dry bones.

Living again. Singing as one. Singing hallelujah. Holy, holy, God almighty. I am the great I am.

Who is worthy? I’m beside thee. God almighty. The great I am. You are the great I am.

You are the great I am. The mountain shake before you. The mountains shake before you. The demons run and flee. At the mention of your name, Kingom Majesty.

There is no power in hell or any who can stand before the power and the presence of great I am. The great I am. The great I am. The great I am. I am.

The great I am. Great I am. The great I am. Hallelujah. Hallelu, holy, holy God almighty, the great I am, who is worthy, none beside thee, God almighty, the great I am.

The great I am. The great I am. I am. Great. I am.

The mountain shake before you. The mountains shake before you. The demons run and the mention of your name. King of majesty. There is no power in hell for any can before the power and the presence of the great I am.

The great I am. The great I am. The great I am. I am. The great I am.

I am. the great I am. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Holy, holy, God almighty. I am the great I am worthy.

God mighty. Great. I am hallelujah. Holy, holy, God almighty. The great I am.

Who is worthy beside me on my great I am. There’s no one like you, Lord. There’s no one like you, Lord. There’s no one like you, Lord. There’s no one like you, Lord.

There’s no one like you, Lord. There’s no one like you, Lord. There’s no one like you, Lord. There’s no one. Say the Lord.

There’s no one like you, Lord. There’s no one like you, Lord. There’s no one like you, Lord. There’s no one like you, Lord. There’s no one like you, Lord.

There’s no one like you, Lord. There’s no one like you, Lord. There’s no one like you, Lord. There’s no one like you, Lord. Lord, there’s no one like you, Lord.

There’s no one like you, Lord. Lord, there’s no one like you, Lord. There’s no one like you, Lord. Lord, there’s no one like you, Lord. Lord, there’s no one like you, Lord.

There’s no one like you, Lord. Like, there’s no one like you, Lord. There’s no one like you, Lord. There’s no one like you, Lord. There’s no one like you, Lord.

There’s no one like you, Lord. There’s no one like you, Lord. There’s no one like you, Lord. There’s no one. Hallelujah.

Holy, holy, God almighty. The great I am. Who is worthy? None beside thee. God almighty.

Great I am. You are the great the great I am. Great. I am the great I am. Great.

I am hallelu. Hallelu. We sing hallelu. Hallelu. You’re worthy.

We sing hallelu. Sing it out. Sing it out. Hallelu. Hallelu.

Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelu to the king of all the heavens and the earth. Halleluah. Hallelu.

Champion. No one can defeat you. Halleluah. Halleluah. We sing.

We sing. Halleluah. Halleluah. Reigning champion. Victory is in your name.

Hallelu. Hallelu. Holy Ghost in the Lord. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. To God.

Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Halleluah. Halleluah. Hallelujah.

Halleluah. Halleluah. Hallelujah. Halleluah. We will fight and we will win.

Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Yes. We will fight and we will win. We say hallelujah.

Hallelujah. Yes. We will fight and we will win. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

Halleluah. Hallelu. Hallelu. Hallelu. Hallelu.

Thank you Jesus. Hallelujah. How many got something out of the word today? And praise the Lord. Hallelujah.

Thank you team. They can continue to pray with everybody else. Thank you. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah.

Well, you see the vein we’re in now. We’re breaking the glass on a new thought. And it has to do with wrestling. I want you to expect not be shocked when you sense a lot of opposition over anything. There’s no sense in getting frustrated.

Just take your position and don’t move. Sometimes you just have to stand. Whatever you do, just don’t move from your position. Don’t make crazy decisions at those times. It’s a wrestling match.

It’s all it is. And if you stand long enough, the enemy will back up. I’ve experienced that. I’ve stood long enough for him to back up.

So, that’s what you have to do. All right. We’re going to receive our offering today. Let’s let’s prepare to give and sew into the kingdom of the Lord. You can use those Q the QR code that is there or you can prepare to bring your offering to the front.

You need envelopes. The ministers are there to assist you. And I’m going to ask uh that you get your giving device out if you’re using that QR code or your envelopes, whatever it is. We want to pray a special prayer over the offering. Special prayer.

Hold those given devices up, please. envelopes up. Father, we honor you today for the privilege to give, to sew. You promised us that the generous hand would be made fat. And we thank you that you’ve given us a mind to believe that the seed that leaves our hand never leaves our leaves our life, but it comes back upon the waters. You taught us if we cast our breads upon the water, it will come back in a few days.

We thank you Lord for reciprocation for streams and cycles of giving and receiving seed time and harvest time. We declare that reality in the life of your people. We command the blessing of the Lord on every gift and every giver in every household in Jesus name.

Amen. You can come from the rear. You can use the QR code at this time. God is fighting for us. God is on our side.

He has overcome. Yes, he has overcome. We will not be shen. We will not be moved. Jesus, you are here.

Say carrying our burdens. Carrying our burdens and covering our He has overcome. He has overcome. Yes, he has overcome. We will not be shen.

We will not be moved. Jesus, you are he. Say I will live. I will live. I will not die.

The resurrection power alive in me. And I am in Jesus name. Oh say carrying our burden covering our shame. He has overcome. He has overcome this.

He has over. We will not be moved. We will not be shen. We will not leave. Jesus, you are here.

Say, I will live. I will live. I will not die. The resurrection power alive in alive in me. And I am free in Jesus name.

On behalf of Bishop Hugh, Pastor Letha, and your Embassy Covenant Church International family, happy birthday to all those born in April. Apologetics training continues. This training will happen weekly on Wednesdays at 700 p.m. It began Wednesday, April 15th and will continue through Wednesday, May 6th. See the midweek email for additional details.

Mother’s Day is Sunday, May 10th, and we are honoring our mothers this year with the honorable Mother’s Day awards. We invite you to join us in honoring your mother by sending in your Mother’s Day tribute. We are asking all who are interested to record themselves on their mobile devices in landscaped or horizontal wishing your mother a happy Mother’s Day. All Mother’s Day tribute videos must be submitted by Monday, May 4th. Then on Mother’s Day, every mother will have an opportunity to take a professional photo here at the church with her family.

So come dressed in your Mother’s Day best. For additional Mother’s Day details, see your midweek email. As we approach Mother’s Day, we recognize that this can be a difficult time for many. On behalf of Bishop Hugh, Pastor Letha, and your Embassy Covenant Church International family, happy birthday to all those born in April. Apologetics training continues.

This training will happen weekly on Wednesdays at 700 p.m. It began Wednesday, April 15th and will continue through Wednesday, May 6th. See the midweek email for additional details. Mother’s Day is Sunday, May 10th, and we are honoring our mothers this year with the honorable Mother’s Day awards. We invite you to join us in honoring your mother by sending in your Mother’s Day tribute.

We are asking all who are interested to record themselves on their mobile devices in landscaped or horizontal wishing your mother a happy Mother’s Day. All Mother’s Day tribute videos must be submitted by Monday, May 4th. Then on Mother’s Day, every mother will have an opportunity to take a professional photo here at the church with her family. So come dressed in your Mother’s Day best. For additional Mother’s Day details, see your midweek email.

As we approach Mother’s Day, we recognize that this can be a difficult time for many. If Mother’s Day brings mixed emotions, you are not alone. We invite you to stop by the hope for hurting hearts table to find thoughtful resources and support for navigating complicated parent relationships, unresolved grief and infertility journeys. Our heart is to walk with you offering hope for the journey and hope for your heart. The men and women in making registration is now open for boys and girls ages 9 to 17.

See the midweek email or scan the QR code to sign up today. Are you interested in serving in the Gifted and Called Academy? Sign up in the midweek email or scan the QR code located on the screen and the Gifted and Called Academy team will reach out to you to get started. Are you interested in serving on the baptism team? Well, you’re in luck.

The baptism team is looking for you. Every role plays an important part in creating a welcoming, smooth, and meaningful experience for those taking the next important step in their faith. See the midweek email or scan the QR code on the screen to sign up today. Embassy’s guest service team is looking for friendly, welcoming, and dedicated members to join our guest services team as ushers. This ministry plays a vital role in creating a warm atmosphere for all who come to worship with us.

No experience is needed. See the midweek email to sign up or see someone at guest services. Thank you for choosing to worship with us. Stay connected with the Embassy Covenant Church family by visiting our website.