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Bishop Hugh Daniel Smith teaching The Sword of the Spirit at Embassy Metro Detroit. Full sermon with transcript.

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I want you to turn in your Bibles if you would uh to the book of Ephesians, chapter number six, and we’re going to make another installment on our series called Spiritual Wrestling. Ephesians chapter 6, beginning at verse number 10.

Please stand with us for the reading of the word. The scripture says, “Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that ye 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 where in high places. We’ve talked about a lot of that.

You all should have a lot of understanding of this this chapter now um because we’ve been here since the beginning. Verse 13 read, “Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all to stand, stand therefore, having your loins girded about with truth.” We did that last week. and having on the breastplate of righteousness a few weeks back and your feet shaw with the preparation of the gospel of peace. We’ve accomplished that one. And above all, what did he say? Taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye may be able to quench how many darts?

All the fiery darts of the wicked. Say all of them. Get that in your spirit. Doesn’t matter what the enemy is shooting at you, you can stop it if we raise the shield of faith. So if stuff is penetrating, you know that it’s an indicator that the shields are not up.

Everybody say shields are up in this time for sure. But we’ve dealt with that. Verse 17 and take the helmet of salvation. We’ve addressed that. And we just have this final well it’s really not the final piece of armor but the second to the last.

He says then what? Take the sword of the spirit which is the word of God. Verse 18. praying always with all prayers and supplications in the spirit and watching there unto with all perseverance and supplications. For some of the saints, all the saints, even the ones you have challenges with or someone may have a challenge with. Verse 19, I want you to see it.

Read. This is important for today’s message. and for me that utterance may be given unto me that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel spiritual wrestling. This is installment seven and we’re going to talk about the sword of the spirit. Thank you, Father. Thank you so much for the power of God unto salvation.

Thank you for believers, people who really believe the gospel, people who believe to the saving of their souls. Thank you for those that are risky in their faith. They’re willing to step out and trust God despite what they see with their eyes. God, I pray your message would penetrate our hearts today in Jesus name. Everybody say amen.

You may be seated. It is wise. It is widely I would say understood among wrestlers and wrestling enthusiasts. We would say that both physical and emotional strength are prerequisites for true effectiveness in this discipline. Physical and emotional strength.

Say it with me. Physical and emotional strength is one of the prerequisites to be a effective wrestler. the ability to apply sustained pressure to the opponent and to endure the sustained pressure that’s being applied against you is one of the foundational uh pieces that makes individuals skillful or successful in this discipline. Those who wrestle must be able to handle pressure. rel the wrestlers who do well, I would say, uh, achieve not because of moments of explosive power and ability, but because of their sustained strength and pressure that they’re able to apply and endure. for and the same principle is true in the arena of spiritual wrestling. Those who are on fire for God in a church momentarily, church service momentarily rarely are able to bring God’s will to the earth and do great exploits. Their fire is temporary and they’re encouraged by a church service.

But those who only are temporarily excited about the things of God rarely get to the end that they are after. It requires everybody say sustained power. I’ve learned that sustainability or the or or the grace of consistency can reshape a society if we can just stick with something long enough. A rock dropping or not a rock but a piece of a drop of water on a solid rock over time can reshape its constitution uh because of consistency. So so the battle is not always given to the strong and the race is not always given to the swift but it is to those that have the ability to do what? endure to the end.

This is why the Apostle Paul say that we must endure hardness as a good soldier. So part of wrestling is the ability to sustain what it is you’re doing long enough in order to get that victory that’s in your heart. Um, the Grand Canyon was shaped by the Colorado River flowing over thousands of years producing that kind of cavity in the earth.

And so it doesn’t take um, I guess a lot of uh, strength. It does take strength, but it takes consistent strength. And that’s where that’s what separates I would say as we would say the men from the boys. That’s what separates the the skilled or the victors from those who are almost there. And I’m just confident today that God wants us to receive that kind of strength today.

Many many uh believers are like right on the brink of so many things and sometimes they come up short because they give up too soon. They just simply give up too soon. The scripture says, “Let us not be weary in welloing, for in due season you’re going to do what? Reap.” And here it is, “If.” Everybody say, “If.” If you fate not. So part of the whole wrestling opposition is to get people to quit.

It’s designed to repel upward mobility and forward progress. That’s what it’s designed for. So whatever the devil is trying to do in your life, he’s trying to stop you from uh the position that God has given you.

And so I want to talk today about sustainability just for a moment. That’s my first point. I want to deal with the strength that God wants to come on your life right now. And if you’re willing to receive it, you can have it. strength. The kind of strength that gives you the ability to sustain over a period of time comes from a knowledge and a dependency on the pre-existing Christ.

Now, you may not know what that mean, but I just said a mouthful. The strength that will cause you to persevere until God’s will is done in your life comes from a knowledge and dependency on the pre-existed Christ. So Christ existed before the world was.

Amen. Amen. And the scriptures let us know that we were chosen in him before the foundation of the world. So everything that was in him before the foundation of the world is what we’ve been calling ontological reality. What we mean by that simply is it’s a reality.

Ant ontology deals with things that exist. So it’s a reality that exists in God. It’s not just the blueprint. Some people say it’s the blueprint. Well, a blueprint sounds like it’s a it’s a delineation or a sketch of something that we want to see happen.

But I need you to know that it is reality. Say it is reality. Whatever exists in him before the foundation of the world is it exists because go because God lives outside of time. Thus things that exist in him are more real than the things that exist in time because what happens in time uh can can vary can change and uh is often times uh temporal but what happens in eternity is forever. So if something exists in Christ before the world was it is a permanent fixture.

Do you all hear what I’m saying? So when I get knowledge of what what the permanent fixtures are or the onlogical realities are and I start depending upon them then strength will come to my life in time. Is anybody hearing what I’m saying? So so so some of those onlogical some of those realities we’ve learned. The Bible says we are chosen in him when before the foundation of the world.

Before you were born, you existed in him and you were chosen. Let’s just look at a few of these. Put it up on the screen. Ephesians chapter 1. Take that take our time today and and look at a few verses.

Ephesians 1 and verse three. What does it say? Read everybody. Blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us. with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places.

So, so we were blessed in him when before the foundation of the world. These things were done before he created the earth. Read verse four. According as he has chosen us in him for the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in.

So, guess what? You are already holy. You are already without blame and you are already in love because that was done when that’s what we call ontological realities. They exist in him. We’ve talked about existential realities.

These are things that we are these this is our experiential life. So in our experience, we may not be uh uh um we may not be entertaining these things in our experience, but in Christ, they’re already done. Can you see the distinction that we’re trying to make? Verse number five, read. What does it say? having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself according to the good pleasure of his will.

Notice this. We were predestined to be what? Adopted. Say we’re already adopted. Already.

Verse six. To the praise of the glory of his present wherein he hath made us. Say we’re accepted into be loved. Are we accepted right now? Absolutely.

It doesn’t matter what we feel like in time. It is a done deal. Verse seven, read, “In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sin according to the riches of his grace.” When do we have redemption? Already, it’s already done. Verse eight, read, “Wherein he has abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence.” So, what do we have abounding toward us?

So all wisdom and prudence is abounding toward us now. It was done before the world was. Having made known unto us the mystery of his will according to the good pleasure which he has purposed in himself. Verse 10. That in the dispensation of the fullness of time, he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are in earth and in him.

So the the body of Christ according to the this text and other scriptures is already unified. He has gathered everything together in him to be one. Is the body of Christ unified today? In Christ it is right.

But in reality in time here it is. They said one of the most segregated hours period is 11:00 on a Sunday. That’s what some say. They used to say that at least. Uh, so it the church still has divisions in time but not in Christ.

So we’re dealing with this tension, this duality, things that are done in Christ versus things that we’re experiencing in time. Verse 11 read, “In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of his will, who workketh all things after the coun the counsel of his own will.” So we’ve been predestinated according to the purpose of his will. So everybody is in his purpose right now in time or eternity. In eternity. That’s what I need you to see.

In Christ verse I’m almost done. I just want you to see it yourself. Verse 12, everybody. That we should be for the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ, in whom ye also trusted after that you heard the word of the truth of the gospel of salvation, in whom also after that you believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchase process unto the praise of his glory. Then he goes on and he talks about other things.

But I need you to note that there there’s another verse that even says we uh are for ordained to do good works. So everything that God intended for us to do in Christ is already already done. This insight you must get in your spirit man. Because the more you trust in what’s done in Christ or as we trust in the things that are done in Christ, it gives us strength in time to manifest those things. And this is where the strength to wrestle comes from.

It doesn’t come from a a desire just to see it happen. It comes from a belief that is already done. If I think I have to make it happen, I may tire and lose confidence.

But if I know it’s already done, I simply keep wrestling until it’s revealed. Somebody say, “Amen.” And this gives the believer strength to wrestle. Ordination first in infers the ideal of pre-ordination. I can’t ordain someone to preach in the earth unless they were pre-ordained to preach from the heavens. Are you hearing me?

So ordination is nothing but acknowledging on earth what God has already done in the heavens. I can’t become an apostle on earth or a prophet on earth unless that was what he ordained in the heavens. And if you are dangerous in the heavens, then somebody should recognize it in the earth and acknowledge it here. And the moment we come into an alignment, there it is. Everybody say alignment.

That’s when the power hits you. Did you know power hits your life when we come into an alignment with the pre-ordained plan? It makes no sense to be on earth praying for power. Lord, give me power. Align for power.

Everything that we’re going to do is already done. The strength to do it is alignment. The strength to do it is agreement. And unfortunately, many people have not believed in the pre-existing Christ or depend upon that. They hear what God wants and try to carry it out in their own strength.

But our own strength cannot create kingdom reality. At some point we weary. We get weary. We tire. At some point we give up.

But the moment you say I’m not wrestling for victory. I’m wrestling from victory. I am not trying to create something. I’m trying to reveal something. I am not trying to do something that has never been done before.

I’m trying to show the world what’s already done in Christ Jesus. And that way you will not take glory for yourself. People who steal God’s glory think they made it happen and they’re ignorant of what God originally intended to take place.

But when you know God has already done something and you just finally reveal it in time, you say, “To God be the glory for the things that he has done.” Nothing can burn you out because it’s already done. You just got to hang in there and wrestle long enough before the revelation hits the earth. And you know what the Holy Ghost told me? He told me that there are some big things that are already done in the heavens that some of you are getting ready to get strength to manifest in the earth. If you look at it by yourself, you’ll say, “God, I can’t do that.” But if you look up and see it already done and you come into an agreement, supernatural strength comes on you to manifest and reveal big things in the earth.

That’s what I heard the Holy Ghost say. There’s some big things that somebody has in their mailbox in the heavens that you got to manifest in the earth. Don’t you listen to people tell you what cannot happen. You keep your eyes on God and say, “It already happened. I’m just here to manifest the will of God on the earth.” Does anybody hear what we’re saying today?

This is what gives us strength to wrestle and to continue to apply the pressure and to endure the pressure being applied against us because we know it’s already done where in Christ Jesus. I’m already blessed. I just have to align with the blessing that’s already there. I’m already healed. That’s a big one.

I just have to align. Then the strength comes. Strength comes when you align. And this is why Jesus says, “Repent for the kingdom of God is at hand.” Change your mind, change your heart, and come into an agreement with the things of God. Then they will be manifest in your life.

And so I need you to expect strength to come upon you right now. The ability to be consistent, the ability to sustain and to persevere over a long period of time. I need you to come into an agreement with that because there’s a lot of people that say, “I’m just so inconsistent. They think they’re just so undisiplined.” But the truth is they’re just out of alignment. Glory to God.

You’re not undisiplined. You’re out of alignment is what you are. But if you ever come back into an alignment with God, the strength comes on you to stand. Glory to God. And to be consistent in the things of the Lord.

I’m declaring a disciplined people in this hour. I’m declaring a steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord because we know our labor is not in vain in the Lord. Devil, you can’t tire me out. I ain’t about to faint because it’s already done. You going to faint before I do cuz you know what’s up there too.

Glory to God. You afraid of Jesus too. This is about revealing Jesus. This is about the revelation of Jesus through our life. When you get a hold of that revelation, a hold of that truth, you will you will know how to pull on strength every day of your life.

That’s how that’s how I live. It’s already done. I said, “Lord, strengthen me.” He said, “Well, you you align then.” I said, “Okay, yes, sir.” And he’ll always show you something that’s out of alignment because his goal is to strengthen.

And so, we can’t be afraid of correction because correction is meant to align us to the will of God. And so I’m declaring stability, consistency, stamina, all of that stuff on the lives of God’s people. If if if the marriage was made in heaven, all I mean is if it’s the will of the Lord. And when you made those vows, you made it the will of the Lord. If the marriage is made in heaven and is already done in Christ Jesus, that union, that relationship, whatever it is, that business, that ministry, whatever it is, if it’s done, all you have to do is agree with it and God will strengthen you to make it happen in the earth realm.

And the devil fights everything that’s done in the heavens. You know why? Because he knows if they ever manifested in the earth, he’s done. Because the manifestation of the Lord destroys the works of the devil. You think the battle is against you?

No. He’s trying to stop Jesus from being revealed in the earth through his people because revelation destroys the devil. So he says, “No, keep it up in the heavens. Don’t ever let them come into an agreement on the earth realm because it’ll destroy what I’m doing.” And so he’s fighting you to prevent manifestation from taking place in your life.

But somebody’s got to say, “I’m going to wrestle. I’m going to wrestle. I’m going to wrestle. I’m going to wrestle. I don’t care how long it takes.

It’s already done. I put on my strength. When Zion put on her strength, when she travailed, that’s when she brought forth. Some people are right there. You just ain’t strong enough.

You’re in your head. You’re saying you’re tired. STOP IT. STOP IT. Trust GOD.

Lean on him and say, “It’s already done. Give me some more strength. Give me some more strength. Give me some more strength. I can do all things through Christ that strengthens me.

Through Christ is through dependency on him. Be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might. None of the strength is ours. IT’S All His Strength. So everybody can qualify Let the weak say.

You see, everybody can align with this if they’re willing to have confidence in the preexistent Christ and depend on him, strength comes. And this is why devotional life is important because when you worship him, you get revelation on what’s done. This is why it’s important to praise. Say, why y’all spend a whole hour praising that at the beginning of the top of the service? Because we’re tapping into the ontological realities of the Lord.

And that stuff gives me strength. Glory to God. The more you believe it, the more it happens in your life. Don’t praise open you up to believe what God has already done? It does.

So you have to have a devotional life. And so that’s my first point. Sustainability. We have to sustain what we’re doing in order to see the will of the Lord come to pass. We’re taking authority and we’re breaking inconsistency over our life.

We’re not going to start and stop, begin a new and change our mind in a week. No, no, no. That’s not our portion. Say, “That’s not my portion.” Thought I’m consistent. All right.

I want you to look at it. The text now and uh we’re going to make two more points. So, we’re going to be done for today. Um this particular text starting at verse number 10 again. Let’s go there.

Uh Ephesians 6 and 10. He says, “Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might.” Then he tells us to do what? Put on whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the ws of the devil. So the truth is if we get the armor on, we can stand. So there in his mind, there’s no reason for us falling unto him that is able to keep you from falling and present you spotless.

How does he do it? by us putting on the armor and trusting in Christ. Verse 12 tells us who we wrestle uh not against and who we wrestle against. Verse 13 read, “Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God that you may be able to withstand in the evil day.” And having done all, what does he tell us to do? Tells us to stand. Then he gives us the armor.

He gives us the pieces of armor that we must have on. And we take it all the way down to verse 17. Verse 17, I want you to see the piece of armor we’re going to focus on today. Read everybody. He says, “And take the helmet of salvation and sword of the spirit, which is the word of the Lord.” Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the spirit.

So my next point, I want to talk about the sword of the spirit. I want you to see this particular uh piece of equipment that the Lord has given us in order to win. What is these? What is this armor for? So we can stand and win these battles.

God intends for us to win. Get it in your spirit. Shout, “We’re winners.” No losing here. We’re winners in him. I never could understand believers who have a a loser mentality.

That’s not my message. So I’m going to keep going. But I didn’t understand that because everything about God is triumph. We are always triumphant in Christ Jesus. in everything. If he tells you to do it, he expects you to win at what you do for him.

And so verse number uh so the scripture tells verse 17 tells us that there is a sword of the spirit. There is a sword of the spirit and and uh which is the word of the lord. The text goes on to say this uh sword of the spirit. The the word there means the sword of the spirit. It means uh which is the word of God.

The word word there means rama which is the rama of god. So the sword of the spirit is something that god puts in your mouth. Something that god puts in your mouth. Remember in the book of revelations it says that out of his mouth came a two-edged sword. So God, while you’re in the middle of the battle, you’re in the middle of fighting against the opposition and you’re trying to conquer and do his will.

In the middle of the battle, he’ll put a sword in your mouth. And you got to be ready for it. You got to be ready for it. And it is a Rama word. Not the logos, but Rama.

Rama means it is a governmental word. It is it is a a a a word that represents heaven’s position. It’s a governmental word for something in the moment. It’s a governmental word for something that’s going to happen right now. In other words, it’s a word intended to shift what’s going on.

Every now and then you’re in the battle and it looks like all hope is lost and God will put a rama in your mouth and one rama will shift everything. Everything in the battle changes because someone spoke the right word, but it was a governmental word. Now, there’s a difference between casual conversation and governmental conversation. God’s getting ready to get put a God’s going to put some discipline in our speech right now. That’s what’s getting ready to happen because some people are losing battles because of your casual conversation.

You You haven’t learned the difference between governmental speech and casual conversation. And casual conversation will cause you to lose spiritual battles and mess up your whole future and present because you talk too much and you talk too careless and you don’t understand the power of your speech. But before we’re done today, God is getting ready to show us the difference between governmental speech and casual speech. One is the sword of the spirit. The other is opinions of man.

And the opinions of man cannot shift your situation. It’s only a governmental word that will shift your situation. There’s a Rama about to hit your life and you getting ready to shift something by what comes out of your mouth. Oh, I feel the Holy Ghost right there. You’re going to shift something governmental.

I need you to see it. It’s called Rama. It’s really It’s called Rama. So So what do we mean? President Trump can can uh talk as a private citizen on the golf course with his buddies or cronies.

He can do that if he desires and he can say what he wants to say and it has no national impact whatsoever. But when he steps into his role as presidency, whatever he utters impacts everything. What he says will cause the markets to change. the markets start falling because President Trump said this. What he said will cause the military to start moving a certain way, will cause ambassadors to respond, countries will begin to respond differently based on what he says because what comes out of his mouth in official capacity uh actually is representing the United States of America and that’s what you would call governmental speech.

And so there is a difference. Not only that, uh if you’ve ever been to a courtroom and you’ve listened to a judge uh uh render a verdict that that the judge can sit there and listen to the defense present their case and listen to the prosecutor present the case. Then the judge can give uh can rehearse it all, give remarks and opinions about what he or she has heard and and what and and can even give opinion and cite the law and all of that.

But all of that is just talk at that point. But when the judge gets to the place where he or she says uh uh how does this so uh I can’t even think of the terminology right now. Oh yeah, the verdict. If the judge gets to the place where say I find the defendant guilty or not guilty, it it leaves at that po that point uh casual conversation. And now this judge is representing an official position that immediately shifts the reality of the people that are standing before her or the person standing before her or him.

Whatever comes out of the judge’s mouth will shift that person’s reality because what’s invested in the judge. So the judge knows the difference between the rehearsing of what’s going on in the trial and giving opinions and and cursory comments versus the official verdict. God’s about to put an official verdict in your mouth is what I’m trying to say. You’re going to be in the middle of a battle and you can be talking casual. Who’s this her house?

Why God let me go through this? Ooh, this has been long. But at some point, you got to get a sword in your mouth. And you got to say whatever he said about the situation that’ll cause a shift to take place. Ooh, it’s getting ready to happen for somebody in just a moment.

The reason that some of you are in that thing so long is because you don’t have a word, a Rama word in your mouth. You’ve never picked up the sword of the spirit. You haven’t used the weaponry that God has given you. Watch. Watch.

I’m going to give you an example of how this works in real time and and and probably the first layer of what God intended in the text. Satan has become a master at narrative crafting and making. He’s all about narratives. He’ll spin a story and he’ll say it means this. He’ll change the narrative.

Whenever a believer is uh feels has emotional what we call it emotional disturbance in their life, it’s an indicator that you’re in a wrestling match. When your emotions are disturbed in a great way, something’s close to you. Proximity uh you feel something. What are your emotions? Your emotions have to do with your internal uh reaction patterns to things that happen to you. you internally react to them.

Something happens and you can say I’m angry. Something happens and you can say I’m grieved. Something happened and you can say I’m sad. Something happens you can say I’m happy.

But you’re internally reacting to something that has touched you. That’s how you know it’s close to you because however you internally react then it affects your body as well. Your body may tense up. Your body energy shifts as soon as your emotional reaction takes place. Your body energy can tense up.

Your eyes can dilate. Uh your hand your hands can sweat. Your body uh tells the story of your emotional reactions all the time. You can be looking at somebody and they’re they’re gritting their teeth. They say, “You mad?” “No, I ain’t mad.” For your body is telling us something’s wrong with you.

You’re lying to yourself. You’re out of touch with your own emotions. Because the body always tells the story. The body reveals the emotional state. of people.

And so the enemy comes in this way. Anytime you feel something, you know it’s close enough. That’s what I’m trying to get you to see. If you can feel it, you’re wrestling. If you can feel it in your body, it’s right in your face.

And that means you better get a word in your mouth. You better get ready to strike. It’s right in your face. If you don’t do nothing, it’ll destroy you. Are you hearing me?

So, anybody having emotional reactions constantly? You’re always in a battle wrestling. And the enemy knows he can wrestle you down, especially if you won’t fight back.

But you got to learn how to fight back. You can’t just be walking around angry, walking around sad, walking around dejected, walking around in despair. You’re in a wrestling match. You’re supposed to be taking a stand against something. Ooh, glory to his name.

And so, and so, how do you take your stance? What do you do at that moment? You have to recognize the devil tries to give you a narrative. The reason that the person turned away from you and you reacted this way is because they rejected you and they don’t like you and and uh and you’re not worthy to be in their company and they think they’re better than you. the devil gives you a narrative. And I’m just hypothetically speaking.

And and then if you buy that lie, then it’s going to cause your body to react a certain way and then you may make decisions based on the meaning he gave you for that experience. But you got to say, “I need a sword of the spirit in my mouth.” Because God will say, “No, no, no. Here’s a rama. the reason that they rejected you and walked away from you because I turned their hearts away from you because I separate the godly unto myself. I’m trying to get you away from people so I can put something in you and give you a new commission in your life. That’s the real reason it has happened.

Then that’ll become your sword and you’ll take that and cut the lie. You’ll take that and overcome the lie. You’ll take that and stab the devil and he’ll get back off of you because you’ve got truth in your spirit. Anybody see what I’m saying there? Every time.

And somebody turn the air on. This is getting cold in here. Yeah. Come on y’all. Come on now.

I’m feeling up here. Every time. Every time you go through something, you have to watch its narrative. And if the narrative is wrong, everything after that’s wrong and the decisions are wrong that follow bad narrative. And that means there was no sword of the spirit.

You’re in a wrestling match, but you refuse to use the sword. But if we get the sword, it’s going to correct narrative. That’s what I’m trying to get you to see. The sword of the spirit will always correct the narratives of your life. God will reframe your experiences through his intent.

And that truth will destroy what Satan was trying to do in your life. Everybody say Rama word. That’s an official word from God as to the cause of your experience. So your emotional reaction could have he doesn’t mind you reacting emotionally. He just wants you to know why the stuff is happening.

Because if you attribute negativity to it, it can mess up your life. Do you know how many people in the room right now and watching by live stream who have the wrong definitions to the experiences that they’ve had in their life? wrong narratives, wrong ideas about why daddy did what he did, why mama didn’t do what she did, and why this happened to me and that. Didn’t know what God thought and what God’s mindset, meaning no sword of the spirit. And they made decisions based on that stuff. And their life has been crippled because of that.

But God says something’s about to shift in my life. You know why it’s going to shift? Because now you know about the sword of the spirit. You’re getting ready to get Rama in your life to reframe. You’re going to go back and over some battles you lost and you’re going to say, “Come on, bring that battle back up again.

I’m going all the way in my past and I’mma reframe my childhood. I’mma reframe my adolescent. I’m going to reframe my teenage years. I’mma reframe my young adult years. Come on.

I’mma reframe my middleage years. I’mma reframe my old age. Come on. And I’ll talk about prophesying about my future.” Devil, the lie has to drop in this place right now. The sword of the spirit destroys the lies that you believed in your life.

The sword of the spirit destroys the lies that we’ve believed in our life. And so God is going to use a sword in the battle to overcome the enemies that we are facing. Say amen right there. Let’s clap our hands for victory. Ah, do you feel that victory in your spirit, man?

Come on, let’s clap our hands a little longer for victory. Yes, cuz do you know how many defeats have come because of the lie? It is the truth that makes us free. Woo! The devil has to ride in your life on a lie.

Every time he comes, it has to be a lie. Every time he strikes a blow, it has to be a lie. So all you need to do is say, “The truth is, devil, that you, they meant it for evil, but God meant it for good.” And when I get that truth, he’s done. He’s done. He’s done.

He’s done. The sword of the spirit is meant to end the battle. Hey this best see God will let you battle with something a long time then he’ll say let me put Rama in their mouth let’s end this battle and you get that Rama that trial ends right there if you’ve been in a trial too long you need to end that trial at some point the power of life and death are in the tongue so we’re talking about an anointed speech it’s anointed speech speech that God gives you. Notice it’s the sword of the spirit. You can’t produce the word.

It’s not the sword of the mind. It’s not the sword of your understanding. It’s got to come out of heaven in that moment. It’s the sword of the spirit. And if I don’t have the sword of the spirit, I can’t end that battle.

And many people have fought their battles with the sword of the mind or they use the logo. The logos, the logos means the the the body of truth. But the Rama is pulling from the body of truth what you need right now to end the battle and to change stuff in your life.

And so God is cleansing us from lies right now because did you know that words carry energy? Thought carries energy. Words carry spirit. Thought carry spirit. And if you’re entertaining the wrong thoughts and the wrong words, you’re carrying the wrong energy and the wrong spirits.

And that’s the stuff that stops you and makes you heavy or makes me heavy. And you’re battling with all day long because of the words that are around us. This thing is a word battle. It’s a battle against what God said versus what the devil said. Satan was able to trick onethird of the angels out of heaven by lying to them.

They believed his thought. They believed his word and it cut them out of their inheritance. He This is what he does. He always changes the narrative. He also went to Adam and Eve with the same stuff.

He said, “Listen, God is not the reason why you can’t eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil because God don’t want you to have this knowledge. You liar.” He wants them to see God in a different light. That’s how the devil’s at work. That’s how he destroys families, destroys relationship. He whispers in people’s ears and say, “You know why they said that, don’t you?” And he gives them a lie.

And if you believe the lie, you walk away from your friend. You walk away from your mother. You walk away from your spouse. You’ll walk away from everything because you believed the lie. The devil’s always whispering between people trying to sow division.

This is why God hates those that sow division against the brother who if you sow division, you’re acting like the devil because that’s his that’s his way. He sws division. He wants to paint me in a bad light. He’ll get you out of the church and say, “Bishop Smith, you know, he think he this, he think he that.” The devil is a liar.

But if you walk away and believe it and don’t pull your sword out, say, “God, what did you say about him?” And Fight That stuff back. He’ll drive you out of your church. He’ll drive you out of your family.

But you better not let that devil drive you away from your inheritance and the things of God over a lie. He’s the father of lies. He cannot tell the truth. Some of you are at odds with people because you believe the wrong stuff about them. That’s just the flatout truth.

You believe the lie. And the Lord has mercy when he said, “Let me give him my sword.” The sword of the spirit is his word. It’s his. It’s the word of God. God’s narrative.

And when that thing is in your mouth and you speak it, it works as if God has spoken. It changes everything like a judge is speaking. It’s a governmental official word that rocks the world. Everybody has to listen to governmental official words. Even if it’s in your mouth.

And so God’s letting a fire hit your mouth right now. He wants to sanctify your tongue. Oh, that’s why on the day of Pentecost, he set upon them with fiery tongues, tongues of fire. He had to sanctify them from all that casual gibberish. All that funny talk, all that foolish talk.

Woman, man, you talk too foolish. You got to say, I am a government official of the kingdom of God. There is private speech.

But I know when to shift into governmental speech in order to change what’s going on in my life. And God is calling for many of us to shift in this season to change the stuff around you. Hallelujah. Lift those hands to him right there. Ask God to sanctify your tongue.

Come on. He’s cleansing our tongue. He’s cleansing our tongue. You can’t say what you want to say. You can’t.

You just can’t. I don’t care what you think about them. You can’t say it. Because once you defile your tongue, God thinks twice about giving you a governmental word because you can’t be trusted. Your mouth is too raggedy and undisiplined.

He says, “I can’t trust you. I got to find somebody to speak for you because you going to mess it up every time because you’re too casual. Too Casual. THIS IS The Kingdom. THIS IS The Government OF GOD.

Can’t be casual with your speech.” Somebody said you said or opinions, casual stuff that don’t that’s not courtroom stuff. So there’s a cleansing happening right now. It’ll save your marriage. Trust me, it’ll save your relationships. It’ll save most of if you trace most of uh divisions and discrepancies, it came from what somebody said based on what they thought.

And most of the time people are wrong. Or they may be 50% right, 60% right. They got something right, but the little you have wrong changes everything. I’m almost done. I’m almost Is it good?

Really? Is it? The sword of the spirit is not a long sword, saints. People perceive it as one of those swords like the one I have in my office. It’s not a long sword.

The word here means a dagger. It’s a short knife, meaning you clo you too close to me for me to pull out the long sword. But this is the one when we wrestling together and I go right in your side. This is the one that go right there. You got to be up close and wrestling in order to overcome this thing.

It’s a rama for a short battle. That means you in the thick of it. It’s right when you in the midst OF Your Fight. GOD Says, “Take my sword.” In the midst of your struggle, he wants to give you arraignment. That means you can’t be in the flesh while you’re fighting.

You got to always be listening to God. God, I’m fighting here to try to reveal this stuff. You going, you going to help me? He says, “Yeah, take my sword.” And if you speak it at the appropriate time, cuz it’s a Raymond word for right now. You can’t be like, I’ll say it later.

It’s for this moment. I’ll wait till Sunday. It’s too late. It’s for Thursday at 3:00 when you were in the when you were emotionally tripping. It’s for Saturday at noon when you were emotionally down.

That’s the time you were supposed to stick. Do you see it’s Monday at your cubicle when somebody said the wrong thing and your emotions went crazy and you start feeling a certain kind of way. That’s the time you should have stuck. Instead, you went casual and started saying a bunch of stupid stuff and lost your job. Are you hearing me?

Come on, somebody. We got to use governmental power. Disciplined speech will determine the success of the kingdom in this time. We must be precise precision. We have to have measured speech and weighed speech in this day.

In order to be effective in the kingdom of God, God says, “I want to trust you with a sword, but you’re going to have to be measured and weighed before I turn it over to you. And so the cleansing is happening right now. Didn’t you pray for your tongue yet? Cuz the tongue is a little member and it boasts great things and it can turn the whole body and the Bible says it can set on fire the course of in other words the tongue will activate all kind of things in your life both good or bad. All the stuff you see happen was activated by somebody’s tongue.

That’s why cloven tongues meaning wise tongues, the tongue of the learned, you must have that today. Pray for it. Believe God. He didn’t say, “Lord, give me intelligence.” He wanted a sword of the spirit.

And so that’s my second point. The sword of the spirit. Are you with me? All right. My final point before we stop today and pray is utterance.

Utterance. Utterance. Utterance. And I want you to go back to the text and look at verse 18. What does it say?

Read everybody. Verse 18. Put it up there, please. It says, “Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the spirit, watching there unto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints.” Now watch verse 19. And then he says, he tell them to pray, right?

Then he says, “Pray for me too.” What does he wants them to pray for? and pray for me that what utterance may be given unto me that I may open my mouth boldly to make known what what is he really saying? He says pray for me that I may have official speech and be able to say some things from this gospel that shifts people’s reality. This is the apostle Paul saying this. This means that if he had to ask them to pray for him, it is not automatic. One has to earn the right to speak from the for the government just because we’re saved.

There are certain things that some people can speak is classified, other things that other people can speak because they have a different classified level. So he says, “Pray for me that God,” there’s another place where he says, “Pray that God would open a door of utterance.” In another text, he says that, and this is my new prayer, because I’ve learned that there are times when God will just open up a door of utterance, and you’ll say some things that you didn’t intend to say in a moment, and it’ll shift somebody’s life. I’ve literally done that. I’ve spoken things that have shifted people’s lives. I’ve spoken to that have shifted my own life, but it wasn’t pre-recorded.

It wasn’t pre-planned. It was a door of it just came from him. And so, it’s something that we must commit to prayer. Pray that God would open a door of utterance for me that I may speak some things that I need to say. Have you ever seen somebody when they were angry and when they were full of emotions and and the devil got in them and they said some things they didn’t intend to say and they said something that really hurt and we called them low blows.

The dark saints came out. Well, just as that can happen on the dark side, it is also possible to be in an atmosphere where God opens a door of utterance and his very words come out of your mouth. The same words that created the heavens and the earth, the same words that called Lazarus forth. The same words that put the stars in the sky will come out of your mouth in a moment. It’ll be like a dagger to whatever the devil was doing and it’ll shift your life.

It’ll be words that will change your circumstances. But we must commit them to prayer. He says, “Don’t pray that I have intelligence.” He wanted that. Don’t pray for courage. Don’t even pray for a great vocabulary.

He says, “Give me a door of cuz great vocabulary can’t make this happen. And courage can’t make this happen. And intelligence can’t make this happen.” Though we need that all of that.

But there’s a level above your intelligence. There are problems that that persist and schooling and intelligence can’t touch it. But the right word from heaven can. And we’re entering into a space, ladies and gentlemen, where we need those right words. Cuz you know what happens when you speak those right words?

It shifts. And then you not only destroy the devil in front of your face, but you also cause a surge to take place in your life. When you start speaking the right words, your life will surge forward and you’ll start manifesting more things that are already done. What What are those words? You’re speaking the things that are already done in the heavens with detail.

You’re speaking the things that are in Christ that are already here. And God has given you words that will cause your life and other people’s lives to surge. And if you have an undisiplined tongue and you can’t get it together, then you need to pray for me so I can speak over your life. Or you need to pray for your mother. Pray for your father.

Pray for your friend. Say, “I can’t get my tongue together, but will you dedicate your tongue to the Lord so you can speak something over my life?” That’s what Paul is really saying. I’m going to say something to you all that y’all won’t say for yourself because you’re too undisiplined.

But I’m willing to discipline my tongue to the degree where God will let me talk to the church at Ephesus and shift the whole church. That’s why you pray for some people. Find a prophet and say, “Will you dedicate your mouth to the Lord and quit talking about people?” Every time somebody talks to you about somebody else, say, “Dedicate your mouth and quit talking about people because I might need God to give you a sword for my life. Quit.” We need to tell all the things, “Stop it. Stop it.

STOP IT. STOP IT. STOP IT. Because You are no longer dedicated and God can’t use you with the sword of the spirit to affect the lives of your brothers and your sisters. Paul says, “Pray for me so I can speak these things.” He not talking about just preaching the gospel.

He’s talking about speaking officially to shift people’s lives because of the gospel. That’s what I hear God saying he wants to do. He wants to just get you completely out of a space where you are and put you in another space all together. You’ve walked around this mountain too many times. It’s time to shift a whole lot of stuff.

You’ve been in this space too long. It’s time. All you need is somebody to say it. All you need is somebody to give you the right rama and I promise you your life is going to shift. I remember when I was a young uh student in college, I I had quit school uh because of ran out of money.

It’s the truth. And and I quit school and I was at a place and I ran into Bishop James E. Tyson. And he looked at me and he said, “Son,” I said, “Yes, sir.” He said, “When you going to finish what you started?” That’s all he said.

But those words were rama. They were official words. and they grabbed my heart and moved me and I and I I went back to school because of those words when you’re gonna finish what you started. You don’t have to say a whole lot to people. All you need to do is be official. All you need to do is be official.

It’s not no long drawn out conversation. Just official words. They have life. They activate. They make things happen.

It’s more than prophetic. They’re they’re kingdom words that activate kingdom reality in people. The day the Lord saved me. I don’t know what the preacher said, but one sentence. He says, “You don’t have to be a slave to sin.” Official words.

Official words. Oh, you telling me. Uh, so he he announced before me that I didn’t have to be in bondage. Those words drew me out of darkness into his marvelous light. And I just want to declare somebody, you don’t have to stay bound forever.

You really don’t. You don’t have to stay under the devil’s thumb forever. And you don’t have to stay traveling around that mountain in a mundane light forever. You can shoot forward. All you need is to trust God to give you a Rama word.

And so pray for a door of utterance. Come on, let’s pray a few minutes right now. Pray for a door of utterance. Pray. Say, “Lord, give me a door of utterance.

Give somebody around me a door of utterance.” People talking all this stuff, just junk. I’m sick of junk talk. I want to hear from the sword. All right.

Now, watch. In my closing, in my closing, I want you to see, you have to qualify for this. It’s official speech. Revelations 5 and1. What does it say?

Revelations 5 and1. And we’re just about done. 5 and1. He says, “And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within.” Come on, read. And on the back side. So this book was what?

Everybody say it was sealed with seven seals. Meaning they couldn’t read it. If it’s sealed, it’s not open to them. Read. And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, who is?

So you can’t open certain seals unless you worthy. Who is worthy to open the book and loose the seals? What are the seals? The purposes of God. There are purposes sealed up over families.

Purposes sealed up over people’s lives. But who’s worthy to open the seal of the purpose of your life? Next verse. No man in heaven nor in earth neither under the earth was able to open the book neither they couldn’t even look on this book read and I wept much you know the time to weep when purpose is locked up when there are no daggers there was a time when Israel didn’t have I think they only had two swords in the land when there’s no swords you lose battles you We have on all the weaponry, but we don’t have a sword, you lose a lot of battles. No sword, you lose battles.

No swords, you lose battles. You have to have swords to win. I wept much, not just a little. I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon. Read.

One of the elders said unto me, weep not. Behold, the lion from the tribe of Judah, the root of David, has prevailed to open the book and to loose the seven seals. So all the seals, not only those seven, all of them have been loosed by Jesus. They’re all loose. So that means they are available to us.

Everything he purposes is available to his church. But here’s the caveat. The caveat is someone in your circle has to be worthy. Maybe the word is not worthy. Faithful enough.

Let’s use the term faithful since he’s worthy. Have to be faithful enough to be the steward of that mystery. Somebody’s got to be faithful enough or God will let it stay in the heavens until somebody’s worthy to speak in that way. I’m going to show it to you. Remember the apostle Paul on one occasion he said he said I’m I think it was Corinthians chapter 7 2 Corinthians he was talking about marriage and divorce and all that stuff and he said this is uh me not the lord so he was making a distinction between official speech and his opinion knowing that there’s a distinction some things I say it’s me some things are official you have to know the difference when you’re talking but then he also said in 1 Corinthians chapter 4:1 and we’re just about done.

What did he say? Let a man so account of us as of the what? Ministers of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. Next verse. Moreover, it is required in stewards that a man be found faithful.

Paul even said another place, you pass the gospel unto faithful men. When people are unfaithful, they’re not trusted with the sword and they can’t speak. They continue in their carnality and their casual talk and lose battles.

But the Lord said in this season, he’s raising up faithful people. And many of you are faithful. And he’s getting ready to entrust in your life the ability to speak cuz we’ve been praying for you to rise. One person to a family. If you just get one person in the family who can talk like this, it’ll change the whole family.

All you need is one person in the group who will dedicate their tongue to be the voice. I want you to stand right there. Glory to his name. Glory to his name. Glory to his name.

I want you to see your mouth in a vision. Remember Isaiah his issue was who shall go for me? He said send me.

But what happened before that? God put hot coals on his tongue. Get a vision of your mouth on fire. Sanctified. Well, the truth is it’s out of the abundance of the heart that the mouth speaks.

So God, purify my heart. Make me faithful so I can speak in an official capacity for the heaven and shift the world that is around me. Thank you, Father. Woo. Glory to God.

I need you to worship him in your own way. I need you to worship him in your own way. God’s doing a work. When I have official capacity, it doesn’t take a whole lot of energy to make things happen. Hallelujah.

Woo. Hallelujah. Thank you, Father. Thank you for raising up faithful people, meaning they’re consistent with what God has put in their life and they’re consistent with their speech. That’s really how you judge fidelity.

Are they consistent with their speech? If you say this, then you keep saying the same thing. You don’t change your position if it’s what God said. Lord, pray. I pray for people right now that you would open a door of utterance, utterance.

I pray for mothers to be at a place where they can speak into their child’s life officially, not as a nagger, but as a queen. Ooh, I pray for fathers that they can speak into their children’s life in official capacity raasha, not as one to lord over them, but one to activate them in the name of Yeshua. I pray for our friends that they can speak in a official capacity from time to time in our life and say, “Let’s move from casual to official capacity.” We’ve talked for an hour casually shooting the breeze.

Now, can we shift before we get off the phone? Can I bless you before we leave the dinner? Can I bless you? Can I offer blessing over your life right now in an official capacity? Because you are my friend.

Woo. Glory to God. God, give us a vision of this way of living. Give us a vision of this way of thinking. Before we leave, can I offer something from heaven?

Nandora, we not just here shooting a breeze. Yes, we can enjoy private experiences, but can I do something from another place before we’re done? Rabos Shakat, I pray God all of our fellowship shifts right now in the name of the Lord that they’re leading towards some official act. They start in a place, but they lead toward an official act and they climax with that official act. Shift us, oh God.

Shift Our Lives, oh God. Woo! Come on, we going. We almost there. I’m just worshiping him right now cuz he might open a door of utterance right in this room.

You don’t have to quit. You don’t have to walk away from stuff. Say, Lord, open a door of utterance. The marriage is on the rocks. Let the prayer be open a door of utterance so we can speak what we ought to that’ll heal our marriage.

That’ll heal our household. that’ll heal our family. The marriage is in trouble because of bad speech. And God can reverse it with good speech. Yes, he can. Yes, he can.

Yes, he can. Yes, he can. Children have carried words from their parents for 20 and 30 years and 40 years because of a word that was spoken. I pray in this environment you reverse that, oh God, with official language from heaven. Reverse.

Reverse. Reverse. Reverse. Reverse. Reverse.

Reverse. Don’t hold on to the garbage. Pull your sword out and cut it out. Cut out the the poison. Cut out the bitterness.

Cut out the lie. Cut out the motivation. Cut out the narrative. You put the narrative to it that came from Satan. Yes, it happened, but it didn’t happen for the reason that you think it happened for.

They were messed up, too. And they just did all they knew. But so don’t call it what it wasn’t. Call it what it is. Give us the right narratives and free your people.

Oh, God. Free your people today. Don’t be a part of the third that receives the devil’s lie and walk away from heaven itself. Don’t be like Eve and Adam that received the devil’s lie and walk away from your stewardship. Don’t be like the few apostles that walked away from their stewardship, but be like Peter.

You alone have the words of eternal life. You’re the only one that can speak what was done in the heavens and give it to me. THERE’S Nobody Else That Has The Words OF Eternal Life But JESUS And Those that have it in their mouth. Nobody else. You can’t get it in a book.

You can’t get it anywhere else. You can’t get it in a class. It’s got to come. It’s the sword of the spirit. It’s got to come from Holy Spirit.

Woo. Oh, speak and Amy will get up. Speak and the dead shall rise. Speak and Alzheimer’s will be healed. Speak and cancer will dry up.

Speak and wayward children will come home. Speak and deliverance will take place because we’re already delivered. We just need somebody to speak and align us. We’re already healed. We need somebody to speak and align us.

We’re already saved. We need somebody to preach and they’ll come. We’re all ready. We’re all ready. We’re all ready.

WE Just Need A WORD. Dedicate your mouth this Sunday. Dedicate your heart this Sunday. I want to be worthy. I want to be faithful.

I want to be a steward of the mystery of God. Trust me with official language. Trust me with official language, oh God. Tongues and interpretation of tongues. Woo!

The next time you think about going off verbally, catch yourself and say, “I’m risking appearing unfaithful with my words before my God, and it might hinder what he wants to say through me later on. Be quick to hear and slow to speak. Because your words have to be measured. They have to be weighed. Judge nothing before it’s time.

I may appear unfaithful and unqualified to speak for heaven if I just behave rat irresponsibly. The most powerful things you can do is speak. And we must speak responsibly. You have to speak responsibly. He talks about in Jude how they speak things against dignitaries, talking about angels and things like that without knowledge. and it’s is condemned even though it’s the devil they’re talking about.

But don’t speak that which you don’t know. Testify of what you’ve seen and what you know. That’s learning to speak responsibly. God will see you as trustworthy and he’ll give you a sword for somebody else, not just yourself. Gia Barlo, will you come here?

Let me speak to you real quick. I want to speak into your life. It’s not always prophecy. Sometimes it is. Sometimes it just me speaking from what I hear and see.

I can hear the Holy Spirit starting with what we preach. He wants to reframe a whole lot of your experiences. He wants you to go back and allow the Lord to give you his narrative on many of the things that you’ve put in position in your life. And God says when you do that with the right narrative, you’re going to experience an immediate surge and and things that were immobile will start moving. Things that you’re trying to push forward will be organic.

I also hear the Lord saying that you’re like the octopus. with many tentacles that can reach into many things. The capacity in you is great, sayeth the Lord. And sometimes you haven’t known which way to go cuz you could go so many directions.

But God is going to connect you to masterminds like the octopus with the big head. masterminds to help you think at higher levels because the higher you think the greater your outreach will be, the greater your capacity will be. Oh, I declare masterminds coming into your life in relationship in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. And you’ve desired that because you have a capacity to think at high levels, but you need somebody to guide you to those levels in him. And God is answering your prayer right now in me saying those words in the name of the Lord. And you will become a headquarters somewhat.

And God will use your several different capacities to impact many things. And some will say just be settled for this and just settle for that. But God says not, not her. She has the ability to hit a wide range of things. You represent capacity in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

And God’s going to release unto you the more than the enough God. It’s the El Shadai. It’s the grace of the more than enough God. He’s given you more than you can do. He’s given you more strength than you really need.

He’s given you more than what you can put out. So never believe you can’t do what God said do. Because part of your purpose in the body of Christ is to show people God’s capacity. to show people the more than the enough God that can give us more than what we need.

And so, you’re going to have to be really measured in your headquarters and in your levels of thought to know how to connect to all these different places. But I see that happening in your life and I see you moving that direction. So, I want to declare a grace on you now. The grace of the more than enough God and the and the and the fear of scarcity. I break it off of you in Jesus name.

The fear of not measuring up. I break that off of you in Jesus name. The fear of your life being a waste. And you’ve moved out of fear as opposed to faith, said the Lord. And you’re pushing out of performance sometimes and sometimes out of fear because you don’t want to fail and you don’t want it to go bad cuz you’ve seen failure and you’ve determined that you’re not going to fail.

But God says, “Quit worrying, daughter. Get all that out of your spirit.” He says, “It’s already done. All you got to do is come into an alignment with this stuff and God’s going to give you the ability to do big things.” at those big things that I was talking about. You got a whole heap of things that are done in the heavens that you’re supposed to align to.

But relax, sayeth the Lord, and be at peace, my daughter, because God has already ordained these things to happen. And I’ll be one of those masterminds in your life to help you go up the ladder and think at a higher level. Your time has come to begin to move this direction. Time has not gone by. Timing is perfect right now.

God knew you would be here today hearing this word to move you forward so you won’t doubt again. You’re not going to worry again. You’re not going to stay up late at night thinking these things are not going to happen pushing in the flesh.

But you going to move in the spirit in the name of the Lord. So the grace of El Shadai be upon you now. Somebody give the Lord a praise for the grace of El Shadai. Somebody give God a shout for the grace of El Shadai. Because it’s not just for Kia.

The grace of El Shadai is for all of us. He is the double- breasted one. He’s the more than the enough God. There’s more leaves on a tree than a tree needs. The tree produces more fruit than the tree needs.

Everything God does over, God does exceeding abundantly above all we can ask or think. The more than enough God is in our midst right now. And if you praise him, that anointing may come on your life. Oh yes. Yes.

Yes, I said he’s more than enough. I break scarcity off of you. It was a lie from the devil. I break scarcity off of your spirit man. Your fear of failure, your fear of losing.

Let it die. Get the sword out and stab that devil right now. Don’t be moved by fear, but walk by faith. Trust what God has already done. Put your strength on this morning.

Put your strength on right now. Woo! Woo! Hallelujah. Thank you.

Thank you. Can you feel his presence in the room? Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Oh yes, she drunk in the Holy Ghost now. Yes, she is. Oh yes. Yes, she is. Hallelujah.

Oh, you might as well praise the Lord with her. Yeah, God just interrupted her day with his day cuz this is the day the Lord has made. When I say the Lord has made today, that means the stuff that’s already done. That’s why you got to wake up like that. This is the day the Lord has made.

I don’t care what I’m dealing with, I’m going to rejoice because he going to drop something on me from the heavens. He’ll drop something on you from the heavens. Don’t you dare wake up and stay sad. Every day, new mercies. Every day, his faithfulness is there.

Every day, he’ll give you something. One day can turn your life around. One moment can make a change in your life. Quit saying it happened before so it’ll happen again. Not on my watch.

Pray that somebody get a sword in their mouth and speak officially to me and change my life. Surge. Surge. Surge. Surge.

Talk. Surge. Surge. Surge. Send it forth.

Surge. Cause us to move faster. Surge. Cause us to break out on every side. Surge.

Cause us to spring forth. Surge. Serge cause us to break barriers. Surge cause us to break records. Surge.

Surge. Surge. Cause us to break over the enemy is his defense. Serge Whatever Stopping US. SERGE.

SERGE. Make us greater than the devil’s in resistance. SERGE. MAKE US Stronger Than Our Opposition. S.

SERGE. Refresh yourself in the Lord because you’ve got a journey to take. Get your strength back. Get your joy back. Quit carrying that negative energy.

Get rid of it. Get rid of it right now. Get rid of all the negative energy that’s been holding you back, making you tired all day. Let it go. Woo!

If you’re here today and you want this Jesus, I need you to come. You want to know what he said about you. You want to align. You want to be filled with the Holy Spirit. You want something for him.

Just get to the altar right now. Come on. Come on. Step out and say, “I need to connect at this level.” You need to connect at this level. Come on.

And then we’re going to take communion and be done for the day. We only had one service today. But you come get to this altar. Say, “I need a surge in my life. I need a surge.

I need a surge. You want to join the church? I need to be a part of this church.” You sense something powerful here. Come on. Something touched you on the inside.

Come on. That’s the Holy Ghost. That’s the spirit of the Lord. Confess Christ. Make him your savior.

Make him your Lord. Offer your will back to him and he’ll work in your life. Come on.

Come on, don’t be afraid or ashamed. Thank you, Jesus. Oh, God. struggling with your ministry calling. Remember, you were ordained before you were ordained. You were chosen before you were chosen.

You were set apart before you set yourself apart. Just say yes and agree. Quit fighting the will of God. Quit fighting the will of God. Quit trying to do it your way.

There’s only one way. That’s his one. One one way to God and to work with God is his way or no way. That’s it. There is no other way.

He wrote the plan. The plan is finished. Alignment. Alignment. Thank you, Jesus.

Thank you, Lord. Set a fire down in my soul that I can’t contain control. I want more of you, God. I want more of you, God. Set a fire down in my soul that I can’t contain and I can’t control.

I want more of you, God. I want more of you, God. Set a fire down in my soul that I can’t contain, that I can’t control. I want more of you. I want more of you.

Set a fire down in my soul that I can’t contain, that I can’t control. I want more of you. I want more of you. Set a fire down in my soul that I can’t contain, that I can’t control. I want more of you, Lord.

I want more of you. Fire. Set a fire down in my soul that I can’t contain, that I can’t control. I want more of you, God. I want more of you.

Fire. Set a fire down in my soul that I can’t contain, that I can’t control. I want more of you. I want more of you. I want more of you.

Set up fire. Set up fire down in my soul that I can’t contain, that I can’t control. I want more of you, God. I want more of you, God. Set a fight down in my soul that I can’t contain, that I can’t control.

I want more of you, God. I want more of you, God. set a fire down in my soul that I can’t contain, that I can’t control. I want more of you, God. I want more of you. Set a fire down in my soul that I can’t contain, that I can’t control.

I want more of you. I want more of you. Set a fire down in my soul that I can’t contain, that I can’t control. I want more of you. I want more of you.

Set a fire down in my soul that I can’t contain, that I can’t control. I want more of you. I want more of you. I want more of you. I find out in my soul that I can’t contain, that I can’t control.

I want more of you, God. I want more of you, God. Wow. Wow. Wow. to my heart.

Give me thy love that will bring new life. Words on the sea are falling. Dark clouds fade away my heart. Holy Spirit, message of love to encourage me. Words on the wings of the morning, a dark night fade away.

Speak to my heart. Speak to my heart. Speak to my heart. Holy Spirit, give me the word. Give me the words that will bring that will bring you life.

Words on the Words on the wings of the morning. The dark night will fade away if you speak to my heart. Speak to my heart. Speak to my heart. Holy Spirit.

Message of love. Message of love to encourage me to encourage me. Lifting my heart from despair. How you love me, Lord. Just speak to my heart.

Speak to my heart. Speak to my heart. Father, speak to my heart. Speak to my heart. Speak to my heart.

Speak to my heart. really need to hear from you, Lord. Speak to my heart. Speak to my heart. Speak to my heart. Oh Lord, speak to my heart.

Oh, speak to my heart. Speak to my heart. cuz I really need to hear from you, Lord. I really need to hear from you my heart. Speak to my heart. Speak to my heart, Lord.

Give me your holy word. Give me your holy word. If I can hear If I can’t hear from you, then I’ll know what to do. Then I’ll know what to do. I won’t go alone.

I won’t go alone. Never go on. Never go on my own. Lord, let your spirit shine. Just let your spirit guide me and let your word abide.

Speak to my heart, Lord. Give me your holy word. Give me your holy word. If I can hear from you. Thank you, team.

Then I know what to do. I won’t. You can take them off to the side if you need to. Never go on my own. Just let your spirit let your spirit guide.

And let your word let your word abound. Speak to my heart. Lord, give me your holy word. Give me your holy word. If I can hear, if I can’t hear from you, Lord, I know just I know what to do.

I won’t go alone. No, no, no, no, no. I’ll never go on my own. Just let your spirit guide. Let your word and let your word abide.

Speak to my heart, Lord. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Give me your holy word. If I can’t, if I can’t hear from you, then I know what to do. I know what to do. I don’t know. I’ll never go on.

I’ll never go on my own. Just let your spirit just let your spirit guide. Oh, let your word about speak to my heart. Speak to my heart. Speak to my heart.

I don’t want to live without you. Speak to my heart. Oh, I can’t make it without you. I can’t live without you. Sing to my heart.

I want you to get ready to give your offerings and then we’re going to serve communion. I want you to get those gifts out right now and we’re going to use the QR code. Some of you, some of you will be bringing those gifts immediately to the house. Hold those gifts up. Hold your giving device up so we can pray a prayer.

I got to hear from you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Revelation. Yeah. Revelation knowledge. Yeah. Father, I pray hold those giving devices up.

I pray in the name of the Lord Jesus, you would bless every gift, every giver, every household. Break the spirit of fear and scarcity about not having enough. We’ve loosed the most high God, the possessor of the heavens and the earth. We loose the El Shadai in our lives today. And we’re going to believe that provision is always present.

And God’s going to give us more than enough. We command the blessing now. This church will have more than enough of everything. We declare it in Jesus’ name.

Amen. You can please come and bring those gifts now or use those QR codes. Speak to my heart, Lord. Speak to my heart, Lord. Give me your holy word.

Give me your holy word. If I can hear from you, I can’t hear from you. I don’t know what to do. And I know what to do. Oh yeah.

I won’t go alone. Never go on my own. Never go on my own. Yes. Let your spirit guide your spirit guide.

Oh, I need your spirit. Oh, I need your spirit to my heart, Lord. Into my heart, Lord. Yeah. Hear your holy word.

If I can hear from you, hear from you. Then I’ll know what to do. I know. I won’t go alone. Never, never, never go alone.

Never go on my own. Just let your spirit guide. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. And let your word abide. Speak to my heart. Give me your holy word. Your holy word.

If I can hear from you. Open my ears so I can hear. I won’t go out. I’ll never go on my own. I’ll never go on my own.

Just let your spirit down. Let your spirit down. Speak to my heart. Speak to my heart. Father, speak to my heart.

Speak to my heart. Only your word I need. Speak to my heart. I can depend on you, Lord. Your word is life.

Your word is life. Speak to me. Keep on keep on keep me talking to me. Beautiful. Once a month we come together to affirm our covenant with the Lord because everything hinges upon that initial agreement.

And we use the scriptures out of 1 Corinthians chapter number 11 as our basis for this among other scriptures. Verse 23 says, “For I have received of the Lord that which I also deliver unto you, that the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed, he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “Take, eat. This is my body which was broken for you. This do in remembrance of me.” Remember, whenever you remember something, you remember the history. You connect to the history you know.

You connect to the history, you remember. So Jesus admonishes us to remember. To remember. If you cut off from your history, you cut off from your identity and you’re cut off from the power to g up your loins. So he says, remember what he did at the cross.

After the same manner also he took the cup and when he sang, this cup is the new testament in my blood. Do the do this in my blood. This do ye as often as you drink it in remembrance. Remember the history. For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, ye do show the Lord’s death until he comes.

And so we’re here to remember the body and the blood of the Lord upon which all of this rest. Father, we thank you for your body which represents the universal church consisting of all ethnic groups already united in him. Every time we partake of this, we’re saying the church is unified in its origin. In time, it may not be, but what happens here eventually will be revealed in time because it’s already done. You can’t go against the word that’s forever settled in heaven.

And so, God, we thank you for the universal church. every believer giving supply receiving benefit. We thank you for the anointing that’s on the body. We thank you, oh God, for your body that typified this body, this mystical body, and you were bruised and you were beaten for our healing that was purchased in your blood. So we thank you for healing us for the body. In the name of the Lord, I pray we align to it today.

Woo! Glory to God. Thank you for provision. The body represents provision from God. Whatever is needed to do his will, it’s already provided.

We come into an agreement with that. We won’t worry like Gentiles who don’t have a covenant about what they’re going to eat, drink, and wear. But we seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and things are added unto us. We thank you for things that are being added even right now as we walk in your purpose. Blessings looking for us, opportunities with our name on it.

This is a part of the original covenant and agreement. We thank you for gifts, mantels, and everything that’s a part of your body. When we partake of this today, Lord God, those that believe will receive. We dedicate these elements and they will indeed become the body of Christ in Jesus name. We also raise the cup of the Lord which was the blood of the new testament the covenant.

You shed your blood for remission of sins taking away sins past, present and future. That which separated us from God was done away with. So as we partake of this blood, we say that we are one with God, one with his spirit, one with his wisdom. All of it abounds toward us. We are in league with God.

Blood represents life. And we have the life of God on us. Woo. We have words of eternal life. And we will ultimately be with you in eternity.

But life begins right now in the name of the Lord. You’ve come that we might have life and that we might have it more abundantly. Spiritual life, life minus time, life that can’t be quenched. All of this is in your blood. We thank you for your person.

We’re not alone. We’ll never be alone because God is for us. And if God be for us, who can be against us? We have a covenant with a God that said, “I’ll never leave you nor forsake you. Your life will redeem us and give us strength from day to day.

We consecrate these elements to indeed become the blood of Jesus for remission of sin. No guilt, no shame. All of is broken in Jesus name.

Amen. Thank you. Oh, the blood of Jesus that washes white as snow. Sing. Oh, the blood.

Oh, the blood of Jesus. Oh, the blood of Jesus. Oh, the blood of Jesus. Oh, the blood of Jesus. Oh, the blood.

Oh, the blood of Jesus. Oh, the blood. Oh, the blood of Jesus. Oh, the blood of Jesus. Oh, the blood of Jesus.

It washes. It washes white as snow. There is power, power, wonder working power in the blood of the lamb. There is power, power, wonder working power in the preious blood of the lamb. Say there’s power.

There is power. Power. Wonderful working power in the blood. In the blood of the lamb. Oh, there is.

There is power, wonder working power in the preious blood of the lamb. There is power. There is power. Power. Wonder working power in the blood of the lamb of the lamb.

There is power. There is power, power, wonder working power in the preious blood of the lamb. At the cross, at the cross, where I first saw the light and the burdens of my heart ro away. It was there by faith. I received my sight.

And now I am happy all the day. At the cross. At the cross. At the cross. Where I burn saw light.

At the burn. At the burn of my heart away. It was perfect. I receive my sight and now I’m happy all the way. Alas, and did my savior bleed?

And did my soign? Would he devote that? Oh, such a wor as I at the cross. At the cross, at the cross where I first saw the light and the burdens of my heart roll away. It was my faith.

I receive I receive my now I am happy. Was it for crimes that I had done that he hung up on a tree? What amazing pity Christ unknown and love beyond decree at the cross. At the cross, at the cross, where I first saw the light and the burdens of my heart ro away. It was help.

I receive my sight. And now I am happy. For it was down at the cross where I first saw the light and the burdens of my heart rode away. It was there by faith I received my sight and now I am happy all the day. At the cross, at the cross where I first saw the light and the burdens of my heart away.

It was It was never by faith. I receive my sight. And now I am happy. At the cross. At the cross.

At the cross where I first saw the light and the burdens of my heart ro away. It was it was my faith. I receive my sight and now I am happy all the day. There is power. There is power.

Power wondering power in the blood. In the blood of the lamb of the lamb. There is power. Power wonder working power in the preious blood of the lamb. There is power.

There is power. Power wondering power in the blood of the lamb of the lamb. Power. There is power. Power, wonder working power in the precious blood of the lamb.

Hold the bread up before heaven, please. I was just gonna sing bless that wonderful name. I thought that’s where it’s going. Bless that wonderful name of Jesus. Come on and bless that wonderful name of Jesus.

The name I know. There is power in the name of Jesus. Yes, there’s power in the name of Jesus. Yes, there’s power in the name of Jesus. Lord, the name I know.

Hold the gift. Hold the bread up before heaven. Repeat after me. Praise be untitled nine. Praise be untitled.

Our God, our God, ruler of the universe, ruler of the universe, who commands the ground to bring forth bread by faith. This is the body of Christ. Receive it and all of the revelation connected to it in the name of the Lord. Thank you for the universal church. Thank you, oh God, for provision.

Thank you for healing. Thank you for divine connections. Woo! Glory to God. I said thank you for divine connections.

Woo! Glory. One more time. Thank you for divine connections. The right people in our life at the right time.

Oh, to produce the will of God. Thank you for relationships that God ordained from the heavens to produce a his purpose in the earth. Thank you Lord for the strength to wrestle for those relationships, not allow the enemy to destroy them. Thank you for right narratives. Glory to God.

It’s all a part of the covenant. We give you praise for healing of families, healing of relationships, healing in the name of Jesus. Believe it’s the part of the covenant. healing between black and white. Healing between Hispanics, healing between Native Americans, healing Everybody’s not celebrating America this season. There are different narratives depending on what group you’re part of, but we’re declaring healing in the body of Christ.

In the name of the Lord, healing in the body of Christ. We’re declaring healing in the body of Christ. May the body of Christ transcend America in his belief. Thank you, Father. Thank you, Father.

Hold the cup up before the Lord. Repeat after me. Praise be unto Adonai. Our God, ruler of the universe, who commands the vine to bring forth fruit in the name of Jesus.

Amen. Thank you, Father. By faith, this is the blood of Jesus. By faith, this is the blood of Jesus. This is the blood of the covenant.

By faith, we’re tied to him forever. We’re tied to him. By faith, this is every eternal word we need to hear. This is official language in our spirit. The sword of the spirit in our spirit.

In the name of the Lord, we thank you for forgiveness of sin. We thank you, oh God, for washing us white as snow. We thank you for fellowship with you. We declare your blessing on the lives of your people. The Lord bless you.

The Lord keep you. The Lord make his face shine upon you. The Lord lift up his countenance upon you. Lord be gracious unto you. The Lord give you peace.

Peace. Peace be still. Whatever storm the devil has raging in your life by apostolic authority, I declare peace be still in that storm. In the name of Jesus. Woo.

Glory to God. You got faith for that one. I just heard the Lord said, “Peace be still.” In that storm. in their storm. We declare the sword of the spirit in the storm we’re in right now. And we command it to be still in Jesus name.

Amen. Bless you. That’s all for now. On behalf of Bishop Hugh, Pastor Letha, and your Embassy Covenant Church International family, happy birthday to all those born in July. embassy. Join the intercessors for watch and pray, unlocking the power of the eight prayer watches on Wednesday, July 15th at 10 p.m. here in the EMD sanctuary.

This will be an evening of biblical teaching and spiritual equipping as we explore the significance of the eight prayer watches and how understanding God’s appointed times can strengthen your prayer life. Whether you are new to intercession or have been praying for years, this teaching will help you pray with greater intentionality, awareness, and alignment. Watch and pray. Unlocking the power of the eight prayer watches. Wednesday, July 15th at 700 p.m.

Be in the room and come ready to grow in prayer. Embassy. Mark your calendars for the SendMe Evangelism Summit happening August 14th through the 16th. This is more than an event. It is a call to be equipped, stirred, and sent to share the love of Christ with boldness, compassion, and clarity.

Join us on Friday, August 14th at 7:00 p.m. for the Evangelism Night Service. Then Saturday, August 15th, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., we’ll gather for midday evangelism training and outreach. And Sunday, August 16th at 10:00 a.m. will close with baptism and testimonies during our 10:00 a.m. morning worship service. Whether outreach is familiar to you or completely new, there is room for you. Send me the Evangelism Summit August 14th through the 16th.

Be in the room. Be equipped. Be sent. Be sure to register in the midweek email. If you desire to be baptized during the Evangelism Summit, baptism, and testimony Sunday on August 16th, scan the QR code on the screen or see the midweek email to sign up.

Are you ready to identify what’s been standing in the way of your clarity, growth, and forward movement? Join the ECCI Ministry of Health in partnership with Oasis Wellness Centers for the Bottleneck Breakers Brunch on Saturday, August 22nd from 4 to 8:00 p.m. at Beachwoods Recreation Center in Southfield. This 4-hour mini trauma recovery brunch experience is designed to help you move from overwhelm to awareness, regulation, and intentional next steps. You’ll hear from keynote speaker Dr. Lance Wells, engaged in guided reflection and journaling, experience practical wellness tools, and receive a bottleneck breakthrough starter kit.

Registration is $40 per person and space is limited. The bottleneck breakers brunch Saturday, August 22nd. Come ready to heal, reflect, and break through. Embassy family, as we continue to receive guests from across the body of Christ, we want to make sure we honor our visiting leaders with excellence and proper protocol. If you are inviting or aware of a senior pastor, overseer, bishop, apostle, dignitary, or other ministry leader who will be joining us for Sunday worship, please let our office know in advance.

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