This is “Highly Valued Target.” You are an HVT, a highly valued target. The longer you walk with Christ and the closer you get to Him, the more valuable you become to the enemy. If you feel like you’re under attack, like you’re dealing with things you’ve never had to deal with before, and you feel like you’ve made hell’s most wanted list, it’s because you are a high value target. The enemy will use any measure he can to separate you from those who make you strong. But God says NO weapon formed against you will prosper!
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connection I’ll remember the day like it
was yesterday when we got a phone call
12 years ago and the phone call was in
regarding to us receiving another baby
in northen age well Moses’s mom when she
was pregnant with moses she had gone to
the station outhouse and she had sat
down to give birth to this baby and she
did it purposely so that she would lose
the baby in the outhouse and go away and
be free of the baby because she had too
many mouths to feed already and a
Haitian man heard this baby fly in the
outhouse and broke the wood up and tied
a rope around his waist and took a
bucket and went down into the outhouse
and pulled this baby barely breathing
covered with all this stuff brought him
up in this bucket love affair munition
much I feel sad
what happened to me when my mother
abandoned me but Olivia Gina I didn’t
like that at all but God meant money and
package they rescued me take walking to
a better place
bobaloo I forgive my parents for so good
never went to Louisville but I realize
when my mom has another baby not to
repeat the same thing I’m very confident
about my future lover look Castle Magnum
I know I can do anything with a colorful
design with God everything is possible
and I can do everything
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turn with me to the Book of Luke chapter
22 very quickly I’ll begin reading with
verse 31 and the Lord said Simon Simon
indeed Satan has asked for you that he
may sift you as wheat but I have prayed
for you that your faith should not fail
and when you have returned to me
strengthen your brethren I want to talk
to you for just a few moments about
something that happened in our nation
that goes right along with what we’ve
been talking about it was 9/11 9/11 2001
a date that we will all remember when
2996 Americans lost their lives and the
Twin Towers from a terrorist attack
6,000 were injured and then the wars
that followed in Afghanistan and Iraq
another 6,800 all could be traced back
to one man and his diabolical plan he
was in his 50s he was the son of a
billionaire and he hated the Western
world and he hated Christianity and the
FBI and the CIA put on him a certain
label it’s called in their world H V T
that it’s high-value target Osama bin
Laden became an H V T a high-value
target he made the FBI CIA most-wanted
list
for 13 years they diligently salt him he
went into hiding he was isolated and
secluded he refused to use the cell
phone he would never go on the internet
he was there and would not even in his
hiding place allow his garbage to be
collected but he had a certain way of
doing away with it he wanted no traces
of his existence after some time there
the US government put out a 25 million
dollar reward on
sama bin Laden and then the airline
Association offered another two million
dollars that’s a total of 27 million
dollar reward for anyone who could give
information leading to this terrorist
leader you may think you have friends
but if they put a twenty seven million
dollar reward out on you your friendship
circles going to get very very small
very very quick
they knew that al Qaeda the terrorist
organization operated and communicated
through carriers and there in the area
of Pakistan there was one common
denominator person who kept coming up
four years thirteen years the FBI the
CIA thousands of agents and I got this
from an article and informants they were
searching in researching trying to find
this one man this high-value target I’m
preaching on you are a high-value target
now listen carefully
they had secret agents and CIA people
who disguised themselves as part of al
Qaeda 24 hours a day thousands of men
and women work 24 hours a day for 13
years to find one man one name kept
cropping up one name kept coming he was
a carrier in Pakistan and hundreds of
agents were deployed secretly to watch
this man to follow this man to to check
every thing that he did every movement
that he made was tracked
finally by 2010 they found and located
him and after 24 hours surveillance
today he made a vital mistake he used
his cell phone which he was not supposed
to do and when he did he called and they
were able to trace that one phone call
to a place in Pakistan he had been
carrying that cell phone alone and he
had gotten relaxed in the place and
than he was in he thought that he could
get by with it he let his guard down and
one time on his iPhone was the only
reason that we were able to get Osama
bin Laden you better watch out about
that little iPhone and what you’re doing
with it I’ll keep moving but give me a
big Amen they began to study this
carriers patterns the mistakes that he
made and they traced him to a compound
in Pakistan and there with heat-seeking
cameras they began to notice a tall man
a slim tall man at the compound at night
who would come out only at night to walk
around and stretch his legs and they
thought it’s strange why does he just
come out never in the daylight only at
night and then they pinpointed his
bedroom on the third floor of that
compound they knew which bed he was in
they knew that he had some security
officers that were through the
heat-seeking cameras that had weapons so
they knew this was someone that was
unusual they watched and studied when
the security was most lacs watching him
you know that you have an enemy
according to the story that I read when
Jesus turned to Simon Peter and he said
Satan has desired to have you you are a
high-value target you are someone the
enemy is after every day he wants you
he’s looking for your weak point he
wants to destroy your family he wants to
destroy your marriage he wants to
destroy your purpose he wants to destroy
your call and when they located this man
and they were convinced that he was the
terrorist that they knew he was they
sent four helicopters Navy SEAL Team six
elite warriors the best the smartest the
most dangerous they were sent them in
after this high-value target Simon Satan
has desired to have you you are a
high-value tar
you’re not just any disciple but you
have been given the keys to the kingdom
and I’m preaching today through some
high-value targets you need to be
careful Simon what you allow into your
life because Satan has labeled you a
high-value target Peter you’ve got a
revelation of who Jesus is and there are
people in this room today and people
listening to me by television and on the
Internet who you need to understand that
the more you know about God and the
longer you walk with God and the more
Bible and revelation you understand the
more you become an HTP
a high-value target of hell you make
hell’s most-wanted list the enemy loves
htps high-value targets he loves
pastor’s kids and second and third and
fourth generation Christian families he
loves to get in those families by about
the third or fourth generation and take
out a high-value target and begin to
change the blessing on that family into
a curse into something that brings pain
and hurt I want you to understand if you
know the word you can’t relax if you’ve
been in church a long time you can’t
relax that actually makes you a VP a
high-value target young people teenagers
college students I warn you today with
all that I can tell you that you are a
high-value target to the enemy you know
how to pray you know how to fast you
know the truth you know the name of
Jesus and the power of salvation and you
are wanted by Hell hell sending his best
forces after you his elite Navy SEAL
team is coming after you I don’t
normally like to talk negative like this
but the truth is we wrestle not against
flesh and blood but against
principalities and powers and the enemy
is sending in his vets after high-value
targets hell sending them to sift Eve
Jesus said
the word fifth means to separate when
you sift week you shake it until the
sifting is done and there’s a separation
and the 50 men and me wants to do two
high-value targets is to separate you
from special spiritual friends from
worshiping friends from a mom and dad
that love God and love you from pastors
and spiritual voices to pull you away
from the right people and get you
connected to the wrong people to
separate you from those who make you
strong hell’s trying to sift you to pull
you away
he doesn’t care how much it costs they
didn’t care that it would cost 27
million dollars to find one terrorist
and the enemy doesn’t care what it cost
him to get you out of your purpose out
of your calling out of your destiny
he’ll do whatever he has to do
you are a high-value target and jesus
warned Peter
he said there’s all kinds of bait that
the enemy may use against you because
you’re wanted by hell you’re you you are
a HVT you are the one hell has that is
most wanted the devil wants you so bad
if you’re an usher if you are a soul
winner if you are a singer if you’re a
prayer intercessor if you’re a young
person living for Christ and you got
character and integrity you are a high
value target if you’re standing strong
in morality and standing strong in
keeping yourself pure the enemy says
that’s a high value target if we can
take them down and their name down and
their character down it’ll have a domino
effect on many others that they have
influence with a high value target hell
is reaching for you heaven is reaching
for you and if and if he can stop you
he’ll do everything he can to take you
out I saw a documentary not too long ago
on snake professional snake handlers
that milk snakes now I don’t know how
you make it if you’re not a professional
snake handler but
they this guy’s label was a professional
snake handler and apparently their
amateur snake handlers that he trains
and this is what this show was on
National Geographic about can you
imagine being an amateur snake handler
and having the Milka rattlesnake I don’t
know that I would ever want to go in
that field but but this was what was
interesting out of everything that he
said he said most of the he teaches the
young trainee snake handlers that most
of the snake bites happened when you go
to put the snake down not when you pick
it up and I sit there and thought Lord I
will preach that but you better be
careful what you pick up because it’s
easy to pick up drugs and it’s easy to
pick up immorality and pick up
phonography and pick up adultery it’s
easy to pick it up but it’s not as easy
to put it down because when you put it
down it can strike you and we need to be
careful because we’re high-value targets
he’s studying you your enemy is studying
your habits he wants to pull you out of
the safety zone the safety zone of God’s
house for safety zone of the word of God
the safety zone of good counsel from
moms and dads and spiritual people who
love you the devil’s studying every
preacher every dad every mom every
preacher’s kid every one of us he knows
you better than you know yourself
he knows your life he studies your
movement he studies your instincts your
associations your friendships the music
that you listen to the movies that you
watch the things that you’ve done
websites the things on your iPhone he
watches this I marvel at the patience of
hell how the enemy will wait and bait
you and bait you and beat you until he
finally lures you out of that safety
zone he watches your desires and your
patterns the Bible said in acts 19 that
Paul was a chosen vessel and the reason
the enemy has declared that you are his
high-value target is you too are a
chosen vessel I really believe that I
believe that preachers are in HVT I
believe that preach
is according to Matthew 26 and verse 31
smite the Shepherd and the sheep will
scatter and the wolf can devour them if
ever we ought it ought to hold up our
pastors and their wives and our church
teams at every campus and pray for them
pray for their marriages pray for their
children pray for their families why
because they are wanted in hail they are
high-value targets and the enemy would
love to mess me up and love to mess
these pastors up and love to destroy
their marriages and their children and
somehow it have a domino effect of
devastating families in the church but
he will not by the grace of God greater
is He that is in us than he that has
been the world come on and give the Lord
of praise if you believe Sampson is a
prime example of an HVT he was a special
man he was not like any other man in
Israel the Bible said he had the power
of God but Sampson you’re being stalked
you’re being studied you’re being
watched they’re plotting and planning he
had no idea every time he laid his head
down in Delilah’s laughs that they were
studying standing off in the shadows
somebody a Philistine was taking notes
on every weakness every tendency
everything that he was doing finally she
gave him the most expensive haircut in
human history and he lost his power his
mother and father tried to warn him God
tried to warn him the enemy should have
warned and he should have woke up and
understood what was taking place how did
the enemy get in he started dating a
Philistine and anytime you get in an
unequally yoked situation with
friendships or people are dating
relationships it’s a sign that the enemy
has declared you are a high-value target
Judas was a high-value target he was one
of the original twelve he was in the
inner circle and how would be enemy get
him for greed the love of money thirty
pieces of silver
I’m preaching to you today and I’ve been
pastoring a long time and I’ve watched
people and it seemed like the more that
God blessed them the less that they took
the spiritual walk and they could see
their business explodes sometimes but if
you don’t keep that connection with God
the enemy will slip in you’re a
high-value target he’ll mess the
marriage up he’ll mess the children of
let’s not let it happen I believe today
that the power of God in the Word of God
is our greatest defense Peter had all
kinds of problems he was cussing and
cutting people’s ears off and messing up
and denying the Lord and he said but
still you are a high-value target and
then he makes this powerful profound
statement Satan has desired to sift you
but I have prayed for you that your
faith fail not you know it’s possible
that you can fail and fall and mess up
but your faith doesn’t have to mess up
and fall and fail and it’s not that
we’ll ever measure up to be perfect but
keep your faith intact that says a
righteous man falls seven times a day
but rises again get back up get back up
the enemy is never satisfied but I’ve
come today to declare that no weapon
formed against you shall prosper every
tongue that rises up he will condemn
I’ve come today to declare that the
attempts and plots and strategies of
your enemy when the enemy comes in like
a flood the Spirit of the Lord will
raise up a standard against him and
we’re sin abounds grace does much more
abound and here’s what I want you to get
if you feel like you’re under attack if
you feel like you’re dealing with things
you’ve never had to deal with before and
you feel like you’ve made hell’s
most-wanted list you are a high-value
target here’s God’s Word to you Jesus
are
our high priest is praying for you this
very day when I feel like giving up when
I feel like I can’t go on to know that
he ever lives to make intercession for
you and I you’re going to make it but
sometimes you need to come to church to
get you thinking right and get your head
on straight and to understand that you
need to be awake and fully alert because
this is an hour when if you go to sleep
spiritually the enemy will take you out
or take someone out in your family but I
believe today that there’s power in the
blood of Jesus Christ and that power can
absolutely cause us to overcome all the
power of the enemy no scheme of hell
will work if we’re connected he that
dwells in the secret place under the
shadow of the Almighty will say I Lord
I’m trusting in you you’re my refuge in
my strength you don’t have to fall you
don’t have to fail I really feel this
for teenagers I really feel this for
college students I really feel this for
dads and moms your high value target
preachers kids pastors kids you’re a
high-value target businessman who’s
successful making money being blessed be
careful you’re a high-value target the
enemy would love to take you out because
then it affects everybody that you have
great influence with but we won’t fail
and we won’t fall if we’re connected to
the vine without me you can do nothing
jesus said but through him we can do all
things through Christ who strengthens us
do you believe that
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