Priscilla Shirer (Passion Conference) and T.D. Jakes (Sermon Series: Crushing) teach on the unseen spiritual battle. Listen in as they teach how to stand firm in the face of the enemy. This video was brought to you by TBN Networks®. SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/c/TBN/feature… For nearly 50 years the mission of the Trinity Broadcasting Network has remained unchanged: To use every available means to reach as many individuals and families as possible with the life-changing Gospel of Jesus Christ. Launched in 1973 by Christian television pioneers Paul and Jan Crouch, TBN began as one low-power television station broadcasting a few hours of Christian programming each day to viewers throughout the Los Angeles area. In the years since, TBN has grown into a family of over thirty twenty-four hour global networks reaching every inhabited continent with entertaining, inspirational, and life-changing programming for every family member and demographic. TBN began as a dream to “build a Christian television network that spans the whole world.” Today that dream is reality…and still expanding! #tbn #priscillashirer #tdjakes 00:00 Intro 07:23 In the Face of the Enemy 15:50 Spiritual Warfare 22:36 Fighting Thoughts from the Enemy 28:49 You Shall Have Whatever You Say
what the enemy hopes is that the sight
of them will cause you to shrink back in
so much fear and insecurity that you’ll
never step up to the plight of being who
God has called you to be
listen if you’ve placed faith in Jesus
Christ I hope you know that the enemy
understands he cannot destroy you and
the enemy always has some sort of tool
or memory or a situation that he uses to
terrify you even though the good times
are here and and the dream is there the
blessing is there and the goodness is
here
but there’s always this haunting nagging
defiance
so I have three boys
um it’s a little bit scary to me that
they are nearly and will be very soon in
the next few years will be about your
age three sons the distinguishing
characteristic about my boys is that
they are giants they are huge boys my 15
year old is six foot two inches tall he
wears a size 14 men’s shoe my 13 year
old is about 6-1 he wears a 13 men’s
shoe and uh they Tower over me I have a
nine-year-old who’s coming up in the
ranks with his brothers they are tall
boys somebody come help me feed these
people
foreign
characteristics about or what makes
their size work for them rather is that
they do love sport so whatever sport is
sort of in season that’s what we’re
playing at the time my second son for a
lot of years he’s in a basketball now
but for a lot of years baseball was his
thing and I enjoyed that I enjoyed
baseball season I liked going out there
for Spring ball I liked Spring ball
because you go sit in the cool of the
evening while your kid is practicing I
remember all those years of of little
league when he was just coming up and
we’d sit out there in the cool of the
spring evening Under The Lights of the
bleachers watching and practice and
enjoying just uh that that whole
atmosphere I like Spring ball so much
the only problem with Spring ball is
that it is going to become Summer Ball
and I don’t know what happens where you
live wherever you’re coming from but I
can’t tell you in Dallas Texas which is
where I still lived
and where I was born and raised in
Dallas Texas in the summertime it
doesn’t warm up slightly
it gets hot I’m talking about slap your
mama hot that kind of hot the kind of
hot where you feel like the sun must be
mad at you about something like you did
something to the sun and the Sun is
trying to get you back all summer long
that’s what it feels like and you’re
sitting out there at a game trying to
enjoy your kids game and it really still
is okay when there’s just one game the
problem is that at the end of every
season there’s a tournament
so you got to be out there on a Thursday
at 8 A.M and 10 a.m and noon and 2 p.m
and then depending upon how your kids
team did you’re gonna have to come back
on Friday at 8 A.M and 10 a.m and then
they give you a little lunch break but
you got to come back for the 2PM game
the 4 P.M game and then if your kids
team had the nerve to do well you got to
come back again on Saturday for the 8
A.M game and 10 a.m and noon and two and
man you’re sitting out there under the
blazing sun trying to be happy that your
kid is doing well
really you’re wondering if it’s ever
okay to pray they lose so you can go
home
I will never confirm nor deny that I
have ever done that but I will tell you
that we were sitting out there at a
tournament so several years ago
sun was Blazing
we were so excited for the lunch break
just because that meant we would be able
to go to a restaurant where there would
be air conditioned and ice water that
actually had ice in it we got refreshed
we came back
we drove our SUV up into the parking lot
opened up the back of the SUV so that we
could pull out all the gear that we
needed to go to the next game in the
tournament we were three days into the
tournament hot sweaty they were doing
well we were trying to be excited about
it ready for the next game I was walking
behind my son to get from where we had
parked the car over toward the Dugout
where the next game was going to be
played and so I gathered up all the
stuff you know the ice chest that you
have and the um the umbrella that you
might have to go over your head and you
know the water bottles the the backpacks
the The Baseballs the mitts all that
stuff and I was following behind my son
my second son Jerry Jr is a fairly
gregarious personality he’s outgoing
he’s excited for a challenge so I could
see that in his step as I followed
behind him I could see a skip in his
step his chin was up his shoulders were
back he was excited about the next game
and I gotta tell you he’s pretty good in
baseball he has a natural knack for it I
remember at 10 years old was the first
time he got a good hit and sent it
sailing over the fence line at 10 years
old and I think it’s partly because of
his size just a lot of power behind his
swing a great as a first baseman so we
were really excited about his success in
baseball and and I watched him as he
kind of hopped and skipped over to the
next game just excited about the next
challenge in the tournament
but because I was following behind him I
had my eyes glued on him and I could see
when something changed
I could see that as we took the short
walk from where we’d parked the car over
to the Dugout I could see that his
shoulders started to hunch over and his
head hung down I could see that that
skip that had been in this step had
changed he was kind of walking like he
was nervous he was wringing his hands a
little bit I saw that he was looking
around his eyes darting and looking a
little bit sketchy I was trying to
figure out what happened to my boy it
was a short walk from where we parked
the car over to the Dugout and all of a
sudden his countenance had completely
changed so I started looking around
trying to figure out what was going on
why did he look so insecure and fearful
all of a sudden
I realized that as we were going toward
the Dugout we were walking past
some kids from another team they were
all laying on the grass underneath the
shade of an oak tree getting ready for
the next game as I passed them I could
see this was the team we were about to
play next
kept walking and I kept getting a look
at these boys and when I looked at them
I realized what my son’s problem was
we had faced this team before
we had faced them earlier in the season
and when this team had played my son’s
team earlier in the season they had
annihilated us
it had been a complete embarrassment a
complete upset this team right here
y’all they were serious baseball players
but we had to walk right by them to get
to The Dugout as we walked past there
were two players they were talking to
each other one was whispering to the
other I think he thought he was
whispering but we could hear him
he leaned over to the other one and he
said
there goes that big kid from the Red Sox
team
is he the one that hit the ball and it
went over the fence
yeah he was the one at first base the
one that caught any of the outs that we
got in the game that was him
so that’s Jerry Shire
when my boy heard his name crossed the
lips of the opposing team members
those shoulders that had been hanging
down all of a sudden I watched them pop
back again
go up I watched him get a little swag
back in his set as he headed over toward
the dugout
in fact we had to bring him down a few
notches before the game started
it’s amazing really how your countenance
changes when you’re really overhear and
understand what the enemy thinks about
you when he sees you coming
it doesn’t mean that the challenge goes
away it means that in the face of it
you’re different your stance is
different because you recognize that
when the enemy sees a daughter or a son
of God coming his way he’s shaking in
his boots not because of you but because
of the holy spirit of God that lives on
the inside of me
I came to tell somebody today that even
if you don’t believe what it is that the
word of God declares to be true about
you you need to know that the enemy does
he knows that every single thing that
God’s word declares to be true about you
every word that has been declared over
you in these last few days of this
conference even if you’re not convinced
about it the enemy is he knows that you
have been forgiven he never
is therefore now no condemnation for
those of us who are in Christ Jesus he
given the victory he knows
those have been made competent by the
spirit of God he knows
therefore now no condemnation for you or
for me no shame no guilt he knows that
you have not been given a spirit of fear
but a power and love and of a sound mind
and y’all he knows that in the end we
win
foreign
what ashamed it would be
for the enemy to believe more about your
potential than you do
what a shame it would be for us to go
out of here with all of this inspiration
that we have been given this investment
of God’s word that he has gathered us
together over the course of these days
to Worship in spirit and in truth and to
hear his word declared true over our
lives what a tragedy it would be for us
to walk out of here and still live like
we were before we came through these
doors
so what the enemy will do is scatter
challenge in front of your life because
listen you’re going back home to
challenge y’all do know we going back
home in a little while right
and don’t we wish we could wake up to
this every single day
don’t we wish that we could have God’s
word spoken over our lives with this
much Authority and power every single
day and be in the presence of leaders
who can lead us into the presence of God
and worship every single day like this
but the reality is we’re going back home
the challenges of your University campus
the challenges of your home your
relationships your friendships on your
job those challenges will be sprawled
out in front of you when you get home
and let me tell you something what the
enemy hopes is that the sight of them
will cause you to shrink back in so much
fear and insecurity that you’ll never
step up to the plight of being who God
has called you to be
listen if you’ve placed faith in Jesus
Christ I hope you know that the enemy
understands he cannot destroy you he
knows his chances are over of destroying
you so he is going to spend the rest of
his time and the rest of his energy just
trying to discourage you
trying to distract you so that you’ll
shrink back in fear and insecurity and
not step up to the plate and be who God
has called you to be
it is at least in part to this end
that the Apostle Paul gives us a passage
of scripture that has become a Lifeline
for me
in fact I was talking with Christine
yesterday Chris and I have known each
other for a very long time very close
friends and she was asking me what I was
going to speak on and I had several
thoughts of directions that I was
leaning toward
but in the end we as we were talking the
question came up if there was only one
thing you could say to them
if there’s only one message that you
ever have the opportunity
to tell these students these young
people that will be gathered together on
this occasion what would that message be
and there was one thing that immediately
popped into my heart and my mind for you
at the end of this year’s passions
Passion Conference
the words of the Apostle Paul
he writes them in the book of Ephesians
listen let me just tell you quickly
before I read this passage you got if
you’ve not read the book of Ephesians
you’re gonna have to read the book of
Ephesians
y’all listen
it’s it’s like for real
the Apostle Paul y’all know he was a bad
boy he gave us most of what would become
the New Testament letters written to
first century Believers that now
disciple us and help us to mature as
Believers and as the body of Christ and
Scholars say that of all of Paul’s
writing really the cream of the crop the
cherry on top of the cake is Ephesians
because in the book of Ephesians y’all
he just spends the first half of the
book just rehearsing who you are as a
daughter or a son he wants to make sure
you step up to the plight rise to the
occasion of who you’ve been recreated in
Christ to become those of you who place
faith in Jesus Christ last night who
stood took your feet at the end of
Pastor Louie’s message and you placed
faith in Jesus listen the old has gone
and the new has come you’re a daughter
you’re a son and you have full rights
and privileges that have been granted to
you the Apostle Paul wants you to know
what is the hope of his calling and
choosing you he writes in the first and
second and third chapter about the
treasure that you have he wants you to
know about the mercy that has been
lavished upon you the grace that has
been given to you he wants you to know
that if you’ve been rejected by
everybody else you’ve been hand-picked
chosen and adopted by the one true God
he wants you you to know that if you’ve
dug a pic of sin for yourself that is so
deep you can’t find your way out of it
that the mercy of God is so great and so
Grand that it can reach down into any
pit and snatch you up out of it once and
for all in fact Paul gets so worked up
that by the time he gets to the middle
of the first chapter he bursts out in a
prayer and he says I’m praying that the
eyes of your heart would be open
so that you would just know what is the
hope of his calling and choosing you
and after going over and over and on and
on about the lavishness the richness the
grace the mercy the goodness the
adoption that has been poured out over
us the Forgiveness that has been granted
to us he’s trying to figure out how do I
close this letter to make sure they step
up to the plate
how do I put an exclamation point on
passion 2018 to make sure that what God
has given them they don’t hand over to
the enemy as soon as they walk out the
door
and the Apostle Paul writes these words
to us in Ephesians chapter 6 beginning
in verse 10.
he says finally
you be strong in the Lord
and in the strength of his might
he says put on the full former of God
so that you may be able to stand firm
against the scheme somebody say schemes
against the schemes of the devil he says
we wrestle not we struggle not against
flesh and blood but against the rulers
against the powers against the world
forces of this Darkness against the
spiritual forces of wickedness that are
in the Heavenly places he says so
therefore you might as well just go
ahead and put down all the weapons of
this world that aren’t working for you
anyway and take up some weapons that
actually have some power he says take up
the full armor of God so that you may be
able to resist in the evil day and
having done everything to stand firm he
says you ought to just stand firm
therefore in these few verses of
scripture the Apostle Paul begins to
introduce to us a concept that has not
been at least in the context uh thus far
in church development at that time had
not been as overtly described as it is
right now in Paul’s letter he brings up
the topic of spiritual warfare
he says you have an enemy
he says I want to make sure that it’s
loud and clear there are other places in
the Old Testament and throughout
throughout the new y’all where we can
infer that we have a spiritual unseen
battle going on but this is the first
time that an author comes right out and
says you have an enemy
and he is scheming against you
that when you leave this place in just a
little while when I leave this place in
just a little while you need to know
that there is an enemy he is against you
he is not for you he plans to do
anything and everything in his power to
stir up challenge in your life enough to
cause you to shrink back and not rise up
and stand firm in the victory that you
have been given in Christ Jesus that’s
why the Apostle Paul says stand firm
because you have an enemy
an enemy that wants you to think that
just because he is invisible he is also
fictional
he wants to be chalked up to nothing
more than a caricature a cartoon picture
a myth a character for a kid’s nursery
rhyme he doesn’t want you to recognize
the influence that he has over your life
possibly to to cause you to never walk
into the full expression of God’s grace
and goodness in your life he is Sinister
he is a master Illusionist and he is a
deceiver and he hopes to cleverly
disguise himself behind life’s most
pressing problems to where you will
forget he is even there
he wants you to point fingers at him or
at her at your boss at your parent at
that particular Professor or your R.A in
your dorm he wants you to think it’s
that advisor or it’s that financial
problem anything Flesh and Blood because
he knows as long as we’re looking at the
Flesh and Blood we will direct all the
wrong weapons at the wrong culprit
we’ll think our money will work we’ll
think our rationale and logic will
actually work we think that the diploma
we’re about to to achieve and receive
we’ll think the diploma will be work
worth it we’ll think that the
connections will work anything natural
cannot take care of the supernatural
when your problem is unseen and
spiritual you need weapons that work in
that Realm
so the Apostle Paul says you got to know
first of all that your enemy is not the
person you are sitting next to today
that your enemy is not your parent at
home your enemy is not that Professor
that is difficult to work with your real
enemy is not your boss on your part-time
job your real enemy is unseen he is
hoping y’all that we will forget he’s
there
he is the master Deceiver so there’s a
little church around the corner from my
house in Dallas I’ve been taking my kids
there since they were little uh to
Harvest Festival that’s basically this
Church’s answer to Halloween
so we will go there for Harvest Festival
and this church has a good old-fashioned
Trunk or Treat does anybody know what I
mean when I say Trunk or Treat
okay
all right so Trunk or Treat for those of
you who are not clear on what that is
that’s when members of the congregation
volunteer they volunteer to bring their
cars into the parking lot on Harvest
Festival night so that they can open up
the trunk of their cars so you go into
the parking lot all the trunks are open
and each person has basically crafted a
carnival game or some sort of fair game
out of the trunk of the car so kids line
up one trunk after the other they play
whatever the game is and then most of
the time whether they win or lose the
person that owns that car gives them a
whole bunch of candy and sends them home
we’re always so grateful
so we stand in line
one car after the other waiting on bags
of candy and we play one game after the
other a few years ago
the biggest line the longest line at the
carnival wasn’t behind the a car it was
behind the bed of a truck it was really
clever
a huge truck had been parked in the
parking lot
and they’d put a step ladder right at
the bed of the truck so that a kid could
walk into the bed of the truck they had
attached a table top which was about the
same size as the bed of the truck they
had attached it to the side of the truck
cut six holes into it put some fabric
some drapery over it and out from those
holes every few seconds a puppet would
pop through they gave the kid a huge
plastic Mallet and the job of the kid
was to run up and down the inside of the
bed of the truck as he tried to hit the
puppets on top of the head it was a
homemade whack-a-mole game is what it
was and it was the longest line me and
Jude at the time he was like four Jude
is my youngest me and Jude are standing
in line we’re waiting on our turn behind
us there’s another kid he’s with his his
mom he’s probably four or five as well
and y’all he was hysterical
because he was annoyed at this whole
situation and he was making sure she
knew it
he was first of all annoyed because Mom
I don’t understand why I got to stand in
this long line didn’t we come to the
carnival to have fun this ain’t fun
standing in line ain’t fun I have an
idea mom how about this how about I go
play all these other games while you
stand in line and hold our place and
then when it’s our turn I’ll come back
and join you in line
but he was not only annoyed about the
line the four-year-old was also annoyed
because Mom I don’t even understand this
game why in the world would I waste all
my energy running up and down the inside
of that truck to hit the puppets on the
top of the head if when I hit them on
the head they’re gonna disappear but
then they’re just gonna come back as
soon as I hit them on the head what’s
the point of this game
so everybody in the line is laughing
hysterically because this four-year-old
this five-year-old is talking so much
about all of his frustrations
finally he gets so frustrated
that he works himself into a frenzy to
where all I saw out of my peripheral
vision was a four-year-old flash running
past me as he ran forward and he grabbed
the drapery off of the table top and
pulled it clean off
underneath there were three adults with
puppets on each hand
that day we all got a good laugh but we
also got a good lesson
there is always something you can’t see
influencing what you can
and if you spend all of your time your
energy your effort trying to hit at what
you see popping up in your life you’re
gonna be so frustrated and by the way
exhausted because as soon as you take
care of one thing another one is coming
back unless you do what the Apostle Paul
says pull back the curtain and let the
enemy know we got our eyes on you
and we’re gonna use some weapons that
actually work back there behind the
curtain
you won’t come out of this
you’re not smart enough
you’re not bright enough you waited too
late you should have started younger
those are the kind of voices that we all
live with
for me our ministry was growing
we lived in a nice house nice house we’d
ever had
driving a nice car
living from paycheck to paycheck we’re
making it
every night
I lay down at night
after she goes to sleep
I hear the voices
those voices are the kind of voices that
stop you from buying into your own life
stop you from enjoying the good times
and believing that they will last
the anxiety and the pressure and the
strength that it took to get from where
you were to where you are doesn’t go
away so you don’t
really believe it’s yours
you’re driving it but you don’t really
believe it’s yours and you’re scared to
relax and really rest in whatever it is
or whoever it is
because everything else went away
maybe this will go away too
we talk about faith for bad times but
but you also need faith in Good Times
to actually believe
the goodness of God is not going
anywhere
to silence the voices
they keep saying you’ll never make it
you’re about to lose everything
fear gets in your heart
see see I know what it’s like to be poor
and I know what it’s like to be without
I know what it’s like not to have dinner
for my kids
returning to that that the idea that
that could happen
it’s terrifying
and the enemy always has some sort of
tool or memory or situation that he uses
to terrify you even though the good
times are here and and the dream is
there the blessing is there and the
goodness is there
but there’s always this haunting nagging
defiance
that says don’t you relax
you’re not worth it
you don’t deserve it
and it’s not going to last
resting in what God has done
it’s often more difficult
than receiving what God has done
to rest in it
to believe that it will last
to believe that you will answer love
will last that that life will last that
that good times will come that things
will be better it’s difficult because of
the voices and you are what you eat and
the voices are the food that feeds your
faith or fear
so if you want to change your diet
you can change your outcome
but you have to stop talking to yourself
the way you do
because if you continue to talk to
yourself the way you do you will always
be where you’ve always been
it is what you say within yourself that
heals you the woman within your blood
said to herself
if I can but Touch the Hem of His
Garment I’ll be made whole
there was no scripture to validate that
she could say she wasn’t quoting
Deuteronomy or new numbers or anything
like that it’s just something she said
to herself there was no Doctrine around
it
we’ve never seen that happen before but
she said to herself if I can’t even
Touch the Hem of His Garment I’ll be
made whole
and all otherwise she was crawling she
kept saying over and over again if I can
just touch if I can just touch if I can
just touch I can just touch them and
without Jesus permission
and without the support of the disciples
she creeped up on him and snatched a
miracle
snatched it
snatch it because of what she said to
herself
you see those voices that say what you
can’t do what you can’t have what you
can’t be what’s not going to last what’s
not going to work is how the enemy
pulverizes the promises of God in your
life
and it takes word to combat word that’s
why when Jesus was in the wilderness and
Satan was so unwarded him he was
throwing word back and what we have to
do is put word on Word
I’m blessed I’m blessed in the city I’m
blessed in the field I’m blessed in my
Uprising I’m blessed in my down setting
I’ll be blessed into my old age I’ll be
blessed when I’m an old man my
grandchildren will be blessed my body is
blessed my body is my mind is blessed my
head is blessed I got this I can handle
it I can do it bring it on here it is
that kind of talk saying that to
yourself drives back the other voices of
negativity that we all have creep up
behind us and tell us that we’re not
capable and we’re not competent and
we’re not gifted enough and we’re not
good enough or we waited too late or God
is punishing us
to talk back to those voices shut the
enemy down
the pressure I was going through
I was causing
because the pressure I was going through
was coming from the things that I
allowed to reverberate in my head
and I’m wondering if there are things
echoing in your head right now that are
stopping you from living your best life
because you will not silence him by
speaking back
you shall have whatever you say
so say it’s the word of God you shall
have whatever you say
if it’s betrayal you shall have whatever
you say
if it’s a life without love you shall
have whatever you say it doesn’t just
work positively it also works negatively
you shall have whatever you say she
touched him and she was made whole and
he says
who touched me
which means he’s oblivious to what’s
going on this is all happening in her
head
the whole thing happened in her head and
the Lord who is omniscient asks a
question who touched me
and the disciples wanted to be important
to answer to him so everybody touch you
he said no no no no no no no no that’s
not what I’m talking about everybody
around me don’t touch me
everybody around me don’t touch me
you’ve been sad everybody around me
don’t touch me just because you’re
around me don’t mean you touch me
somebody touched me somebody touched me
and she came out from the crowd as cheap
asleep and see it was me
when I say excellent you say excellent
excellent excellent excellent
the problem is
we all said the same word
but we don’t all mean the same thing
because what you call excellent what I
call excellent may be two different
things
based on the lives we’ve lived the
things we’ve experienced the places
we’ve been exposed to
our ideas of excellent may vary
drastically
based on how we Define Excellence the
problem with the English language is
that it is limited to interpretation
so how do you know when I say I love you
that I mean what you meant when you said
you love me
so we’re having a conversation and I’m
making an assumption that your love is
my love and it may not be at all
or we’re planning a banquet and I and I
make an assumption that you’re excellent
is my excellent
and it may not be at all
because the reality about it is your
definition of excellent Rises no higher
than your level of exposure
whatever you’ve been exposed to that
becomes the new paradigm of what
excellent is to you
and it shifts from day to day and the
hardest thing in the world is to have a
conversation with somebody and all you
have to use is words
because I’m not sure
that you mean what I mean
when I say excellent
I’m not sure that you mean what I mean
when I say love I’m not sure you mean
what I mean when I say loyal
I’m not sure you mean
what I mean
when I say her
because all we have
is worse
the reality is
we have to make up in our mind
that whatever our definition of
Excellence is
called change
it’s gonna get higher it’s gonna get
broader it’s gonna get better it’s going
to be different or
it’s going to go down
and a lot of it depends on who you hang
around
and what you’re exposed to there are
people that take you up there are people
that bring you down they bring you down
to their level of Excellence that’s what
that’s what a job description for a
hater looks like
the job description of the hater is to
bring you down to the level
that they are on
so that while they’re trying to pull you
down I’m trying to get up
and if I’m going to get up I have to
know that there’s going to be a cost in
getting up
I’m gonna have to put my back to it or
it’s not going to happen God wants
somebody to work with him and give what
it takes to make it happen
is it worth it
absolutely
I do not want to die
let me explain I I was born in between
two dead babies the baby before me died
the baby after me died I was raised by a
dying father
and I do not want to live my life and
die
and at the last moment of my life
ask this question wonder what would have
happened
if I’d have pushed a little harder
I don’t wanna I don’t want to get down
to the end of the road and and wonder
what would have happened if I’d have
pushed a little harder I don’t want to
wonder that I want to get down to the
end of the road like Paul and say I
fought a good fight I kept the faith I
finished my course and now later for me
is a crown of righteousness in the
heaven I don’t want to get down to my
last breath and wonder what would have
happened if I went back to school if I
took a course if I worked a little
harder if I change the way I dress if I
change the way I talk to people if I
forgave somebody if I release somebody I
don’t want to wonder about nothing
because that
is excellence
excellence
it’s a come out with the conclusion
I have no regrets