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not just gonna stand here and let you
run rough shot
over my family and over my own peace of
mind and peace of heart and over my
marriage and over
s and over my health and over my
business and over my Ministry I’m gonna
be a woman guarded in the armor that
will bring me victory in battle the Holy
Spirit guides us he pulls us now you can
walk you should walk but you’re walking
on some power you’re walking on some
undergirding you’re walking on some
strength because you’re walking with the
mind of the spirit consistent with the
Revelation and word of God so that he
can override
even if you are not convinced about what
it is that the word of God declares to
be true about you even if you’re not
sure about the nuances of your
inheritance as a co-heir to the kingdom
of God even if you are convinced that
you have rights and privileges that you
have access to the throne room of God as
the scripture says even if you aren’t
convinced you need to know that the
enemy is
he knows who you are
he knows that you have been made
competent by the spirit of God he
he have been qualified he knows that you
are already forgiven he knows that
you’ve already been made free he knows
that there is therefore now no
condemnation for those of us who are in
Christ Jesus he knows that he can form a
weapon against you but that that weapon
has absolutely no possibility of
prospering in your life he knows that in
the end we win
what a shame it would be
for him to believe more about your power
than you do
and I believe at least in part that is
why the Apostle Paul writes to us in the
book of Ephesians
now y’all know the Apostle Paul was a
bad brother
he wrote letter after letter to the
first century Christian churches to make
sure they knew who they were to disciple
them to mature them to bring them into
full knowledge and awareness of what it
would mean to be in relationship with
Jesus Christ and of all of Paul’s
writings which gives us about two-thirds
of our new testament Scholars say that
the Pinnacle of all of Paul’s writing
the cherry on top of the cake really the
creme de La Creme of all the apostles
wrote to us really Ephesians is that
cherry on top of the cake
and part of the reason why is because of
the six chapters he spends more than the
first half of the book just telling you
who you are
I mean he keeps tripping over himself
with robust language to try to
communicate to the people of God the
power that they have access to by virtue
of their relationship with Jesus he
wants you to know that you have been
blessed with every spiritual blessing
he’s going to tell you that God’s Grace
has been lavishly poured out upon you he
wants you to know in the first and
second chapter That You Are Holy and
blameless and forgiven and that you are
free oh if you haven’t taken time to
read it read through the book of
Ephesians because it’s going to tell you
that you are a co-heir with a hefty
spiritual inheritance he I want you to
know that even if you’ve been rejected
by everybody else your God has
hand-picked hand selected you chosen you
adopted you grafted you into the family
of God
he wants you to know you’ve been
snatched out of darkness and flung into
His Marvelous Light
he’s gonna trip over himself to make
sure you know that you once were dead in
your trespasses and in your sins but
you’ve now been made alive together with
Jesus Christ he wants you to know that
you are his workmanship you’re a
masterpiece a piece of art recreated in
Christ Jesus for good work so that you
can walk in them in fact the Apostle
Paul y’all he gets so worked up trying
to make sure we know how powerful we are
that before he even gets through the
first chapter he bursts out in a prayer
and says I’m praying that the eyes of
your heart would be opened
because if you would just know the hope
of his call again choosing you the
riches that have been made available to
you is going to change the course of
your life
so he spills over himself going over and
over trying to figure out how do I make
sure the Believers know who they are so
they can walk in some semblance of
Victory and freedom as they live the
Abundant Life to which they have been
commissioned
I want you to see the Apostle Paul
writing this letter he is in a Roman
prison at the time probably on house
arrest see the Apostle Paul in your
mind’s eye sitting on the cold hard
floor of his cell trying to figure out
the right words under the inspiration of
the Holy Spirit to make sure that the
sacred text communicates exactly what it
should and he gets to the end of this
letter having given us all this robust
language about our inheritance and our
power and our potential in Jesus Christ
and he’s trying to figure out how do I
close this letter
how do I make sure that they don’t get
tripped up that they live in the victory
that is there see the Apostle Paul
sitting on that cold floor hanging over
his parchment paper ink quill in hand
waiting for the inspiration of the Holy
Spirit to figure out how do I put an
exclamation point on this letter
how do I make sure that they will walk
in Victory all the days of their life
how do I make sure to close this thing
with such Clarity and such power that
they will know at the end of this letter
and at the end of this era
they’ve been called to walk in Victory
[Applause]
picture the possibility that he looks up
from his parchment paper his Roman cell
and he looks up to see two Roman
soldiers
standing right outside of the doorway
posted up to make sure their prisoner
stays put and he would have seen the
Roman soldiers equipped in their Roman
regalia
and then he crafts these words
in Ephesians chapter 6.
verse 10.
he says
finally
in conclusion
in the very end
after you’ve heard so much and I’ve
written so much and I’ve entrusted so
much to you and I’ve explained so much
after all these messages and all this
teaching and all this seed that has been
planted into the soil of our hearts
after all has been entrusted to us after
everything we’ve gotten from a call
Pastor Susie Owens and a Cheryl Brady
and a bishop Jakes and a Serita Jakes
and a Cynthia James and and a Jackie
McCoy after our lives have been poured
into for thirdest strong years
the Apostle Paul says finally
you ought to be strong in the Lord
and in the strength of his might
the Apostle Paul says be strong
get some spiritual meat on your bones
find in your faith
don’t you dare
years of ministry and walk out of these
doors and be weak-willed women pull
decide by every new age ideology and
philosophy of our culture be strong
don’t you dare walk out of these doors
and be pulled aside by every impulse of
the flesh be strong
be strong in the Lord and in the
strength of his might we’ve been too
filled up and too blessed and taught
beyond what we deserve people have
poured their lives into us we better
leave here and be strong
yo we can’t keep waiting on other people
to spoon feed us the word of God our
entire lives
we gotta grow up and be strong
what you gotta decide that I’m not gonna
sip on the Milk of the word my whole
life I need some meat because I’m mature
I’ve grown up I need some strengths
and I believe that part of the reason
why the Lord has allowed you and I this
privilege to be a part of this final
Woman Thou Art loose is because for so
many of us that are in this room these
72 hours is about getting you your
strength back
to remind you that the joy of the Lord
is your strength
pulse has finally you be strong in the
Lord and in the strength of his might
and he says here’s how you’re going to
be able to do it
put on the full armor of God
so that you may be able to stand firm
against the scheme somebody say schemes
come on y’all say schemes
stand firm against the schemes of the
devil
before we wrestle 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 therefore you ought to go ahead
and put down all the weapons that
haven’t been working for you anyway and
take up some weapons that actually have
power
take up the full armor of God so that
you can stand in the evil day and having
done everything to stand firm stand firm
therefore
the Apostle Paul tells us how to walk in
Victory to remember that we’re not just
children but we’re children with power
and he introduces for us in these three
verses almost for the very first time at
least this overtly in the context of the
New Testament it’s been inferred
throughout the new the Old Testament and
at different places throughout the new
but this is the very first time that
somebody comes right out Point Blank and
says you have an enemy
[Applause]
and your enemy
listen to me this is a revelation that’s
going to change somebody’s life
your enemy is not the person that you’re
sitting next to this morning
your enemy is not the spouse that you
left at home a couple days ago
that you work for the co-worker you sit
next to you know that one that if she
says one more thing to you you gonna
knock her out that one if someone
offends me or someone hurts me or does
something to me it rolls off my
shoulders pretty easy
if somebody comes to me and says hey
will you forgive me for what I did to
you I’m a forgive him and say girl come
on let’s move on we get it’s all right
I’m just
I’m wired that way I’m easy going
but if I find out
I’m saying don’t don’t get it twisted
if I find out that someone’s been
scheming
that’s a whole different story
because scheming implies pre-planning
if you’ve been scamming against me that
means you’ve been watching for a little
while
you’ve been trying to figure out what it
is about me that is most weak most frail
most vulnerable so that you can take
advantage of me you’ve been studying me
to find out what my patterns are and
what the predilection of My Flesh is and
what my preferences are so that you can
figure out the best time to take most
full advantage of me and the people that
I love
and when I find out that you haven’t
just been scheming against me but you’ve
had your eyes on this man that God has
given me to be married to for the past
23 years
when I find out you’ve been studying him
so that you can figure out what his weak
points are so that you can try to take
advantage of him and when I figure out
you’ve been looking into his history to
try to figure out how you can make
what’s in my history and in his history
combust so that we can’t have real
smooth passion and intimacy and
friendship in our marriage and when I
find out
that you haven’t just been scheming
against me and my man but you’ve had the
nerve to be watching these three boys
that the Lord has given to me to raise
into men of God
when I find out you had your eyes on my
kids
and you’ve been studying them so you can
already figure out at this young age
how you can trip them up so that they do
not reach the destiny that has been
assigned to them when I find out that
you’ve been scheming against me and the
people that I love well if it’s a war
you want
it’s a war you gonna have
the more you’re gonna have
because because I’m not just gonna stand
here and let you run roughshod
over my family and over my own peace of
mind and peace of heart and over my
marriage and over my finances and over
my health and over my business and over
my Ministry I’m gonna be a woman guarded
in the armor that will bring me victory
in battle
we gotta be strong
Paul says
get dressed for victory
he says you’re gonna need some stability
in your core to make sure that you’re
not pushed to the left or the right with
the schemes and the ploys of the enemy
against you you’re gonna need to be
girded in your short your core with a
belt called Truth
and then he says you’re going to need
something to guard your heart you’re
going to need a breastplate call
righteousness
and that he says that if you want any
hope of being able to move forward
successfully on the terrain of this life
you’re going to need something for your
feet your feet better be shot with the
preparation of the gospel of peace
he says no you’re gonna need a shield
because there are not just arrows but
flaming arrows that are going to be sent
by the enemy into your life and the
Flaming errors are not meant to kill you
they are meant to set fire on everything
around you so that you’re so distracted
putting out fires that you don’t have
time to advance against this Kingdom
so you’re gonna need a shield to
extinguish the Flaming missiles of the
evil one and that Shield is your faith
you’re gonna need something to cover
your mind because the enemy is trying to
erect strongholds which are basically
partitions that stand against the
knowledge of God so that you can’t hear
clearly the voice of God in your life
you’re going to need a helmet and that
helmet is your salvation
and then he says you’re going to need a
sword of the spirit the sword that he’s
referring to is not the three foot long
swore that we most picture no this is a
12 inch dagger he says you’re gonna need
a dagger of the spirit it was reserved
for when the enemy encroached beyond the
first lines of defense and the enemy was
in close combat he’s all up in your face
he says for the moments in life when
you’re encroached upon by the enemy
you’re gonna need something to make sure
that you Stave off the enemy you need a
dagger of the spirit
and that dagger is the word of God
and you’ve lived long enough
you’ve come to realize that
life is not always easy
and while we cherish those times of fun
and frivolity and play and excitement
we dread those times of pain and anguish
and struggle
someone has said that life can be
described as being bittersweet
it has those sweet moments that we
cherish and embrace
and those bitter moments that bring us
to tears hurt and pain
Paul is writing
includes his treaties to the church at
Ephesus
to talk to them about the battleground
of life
we call it spiritual warfare
but he’s not just talking about any kind
of battle
he describes this one specifically by
calling it The Evil day
the evil day
the evil day is when all hell breaks
loose on you
the evil day is when you are overwhelmed
yes life has its normal ups and downs
but that’s not what he’s talking about
here
talking about
when you are under major attack
when your world is being shattered
your dreams are being destroyed your
hopes are being dimmed and where you
look out and all you see is the light of
an oncoming train
he calls that the evil day
the day when hell is after you
and your name has come up
he says when that day comes when that
period of time when you’re under major
assault comes
he says I want you to understand how to
how to approach this
because he says on that day
you’re going to need the strength of the
Lord verse 10. normal stuff is not going
to work
and play in church show nothing won’t
work
he says on that day you’re going to need
the Supernatural and so he goes into
these verses
leading up to the subject of prayer to
tell us how to approach this time in
your life in my life now I want to make
sure that I’m not wasting my time on
this sermon so is anybody here know what
I’m talking about when I talk about an
evil day
an evil day
when you’re under massive spiritual
assault
well let me remind you
that everything visible and physical is
preceded by that which is invisible and
spiritual everything visible and
physical is preceded by that which is
invisible and spiritual
so Paul wants you to know if you want to
address in the time of your attack
the visible and physical you need to do
it from the perspective of the invisible
and spiritual
he gives you the term that he uses
throughout the book of Ephesians of
heavenly places
Heavenly places means the spiritual
Realm and what he’s saying is that when
you are under assault
when your life is being shattered you’re
trying to be in the will of God you’re
trying to walk with God but you’re being
attacked your well-being is being
attacked dreams of being attacked your
health is being attacked your stability
is being attacked your resources are
being attacked your future is being
attacked you are just under assault he
says during those times you have to view
things from the location of heavenly
places
or the spiritual realm if you’re going
to be strong to walk through work
through the times of those attacks
and he wants to set
the plan in place for how you’re going
to make it through the evil day
for those of you who’ve not yet been to
the evil day
keep living it’s coming
when you’re under assault
and your stability your world
is being you shaken
he says during those times three times
he says I want you to stand firm stand
firm
stand firm
don’t quit don’t quit don’t quit
because the Temptation is
easily to throw in the towel when your
world is collapsing right in front of
your eyes
he says the first thing I want you to
understand
is that you wrestle not against flesh
and blood
in other words people aren’t the source
of your problem
they may be the conduit for your problem
but they’re not the source of your
problem
for we Christians wrestle not against
flesh and blood but principalities and
powers and World forces that are located
in Heavenly places or the spiritual
Realm so if you address the resource
without addressing the source all you’ve
done is created a delay for it to come
back up again
because you’ve not gotten to the root
of the problem we’re just addressing the
fruit
of the problem and so what he is saying
is the source is spiritual
he first of all wants to set the stage
by saying on the evil day
when you’re in this season of Attack
I want you to stand firm which means to
hold your ground in the Lord he says be
strong in the Lord to hold your
spiritual ground
it is easy to be swayed and moved off of
Santa when you’re suffering it is easy
to be swayed and move off of the source
of your hope when you’re going through
it and you see no exit sign it is easy
to be moved but he says during those
times when you are under assault and
your world is being stripped from right
underneath you he calls it the evil day
says during that time I want you to grab
more tightly your faith don’t loosen it
up
stand firm when you’re under the fire of
the evil one when you’re under Fire of
demonic attack when you’re under the
fire of suffering you do not run away
from God when you are in the evil day
you have to run to God when you’re in
the midst of the evil day
because you’re now engaged in spiritual
warfare
he says stand firm hold on to your faith
he then tells you how to dress for
Spiritual success
he gives you the Armor of God
he tells you I want you to get dressed
for the battle
now when you’re in a war and when you’re
in a parade
a military parade they show the weapons
when you’re in a war you use the weapons
because in the evil day this is not show
time at the Apollo
this is time when you gotta get dressed
he says you’ve got to put on truth put
on righteousness put on peace he goes on
he says you got to put on faith he says
you got to put on the helmet of
salvation then he says you’ve got to use
the sword of the spirit which is the
word of God he gives these six pieces of
spiritual Arsenal or Spiritual armor
that the believer is to utilize when it
comes to taking a stand in the evil day
or when you’re under spiritual attack
and spiritual oppression that’s
affecting your physical Financial
circumstantial
emotional family well-being take your
stand harder than you’ve ever taken it
before but put on this armor but now you
may not remember all the pieces of the
armor so let’s make it easy because
Romans Chapter 13 Verse 14 says
put on Christ
if you can’t remember all the pieces
remember this one
put on Christ why because he says I want
you to be put on Truth Jesus says I am
the way the truth and the life he says I
want you to put on righteousness
scripture says Christ is our
righteousness he says put on peace Jesus
said in this world you will have
tribulation but I give you my peace he
says put on the helmet of salvation
scripture is clear Jesus is the author
and finisher of our salvation and then
he says put on the word of God use the
sword of the spirit John 1 1 says in the
beginning was the word the word was with
God the Word was God verse 14 and the
word became flesh and dwelt Among Us
Jesus says he is the word so if you
don’t remember truth remember Jesus if
you don’t remember righteousness
remember Jesus if you don’t remember
peace remember Jesus if you don’t
remember Faith remember Jesus if you
don’t remember the helmet of salvation
remember Jesus if you don’t remember the
Bible remember Jesus because Jesus is
the full armor of God
this is centered in God’s son who is the
revelation of God the manifestation of
God who is the power of God to manifest
himself
particularly in the evil day now you
want to do it all the time but you
better do it in the evil day
when the doctors don’t have answers when
the bankers don’t have answers when your
friends don’t have answers and sure
enough when you don’t have answers you
need to
be centered on the person of Jesus
Christ and all the tools
that he offered you but he says you got
to put him on
with all prayer and petition
pray at all times in the spirit
and with this of you be on the alert
with all perseverance and petition
for all the saints the way you put on
Christ that is practically utilize him
to equip you to move through the battle
you face
with prayer
now prayer is relational communication
with God
a lot of people want to pray
when they’re in spiritual warfare
who have not prayed till they got the
spiritual warfare
in other words they don’t know how to
stand strong in the Lord because they
haven’t been standing with the Lord
now that they’re in an emergency they
need the Lord
he’s talking about staying in touch with
him all day that’s why first
Thessalonians 5 17 says pray without
ceasing in other words stay in touch
with me now let me explain why this is
so important the evil day is
principalities powers and World forces
this means you are under attack
this means that this attack is coming
from
the devil and demons it is unfortunate
that far too many Christians have lost
sight of demons
demons are angels that went rogue demons
are the spiritual Mafia that attacks us
in the spiritual that brings about our
pain in the physical
and the Bible has an answer to Demons
the answer to Demons are angels so
here’s how this works the Bible declares
every Christian has been assigned an
angel
and the job of the Angel is to look
after the well-being of the believer so
every Christian has an angel that is
assigned to you by God
one of the jobs of your angel is
through award the Demonic attack that is
coming against you because Angels know
how to fight angels and so when the
Demonic Angel comes to bring pain and
anguish and defeat in your world and in
your life you have an angel
the Bible says when we pray we engage
God the Holy Spirit and I’ll talk about
him in a moment who is who activates the
angel assigned to you to deal with the
Demonic oppression that is coming
against you so he says with all
perseverance
but he tells you something else and it’s
the key he says pray in the spirit
verse 18. don’t just pray meaning don’t
just have conversation
but he says I want you to pray in the
spirit
uh the question is what does that mean
the Bible
talks about the role of the spirit
is to deliver the mind of God
First Corinthians chapter 2.
verse 9 and 10.
but just as it is written things which I
have not seen
and Earth not heard
and which has not been entered into the
heart of man
all that God has prepared for those who
love him
for to us God revealed them he’s not
talking about heaven it’s on my Earth to
us God reveal them through the spirit
for the spirit searches all things
even the depths of God
see when you’re in the evil day that
means folk can’t help you when you’re in
the evil day they have limitations that
they can do for you and you need
something that I have not seen ear hath
not heard and the imagination is not
conceived of you need the supernatural
to enter into the natural now being in
the spirit
is opposed in scripture to being in the
flesh
to be in the spirit let me start with
the participle in he wants you to be
in the spirit so he does not want you
visiting and exiting
he wants you operating in the realm of
the spirit what is the realm of the
spirit the realm of the spirit is a
spiritual mindset
in Romans chapter 8 verses 1 to 13 he
gives this extended discussion about the
spirit and he says when you have the
spirit you have the mind of the spirit
so this has to do with how you’re
thinking the mind is your fault he wants
you to think spiritually not secularly
he wants you to think biblically not
worldly he wants you to think the mind
of Christ not the mind of man Galatians
5 verse 16 but I say walk by the spirit
and you will not carry out the desire of
the flesh
for the flesh that’s its desire against
the spirit
and the spirit against the flesh for
these are in opposition to one another
so that you may not do the things that
you please
he says there is a battle
and it’s a battle between the spirit and
the flesh
let me Define the flesh
the flesh
is the desire to please self
independently of God
the flesh is the desire to please
yourself
as opposed to pleasing God we all battle
with the flesh
walk in the spirit and you will not
fulfill the desire please don’t misread
that he didn’t say you won’t have the
desire
because the flesh Wants What It Wants so
you will have the desire but the spirit
will override it don’t read the verse in
Reverse don’t read to get rid of the
desire of the flesh walk in the spirit
that’s backwards walk in the spirit and
it will overrule the desire of the flesh
it will overrule it the capacity to do
what you need to do or what God wants
done will be activated in your
experience as you walk in the spirit now
many times people will say I’m praying
but nothing is happening well let me
explain
many Christians pray they doing the
right thing but they’re doing it in the
flesh they’re doing it in the wrong
environment and if you’re doing the
right thing in the wrong environment the
right thing won’t work so just because
you say your prayers in the morning say
grace at dinner and say your bedtime
prayer that’s the right thing but the
question is have you been walking in the
right environment because if you’re not
walking in the right environment doing
the right thing won’t work and in fact
it can help kill you quicker so he says
all all all
I want you to be consumed with being in
my presence Walking In the Flesh he says
we’ll put you in a spiritual graveyard
but walking by the spirit will put you
and here’s how you know because
you’re no longer having to force things
when you’re in the spirit but the Bible
calls the spirit a wind
a wind it blows the Bible says the Holy
Spirit guides us he pulls us now you can
walk you should walk but you’re walking
on some power you’re walking on some
undergirding you’re walking on some
strength because you’re walking with the
mind of the spirit consistent with the
Revelation and word of God so that he
can override
and so you begin to flow in it
even though you still have to walk
and even though you may have a ways to
go