Dr. Tony Evans is the founder and senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, founder and president of The Urban Alternative, chaplain of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, and author of over 100 books, booklets & Bible studies. His radio broadcast, The Alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, can be heard on more than 1,300 US outlets daily and in more than 130 countries.
we have been studying and we are
studying the armor of God from Ephesians
chapter 6 we have explained that you and
I are engaged in a spiritual battle and
our premise is very simple until we
address the invisible spiritual cause of
a matter we can never fully address its
visible physical manifestation most of
the things that happen into our lives
come from a visible physical reality but
Paul wants us to know that it emanates
from an invisible spiritual source it is
your ability and my ability to address
the invisible spiritual cause that leads
to the visible physical cure the
unfortunate problem today is that most
of us address physical visible problems
in physical visible ways which means on
our best day we’re dealing with fruit
not route we’re dealing with a cure
without addressing its cause Paul wants
you to know flesh and blood the physical
realm is not the source of your problem
it is merely the vehicle through which
the source works to bring you your
problem so if you spend all of your time
addressing the physical visible
manifestation flesh and blood and very
little of your time dealing with the
invisible spiritual cause or source or
root then the best thing you can do with
that issue is manage it not fix it
because you’re not dealing with where it
came from the scripture says that we
died with him we were buried with him we
were raised with him and now we are
seated with him in heavenly places he
says that in the book of Ephesians we
are now living spiritually in another
realm so that unless you operate in this
realm from that
you will be controlled by this realm so
much of our defeat frustration misery
anguish agony and difficulty comes from
the fact that we are forgetting our
primary location because we have
forgotten the fact that the spiritual
realm and your ability to function in it
determines how you make out in the realm
of the five senses the problem occurs
because the realm of the five senses
we’re used to the realm of the five
senses that’s the way we flow the five
senses that’s the environment that we
know about hearing and seeing and
tasting and touching and smelling we we
know that world this other world seems
so out there so otherworldly so spacey
so Twilight Zone ish it seems so
untouchable so because it doesn’t seem
as real as the five senses it’s not
given the priority of the five senses
which means we’re controlled by the five
senses what Paul wants you to understand
is that what Jesus Christ achieved we
ought to stand firm in that’s why he
says over and over again
stand firm stand firm stand firm
beginning in verse ten because he wants
you and I don’t understand that we don’t
have to leave what Christ did to deal
with what we faced the moment you leave
it you lose your positioning so we
started off with his first piece of
armour we call it dressing for success
he calls it in verse 13 he calls it the
belt of truth if you’re going to operate
from the spiritual realm verse 14 you
must first of all put on your truth belt
we explain truth is God based knowledge
truth is more than facts you can have
facts and not have the truth if you only
operate on the facts you may never
graduate to the truth and only the truth
set you free but the truth that sets you
free must be the truth you know you
shall know the truth and the truth will
set you free so if you don’t know the
truth you won’t be free and if you
settle for facts without graduating to
the truth
then you’re settling for information
that’s not transforming so a lot of us
operate on facts and information never
getting to the truth which is the god
based reality behind the information and
if you never get to that you’ll never
get to God if you never get to God you
never get the truth if you never get the
truth you never get to the origin of a
thing if you never get to the origin of
the thing you never get to the cause and
cure for the thing you’re dealing with
that the facts have indicated to you
facts are not enough facts are essential
you got to start with facts to get to
the truth but facts are never enough
facts are just the starting point to
deliver the truth facts are the truth is
objective absolute reality it’s
subjective it operates outside of you
it’s absolute it’s non-negotiable and
it’s reality in its original form
therefore the only original person is
God so the only way you can arrive at
truth is to start from what God says
about a subject that’s why we told our
young people when you start with truth
but David said you can know more than
your teachers because they’re occupied
with facts never arriving at the truth
he then says you put on the breastplate
of righteousness in verse 14 he says the
breastplate of righteousness when you
learn the truth you know the right way
to go so then you move in the right way
because of the truth you’ve now
discovered once the truth governs the
decision then you are now protected why
because the devil operates in a lie and
he operates wrongly so if you’re
operating in the truth and moving
rightly he has no influence over you so
you need truth God based knowledge that
leads to right decision making right
choices where Satan cannot enter or
operate from which blocks him the moment
he can function on the line or function
on facts without truth or get you to
move wrongly rather than rightly gotcha
in the spiritual realm which manifests
itself in the visible physical realm he
now comes to verse 15 our verse for the
day and he wants to talk about the issue
hey let’s talk about issues he’s moved
from your belt to your breastplate which
is the heart of righteousness heart to
please the Lord heart to move in the way
the truth has directed you and now he
wants to talk about your shoes this is
the day of shoes there are shoes for
everything their dress shoes they are
casual shoes there are making kind of
athletic shoes there are shoes that you
put on your feet
appropriate to every occasion I am sure
most of the ladies in here have a
Wardrobe full of shoes shoes all over
the place designed to adorn your feet
guess what Paul wants you to know Paul
says in verse sir 14 there are shoes
that if you’re wearing and don’t take
them off will address a major issue of
spiritual warfare in your life he says
in verse 15 having your feet shod with
the preparation of the gospel of peace
having your feet shod with the
preparation of the gospel of peace sharp
means what you have on he says on your
feet ought to be some Footwear and this
Footwear is preparation for the gospel
of peace the Greek word for preparation
means readiness you will be ready for
the devil if you got your shoes on you
will be ready for his attacks if you’re
wearing your shoes he says if your feet
are shod you will be in readiness you
will be prepared to deal with the enemy
but you got to have you shoes on now to
understand why he is saying this you
have to understand that the roman
soldier had what most football would all
football players have they had clicks
they had spikes that emanated out of
their shoes and the purpose of the spike
in the Roman soldiers shoe was to give
him sure footing it was to keep him from
going James Brown slipping and sliding
it was to keep him
oh boy it was to keep him stationary in
battle and in conflict so he was not
easily knocked over so he was not evilly
dismantled because the cleat the spikes
that came out of the bottom of his shoe
gave him sure footing when he was under
attack because we thought my spiritual
warfare so when the Roman soldier was
under attack the the spite the clean
would give him footing so that the enemy
would not knock him down knock him over
would not remove him from his place of
stability when he says have your feet
shod he is talking about positioning
yourself in a stationary position so
when the devil comes which he calls the
evil day in this passage he can’t knock
you over he can’t knock you off of your
feet
he can’t knock you out and knock you
down because what you have on you is
stationary it is sunk itself in deep
giving you a stationary position or
sure-footedness in order to keep him
from knocking you over I know what it is
you know what it is the various levels
to be knocked over by the evil one
you’ve been knocked over your
circumstances have knocked you over your
situation is knock you over other people
have knocked you over your finances is
not you over your job situation is not
you over it has removed you from your
place of stability your sure-footedness
has slipped you have slipped and slid
because you were not able to hold on to
the turf he has told us over and over
again stand firm stand firm stand firm
he now tells us at fifteen you can’t
stand firm without shoes on you need
shoes on you need shoes with clicks to
hold you steady when you’re under attack
so what he wants to do is create here it
is stability he wants to create
sure-footedness he doesn’t want you
sliding he wants you steady he wants you
holding on to the ground he wants you
solidified in the turf he wants you
holding
under attack because this is a war frame
under attack I wish I could tell you now
that you know Jesus you won’t be
attacked but that’s a lot we know it’s a
lie
ain’t nothing but alive from hell
because sometimes you haven’t seen hard
tell you met Jesus because once you meet
Jesus you are now under attack now now
let me tell you the essence of the
attack and we’ll deal with this the shoe
that you supposed to be wearing the
essence of the attack of the spiritual
realm Satan and demons the essence of
the attack is to keep God’s purposes
we’ll provision blessings from being
manifested in your life the purpose of
his worn out as you’re saying he can’t
take away your salvation but he can sure
make you a miserable Christian so since
he can’t take away from your salvation
what he does want is to keep your
salvation from working for you they
can’t keep you out of heaven but he can
make you have hell on earth by keeping
what has happened to you when you
accepted Christ from being manifested in
your reality so that’s his goal in
spiritual warfare to keep you in defeat
and to keep you playing defense he
doesn’t want you in an offense position
but we gonna change the side of the ball
we on he says I want you to put on the
shoes and what is this pass shoes you
and I are supposed to be wearing we
started with truth God based knowledge
objective absolute reality in its
original form God based form we go to
right decision-making rightness in light
of the truth that I learned he now says
put on some shoes and these shoes are
the gospel of peace
he says the shoes I want you to wear
under attack is the gospel of peace
let’s talk about peace all of us know
the opposite of peace anxiety weary
that’s the opposite of peace so if you
don’t know what peace is
if you know what where he is not doing
that that’s peace okay the biblical
definition of peace is calm and
tranquility of soul pieces call and
tranquility of soul in the midst of
difficult circumstances let me give you
that definition again the biblical
definition of araignee the greek word
for peace is calm and tranquility of
soul despite external turmoil two
painters one day were asked to paint a
picture of peace in a contest and they
wanted to see they were going to win
$1,000 whoever painted the best picture
of peace the first painter painted his
picture and all what a serene a portrait
it was it was a picture of a lake the
Sun was glistening off of the lake so
you could see the the shine across the
water the water was still the painting
included a shepherd walking sheep by
this serene lake trees were on the side
of the lake with birds in them and it
was a picture of calm and tranquility
and ease and peace what a great picture
the second gentleman came out with his
portrait and it wasn’t like the first
one the sky was pitch black lightning
was shooting through the Thunder was
roaring the waves on the water were
billowing up and down boats that were on
the water were being tossed about trees
were blowing in the wind
horrific Lee it was a portrait of
disaster but in the corner all the way
at the bottom on the left-hand side of
the portrait right there at the edge of
this horrific
circumstance in life was a little bird
standing on a rock with its mouth open
songs coming out of its mouth and one
little light coming from the darkness of
the cloud shining down all the bird as
it’s sung in the midst of its darkness
when they made the decision about the
portrait they said the second man one
with the dark surroundings because
that’s biblical peace biblical peace is
with nothing’s wrong I’m calm when
nothing’s wrong you’re supposed to
become something wrong with you if
nothing’s wrong and you worried if
nothing’s wrong and you’re anxious you
have issues biblical peace is when
everything is wrong there is Sun and
lightning and the winds blowing and
circumstances are against you and
nothing looks right and you’re still
singing it’s when nothing should be
creating a song and you still have a
song it’s when there is tranquility on
the inside
despite chaos on the outside it’s when
things are at ease when trouble is all
around you don’t know whether you have
biblical peace until things are not
peaceful the only way you got biblical
peace as opposed to peace that anybody
would have one everything’s okay
is because all hell has broke loose and
you still singing guess what the Bible
calls that it calls it a peace that
passes understanding in Philippians
chapter 4 he says the peace that God
gives is a peace you don’t understand
and the reason you don’t understand it
it’s because based on the situation you
shouldn’t be peaceful right now so why
am i singing when there is no song why
am i calm when everything’s chaotic why
can I be stable when everything around
me is trouble because God has given me a
peace that passes
understanding cuz I don’t even
understand why I’m singing right now so
nobody else understands why I’m come
right now nobody also understand why
when I lost my job I didn’t lose my mind
nobody else understands why when there’s
no money in the bank I’m still praising
the Lord for his provision nobody else
understands why the doctor gave me a bad
prognosis and I’m still laying here
blessing the Lord O my soul and all that
is within me I’m blessing His Holy Name
nobody else understands why when my
world is falling apart I’m not falling
apart with it cuz you got a peace that
passes understanding that’s peace in the
Bible in fact so important is this peace
this calm the Colossians 3 verse 15 says
let the peace of God rule in your heart
let the peace of God rule in your heart
the Greek word for rule means umpire
what are the numpy during a baseball
game ball strikes he calls it that’s one
upon does he calls it if it’s a ball
cause the ball if his strike causes a
strike
and guess what whatever he calls it
that’s the way it is he makes the call
let the peace of God make the call in
your life now why do you need to know
that because life is full of decisions
and choices life is full of you know do
I go this way do I go this way do I go
that way he says once you’ve aligned
with truth you found God’s view on a
matter once you’ve now begun to do
righteousness based on the truth let the
peace of God
make the call in other words God will
show you what to do once you’re
operating on the truth you know by
giving you a calm about the decision he
will calm your heart by the Holy Spirit
giving you peace sometimes you’ll look
at a situation and all the facts may
line up but you’ll say but I just don’t
feel right about it
something not right about this something
that God hasn’t released me I do not
have peace or calm about this thing you
always hold up where there is no peace
because what he says is I want your feet
and remember the Greek word is to have
is the verb is to have meaning don’t
ever take these shoes off you are to
flow in peace once you’ve picked up
truth and righteousness peace is to be
your flow okay now now let me explain
something here if peace is not your
normal way of operating you’re out of
sync spiritually let me say it another
way if worry is your normal way of
operating
if weary is your modus operandi if
anxiety is how you roll you just go from
one worry to another one anxiousness to
another and that’s how you roll you’re
not wearing your shoes you going out
with no shoes on you suppose a role with
peace not role with worry
so the mere fact that work now everybody
has moments of worry because we still
live in our flesh but I’m talking about
what’s normative for you it’s peace
normative or is worry and anxiety
normative if where we an anxiety is
normative then that means you are not
wearing your shoes but don’t worry cuz
I’m gonna tell you how to put your shoes
on and how to time up okay but I just
want to get this straight peace is to be
the normal ruling operative program in
your life John 14 verse 27 John 14 verse
27 Jesus is getting ready to go into a
very non peaceful situation and given I
be crucified
guess what Jesus says on his way to be
crucified he turns his disciples in John
14:27 and he says peace I leave with you
he says and then he goes deep he says my
peace I leave with you not as the world
gives you peace see the world can give
you peace momentarily okay
the world can give you peace in the form
of a pill
give you pill-popping peace okay hey the
world will give you pill-popping peace
the world will give you peace in form of
an ejection okay the world will give you
peace and former Prozac the world will
give you peace in form of entertainment
if I get entertained then for two hours
three hours I wanted to think about our
measure of all I am because of it so the
world will give you peace but here is
the difference between the peace God
gives and the peace the world gives the
peace the world gives is outside in it’s
something they do outside that you put
in here that makes you feel better
temporarily Jesus says that is not the
peace I’m talking about peace I leave
with you and the peace that I leave with
you will be my peace and what kind of
peace do you have peace that can even
handle a cross because he’s on his way
to be crucified peace that can handle
you get ready to be slain that’s the
peace cuz I’m get ready go to the cross
and I’m chilling making ready put crown
of thorns in my head and I’m cool you
know I don’t prefer it I don’t like it
let this cup pass from me but we gonna
roll with it he says that’s the kind of
peace I want you to have and that’s the
kind of peace I want to be normal for
you not showing up every now and then
where we should show up every now and
then
anxiety should show up every now and
then peace you suppose wrong with as
long as you leave your shoes on okay
so he says put on or have your feet shod
with the preparation of the gospel jesus
said in another place he says in John
16:33
he says peace I leave with you in this
world you will have tribulation but be
of good cheer I have overcome the world
now in order to overcome something you
gotta have something to overcome
that’s why peace is always tied to you
overcoming something so many things go
wrong in a day in a week in a month in a
year some of it you have control of it
some of it you have absolutely no
control over and it’ll send you spinning
so hear me out now how do you put the
shoes on tie latham up and don’t take
them off he tells you
have your feet shod with the preparation
here it is of the gospel of peace peace
that Jesus is giving away he says is in
the gospel okay
follow me now peace that Jesus is giving
away is in the gospel let me say that
again peace that Jesus is giving away is
not in a pill and not in the shot
not in your homies not in your favorite
television program not in the movies not
in a vacation not even more money not in
a better job that’s the world’s peace he
says the peace that I am talking about
that you wear on your feet that hole
your stable regardless of external
situations is in the gospel he calls it
the gospel of peace so to understand the
peace that Jesus is talking about you
got to understand the gospel so let’s go
back to the gospel the Greek word for
gospel is the word who are Gallion
that’s how it’s pronounced p1 Gallion
it’s simply translated good news so I
got some good news for you the good news
of peace now watch this you just
thinking with me man because we can’t
read go deep-sea diving okay the good
news of peace the human galley on the
gospel this word is used a whole lot in
the New Testament but it was rarely ever
used outside of the New Testament even
in classical Greek or Koine Greek Koine
Greek means the Greek of the common
people so classical Greek was the more
sophisticated Greek coin a Greek was a
Greek of the everyday folk okay the word
gospel is rarely found in classical or
Koine Greek but it’s all over the New
Testament why didn’t they use it much
because the word gospel in the normal
Greek dialect and dialogue and Greek
speaking to people would only be used
when the
News was so good it was too good to be
true so I didn’t use this word I mean
it’s like going around talking about
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious I
mean that’s just not something you do
you know that’s not a normal use work
well they wouldn’t use you want to get
me on to Arthur because the news had to
be so good it had to be too good to be
true yet in the Gospels and in the
epistles its gospel gospel gospel gospel
gospel gospel why cuz the good news is
too good to be true
so the question is what’s the good news
then that’s so good that is too good to
be true well we all know that the gospel
refers to the death and resurrection of
Jesus Christ as our substitute for our
sins we know that and we know that when
a person trusts Christ alone for the
forgiveness of sins and for the gift of
eternal life they are forgiven for time
and eternity for sin we know that okay
and that means we are saved or born
again could you say I’m saved but I
don’t live with peace I live with worry
well you’re the problem you either don’t
believe or understand the gospel or I
don’t believe or understand the gospel
and here’s the problem most Christians
apply the gospel only to what it takes
to get to heaven see if we only apply
the gospel to getting saved so that I
don’t go to hell and I go I go to live
with Jesus Christ forever yes yes the
part of the gospel the gospel has all a
bunch to do with earth I love Romans 5
verses 5 to 10 read it when you get a
chance P says you know when we were
sinners Christ died for us but then he
says if we were saved by his death how
much more shall we be saved by his life
in other words we saved for heaven by
his death but he says when he rose from
the dead and went up to heaven and
seated on the right hand depart
he’s delivering you for life we know the
gospel because of the death what we have
missed is the gospel of the life all
right now I do want you to turn here
first Thessalonians 5:23 first
Thessalonians 5:23 okay here is where we
gonna go deep-sea diving here now may
the God of peace hidden now may the God
of peace himself oh I love that word
himself it means God with nobody else’s
help
may the God of peace himself sanctify
you entirely and may your spirit and
soul and body be preserved complete
without blame at the coming of our Lord
Jesus Christ let me read that again may
the God of peace all by himself himself
sanctify you entirely and may your
spirit and soul and body be preserved
complete without blame at the coming of
the Lord Jesus Christ okay here we go
here we go here we go when you accepted
Jesus you were justified that means God
declared you righteous and now you got a
free passport to heaven but the rest of
your time on earth is being sanctified
that is being transformed in your soul
he says the God who gives peace does it
as part of his sanctification process
and the God who gives peace who doesn’t
as part of this part of the gospel the
sanctifying part of the gospel does it
here it is from spirit to soul to body
and the order is everything he does not
do it from body to soul to spirit he
does it from spirit to soul to body so
if you’re looking out here for peace you
look
in the wrong direction he does not stop
with the body then go to the soul then
wind up with the spirit he stops at the
spirit he says the God of peace and he
moves to the soul then he moves to the
body the reason why we can’t find peace
is we’re doing it backwards Christian
soldiers we’re trying to find peace in
the wrong direction all right let me
explain your spirit that’s the god part
of you that’s the perfect part of you if
any man is in Christ the new creation
all things pass away and behold all
things become new the second Corinthians
5:17
he says the spirit is the things of God
the nature of God that’s been deposited
in every believer and it is perfect all
of God is operative right now in your
spirit everything of God’s powers in
your spirit God’s presences in your
spirit joy is in your spirit pieces in
your spirit powers in your spirit
righteousness is in your spirit holiness
is in your spirit everything that’s
perfect is in your spirit that is the
one part of you the devil does not have
access to because of the devil had
access to it it wouldn’t be perfect it
is the perfect divine nature of God and
it is the only place the spiritual realm
of darkness does not have access to if
you accepted Christ you got a pill
inside of you a spirit pill a seed the
Bible calls it that is full of the DNA
of diggety all right the problem is your
perfect spirit is lodged in your
imperfect soul your soul is your
personality it’s your mind your emotions
and you will that’s your personality and
that is distorted and damaged so if your
body is malfunctioning it’s because it’s
got a malfunctioning soul the mind is
malfunctioning the emotions are
malfunctioning and the choices are
malfunctioning a malfunctioning soul
which all of us have leads to a
malfunctioning body well now if I got a
malfunctioning body and I got a
malfunctioning soul heís my
malfunctioning body gonna go out and fix
my malfunctioning body what my body is
malfunctioning
I can’t fix me I can only try to manage
my mess that’s my new year’s resolutions
don’t less because that’s managing your
mess that is trying to get the outside
of you to fix the inside of you God
doesn’t work that way he works first
let’s only 5:23 from spirit to soul to
body that’s how he works so it is so if
I want my body to work right I gotta get
my soul working right because my body
only does what my soul tells it to do
but the problem is my soul doesn’t work
right my soul has been affected by the
way I was raised my soul has been
affected by the sins I’ve committed my
soul has been affected by people who
committed sins against me my soul has
been affected by scenario my soul has
been affected by what my peers think my
soul has been affected by television and
radio and and movies and my soul has
been affected by things I’ve learned in
school and my soul has got all this
information coming to it and that’s why
my soul is one way one year in another
way another year that’s why my
personality is all up and down and and I
got a problem in my soul and my soul is
telling my body what to do so when my
soul is worried my body starts twitching
so when I get nervous and and I say
nervous long enough my eyes start
twitching because because my soul is
damaged and it’s telling my body what to
do it’s called psychosomatic illnesses
that’s what psychology calls it
psychology the study of the soul is cell
you can have psychosomatic illnesses you
go to the doctor and you say this is our
nature and they say I can’t find
anything wrong well what has happened is
that the damaged soul is rubbing off
from the body and so the body is
expressing the damage and that’s what
happens when we lose our peace the peace
is not lost in the body the peace is
lost in the soul so the body can’t sleep
the peace is lost in the soul so the
body wants to stay laying down the peace
is lost in the soul so the body gets mad
and you get a temper and you cuss and
fuss and stay mad cuz you got an angry
soul it just comes out in your
vocabulary
it’s the angry soul the unpeaceful soul
that’s telling the body that you got to
let everybody else know how miserable
you are so when you say somebody don’t
you ought to stop cussing you are not
cuss like a sailor when their soul has
not been fixed all they can do is manage
language they can’t be changed by it so
but most people start at the body and
hope they can do something with the toll
so they go for an analyzing and
counselling so I’m gonna save you three
hundred dollars an hour right now okay
this is free may the God of peace the
God who gives him to peace all by
himself himself sanctify you the Greek
word sanctify means to set apart as
unique or special to some time on
something special now may the God of
peace sanctify you in your spirit soul
and body so here’s how it works the goal
of the spirit is to release into the
soul the DNA of God the goal of the
Spirit is to release into the soul the
DNA of God so that the soul gets changed
because of what’s being released into it
by the spirit then the goal of the soul
is to release the DNA that came from the
spirit into the body so the body
piggybacks off the soul because the soul
is piggybacking off of the spirit the
reason why we don’t have peace is that
the soul is not piggybacking off the
spirit so the soul doesn’t have that
information to pass on so the question
is how do I get the soul to piggyback
off of the Spirit so that I can have
peace coz I need to go to sleep I need
to be able to rest I need to stop
worrying I need to stop twitching I need
to stop being so anxious but my soul has
gotta get back to my spirit not
to my body okay it is in order for the
soul to grab the spirit here it is the
soul must agree with the spirit okay
follow me now if the soul disagrees with
the spirit the spirit won’t relief
anything because the spirit is perfect
and it won’t partner with imperfection
the spirit will only partner with the
soul when the soul agrees with the
spirit which is why you must start with
truth you must start with truth because
that’s the way things really are despite
how you feel
despite what mama taught you despite
what you learned in school despite what
you know all your life the spot what
your posse thinks if it doesn’t agree
with the spirit it must be rejected once
the soul accepts the outside the inside
will close up clam up and release
nothing so you could be searching for
peace for the rest of your life and all
you will get is management on the
outside and no change on the inside
because nothing is being released from
the spirit into the soul because the
gospel only relates to what Jesus Christ
accomplished not what the doctor can
prescribe it only relates to what Jesus
Christ has accomplished may the God of
peace send peace from the spirit into
the soul so that it winds up in the body
so here’s the only way to get peace I’m
talking about real peace not fake peace
the only way is when the soul has to
make a decision when you have to decide
which way to go which road to take how
am I gonna not worry in this situation I
just lost my job there’s no money in the
bank I got the facts the facts don’t
look good the facts are causing me to
worry I must then retreat to what the
Spirit says the Spirit says I don’t have
any money in my pocket but the Spirit
says my God shall supply all your needs
according to his riches and glory
in Christ Jesus now that’s what the
Spirit says in truth my song says you
broke as a skunk my soul says how you
gonna pay your light bill my soul says
they gonna kick you out of your house my
soul says and that’s the fact is I’m
broke
the fact is my soul is telling me the
truth they gonna cut my lights up it’s
not that my soul is wrong is that my
soul doesn’t have the truth it just has
the facts but once my soul goes to my
spirit and the spirit says the truth of
God’s Word and the soul and the spirit
agree a release valve is opened up and
out of the spirit flowing into the soul
is the peace of God that passes
understanding
but the Spirit has been able to release
into the soul so now my body can go to
sleep at night knowing I’m going to
sleep on the truth and I can tell you
because God is the truth
so the God of peace will flow peace
listen the moment you begin to worry you
ought to tell you so the moment that
word pops up you can’t stop it from
popping up but the moment it pops up in
six is control that’s the moment you
want to run to the spirit and the only
way to run there is to find out God’s
view on the subject that’s the only way
to run to the spirit you know that’s why
I love for the beans for seven it says
be anxious for nothing but in all things
through prayer and supplication let your
requests be made known to God and it
says and watch this now I love this and
when you go to God doing those worrisome
moments
watch as it says Philippians 4:7 says go
with Thanksgiving why does he tell you
to go with Thanksgiving okay watch this
you won’t miss this is a sweet
because when God deposited the spiritual
seed in you it’s like an acorn all the
oak is already located now that you
don’t have to infuse anything into an
acorn to help it become an oak once it’s
planted in the right location it will
becoming oak because all the oak is
already in the Acorn all the God is
already in the spirit you don’t have to
add God to God to get God all the gods
you’re ever gonna get is already there
so when you go to God and say I have a
need I have a situation I have a
circumstance what I’m giving thanks for
is that the answer has already been
deposited in the spiritual realm
Lord I got this problem but you talked
about this answer that answer has
already been deposited so I want to
thank you even though I don’t see it
manifested yet that it’s gonna be
manifested because the spirit already
houses it it’s already there
see that’s why I can give fights and you
can give thanks even in tough times
because God has already answered in
advance in the spirit your goal isn’t to
try to get something new your goal is to
draw out what God has already deposited
it’s a change of direction look
submarines don’t have to get nervous in
a storm cuz they go on deep fish fish
don’t have nerve attacks when it’s
storming because they know storms are as
bad as storms get they will only get 25
feet below sea level on the worst day so
they go 26 feet in other words they go
deep when things get chaotic when your
world gets chaotic that’s the time to go
deep
that’s time to dip down that’s the time
to say okay God you sent me to the
spirit realm where there’s calm down
there there’s peace down there there’s
cool down there I can chill down there
because down there is the perfect mind
of God in the spirit but we retreat out
there to that which can’t give us real
peace only world peace so my child is
did you just put on your shoes and don’t
take them off don’t take them off this
is something you keep on you all times
and all situations don’t take them off
Isaiah 26:3 says and you will keep him
in perfect peace whose mind is stayed
upon you when you’re mine agrees with
God’s mind you will get God’s spiritual
results and then you’ll know you just
experience God I love the story of the
three Hebrew boys
meshach Shadrach and Abednego they got
fired and I do mean fire never can never
said we fire in you when they heard the
bad news there you talk about something
that will take away your peace you get
ready burned alive that’ll take away
your peace they looked at Nebuchadnezzar
and said o Nabi
we do not have to be concerned about
answering you according to this matter
our God whom we serve is able to deliver
us from your furnace the burning fire
and then it went on to say but even if
he doesn’t we’re not going to bow before
your gods never can never got so ticked
off that he told them to light the
furnace and make it seven times hotter
than it normally is because he was upset
that they didn’t quiver at the threat
they were thrown in sea following God
doesn’t mean you don’t hit the fire they
were thrown in after a while
Nebuchadnezzar came up and looked inside
and said what is this we put in three
men Shadrach Meshach and Abednego we
tied them up I’m looking through this
glass and I see four men and they’re all
walking around in the fire full of peace
full of calm in a bad situation that’s
because there was a fourth person in the
fire
God joined the minute let me explain
some to you God’s not gonna join the
world to help you out
he Michael you going out there and you
called on God praying to God so God can
come out here to the world to give you
the peace because God would be
compromising his peace to join their
peace but if you will take your stand
with the mind of God the God of peace
all by himself will show up in the fires
of life and take off the ropes take off
the chains and give you peace they were
under fire that’s somebody in here today
and you’re under fire you lost your job
listen don’t panic run to the spirit
realm David said I’ve never seen the
righteous forsaken and I’ve never seen
that seed begging bread then
hold on to what God said and watch what
God does some of you were fired from
your job and you don’t know where your
new job is well you run back to the
spirit realm then say god you said that
if a man doesn’t work he ought not eat
I’m willing to work so I can eat so I
thank you for the job you’re already
preparing to become manifest yes you’ll
go back to the spirit realm
every time Satan wants to remove you no
peace you look down at your feet you
hold your ground you’ll connect with the
spirit world so that you let this world
know that that world is telling you what
to do and he will give you a peace that
passes understanding