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Devotional
Day 1: From the miry clay to the Rock
The Lord lifts people from horrible pits and the miry clay; He does not leave them halfway. He sets feet on a rock and makes steps steady, so you are not slipping from crisis to crisis. Receive this as a prophetic word over your life and family—wherever you feel stuck, God is establishing you. You can thank Him now for salvation, protection, and deliverance, because His hand is already under you. Stand on your feet in your heart and say, “Lord, set my feet on the Rock today,” and expect stability to follow. [03:15]
Psalm 40:2 — He reached into a desolate hole, pulled me out of the sticky mud, set me on solid ground, and made my steps sure.
Reflection: Where, specifically, do you feel like you are in “miry clay” right now, and what one concrete step would “standing on the rock” look like this week (a call, a confession, a boundary)?
Day 2: Eyes of your understanding flooded with light
God wants your inner man to be flooded with light, not just touched by a flicker. When the Spirit gives wisdom and revelation, confusion breaks, the Word starts making meaning, and you see how to apply it. This light is more important than quick fixes; it opens hope and shows the riches of what God has given you in Christ. Ask boldly: “Holy Spirit, strengthen me in my inner man; flood my understanding with light.” Stay with this prayer and keep your Bible open until assurance begins to rise. [04:42]
Ephesians 1:17–18 — May the God of our Lord Jesus Christ give you the Spirit who brings wisdom and revelation, so that you truly know Him; may the eyes of your inner being be brightened, so you grasp the hope He called you to and the wealth of His glorious inheritance in His people.
Reflection: In one area where you feel confused, how will you make space each day this week to ask for and receive light (for example, praying Ephesians 1:17–18 slowly for five minutes and journaling what you sense)?
Day 3: Pulling down strongholds of human reasoning
We walk in the flesh, but we don’t wage war by fleshly tools; God’s weapons tear down entrenched thoughts. Some “facts” are loud—symptoms, reports, predictions—but truth in Christ is superior and must be declared until those imaginations bow. In this kingdom, believing comes before seeing; we use the Word to overthrow every idea that rises against knowing God. Even when something seems “true” in the natural or even seen in a dream, the revealed Word can demolish it. Lift the Word higher than the noise and keep it lifted. [05:08]
2 Corinthians 10:3–5 — Though we live in human bodies, our fight isn’t driven by human methods; God’s powerful weapons shatter strongholds, dismantle arrogant ideas, and take every thought captive to obey Christ.
Reflection: Name one persistent “fact” or narrative that has been louder than God’s Word in your mind; which specific scripture will you speak over it daily for the next seven days, and when will you say it?
Day 4: Stand firm—wear the whole armor of God
Be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might by putting on the whole armor of God. This fight is strategic; the enemy leans on schemes and deception, but you stand—again and again—until the storm passes. Wear truth like a belt, righteousness as body armor, the gospel of peace on your feet, salvation as a helmet, and lift the shield of faith to quench every flaming arrow. Take the sword of the Spirit—the rhema Word God breathes to your spirit—and pray on the battlefield with all kinds of prayer. Remember, it is “we wrestle,” not “I wrestle”; when a matter resists, gather one or two believers and stand together. Keep standing; even after doing all, stand. [06:20]
Ephesians 6:10–18 — Draw your strength from the Lord and put on God’s full armor so you can stand against the devil’s strategies: fasten truth, put on God’s righteousness, be ready with the gospel of peace, lift the shield of faith to extinguish every flaming arrow, wear salvation like a helmet, take the Spirit’s sword—the spoken Word of God—and pray at all times with every kind of prayer.
Reflection: What specific issue will you invite one or two trusted believers to stand with you in this week, and when will you meet or call to pray together?
Day 5: Above all, take the shield of faith and speak
Faith is not a one-time pick-up; take it today again, and tomorrow again. Faith does not consider the deadness of circumstances; it believes and speaks, and God works from the root in the unseen. Jesus said to speak to the mountain and doubt not in your heart; believe that what you say will come to pass, and keep saying it. Rhema in your mouth is a sword—when God drops a word into your spirit, use it and keep using it. Faith comes by hearing and understanding the Word, so keep your ears and heart open until boldness rises. Speak, believe, keep speaking, and watch the mountain move in God’s time. [07:57]
Mark 11:22–24 — Have faith in God. If anyone says to a mountain, “Move and throw yourself into the sea,” and does not waver in their heart but trusts that what they say will happen, it will be done for them. Therefore, when you pray, believe you have received, and it will become your reality.
Reflection: What one “mountain” will you address with your mouth today, and what exact sentence of faith will you speak over it morning, midday, and night this week?
Sermon Summary
Psalm 40:2 set the tone: God lifts us from the miry clay and sets our feet on the Rock. I led us to ask for inner strengthening and for the eyes of our understanding to be flooded with light. When God floods the inner man with light, confusion lifts and the Word becomes usable wisdom. From there we looked at the battleground Paul names in 2 Corinthians 10—not just demons “out there,” but strongholds of human reasoning in here. Facts are real, but truth is higher. In this Kingdom, believing precedes seeing. The Word of God outranks both the report and the dream, and its revelation comes in degrees; rise in altitude and you will see differently.
We then prayed to pull down proud obstacles keeping people in our city from knowing God. Our mandate is to make Christ known through exploits—works that point beyond us. To stand in that mandate, we put on the whole armor of God. The armor is defensive; it is how we stand. Truth must gird us; righteousness is not a thin breastplate but a body armor—God’s righteousness, not ours—so even if a dart slips past the shield, it still can’t wound. Above all, lift the shield of faith; it quenches every flaming arrow—spiritual, physical, emotional. Faith does not consider contrary evidence; it holds God to be more real than what screams loudest.
We also picked up the sword of the Spirit—the rhema Word. When God breathes a word into your spirit, it cuts. Prayer, then, is the battlefield where the armor and sword are actually used. Engage all kinds of prayer: thanksgiving that brings the will of God into a situation; supplication that perseveres; agreement that unlocks corporate authority. Jesus teaches us the God-kind of faith: speak to mountains, do not doubt in your spirit, and keep saying what God has said. The process often begins in the unseen—like a seed buried before it sprouts. Faith comes by hearing and understanding the Word. Finally, we stood on the finished work: the record of charges against us has been canceled at the cross. Even when accusations have legal ground, the blood and the Word answer them. So stand, speak, and make Jesus known.
Key Takeaways
1. Let your inner eyes flood When the Spirit floods your inner man with light, Scripture stops being distant information and becomes guidance you can walk in. Light displaces confusion; it also exposes where to repent, where to hold, and where to act. Ask not merely for solutions but for illumination; with light, you’ll see what to do with what God already gave. [41:59]
2. Pull down mind-made strongholds Not every “stronghold” is a demon; many are entrenched patterns of reasoning that contradict God. Facts may be accurate, but truth is authoritative—faith flips the order from seeing-then-believing to believing-then-seeing. Train your mind to yield to the Word, and you’ll watch “impossible” edges soften under the weight of higher reality. [49:35]
3. Wear righteousness; lift faith’s shield God’s righteousness is a body armor—comprehensive covering, not self-performance. But above all, keep the shield of faith raised; it extinguishes flaming darts before they ignite anxiety, offense, or fear. If a dart slips past, the righteousness you wear keeps it from wounding your identity. [68:49]
4. Pray on the battlefield daily Prayer isn’t one item among the armor; it is the field where the armor and sword are used. Different battles demand different prayers—thanksgiving, supplication, agreement, petition. Perseverance in the right kind of prayer breaks stalemates that sheer effort cannot move. [80:39]
5. Speak mountains down; keep believing The God-kind of faith believes in the heart and speaks with persistence. Your timing is not the metric; the Word often begins working in the unseen before anything surfaces. Keep your confession aligned with what God said—eventually the root withers and the fruit of change appears. [86:35]
Psalm 40:2 says God “brought me up out of a horrible pit… and set my feet upon a rock.” What images or situations in your life come to mind as the “miry clay” and the “rock” God would lift you onto? [38:28]
The phrase “the eyes of your understanding being enlightened” was described as the Spirit flooding the inner man with light so Scripture becomes usable. What does that picture make you notice about the difference between knowing facts and having Spirit-led understanding? [41:59]
2 Corinthians 10 talks about “casting down imaginations” and pulling down strongholds of human reasoning. What specific examples of “mind-made” strongholds were mentioned, and how do they differ from simply resisting external demonic attacks? [49:35]
The armor of God is described as defensive, with righteousness pictured as a body armor and faith as a shield that quenches flaming arrows. Which details about the armor stood out as surprising or clarifying, and why might faith be called “above all”? [01:08:49]
Interpretation questions
How does the pattern “believing precedes seeing” change how a believer should respond when medical reports, financial facts, or bad news seem authoritative? Use the example given about sight versus kingdom truth. [49:35]
In what practical sense is “God’s righteousness” a body armor (not our performance)? What would it mean for a person to “put on” that righteousness day by day so that a dart that slips past the shield cannot wound identity? [01:08:49]
What is meant by “prayer is the battlefield where the armor and sword are used”? How do the different kinds of prayer (thanksgiving, supplication, petition, agreement) function strategically against stalemates or spiritual schemes? [01:20:39]
Mark 11 teaches speaking to mountains and not doubting in the spirit. How should someone understand persistence in confession (“keep saying what God has said”) when the visible result is delayed? What role does the unseen seed stage play in this process? [01:26:35]
Application questions
Ask the Spirit to “flood your inner man with light.” Where specifically do you need that illumination this week (a relationship, a decision, an area for repentance or action)? Share one concrete step you will take to pursue that light. [41:59]
Identify one thought-pattern or “fact” you tend to trust more than Scripture (for example: “seeing is believing,” a health prognosis, a family legacy). Which verse will you use this week to bring that thought into obedience to Christ, and when will you speak it? [49:35]
Design a simple daily habit to “put on the whole armor of God” (name each piece and claim it aloud). Which single piece will you focus on strengthening first (truth, righteousness, gospel of peace, faith, salvation, Word) and what will you do each morning to reinforce it? [01:08:49]
Choose one stalled situation in your life. Decide which kind of prayer that situation needs (thanksgiving that invites God’s will, sustained supplication, a petition, or corporate agreement). Plan specific times and people (if any) to pray that pattern for seven days. [01:20:39]
Write a short, specific “mountain-declaration” from Mark 11 about the situation above (use present-tense, spirit-level language). Speak it aloud each morning for a week and note any inward or outward changes. What will you do if doubts arise? [01:26:35]
Name a charge, accusation, or generational pattern you feel carries legal weight against you (for example: chronic sickness, shame, addiction). Identify a Scripture that cancels that charge (declare how “the record of charges has been canceled at the cross”) and speak that Scripture over the situation this week. [01:40:33]
Sermon Clips
in this kingdom believing come before seeing and the seeing there is not just sight right or even the sight is both spiritual sight and physical sight that's the understanding that i got some years back that even if you see some things in your dream the word of god is more powerful to to pull it down you may see that oh somebody somebody can even tell you and it might be true if they they may be seeing in the spirit that oh they are seeing somebody dead in your family or they are seeing you dead it's true right but you have to use the word of god to pull that stronghold down right
[00:52:59]
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#WordOverVisions
new living right the verse five he said we destroy every proud obstacle that keeps people from knowing god hallelujah the weapon that we have right we want to make christ knownsome of the fights are physical some are spiritual right so we want to tackle the spiritual aspect as we are here we want to be christ known in headstone around this place right in canada we want to be christright he's saying that we destroy every proud obstacle that keeps people from knowing god there are people that want to know that want to know god but something is blocking them and it's spiritualand we can pull it down hallelujah
[00:56:25]
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#TearDownSpiritualObstacles
and the body armor of, of God's righteousness, right, NLT, right, righteousness is a body armor, it's not just breastplate, it's not just on your chest, see, if you watch this ancient sub, right, and they show online, right, you can see how those army guys dress, at times they, they wear something, like a suit, they just wear up and down, that isthe body armor, it covers, it covers your whole body, right, so he's saying that you have to put it on, not your righteousness, he said God's righteousness,
[01:08:20]
(45 seconds)
#GodsRighteousnessArmor
in all things give thanks, some other versions say that, in all things give thanks, because thanksgiving brings the will of God in every situation, it brings the will of God, that is why we thank God, even when things are not looking as you want, when the body is behaving some way, right, that's where you come from, the Father, I thank you, because thanksgiving had that power to bring the dead back to life, the will of God is life, the will of God was for Lazarus to be alive
[01:15:30]
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#ThanksBringsLife
he's saying that, above all, taking the shield of faith, he said, wherewith, ye shall be able to quench all the very dark of the wicked, you will be able to quench it, even if some, some arrows were able to penetrateit to your direction, faith is very, very potent, that it can quench that fire, it will quench it, whether sickness, whether career, right, in any other field, whether demonic, satanic, faith is that powerful that it can quench any form of arrows that come to you, hallelujah
[01:18:11]
(45 seconds)
#FaithQuenchesArrows
what is prayer, prayer is very superior, because prayer is the battlefield, if you watch from the verse 18, 16, 17, take the, and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God, semicolon in there, he's trying to show you what you are going to do with this army, he said that, praying always with all kinds of prayer, he said, praying always with all kinds of prayer,prayer, so prayer is the battlefield, the way David and Cole used to go to war, in those days, the war that we go every day is when we engage in prayer, hallelujah
[01:20:40]
(45 seconds)
#PrayerIsBattlefield
and faith is personal, he said, if thou can believe, all things are possible, he's not saying that if you and your wife can believe, he said that if you and your wife can engage together with a prayer of agreement, but when it comes to faith, it's personal, he said, if thou can believe, all things are possible, hallelujah, so faith is a must, so faith is a must, and faith is personal, hallelujah
[01:25:38]
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#FaithIsPersonal
Romans 10, 17, he's saying that, so then faith comes by hearing, not hearing,present continuous, and then, and hearing, again, right, the other hearing is understanding, he's saying that, so faith comes by hearing, and understanding the word of God, it's so simple, that's how faith comes, Philip said, do you understand what you are reading, he said, how can I, unless, unless a man showed, and when Philip showed him, he said, do you believe you are said, yes, because understanding came, hallelujah
[01:32:40]
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#FaithByHearing
