Spiritual Warfare and God's Deliverance in Adversity

``And I said to my daughter, You need to put on the armor of God. And so we prayed through the armor of God. And I said, Not only that, you need to know who you are. You belong to Jesus. You belong to Jesus. And in Jesus' name, every knee bows, every tongue confesses. In Jesus' name, he is the highest authority. He is King of kings, Lord of lords. And everyone in the dark world knows it. In other words, you have the trump card. You have Jesus. [00:29:24] (33 seconds)  #powerofholyspirit

And I want you to learn how to pray in Jesus' name and command in Jesus' name. I command you, whoever you are, to leave this house and leave me alone in the name of Jesus. And so we practiced it because we had just, what I call, cleaned out the room. And I said, Teresa, I'm not going to be there for you always. What if I'm gone somewhere? You need to take authority in the name of Jesus. And the next night, she was able to do so. And she woke up beaming and she said, Dad, it worked. [00:29:56] (43 seconds)  #discerningspirits

Church, that was to me a vivid illustration of the power of the enemy and the greater power of our God. Church, I tell you this because you don't need a seminary degree to exercise the authority that you have in Jesus. You have the Holy Spirit in you. You have the Son of God, His Spirit in you. He died on the cross for you. And you have His authority in you. [00:32:25] (39 seconds)  #victorythroughfaith

And it was one of the most delightful times for me to just see the demons quieted. Paul was annoyed. This demon spirit was interrupting the gospel. And he turned around. He said, in the name of Jesus, I command you to leave. And the demon left. [00:36:01] (23 seconds)  #godsmiraclesmanifest

About midnight, Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God and the others in prison were listening to them. So here they are just on their backs, probably backs bleeding from the beating that they had, laying on their back, had to be excruciatingly painful and they decide to sing and pray. What a witness. What a testimony. Can you just hear those voices sort of going through the cells of that prison? [00:39:48] (37 seconds)

When things are going great, Lord, I sing your praise, but when things turn dark, Lord, I'm going to praise you too. When the darkness closes in, Lord, I will say, blessed be the name of the Lord. [00:41:47] (16 seconds)

The only thing we can think of is that they were so struck by the presence of God. They watched Paul and Silas singing in the worst scenario. They watched God bring an earthquake. They watched all of their chains just fall off. They watched the doors open. And I think they were so struck by God's movement and activity that they couldn't move, that they were like not even thinking about running away. They wanted to see what God was doing next. [00:44:37] (43 seconds)

And that's the third delivery. The jailer and all of his household came to receive and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. Our God saves. Our God delivers. Our God is active in this world in ways that we barely can imagine. God's power is manifested. God's power is manifested. and we have a joy of the Lord. [00:46:05] (27 seconds)

How do we respond to this? I don't have a real quick, this is what we must do. I think we need to note this and just say our God is powerful. Our God moves, and to open up our hearts, our ears, our mind, and say, God, show us. Help us to follow in your path. Help us to be people like Paul and Silas who can see you moving, see you working. [00:46:55] (30 seconds)