Strength in Unity: Overcoming Spiritual Battles Together

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### Quotes for Outreach

1. "We are in a war. We have to understand we are in a war. Don't sit back in the seats and think, oh, everything is going smooth. Jesus loves me. But we're on a war. And the war is going on in the television. It's going on in the Internet. It's going on in the phones your kids have or your grandchildren have or you have. And it's going on all over. And that war is effective. It's affecting our kids. It's affecting our grand. You know, we always have excuses. But when we're ready, there's something in us that says, okay, Jesus, I'm ready. I'm ready. I'm ready." [23:22](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip | Download vertical captioned clip)

2. "Be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might. Be strong in the Lord. Listen to the words very carefully. Be strong in what? In the Lord and the power. Whose power? The Lord's power. Because you know what? A lot of times we think we have to fight it with our own power. How many of you know that? Do we? We think our Christian walk has to be with my power. And it's it's not that because to be honest with you, there's a song that I listen to it a lot. And it says, you know, Lord, if it wasn't for you, I couldn't even walk. I couldn't even get up. I couldn't even do. I couldn't do anything if it wasn't for you." [24:58](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip | Download vertical captioned clip)

3. "Anyone who believes in him will never be put to shame. For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. Anybody that calls on the name of the Lord. You don't have to make hoops, jump, throw yourself on the floor. You don't have to do anything but believe and accept Jesus as your personal Savior. There's nothing else that you have to do because that's all he wants you to do. To accept him. And when you accept him sincerely with all your heart, you're going to want to do more for him. Because he is so loving and so good." [48:25](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip | Download vertical captioned clip)

4. "We are the soldiers. We are the ones. We are the ones that have what needs to be done. One of the things that we know is Isaiah 40, 28 through 29. It says, do not know, have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the creator of the ends of the earth. He will not go tired or weary and is understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary. He increases the power of the weak. So God is almighty. I don't care how many drug addict family members you have, how many, you know, God is stronger than the hold that Satan has on them. God is stronger than that." [42:51](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip | Download vertical captioned clip)

5. "We have to pray by faith, knowing that those people are going to get saved. We are going to be praying by faith that those people are going to get healed. We are praying by faith that God's going to do a miracle. We are praying. We are praying by faith. And I'm going to tell you something. Miracles don't only happen with a total healing. Miracles happen when we know where they are. Okay? We know. We know where my friend is. And we know where they are. So we have to realize that that is a miracle. That is a miracle. They're no longer suffering, but they are living. They are living. They are more alive than they were on earth because they're with Jesus right now." [43:32](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip | Download vertical captioned clip)

### Quotes for Members

1. "We are a church of victory. There's nothing that the devil can put to us. There's nothing that the devil can put to us that God cannot overcome and change it into a blessing. And I'm talking this way knowing there's issues that are going to come your way, but you've got to realize that within those issues, problems that come your way, God is going to turn them around, and he's going to give you a blessing through them. He's going to change the awful to the good because God does that. That's the kind of God that we have. We have an enemy that comes against us, but we have a God that overcame them. So we have to be victorious and know that." [18:31](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip | Download vertical captioned clip)

2. "When difficulties, things come our way, when maybe a sister in the church didn't shake your hand or a brother in the church didn't or the pastor forgot to talk to you, then you start thinking. And it's again that evil devil that talks in your ear. Do you know he talks in your ear? He talks in your ear. He's not in you, but he likes to talk to you and he likes to discourage you. Remember Adam and Eve, when Eve fell, why? Because the devil talked to her and he didn't, he didn't do anything except tell her, did God really say that if you eat, you're going to die, that fruit, you're going to die? Did he really? He questioned her. He put that curiosity to work in her and then it worked in her. In her ears, he worked in her eyes because that property, the fruit was. And she goes, well, the rest of the fruit is real good. I wonder how that tastes. Curiosity came into play when the curiosity, she's the one that reached out and took the fruit. And of course, Adam was right there. The scripture says Adam was right there, but he didn't take the fruit, but she did." [28:03](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip | Download vertical captioned clip)

3. "We as a church should be thinking about our brothers and sisters that have fallen. Brothers and sisters that have separated themselves from the Lord. Those that think. And we think of them well. It was a choice they made. Yeah, it was a choice they made. But that's what we need to really pray even harder for them. Because they know the truth. They're not ignorant. They're not ignorant. I have family that is a Christian. And one time and they walked away from the Lord. So they walked away from God. But God's always walking with them. You understand? He never leaves them. I don't care what. He never leaves them. They walk away from God. But God is always walking with them. Trying to bring them back. Because he loves us. He loves us more than. We cannot love them more than he loves them. So he loves them that much." [36:54](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip | Download vertical captioned clip)

4. "Jesus here went his last prayer. And we're going to go through a little bit of basic training. OK, his last prayer for us. For us, because he prayed for us. Did you know in John chapter 17, he prayed for us even before we were saved? He prayed for us. He was praying to the father and praying for the disciples and then praying for those that will accept the message of the disciples. That's us. So he was praying for us. And it was very important for him to pray for us because he was thinking of our future, what was going to happen to us. So in John 17, 20 to 22. Yeah, there it is. And it says, my prayer is not for them alone. Not for the disciples alone. I also pray for those who will believe in me through their message that all of them may be one. Father, just as you are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us so that we so that the world may believe that you have sent me." [33:52](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip | Download vertical captioned clip)

5. "We have to realize that unless we all decide at the same time. That the Lord needs us to think on the same thing. I think I have a little preacher coming up here. Okay. He wants to serve the Lord too in his own way. But we find out that God wants to use us. God wants us to rely on him. But he wants to use us by us praying for those that are lost. How many of us pray for our family every day? Amen. Amen. Amen. We should be praying every day. Every day for our family. Every day. And with faith. With faith. And not only pray, oh, Jesus, please. I told you about that lady that was at the church and her son was a drug addict. And he came to church that day and sat next to her. And she got up and she goes, I want to thank God because my son here, he stinks. He's drugged up. And he's all this. And the kid, the guy, I saw him looking up. And I said, Mom, Mom, like, please don't do that to me. Do you think that guy came back to church? No. He wasn't going to come back. Because we're supposed to talk by faith." [40:49](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip | Download vertical captioned clip)

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