Pick Up Your Sword: The Word Advances Victory

Remember what grandma used to say? If you ain't got nothing good to say, say nothing at all. She had it halfway right because negative words allow the enemy into our atmosphere. But I'm gonna go one step further. Neutral words give room for the enemy to come into our at its space. So we need to be speaking god's word. Don't go to saying nothing bad to nothing at all. No. Speak the word of the lord. Proverbs eighteen twenty one says, death and life are in the power of the tongue. Amen? Those who have it, eat of its fruit. And we often quote this wrong wrong. We say life and death are in the power of the tongue, but I believe Solomon is saying no. He put it in the order of death and life because you be spaking death too much. [01:33:58] (52 seconds)  #PowerOfTheTongue

wanna be super clear that declaring the word of God does not cancel out Raggedy Living. I can't push back the enemy with my mouth, with my lifestyle is inviting him in. When it comes out of my mouth, gotta line up with how I'm living. It's gotta line up with the bible. The bible says out of the mouth of two or three witnesses, let every matter be established. What are you declaring? Who are you saying? Who are you lining up with? Can I say ask something practical? I don't know. I believe this is the word of the lord. Who are you getting into partnership with? Because there's some of us, we're getting into partnership with the wrong people. And if they don't believe the word of the lord, tell your neighbor. Scripture says, do not get unevenly yoked. [01:23:29] (49 seconds)  #WalkYourWord

But instead of getting discouraged with those things you know that so easily is snare you, begin to declare the word of the lord. If you use your body for untemple like behavior, then begin to declare my body is a temple of the holy spirit. If you struggle with sadness or discouragement or despair, then declare the joy of the lord is my strength. If you struggle with fear, then say, god has not given us a spirit of fear, but a power, love, and a sound mind. If you're struggling with confusion, then you need to declare God is not the author of confusion, and he's given me the mind of Christ beyond my experiences. When you begin to declare the word of the God, the enemy gets pushed back. [01:18:15] (57 seconds)  #DeclareHisPromises

And the enemy has been throwing punches at you since the day you were born. And by faith, we've already got the armor of God on. Tell your neighbor, you're already blocking, boo. You've been blocking depression. You've been blocking anxiety. You've been blocking discourage. You've been you've been blocking stress. You've been blocking offense. But my question is, when are you gonna throw a punch? When are you gonna put up your dukes and throw a punch? Look to your neighbor and punch them. Just kidding. You guys jumped on that too fast. That must have been husbands and wives. That must have been we've been playing defensive long enough, church. Ask your neighbor, do you know how to throw a punch? [01:16:07] (54 seconds)  #GoOnTheOffense

Your words and your attitudes create the atmosphere. They create atmospheres that are conducive to miracles, or you create an atmosphere that resists miracles. Tell your neighbor, your words matter. Some of us are praying for miracles while our words are poisoning our homes. Some of us are allowing pessimism in our home. We're letting the the doubt to dominate our household. Some of us are filling our homes with music and voices that celebrate the very miserably misery we're experiencing right now instead of declaring the promises of God. You cannot pray for miracles if in an atmosphere of doubt, in an atmosphere of antichrist. So sometimes you gotta shift the atmosphere. Come on. Tell your neighbor, change the channel. [01:30:47] (59 seconds)  #ChangeTheAtmosphere

There's some of you Jesus is saying to something that ain't dead, and you're saying, no, Jesus. It is dead. And if we're honest, we might have laughed too because they were looking at the situation as it was, but Jesus was speaking to his as it should be. As it should be and then how it would be. Our god speaks things into existence. Tell your neighbor, you need to believe god for the impossible. See, that's why unbelievers, they do not understand our faith because they'll look at a situation and they'll say it's dead. Oakland is dead. The Bay Area is dead. And I look at it and I say it's not dead. Not because I'm denying the reality, but who is the author of life itself. [01:28:37] (54 seconds)  #BelieveForTheImpossible

And many of you don't understand that your enemy is not the people in your life. It's not your boss. It's not your neighbors that keep you up at night. It's not your cray cray family. The and the people the thing that's an enemy in your life. You're not fighting against flesh and blood, but powers and principalities. The the person that's the enemy in your life is the devil. And he's done such a good job of keeping people away from the word that many people don't even recognize that there's an adversary that's looking to kill, steal, and destroy them. [01:09:13] (39 seconds)  #FightSpiritualForces

And we see that in the church today where believers are surviving, but we don't go on the offensive. We don't cause any damage to the kingdom of god darkness. But the scripture says that what there was no sword in the camp except for king Saul and his son, the prince Jonathan. So the people had no swords. Only leadership did. Only the king and the prince did. [00:58:53] (29 seconds)  #EquipEveryBeliever