Zion Church | Pathway To Success Part 16 | Pastor Keith Battle

We don't wanna admit it, but the devil put it together. Trauma bonding. You caught me when I was hurt. You caught me when I was grieving. You caught me when I was in pain. You became my prescription. But but then I became addicted to something that's keeping me sick. Oh, I'm trying I'm trying. Let me make it about me so it don't feel so personal to you. But how many are you tracking with me? Yeah. You can't take that in the promised land with you. [00:14:23] (42 seconds)  #TraumaBondingTruth

You got to suffer. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, guess what? You're have to suffer anyway. You're gonna suffer if you go back and sin. There's gonna be consequences, or you're gonna suffer if you resist it. But it's better to suffer for doing the right thing than it is to suffer for not doing the right thing. Kill it. Kill it. It's over. It will never be what it was, and it's not supposed to be. [00:13:11] (31 seconds)  #SufferForRight

So so so when you employ people, you have a relationship with them. They work for you. These are people not supposed to be in your life, but they're employed by you. Who are you employing that shouldn't even be in your life? That's tough right there. Amen. You you you you God says it's dangerous because because watch this. Here's something I saw somewhere, and I don't know who wrote it. What you tolerate today might dominate you tomorrow. [00:05:38] (31 seconds)  #StopEmployingEnemies

They got into the place that was occupied by them. They didn't drive them out. And one of reason why God wanted to drive them out is because he's trying to give them peace. When you live with your enemy, it disturbs your life. You can't rest. I said, when you when you live with something that you're supposed to leave, you can't rest. [00:03:37] (22 seconds)  #DriveOutToRest

See, you don't know what it's like to grow up and feel like you don't know anything, or you're not smart, or you don't measure up, and you run into something that will promise you something that it can't really give you, but the devil used that to make her think she was gonna get something. But sin will always offer more than it gives. It will take you further than you wanna go. It'll keep you longer than you wanna stay. It'll cost you more than you wanna pay. And I'm saying even though it's coming out of a broken place, you're gonna have to drive it out. [00:22:33] (33 seconds)  #SinDeceives

My god. See, don't see, don't don't look euphorically at it and only remember the good times you had getting high or the good time. I don't whatever your thing is, can y'all put your thing right there? Whatever relationship you have with, it's gonna hurt you to drive it out. It's one thing to say, I ain't falling for that today, but you still got the number saved. You you still got you still you still ain't blocking them. You still ain't you you still ain't do all the stuff to drive it out. [00:12:41] (29 seconds)  #DeleteTheNumber

there's a level of increase and and promotion that God's trying to give people that he's just not gonna give it to you the way that you are if you take if you wanna take the enemy with you. You wanna take the enemy with you because you want that to be your little lioness blanket, but but god says, no. I need you to cut that off, and it's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt because, no, you can't be friends anymore. [00:11:40] (24 seconds)  #CutOffTheEnemy

I'm telling you something. I don't ever want God to say about me. I'm sorry. I'm sorry that I made him my servant. Why? He won't kill and drive out what I told him to kill and drive out. Good success. Let's go backwards. Then you have good success when? When you obey the word that God gives you. You can have success. I'm sure there are levels of success without obedience. Yeah. [00:26:03] (50 seconds)  #ObedienceBringsSuccess