Awakening The Inner Warrior Within | Rev Timothy Lee
by Timothy Lee
First Apostolic Church of Maryville (Maryville, TN)
Kind: sermon
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 10:3-6, Ephesians 6:10-18, 2 Timothy 2:1-4, 1 Corinthians 9:24-27, 1 Peter 5:8, Ephesians 4:11-16, Proverbs 22:6

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whatever you've said about us I don't know who you're talking about even the only thing that I know how God deserves the praise and the honor amen I don't you know I was talking and I was walking my way back and I was you know I I tend to remember difficult concept with this if I use acronyms okay and I've I like the word h.o.t hot humble obedient and thirsty and all I can say is this after a few days and knowing the Carpenters he's a hot bishop amen come on you got to give God praise amen hallelujah you know I don't know why he would call me come and teach I should be asking him to come and teach me amen but you know the thirst that this man has for war revival Amen you'd have no idea this church is going to explode praise God amen I'd want to keep you standing so again I give honor to the commenter's I give honor to the Erickson I give honor to the Hammonds I also give honor to the quino's amen for allowing us to stay with you praise God hallelujah no I seriously could see that staying here but I've got what to do back in Asia amen I want to talk to you today about something that it's not gonna be an easy message to preach amen because we are living in the last days amen I'm not here to entertain you I mean I'm I'm talking about something that will require discipline even we are not playing games Jesus Christ is coming back in Asia alone we have billion souls work needs to be done amen if you have your scripture if you have your Bible turn to 2nd Corinthians chapter 10 verse 3 to 6 he meant 2nd Corinthians chapter 10 verse 3 to 6 if you are there shout a big amen for though we walk in the flesh we do not war according to the flesh for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ and being ready to punish all disobedience when when when your obedience is fulfilled efficients chapter 6 verse 10 verse 18 all the way to verse 18 finally my brethren be strong in the Lord and the power of his mind put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil for we do not wrestle against flesh and blood but against principalities against powers against rulers of darkness of this age against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places therefore take up the whole armour of God that you may be able to withstand in the evil day having done all to stand stand therefore having girded your ways with truth having put on the breastplate of righteousness having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace above all taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one and take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit which is the word of God praying always with all prayer and supplication in the spirit being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints 2nd Timothy chapter 2 verse 1 and for I hope you don't mind me reading scripture a man if I don't preach I've I just read this is good enough amen second Timothy chapter 2 verse 1 and for you therefore my son be strong in the grace that is Christ Jesus and the things that you have heard from me among many witnesses committees to faithful men who will be able to teach others also you therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ no one engaged in warfare no one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier I want to talk to you for a few minutes about awaking the inner warrior within us can we just leave our hands all over this place father right now in the name of Jesus God come on let your voice out right now come on begin to pray in the Holy Ghost Holika Sundara Quezada awaken us father right now in the name of Jesus awaken us let the church arise but right now we push back forces of darkness nor death strike two and pinger us with the affairs of this life father write down in the name of Jesus we want to catch all outcasts into your hands right now and God give us years to hear I say okay God give us years to hear God in the name of Jesus shall we give him praise and honor let's give God praise and honor hallelujah thank you for standing so long you may be seated amen are you ready general Kelvin burns the army stopped raining general explains that the army has too many soldiers who have lost touch with their inner warrior as a junior enlisted who they are and they tell you I'm a mechanic not I'm a soldier we need to change that culturally he said the marine thoughts recognizing the danger of over specialization has as its base assumption and training mantra that every Marine is first and foremost a rifleman this is the mantra that the Army has since adopted and here we are the 21st century Church I am just so afraid that we have we are facing the same danger of over specialization in our country amen you ask someone who what do you do for ministry I'm a drama oh oh you ask someone what do you do I mean to the Ambassador I'm in Arusha my friend we are deceived amen we need to awaken the warrior within us we live in a society that has we as parents as as as men who so many roles we are fathers we are sons amen we are husband's and what I feel both today that we have lost our identity as spiritual warriors it is crucial that we do not forget who we are we are first foremost soldiers without this an identity we will not have families to carry out as up as our duties as sons husbands and fathers amen everybody said praise the Lord amen III don't know you know in the states you don't have this but I'm gonna share a little bit of my story in Singapore when you turn 18 years old every male citizen will have no choice but to be enlisted in the army amen everyone we are just like Israel amen every is really myself in the army amen come on everybody say praise the Lord you see without understanding our role as spiritual soldiers we will not train ourselves to be spiritually combat fee amen am I making sense here let me tell you something civilians a liability in the pair of you Oh God I say again civilians are a liability to the battlefield okay believers that have not transitioned to become disciples our liability in the help me in spiritual warfare tell you somehow in this church there has got to be a transition from a believer to becoming a disciple come on amen we don't come near women and tactimon attitude we come here to serve Jesus Christ and the course freedom come on I say freedom hallelujah come on let's give God praise hallelujah 1st Corinthians chapter 9 verse 24 all the way to verse 27 he says do you not know that those who run in a race all run but one receives the prize run in such a way that you may obtain it in everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things now they do eat to obtain a perishable crown but we for an imperishable crown there for I run tossed not with uncertainty thus I fight not as one who pitched the air but I discipline but I discipline my body and bring it into subjection lest when I reach to others i myself should become disqualified amen we need to get discipline we need to celebrate disciplines amen oh I wish that the prayer room becomes more crowded oh I wish before would volunteered himself and say I will fast amen there are lost odd of disciplines Oh nowadays she don't talk about young people are understanding what meditation is all about but in the scripture there is this art called meditation I'm not talking about the you know the city now you know I'm talking about when you marinate yourself with the word of God amen I don't know about you but but meditation is is literally putting you know when you marinate beets you put them in a ziploc bag right you put all the sauce inside it amen until the word gets into the meat amen we need to put ourselves into this place called lock-in say men a men a marinate the glory of God that we become the glory hallelujah look folks some of us don't know what glory is all about you know what real glory looks like real glory looks like when the invisible attribute of God become manifested that you will become different at the end of the day when you make glory you cannot come out the same and our church needs no more like things what we need in our church is the good old fashioned glory amen amen I say okay amen Oh on Sunday I think before I left I preached on a message that God gave me he says we need to learn how to provoke divine visitations the provoke is to incite the visitation of the Lord amen what we need is more Jesus and less of us he may really to step aside and Jesus can review his glory and the labor walk the blind will see hallelujah but in order for you to provoke that divine visitation it all begins all great revival begins with deep repentance I say again deep repentance and agonizing in prayer amen the good old-fashion amen pray true amen that we pray until something happens amen I will not take no as an answer because it is repaired hallelujah and then if you come on come on and it makes what we need is holiness amen not hypocrisy I say holiness PR holiness amen amen and what we need when we have death is praise and worship amen hallelujah but the next thing oh I love this one we need to learn once we have the right relationship with God we need to learn how to exercise violent faith but you know that you have a right standing before God and you know God gave you a word and you can speak that word and challenge all obstacles I say because it is weeping written no weapon formed against me shall prosper you are only you are a liar devil I will reclaim my voice just like David did I'm going home amen to rescue hallelujah come on people this is our day and this is our hour hallelujah come on everybody say praise the Lord oh god help us but here's the deal you made me see that this body won't like we will all have to go to basic military training oh god help us amen you have no idea what basic military training is if you are in the army you may know but let me tell you what happened I was a rebellious kid amen can't wait to go army amen and the first thing I remember when they enlisted me in the army they took my identity away the first thing they did was to cut my hair and he wasn't a nice hairdo there was no hair for that amen and I was looking in the mirror and all of us look in a mirror we look all like the same amen in fact I did something crazy I tried to bribe the bubble I said cut it nice you know let the Bible say okay I see but it looks like the same yeah that's the best that I can do what do you expect for no hair and I was a rebellious teenager my goodness the southern midgel always think that I'm deaf always screaming at me and he used words that my mother would never use I got a culture shock and he's always running you knows and in a way I walk like this they were screaming me what do you think is this your shopping mall much and that's not all I still remember very clearly brother capita and naik we all tried in a room but we wanted to do so much also we we took the pillow but you can hear how egos were mess up because it used to be me now is the government of Singapore amen amen that's not all not only they have to humiliate me they call me not a private but they call me recruit the lowest level of the even the cook and scream at you amen you get to wash everything I have no rights amen but that's not the worst of it all they make us exercise it man we started running I go 5:30 they they don't have alarm clocks in those days they scream at you yeah and I was totally and see I had eggs all over I was dying I mean the first night I was like oh they make me go that Sheena bah move and if you can't do up you're not booking out which means getting out of the camp so and they really wear a sound amen no fun no fun I mean I had eggs all over I thought they had mercy even after having these eggs they still look at me say come on what are you waiting for let's run oh yeah right so I was all of us was running like this because we had eggs over then the chin-up bar none of us who shop because they want to tear your muscles so that you can develop new muscles let me help you understand if you want to be a disciple it's gonna be tough the training has not really begin when your muscle is not tearing no hey hey wait a minute you think during the classroom do you think they're going to discipleship classes were doing there's no tearing you know as the tearing becomes when you have to maintain the right attitude in a system senses that you know you were right and you know folks you know how do you know that you have the fruit of the Spirit when you are beaten when you have beaten when someone bites you see what comes out amen amen come on and that's where the training really begins a he called me a idiot come on amen the training doesn't begin just because you sit in those classes the training begins when you have to apply the word obedience when your obedience is fulfilled God will punish disobedience oh lord help us come on come on come on hallelujah number two without understanding our role as a spiritual soldier we will not be alert you know who's the most easy people Singaporeans Americans because we have no war just because there is no battle physical battle that is going on doesn't mean that we are not in warfare in fact we are in warfare that's why the Bible says put on the whole armor of God he says it twice not just once he said it twice amen you know people in China we are have contacts in China in fact we just called them they told us what is going on in China they are all on the alert because of the persecution that is coming from the communist government you don't let me tell you something this is what is happening in China right now real-time they cannot have a meeting like this amen and if you have a small group meeting your neighbor if they were to find out you singing gospel music they can report you and where they are they report to you guess what would happen they will be rewarded by the government so you can hear people clapping their hands like this it's some of us here have so much Liberty and you are not worshipping God away you should they don't even have the Bible that you have today come on you know what you know what those people are be on high alert oh let me tell you what they say you know ask them I pity them say is everything okay is everything okay is everything okay I feel for you they look at me say no everything's great no problem we call God I when I was there the police knock on the door I was like a little mouse and I don't know how these people can worship God in abyss of any time someone had knock on the door and arrest them and put a case away for many years that thought so much about the men of God and I realized God I have no clue what's real jaw or face really all about prosperity again I'm not against comfort but our idols in America in Singapore is comfort oh you want to make a bunch you're making a bunch of people unhappy turn of the aircon the seats are uncomfortable I don't want to come what time is it oh no but the Chinese people when they get a come on come on they were sweat they will stay for hours and hours they will dream you out when you teach they can sit there from 1:00 a.m. all the way to chop and because they are so hungry for the word of God amen and we the church are still sleeping come on people come on people be sober be vigilant come on are we being sober let me tell you when you know you are sober you put on some of us have what what you mean to tell me there's I don't even know how to use some you know Yami we have this thing called skeleton that skeleton baton order okay where it's very uncomfortable trust me but we all need to worry because it holds our mo our water bottles amen and this armors even worse because this meth you know it's made of bronze amigo iron and they were heavy amen to put on the armor of God were requires number one fitness are you spiritually fit you don't need the devil when you cannot handle your mind your morals your manners your moods your mouth and your money money is a big one amen come on everybody say praise the Lord amen you wonder what we kind of warrior within you you have to go and listen to basic military training and let me tell you something basic military training cannot be you set the agenda it has got to be the sergeant major because you will not push yourself you need someone to push you amen there are spiritual commanders and leaders with there you come on let's pray come on come on memorize your Bible come on go home Bible study come on go to the anchor point come on come on because they are training you to be spiritual warriors do you think that you go this to make your life a better one do you know what sometimes we go to class we think that it's self-improvement when it's supposed to be selfless you're supposed to die after this when I go back starting on the fourth him I'm going to call the church through at all to die when I die then I live amen oh we don't like those things trust me this is not heaven this is not a time for us to rest at these last days we are going over to the other side then we can rest for eternity lord help us amen amen come on everybody say praise the Lord come on say praise the Lord first Peter chapter 5 verse 8 says be sober be vigilant because your adversary the devil was about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour some of you have been devolved and you still don't know you are in his stomach and you still don't know this is closing man there's no sacrifice she's got you when he makes you his friend when you become a friend to the world you becomes God's enemy amen you know what happened you know they call those soldiers a war amen they betray the country is called betrayal how many of you like people who betray I don't like but you know when you read the scripture he sees betrayal you know in the last days people will betray Amen you know who is that talking about people where they'd save and go back to the wall betray Amen come on everybody say Amen all say o me okay everybody say bracelet heart number three without understanding our role as spiritual soldiers we would not see the importance of equipping and training amen if it's in chapter four verse 11 he gave him and he himself gave some to be apostles and prophets some evangelists and pastors and teachers for the equipping of the saints why for the work of the ministry for the edifying of the body of Christ II we all come to the unity of the faith and the knowledge of the Son of God a perfect man to the measure of the statue of the fullness of Christ that we should no longer be children tossed to and flow carried away with every wind of doctrine by the trickery of men in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting but speaking the truth in love may grow up into all things into him who is to hate Christ from whom the whole body joined and meet together by what every joint supplies according to the effective working by which every part does it share causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love I want to make a statement just because you alive doesn't mean you're healthy there are so many churches that I know they are alive I can feel the power of God moving but you know what there are still body parts that have not received ministry and we are weak amen here's what we do I need Noland to come here okay conferences I have nothing against confess but yes what we do okay if Nolan's have a cardiac arrest for lie down please aim it and then you get the ER personnel and then they will have a defibrillator right clear amen one more time dude dude okay he's alive he may but guess what we do instead of finding out what caused their Caddick arrest we go get another defibrillator and shoot him pull and he dies when the issue is bring it back to health discipline my doctor always tell me this you need to cut down on your calories and you need to exercise oh I mean come on give me something oh let me help you something just our problem we do wonder what the walk of repentance we want shocked us we want one prayer to solve it all but we don't understand that there has got to be a tearing down there has gotta be a tearing down that you take the Word of God and tear down destroy arguments and tear down that stronghold folks listen you built you allowed the devil to build a friend in your life it is time for you to turn it down come on and we need pastors we need prophets we need people to equip us amen you know what prayer that I've been praying Lord teach me the weapons the mighty weapons that you've given me I have still not know how to use those weapons but teach me in the spirit how I can learn how to use the breastplate of righteousness above all else take the shield of faith come on the sword of the Spirit teach my hens dwarf amen the battle has already been won but you need to stand up and take on the whole armor of God and claim your victory hallelujah come on hallelujah amen you may be see the battery chapter 16 verse 24 that jesus said to his disciple if anyone desires to come after me let him deny himself take up his cross and follow me he meant he meant when you go in the army trust me you are going to deny yourself hey man you got to get up in times and you don't want to get up amen you gotta hear things you don't want to hear amen and guess what you must make sure that you are in a part of a section or a patoot there is no lone soldiers oh listen I make this statement I'm gonna make this statement the Bible says the gates of Hell shall not prevail against the church right okay gates think about the what case is engaged offensive which means that the people of God gotta be on the offensive the best defense is offense oh god help me the best defense is offense when the Bible says that stand in a position to attack but but most of us let the devil chase us around god help us and you know what this is the gates of church and not prevail against the church it didn't say a thing a church alone you are not a church you need to stay in your unit in the army we were told to stay in our units come on you have a button sergeant you ever come on we got to see we gotta get organized and stop fighting alone we have the section we have the pattern we have the battalion we gotta get organized we gotta have have commanders a male commanders coming come on let's stay together come on come on come on let's charge just the instructions you may not know everything on the fair of you but your sergeant major your generals may know and they will see come on I see the battle come on one more fight one more fight you gonna get the victory come on number four without understanding of our role as soldiers we will not see the importance of our mission and making disciples everybody just want to get to heaven you know what's the greatest thing besides going to heaven when you can bring your loved one together with you amen oh job's not done when if it's done when I get water baptized I'll be raptured but I'm still here because God has done me from a believer to a soldier and I say yes Lord I at least when you are water baptized notice you at least in the Lord's army that you are willing that to fight all the morning forces snatching people out of the hands of the devil with invisible weapons that is so real amen but it can tear the devil is terrified when this Siple who knows how to use the weapon come against him but too many times disciples are going a bear body without armor because they have no clue how to put on the armor amen and no wonder they always fight defeat that they have not seen look here I wanted you to understand something break throughs brick truth is not a feeling big trees is what I feel in a spirit that has manifested some of us just and I own again I'm not against that at all okay but there has got to be a translation from the spiritual feeling into a manifestation from a physical brick true that's what breakthrough from the spirit that I'm feeling that has manifested physically in my eyes then when I see that glory I become a change man you see you know this I've read many times in the Bible what what did Jesus do to turn believers into disciples there was always a supernatural experience amen like Simon Peter he was when Jesus to him watch out and I was like don't be a critic you know he's struggling and cause the dead what do you mean I just watched the net you asked me to cast the net and we ever since you know what the scripture says when he met that supernatural he repented and then the next thing he says is what he forsook his nets and follow Jesus God is wanting to visit every one of you to turn you from a believer to become a disciple but you need to provoke the divine visitation of the Lord amen I like what Bishop says he says this I study the Word of God to get hungry you know how I studied Lord you can paralyze the Egyptian army to eat it our time in out a Lord destroy the gender of the Antichrist amen if you can do it that you can do it today revive that prophecy today revive it God if content someone around when someone testify is the spirit of prophecy if God can do it for them he can do it for you come on come on but he takes somebody with a warrior attribute let's say God I want my whole family safe you will begin a good work you will complete your work come on god help us amen without understanding our role as spiritual soldiers we will not see the importance of travail and intercession folks when is the last time you know what here just what we're gonna practice I want to pray for Hong Kong many of you don't know what's going on in there you have so much fake news out there don't believe everything that you hear our big news I know are people suffering I know churches suffering when you want to go back to work this democracy nonsense you only hear one side but you know what you need to bind this blind spirit that's coming out of the media and you're only hearing one side of the story we are from Asia we look at them that is not what is happening you don't know I mean you all should know after trauma like y'all just know that everything that comes out from there it's not real and they're people getting all emotional excited you know what folks you need to rise up and play and travail for the nation you know what if I'm gonna get emotional I better get emotional for the right reason I do not want to be deceived I want to get emotional for the right reason not the wrong reason and fake news get us emotional for the wrong reason and we pray kiss the thing we pray and this just what I do cause I pine so we just before hits right now over this place Cassandra Cass Sierra come on let your voice out right now Lord I buying every light spirit Lord right now that I bind God the gender of the Antichrist over Hong Kong come on let your voice out raucous and abraca a raucous adhara Korea God you know what's truth I release the Spirit of Truth God I release revival Lord I reach the agenda of Jesus Christ in that state in the nation right now in the name of Jesus ha ha ha Cassandra Cassandra Cassandra let there be a revival card that will begin in Hong Kong on a way to Guangzhou China come on Lord I'm asking you to read the record Lord spiritual lines right now ha ha Cassandra raka Sierra ba da Dada in the name of Jesus hallelujah come on just press in a letter V na da Cassandra Cassandra Cassandra Cassandra casa aramara Chiara Cassandra Cassandra Cara Yolo : delicacy in the name of Jesus Yatta Yatta Yatta sander dokter come on pray that you feel Liberty right now yellow Cassandra Tejada in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus hallelujah hallelujah come on come on just pray in the Holy Ghost right now you may not know what the frame our God can use you as a vessel just allow your voice out for a moment raka raka Roka raka Allah in the name of Jesus come on let your voice out one more time Caracas and a raucous under Nevada law protect the innocent law protect the innocent Oh God then you protect the innocent Caracas under our Father we come against the spirit of violence we come against the spirit of rebellion right now in the name of Jesus hallelujah Jesus por la Cassandra Cassandra Dada in the name of Jesus shall we just stand the Lord right now because I do really believe that the Lord is doing something hallelujah come on thank you Jesus thank you Jesus hallelujah I say again God is in control of a Hong Kong I'd say okay God is going to see something good come out of it if he allows it there is a purpose there is a plan hallelujah get ready people we are going to see revival so different than what we know of how but in order for that to come persecution must come because God is wanting the people of God to go on their knees listen I preached on a lesson long time ago and I preached another loss at the lost art of crying out when you read in the Old Testament is when the children of Isreal cry out they God move amen nowadays we want to pray all God bless me O God forgive me what's the grain subject me that's why I start off never thought with me I start with him Amen I start to pray in tongues for a long time because I'm wrestling with my flesh my flesh is telling me and why are you doing here you should pray for yourself I'm not going to do that I'm gonna say God I yield myself to you you know how to pray better than I do a god if I pray with my intellect I pray for my agenda so I'm not going to do that I'm gonna step in and pray the Holy Ghost for a moment amen I've got to ask you to do to take over I'm awesome oh the put button see me then I don't know about so that I will not get no credit and he honor Amen I say get a me oh I stopped praying God used to me Amen because he's been I say God empty me Amen God I'm not sure to impress you I'm here to redeliver the word Amen I'm here to help raise up God's army to provoke you Amen to stir you up like never before amen because we are living in the last days amen number six without understanding the role of our spiritual soldiers we will not know our enemy's number-one enemy when you get up in the morning that's your enemy score the flesh amen the Bible call it wicked Amen that's wickedness in us let me help you understand something young people there's a dr. Jekyll and mr. Hyde the guy who wrote the book Robert Louis Stevenson he wrote the book because there's a dr. Jekyll and mr. Hyde in him amen and that's why we have rules and boundaries and guardrails amen because we do not want to awaken the monster within us hallelujah that's why there are rules regarding they think are caught shape amen because your flesh a pound of flesh is always a pound of flesh the Bible says put no confidence in the flesh amen I've sinned elected spiritual young men who made some mistake they did not have boundaries a co-pastor old fashioned they think that I want them to become Mongoose nuns Amen but let me tell you something the devil knows your potential I want you to listen very closely to me here today you are a very special group of people we call Youm the Millennials there is no generation like you the greatest anointing is about this group of people you know my generation that we are getting all but the greatest and the only thing you're gonna take this to Asia and he fights you so hard and you don't even know it social media YouTube taking away your time slowly robbing you from your time listen to me young people you always when I'm young I always think that I'm immortal until I reach 49 years old and I wish I had your youth I wish that all these things that I know I had it and the pastors and the leaders are trying to impart to you don't waste your time they give you plans oh you say oh this feels so uncomfortable the flashing you Amen when they come for our social media how many of you say Amen hallelujah social media hallelujah I love it hallelujah you know that you're struggling and that's okay because you fighting the good fight of faith and when there's a struggle means you are fighting when there is no struggle I'm concerned I told our young people the annoying thing listen if you have to get on with the program there's no telling what you can do I say again I I don't mean to say that God disqualify all of us no no no no but God knows who is living in the last days God knows how to put up all so Paul then God knows know how to put you in this timeframe and you have been swarmed by temptation the world leaders thank God for a school but you need to get out and turn the world right-side up the schools are a training ground listen to me or do you got no idea what's going on you have an apostolic school you should be thankful and not take this for granted their job is to turn you become missionaries come on ministers amen Bible study teachers we believe in you do you believe in us come on everybody say praise the Lord the next enemy is the devil he would type you amen he would do everything to distract you you gotta be careful hey man you gotta have fun I mean you gotta have a community you gotta have your classmates that you would know that has clean hands and pure hearts amen that you were standing with damn it don't have coffee talk stop cool you need to get on with the program and say God I want to be so loud to you and when he touched when you consecrate yourself and when you dedicate yourself the anointing will come and you will never be the same okay once you touch the supernatural you will not want to go to normal lifestyle amen everybody say praise the Lord amen then we have the wall the war is a spiritual metrics that goes against God is there the last of the flesh the pride of life the last of the ice you gotta be careful what they call cool some of us gotta delete our Netflix our Hulu amen and spend time in the world everybody say praise the Lord number seven without understanding of our role as sprinter so this we will not put the whole armor of God cover that allele number eight here comes my favorite one without understanding our roles as spiritual soldiers we would not train our children to be soldiers Bava chapter 32 verse 6 train up a child in a way he should go and when he is old he will not depart for me parents you need to understand something don't make comfort there God you know why because they need you to be firm on them they need you to train them to know how to say how to say no to temptation amen discipleship begins in the home not everything they want you give it to them you show them who the real enemies amen you need to share and testify the goodness of God I want to read to you a letter by a mom sending a soldier off amen I feel that this is really very touching but I want to hear this this letter say dear son the day you were born I found out just how strong a mother's love could be I knew that I will do whatever I it took to protect you and would always show you how loved you are tomorrow you leave here a boy yet the next time I see you you be amend however you will always be my little boy I'm so very proud of you and what you have accomplished over the past 18 years I wonder on a daily basis if I was doing the right things for you if I was being the mom you deserve and I must have done something right because I have the three most amazing kids I know that sometimes I was overprotective and how much you hate that that I wanted to know where you are where you were and who you were with with all times I also know how much you loved it when I was there for every sporting event every award ceremony and every special moments in your life I know that I was not always the best mom and that I made mistakes along the way but the one thing I made sure you always knew was that my love for you was never-ending that I would always be there for you and love you unconditionally no matter how hard this is for me I know it's time then I have to let you spread your wings and fly I know the path you have chosen in life is the path that was meant for you when you were eight years old you told me that you're going to be a soldier many kids say that and then change their minds again Cillian times over the next several years but you never wavered when West was killed at war it only seemed to seamen departed for you and I was terrified my heart broke that the things that you wanted to be close to do this to that side of the family it was it was something that I had tried to give you but Phil and but you remember Wes so very well and look up to him I never tried to talk you out of it because I think that I thought you would change your mind you were only 10 when you he died but so mature once you hit high school I thought for sure that you would choose a different path because you were just so super smart but once again I saw house that first you were being a soldier the past 10 years you have never spoken about anything else rather than be a US soldier and now here we are you are doing what very select few men are going to basic as a private first class or because you chose your path early in life and follow it because you work hard to make your dreams come true I know that you will set the world on fire with your determination motivation and overall person but persona I'm proud of you my son you are an amazing young man so now it's time for me to let my little boy grow up to take the world by storm this is a hard thing for me to do but I know it's what's best for you I love you my son and I can't say enough about how proud I am I'm a proud to be a mom of a US soldier I wonder whether we can say that when our children go to spiritual battle that when their children say I want to answer the call to missions and going to countries that maybe you will never see them home again amen there are some of you that the devil has lied to you that you are disqualified for mission amen and some of us parents are holding back we are telling them and try to persuade them with with King's luxury goods and all those things we got to be very careful to hinder the will of God amen everybody say praise the Lord we need to train them to get ready you know what I'm training I hope I can train my children I want to be able to train to send them can you say that trained to send them amen we are not just keeping them for our own comfort we need to get ready to train our children so that we can send them last but not least without a solider mentality you wouldn't not know the importance of unity you know where my body does something wrong I'm punished together with him when my platoon does anything wrong all for one one for all amen so that put a little bit of pressure on me that I do not want to be called a sabotage screen that I have to take responsibility not to let my team down in order for me to let not let my team down I got to be spiritually fit you know I don't know whether you know these are going to close with this statement in the army we have such a thing called a lot PT all of us are carry a lock and there is for men and one we can feel the weight of that lock if one man is not doing their part your pastor can feel the burden of the lost world if you don't do your part and you know what we do we scream in fact there was one friend of mine he shot and all of us were tall so he went in the middle pretended but he wasn't any carrying anything when we saw that we get so upset because you are letting us die and you are getting away with him amen it's time for the church to carry the burden not just the pastor I'm going to read a pledge that we all Singaporeans we have to say in our Elizabeth day he goes like this I n Ric s seven zero three one two zero five Jay Lee saying M Timothy have entered the service of the Republic of Singapore under the enlistment act do some solemnly swear sincerely and truly declare and affirm that I will bear true faith allegiance to the Republic of Singapore protect and defend the Republic of Singapore bravely it engines it intelligently we virtue and honor not sparing my life blood into soul to my last breath to be devoted to the people of the country and the government of the Republic of Singapore be loyal loyal to the country and the government of the Republic of Singapore be ready at the order of the government to rise up to defend the Republic of Singapore be honorable brave disciplined vigilant obey the laws of the Republic of Singapore and comply with the orders of my commanders and i strictly safe god the president says three secrets and official information endeavour disclose them so here's a song I know it sounds goofy but here's the sound I would say in the Army just to boost our morale it goes like this training to be soldiers to fight for our land once in our lives two years of our time have you ever wondered why we myself because we love our leg and we wanted to be free to be free looking all around us people everywhere children having fun but we were holding guns have you ever wonder why we must serve because we love Allah and we want to be be free to be free yeah church this is our calling I still get this is our calling it's time for commitment I say again it's time for commitment you know I've noticed something about the spirit when there's commitment time there's no presence because God doesn't want us to feel the presence this is your time right now that you have to decide amen I'm saying again you have to decide I'm not talking about only the younger ones we all can at least again amen I say again praise God and I feel that Lord calling FAC in order for you to move to the next level you need to change your mentality from entitlement to become a soldier of the Lord amen would you want to bear arms or the bear that sort of or put on the Bible says put on the whole armor of God if this is your desire you say pastor I don't know whether I can do it don't worry training it was available we are going to go basic military training come on turn to your neighbor say yeah we will make you qualify amen you will pass the test but I'm going to ask if you feel and nudging in your spirit or you feel that you want to do this the author is over come on standing right now we should come back done would you come I want you to come amen hang on hang on we don't go to pray it okay I want us to come amen I want you to snow something for us we are trying to organize the army yes amen come on this room come on move for closer move closer nobody left out no man left behind I say again no man left behind look at your neighbor say no man left behind a man come on Thank You commander would you come how many of you would say that I'm going to follow this commander and no matter what training that he provides me even though how uncomfortable it may feel amen I was staying on with the program amen come on amen come on now amen God is wanting to take you to the next level but he cannot take you to the next level if you are just a believer that you have consumer Christianity but you say God enough is enough I'm ready for you to treat me I want you to leave your heads all over this place I mean come on leave your voice all over this raucous Caracas and a raucous and Arikara Baba come on let your voice out right now Caracas and a raucous Yamato raucous on da da da da fara by the authority in the name of Jesus Lord you see your people Lord I'm asking you right now that you bring organization equiping give things working together hand in hand right now God that they will become a mighty force come on let your voice out for a moment right now a raucous and a raucous Yoruba leave your hands all over this place leave your hands in symbolism of surrender not by will but your will be done hallelujah thank you Jesus thank you Jesus Here I am sendi here we are send us thank you Jesus goodbye oh god I have run a good race I have fought a good fight Lord oh Jesus Lord look down from heaven tonight as we rededicate ourselves to being soldiers in your army God we reenlist tonight God we reenlist tonight God we understand God discipleship and being disciplined we understand there'll be early morning risings we understand they'll be training that'll take us to the brink of breaking that oh god we understand that when the enemy comes in like a flood we will be well equipped we but we'll be well equipped against the enemy Lord strengthen our families tonight then Lord we will do spiritual warfare strengthen us O God O God strengthen us as a church God refocus us God as a church God forgive us Lord for far too long we've had our minds and our eyes on that which does not matter Lord forgive us God for low-vision forgive us O God for our shortsightedness God forgive us Lord that we believe that life was about our comfort zone forgive us O God that we felt like that if we had enough that our ministry wants to keep enough God but help us Lord tonight as we repent God over days and months Lord of short-sighted living that we turn our eyes and understand that we are the only force on this earth that can turn the tide of sin we're the only force on this earth that can turn the tide of gross and morality we're the only force on earth that can turn the forces of a hail around that is so polluted and deceived the minds of humanity we are the only force on this earth that can turn the tide of sin oh that you turn the tide of drug addiction that is raping our families and taking them to an early grave in the name of Jesus tonight Lord Lord in the name of Jesus tonight Oh God in the name of Jesus tonight thank you lord thank you lord thank you lord