The Battle Is Not Yours | Associate Pastor Chad Erickson

stand on your feet tonight and turn with me to second chronicles chapter 20. second chronicles chapter 20 verse 13. i listen i believe we've already come what we came to do and i leaned over to sister carpenter i said i will tell you how in tune our senior pastor is i said he just preached my whole message during that praise break i was going to talk about the kids i was going to talk about the importance of worship so what i'm going to do i'm just going to give you the condense what are those notes called that you can kind of read real quick cliff notes yeah i'm going to give you the cliff notes version because pastor already kind of kind of gave you a lot of vote but watch this right here in second chronicles chapter 20 verse 13 he says and all judah stood before the lord with their little ones as my proof right there their wives and their children then upon jehaziel the son of zechariah and i'm not going to get all tongue-tied he came the spirit of the lord in the midst of the congregation gotta got to view this kind of kind of like our tongues and interpretation how just just a hustler filled the area and he just began to speak and he said hearken ye all judah and the inhabitants of jerusalem and thou king jehoshaphat thus saith the lord unto you be not dismayed or afraid by reason of this great multitude for the battle is not yours but god's you shall not need to fight this battle set yourselves stand still and see the salvation of the lord with you o judah and jerusalem he said he's prophesying he said fear not nor be dismayed tomorrow go out against them for the lord will be with you and then matthew 16 and 18 jesus simply said and i also say unto you that thou art peter and upon this rock i will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it my god i feel the holy ghost in this place please get give me about five seven ten minutes i i feel like i can give you what god has given me to give you in just a few moments put your bibles down let's pray father we love you father i'm just gonna believe lord god that the battle is not ours lord but the battle is yours i believe we're fighting things we ought not be trying to fight we're trying to go against things we ought not go against because god you said it's my battle i'll take this one i've got this one and lord god i'm gonna rely on you believe in you i'm gonna stand back i'm gonna stand still and i'm gonna watch the glory of the lord take control of the enemy and fight the battle for the church lord i just believe tonight in jesus name lord god allow me lord in just a short amount of time deliver what you have given me for your people i ask all this in jesus name clap your hands of the lord and love him in this place the battle is not yours you may be seated i promise you i i'm gonna i'm going to so quickly go through this and i have 35 pages of notes and somebody said amen he's only going to preach two of them i could preach 35 pages of those pretty quick though my font is like 74. that section over there came late to that section stephen stephen gill he preached here oh about less than a year ago he came and taught on on the doctrine of oneness and he he wrote a book that came out i believe in february called the history and development of the doctrine of the trinity please please buy this book it's not an easy read but um trust me when i say i finished it this week it's an amazing it's amazing it's an amazing book and three things there's three things that really affected the early church from judaism into christianity we realize there's a difference from judaism into christianity as the christians broke off from the jewish faith there were three things that wanted to influence the early church the first century church second century third century first of all was culture hellenism hellenism is simply it's greek influence it's the greek culture that was so prevalent in the day that the church began culture i'm telling i'm talking about a wicked wicked culture i'm talking about we we we see we see that that we can uh pick up a cell phone if you're here last sunday at 4 30 uh pastor hammond had a uh an officer that came in here and a detective that came in here and told us um all the crazy insane things that can be done on a cell phone and we think that's crazy that we can see nudity on a cell phone i want you to know in the day that the church began when it came to greece when it came to the influence of the greeks they were nude everywhere there were all kinds of sexual acts going on in the corners of the streets on the if you went into a coliseum to watch a sporting event they they competed totally in the nude you think it's a big deal to get on your phone people just walking around all kinds of debauchery and heinous things were happening on the streets in this culture and you say to yourself well surely this culture would infiltrate the church well i got news for you it did matter of fact in in the jewish religion in judaism there were there were jews that saw uh even some of these athletes competing and they wanted to compete with those athletes and and i began to read this book begins to go into detail how they would try to transform themselves they would they would cut their hair to have a grecian haircut and they would even go as far as to compete without clothes on just so they could fit in just so they could be one in the number in the crowd because they wanted to be greek and bloodline but they did not they want to be jewish and bloodline but they did not want to be jewish in religion and the same thought process is what began the early church and and at first i i will say uh when the apostles the the original apostles were there we understand that they fought for what jesus had given them and i believe for the first century i believe that the the apostolic doctrine was strong and i believe that christianity uh the influence was not heavy from the grecian from hellenism but there came a time when that started to influence the church especially when rome began to influence the church and now all of a sudden we have the roman government we have nero and and we have the haters and we have the those that want to martyr the church and and here we go from we go from culture to now it's persecution second thing persecution started and now the people of god they're getting their heads chopped off they're being crucified upside down they're being burned at the stake they're being put into hot bubbling tar and and they're and they're being killed and they're being martyred and then from that point it went into philosophy because now for some 400 years plato and socrates and all these famous philosophers had already been all all this this this great thinking and this great knowledge and all the degrees that they had and i'm moving quickly and what i just want you to understand is the early church had three things that really influenced them culture philosophy and there was great tribulation in the church three things that happened that influenced their beliefs matter of fact once we went into uh just to fast forward just a little bit to the third century you got from nero there's no more nero now it's constantine the emperor constantine and now constantine has has people like tattulion and tertullian he is this great thinker and this great religious leader and he is now influencing not only the emperor but he's now influencing the universal church and now the universal church is taking on it and you've heard of the council of nicaea you you know 325 a.d you you've heard the term the niacin council and everything they began to believe all this happened all this infiltrated into the church or what they called the universal church or the roman church or what we now call the roman catholic church it all was infiltrated all in the first three centuries and we think to ourselves where in the world did that come from well i want to go into into our reading because our text i believe and i begin to study i begin to study the story and i'm having to fast forward through about 17 pages here to find it but but i begin as i begin to read in second chronicles a matter of fact go to 20 in verse 1 it came to pass after this also that the children of moab and i'm going to talk about these people very quickly and the children of ammon and with them others besides the ammonites came against jehoshaphat to battle then there came some that told jehoshaphat saying there cometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea in the sight of syria behold they be of hezana zatamar which is an in getty and if i had a map to show you that there's three armies coming together and they're about to ambush the people of god from the rear in jehoshaphat verse 3 feared and set himself to seek the lord and to proclaim a fast throughout all judah and jew to gather themselves together and i'm just going to kind of skip ahead because you've got to understand there's three armies they're coming against the people of god and these three armies stand for something that's going to go very along with what infiltrates and what tries to get into the church today but these three armies the children of moab let me tell you about them they are the descendants of the eldest son of lot they're born of incest with his mother being lot's daughter pretty sick world let me give you some quick history of the moabites when the when the moabites were finally overtaken they were trapped in their own city walls and their king took his own baby boy and burned him and sacrificed them to an idol hoping to escape with his own life moab represents the culture of the day they were willing to kill their own babies in order to live a selfish lifestyle moab represents culture then we have the children of ammon which was the second army that joined together with this children of the moabites and ammon was the sign was the son of manasseh he was the 14th king of judah he is known for restoring the idols and setting up the images that his father had torn down he had his own way of thinking amnon or ammon represents philosophy see where i'm going with this and then the children of sierra they were the third army and they joined together with these other two armies against the people of god and the word sierra means harry matter of fact these were the descendants of esau they were haters of jacob now israel and sierra represents persecution so here we have culture philosophy and persecution and they've come together to fight against the people of god they're enemies of god they hate jehovah god they hate the children of israel and they're coming in to take over the people but wouldn't you know see because the king understood one thing the history books told him that these were the three groups of people that god told them not to defeat when they were coming into the promised land and so that old king old king got out and he started to pray to god and he said god you told us not to defeat them back in the day when we could have defeated them and here they are coming together against us and he just simply said god what are you going to do about it and so we heard the prophecy from the prophet who stood up and told them what to do and simply this god was saying i'm going to take care of my business because there's three things that we will never be able to defeat in this life we cannot defeat our culture this is where we're living i don't care i don't care how much how many comments you put on facebook and and you can put posts on on facebook and you can put things on twitter and instagram and you can talk about the culture how old the culture is how much you're against the culture how you're praying that the culture will somehow disappear i got news for you the culture ain't going nowhere it's only getting worse and worse and worse i'm talking about a culture and as i began to read about about the children of moab as i began to read about how they would sacrifice their own children i got to thinking that's not much different brother perdue than the culture we live in today for convenience our culture is sacrificing their own children well this wasn't a planned pregnancy so therefore you know we're going to terminate it early before it sees before it sees the daylight we're going to terminate that's the very same thing that's the children of moab that's the spirit that says i care more about myself and my lifestyle than raising a child that i conceived well listen you all might have worshiped too much earlier that's okay because i really don't need a response for this because i know you agree with me i understand you agree with me but you go even further than that we we have people going into schools and shooting up children not of uh not of some country that we're at war with come in and shoot up their own second third and fourth graders oh but it gets worse than that and you say how could it get worse and then i'll tell you how it gets worse than that because there are i was reading an article the other day where where they're they are they're actually trying to lower the age of adulthood so men who are pedophiles can marry younger girls you say how is that worse well i'll tell you how it's worth that that man was deranged and went into that school out of his mind but we've got people that have been elected into offices that are sitting around tables going when i tell you what why don't we make 13 the new age of an adult therefore we got some friends in hollywood we got some we got some friends in vegas who could who can marry the girls that want americans they're just a bunch of pedophiles i'm talking about the children i'm talking about a spirit that's in our culture today that i'm sorry we're not going to be able to defeat this culture but i have a god i've got a god who is able listen we can't do it i i wish the church had enough power i wish we had enough influence in washington we had enough for influence in nashville and our state capitol we don't have enough influence but we serve a god who says this battle is not yours but i'll take care of it for you god protect our daughters god protect our sons you may be seated i can't get off this yet i was reading through this article and they had a problem that a man could marry a woman a man could marry a man a man could marry an animal but these this poor group of people couldn't marry the young girls they wanted to marry and they deserve to have rights i'm talking about a wicked culture that we're living in some of you're looking at me like i'm crazy you watch you watch it i'll give you five years and we're gonna it'll start coming down to 17 and then 16 you watch because it's a sick perverted culture that we're living in and nothing's new under the sun and i got to thinking the same thing's happening because the second one is philosophy and we got listen and this this doesn't seem like a big deal but philosophy is really what crept into the church that that's where the trinitarian doctrine came from people like dettulian who who started thinking to themselves you know i'm gonna come up with a new way to explain god as if you could explain god we're going to divide him into into persons and separate him because you know he is a father and that's a person and he's a son and that's a person and in the holy spirit uh that's that's like a person in into tully and began and uh and this book describes how he began to to separate the free and none of that is biblical because we understand there is only one god and in that one god he became a man and in that man was the fullness of the godhead bodily everything was in he was 100 man he was 100 god but man's philosophy brother ham and man's philosophy gets in the way of word because here's here's here's what you what we gotta understand when the church was beginning the first second uh even the end of the third century there was no new testament bible it hadn't been canonized yet it hadn't been published if it was published it was very rare and so and so we we had we had people and this is why even in the new testament even even before the new testament was over before before it was finished being written already and i've got a verse up there and i know brother evan if you can find it for me because i don't have time to look through my notes but it talked about even if an angel comes in and preaches any other doctrine then the doctrine that's been taught to you by the apostles of jesus christ said i don't care i don't care if and i'll tell you what was happening because you you had people you had people that were we're talking about we had a we had a service and and we had this great manifestation and i believe it was like an angel that came in and he began to speak on this and and he began to share a philosophy on that and then paul just simply had to say i don't care if an angel comes in the word of god is all we're going by and so i fast forward i fast forward because it went from there and oh now all of a sudden and listen even in our day-to-day if we're not careful this this philosophy that that where we're dealing with when uh when when you hear all these big non-denom preachers and teachers and mentors that word mentor that bothers me just a little bit your pastor ought to be your mentor because your pastor knows your pastor's kind of like your doctor there's a lot of good doctors out there but your doctor knows you brother fuller your doctor you you keep on going back to new england why don't you just find i'm sure friendsville has some doctors surely surely you can just go to a different why do you keep on going up to new england i'll tell you why because that doctor knows you he has a reputation that knows everything that's ever happened to you has performed surgeries on you he knows what's going on with your kidneys he knows everything about you and the same thing with your mental your mentors got to know who you are they got to know those little details that you don't want anybody else to know you can get on you get on on on twitter and start to follow people john stone man they got some some incredible sayings and some cliches and did you read this tweet did you read that tweet and before you know it and if we're not careful this is how easy it is to infiltrate our 21st century church if we're not careful we start to preach some of these things that we see tweeted come to find out they're not even biblical you preach them and everybody says woo that was good we were at a conference a couple weeks ago and we it wasn't an apostolic conference we knew it wasn't an apostolic conference we weren't going there for doctrine we were planning on spitting out every single bone that came in the mouth we were there just to get ideas for conferences that's all we're there for but they began to to to preach this this weird philosophy and doctrine that the old testament is no longer it's no longer really valid we're like what they talked about talked about the the the word of god this is not we're not leading people to the word of god we're leading them to jesus we're like what but if we're not careful people start tweeting that stuff and putting that on social media and we as a church this is how easy it is to be influenced we as the church begin to read things or or you might get on youtube and watch that favorite preacher because you like the way that he preaches that's your preaching style i know he doesn't have full truth but he's a good preacher and i enjoy watching him preach and sooner or later that kind of stuff that man's philosophy enters into the church that's ammon that's that's philosophy and then persecution well we understand the early church man that was horrible but let me tell you something persecution is still happening overseas it may not be happening here but but what about afghanistan did you hear about what happened to the christians in afghanistan not only not not even a year ago listen we got we can't stop thinking christianity is in america it's an american thing there's christians all over the world that are suffering persecution pastor carpenter talked about this morning we got a missionary about to go into a dark nation chances are if they get caught as a christian probably going to get put to death persecution has always happened but let me tell you something i'm going to reverse this because even though persecution seems to be a horrible thing what happened was when when the emperor when constantine began to accept the christians and went from being a christian hater to all the sudden deciding i've got to unify my nation so in order to unify my nation i've got to bring the church together and make a unified church and if i have a unified church then i can rule over the whole nation the church i can have my hands in the pocket of the church right and so he as he began to do it what happened was when the church was being persecuted they held together and they wouldn't let anybody influence them they were solid as a rock they knew what they believed they weren't about to let anything in they weren't about to be influenced by anybody coming in trying to get into their meetings because why because they were just hiding they were fighting to be a christian but when the persecution ended think about this when the persecution ended and all the sudden constantine said you know what i too am a christian there's no record of him ever being baptized but he declared that he was a christian he didn't because when he did that all of a sudden now he began to influence the christianity the christian walk of life and the christians opened themselves up because they thought well maybe we can be accepted maybe we can be loved maybe we can get apart maybe the government maybe we could get a part of all this that's happening here in rome and so we see how that's happened and that can happen in the 21st century church in the very same way you say well how could it happen i'll tell you how it could happen there was a day when we were on the other side of the tracks and we bound together because nobody else accepted us and everybody else thought that we were crazy and weird and we had the little church we had the church that nobody wanted to go to and had that green carpet and and had that one aisle had the pole going down the middle of it and it wasn't it wasn't nothing glamorous and it was nothing you want to invite your friends to but all of a sudden all of a sudden no longer are we and i i'm using the word persecuted very lightly but no longer are we looked at as the other christians now all of a sudden is hey hey have you been by that first apostolic church our mayor talks to other mayors and says i bet you don't got a church like the church i've got in my in my county and it feels good oh it feels good but what's that what's the verse that talks about when when all men begin to speak speak well of you you better beware you better be careful because there's something about being the people of god and understanding we're fighting for something we're trying to keep something we're trying to keep a name where everybody else might make fun of the way we dress they might look at us like we're crazy but we pack we we come together and we're coming together under the name of jesus christ we're coming on as the sanctified church that we sang the the holy ghost filled church that we sang about and we come together under that but sooner or later if we're not careful we're gonna become so accepted by the outside world they're gonna start inviting us to their community-wide services as they come on up here you know we're gonna we're gonna talk trinitarian talk but we want you to come up here and sing bring your choir and come on up here and sing an old church family we've got to fight against that spirit because that spirit is a spirit it looks good it looks like unity it looks like people coming together but that's not what it is oh when all men begin to look at you and say hey you're one of us come join the crowd be like us we've got to be careful as the church so these these three the children of sierra the children of ammon the children of moab they're coming against the people of god but i want to read and i'm almost finished i've gone away longer than i wanted to but i got caught up in a history lesson and i love history and i apologize but the bible says in verse 13 all judah stood before the lord with their little ones and their wives and their children and this prophet began to prophesy but look with me in verse 18 the bible says in jehoshaphat the king bowed his head with his face to the ground in all judah and all the inhabitants of jerusalem fell before the lord worshiping the lord and the levites oh here we go of the children of the catholics and of the children of the korites stood up to praise the lord god of israel with a loud voice on high i want you to make sure we realize that this is not something pentecostal that we've made up this is something that's been happening for all time verse 20 says and they rose early in the morning and went forth into the wilderness of tekoa and they went forth and jehoshaphat stood and said hear me o judah and ye inhabitants of jerusalem believe in the lord your god so shall ye be established believe his prophets so shall ye prosper and when he had consulted with the people right here watch this he anointed singers unto the lord that should praise the beauty of holiness oh that's a good word right there as they went out before the army and to say praise the lord for his mercy endureth forever and when they began to sing and they began to praise and the lord set ambushments against the children of ammon moab and mousier which were come against judah and they were smitten for the children of ammon and moab stood against against the inhabitants of mount sierra utterly to slay and destroy them and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of sierra everyone helped to destroy the other and when judah came together the watchtower in the wilderness they looked unto the multitude and behold they were dead bodies fall into the earth and none escaped what is our role i'll tell you we've got a role when it comes to serving god and when it comes to fighting the battle we've got to fight against the enemy i'll tell you what our role is we got to do the same thing the children of israel did they gathered their families close around them whatever we do we can't make a decision without our families being gathered close around us it said they brought their little ones with them and their children that was their adult children they said as an extended family we're gonna bind together and we're gonna do this together we're not gonna fight separated we're gonna be unified they brought their families together and they allowed the spirit of the lord to speak under the congregation and that's what happened tonight whether we realize it or not pastor carpenter was up here and began to speak unto the anointing of god that doesn't happen in every church that doesn't happen in every sanctuary across the united states of america i'll tell you where that happens that happens when people come together with their families and allow the spirit of god to speak into the house god i always want to be spearfield i want to be spirit-led and i want you to be able to speak to me anytime lord speak to me freely lord i'm here i'm your servant i'm ready to receive speak to me lord i'm ready to hear he said be not afraid or dismayed he said set yourselves well i began to look and say what to say yourselves mean and i'll look back a little bit and when the king said that he set himself that's when he said we're gonna have a time of fasting in prayer and i thought well that makes sense sometimes we just gotta set ourselves don't respond to things that come your way listen every time we we can't be people that all we do is respond to negative sometimes we just gotta turn our phones off and turn our devices off and turn on social media off and then say god i'm giving my time to you i'm sick and tired of the things that i'm reading this i'm saying i'm sick and tired of them i can't even watch the news anymore y'all negative after negative after negative after negative he said set yourselves close it all down and find a plate get your prayer closet get in there find a time to fast and allow god to fight your battles he said stand still and watch god do what he does best but this is what i'm ending with right here because he said i've got to get some worshipers together i've got to get some worshipers thinking did you see this do we realize that they could have just stopped and stayed and allowed god to fight the battle but the king said oh no we're going to assemble a choir and we're going to assemble musicians and we're going to begin to sing praises unto god and thank him for his mercy endureth forever and don't you know listen we cannot call ourselves a pentecostal church and pastor already preached all over my message but you can't call yourself a pentecostal church if you're not willing to give demonstrative worship unto god because that's what we do that's what makes us who we are that's what's so important because it's not just being pentecostal it's not just being apostolic it's being christian there has to be a noise that leaves our mouths you may be seated i'm done i'm done but you may be seated brother chase come on the keyboard cause i'm i'm done we're in competition i'll tell you how important noise is we were at competition this past weekend and i'm so proud of our girls volleyball team and our boys basketball team man i'm telling you we we played a team the very first team we played played in in the gold medal game and that that very listen i'm proud of our team but i'm also proud of our fan base because our fan base came out and when i say our fan base made some noise they made some crazy noise i'm talking about and it going it goes just beyond just just helping out the team because i know that when you when you begin to make noise as a fan i know it kind of spurs on the team and it pumps up the team and they might do better than they did if it was i get all that but even as a fan it made me feel better it made me feel bad because as i began to make noise and i began to cheer on my team and as we began to chant and come on aca a-c-a-a-c-a as we get beginning to chant and our boys man our boys won they they won with ease man lighten up the three-pointers with easy they won the next game man we were we were one of the uh i think we're first or second place when we get out of the pool play and got into the bracket our volleyball team same thing volleyball team uh yeah we lost the first game but it just it just it didn't matter because we played that same team again we played our rival team again but this time the fan base showed up and when the fan base showed up it was deafening the sound of the fans cheering the noise that was coming forth watched our girls with ease rally to victory but at the same time as that was so effective the next day when we got into the tournament it just so happened that our that our boys and our girls team were playing at the very same time which which divided our fan base so we only had we only had half of the fans with the boys and we only had half of the fans with the girls and what did you know we played a team that lost in the championship to a team that we had beat with ease the boys were playing a team they'd already beat there's no there's no doubt in my mind we could have beat both of those teams there's no doubt our team was better there's no doubt in my mind both teams were better but i gotta believe it had something to do with the fan base was not unified behind either team we couldn't some had daughters over here some had sons over here but i want you to know that when we worship it's so important oh my god don't don't sit back and say oh that's just for some people that that's just for some people because they're they're emotional they oh no to a pentecostal church that's what holds us together worship it's our weapon praise is what we do on the battlefield i began i began to think about this right here i thought my god if we're going to keep moab and ammon and sierra out of the church there's got to be people that know how to praise there's got to be people who know how to worship because i'll tell you what casual worship turns into a casual walk with god oh yes it does i've watched people who who started off on fire for god got the holy ghost got baptized life was changed brought out all kinds of junk on fire for god coming up to me and saying pastor erickson why don't those other people shout and dance like i do i said i don't really have an answer for you i don't really know i don't know don't they understand what it feels like to be free like i think so i've seen those same people as they end up to where they hardly even worship anymore and over time they would show up in a certain time be ready to get in the choir but now they're not even qualified to sing in the choir and i think to myself it's those little things right there that infiltrate the church that come into the church house that affect the people of god that influence who we are and what we are i want you to stand your feet and i just want you to throw your hands up and and i i know we've we've already been here and so i'm not i'm not looking for some great response i promise you i'm not but i wish i wish we could end this service we have people to be baptized i'm excited about it but i wish we could end this service like we did when we started off and to say god oh god there are certain things in my life lord god that i know are not my battle but god you are so strong you're so mighty and lord i'm just believing today lord god culture is not going to affect this church i don't believe lord the philosophy is going to affect this church lord there's not to be any persecution or lack thereof that's going to affect this church the gates of hell shall not prevail against a church that's built upon the rock christ jesus i just believe worshipers in this place if you begin to lift up your voices come on we're the fans we got we got one we got one that we say god there's nobody like you your mercy endureth forever we're fans of yah lord god we we are your people we're called by your name oh you're our god come on some of this begin to worship him in this place begin to praise him in this place begin to sound like an apostolic church in this place come on somebody lift up your voice come on somebody lift up your voice it's about the praise that the people began to praise oh and when the people of moab when the armies that came forth of sierra where the armies came forth of ammon they were surprised not because there was a great army with swords and spears but there were people that were lifting up a shadow praise and there were people they were worshiping and it confused the enemy and the enemy began to turn upon one another come on your praise can cause your problems to turn upon each other in jesus name let us realize how effective praise is in the battle come on praises your weapon you got to use it you got to use it don't be afraid to use it come on it's what the church has been given to the church as a weapon our praise our worship we say god you can do anything nothing is impossible for you with god all things are possible come on you're just going to be able to quote scripture and saying god you are my hope god you are my salvation god you are my joy lord you on by peace begin to speak it out in your worship begin to tell god how awesome he is in your praise and won't you see the enemy begin to defeat one another in your life those problems that were so huge are no longer huge those things that you thought were impossible are no longer impossible but it takes praise right here come on praise him i feel it i hear it there's a sound there's a sound of the abundance of rain there's a sound i hear hey there's a sound there's a sound of worship oh come on it brings it brings people before the throne of god and when you're in the throne room of god things begin to change in your life come on that's right that's right the holy ghost wants to minister to somebody right here open your mind open your heart to the spirit of god he wants to speak into your life he wants to help you he wants to lead you he wants to guide you hey oh come on if you don't have the holy ghost praise is the prerequisite of the holy ghost fallen there had to be an upper room of people that were worshiping and praying and praising before the holy ghost could come there had to be something going on there had to be a noise that was fill in a room there had to be people who are in one mind in one accord holy ghost move in this place holy ghost minister in this place let there be a sound that goes forth a sound that says god i may not be able to fight this battle but i know you've got my back oh god there's nothing i can do about the culture that i live in but i know i know i can depend on you because you've got my back oh lord in jesus name minister hello yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes do it oh god do it right now come on come on build up your faith build up your faith