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Sunday Evening Worship Service

First Apostolic Church of Knoxville (Knoxville, TN)

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The stolen child before the king

  • Two women who lived in the same house each gave birth; one child died in the night because his mother lay on him, and she took the living child and laid her dead child in the other mother's arms.
  • What God is birthing in a home will either be sustained or suffocated by the atmosphere allowed into it — the voices, media, gossip, and music let in.
  • The real mother can say words the thief cannot say: oh my Lord, God forgive me, God help me, I need mercy and grace.
  • Half a child is no different than a dead child: the real mother would rather let the thief hold her child a little longer than see it divided, because what is stolen can be recovered.

Scriptures: 1 Kings 3:16-25

Steal from the stealer

  • Be angry and sin not, and do not let the sun go down on your wrath, neither give place to the devil.
  • There is a time to pray and a time to say amen and act: prayer can become procrastination when a believer waits for a new word instead of obeying a true one.
  • Where the word of a king is, there is power, and no one can say to him, what doest thou.
  • God has spoken once, and twice have I heard this: the former word of God is eternal, and a believer can go back and stand on every word God has ever spoken.

Scriptures: Ephesians 4:26-28; Ecclesiastes 8:4; Psalm 62:11

My house shall be called a house of prayer

  • Jesus went into the temple and drove out all who bought and sold, overturning the tables of the money changers.
  • It is written, my house shall be called a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves; the enemy occupying the house never meant the enemy owned it.
  • When the thieves were removed, the blind and the lame came to him in the temple and he healed them, and the children came back crying in the temple.
  • The sermon closes with a call to serve an eviction notice on the stealer and take back what the enemy stole: prayer, faith, family, and every promise of God.
  • The banked capture ends during the worship that follows the altar appeal; no dismissal appears in the banked text.

Scriptures: Matthew 21:12-15

Scripture index: 1 Kings 3:16-25; Ephesians 4:26-28; Ecclesiastes 8:4; Psalm 62:11; Matthew 21:12-15.

Transcript

so grateful so grateful for the presence of the Lord that we have felt all week um what a joy to have been here Wednesday night and to be able to share the word of the Lord and then to be able to uh be a part of Chapel Thursday and Friday and even got to uh catch an Eagles game and thankfully they won and I then got to be back here this morning and then again tonight I don't know about you but I just have an expectation in my spirit that God is going to do something special in our midst does anybody feel that would anybody agree with me I'm telling you I just feel like somebody's going to gain some Traction in the spirit world tonight I just feel like somebody GNA pray a prayer in the spirit that goes beyond a Sunday night service and I just I just feel faith in this house I just believe anything can happen tonight as the preaching of God's word word is going forth I believe somebody could just recognize there's there's no more pain where there's been pain I believe somebody could leave this house saying that was the night that God filled me or refilled me with his spirit I just believe God's going to do something special tonight I uh I I give uh such uh high honor to your leadership so thankful for Bishop and sister mol and of course Bishop is not here uh tonight uh but uh Elder sister McCool uh she found me in the Altar and she told me I believe this was um I believe this was Wednesday night she said I just want you to know uh I am the reason that you got to come back so I said yes ma'am I salute you in the spirit I will give due credit to you before the Revival is over I'm so thankful for pastor mcco and his wife and of course Pastor Anthony and Pastor Nathan uh they've been so kind to me uh they have treated my treated me like family and you all have treated me like family and uh I I've said this a few times and I'll just keep saying it as long as I I'm here and can verbalize it um not every Pastor is a Christian not every leader is a Christian not everyone that goes to church is a Christian but God has blessed you not with flawless leadership not with perfect leadership but with Christlike leadership you know how I know that because their their Motif their M template their Motif their template is scriptural it's it's as Paul said it's follow me as I follow Christ I was reminded today of that verse When Paul told the Corinthian Church he said I'm not come to have dominion over your faith but I I'm just here to be a helper of your joy and that's what we're all seeking we're seeking an eternity that is full of joy forever and ever more and I'm grateful for Christlike leaders would you just give them a hand of Honor you're truly blessed with the best and I Echo the sentiment that I've already shared once more I look around and I just see so many servant minded men and women uh that help with the sound that help with the media that help in the parking loot that help uh with the school that help with the uh the the the music um this church is full of servants that want to see the kingdom of God advance in excellence and so I honor you I truly do and what a joy it is uh to have been able to come back for uh for my third year in a row and I'm just grateful as in Canada um and I had stepped down from the stage and a young man had walked up to me and he said Landon he said I want to share a testimony uh with you he said uh he said the Lord's really been challenging me in my faith and the Lord's really been asking me and beckoning me in this season to step out and do do some things that I'm just I don't know if I can do I I I I just told the Lord I'm different I'm eccentric I'm an anomaly I'm I'm just weird and he said uh that was before I heard you preach he said tonight when you preached I told the Lord Lord if you can use Landon I know you can use me I said thank you so very much for your amazing testimony and then I well I'm not going to tell you what I said in my head but uh but I want L the Lord to use me uh one more time tonight and I want the Lord to use you and I just believe uh that the word is going to mix with faith and God's going to do something special so let's just go to the word of the Lord I've kept you standing long enough First Kings First Kings chapter 3 First Kings chapter 3 and verse 16 First Kings chapter 3 and verse 16 now there were two women who were harlots that came to the king and stood before him and one woman saidoh my Lord this woman and I dwell in the same house and I gave birth while she was in the house then it happened the third day after I had given birth that this woman also gave birth and we were together no one was with us in the house except the two of us in the house and This Woman's son died in the night because she lay on him she suffocated him so she arose in the middle of the night she took my son from my side while your maid servant slept and she laid him in her arms and she laid her dead child in my arms but when I Rose in the morning when I got up in the morning and the Sun was shining just a little bit I got up in the morning to feed to nurse my son he was dead but when I examined him in the morning indeed I realized that he was not the son which I had given birth to so it was that the other woman said no but the living one is my son and the dead one is your son and so it was was that they argued before wise King Solomon I want to read one more passage of scripture very quickly for you're hearing Ephesians 4 Ephesians 4 and 26 Ephesians 4 and 26 and it says these uh I believe very powerful and prolific words be angry and sin not Don't Let the Sun Go Down on your wrath neither give place to the devil and let him who stole past tense Ste present tense no more future tense so by the help of God's spirit I just want to preach to you tonight on this simple subject this simple declaration it's time to steal from the stealer it's time to steal from the stealer would you make that declaration out loud would you just speak it over yourself speak it over your life it's time to steal from the stealer I want you to point at somebody else and I want you to tell them it's time to steal from the stealer would you put down your Bible put down your notepad and would you just raise your hands with me and let's just agree one more time that God is going to meet us tonight I feel like there's going to be a witness of his word would we just agree in the spirit God I thank you I thank you I thank you I thank you that you do all things well you are so good you are righteous you are faithful you are just there is nobody like you tonight we exalt you we praise you we worship you tonight we remove every distraction God we place our full attention upon you we cast our gaze upon you God we are here to focus and to listen and to lean in do what you have come to do accomplish what you have set out to accomplish and I thank you for what you will do in the spirit tonight before we go home in jesus' name somebody say in Jesus name I just feel like clapping in agreement would you just clap unto the Lord with me I wonder without hesitation if you just lift up your voice and you just add a little bit of Triumph would you do that come on somebody clap their hands unto the Lord why don't you just lift up your voice and Triumph one more time on a Sunday night oh Hallelujah to your name come on can I beg you just to do it a few more seconds in this atmosphere hallelujah hallelujah I'm going to invite you just to do it just a few more seconds come on I feel an atmosphere changing do it God do it God do it God let it be so tonight hallelujah hallelujah you may be seated tonight tell one more person you know what time it is it's time to steal from the stealer the passage that we just read is a story about two women the Bible lets us know this story that begins to unfold but the story really starts before the story starts before they were two women they were two young girls I I have no doubt that they probably dreamed about the day that they would be mothers I I have no doubt that it was it was it was their desire it was perhaps even their prayer that one day they would have a little child of their own while the circumstances are are far far from perfect the Bible lets us know that this this dream this perhaps prayer or desire has now become a reality and and now they have given birth to Children of their own but something deceptive takes place in the middle of the night something devious takes place in the middle of the night something something treacherous begins to occur the Bible says that one mother woke up to feed her child only to realize that a another mother had suffocated her child I remind you tonight that everything in our homes are either going to sustain or suffocate what has been given birth to in the spirit God is using you to birth promises God is using ing you to birth prophecies and I need to ask you a question on a Sunday night is the atmosphere of your home conducive and safe for the prophecies and Promises of God to grow up in the voices that we allow into our homes the media that we allow into our home the gossip that we allow into our home the music that we allow into our home whatever we allow into our mind our marriage our babies our our spirit it is either going to sustain what God is giving birth to or it is going to suffocate what God is giving birth to there are things that take place in spiritual environments such as cold orange Revival there are things that take place in atmospheres like a Sunday morning and and Sunday night and I just have to ask the question is is our Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday and Thursday and Friday and Saturday suffocating what God is trying to birth on Sunday so it is in the middle of the night this this this mother wakes up and and she she doesn't realize the full story yet we we're reading the story but she's living it and and she wakes up to the horror to the to the tragedy that that that that that her desire that her her prayer that her her dream that her baby is now is now lifeless in her arms I I can't imagine the panic I can't imagine the shock I I can't imagine the the inner turmoil she can't compute it I I she more than likely she's Frozen she she can't even move but but but the Bible says that something begins to occur Dawn begins to break and the sun begins to shine and as the sun is shining there is a ray of Revelation that is coming into her house as she begins to examine this child she begins to realize ah no no no no no no no no no no no this is this is not what it appears to be this is This Is Not What It Seems has all of a sudden Rec recog recognition and and Revelation is is baptizing her spirit until it culminates into this simple reality this is this is what this morning mother realizes my my baby is not dead my baby is stolen and I just need to preach to somebody it may not be everybody but there's a few somebody's in in in this room tonight under the sound of my voice I I need to speak to you I need to I need to preach to you I need to prophesy over you because because the adversary has convinced you that a Ministry is done the adversary has convinced you that a prophecy is not going to come to pass the adversary has convinced you that God is not going to hear your prayers but I I came I've come to remind you tonight that not only is the devil a liar he is a stealer but I've also come to remind you that what has been stolen can be recovered I just need to speak over your future it is not dead it is not dead it is not dormant just maybe perhaps it is stolen but if it is stolen it can be recovered yay it shall be recovered I just need someone to clap their hand and agree with me in the spirit [Applause] I see a mama who is mad I see a mama who is on a mission she is a force to be reckoned with she goes where everyone with a stolen promise a stolen prophecy a stolen prayer must go she begins to make her way to the court of a higher authority she begins to make her way to the throne room whose jurisdiction spreads throughout the land I see mother busting through the gates there are grown men that are stepping back because there is a mama who is mad who is on a mission with fire in her eyes and nobody dares stop her she makes her way into the courtroom she makes her way into the throne room she makes her way in front of wise King Solomon and now now she begins to make her petition known she said I I know I'm holding something lifeless but it's it's not what it looks like I I need you to know there I I need you to hear the story I I need you to hear my petition I I I Need You To Hear My Cry I need you to hear my plea and thus she relays the story of what takes place to the king she said I was in my house and there was not a stranger with me in the house it was me and my friend I I don't understand it but you got to understand there was there was nobody else in the house except me and my friend but something deceptive took place because in the middle of the night she suffocated her child and in the middle of the night she took my child she took what belonged to me and what seemed friendly turned deadly see Steelers don't always look like Steelers thieves don't always look like thieves see I I I fear I fear that that that there has been a Breakin I fear that there's been a Breakin but but but the thief I I this is what I really fear I fear that the thief didn't actually have to break in I fear sometimes that we let the thief in what happens when there has been a burglary and yet there's no broken windows the Crowbar has not been used on the door what happened when the thief is able to steal kill and destroy not because he broke in but because we let him in she said I got to confess there was no stranger in the house it it was it was me and this other woman it was it was me and my it was me and my friend but but what I thought was friendly was was turning deadly and and I need you to know it's not what it looks like I I need you to know that that that what I'm holding is not mine and and the adversary the thief the stealer has what is mine and so now King Solomon has to decide in his wisdom who the real mother is because this is what happens the Bible lets us know that the stealer walks into the very same Throne Room the audacity the other mother walks in with her child and now the King has to de Cipher now the King has to discern who the mother who the real mother is I think it's interesting when you read the story that there's that there's a there's a phrase in in this In this passage of scripture that that the real mother uses that the thief never does there's a phrase that the real mother uses that the thief does not use I submit to you that not only does the thief not use it I I submit to you that the thief can't use it here's the phrase it's it's three little words it's oh my Lord you ever had an old my Lord moment uh I've had a whole lot of oh my Lord moments my life has been full of oh my Lord moments this is what the real mother says she says oh my Lord but I want you to notice that the thief never says these words because the thief cannot say those words I need you to be reminded on a Sunday night that even when things have been stolen from you even when things have been stripped from you even when things have been taken from you you still have verbiage that the adversary does not have you literally have words that the thief can not use you have the ability to say God forgive me the stealer can't say that you have the ability to say God help me the Steeler cannot say that you have the ability to say I have messed up and I need mercy and I need Grace and I need wisdom and I need comfort the thief cannot say that even in your lowest moment you have words that the stealer does not have access to King thinks he knows so now he says all right here's what we're going to do we're going to we're we're going to we're going to take a sword we're going to take a sword and here's what we're going to do we're going to divide the child and we're going to give a piece to you and we're going to give another piece to you and and and the thief seems to be in a agreement but but the Bible says that the real mother lifts up her voice and the real mother says no you cannot divide the baby you're not going to divide my dream you're not going you're not going to divide my gift you're not going to divide my prayer you're you're not no no you're you're not going to divide the child because she knew then what I need everybody to know now that half a child is no different than a dead child and half oh somebody needs to hear me right now you some there's somebody in this room you are about to be seduced into thinking that you're going to have to settle for something less than what God spoke to you but I'm telling you that God is not a man that he should lie his word will not return void I declare to you tonight I will not settle for a piece of what God has spoken H I want the whole counsil of God I want every prophecy that he's given me uh I want every promise in that book I want everything that God has declared for my life I got a preach to a family I I I know the enemy's holding my but but look at the baby it looks like me I'm preaching to an elder I'm preaching to a man of God a woman of God I'm preaching to a parent something needs to rise up something needs to Bow up in your spirit and say I gave birth to that I I prayed for that I fasted for that I think it's wild that she's she's actually okay with the the adversary holding it for just a little longer she said no no you you can't divide let let the thief hold it a little a little longer because if the thief has it I can get it back but if it's divided the devil does not have success in stopping God but Discord and divisiveness has the ability to be successful in stopping us she said don't divide it if you divide it I'm not going to get it back it may have the Fingerprints of the enemy on it for a moment but I I'll get it back but if you divide it I may never hold it again you cannot divide it it's as if the stealer it's as if the thief goes silent but is the real mother that lifts up her voice see there's something about when the word of God Goes Forth there's something about when Vision Goes Forth there's something about when promise and prophecy Goes Forth I I I just I just need to remind you if you can be silent about it you probably didn't give birth to it but give me the Elder who says I can't run the aisles like I used to and I I can't hop like you and I I but let me have a fra old hand that says this is my church and this is my Revival and these are my prophecies and these are my promises because I have given birth to these God is calling a generation to take ownership God is calling for 12 year olds and 25 year olds and 39 year olds and 57 year olds and 62 year olds and 89 year olds to say this belongs to me uh this is our hour and the adversary will try to steal kill and destroy but we serve a God that has come to give life and life more [Applause] abundantly I just want to provoke somebody uh don't wait until the new year uh to have a boldness rise on the inside of you uh don't wait until January 1 but what if tonight on a Sunday night you said I am taking some things back in the spirit can I preach just a few more minutes your Bible does say be angry and sin not and don't let the sun go down upon your wrath the land and Gore translation not yet on your uver Bible app is this sometimes you just just got to be angry and sometimes you got to do something about it before the sun goes down sometimes you make you have to make a cognizant decision before 24 hours are over I am about to do something the adversary when does prayer become procrastination there is a time to pray there is a time to fast there is a time to intercede and then there is a Time to Say Amen Let It Be done let it be so God is going to fight for me I'm not just anywhere on a Sunday night I am in the throne room of the let me make sure it's still in there yeah it's still in there he is the king of kings and he is the Lord of lords there is nobody above him beside him below him around him there is nobody like our God [Applause] Ecclesiastes 8 and4 says where the word of a king is there is power and who may say unto him what are you doing buddy I used you last year I'm going to use you again but this time I'm not going to jump on your back I want you to run up here I want you to run up here it's Alex right brother the Alex you got a word I said you got a word now I believe in the prophetic but when does prayer become procrastination when we are waiting for 10 prophets to tell us something new when we haven't even believed and obeyed something true let's just be honest some of us are insecure and we're affirmation Junkies if we had it our way it would be our proclivity that somebody would speak a word to us every Sunday and then and only then could we make it to Monday Jesus said it is written it is written it is written and Satan left it only took three verses to send Satan fleeing and you've got Genesis to Revelation what would happen What would happen if you stood on every jot in every title of every book of every chapter of every verse what if you walked into your life armed with the word well you don't know my skill set and you you don't know you I'm a victim to this and and you don't know my upbringing God does not confirm a personality God confirms his word and if you have his word you are a threat to hell I just need someone to jump up on their feet and I need you to clap and I need you to agree like you know that you have hid the word of God in your heart [Applause] says where the word of a king is there is power where is this precious beloved but angry mother she's in the throne room of the king she said if I can just get a word from the King it doesn't matter what anybody else says I've got to I've got to visit the throne room of a higher power I I I've got to get I've got to get I've got to get to the the king I just if I if I can just get to the throne room I don't have it all figured out I I but I I I I just know that something can change something can be reversed something can be altered are you hearing me tonight she's in the throne room she has the attention she has an audience with the king and the Bible says where the word of a king is there is power and who may say unto him what are you doing that means if you have the word of God there is nothing human human or hellish that has the authority to walk up to you and say what are you doing unless they are of equal or higher authority and I just told you he's still the king of kings and he's still the Lord of lords I want to read to you another passage of scripture that I find encouraging it's found in Psalm 62 and11 this is what it says God has spoken once but twice have I heard this can you say that with me God has spoken once twice have I heard this I want I want you to say it with me a few times God has spoken once but twice have I heard this I'm just saying if you realize how powerful and potent it was when God first spoke to you if you realize how powerful the word of God was when you opened it on Monday morning perhaps you wouldn't need a new word perhaps you would just revisit a former word and I said former word not old word because his word is not old it's Eternal it does not rust it does not [Applause] dimin I'm not saying God can't give you a new word but I'm going to go back to every word that he has ever spoken in my life and I am going to stand on it musicians come on back now the king knows I know who the real mother is thank you Alex I know who the real mother is I want you to I want you to give it I want you to give it to her I want you to think about the moment think about the moment that her baby has returned to her think about the moment that now she's holding in her arms think about the moment that she gets back what has been taken from her this is where scripture ends but the story doesn't are you taking my picture y'all give me a minute they always catch me with the double chin ugly ugly cry face so I'm going to pose for this one we good all right he was taking my picture what was I supposed to do watch this is where the story scriptures scripture ends but the story doesn't now she's got to go back home so I want to ask you what do you think happens next you think they just went back home and shared a good oldfashioned men night Fruity Pebble snack think they went back home and played the Xbox think they went back home and and they surfed the news and and they're just going to check on who Trump is adding to his cabinet no you know what I think happens I think she got back to her house and I think she put that baby in a room and I think she locked the door and I think she went to the room where the Steeler had lived and I think she started ripping ripping off curtains I think she started taking off the bed sheets I think she started emptying the closet and I think she you know what I think happened I think she served an eviction notice to the stealer my dream my dream and the Steelers not going to live in the same house my Ministry and the Steelers not going to live in the house my prayers and fear that has torment is not going to leave live in the same house stand with me I think she serves an eviction notice not in my house no see I went to Cod orange Revival and it was the last night it was the last service of Revival but I I made a decision to make war with a Steeler I made a decision I made a decision to steal from the stealer see they they used to sing an old song it went like this I'm going to the enemy's camp and I'm going to take back what the enemy stole from me now if I could sing like Pastor Mark I would have just sung that for you but I did not sing that song I said that song but I want to say it one more time they used to sing I'm going back to the enemy's Camp I'm going back to the enemy's Camp I'm going to take back what the enemy stole from me what good is it to go to the enemy's camp and to take back what he stole from you if you're camping with the Enemy sometimes you got to rise up on a Sunday night and say my dad dealt with this but I'm not going to deal with this anymore my mother always was under the Dominion of this but I'm taking offense I'm taking pornography I'm taking Rebellion I'm taking every spirit that would oppose my prophecies and Pro es and I'm kicking them out I don't want just a bless moment I want a bless life can I say it again I don't want just a Victorious weekend I want a Victorious Life yes sir I don't want I don't want I don't want just an anointed moment I want an anointed life see that son grew up and he grew and he grew and he grew I just wonder one day if he walked into that room and said uh I noticed that there's a hole in the sheetrock and uh you know love you Mom thanks for raising me thanks for all you've done but I think we need to change the curtains a little too old for this now and then I realized that there's no window it's just duct tape and uh you know mom my my bed's been on this side of the room for all my life I think maybe we should just switch it around but it looks like there's claw marks or rips or something in the in the carpet I just wonder I just wonder if she looked back at him and said baby let me tell you a story Steeler used to live here see I let some things in that were friendly but they turn deadly it's not always deadly on the first click it's not always deadly the first time you listen to it the first time you watch it somewhere the Bible says that judgment must begin in the house of the Lord you got to make a judgment call if you're coming against my Ministry if you're coming against my anointing if you're coming against the whole Council of God if you're if you're coming against what God is trying to birth in this church and what God is trying to birth in this region I've got to judge you maybe let me tell you a story a Steeler used to live here but I chose you over being offended forever I chose you over Church hurt I chose eternity over the temporal I chose his word over my opinion see the Bible tells us that Jesus is literally coming back to his house the story is found in Matthew want to read it very quickly for your hearing Bible says in Matthew 21 and verse 12 then Jesus went to the temple of God and he drove out all of those that bought and sold in the temple and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves and he said unto them it is written my house shall be called a House of Prayer but you have made it a d of Thieves just because the enemy was occupying it didn't mean the enemy owned it he said my house shall be called a House of Prayer but you have made it a den of Thieves he said he said I I I I called you but when I came back to you I didn't come back to what I called you I came back to what you made you you have made this place different than what I called this place but God in flesh deity and Humanity did not walk away and leave his people nor his house he just went back to what he said the first time and he let him hear it again again it is written my house shall be a House of Prayer I'll be honest with you there's been times in my life that I didn't look like what he had called me to be my life didn't look like his calling upon my life his like I'm just being honest with you not just moments there's seasons of my life where my life didn't look like what he called it it looked a whole lot like what I had made it you hear me tonight said my house shall be called a House of Prayer but you have made it a den of Thieves watch he removed the Steelers and he removed the burglars and he removed the deceivers he removed the thieves and the Bible says in verse 14 and the Blind and the lame came to him in the temple and he healed them next verse verse 15 and when the chief priest and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did the children crying in the temple the children the children the children when the thieves were kicked out two things came back in Miracles came back in the future came back in when the thieves were evicted children the children came back if the future is silent there's probably a thief present but Jesus came back and he said this is my house thieves are not welcome here fear is not welcome here torment is not welcome here suicidal thinking is not welcome here offense is not welcome here Joy is supposed to be here peace is supposed to be here longsuffering is what abides here my nature is meant to dwell here and when the thieves and the deceivers and the burglars were kicked out the blind came the Lan came the children crying aloud and the Bible says can we go back to that verse I want you to see it for yourself the Bible says when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did they were displeased the religious people were unhappy but you know what they saw the Bible said they saw what was happening and you know what the word it's right there they saw the wonderful things they saw the wonderful things I thought this was the passage where Jesus got angry but if you've ever had Jesus come into your life and remove a Ste ER you won't call him angry you'll call him wonderful I wonder if you just lift up your hands right now all across this house come on we're not going to be here all night Monday morning's coming but somebody's about to leave their Roose someone's about to leave their Pew and somebody's about to get something back in the spirit I said Somebody's about to get something back in the spirit come on I feel it right now would you just I I I I want to pray over you but I I I I don't want to hesitate right now I want you to go ahead and come would you step out would you step out from where you are come on step out from where you are would you join with your brothers and sisters would you join with the body of Christ come on it's time to fight for your family come on it's time to fight for your future come on it's time to fight for your babies come on it's time to fight for your church come on it's time to fight for every promise that God has given you come on the entrance of his word brings light and he giveth understanding to the simple come on there's light shining in your Darkness come on there's light shining Joy coming in the morning woo it's not dead it's only [Music] stolen get it back get it back come on man of God come on lady of God to [Music] [Music] lady came to her pastor she said pastor I got to talk to you she said I'm in distress I'm under duress she said I don't want to admit this she said but I she said I I can't shake it I'm under attack we understand tonight not everything is an attack not everything is spiritual warfare sometimes you just need a good night's rest sometimes you need to pray again sometimes you need to go back to the word of God you got to get back into faithful consistent consistency got to make it to the house of God but she said pastor this is different she said I can't shake it all I can hear are the lies of the enemy I I've been facing this I've been fing facing that and all I hear is the adversary telling me you're going to die you're not going to make it she said I'm trying to praise I'm trying to pray I'm trying to overcome but I can't shake it that Pastor looked back at her and said are you sure you know where the voice is coming from she said I'm sure it's the adversary it's Satan it's fear it's doubt out he began to shout he began to dance he begin to leave she said pastor Pastor you're not hearing me she said I feel like I'm going to die I feel like I'm I'm not going to make it she said I don't think you're hearing me he didn't stop dancing he didn't stop rejoicing but with a smile on his face he said Lady of God the devil is a liar the devil is a liar the devil is a liar I wonder if you just take the hand of a neighbor I wonder if you take the hand of a spouse I wonder if you take the hand of an elder right now whose report will you believe we will believe the report of the Lord come on this is how you fight your battle this is how you fight your battle come on somebody run into the Strong Tower somebody reclaim your promise [Music] W my house shall be cold a House of Prayer get your prayer back get your faith back get your Victory [Music] [Applause] back yes the of the of the Living God my [Music] battle by the spirit of the Living spirit of the Living God my foress my ref still a strong to still a strong tower my my still a tower oh he's still a strong tower oh let the people know anything [Music] possible tower [Applause] Tower still a power to my help defend still a tower Tower [Music] let some let the devil know tell he's got to go

Scripture references as spoken: 1 Kings 3:16-25; Ephesians 4:26-28; Ecclesiastes 8:4; Psalm 62:11; Matthew 21:12-15.