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/ @womenoffaithtbn Women of Faith on TBN brings you the best of TBN’s women’s Christian teaching. Here you’ll find content from your favorite women’s Bible teachers, speakers, pastors, and authors, featuring teachings from Priscilla Shirer, CeCe Winans, Christine Caine, Joyce Meyer, Jackie Hill Perry, Lisa Harper, Lisa Bevere, Sarah Jakes Roberts, and more! Our prayer for this channel is that you may find encouragement, hope, and a renewed sense of purpose and strength in Christ. “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.” – Hebrews 13:22 #tbn #womenoffaith #priscillashirer 00:00 Knowing What the Enemy Really Thinks About You 09:27 The Enemy’s Tactics Against You 11:28 Paul Discusses the Full Armor of God 16:34 Satan is a Manipulator and Schemer 24:20 Learning the Armor of God 27:57 What Are You Inviting Into Your Life?
that I’m not going to stand back while I
watch you destroy and dismantle my
marriage that I’m not just going to lay
aside while I see you tinkering with the
emotions with the mind of my child the
relationships the influences that are
around my child there’s going to be a
woman or a man that is committed to wear
the armor of God Hall to stand firmly
against the schemes of the enemy if he’s
scheming against us we better show
enough have a scheme against
him
Lord Lord we say that you are great and
we honor your name in this place we pray
now Lord that as we turn our attention
to the scriptures you would do what only
you can would you take this one little
simple message would you divide it
several thousand different ways so that
every single person under the sound of
my voice in this room and Beyond on the
other side of that screen will know
beyond a shadow of a doubt that today
they have heard the voice of God
hallelujah we pray pray for the
illumination of your spirit over this
word tonight do it father we are your
servants and we are
listening in Jesus mighty matchless
name
amen as I mentioned to you
um got these boys that I am
raising the distinguishing
characteristic of my sons is that they
are
big
they are big boys just to give you some
frame of reference my 14-year-old wears
a size 14
shoe when I say big I mean big he is 6
feet tall my
12-year-old wears a size 13 shoe he’s
about 5’11 or so he’s right underneath
his brother and then you saw Judy’s a
pretty big eight-year-old so I’ve got
these big boys one of the ways that
their size actually works on their
behalf is that they enjoy sports sport
they love sports so whatever is in
season at the time that is probably what
we are playing and we just came out of
basketball season and then we hit
baseball season then football rolls
around we just go from one thing to the
other and I have to say that until in
recent years my middle son his thing was
baseball that was really his thing it
was his neck he had a natural
inclination toward it not only to liking
it but to playing the game and I think
because of his size he did really well
at it when he got a good hit because of
his again his size he just would get a
good powerful strong hit and I remember
at 10 he was able to send the ball over
the fence line when he got a home run he
was great at first base he made lots of
stops and lots of outs and so for a lot
of years there that’s all they played
baseball and we were really proud of him
because he really did have a natural
knack for it he had a lot of growing and
a lot of maturing to do of course and he
knew that but he loved the game and he
loved to work hard I was excited about
baseball season because I actually enjoy
baseball season I like Spring ball I
like it because you go out there for
those practices in the cool of the
spring evening and you sit there you
know as the night grows uh dim and the
lights are on underneath those those
bright white lights on the baseball
diamond and got that Cool Spring Breeze
brushing across your cheeks and you just
get to sit there and enjoy a nice spring
evening I even love the early Saturday
morning games crisp early spring
mornings you’re sitting there with your
Starbucks in hand next to the other
parents as you watch your children
enjoying the game I like springball the
only problem with Spring ball is that
it’s going to become Summer
Ball and I’m not exactly sure what
happens in the part of the world where
you might live and come from but I will
tell you in Dallas Texas in the summer
it does not just warm up
slightly it is an intense palatable heat
where you feel like the sun is mad at
you about something like maybe you did
something to the sun and the Sun is
trying to get you back that’s what it
feels like all summer long and you’re
still trying to be okay at the games and
you are when there’s just one game on a
Saturday morning the problem is that at
the end of every season they have the
nerve to have a
tournament which means you’re coming out
there on a Thursday you’re going to be
there for the 8 a.m. game and then
you’re going to be there for the 10 a.m.
game that they’re going to give you a
little lunch break but then you got to
come back for the 2 pm game and the 4 pm
game and then depending upon how your
team did they’re going to take your
son’s team they’re going to shift them
to an entirely different bracket so that
you got to come back on Friday at 8:00
a.m. and then at 10:00 a.m. and then
they’re going to give you a little bit
of lunch break but you got to come back
for the 2:00 p.m. game and the 400 p.m.
game and then if your kids team had the
nerve to do well you got to come back on
Saturday at 8:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. 2 p
p.m. 4 p.m. and and then Sunday again
and you’re sitting out there trying to
be okay with the fact that your kid is
doing well but you are hot and you’re
underneath that outdoor tent that the
the sporting goods store promised you
what would help to saave off some of the
heat but there you sit underneath that
pet not just sweating that cute
glistening kind of sweat I’m talking
about the kind that
rolls down your face and down the inside
of your T-shirt you know what I’m
talking about and you’re sitting there
trying to be happy but really you’re
wondering if it’s ever okay to pray your
kid loses so you can go
home please tell me that I have a
witness in the house today
any and I remember one
tournament this was our story it was the
exact story because it was a scorching
hot summer in Dallas Fort Worth we were
sitting out there in the heat trying to
be excited that he and his team were
doing well we could not wait for the
lunch break because then we’d get to go
to a restaurant where there was air
condition so we did that we went and had
ice water that actually still had ice in
it we sat there and refreshed ourselves
for just a little while came back ready
for the next game at 2 p.m. we got all
of the gear out of the back of the car
and all of the bats and the bags and the
ice chest you know as you do and we
walked over toward the baseball Dugout
where the next game was going to be
played there was just a short distance
from the car park where we parked over
toward the Dugout and I was walking
behind Jerry Jr my second son he is a
gregarious personality he’s up for a
challenge he’s kind of outgoing and so
he he was excited about this next game I
remember as I followed him that I saw
this enthusiasm in in his walk his chin
was up he kind of had a skip in his step
excited about the next game his
shoulders were back back he was looking
forward to it I also saw because I was
behind him when his countenance
completely changed in the short walk
literally from the parking lot to The
Dugout I watched my boy’s shoulders
start to slump over I saw him start
ringing his hands like he was nervous I
saw his eyes get a little bit Shifty I
watched him sort of turn into a little
sluggish walking person that seemed
intimidated and insecure I couldn’t
figure out what had caused the change so
I started looking around cuz I’m
following behind my boy and I’m seeing
what’s happening I started to look
around and I realized that as we were
walking we were passing some players
from another team they were all sprawled
out in the grass underneath the shade of
a huge tree just refreshing themselves
before the next game as well and I saw
them and I and I looked at them as we
were passing by and I realized this was
the team we were about to play next and
the more I walked by them the more I
realized what was wrong with my
boy we had fa this team earlier in the
season and when we had played this team
earlier in the season this team had
annihilated my boy and his team I
remember it had been a complete upset it
was a complete embarrassment actually
cuz these boys on this team they were
serious players been playing since they
were young serious baseball players I’m
talking about the kind of team that has
the serious
parents ain’t nobody got time for all
that
these are the kind of parents you know
who the ones the ones where you know
when they gave birth to that boy they
put a mitt on one hand a baseball in the
other they’ve been waiting for this
moment their whole lives just too
serious I remembered this team we were
about to play him again they were good
and when my boy saw them his countenance
changed we had to walk right by them
literally right on the path that was
right next to that grass and so we were
very close to them two of them started
whispering to each other I think they
thought they were whispering but we
could hear them one leaned over to the
other and he
said there goes that big kid from the
Red Sox team is he the one that hit the
ball and it went over the
fence yep he’s the one that was at first
base and caught those
outs so that’s Jerry
Shire when my boy heard his
name crossed the lips of the opposing
team members those shoulders that were
were slumped over all of a sudden they
got pushed back again I watched his chin
go back up I watched him get a little
swag back in his
[Applause]
step in fact we had to bring him down a
few notches before the next game started
it’s amazing how your countenance
changes not because your circumstances
did not because the challenge went away
but just because you over here and
really understand what the enemy thinks
about you when he sees you coming
because the reality is if you are a son
or a daughter in Jesus Christ grafted
into the family of God when the enemy
sees you he does not see you or me in
our Frailty and in our weaknesses he
sees the Power and the spirit of
almighty God that is on the inside of
you and the truth is listen to me even
if you do not believe even if I don’t
believe every single thing that the word
of God declares to be true about us even
if we don’t believe it the enemy does he
knows you have already been forgiven he
knows that there is therefore now no
condemnation for those of us who are in
Christ Jesus he knows that you have been
made competent by the spirit of God he
knows that there is no guilt no shame
that there is no fear that is given to
you by your great God he knows that
you’ve already been given the victory he
knows that he is already underneath your
feet he knows that he can form a weapon
against you but that that weapon has
absolutely no possibility of prospering
in your life and y’all in end he knows
that we
win and I’m saying to you what ashamed
it would
be for the enemy to believe more about
our potential than we
do I want you to hear tonight what a
shamed it would be if he could just
sprawl out enough trouble Tinker with
your life enough cause there to be
enough inklings of hardship and and and
difficulty that it causes you to shrink
back in such fear and insecurity that
you won’t even attempt to step up to the
plate and be who God has called you to
be if you are a believer in Jesus Christ
hear me clearly the enemy knows he
cannot destroy you so he’s going to
spend the rest of his time and energy
trying to so distract you and disable
you and disarm you and discourage you
that you will never rise up and walk in
the victory that is rightfully
yours and it is at least in part to this
end that the Apostle Paul writes a
passage of scripture that has become a
Lifeline for me it is in the book of
Ephesians and if you have your Bible
with you if you actually still use a
Bible with paper Pages like I do or your
iPhone your iPad any manner of iness
just flip on over or scroll on over to
the book of Ephesians as you turn there
let me just tell you that the Apostle
Paul gave us much of which comprises now
the New Testament originally they were
letters letters written to First Century
Believers the first to become grafted
into the family of God through Jesus
Christ’s New Covenant of his Bloodshed
on Calvary and as they are grafted in
they need to know how to grow how to be
disciples how to experience this new
life in Christ it would have been
completely foreign to them so the
Apostle Paul wrote letters to them that
come become much of the New Testament
and of all of Paul’s writings Scholars
say that Ephesians is the cream of the
crop Ephesians is like the cherry on top
of the cake
and the reason why is because he spends
more than first half of the book just
rehearsing who you are he spends more
than three chapters just trying to make
sure you know the hope of his calling
and choosing you he wants you to know
that even if you’ve been rejected by
everybody else you were handpicked
chosen adopted into the family of God he
wants you to know that the mercy of God
Is So lavish and so Grand and so great
that there is no pit of sin you have dug
for yourself that the grace of God
cannot reach down in and snatch you up
out of he wants you to know that you are
forgiven that you are chosen that the
hope of God is great toward you he wants
you to know the lavishness of the
Redemption and the resources that have
been given to you because you are now
part of the family of God in fact Paul
Works himself up so much that by the
time he gets to the middle of the first
chapter he just breaks out in a prayer
and he says I’m praying that the eyes of
your heart would be
open so that you would know the hope of
his calling and choosing
you and when he gets to the end of this
letter where he’s rehearsed over and
over again how much we have access to as
Sons and Daughters he’s trying to figure
out how do I close this letter to make
sure that they always walk in Victory
and that they don’t let the enemy snatch
from them what is rightfully theirs I
want you to picture him hanging over the
parchment paper as he was imprisoned in
a Roman prison it was probably house
arrest for two years picture him there
hanging over the parchment paper beads
of sweat on his brow ink quill in hand
as he tried to figure out how to put an
exclamation point on this
letter and then he
writes in Ephesians chapter 6 beginning
in verse
10 he says
finally be strong in the Lord and in the
strength of his might put on the full
armor of God that you may be able to
stand firm against the schemes somebody
say schemes the schemes of the devil for
our struggle it’s not against flesh and
blood but it is against the power the
rulers against the powers against the
world forces of this Darkness against
the spiritual forces of wickedness that
are in the Heavenly places he says so
therefore you might as well go ahead and
put down all the weapons of this world
that ain’t been working for you anyway
and pick up some weapons that actually
have some power he says take up the full
armor of God so that you may be able to
resist in the evil day and having done
everything to stand firm he says you
ought to just go ahead and stand firm
therefore In this passage of scripture
the Apostle
Paul introduces to us at least this
overtly this obviously in scripture he
introduces to us the concept of
spiritual warfare he he says I want you
to know that you have an enemy and the
enemy you have is not the person that is
sitting next to you tonight the enemy
you have is not the boss the one on your
job that drives you nuts the enemy that
you have is nothing that is tangible
Flesh and Blood your enemy wife is not
your husband your real enemy husband is
not your wife your enemy is not your
teenager your enemy is not that problem
that difficulty that is flesh and blood
and tangible behind the scenes there is
an enemy lurking who hopes to stir up so
much trouble and hide hide cleverly
behind them that you will forget he is
there because he knows if he remains
hidden from your sight that you and I
will direct all the wrong weapons at the
wrong corporate we will waste all of our
time and energy using weapons that do
not work to reach the surface level of
problems when really he is underneath
the surface the one behind the scenes he
is a Master Illusionist The Master of
Disguise I take the boys to this little
church around the corner from where we
live for their Harvest Festival I love
this Harvest Festival it’s kind of like
this Church’s answer to Halloween and we
go there because they have a good
oldfashioned trunker treat does anybody
know what I mean when I say trunker
treat okay a lot of churches don’t do
that anymore but some people can
remember back in the day when members
from the congregation volunteered they
bring their cars into the parking lot
for Harvest Festival night and they’ll
lift up the trunk and from out of the
trunk each owner of the car will craft
some sort of fair or carnival game kids
will line up one after the other and
they’ll play the game and most of the
time whether they win or lose the person
that owns that game will give them a
whole bunch of candy and then send them
home with us we’re always so
grateful I remember one year me and Jude
are standing hand in hand and we’re in
line behind the longest line of the
night it’s not a car it’s a truck this
truck is the only truck that is in the
parking lot and it’s the longest line at
the carnival that night they cleverly
put a step ladder at the bed of the
truck so that a kid could climb up into
the bed of the truck and turn to the
side they would give the kid a huge
plastic Mallet they had attached a tblop
that was about the same size as the bed
of the truck they had attached it to the
side of the truck cut six holes into the
the tabletop draped it with fabric and
out from those holes every few seconds a
puppet would pop through the job of the
kid was to run up and down the bed of
the truck to hit the puppets on the head
before they disappeared back underneath
the surface it was a homemade
whack-a-mole game is what it was every
kid couldn’t wait to play this game me
and Jude he must have been four at the
time we were standing in line and we
were laughing hysterically because there
was another mother with a four or
five-year-old with her and this
four-year-old was very very vocal about
his frustration regarding this whole
experience he didn’t understand mother
first of all why I need to stand in this
long line this is a long line don’t you
know Mom I came to the carnival to have
fun and it ain’t fun to stand in line
mom I have an idea how about I go over
here and play all these other games
while you stand in line and hold my
place then when you get up to the front
I’ll come back he was not only
frustrated about the line he was
frustrated about this game because Mom I
don’t understand what the point of this
game is why in the world would I use all
my time and all my energy to pop those
puppets on the head running up and down
the the bed of the truck why would I use
all that time and energy if when I hit
them on the head they’re going to
disappear for a few seconds but then
they’re going to come right back what is
the the point of this game we were
laughing as we listened to this little
boy and then before any of us could
really think or see straight we just saw
a four-year-old flashed by our
peripheral vision as he ran forward
grabbed the fabric from on top of the
tabletop and he pulled it clean
off underneath there were three adults
with puppets on each
hand Oo we got a good laugh but we also
got a good
lesson that back there be behind the
curtain there is something someone
influencing all that we see popping up
to the surface level of our life and if
you spend if I spend all my time and my
money and my Earthly rationale and
solutions and my connections and my
successes if I spend all of that trying
to deal with everything that keeps
showing up in my life at best the
solution will be temporary until we pull
the curtain back and let the enemy know
we got our eyes on you that anything
that carries the fingerprint of the
enemy’s handiwork jealousy and
divisiveness and pride and anger
anything that works against the nature
of God carries and bears the marking of
the enemy Paul says today is the day to
stop looking and dealing with the
surface level you’re going to exhaust
yourself pull the curtain back and then
use some weapons that work back there
behind the
curtain Paul wants to know wants to make
sure that you know and that I know how
serious the enemy’s tactics are because
he uses a specific word to describe them
he says schemes somebody say schemes
schemes
schemes the people that know me best I
think would attested the fact I have a
lot of my uh family are here tonight
aunts and stuff and I think they would
attest the fact that I am a fairly
easygoing person like if someone offends
me or if someone does me wrong or hurts
my feelings or whatever I can get over
it quickly like I don’t hold grudges
long it’s just I’m wired that way if
someone uh ask for forgiveness for
something because they did do something
I’m going to forgive them easily I’m
just that’s just my personality easy
going but if I find out that someone was
planning to do me
wrong well now that’s a whole different
story that changes the circumstances
if I find out you’ve been studying me
watching me to figure out when I come
and when I go you’ve been trying to
determine what my habits are so that you
can take advantages you’ve been trying
to determine what my weaknesses are so
that you can play me to those weaknesses
you’ve been trying to figure out what
the propensity the the inclinations of
My Flesh lean toward so that you can try
to dangle carrots that are specific to
that destination when I find out that
not only have you been watching me in my
present but you’ve been looking into my
history so that you can figure out what
hot button topics have Arisen in my
heart from past abuses or hurts that
I’ve suffered so that you can take
advantage of them now and when I find
out that not only have you been studying
me but you’ve been studying this man
that the Lord has given me to be married
to for the past 18 years so that you can
figure out what his weaknesses are so
that you can try to tempt him to lead
him astray to keep him from rising up
and being who God has called him to be
in our home and when I disc you’ve been
looking into his history so that you can
figure out how to make his history and
my history combust so that we cannot
have peace underneath the roof of our
house and when I find out that not only
have you had the nerve to be studying me
and my husband but you’ve also had your
eyes on these three boys that the Lord
has given me the privilege to rear into
mighty men of God and they will be
Mighty Men of God or I will spank
them when I find out you’ve been
watching ing them in this young
fledgling State you’re already trying to
figure out what their anxieties are what
their fears are what the predilections
of their flesh are so that you can
already try to lead them astray so that
they will not walk into the destiny that
God has for them when I find out you’ve
been scheming against me well then you
need to know that that causes a holy
indignation to rise up on the inside of
me that if it’s a war you want it’s a
war you going to
have y’all the enemy is praying on lazy
apathetic Christianity he hopes that we
will just go to church on Sunday that
we’ll just read a verse today to keep
the devil away he hopes that we’ll just
sort of hang out in this Christian
culture but that there will not be a son
or a daughter a man or a woman a career
woman a single woman a father a husband
who will rise up and stand in the
gates and say not today Satan not on my
watch
that I’m not just going to lay down and
let you Walts right into my home that
I’m not going to stand back while I
watch you destroy and dismantle my
marriage that I’m not just going to lay
aside while I see you tinkering with the
emotions and with the mind of my child
the relationships the influences that
are around my child there’s going to be
a woman or a man that is committed to
wear the armor of God hallelujah to
stand firmly against the schemes of the
enemy if he’s scheming against us we
better show enough have a scheme against
him and the Apostle Paul says lay down
all the weapons all the Earthly tactics
that may deal with surface level stuff
but y’all that’s not not hitting him
where it hurts he says pull back the
curtain and make sure that you stand
firm having your loins guarded with
truth make sure you’ve got a breastplate
on called righteousness make sure that
if you want to have any opportunity to
move forward you got to have something
for your feet your feet better be sha
with the preparation of the gospel of
peace then he says the enemy is coming
with his lies there will be lies and
strongholds that he tries to erect in
your thinking you better make sure
you’ve got something to cover up your
mind you need a helmet and the helmet is
called your salvation he says but not
only that you’re going to need a shield
because the enemy is not just interested
in close combat but he’ll try to hit you
from far away with the Flaming missiles
that he comes to assault your life life
and so you need a shield erected over
your life and The Shield is called your
faith but he says not only that you’re
going to need a sword and it wasn’t a
long sword he was referring to this one
was about 18 inches or so it was one for
up close battle when the enemy was all
up in your face he said you need
something when the enemy is on you you
need a sword of the spirit and the
dagger of the spirit is
called the word of
God but he did not stop with those
six because in verse 18 he adds a
seventh
weapon he says
pray prayer is what pushes the kingdom
of darkness back and if I were your
enemy I would do everything I could to
devalue in your mind what I knew the
most significant weapon in Your Arsenal
was against me I would want to make you
do everything except use that word
weapon because I would know that that’s
the weapon that can shut me down once
and for all so I want to make sure you
were too busy that you were too active
doing other good things to make time to
not just leave prayer to the end of the
day in those last few waking moments
when you can barely keep your eyes open
not those moments I would want to keep
you from prioritizing prayer making sure
that prayer was on the top of your to-do
list that being strategic and
intentional in your prayer life wasn’t
something that was important to you
prayer is so important that even Jesus
said my house the church shouldn’t be
called a house of good preaching that’s
right I hope it’s good but that’s not
what it’s supposed to be called my house
shall be called not a house of good
singing not a house of good programs not
a house of great spotlights not a house
of great coffee machines and bookstores
and cafes enjoy all that but my house
better be called a house of
prayer because prayer is what pushes the
kingdom of darkness
back man we don’t have time tonight to
go through all seven of these pieces of
armor but there is just one other one
that I want to point out to you because
we can’t leave tonight without doing
business with this one piece of armor in
verse 14 he says you need to have a
breastplate
on and the breastplate is
called
righteousness
righteousness Jerry and I live in a
fairly rural part of Dallas Fort Worth
we like it that way we planned it that
way because I got these boys and they
need to go
outside I believe in outside are there
any mothers in the house that still
believe in
outside go outside anytime they have the
nerve to come to me and say Mom I’m
bored that’s right I say Oh no you’re
not you see that tree right there go
play with it
one of the things we love about where we
live is that one of my closest friends
is across the street there’s a big pond
that is in front of her property so even
before we moved there that’s how we
found out about the place because I’d go
and take the boys fishing so still to
this day we grabbed the two fishing
poles I bought on sale at the local
Super Walmart and The Tackle Box that I
also got on sale there I have several
things in The Tackle Box I’ve got extra
hooks extra little bobber things in case
we move we uh lose those we always seem
to I’ve got scissors to cut the line if
need be and I have gloves cuz y’all know
I don’t mind going fishing but I ain’t
going to touch no
fish we grab whatever hot dog meat is
left from the week because you know
we’re professionals that’s our
bait we walk across the street we stand
right in this little corner and we fish
we catch little small sun perch things
like that every now and then though I’m
feeling adventurous and my neighbors
have this little rusted uh rowboat that
they bought on Craigslist it’s seaworthy
it can hold you up it’s an old thing but
it works every now and then we will get
into the boat go out to the middle of
the pond and fish from there the only
problem is this boat Turn is turned
upside down when it’s not in use
rightfully so it’s right there on the
shore upside down it needs to be so that
water can drain out from the boat when
it’s not in use makes sense so the
problem is to get in this
boat I’m going to have to turn this boat
over and I know that the environment
that has been created up underneath this
boat is Shady and moist and
dark it’s the perfect environment for a
critter so I know when I turn it over
something is going to hop out from
underneath it something’s going to
Waddle out from underneath it or worst
of all Something’s
Gonna I know y’all feel
me but every now and then I’m courageous
I say boys let’s get in this boat so I
go all the way to the back of the boat I
let them turn it over at the sides I
stay all the way back we flip it over
and inevitably something comes out every
time I’m always interested in the fact
that never once have I had to write a
golden sealed invitation and send it
into the brush nearby to let the
critters know we are there and that they
are welcome to join us at 1: p.m. today
never once have I had to send out a
Clarion call to invite any Critters that
want to come and be a part of our
festivities never once have I ever had
to invite them because the environment
created by the upside down boat is
invitation
enough
righteousness is right side up living
that invites the sunlight of God’s favor
and blessing and Grace all over your
life unrighteousness is upside down
behavior that is out of alignment with
the truth of God that you just app SP it
on Sunday it’s upside down living to
where you don’t have to invite the enemy
to come and make himself at home in your
life you just keep living upside down
and the environment unrighteousness
creates is invitation enough this means
you can be be in your War Room praying
against the devil till you are blue in
the face but if you come up out of that
prayer closet and live a raggedy Unholy
life then the enemy that you just prayed
against will still make himself self
known in your marriage in your finances
in your health in your mind in your
heart in your circumstances because the
enemy gravitates toward unrighteousness
that is why Paul said you got to live
right because this is what the old
preachers used to call it y y’all before
we got too um pre Seeker
sensitive the old preachers I’m talking
about our grandmother’s Pastor used to
call it
holiness
y’all straight up living right just
choosing to honor God Paul says the
reason why is not only because it
invites the favor of God when you’re
living right side up but because it
keeps an atmosphere out of your life in
which demonic activity canest her the
enemy has no place you’ll have a
breastplate on protecting you from a
full frontal attack by the enemy into
your life when you choose to put the
breastplate of righteousness on it is
not perfection it means that you choose
as a lifestyle to put one foot in front
of the other as the Holy Spirit empowers
you to make choices in your attitudes
and in your actions that honor God it’s
not Perfection it’s just a choice not to
plan to
sin you know what I mean like where if
you already have on your calendar right
now where you know you going after we
close tonight and you’re planning you’ve
calendared it in sin and unrighteousness
it is choosing not to live in a life
style of sin to break to have the Spirit
Break those chains off of your life so
that you can turn that boat right side
up the enemy will have no place to go
when you put that breastplate
on and can I tell
you that if there’s one concern that I
have for the younger generation if you
don’t mind I’m I’mma put myself in
it oh if there’s a concern that I have
y’all it is is that we are
impressive but we have no breastplate
on the problem is that we have so many
followers but we have no protection
against the schemes of the enemy I’m
concerned that we’ve got a ton of
Instagram likes that our selfies are
perfectly lit I’m afraid that we’ve
impressed people while the enemy is
running rough shot over our lives
because we have not chosen to impress
God more than we impress the people we
have not made a decision to walk in
Holiness and in Integrity to not impress
folks more than we make sure we are
garnering the attention and the Applause
of our great God and so we’re walking
around impressive and Savvy with a whole
bunch of Facebook friends while the
enemy is taking advantage of
us but back in the day there used to be
a grandmother and a grandfather that
more than anything wanted to honor God
more than than anything they wanted to
make sure that they walked uprightly
because like my grandmother used to say
Priscilla when I meet him I don’t want
to meet him with my head hung
down I want to be able to look my savior
in the fa do you know we’re going to see
our
savior and can I tell you when we see
him he’s not going to ask Priscilla how
many people went to go see that
movie when I see him face to face he’s
not going to ask me how many people read
that book when I see face to face he is
not going to ask me how many likes I got
on that Instagram post he’s not going to
be impressed by what impresses us when I
see him face to face he’s going to want
to know did I have a relationship with
his son Jesus
Christ and then I will give an
account y’all we’re going to give an
account and I implore you brothers and
sisters to walk in a manner worthy of
our great
God he has paid too high a price for us
to be walking around with no breastplate
unprotected against the advances of the
enemy tonight you can choose I can
choose to live
holy would you bow your heads with me
please because I want to ask
you I want to ask you if you are in this
room and you know you are in a lifestyle
of
sin that your boat is turned upside down
and the enemy is running rampant through
your life because you have not either in
your attitudes or actions aligned them
with the truth of God but tonight you’ve
decided you are no longer going to give
the enemy an opportunity to W Walt in
and make himself at home tonight’s the
night you get your breastplate fitted so
you are ready for
victory if you are in this room no
matter where you were sitting all the
way in the furthest reaches of the
balcony are right here on the floor no
matter where you are if you want to walk
out of here with a breastplate on I’m
going to ask you to stand to your
feet I cannot wait to pray with you and
over you as we walk out of here in
Victory
Lord Jesus I thank
you I thank you that because you paid so
high a price that your son shed blood on
Calvary on our behalf Lord I Thank you
right now that we have the privilege to
have relationship with you I thank you
that for every person under the sound of
my voice that is standing Lord I Thank
you there is no pit they have dug for
themsel that it’s too deep for you to
get them out of it I thank you that your
mercy abounds that your grace is
sufficient I thank you Father that today
there is forgiveness of
sins so I ask those of you in particular
that are standing would you picture that
lifestyle choice that habit that you
have would you picture it and would you
in your own way just offer it up to God
ask for
forgiveness know that his grace is
sufficient
so Lord Jesus we give you this moment
and we pray Lord that you would break
shackles off of people’s lives in Jesus
name Lord I pray we would walk out of
here with an insistence and an in
intentionality father to walk in
Holiness Lord to walk by the spirit so
that we will no longer fulfill the
desires of the flesh Lord I Thank you
that Perfection isn’t the call that
you’ve given to us you’ve just told us
to yield to the spirit of God that lives
on the inside of us father and to honor
honor you in our actions and so Lord
these who are standing they are tired of
the enemy having his way today they want
the breastplate on so I pray that you
would fit them with it right now in
Jesus name that they will have such a
defense against the enemy that he will
no longer have access to a full frontal
attack in their lives Lord I pray for
Restoration in marriages Lord I pray for
wholeness in their hearts Lord I pray
for easiness in their minds father I
pray you would take care of financial
difficulties Lord I’m praying that you
would heal bodies any way Lord that the
enemy is taking advantage of them today
I pray that today it stops in Jesus name
as they walk in Holiness and integrity
and it is in the name of Jesus Christ
that we pray and say Amen