Priscilla Shirer – THE BATTLE BEGINS ON YOUR KNEES

gideon teaches us that if we want to win

the battle we’ve got to begin the battle

on our knees and you know the only

reason why gideon was able to why mama

was able to worship God in the face of

impending danger we find the reason why

and what gideon sent to the men when he

went back to the camp verse 15 he

returned to the camp of Israel and he

said arise for the Lord has given

somebody say has given the Lord has

given the camp of Midian into your hands

he said to them arise he went back to

the three hundred he said arise

get up get your stuff together we’re

ready to go and we’re going because the

Lord has already given the Midianites

into our hands he did not go to them and

say get up we’re gonna go fight in hopes

that we will win a victory he did not

say get up arise we’re gonna go and

we’re gonna expect it maybe God is gonna

give us the victory Carmen what he said

was he said get up

arise we’re going in anticipation

knowing in advance that the victory has

already been won you know how you win a

victory my friend you begin the battle

on your knees and you face the battle

from a stance of victory listen y’all we

are not fighting for victory we are

fighting from victory

you are already positioned in a place of

victory in your life the task now is to

station yourself but stationing yourself

in a place of victory and then realizing

that you’re just going to claim what God

has already given you

do you remember when the children of

Israel went into the Promised Land and

Joshua chapter 1 God is confirming his

calling of Joshua he’s saying to him you

be strong and courageous when you

marched into the land and then he said

to him every place you put your feet you

will have access to I have already given

the promised land to you the hull of it

already belongs to you but you only get

to enjoy as much as you put your feet on

so listen for centuries the children of

Israel were holed up in a little small

corner of Canaan when they had access to

the whole of it simply because they were

too intimidated by the Canaanites to go

over there and step on that land I don’t

know about you but I don’t want to be so

intimidated by the enemy but I don’t get

to experience the blessings that God has

already got with my name on it all it

takes is you and I walking in the truth

of what we know from God’s Word listen

there are over 8,000 promises in the

Word of God for believers in Jesus

Christ did you hear what I just said

eight thousand over eight thousand

promises these are things that are just

available to us because we’re daughters

of the king because we’ve been adopted

into the family of God because they’re

just our inheritance because he’s a good

god and likes to give good gifts he just

passed on all these promises to us my

friend but listen most of them he did

not place within our hand

in other words you have to participate

in the experience of those promises in

your life when you are fighting a battle

in your life you need to know that the

promises God has for you the promises

the Word of God has already laid out for

you in your life

they are already yours you’re not

fighting for them you’re fighting summer

a stance of victory you plant yourself

on the Word of God on the truths of what

it says and then you go and claim what

God has listened whatever you need to do

to make sure this word is in your heart

and in your mind I mean that’s what you

got to do listen when you’re in a battle

you can’t afford not to have a strategy

book at your disposal in your mind in

your heart ready preparing your failure

you’ve got to have the book open and

inside of you ingrained into your life

do whatever you need to do in whatever

unconventional ways to make sure you

know the victory that has already been

given to you to know what has already

been declared about you the promises

that he has already extended to you and

then you fight from a stance of victory

not for it but from it he came back and

said don’t get up

arise we’re getting ready to go get us a

victory today I wonder how the three

hundreds confidence changed when their

leaders companies

I wonder how when he came back into the

camp with a smile on his face and all

the anticipation burning in his soul I

just wonder how its spread like a

wildfire from the beginning of the front

lines of the 300 all the way to the back

I just wonder how its spread

and I just wonder what would happen if

you and I left the simulcast today and

we went back into the frigid

temperatures of our home or our work or

our circumstances and we brought the

warmth and the passion and the

enthusiasm of victory with us I wonder

how things would change our children’s

lives and in our spouses life not

because we go home and start preaching

to them just because we go home and

start living like the victorious women

that we are we’re not steeped in fear

and insecurity and lack of confidence

anymore we’re resting on the knowledge

and the truth of our great God we

understand that the victory has already

been given to us you set the thermometer

set the thermostat rather in your home

in your marriage and your church you be

the one who calls others out of the cold

frigid air of defeat to the warmth and

passion of victory in Jesus Christ

Gideon did it for the 300 and you can do

it for those in your sphere of influence

as well so tonight we begin the battle

on our knees and we face the battle we

face it from a stance of victory