Full Transcript for Train Your Hands To Hold (Chet Pete)

the play that was called was this play where I was going to give a slant route, cutting right across the middle. I line up. Quarterback says, I give my defender a little shimmy, a little shake, and I left him. I left them. Now, I cut across the middle. Quarterback throws a perfect pass right here, right on target, right here. I catch the ball. Now, I'm thinking it's about to be showtime. I'm thinking I'm headed to the end zone. It's showtime, but little did I know it was about to be lights out. Because the moment I caught the ball, I got hit by the biggest guy on the football team. His name is John. Let's call him Big John. Big John was reading John 1010 because he came to steal, kill, and destroy. He hit me so hard that I fell down, broke two bones in my leg. I'm laid out on the ground. And when the birds finally stopped going in a circle, I realized something. I was still holding on to the ball. I was hit. I was hurt. But I was still holding on. To the ball. You see, I've been thinking that we don't have a receiving problem. We got a retention problem. I want you to understand, in football, the moment you catch the football, you're now the most dangerous person. on the football field. There's a target on your back. Is there anybody in the room? You're anointed. You're called by God. His hand is on your life. Anybody saved, set free, and delivered? I want you to understand that hell isn't happy. That heaven opened up and handed you a blessing. But after the hit and after the hurt, will you still be holding on to what God gave you? Any newlyweds in the room? Wave your hand at me. You've been married a couple months, maybe sometime this year. Wave at me. Over here. Give it up for them. Give it up for them. On their wedding day, they hold each other's hands to have and to hold. And I celebrate that moment on your wedding day, but I want you holding on to your wife's hands. Until God calls you home. I want your hands to be trained. I'm trained to hold Whitney's feet hands. We've been holding hands for a long time. We've been holding hands since we were 19 years old. I'm trained at holding that woman's hands. And I'm going to be holding her hands until the day the Lord calls me home. Right, right. Anybody in the room, you just got a promotion, just got a promotion, and it came with a bonus. Oh, I saw somebody wave their hands, but they did it like this because they don't want you to ask them for no money. They just like this, like this. Hey, listen, listen. I'm so glad that God blessed you. I'm so glad that you're making more money now. But when you get old, somebody tells you, you got to set some money aside. You want to be holding on to some of it. You want to be holding on to some of it when you retire. Tell your neighbor, say, are your hands trained to hold, to hold, to hold, to hold? We're going to deal with it today. As I was thinking about David's journey, I noticed something. in his journey that really spoke to me. You see, David is the king

of Israel, the second king, and one of the things on his journey that I didn't realize until I started to study this was that David wasn't just anointed once. David would actually anointed three times on his way to becoming king. Three times David was anointed. The first time was one that pastor preached about here recently. When Samuel comes to Jesse's house and Jesse brings out all of his sons, except for David, he's out in the field. He's out in the field and he brings them all out. And in this day, he goes through all of the sons. Samuel's like, this isn't the one. This isn't the one. Do you have another son? And Jesse says, well, yeah, I got the youngest. He's in the back. He's in the back with the sheep. And he says, I won't sit down until you bring him out. And he anoints David to be king in the presence of his brothers. The second time David is anointed to be king. Saul is still on the throne and he's growing in strength. He's actually on the run for his life, but he's growing in strength and people are starting to realize he's the anointed one. And so they actually make him king over Judah, one of the southern tribes of Israel. And so they anoint him to be king. And then the last time that he's anointed to be king is the time that I just read. And this is when David becomes king over all of Israel. Well, why am I taking this time to give you this history of anointing? Because I thought that maybe somebody in the room forgot that you were anointed. Just like David needed multiple times on this journey to becoming king, multiple times he gets anointed. I wanted you to know today that even if they didn't pick you, God chose you. You're anointed. God's hand is on your life. Even though the second time that David is anointed, Saul is still on the throne. I know you haven't sat in the seat that God has called you to yet. And it seems like somebody has occupied it already. I want you to know you're still anointed. God's hand is still on your life. I know you've been through some things. I know that it hurts sometimes, but I wanted you to know you're still anointed. God's hand is on your life. It hadn't come to pass yet, but you're still anointed. Now there's another pattern that I saw in this journey of studying David's life. Every time he was anointed, it was followed by an attack. Every time David had oil poured over his head within the next couple of verses or chapters, like within a couple of, you see, David immediately is in the middle of a new battle. I wanted you to know attacks usually follow anointing. And so the first time David's anointed, you know the story. There's a big guy named Goliath, big John. He's a big guy, big guy. He is standing in front of the army of Israel and he's shouting insults. And David defeats Goliath with a stone and a sling. The second time David's anointed to be king, he is king over the southern tribe of Judah. And now there's like a civil war about to break loose. And so Saul actually sends some of his men

out to go and attack David. David defeats those men. And then the last time David is anointed to be king is what we just read. And it's followed by an attack. And here's the thing that I want to do today. I want to help you train your hands. There's a psalm that David wrote, and they believe that David wrote this psalm around the time that he became king over all of Israel. This is Psalms 144. Here's what it says. Praise be to the Lord, my rock. who trains my hands for war and my fingers for battle. He is my loving God and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield in whom I take refuge, who subdues people under me. This is David writing this, penning this on his journey to becoming king. But remember, there's an attack. And so what I read at the beginning was 2 Samuel 5, verse 17. I want to go back there for a moment. Here's what it says. When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over Israel, they went up in full force to search for him. The attack is on the way. But David heard about it and went down to the stronghold. So the Philistine army, they go up to search for David. But David goes down into the stronghold. Maybe you're like, what is the stronghold, Pastor Chet? What is the stronghold? Well, they believe the stronghold is believed to be the cave of Adullam. This is a cave that when David was running for his life, he would go to seek the Lord. And with the generals, they would create military strategy. And so David gets anointed to be king. And it says that the Philistine army, they go up to search for him. And then David goes down into the stronghold. He goes down into this cave. He goes down into this cave. Can you put verse 18 up? Let's see what he does in his cave. Now, the Philistines had come and spread out in the valley of Rephiam. Keep reading, keep going, keep going. So David, listen, inquired of the Lord, shall I go and attack the Philistines? Will you deliver them into my hands? So the Philistines are on their way to search for David, and David goes down into the stronghold. He gets in a posture like this. We're going to train your hands today. Everybody, when's the last time you did this? When the last time you did this? Let's train today. Put your hands like this. You see, when you pray like this, this is a posture of humility. This is a posture of saying, hey, my hands aren't strong enough to fight these battles by myself. David have enough sense to go down in the stronghold and inquire of the Lord, what is it that you would have me to do? He's in the stronghold saying, they're coming after me again. Lord, what do you want me to do? Maybe you're in the middle of an attack right now, and when's the last time you went into the stronghold and said, Lord, what is it that you would have me to do? He's in the stronghold. He went down in the stronghold to inquire of the Lord. In the stronghold, there's two things that you get. You get strength in the stronghold. You get strength in the stronghold. You

want to know why? Because while he's in the stronghold, he turned his back on the Philistines. And he turned towards the one who could save. In the stronghold, you stop focusing on who's attacking you and you focus on who's backing you. It's in the stronghold that you're like, you know what? God's got my back. God's got my back. I know that they're coming from near and from far to attack me, but God's got my back. God is fighting for me. I'm serving the one that leads angel armies. He's fighting for me. God's got my back. Amen. I was convicted of this here recently. Me and my wife, last year, we were building a house, and we were so excited to be here. be able to move into our first home. And so we're working with an amazing realtor, and this realtor was like, you know, she's amazing, amazing, amazing. But let's just say we kind of planned out when we were going to sell the house and all of this because we needed to sell the house before we moved into our new house. We put it on the market. Let's just say it was moving slow. Like, like slow, slow. Like, are we ever going to sell this house? And we're waiting and we're waiting and we're not seeing offers. I'm like, what is going on? What's happening, Lord? And I start bringing out my calculator and I'm like, well, if we had to end up paying two mortgages, how long could we do it? And I'm stressed. I'm stressed. I'm like, what are we going to do? And I'm talking to this. I'm trying to figure out. I'm researching. What's the MLS even mean? I don't even know what that means. I'm trying to figure it out. And I'm reaching out to my realtor. What are we doing? What are we doing? And my realtor, she's a praying woman. And she said, hey, listen, I know it's moving slow, but you know what I did today? I prayed for who needs to buy your house. She said, I prayed for who needs to buy your house. And I felt so convicted. I'm the pastor. You're the realtor. I'm supposed to be praying. We had a prayer night at University City. Just a night that we just came to pray. Just no agenda. I didn't promote it much. It was just like, hey, I just want to open up the space to pray. And guess what I did? I went down. And I said, hey, Lord, I've been stressed, but I want to repent. I want to repent for thinking I was strong enough to do this by myself. I want to repent for thinking that I was wise enough to do this by myself. I said, God, I know that you love me. I know that you want the best for me. I know that this is nothing for you. So, God, I give it to you. By the time I start praying, I stop forgetting about the house. And I'm just like, thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah. I'm getting happy now. Has anybody ever went like this and all of a sudden your hands went like this? He was like this, saying, Thank you, Lord. All of a sudden, I just couldn't stop but saying, Thank you, Jesus. Thank you. I started to remember time after time that he had already healed, that he had already moved. I don't know if there's anybody in the

room that has a testimony. Go down before you go up. I can't make this up. I'm at the prayer meeting. My realtor sends me a text and she says, hey, I think we got an offer. I text her back. Don't text me back till we got a contract. I go back down. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. You're working. You're moving. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. You're moving, God. I can't make this up. I can't make this up. We end up getting the contract the next day. The next day, we end up getting the contract. Now, hear me clearly. Here's the thing. I'm not even going to have a shout about the fact that we got the contract. I think the miracle was in the fact that God comforted me. The miracle was in the fact that God showed up in that moment. I got to the point that I didn't care about the house because I had Jesus. Because maybe you're in the room and you're still waiting for the door to open up. You're still waiting for God. You're like, I've been going down, but I hadn't seen it yet. I want you to see Jesus when you go down into the stronghold. So while you're in the stronghold, you get strength and you might get your next step. He might tell you, hey, here's some strategy. Here's the step you should take. Here's how you should move. And so let's go back to verse 17. Let's go back to verse 17. It says this, it says, so when the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over Israel, they went up in full force to search for him. But David heard about it and went down to the stronghold. Now the Philistines had come and they spread out in the valley of Raphael. So David inquired of the Lord. Shall I go and attack the Philistines? Will you deliver them into my hands? You know, it's interesting. A lot of people think when you're in the stronghold that you're hiding. I want you to understand when you're in the stronghold, you're not hiding, you're hearing. You're hearing. You're like, God, what is it that you want me to do? Where do you want me to go? To the world, it might be like you're hiding. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. You don't know. I'm waiting for the Lord to speak. I'm waiting for him to talk to me. I'm not hiding. I'm hearing. I'm hearing. I'm hearing. And watch this. Watch this. Will you deliver them into my hands? The Lord said, one answer, one word answer. Go. For I will surely deliver the Philistines into your hands. Watch this. God said, go. Verse 20. So David went. God said, go. So David went. So David went to Balbirism, and he laid them out. Watch this. And there he defeated them. He said, as we start talking junk, as waters break out, and the Lord has broken out against my enemies before me. So that place was called Balbirism. Listen, listen. The Philistines abandoned their idols there, and David is when they went and carried them off. You see, David starts talking. He beat them so bad, he starts talking junk. But here's the thing I really... I want you to catch in this text. God says go. Next verse, David went. God said go. Next verse, David went. I was reading this slowly, and I never see the Philistines throw a spear. I never see the Philistines launch a grenade. All I see the Philistines do is they were searching for him, and David heard about it. Some of us, I think we be waiting for the enemy to try to take something. What I see in David is, is David threw the first punch. I want you to write it down this way. Hit the enemy before he hits you. Hit the enemy before he hits you. You see, some of y'all, y'all got this down. You know about praying hands, but you don't know nothing about swaying hands. You got this down. But there's something. David was a fighting man. David was a fighting man. He didn't go down to the stronghold because he didn't know how to fight. He went down to the stronghold because he wanted the battle blessed. Some of you, some of you are fighting battles that God didn't bless and you're wondering why it's getting bloody. You're wondering, you're wondering why it's not working out the way that you want. When you go down to the stronghold and God says, go, don't wait for the enemy to hit you. 00:27:02 Speaker 3: Hit the enemy. 00:27:04 Speaker 2: Before he hits you. Now, we go from praying hands to swaying hands. Let me see you square up. Let me see. Look at your neighbor. Give him a say, hey, I know how to fight. I know how to fight. I got trained hands. My hands are trained for this. Hit the enemy before he hits you. How do I do that? I do what the Lord told me to. I do what he told me to. You know, one of the first things that God says isn't good in the book of Genesis, he says what? It's for man to be alone. This is something God tells us. He says it's not good. It's not good. And every single week, we celebrated all of our campus pastors, my brothers. Can we thank God for our campus pastors? 00:27:58 Speaker 1: One more. 00:27:59 Speaker 2: One more time. One more time. One more time. Every week, your campus pastor walks on stage. Hey, everybody. Welcome to Elevation Church. Today, I'm going to give you an opportunity to sign up for an eGroup. Come on. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Next week, same campus pastor, same swagger comes up. Hey, welcome to Elevation Church. Today, you have an opportunity to sign up for a serve team. Let's get on the E team today. Many of you hear this as if we get a commission for you signing up to serve. As if we get a commission for you signing up for an e-group. This isn't something we want from you. This is something we want for you. Because God said it wasn't good for man to be alone. That's not my idea. We're just giving you an option. We're giving you a next step. And you come into church, hear the word, walk right back out to your car and wonder and wonder why the enemy is just having his way. Because you're back here in the corner by yourself with nobody to call, with nobody to reach out. He's just wearing you out. Is there somebody that's willing to

fight today, that's willing to say, hey, hey, hey, I'm going to do what God told me to do? When's the worst time to buy an umbrella? I'm so grateful for those of you that came to church who haven't been to church in a while. I'm so proud of you. And you came to church because maybe you're at the darkest moment of your life. I am so proud that you said, I don't know where to go, so I'm running to Jesus. But I'm trying to challenge people today. Why are you waiting until you got hit? to learn how to be in the presence of God, to learn how to fight, to learn how to worship, to learn how to make sure you go down before you go out to battle. Why are you waiting until it gets hard? Hit the enemy before he hits you. I got another one. When's the worst time to start an emergency fund? So church, I want you to understand this. When we talk about putting God first in the area of your finances with tithing, the first 10%, and maybe you've never heard this before, but here's the thing that I love. Anytime I sit with someone that's like, I want to tithe, I just don't know where to start. I love sitting with them because in order to talk about tithing, I can't stop talking about stewardship. So I'm able to sit down and I say, hey, listen, if we put God first with this, that means now we have to prioritize some things. You see, a budget is offensive. A budget is hitting the enemy before he hits you. And so when we talk about putting God first in the area of your finances, we're like, you're going to have to steward everything that he's given you in order to do this. In order to do this, this is God's plan. I didn't make this up. And so I want you to hit the enemy. Before he hits you, what is an action step that God is calling you to take? What is a step that God has given you? A strategy that he's given you? And you know it. You know the step to take. You know it. You know it. You know what to do. But you're allowing the enemy. To pick you off. I am sick and tired of him having his way with my mind. I'm sick and tired of him having his way with our families. I'm sick and tired of having his way with our kids. That's why I'm so excited about what God is doing through the youth at Elevation Church. Because they're saying, hey, not on my watch. Not on my watch. We're going to serve the Lord. We're going to learn how to pray while we're young so we don't have to deal with some of the things that... Come on now. Come on now. If you would have hit the enemy first, he wouldn't have died. I'm just trying to help you. I'm trying to help you. But there's a question. There's a question in this text that David asked. And honestly, I believe this is the question that we're all asking. You see, at verse 18, it says, now the Philistines had come and they spread out in the valley of Raphael. So David inquired of the Lord, shall I go attack the Philistines? Watch this. Will you deliver them? Into my hands. This question just struck me because I'm wondering if you're asking God

the same thing. Will you deliver me? Will you deliver us out of this financial crisis? Will you deliver us? I just got this doctor's report. Will you deliver us? Me and my wife, it's a rocky place right now. Will you deliver us? Will you? He's not asking, can you? You see, some of us, some of us, it's like, we can be honest. We're like, we believe God has the power. But if we can be honest, sometimes we're asking, I seen you do it for them, but will you do it for me? I saw you do it last time, but this time it seems much bigger. Will you do it this time? If we're honest, because I made a lot of mistakes and I don't, I don't know, have I messed up? Have I messed up too much for you to bless me? 00:33:43 Speaker 3: Have I messed up too much for you to deliver me? And so I kind of saw this this pattern that I wanted to give you today. I want you to write this down, because remember, we started this message. I wanted to remind you that you're blessed. You're anointed. 00:34:01 Speaker 2: God's hand is on your life. I don't want you to forget that. But when you're anointed, the attack follows the anointing. So we start to feel this resistance. Anybody in the room, you're feeling the resistance right now, pressed on every side. You're feeling the resistance. Here's what I want you to understand. I want to put this in a way so you can walk away. Every time you feel the resistance, you feel the attack, this will be a thought process you can go to. More resistance should lead to more dependence. More resistance should lead to more dependence. Dependence. What am I trying to say? Usually when you get attacked, you call everybody else. You call everybody else. You call your auntie. You call your cousin. You call your girlfriends. You call your guys. You call everybody else. What did I say? Go down before you go up. Depend on the Lord. I'm not strong enough for this. God, I need you. So you get more resistance. That should be a trigger. Okay, I got to go to the stronghold. I got to go down to the stronghold. All right. So more, more resistance, more dependence. More dependence should lead to more obedience. Because the longer that I'm in the stronghold, I get to know God's voice. I get to understand his heart. I get to experience his love for me, his love for my family. I get direction. You see, but here's the thing. More dependence should lead to more obedience. I do what he told me to do. When he says go, I go. He says serve, I serve. He says give, I give. I don't understand this strategy, but God, I trust you because I heard your voice in a stronghold. You told me what to do. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. And if I don't know what to do, I'm going to stay in a stronghold until you tell me what to do. And then I'm going to get around some people. I'm going to get in a community of people that pray, that talk to the Lord, and maybe I'll get wisdom. I'll seek godly counsel. So more resistance. More dependence. More dependence, more obedience. And the more that you obey, more obedience will lead to more deliverance. You see, I believe that maybe your breakthrough is on the other side of your yes. I believe that. What if the deliverance that God wants to bring into your life was on the other side of you taking a step towards God doing what he told you to do? What if you're like, I'm waiting on God? What if he's waiting on you? I wanted to train your hands today. Today, we trained your hands today. We trained our hands to pray. Trained our hands to pray. There's one more thing that I want to show you in this text that really ministered to me. I love if everybody could stand on your feet. Stand on your feet. Please don't start grabbing your phone. There's a truth that I want to show you today and And I believe God wants to minister in this moment. And so stay with me. So David, he beats up the Philistines real bad. Starts talking junk. But the Philistines, they stubborn. The Jokers are stubborn. At verse 21, they abandoned all of their idols. But at verse 22, it says this. Once more, the Philistines came up and spread out in the Valley of Rephia. David just beat them down, and the Philistines show up and say, I want some more. Philistines show up, and they're like, okay, we got more for you. I understand in your life sometimes you're thinking like, hey, I just got out of that battle, and I just got out of this. There's a target on your back. When you catch the ball, you're the most dangerous person on the football field. I'm trying to help somebody. Stop being so surprised that you're getting hit. Stop being so surprised that you're being chased after. Stop being surprised. Stop being surprised. And so they come right back. They come right back for more. Verse 22. Once more, the Philistines came up, spread out in the valley of Rephiam. Watch this, verse 23. So David inquired of the Lord. David says, run it back. I go down to the stronghold. and inquire of the Lord. What is it that you would have me to do? David, you just won. Why are you praying about this? You know what to do. David says, every battle that I fight, I want to be blessed. I'm not going to let my past victories rob me of present wisdom for what God wants to speak in this moment. In this moment. Maybe in the room you're like, hey, God's blessed me immensely. And maybe your victories have robbed you of intimacy with God. You let your past wins rob you of worship. David, David says, nope, nope, nope, nope. The Philistines came back one more, one more time. Verse 23. So David inquired of the Lord and he answered. Now listen, this time God gives him some different strategy. He changes it up on him. Last time he just said go. Okay, but watch this. So David inquired of the Lord and he answered. Listen, watch this. Do not go straight up, but circle around behind them. and attack them in front of the poplar trees. Okay. So don't go straight. You want me to go around? Poplar trees. Got you, God. We on the same page. We got it. We got it.

Okay. Verse 24. As soon as you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the poplar trees, move quickly because that will mean that the Lord has gone out in front of you to strike down the Philistine army. So, go around to the side of the poplar trees, okay? And then he said, listen for marching at every location. Let's hear, what does marching sound like? Everybody just, just everybody march. Just close your eyes and imagine the sound of marching at every location. 00:40:45 Speaker 1: Stop. 00:40:48 Speaker 2: I know what Marching sounds like on the ground. But he didn't say marching was going to be on the ground. He said the marching was going to be at the tops of the popular trees. What does that sound like? I think it sounds like angel armies going out ahead of me to fight for me. It sounds like God's got my back in this. It sounds like this battle won't be won by my wisdom. This battle won't be won by my strength. But here's the thing. It's not God's feet marching because he's seated on the throne. God's feet aren't marching, but his hands are moving. His hands are moving. He says, hey, go and encourage her. Move now. Go and strengthen him. Move now. Go and fight for them. Move now. I'm providing over here. God's seated on this throne. His hands are moving. Here's what I'm trying to get you to understand is that I want our hands to be trained to pray. I want our hands to be trained this way. But if I'm going to hold on to what God gave me, it won't be by my hands. It'll be by the hand of a mighty God. whose hands are trained in holding you, whose hands are trained in fighting for you, whose hands are trained in holding you up, whose hands are trained in building you up. My life won't be held together by my hand. It'll be by the trained hands of a mighty God. Everyone bow your head, close your eyes. There's two groups of people that I want to pray for today. The first group of people that I want to pray for is that you walked in today and you do not have a relationship with God. No one moving. You do not have a relationship with God. You've never given your life to him. And you would love to experience that intimacy with God that you can come to him and you know that he hears you. You want to walk with him. I want to let you know that Jesus modeled this. You see, before Jesus went up on that cross, he went down in a garden to inquire of the Lord if there's any other way Before Jesus went up on the cross to die for you, he modeled what it looked like to go down into the presence of God. He laid his life down for you. Bible says, whoever believes in the heart that Jesus is the son of God and confesses with their mouth that God raised him from the dead will be saved. So with all heads bowed and all eyes closed, if you've never made a decision to put your faith in Jesus, or maybe you used to walk with God, you used to talk with God, but you walked away from the faith. Maybe this is your moment to come back home. So with all heads bowed, all eyes

closed at every location, you're going to repeat this prayer after me for the benefit of those that are coming to God. Repeat after me. Say, I believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God, that he died on the cross and rose from the grave to forgive me of my sins. So I'll give you my sins. I'll give you my shame. And from this day forward, I'll follow you. This is my new beginning. I am a child of God. With all heads bowed and all eyes closed, if you just said that prayer, you meant it, making a decision to put your faith in Jesus or you're coming back to him. I'm going to count to three, and when I get to three, I want you to shoot your hand up boldly so we can celebrate with you. Here we go. One, two, three. Shoot your hand up if you're making that decision today. God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. Come on, church. Let's celebrate. We just want to put a Bible in your hands. Here in a moment, I'm going to dismiss you. I saved time. I hope that you stay for this moment because I believe that God is still ministering to people. Those of you that made a decision to put your faith in Jesus, I'm so proud of you. Best decision you could ever make. Campus pastors will give you direction when I get done, but I felt strongly that today I wanted to give you an opportunity to practice what I just preached. Um, as I was praying, I thought that there were people that would be in the room online somewhere at every one of our campus, that there'd be someone that was, you felt the attack right now. You're under attack. It's an attack in your mind, seeing your finances. Maybe it's a child. Maybe it's an addiction that you're believing God to deliver you from and break. And, um, God wanted me to let you know that he hadn't forgot about you. And so here's what I'm going to give you an opportunity to do today. You have to go down before you go up. And so before you go up out of here today at every one of our locations, everybody bow your head, close your eyes. I want to pray specifically for those that are under attack. If you're under attack right now, in the moment that I said it, there was something specific that immediately just came to mind. I want you to go down. I want you to sit down. If that's you, you're under attack right now. Sit down. Don't think about the person to the left or the right of you. You're under attack right now. It's your marriage. It's something in your mind. Every location, if you're under attack right now, just sit down. See, before you walk out of here, before you go up into the next thing, I want you to give an opportunity to put your hands like this. Put your hands in a praying position. Go down. Make a stronghold right now. Make a stronghold right now. You don't have to be in church to do this. You can do this in your car every single morning. You do this in your bathroom. You can do this anytime. You can make a stronghold. Go down. and have a moment to inquire of the Lord. Heavenly Father, those that have acknowledged they're under attack right now, We first acknowledge that you are a good God. You are a faithful God. You are a loving Father. And these are your sons and your daughters. And so, God, right now, I pray that you would do what only you can do. Deliver your sons and daughters in the mighty name of Jesus. The enemy can't have their minds. Hallelujah. Thank you. The devil take your hand off their child. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. Right now, we lift up everyone that's under attack. believing that you have all power, you have all authority. God, we believe that right now your hand is moving. Touch your son. God, right now, let them feel your presence. Let them feel your embrace. God, right now, I thank you for the deliverance that is on the way, for the way that you're going to break chains, from the way that you're going to move back and press back the enemy. We love you, God. We thank you. We're going to praise your name. Can we take a moment, every single person, and praise God in advance? Take that right hand. Take that left hand. Put them together and shout hallelujah and shout thank you, Jesus, and give God glory. The King of Angel Armies is fighting for you. The King of Angel Armies is encouraging you. We love you, God. We thank you. It's in the mighty name of Jesus, I pray. Amen. 00:48:43 Speaker 3: Amen. 00:48:45 Speaker 2: Hey, I hope you enjoyed the podcast. 00:48:47 Speaker 1: And if you did, make sure to share it and subscribe so we can get you all of these new messages as soon as they're available. I also want to take a moment and thank all of you who are a part of Elevation. Whether you support us financially or serve with us or just share these messages, it's because of you that we're able to reach people all around the world. And if you want more information on how to be a part of Elevation, Click the link in the description. Thanks again for listening. Make sure to leave a review, share the message and subscribe. 00:49:19 Speaker 3: God bless you.