Full Transcript for What is Hindering Your Relationship with God?

you know, it's not always what we know about God, it's about God's truth and God's knowledge. 00:06:03.040 --> 00:06:08.639 And so, until he reveals something to us, right, we don't know it. 00:06:08.879 --> 00:06:19.680 And so anything that is going to exalt itself against God's knowledge or God's truth, that is spiritual warfare. 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:21.680 That is an attack. 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:32.639 And this warfare goes on in the mind, and that's why Paul goes on to say, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. 00:06:32.879 --> 00:06:35.759 Every single thought must be brought under obedience. 00:06:36.079 --> 00:06:40.399 All right, let's go to our next scripture, and I'm going to continue bringing this bringing this out. 00:06:40.959 --> 00:06:45.279 Second Peter chapter one verses three through four. 00:06:46.160 --> 00:06:49.120 All right, so second Peter one, three through four. 00:06:49.439 --> 00:07:15.040 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue, whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises, that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world through lust. 00:07:15.360 --> 00:07:20.800 Alright, so in this verse here, uh a couple of things I want to point out. 00:07:21.040 --> 00:07:26.800 Alright, first part in verse three, it says, according as his divine power. 00:07:27.040 --> 00:07:33.920 So God's divine power has given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness. 00:07:34.160 --> 00:07:36.800 That means there is nothing that is off limits for us. 00:07:36.879 --> 00:07:49.439 There is nothing that can hold us captive, there is nothing that can overtake us, there is nothing that can uh prevent us from walking out this life in a godly manner. 00:07:49.680 --> 00:07:50.480 There is nothing. 00:07:50.720 --> 00:07:52.959 But where does this power come from? 00:07:53.120 --> 00:07:55.040 Where does this divine power come from? 00:07:55.279 --> 00:08:01.519 It comes through the knowledge of him that hath called us unto the glory unto glory and virtue. 00:08:01.759 --> 00:08:10.800 Alright, so it is through again the truth, the knowledge of God, God's knowledge, through that truth he's called us to glory and virtue. 00:08:11.040 --> 00:08:27.040 Alright, and it says that whereby are giving unto us exceeding great and precious promises, that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. 00:08:27.360 --> 00:08:43.919 So right there, he says there are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises, and it is by these promises that we might be partakers of the divine nature. 00:08:44.320 --> 00:08:48.480 All right, the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in this world. 00:08:48.799 --> 00:08:53.200 God has made

us promises that we can have a divine nature. 00:08:53.519 --> 00:08:57.840 We are not stuck with a sin nature or a carnal nature. 00:08:58.080 --> 00:09:06.720 And that is one of the greatest lies the enemy wants to throw in our face is say that you will always be stuck with this carnal nature. 00:09:06.879 --> 00:09:09.120 You will always be stuck with this sin nature. 00:09:09.200 --> 00:09:11.200 You will always be the way you are. 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:14.000 There are some things that God cannot change. 00:09:14.240 --> 00:09:14.480 Right? 00:09:14.639 --> 00:09:17.120 I know that is that is a warfare. 00:09:17.360 --> 00:09:19.200 That is a lie from the enemy. 00:09:19.360 --> 00:09:25.919 That is that is a lie because you know what the Bible says the devil is the accuser, accuser of the brethren. 00:09:26.000 --> 00:09:32.080 I believe it's in the book of Revelation where it says the accuser of the brethren has been cast down. 00:09:32.320 --> 00:09:35.120 Well, the devil is the accuser of the brethren. 00:09:35.200 --> 00:09:36.720 There is no truth in him. 00:09:36.960 --> 00:09:39.679 He was a sinner from the beginning. 00:09:40.559 --> 00:09:42.799 He is the father of all lies. 00:09:43.120 --> 00:09:50.240 And the greatest lie that he tries to tell is that there is no way that God can change us. 00:09:50.480 --> 00:09:52.639 There is no way that God can change me. 00:09:52.720 --> 00:09:54.000 I'm just too much of a sinner. 00:09:54.080 --> 00:09:55.120 I'm too ungodly. 00:09:55.200 --> 00:10:01.440 I've had this, I've I've had this thought process for 20 years, I've had this mindset for 20 years. 00:10:01.600 --> 00:10:02.879 This is a part of me. 00:10:03.120 --> 00:10:05.039 It's not possible for me to change. 00:10:05.200 --> 00:10:09.519 This is just the uh the thorn that in my flesh that I have to bear. 00:10:09.759 --> 00:10:15.600 All of those different ways that the enemy wants to phrase that lie, it is still a lie. 00:10:15.759 --> 00:10:18.799 You can put a lipstick on a pig, and it's still a pig. 00:10:18.960 --> 00:10:24.960 Well, the enemy tries to phrase this lie in a lot of different ways, and it is still a lie. 00:10:25.679 --> 00:10:41.519 And so we have to realize that we are promised, there are many precious promises, and it is by those promises that we may be part might be partakers of the divine nature. 00:10:41.759 --> 00:10:49.919 All right, and I'm gonna I'm gonna go away from my notes for a second, and I'm gonna go to a different scripture that just came to my mind. 00:10:50.159 --> 00:10:53.200 So you give me just a minute, I'm gonna find it. 00:10:55.600 --> 00:11:06.879 Uh, but I'm gonna find pull this scripture because the Lord just dropped it in my spirit, and I believe it ties right in to this word that I'm sharing with you today. 00:11:07.679 --> 00:11:11.440 All right, this is first Timothy one and eighteen. 00:11:12.240 --> 00:11:17.840 All right, first Timothy one and eighteen, and this is what it

says. 00:11:18.720 --> 00:11:30.320 This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare. 00:11:30.559 --> 00:11:46.159 All right, so Paul is speaking uh specifically to Timothy, and he's talking about prophecies that uh somebody, you know, again reading it, somebody has spoken about Timothy by the Spirit of the Lord. 00:11:46.240 --> 00:12:00.399 And Paul is saying, look, what these people have spoken about you, you need to take these things as the word of God, and you need to war because you will fa you might be facing opposition in your walk with God right now. 00:12:00.559 --> 00:12:10.559 You might be facing opposition in your relationship with God, you may be facing doubt, you might be facing unbelief, you might be facing a lack of confidence. 00:12:11.360 --> 00:12:17.279 But know that these prophecies that went before on you, they are the word of the Lord. 00:12:17.519 --> 00:12:26.399 And by these words of the Lord, you go to fight, you go to war, you go and fight, and you fight to lay hold on the promises that God has for you. 00:12:26.559 --> 00:12:29.440 Well, that is no different for us right now. 00:12:29.919 --> 00:12:38.240 Maybe you have never experienced anybody specifically by the Spirit of the Lord telling you something about your life. 00:12:38.399 --> 00:12:40.480 Maybe you've never experienced that. 00:12:40.960 --> 00:12:47.519 But what you can have and what everybody has access to is this scripture. 00:12:47.840 --> 00:12:54.720 And Peter said that there are many precious promises whereby we might be made partakers of the divine nature. 00:12:54.879 --> 00:12:58.000 Well, those precious promises, we haven't possessed them yet. 00:12:58.159 --> 00:12:59.840 They have been foretold, right? 00:13:00.000 --> 00:13:08.799 They have been prophesied, they have been told for many times and many years throughout scripture that we can be a partaker of the divine nature. 00:13:09.039 --> 00:13:12.799 Well, we take this word of God and we go to war. 00:13:13.120 --> 00:13:20.080 Paul says in uh I believe it's in Ephesians 6, he starts getting into uh the armor of God. 00:13:20.320 --> 00:13:26.960 And he says one of the things that he describes in the armor of God is the sword of the Spirit, right? 00:13:27.120 --> 00:13:29.759 The sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God. 00:13:29.919 --> 00:13:38.080 I'll go over there real quick, and then I'll keep going through uh through the what the Lord has shared with me. 00:13:38.159 --> 00:13:41.519 But here, all right, Ephesians six. 00:13:42.000 --> 00:13:44.240 So we'll start reading at verse ten. 00:13:46.720 --> 00:13:53.759 And we'll go ahead and we'll read down, and it looks like the sword of the spirit is the last one. 00:13:54.080 --> 00:13:59.519 So um I'll read in verse ten, and then I'll kind of tell you where I'm going as I read. 00:13:59.600 --> 00:14:02.080 So starting in Ephesians six and verse ten. 00:14:02.720 --> 00:14:08.639 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and then the power of his might. 00:14:08.960 --> 00:14:15.600 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 00:14:16.000 --> 00:14:30.080 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. 00:14:30.399 --> 00:14:41.519 Verse thirteen, wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand and in the evil day, and having done all to stand. 00:14:42.000 --> 00:14:44.879 Verse fourteen, stand therefore. 00:14:45.200 --> 00:14:48.639 Alright, so I'm gonna pause right there at verse fourteen. 00:14:48.879 --> 00:14:54.399 Um so even though verses thirteen and fourteen, having done all to stand, stand therefore. 00:14:54.480 --> 00:15:00.879 That is part of also where the name of this podcast has come from, uh, was standing, right? 00:15:01.039 --> 00:15:02.240 Learning to stand. 00:15:02.399 --> 00:15:07.519 And even when you've done everything that you can to do to stand, continue standing. 00:15:07.840 --> 00:15:10.960 Continue standing, because somewhere God will bring the deliverance. 00:15:11.279 --> 00:15:18.399 But going to verse uh seventeen, I'm gonna just read that one because it gets to where I want to go. 00:15:18.559 --> 00:15:26.080 Um it says, take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God. 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:36.320 And when the Lord started talking to me about the weapons that we have, uh he specifically dealt with me about the word of God and the sword of the spirit. 00:15:36.639 --> 00:15:45.840 And when we go back to 2 Corinthians 10, he's saying, he said, the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, right? 00:15:46.000 --> 00:15:51.840 And as I read that, the Lord started speaking to me about the word and how it is the sword of the spirit. 00:15:51.919 --> 00:15:53.120 It is not carnal. 00:15:53.279 --> 00:16:04.000 All right, the word of God is not carnal, but instead it is, as it says in Hebrews, it is quick, which means it's alive, it is powerful, and it is sharper than any two-edged sword. 00:16:04.080 --> 00:16:06.720 It is a fierce weapon that we have. 00:16:07.200 --> 00:16:19.279 And even in Timothy, the scripture that I that I just shared with you in Timothy, where Paul said, Take the prophecies that have gone before on you, and thereby with those war a good warfare. 00:16:19.440 --> 00:16:19.679 Right? 00:16:19.919 --> 00:16:21.440 Paul is exhorting Timothy. 00:16:21.519 --> 00:16:26.480 He's saying, Look, somebody has spoken about you by the Spirit of God. 00:16:26.879 --> 00:16:50.960 You take that as the word of God, it is just as good as the Scripture, and you war a good warfare, and you fight against the devil, you fight against the evil heart of unbelief, you fight against

doubt, you fight against unbelief, and you fight to possess the call that God has placed on your life, you fight to possess the promises that God has placed on your life. 00:16:51.200 --> 00:16:57.360 And Peter says even the same thing, which we already read, where he said, by these many great and precious promises. 00:16:57.600 --> 00:16:59.679 Well, where are these promises coming from? 00:16:59.919 --> 00:17:02.639 They're coming from the Word of God. 00:17:03.039 --> 00:17:03.519 Right? 00:17:03.759 --> 00:17:14.000 We have promises in the Word of God, and these promises are that we can be a partaker of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. 00:17:14.079 --> 00:17:16.240 There's no corruption that can hold us. 00:17:16.640 --> 00:17:19.200 There is no corruption that can hold us. 00:17:19.359 --> 00:17:28.880 The Bible tells us that in 1 John 3 and 8, it says, For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. 00:17:29.119 --> 00:17:32.319 The works of the devil is sin, ungodliness. 00:17:32.480 --> 00:17:36.880 The work, the sin is what brought in the carnal mind, it's what brought in spiritual death. 00:17:37.119 --> 00:17:41.680 And Jesus Christ has conquered and destroyed the power of sin. 00:17:41.920 --> 00:17:43.680 He hath made us free. 00:17:44.000 --> 00:17:45.119 He has made us free. 00:17:45.200 --> 00:17:49.119 I shared this with you maybe a week or two ago in one of the episodes. 00:17:49.359 --> 00:17:51.599 Who the Son has set free is free indeed. 00:17:51.839 --> 00:17:55.680 He has made us free from the law of spiritual death. 00:17:56.000 --> 00:18:01.359 Let's go now to Romans 8, because that scripture just came to me as well. 00:18:02.640 --> 00:18:12.240 And actually, as I was uh, you know, I've been thinking about this podcast for a few days and meditating, and and this is a scripture that came to me. 00:18:12.400 --> 00:18:17.680 Um I hadn't planned to share it today, but it just it came back to me, so I want to share it with you now. 00:18:18.640 --> 00:18:20.480 This is Romans eight. 00:18:20.960 --> 00:18:28.000 Alright, so we're gonna go to Romans eight, and we're gonna go, we're gonna start with verses one and two. 00:18:28.720 --> 00:18:32.000 Alright, Romans eight, verses one and two. 00:18:33.039 --> 00:18:42.480 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit. 00:18:42.799 --> 00:18:48.480 For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. 00:18:48.720 --> 00:18:49.759 See right there. 00:18:50.880 --> 00:18:54.720 Right there, we have been made free from the law of sin and death. 00:18:54.880 --> 00:18:59.359 The law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made us free from the law of sin and death. 00:18:59.519 --> 00:19:00.799 We are not bound. 00:19:01.039 --> 00:19:03.599 We are not bound, we have been made free. 00:19:03.920 --> 00:19:09.519 Notice in verse one, it says, There is now no condemnation. 00:19:09.839 --> 00:19:11.039 There's no condemnation. 00:19:11.200 --> 00:19:13.039 Condemnation means a judgment. 00:19:13.279 --> 00:19:17.440 There is no judgment against us if we are in Christ Jesus. 00:19:17.680 --> 00:19:21.039 And if we walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit. 00:19:21.279 --> 00:19:25.200 Alright, go back to the episode I did maybe a week or two ago. 00:19:25.359 --> 00:19:27.920 All right, talking about walking in the spirit. 00:19:28.079 --> 00:19:31.759 If you walk in the spirit, you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh. 00:19:32.000 --> 00:19:56.160 See, if we are continually walking after the Spirit of Christ, if we are continually seeking to be conformed to Christ, to let Christ rule and reign in our lives, if that is where we are continually seeking, if that is where our mind is positioned, right, and our mind is oriented, if we are seeking for the truth of Christ to be made manifest in us, then there is no condemnation. 00:19:56.400 --> 00:20:00.880 There is no condemnation, there's no judgment against us, because he has made us free. 00:20:01.119 --> 00:20:02.240 He has made us free. 00:20:02.400 --> 00:20:04.880 I'm going to continue on into verse three here. 00:20:05.200 --> 00:20:17.920 For what the law could not do, and that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin condemns sin in the flesh. 00:20:18.480 --> 00:20:20.640 This scripture right here is powerful. 00:20:21.039 --> 00:20:22.799 It is truly powerful. 00:20:23.359 --> 00:20:38.720 This scripture is telling us it says that what the law of Moses could not do, and that it was weak through the flesh, what that means is that the law of Moses by itself could not make us perfect. 00:20:39.039 --> 00:20:42.720 A list of do's and don'ts could not make us perfect. 00:20:43.039 --> 00:20:50.000 The only way that God can make us perfect was to redeem us from this carnal nature, from this sinful nature. 00:20:50.079 --> 00:20:51.440 And how did he do that? 00:20:51.759 --> 00:21:03.920 He sent his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and as an offering for sin, that's what for sin means there, and as an offering for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh. 00:21:04.240 --> 00:21:12.799 When it says that God sent his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh, that doesn't mean two eyes, two ears, a mouth, and a nose. 00:21:12.960 --> 00:21:19.279 That doesn't mean just because Jesus had a physical body and walked on this earth that that was the likeness of sinful flesh. 00:21:19.599 --> 00:21:25.440 Because fle because a human by itself is not sinful. 00:21:26.160 --> 00:21:27.920 A human by itself is not sinful. 00:21:28.000 --> 00:21:32.319 When God created Adam in the beginning, God created him. 00:21:33.359 --> 00:21:37.759 Two eyes, two ears, a mouth, and a nose, but he created him in

the image of God. 00:21:37.920 --> 00:21:39.279 What is that image of God? 00:21:39.440 --> 00:21:44.960 It's not the physical body, it's not the physical appearance, it is the nature of God. 00:21:45.279 --> 00:21:54.640 It is the dominion and the authority, the power, the power over sin, the power over you know, just the power, the authority and dominion. 00:21:54.720 --> 00:21:59.359 I'm not going to get into all that today, but that is how he created man in the image of God. 00:22:00.319 --> 00:22:01.519 Did not know sin. 00:22:02.240 --> 00:22:05.920 He did not know sin until the devil came in, until the serpent came in. 00:22:06.079 --> 00:22:07.440 He beguiled Eve. 00:22:07.680 --> 00:22:08.880 He deceived her. 00:22:09.119 --> 00:22:13.599 And then Adam made his choice to hearken to the voice of his wife. 00:22:13.680 --> 00:22:13.920 Right? 00:22:14.000 --> 00:22:14.880 He made the choice. 00:22:15.039 --> 00:22:16.319 He was not deceived. 00:22:16.640 --> 00:22:18.160 That's what the Bible says. 00:22:18.319 --> 00:22:21.519 It says that Adam was not deceived in his transgression. 00:22:21.759 --> 00:22:22.079 Right? 00:22:22.240 --> 00:22:23.119 He was not deceived. 00:22:23.279 --> 00:22:24.559 He made the choice to sin. 00:22:24.720 --> 00:22:29.279 He made the choice to listen to the serpent who had beguiled his wife. 00:22:29.519 --> 00:22:30.000 Alright. 00:22:30.160 --> 00:22:31.680 And so he was not deceived. 00:22:31.759 --> 00:22:41.359 And so therefore, what God had to do in order to redeem us is he had to send his son Jesus Christ, all right, in the likeness of sinful flesh. 00:22:41.680 --> 00:22:45.200 That means Jesus had to battle the sin nature. 00:22:45.440 --> 00:22:47.119 He had to battle temptation. 00:22:47.200 --> 00:22:51.359 Just like me and you, he had to battle it, and he overcame it. 00:22:51.599 --> 00:23:00.160 The Bible tells us in the book of Hebrews that Jesus was tempted in all points, like as we are, yet without sin. 00:23:00.640 --> 00:23:10.319 The only way that he was tempted is because he was a flesh and blood man, just like me and you, and he was able to submit to God. 00:23:10.799 --> 00:23:14.960 He was able to submit to God and not give in to that temptation. 00:23:15.200 --> 00:23:26.640 And so now, as it says in verse four, he did this so that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit. 00:23:27.039 --> 00:23:29.599 Alright, so again the same thing. 00:23:30.079 --> 00:23:38.319 Verse five for they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh, but they that are after the spirit the things of the spirit. 00:23:38.640 --> 00:23:52.640 For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace, because the carnal mind is enmity against God, it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. 00:23:53.119 --> 00:24:00.240 Alright, so there's a lot there, and I want to try to bring everything

together and not cover too much ground. 00:24:00.480 --> 00:24:14.400 But I want to go I want to pay attention to these verses that we just read in Romans, where it talks about to be carnally minded is death, spiritually minded is life and peace, because the carnal mind is enmity against God. 00:24:14.559 --> 00:24:16.640 That word enmity means hostility. 00:24:16.880 --> 00:24:20.319 So the carnal mind is hostile against God. 00:24:21.359 --> 00:24:23.359 It will not submit to God. 00:24:27.440 --> 00:24:34.799 When it talks about that there in Romans 7, where it says it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. 00:24:35.039 --> 00:24:41.920 What it's saying is that it's not just going to roll over and play dead just because the Spirit of God shows up. 00:24:42.160 --> 00:24:46.319 But instead, it is going to fight against God's righteousness. 00:24:46.400 --> 00:24:48.240 It's going to fight against God's law. 00:24:48.319 --> 00:24:49.519 It's going to be an enemy. 00:24:49.599 --> 00:24:51.920 It's going to create a warfare, right? 00:24:52.000 --> 00:24:54.640 It's not just going to give up and surrender. 00:24:55.759 --> 00:25:00.880 So it it's not saying that it's not possible to bring it under subjection. 00:25:01.119 --> 00:25:03.839 It's just saying it's always going to fight you. 00:25:04.000 --> 00:25:06.240 As long as it lives, it's going to fight. 00:25:06.480 --> 00:25:09.440 And so we are to fight back against it. 00:25:09.680 --> 00:25:14.319 And that's why the weapons of our warfare, they are not carnal. 00:25:14.559 --> 00:25:16.720 But they are mighty through God. 00:25:17.200 --> 00:25:27.519 They are mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds, the casting down of imaginations, and every high thing that it's exalts itself against the knowledge of God. 00:25:28.559 --> 00:25:38.079 And so what we have to do is we have to begin going to war against the things that are hindering our relationship with God. 00:25:38.240 --> 00:25:41.519 And this is really where I want to kind of sum up the point today. 00:25:41.599 --> 00:25:49.599 I've given you a lot of scriptures, a lot of word, but I want to bring it all together and sum it all up for you. 00:25:50.079 --> 00:25:58.240 And the point of today is it's time to go to war against whatever is hindering you. 00:25:58.559 --> 00:26:05.039 Whatever it is, whatever it is that's hindering your relationship with God, it's time to go to war. 00:26:05.200 --> 00:26:10.400 And the way that you go to war is you fight back by using the word of God. 00:26:10.799 --> 00:26:13.359 You fight back by using the sword of the Spirit. 00:26:13.440 --> 00:26:22.160 If you're fighting doubt and unbelief, you find a word in this in the Bible, you find a word that God has spoken to you. 00:26:22.960 --> 00:26:29.200 One of the greatest ways that I am able to war is by things that God has spoken to me in my own prayer life. 00:26:29.279 --> 00:26:38.960 When he has quickened the word of God to me, when he has made the word alive to me, and I know that God has spoken it to me, there is nothing that can stop me. 00:26:39.279 --> 00:26:47.759 Yeah, I might go through a warfare, I might go through a battle, but man, when God has revealed something to me, I can stand on that. 00:26:47.839 --> 00:26:49.200 And I have for many years. 00:26:49.279 --> 00:27:02.240 There's many times where I have faced wars of doubt, wars of unbelief, questioning if I'm on the right path, questioning if I'm in the will of God, questioning if some of the things that I believe are the truth. 00:27:02.480 --> 00:27:05.119 You know, I've been through all of those things. 00:27:05.200 --> 00:27:18.000 And I can go back, I'm not going to get into detail today, but I can go back to one moment when God revealed himself to me, when he spoke a word to me, when he gave me a revelation on my own. 00:27:18.079 --> 00:27:19.680 I didn't get it from anybody else. 00:27:19.839 --> 00:27:21.599 I got it on my own. 00:27:21.920 --> 00:27:28.720 God revealed himself to me, and I can go back to that moment every single time, and I can say, God, you spoke that to me. 00:27:29.039 --> 00:27:32.400 You revealed that to me, and that is how I stand. 00:27:32.720 --> 00:27:53.680 And if you are having a hard time standing in your relationship to God with God today, or you feel like you are fighting a battle, you need to get in your prayer chamber, you need to get in the word of God, and you need to ask God to speak a word to you, to bring a word back to your remembrance, to do something, to give you a word that you can stand on and fight on. 00:27:53.839 --> 00:28:04.240 And if nothing else, if you don't have anything, you can take this word that I'm preaching today and you can say, God, you have you said in your word that we that I can be a partaker of the divine nature. 00:28:04.400 --> 00:28:05.920 I may not understand it fully. 00:28:06.079 --> 00:28:09.759 I may not be a partaker of the divine nature today, but God, I believe that word. 00:28:09.920 --> 00:28:12.000 I can be a partaker of the divine nature. 00:28:12.160 --> 00:28:17.759 Or you can go back to the first scripture I gave you, and you can say, you know what, God, I may not understand everything. 00:28:17.920 --> 00:28:22.000 I may not know where I'm at spiritually, I may not know how to fight my way out of this one. 00:28:22.160 --> 00:28:27.839 But what I do know is that the word says that the weapons of my warfare are not carnal, but they are mighty through God. 00:28:27.920 --> 00:28:33.920 And I am taking this word because this is your word, and I believe in your word, and I will stand on your word. 00:28:34.000 --> 00:28:36.480 It's not my word, it is God's word. 00:28:36.880 --> 00:28:40.559 It is the written and living word of God, and that is how we stand. 00:28:40.880 --> 00:28:48.559 The Bible, Jesus said that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth

of God. 00:28:48.799 --> 00:28:52.640 It's time to take this word of God, it's time to go to war. 00:28:52.880 --> 00:28:58.880 Whatever is hindering you in your relationship with God, get off defense and get on offense. 00:28:59.279 --> 00:29:00.880 Get off defense. 00:29:01.119 --> 00:29:03.440 It's time to get off defense. 00:29:03.920 --> 00:29:05.519 Don't be sitting around anymore. 00:29:05.680 --> 00:29:14.480 If there is something hindering you, if there is something in your way, then wake up and go to war and tell the devil to go back to hell where he belongs. 00:29:14.640 --> 00:29:20.400 He doesn't belong in your life, he doesn't belong in your mind, he doesn't have any place in the mind of a believer. 00:29:20.640 --> 00:29:23.440 The devil has no authority in the mind of a believer. 00:29:23.519 --> 00:29:26.319 The only authority the devil has is what we give to him. 00:29:26.640 --> 00:29:27.599 He has no rights. 00:29:27.680 --> 00:29:29.599 His power has been stripped. 00:29:29.839 --> 00:29:40.400 The Bible, I said it earlier, 1 John 3 and 8, for this purpose was the Son of God manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. 00:29:40.559 --> 00:29:55.440 The very purpose of Jesus Christ living on this earth was to demonstrate to us that man can live holy and godly and righteously in this present world. 00:29:56.000 --> 00:29:57.119 In this present world. 00:29:57.200 --> 00:30:00.880 And that is what Titus 2, 11 and 12 says. 00:30:30.640 --> 00:30:33.839 Here is we have what we need in God. 00:30:34.160 --> 00:30:36.880 We have what we need in God to go forward. 00:30:37.200 --> 00:30:43.039 And if you want more in God, if you want a better relationship with God, then it's time to fight for it. 00:30:43.279 --> 00:30:45.759 It's time to get rid of what's hindering you. 00:30:46.000 --> 00:30:46.319 Right? 00:30:46.400 --> 00:30:51.119 And I'm not saying when I say what's hindering you, I'm not even saying that maybe you're doing anything. 00:30:51.279 --> 00:30:52.960 Maybe you're just under attack. 00:30:53.200 --> 00:30:58.400 And that attack and that voice and the lie of the enemy, that may be what's hindering you. 00:30:58.640 --> 00:30:59.599 It may just be that. 00:30:59.759 --> 00:31:01.200 Maybe you're doing everything right. 00:31:01.359 --> 00:31:07.680 Maybe you are uh doing your best to live a clean, upright, and holy life, and that's not your hindrance, right? 00:31:08.640 --> 00:31:09.359 It depends. 00:31:09.519 --> 00:31:12.079 Some people have vices, some people just have warfare. 00:31:12.240 --> 00:31:13.680 Well, we got to go to war. 00:31:13.839 --> 00:31:18.880 And if you've got that voice, you've got that warfare, then you need to begin attacking that voice. 00:31:19.039 --> 00:31:23.519 You need to be seeking God and asking him to show you how to fight that voice. 00:31:24.640 --> 00:31:28.160 Because there is a word of truth that is made to combat it. 00:31:28.400 --> 00:31:33.279 Because he said that every thought can be brought to the obedience of Christ. 00:31:33.599 --> 00:31:36.400 So this is where I'm gonna leave it today. 00:31:37.039 --> 00:31:42.400 But I want I want you to take this word, go to war. 00:31:43.119 --> 00:31:52.160 Uh you know, there are so many promises that God has made us, and the devil's purpose is to try to keep us from possessing these promises. 00:31:52.319 --> 00:31:54.640 He doesn't want us to have what God has for us. 00:31:54.799 --> 00:31:58.480 That's why he'll even lie to you about what God does have for us. 00:31:58.720 --> 00:32:00.079 He wants to hinder it. 00:32:00.319 --> 00:32:16.480 And so now it's time to begin going to war against this carnal mind, going to war against these lies that try to oppose the word of God, and to go to war against the enemy for trying to sow these lies into our lives. 00:32:16.720 --> 00:32:18.960 So I pray this has been a strength to you. 00:32:19.200 --> 00:32:20.640 May God bless you. 00:32:20.880 --> 00:32:27.680 And I just encourage you to continue in the word, because if you continue in the word, God will surely hold you hold you up. 00:32:27.839 --> 00:32:29.200 May God bless.