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We've got to go for it. And so this morning I just want
to go right into this because God just sent me over the word
from the book of Judges chapter 6.
And so we're going to have a look at a.
Story there, the story of Gideon, how God takes an
ordinary person hiding in a wine place and he transformed him,
OK, into a mighty warrior. Listen, God transformed him he
was hiding in a wine press. God transformed it into a
history making warrior my God and that's what I want to share
this morning about the from white press to warrior.
That's the message God gave me, and so I'll.
Put it up on on the screen here for us from Wine Crest to
Warrior. That's the one about yes.
Awesome. OK, let's go in in Judges
chapter 6 and we're going to go in this and I thank God for
this, right? Awesome.
Are you ready everybody? Because this graffiti word is
just from here for now. And so the same card.
Who? Called Gideon out of the wine
press. The same card is about to call
you into a whole new season. Can you say I mean somebody?
Okay, Hallelujah. And you see, because God is
calling the kiddies out of hiding, out of the wine press,
He's awakening men and women right now.
People that have been pressed now overlooked, underestimated,
okay, I believe. That by the time we are done
today, OK, that you won't just hear about Gideon's story, that
that you're going to be stepping into your own revival story.
Can you say, I mean, somebody, come on, somebody shot
Hallelujah. Are you ready for me somewhat?
OK, Hallelujah. We're going to go straight into
this because something is about to happen in this place.
I feel the anointing of God spoke to me.
Something is about you. This is a new day.
This is a new season, OK? You are becoming the warrior
that God's using you. Hallelujah.
Super. So wall with me this morning.
We're going to go through this. Are you ready, Somebody?
Are you ready for this? OK, there's reading Judges 6,
verse 11. The Angel of the Lord came and
sat down under oak in Oprah that belonged to Jayastha Abrazai,
where his son Gideon was stressing weeds in a wine brace.
It was a white brace. To keep it from the.
Midianites. OK, so the enemy has been stowed
attacking you now when? The.
Angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon.
He said The Lord is with you, mighty warrior.
Hallelujah. How powerful is that?
My God, let's pray. Father, I thank you for your
presence in this place. I thank you for the anointing.
Holy Spirit, come have your way, Holy Spirit, anoint my lips open
every heart touch, every heart. Move freely, Holy Spirit, move
them. I'm sure people.
Oh Holy Spirit, come and speak, Holy Spirit, bring The Word
Alive. Make it alive in every heart.
Raise up and awaken mighty warriors in this room, and you
will all receive the glory, because unto you belong all the
glory and the power forever. In the mighty name of Jesus,
somebody shout Amen. Hallelujah, Robert, somebody.
We got to deal with this word today.
Grab hold of this today because when we meet Gideon, he's in a
wine place. He is tracing wheat.
He's hiding from the enemy, the milliners.
He's just trying to get enough food for his family.
Now this wine place where Gideon is tracing wheat.
This is a picture what God is about to do in Gideon's life.
You understand what I'm saying? Let me explain this to you
because when you fresh wheat, you separate the grain from the
chaff. OK, So the grade is this, this
to be removing from the chaff for the grain.
Now the grain. Listen, how many?
Of you know, OK, it's not bread yet, it's grain.
Now those of you that buy bread, you you have to crush the grain
needs to be crushing to find flour.
Then with the flour you mix well in water, right?
Then what do we do when we we needing OK, we need the until it
is flexible, until it's pliable, OK, and then finally.
Bikes in the fire and then it's ready to feed the hungry.
Then it is bread. OK.
And that is what catch what God was doing in Gideon's life.
He was fishing. The wine place was a freshing
floor. God was fishing.
Gideon. Oh, Hallelujah.
Are you with me? Somebody you understand what I'm
saying, OK. So God was removing the chuff
God from Gideon's. God was removing the unbelief,
the chuff of unbelief from him. He was crushing the fear that
held him back. He was mixing in the the
obedience into his life, OK, mixing that courage, it's with
obedience. And so that was the question.
And then he was needing faith, OK, into his calling.
You understand what God is doing here, how he's working with
Gideon, OK. And then finally with Gideon,
preparing him for the fire of Tasty.
And so, of course, God, before God could rescue this nation, he
first had to rescue Gideon from his own unbelief.
Can you say it means somebody? You're getting this, OK?
And so just like wheat is. Transformed.
Into bread to feed the hungry, Todd was transforming Tydian
into a deliverer to bring deliverance to feed the nation
with hope and victory. Can you shout?
I make somebody. Hallelujah.
OK. Are you with me?
Because I'm going to go fast. Because maybe you feel like you.
Are in a crushing time right now?
Maybe you're in a crushing. Place right now and you.
Feel that you are pressed on every side, hidden away maybe.
You feel underestimated, overlooked, OK, hidden away and
wondering if anything good is going to come out of where you
are. Listen to us.
Let me just tell you, crushing is not punishment.
Crushing is preparation. Oh, OK, listen, they need to
tell you the why. Praise is not the aid.
The flu show is not the aid. That's the beginning.
OK, so God is getting you ready for the battlefield.
Mike Bars to me. He's putting you ready.
Somebody He's shaping you in. Someone who's going to feed
others with the brain of life. He's transforming us into the
brain of life to feed so many others.
Hallelujah. Can you shout Hallelujah?
I mean, here's Gideon. Just picture him.
He's here on the wine press, racing wheat and dust in the
air, and he is scared. He's hiding.
His heart is racing and it is grains and separating the child
from all. And he's worried.
He's like thinking. Oh my God, is this the day today
that the enemy is going to find me?
Because these many. Nights have been attacking us
from every area and is. This going to be the day that
the enemy is going to find me here.
And in the middle of his fear, in the middle of his mess of the
terror of the frustration, in the middle of the survival mode,
all of a sudden, Boo an Angel showed up make up there is an
Angel of a Lord appeared to all in the Angel all say the Lord is
with you mighty. Warrior Oh, I feel the
anointing. I feel an appearance in this
place. My God, Angeli, the glory, the
Princess of God is in this place.
Mighty Warrior. Now Gideon probably looked over
like mighty Warrior. OK.
Who me? You must.
Have got the wrong guy Because mighty warriors don't hide.
Mighty warriors are brave and courageous.
They don't hide the white pits. Somewhere in wine, pray.
OK, you must got the wrong guy. OK, But you know what's amazing?
Even though Gideon was afraid and fearful, Gideon means Are
you ready for us? Gideon means warrior.
My God, my God said this is awesome.
The one who cuts down, referring to cutting down idols.
Oh, Hallelujah. And so God has put destiny in
his identity. Can you say I mean somebody.
OK, are you with me? Right.
Lean in and grab this word, OK today.
Because listen, God. When he speaks, he speaks
prophetically. God speaks to you where you are
going. Come on, you're getting this
because God speaks to you where you are called to be, OK?
And he calls him murder. Because listen, God is not
intimidated by your insecurities, by your past.
He's not insecure. He's he's not intimidated by
your past failures, not even your excuses, OK.
And God says mighty warrior. And when God says mighty
warrior, he's pulling into your true identity of who you really
are. When he scores mighty warrior,
he pulls on the courage, the strength, the anointing that
he's putting you before you even pour my gun.
Hallelujah, Hallelujah. So yes, you may feel the
circumstance. You may feel small, but God
calls you significant. You may feel defeated, but God
calls you victorious. OK, you may feel unqualified,
but God calls you chosen. Somebody shot Hallelujah, Rory
to God. So Gideon comes up with all
these excuses, OK. And this I you know, I'm the
spoilest, I'm the weakest. I'm not your man.
I'm the wrong, you know, you've got the wrong guy.
Yeah. It's like his reply shows he's
low self esteem, he's low self view of himself.
I'm weak, I'm spoiled. That's how he is, he And so he
says Judges 615. Gideon replied.
But how can I say visual? My clan is the weakest in
Manasseh. I am the least in my family.
And so yes, he was saying anything.
Listen, hold. OK?
I I am not warrior material, OK? I am the weakest.
I am swole. You've got the wrong guy.
Yeah, OK. But God doesn't agree with his
insecurities. God doesn't say, OK, yes,
Gideon, OK, you are right. You are too small, you are too
weak. You're from the smallest family.
No, God comes and he said, I will be with you and you will
win. Then you will strike down all
those Midianites. You'll strike down all those
enemies. My God, that's the God we serve.
Hallelujah. Praise God, while some of you
are in a wine press pit, you have been hiding, living below
your calling, OK, living, just ducking from your destiny and so
hiding away, trying to survive another day.
But God is stepping into your pits.
He's stepping into your wine press, your situation, your
family, and he's calling you out.
Somebody shout Hallelujah. OK, because that voice that says
you too small, that voice that says you are just a nobody, that
voice that says you cannot do it or you just feel insignificant,
you are not enough. That's the voice of fear.
The voice of the Father says you are stronger than you think.
What do you push higher than this place?
You are stronger than you think. You are stronger than you think.
Hallelujah, somebody.
Let's declare this out there. I'll say I am God, says I am
God. I am a mighty warrior.
I am stronger than I think. Give God some praise, somebody
this month. Hallelujah.
That's in me here today to tell you that you are stronger than
you think. You are stronger than you think.
You are stronger than you think about church.
You are stronger. You are stronger than you think.
Tell your neighbor you are stronger than you think.
Thank you, Lord, you are stronger than you think.
That's the word from heaven. And so when I read about the
story of Gideon hiding in the wide priest, it reminded me of
another unlikely hero, a 26 year old coal miner working in the
mines by the name of Evan Roberts.
Nineteen O 4 from a small town with waves.
Oh yes, my cards anointing is at this place now.
He wasn't a preacher. He wasn't famous.
He was a shy quiet guy if most of his time spent most of his
time on the ground 13 years pray Lord bend me now that night a
small parity presence of God comes strong presence of the law
and he knew he cannot stay in hiding anymore.
He knew the days are over no longer stay he did.
He knew God has awakened it go and shake a nation.
Well that is the word at all. And so God told them to wake in
a nation. And so when a man or a woman
step out of a wine place, anointed of God, anything is
possible. Within months over 100,000
people gave their life to Jesus. We're talking about whales,
100,000 people. OK listen, cry and drop so much
the the pups shut down. OK, listen, this is documented
in Wales. The PUP shot down the crime drop
so much that the policemen, they formed their own gospel players
because there was nothing else for them to do.
Nothing. Else the judges had no cases.
The crime drop 0 crime. Okay, listen, the sporting
matches was cancelled. Please read out this is
documentation. The football matches were
cancelled. Sorry footballers, but listen,
let me just be honest, that's what happened in revival.
The football matches were cancelled because there was
nobody in the stadium because the people were in church.
Oh, she oh listen, I love I sports, but nothing comes close
to Jesus. OK, this is just.
This is the revival in Wales, the Wales Revival.
And you know, the, the, the miners, the coal miners, their
language got so cleaned up. So what happened?
Was the pit ponies in the mines? They had to retrain the pit
ponies to learn the new commands because they put planers used to
understand that bleep bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep.
But then they're born again and safe and their language has
changed. People got born again and safe.
They had to retrain the pit ponies.
Do you understand that? You she.
That's a wild survival. Come on, somebody.
It's time for the UK. Somebody said he signed to the
UK. Come on.
Come on, somebody. It's time.
It's time you listen. Evan Roberts didn't start in a
pulpit. He started the wipers in the
mines, the coal mines. OK.
God freezed his heart but removed the chuff of unbelief
out of his heart. And a warrior emerged that could
change and shake a nation. Hallelujah, God can do it again.
Somebody come on. If God could take a coal miner
in Wales and use him to turn a nation upside down, God can take
you and turn your street, your region, your school, your inner
praise upside down, your city upside down.
Come on, somebody, you ready for the Bible?
We could do this. And I hear the Spirit of God.
He's saying that there's kittens in this room.
Do you have been hidden, overlooked, underestimated even
by yourself? But I hear the Spirit of God.
He's saying the Lord is with you, mighty warrior, this, this
the seated in your spirit tonight made that word from
heaven. Somebody shot Hallelujah.
The Lord is with you, almighty warrior.
The Lord is with. You come by, tell your neighbor,
say the Lord is with you, mighty warrior.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. The Lord is with you.
Yeah, yeah. Declare that and prophesied that
every someone's life has said the Lord is with you, mighty
warrior. This is your moment, Church, the
same God. Who?
Called Gideon out of the wine place is calling you.
The same God, the same anointing, the same spirit of
revival that fell in Wales, that same spirit is here.
This place calling us. He's calling you.
He's calling the Gideons. He's calling you out.
Can I preach this somebody? Because you came in as weeds
feeling crushed. You are walking out of this
places break. Oh, you're walking out of break.
You might have feel like we've been crushed in your workplace
in your future. You're walking out here today as
bread. Really.
That's going to feed nations, nations.
Just nations. I see why the warriors in front
of me. Are you ready for this church?
Because listen when the Angel of the Lord.
Cheered up and that Angel of God appeared on the Gideon.
It wasn't just little chat, chat, small talk, little casual.
That was a divine commissioning. Oh, Hallelujah.
And now this way it happened not on the mountainsop where
everything was great in Gideon's life, everything was good and
everything it happened in the. Wine press, the freshing floor.
OK, that is a place of sifting. OK, it's a place where that was
useful is separated. What holds you back?
That's the place of a fishing floor.
OK, so it's a place of refining where God prepares something for
his purpose. It's a fishing floor moment.
It's a season where God comes and he cuts things away.
He cuts away relationships. He cuts things steps away.
Insecurity, doubt, fear, unbelief.
He cuts those things out of our lives.
Why? Because you cannot carry the
chaff into the old chuff into a new calling.
You cannot hold out to Mr. This crock give you the.
Growth. You don't want to be stuck.
We thank God for refining moments when we are refined, we
cuts and strips away the things because the old stuff cannot go
into the new calling. And I don't want to be stuck
forever in the same mountain and on the same white place.
No, we want to move on. We want to go on to the
battlefield. OK, so that's preparation.
So before he sends you, he shares you.
OK. Before Gideon faced the
Midianite army, God first gave him an assignment.
And this is a private assignment.
It was a private assignment to set him up the stage for public
victory. And God says to get in key and
listen. I want you to go and cut off the
altar, your father's altar, to bow.
So listen, I want you to go and peel with the idols in your
family. Listen, this is this is the word
of the law, OK, Because didn't first had to deal with the idol
stronghold in his family before he can break the stronghold in
his nation. Are you getting this?
Are you with free somebody? OK.
And so the Church, we must first take down the idols of
compromise and of unbelief in our hearts before we can.
Deliver a nation. Hallelujah.
And so before Gideon fought Midian, he first fought the
compromise at home. OK.
And so before revival can flow in your city, revival must first
it has to flow through your house.
Somebody give God some flesh. Are you getting this?
OK, so every public victory, OK, every public revival or
breakthrough or move of God is first born within a.
Private place of surrender. I met somebody.
OK, now can we go a little deeper?
OK, let's go for this. Because Gideon asked God for two
confirming sights right now. The first one, remember Gideon
laid down a fleece before the Lord.
Right now, I want you to see this in Judges City 636 for
those of you don't want to check up on the documentaries or on
there right now. It says here Gideon.
Say to God, if you will say this role by my hand as you promised.
Look, I will place a wool fleece on the freshing floor.
If there's dew onion on the flesh and all the ground is dry.
OK, Now did you catch that dew on the flesh?
I want you to see that. OK, dew on the freeze because
the next morning the fleece. Was soaked with dew, OK, so much
so heavily that it could run out of bowl full of water.
That bowl full. That is a prophetic picture of
the anointing A. Favour OK dew from heaven
soaking a surrendered. Life.
Did you get that that's. When you when somebody comes and
you surrender your life and you say God, I surrender, I give you
Ioffer it up. That is a surrendered life.
God yes, my life. Yes, my offering I give you.
I surrender everything. I place my all, I give it to
you. When you lay down your life in
surrender, you give your life over to God, and you say, God,
soak what I give you. Soak this offering.
My body is a living God. Will soak you.
God will trace you until overflowing.
Come on, it's a surrender of light, and you become a pole
full of blessing, of favour in the hand of God.
Amen. And so Gideon did not hold the
fleece, but for himself he laid it down.
He laid it way before the Lord in the wine praise.
That's listen, revival comes. It starts at an altar.
Revival always starts at an altar, a place of surrender, the
wine place, the freshening. For that was Gideon's altar of
exchange, his fear for God's boldness, his weakness for God's
strength, his doubt for God's confirmation.
So it's. Gideon's altar of exchange.
Amen. So church, we are not called.
To live dry, we are called to live dressed.
I meant some of you as we just want God to confirm his word,
but we've not laid down anything.
OK, it takes a surrendered life. The fleece had to be placed, had
to be laid, had to be placed before it could be sought.
You see that? OK, so Gideon's first.
The fleece. The first one was personal, but
now he was not satisfied with that confirmation just to stay
with him alone. So he pray now.
The second one he prays again. Judges 6 verse 39.
And now let the crown be covered with deep OK.
Gideon understood something very, very powerful, that if he
was going to go into battle, he did not want to go in the only
one carrying the anointing, but the whole army to be anointed.
Somebody's getting this, somebody's getting this today.
The whole Army to carry the anointing OK, he didn't want
just to be the only one carrying the anointing if he was going
into but but the whole army OK also needs to be anointed.
The army also needs to be drenched to revival is about a
whole company of believers saturated with the same annoyed
the same spirit of God, the whole come on somebody the whole
company of believers OK, filled with the Holy Ghost.
Gideon was saying Lord if if you are really with.
US. Then soak the ground, let all
the people that's going to go in battle with me also be anointed.
Everyone of them this fighting going into battle also be
anointed and let the ground be wet and let them carry what's on
me. Therefore we carry what you
place on me. Oh I feel this transferable and
waiting in this place this morning.
Oh, I feel this anointing and it starts for the ball and that's
what Kitty say. What's on me?
I want on the Army, not just on one.
I just 111. To.
Fight the the entire army. And so the next morning the
ground was wet and heaven was showing Gideon.
Oh yes, I am drenching the whole army with my presence.
Oh yes, I'm drenching. That whole army.
Come on, somebody. Oh yes, that's right, Kitty, and
I am showing you this time I am telling you, this is not just
your battle. Oh, kidding you.
This is our battle. Oh, the battle belongs to the
Lord. This is our battle.
Hallelujah. This is our battle.
Somebody shot Hallelujah. Listen, it reminds me of Numbers
Chapter 11. When Moses got Veda, he was so
tired and exhausted. He really struggled and he was
so overwhelmed by the weight of leading Israel.
And God says surround yourself, bring in 70 others and I will
put what's on you. Moses, the same Spirit that's on
you, I'll put it on 70 others. It's transferable.
I'll put the annoy, I'll put in, Oh my God, I'll put that same
spirit that's on you and I'll share it among seventy others so
that they can help you carry the murder.
This entire 100 Bible is not just one person behind the pool,
but it's going to take the whole army.
It's going to take the every person.
God is rising up an army, Hallelujah.
And so God says, listen, I'm going to put that what's on you,
Moses? I'm going to put it on.
So that means what was on Moses was so abundant, What was on
Moses was so potent, so overflow, that God could share
it in 70 others 70 other ways. That's how strongly I was on
Moses that God could spill it over.
Listen, just that's what God wants to put on your life.
It's the saturation anointing of overflowing spilling over onto
your family, your workplace, your Reacher, the area where you
are. Come on, it's an overflow
anointing, overflowing. That's the anointing God wants
to put on you. It's an overflow which spills
over into your families, teams, generations.
I believe God is releasing an anointing into your circle, your
spouses, your families, your children.
It's overflowing, it's contagious.
It's spread like wildfire faster than any COVID, flu, or any
fire. It spreads faster.
It spreads faster like wildfire. Yes, raising a people around you
who will carry the same fire, the same vision in that company,
in that business, what God has called to that ministry, the
same courage people around you. Not anointing that God placed on
you to overflow. It's an overflowing anointing.
Are you with me?
Yeah. Now I want to show you something
amazing. This is one of my favorite
verses in Gideon's story, Judges 6, verse 34, it says here.
And the Spirit of the Lord came on Gideon.
Now the Hebrew, this is amazing because it literally means that
the spirit of the Lord drove himself with Gideon.
OK, that's powerful. I love that because think about
it, because God didn't just put an anointing on Gideon, but God
put Gideon on the. Spirit of God.
Stating to Gideon, my God, it's like, let me give you an
example. It's like someone that puts on a
garment like a like a cloak. So for instance, let me show
you. So they say, I go.
I represent the Spirit of God. This is Gideon, the Spirit of
God, the bow, says Cubs. Clove himself with Gideon.
I'm going to weigh this into battle and the Spirit of God and
Gideon and the Spirit of God says, right, I'm going to wear
this into battle. Gideon, Ayuri, let's go.
You're getting this. Yeah.
OK. So when God wears you, it means
God thinks through you. When God wears you, it means
that God speaks through your mouth, He walks through your
feet. When God wears you, when God
comes and he puts you on, it means.
He flows through your hands. Be healed in the mighty name.
What? Jesus?
Christ, it's for God stepped into gate when revival breaks
out, it's because the Spirit of God have found a people that's
willing to be his comet, willing to be his comet.
And he's not. Looking for a perfect foot is
looking for a willing foot. Gideon was not perfect, but he
was available, Yeah. Gideon was a.
Farmer. OK, not, not a fighter, but when
the Spirit clothed himself, the Spirit of God comes clothed
himself with Gideon. The fearful farmer becomes a
fearless general, killed and rotten of a space.
I feel the anointing. I feel the Spirit of God
searching, rising, awakening. Oh, Hallelujah.
He's searching. He's looking for Guineans right
now. Men and women.
He's looking for people right here.
The Holy Spirit is asking. He's looking.
Well, you wait. And so we just say, yes, Lord
Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit, yes, way.
Me. I will be your garment.
I will be, I will be yours. And that's that's what happens.
Can we give God some praise? Yeah.
OK. Now let's turn to Judges 7.
And yes, we're engaged. Wealth.
Are you ready for wealth? How much can we take today?
How deep can we go? Because this is really where
it's get wild, OK? This is going to get really wild
because listen, if I was Gideon, OK, I would sort of expect God
now to write, OK, thanks God, we got this summon and all that.
I would start expecting God now to start building his arm and
start adding some numbers and all that.
God starts doing the opposite. OK.
I'm like, Lord, okay, are we going to build this?
Are we going to go? But it's still God starts
cutting away. Wow, starts cutting away, starts
stripping away, starts removing. Okay, start sending people.
Away. Wow, start sending people away.
Lord, I really need every soldier I really need.
That's why I thank God even in the beginning days when we
started this church, when I preached to one person, I
preached my heart on, when I preached to 5 to 100, when I
preached to in South Africa, I was at the Pretoria school.
I was understand there was hundreds of people criticized.
We I preached the heart. I preached with everything I've
got. Because I know God knows what
he's doing. And God says here and judge the
seven, he says, now announce to your army, the army.
Anyone who trembles with fear may turn back and leave Mount
Gilad, Right. OK.
And 22,000 people walked away that day.
Wow. Why?
Because of fear. OK, They're going to go in the
army. They're going to face an enemy
here, right? The problem with fear.
OK, it neutralized the power of God.
OK, so same packing Gohan 22,000 bit because it was a taste of
courage and they're going through these tests.
Now remember here comes the second test, Gideon Oscar for
Tuesdays and God says right, I'm going to tap with you through
Tuesdays. Now second test, take them to
the water and watch how they drink.
Watch how they drank the water. OK, because this taste now
Gideon took them through and now some knelt down and they put
their face in the water with no awareness.
So they dragged water. So they put their face in the
water with no awareness. That's the problem.
No awareness. OK, without awareness they
missed it. But then.
There's a group. They scooped the water.
They went, scooped the water to their mouth, eyes lit up, eyes
up there, eyes lifted up, alert, ready for they watching their
surroundings for any surprise attack.
And God says face your people because it's the taste of
readiness. God spoke to me.
He said the church needs to get ready.
This is the taste of readiness. Get ready.
It says here Judges 77 and the Lord said to Gideon, you have.
Too many men, I cannot deliver median into their hands or
Israel would boast against me and Israel would say, listen,
this is my own strength that has saved me.
And that's a very dangerous boasting when people say it's my
talent, my gifting. My dad got the victory and got
the breakthrough. Listen Church, I just want to
tell you that God is the only one that will get the glory to
God be the glory. Listen the 300 so there's 300
leftover. OK, so this is I want to go 1
back. So 300 it says 77300 men that
will save you and give them many lights into your hands.
Let all the others go home. That's Judges 7, seven.
So the 300, that's a prophetic picture of a time church that
God is raising up. A church that's alert, a church
that's ready, a church that's staying alert.
Eyes open, wide awake, weapons ready for what's coming.
OK, for the assignment. They stay alert.
This is not time for little casual Christianity, okay?
Like just like church on a Sunday.
This is not a time for just Luke warmers, okay.
This is a time for the church to be alive, to be on fire, a blaze
fervid, ready, okay, to be vigilance, a time to be ready.
So get ready, get ready, get ready, get ready.
Come on. Get ready, get ready.
Get ready, Get ready, Get ready. Come on, toast.
Get ready. I'm speaking that over your
line. I say get ready, Get ready, Get
ready. The mighty warriors.
Get ready. Come on.
Tell your neighbor. Get ready.
Go. Come on.
Get ready. Get ready, Get ready, Get ready.
Get ready. Get ready.
Somebody get ready.
Shake your neighbors. I get ready.
Come on. Give them a start to say.
Let's say you got to be ready. We got ready.
Ready, ready, ready, ready, ready.
Come on, somebody shout. Get ready.
Come on, shut it again. Get ready.
Lovely. And so the time when the dust
settled, Gideon's army has literally gone from 32,000 to
300. OK, Can you imagine Gideon,
right? We had like 32,000 and now we
got like 300. And you know, we up against the
million eyes, my God, the million eyes, 135 a 135,000
enemies and we are 300. OK, if you do your maths, that
is 450 to 1:00. AM I right?
The ratio 450 to one with the yen, We're going to calculate
the right, OK. But listen, humanly speaking,
that's a suicide mission. OK, this o'clock is complete
suicide. Listen, you've got 400, so
132,000 so. But spiritually speaking, that's
a setup for God's glory. Yeah.
Because when the odds are stacked that high, OK, there's
no mistaking who gets the credit, OK, OK.
Yeah, yeah, there's no mistake. Listen, it's it's not going to
be, it's going to be God that will get the glory.
OK, Glory to God. Somebody shout glory to God.
Yeah. OK, Now it said there that.
My aunt straight has saved me. So listen, sometimes God will
reduce your numbers, your opportunities, your options, so
that when the victory comes, when the breakthrough comes,
there's no question, there is no undeniable that it.
Was him. This can only be God.
It was God.
It's pure God. It's not me.
It's not my talent. It's not my goodness.
It's not the It's God. It's the grace of God.
It's His. Somebody showed glory to God,
glory to come on, come on, glory, glory, glory to God.
Oh, glory to God. It's not me, it's not getting,
it's it's God. God will get the job done.
I've read the last chapter of the Bible.
We went and it's God's doing. God's got this over.
Pastor will look at the chaos, chaos in the world wars, rumors
of God's got this. God's the creator.
God is in control. He's large and in charge.
He knows exactly. What he's doing, he's the
highest creator of entire universe.
Nothing is so difficult for our Gulf.
And so Gideon, he was still struggling, but I love our God
how he helps Gideon. He had compassion on Gideon
because this is the first stop. Gideon has never LED an army
before, OK? And so God says, OK, get in.
This will help you. Go down to the enemy's camp and
hear what what your enemy is saying.
You're what the enemy is saying. So take your servant and go
down. And yet Gideon goes to the
servant. Slip down and the cover of
darkness creep close enough to over here, a conversation over
here, conversation in the enemy's camp.
OK, and so there's one Midianite, He's telling his
friend how God had given Midian, the Midianite and the whole camp
over into giddy attacks. And so isn't that amazing,
Church, that the enemy already knew they were defeated?
Come on, Isn't that amazing? The enemy already knew they were
defeated. The enemy already knew they were
defeated even before even one sword was lifted.
Even before the Battle War. You're getting this.
OK. What the enemy knows is Tommy
Short. He knows.
He's defeated. He knows.
But now, yes. The The thing is that the devil
knows sometimes. He knows more about your
potential, your calling, than you know.
That's why he works so hard to keep you locked in fear, OK?
Because if you ever believe what God says about you, if you ever
believe and realize and know that you are a mighty warrior,
you will be unstoppable. Come on, somebody give God some
prize. Hallelujah.
If you ever see yourself, you truly see yourself as a mighty
warrior, you will be unstoppable.
And so here's Gideon. He's struggling with insecurity,
wondering, can I really do this? And he's struggling.
But at the same time the enemy's struggling, the enemy's
dreaming, the enemy's whispering, you know if Gideon
shows up, we finished. And the enemy isn't panicked,
trembling, fear. Let me tell you, the forces of
darkness, they know about you. They know.
They know your name. They know you call it.
They know you're calling the forces of darkness.
They know you. They know your name.
And they panic, they trembling. They know.
They have seen how your prayers shake the heavens.
They've seen it. They know your name.
They know they see it. They have seen no worship.
The forces of darkness. The devil's a demon.
They have seen your worship. They have seen your.
Praise and your worship are shifter room.
They know you by now. They know they they trembling.
They fear because they have seen.
Like your obedience opens the windows of heaven.
They've seen this. The enemy is trembling.
The enemy's panic is afraid of you.
They've seen OK. And so the enemy already knows.
The devil knows it's over. He knows it's over.
He knows it's a fear. The cross sealed the victory.
You are not fighting for victory.
You are fighting for victory. The devil vows is over.
The church. Once the church, once the church
wins, we win. It's all throughout the Bible.
Somebody shout Hallelujah. Yeah, we are winners more than
conquerors. The devil is defeated.
He's a defeated foe. He's scared.
He's in panic, running away. We are not in reaction.
We are. In fact, we are coming devil run
run devil we chasing the devil wait to kill this and get her
because when we show our peace gone.
Oh you don't understand people the authority and anointing that
you courage. You are stronger than you think
you are stronger than you think mighty warriors.
Now what's this in verse 15 it says when Gideon heard the dream
and its interpreter, he. Bowed down and worship.
Somebody say worship went back. It's like worship, worship
created to worship. That was his battle cry.
The praise and worship was his battle cry.
And so now Gideon's faith is alive, his courage, his his
faith is stirred up full of courage and he's 300 ready for
the battle. But then God's strategy doesn't
make any sense. It says here this 16 dividing
the 300 men in three companies. He plays trumpets and empty jars
in the hands of all the men with torches inside.
OK, let's be honest, if you are facing 135,000 soldiers, OK, You
want Spears, You want swords, You want OK?
No kidding torches. Sorry, but.
I'm just so close. Think of the heart.
God's just like, OK, that's tortures.
So there, there's a trumpet, there's a jar of torture.
Imagine this tree out. I was like, where's the swords?
Where's the Spears? Where's the Spears?
Listen, the king, you've got victory in God's Kingdom.
It doesn't come with natural weapons.
It comes from obedience to the voice of God.
You're in. Yeah, God's chose a strategy and
that would make it impossible for anyone else to get the glory
but him. Amen.
Glory to God. Somebody shout.
Glory to God. Glory to God.
God, God.
This isn't amazing. Strips him right down.
Cut it away. Trumpet now.
OK, Trumpet, Maybe just explain to you the.
The spiritual principle, Yeah, because the trumpet is a picture
of your praise, OK. And so the torch that speaks of
your testimony and the jaws, that's our lives that we carry
the treasure of Christ, the jaws of clay.
But the jaws of clay, remember, it needs to be broken if you
read the story for the light, the torch to shine, OK.
And so brokenness is very, very powerful, especially brokenness
in the hands of God for God's glory, where our jaws of clay
broken in God's hands. That is a powerful spiritual
weapon against darkness. OK.
And so this is how I fight my battles.
This is how I fight my battle. Battles.
Yeah. Because listen for the spirit of
heaviness put on the government of praise.
This is how I fight my battle. So sometimes God will ask you to
fight in a way that doesn't make sense.
Singing in the middle of a store, OK Giving when the
resources are low, forgiving when he seems unfair, OK.
But so it's our obedience that is the key to supernatural
breakthrough in our lives. And so at midnight years, Gideon
with his 300 army. And so they blew the trumpets.
And so they smashed the jars and lifted up the torches.
They gave the sound of a thunderous battle cry.
And so the midnight camp just goes into chaos, erupted in
chaos and confusion everywhere, and they turn on each other.
And so they Gideon's got the victory.
Somebody shall Hallelujah. This is how I fight our battle.
Come on, This is how we fight our battles.
This is how I fight my. But let's sing it together.
This is how I fight my battles. This is how I fight my battles.
This is our oh, come on, give
God the loudest prize. Come on, give him prize.
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah.
Win your prize. The moment you prize, you are
confusing darkness. That's powerful.
Praise in your kitchen, praise in your loud, praise in your
car, praise at work. I go for walks and I praise and
I look at all the dog walkers and they're like, wow, that
guy's happy. I'm just praising my loud Yeah,
at the lake, at the bar where everyone's fishing.
Praise Jesus, My God, you just confuse the enemy.
The Father will come when the church learns to raise a sound
of praise. That is a weapon that is
powerful. Yeah.
When you hold up that testimony, the light of your testimony,
when we offer our jaws in brokenness in the hands of God,
when those three comes together, Oh my God, darkness scatters,
confusing the enemy, and the Bible will come.
Somebody said Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, revival
over the hill cry revival of Africa, the Bible.
Yes. Glory to God, that's when you
lift up a sound of praise or you scatter every enemy.
And so God is still calling kittens out of hiding, and he's
still taking people who feel small and overlooked to shake
nations. Let me tell you about one more
testimony. In 1966, a 22 year old young
lady, her names Jackie Pullinger, boarded a ship from
England to Hong Kong. She had no mission board, almost
no money, but she had a burning, fiery Commission from the Lord
and just conviction. And so the mission agency, they
told her, listen, you are too young, you are too
inexperienced. But she went anywhere.
And when she arrived, God LED her to no Loon Walled City.
And if you look, there's a movie in a documentary on this walled
city in Hong Kong as a city of crime, ruled by gangs, violence
on every corner. And so Jackie, she had no
resources, no strategy, no protection.
But when she started praising and worshipping in the streets,
preaching the simple gospel, and God used the spiritual powerful
weapons of praise and worship, and gang leaders surrendered
their lives to Jesus. And soon a whole community, a
former gang leader, started praising and worshipping Jesus
together. Hallelujah is powerful.
The city that was once famous for violence now began to hear
the sound of praise. This is how we fight our
battles. Hallelujah.
Just do you see, God took a young woman to push back
darkness in a city that is dangerous.
A 22 year old OK ex cat leaders my God, what kind of a God do we
serve If you could do that and he took that young lady 22 year
old sender from the UK to Hong Kong.
When you look at that, that wolf city, I reached it.
And So what God did, He frisked the fear out of her heart before
she goes. There's a chance you don't just
do this at home. I just you do it with the
anointing of the Holy Ghost. When God freshes and removes the
fear. And you guys know when we go to
Africa, these things, you go with the anointing of the Holy
Ghost. We don't play around with fear.
OK, God comes and he fresh the chuff.
He removes the unbelief, He removes the fear, and he sends
her into that battlefield as a warrior.
Warriors are brave. Warriors are courageous.
And she wrote a book chasing the dragon.
Oh, my God, Come on. There's a brave warriors.
God is raising brave warriors. We're chasing the Dragons.
OK, Hallelujah. And I believe God's looking for
jackies, Gideons in this room, those who have been hiding.
God is looking for those who've been hiding, those who've been
whispering. Lord, I am just too small.
I am too weak. I'm just young, I'm
inexperienced, I'm unqualified. But he's saying the Lord is with
you, mighty warrior. That is in the word of the Lord
today for you. The Lord is with you, mighty
warrior. Somebody shout Hallelujah.
And so if you could do that with a young lady, push that blood
darkness, what could he do with you?
You are stronger. Than you think you are stronger
than you think Turn closing. Gideon's story did not end in
the wine place. It did not end with him hiding
from the enemy. It did not end in him doubting
if God was worth it. It ended in a nation, was set
free. It ended in Levar.
That's how the state is. Yeah, in this.
Because he did. To believe what God said was
more than what fear said. OK, so God didn't bring you here
today to leave you the wine place.
He came to call you out to anoint you for battle, to send
you as the warrior you were mourned to be.
Amen. Let's all stand together.
Let's give God some praise in this place.
Let's stand to your feet. And so I'm here to tell you the
wine press season is over. You're stepping into your
Warrior season. It's time to rise, mighty
warrior. Take your place.
Come on now. Yes, maybe you're here today and
you have been hiding and you've been hiding in the wine press,
pressed down by fear or doubt or the whites of life.
But today the Angel of the Lord is here, and he's calling.
You now maybe you've been praying for family and yes,
that's good or the workplace or city, but God says the answer
begins with yes. So if you're ready to leave the
wine press, if you are ready to step into your warrior calling,
if that is you and this word is stirring in your heart, I want
us to respond by raise your hands right where you are if
that's you. And Father, I pray for your
people in the name of Jesus, Lord.
Let them be. Anointed for battle, Lord, I
declare that every lie of the enemy is broken off.
The chaff of unbelief is removed and freshed away.
The pure wheat of faith it remains.
I call forth the warrior within them.
To arise, they will no longer hide in the wine press.
Fun, fear and change, but I declare that this is how we
fight our battles. Hallelujah, Our prize and our
worship is how we fight our battles.
So mighty warriors, be commissioned, be released, be
sent forth to go forth anointed, empowered, in the mighty name of
Jesus. Somebody shot Hallelujah.
Now let's declare out loud together.
I am who God says I am, a mighty warrior.
Fear will not hold me. I stepped out of the wine press
into my calling. I am anointed for this hour.
The Lord is with me. I will see the victory.
I will be out. Come on, somebody give God
surprise. So walk out of that doors today,
OK, like a mighty warrior, Amen. Now, if you've never given your
life to Jesus or you've drifted away from the Lord and you need
to come back, this is your moment.
Don't wait another day, don't hesitate.
So if that's you today, if you are ready to say yes, I want to
pray with you. If you want to invite Jesus to
come into your heart, into your life, just raise your hand.
If that's you, I see that hand. Thank you.
Let's all pray together. Jesus, I invite you to come into
my life to be my Lord and my Saviour.
I repent of my sins. Come into my heart.
I give you my life. Follow me with your spirit from
this day forward. I am yours in Jesus name.
Hallelujah, Christ. God save you.
Pray that queer heaven is rejoicing.
Thank you, Moises worship team. We're going to praise and
worship God, and we're going to pray for mighty warriors to be
further commissioned into God's battle.