So I want to start with Psalm 27 and I'm going to read to you
verses one through 6. Psalm 27 verse one says the Lord
is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the strength of my life.
That ought to be your confession.
That's got to be a confession that I want you to leave here
tonight. And and I want it's, it's
different if I say God's your strength.
It's different if I say don't fear, if God says don't fear.
But it's way bigger and way more impactful.
If you go home and say God is the strength of my life, I will
not fear, I will not be discouraged.
That's what provides power. You can know that the Word of
God says it, but if you're not saying it out of your mouth,
then it's not affecting you. So this, says the Lord, is the
strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?
When the wicked came against me to eat up my flesh, my enemies
and my foes, they stumbled and fell.
Though an army may encamp against me, my heart shall not
fear. Though war may rise against me,
and this will I be confident. One thing I have desired of the
Lord, and that will I seek, that I may dwell in the House of the
Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord,
and to inquire in His temple. For in the time of trouble He
shall hide me in His pavilion. That is His thicket.
That is A1 translation, says His Hut.
It means you're totally fenced in and totally protected.
He shall hide me in His pavilion.
In the secret place of His Tabernacle He shall hide me.
He shall set me high upon a rock, and now my head shall be
lifted up above my enemies all around me.
My head shall be lifted up above my enemies all around me.
Therefore I will OfferUp sacrifices of joy in His
Tabernacle. I will sing, yes, I will sing
praises to the Lord. And when the scripture says the
Lord is the strength of your life, that word strength there
is your quickening. It is a place of safety,
protection, refugee, huge and a stronghold.
But you know the word of God, it has power in it.
And so when you speak that the the Lord is the strength of my
life, it quickens your body. It quickens your mind that the
Lord is the strength of your life.
Not that I can just tell you tonight you can walk out of here
and go awesome. The Lord is the strength of my
life. But if you go out of here and
you make that confession your own and starts you get up in the
morning and say, God, you're the strength of my life.
I will not fear, I will not be discouraged.
I will not be moved to the right or to the left.
God, you're the strength of my life.
Although the, the the mountains may move, things may fall into
the sea. I will not, my heart will not
fail. And I'm just telling you in the
last days, the things that are happening, the things that we're
seeing happening, you need to get on top of your mind and your
heart and you need to tell yourself you need to do like
what David did when he said soul, why are you downcast?
He had to talk to his his own soul and say, why are you
downcast? Oh my soul, put your hope in God
and you got to do that. Sometimes you got to look in the
mirror and go, why are you downcast?
Why are you discouraged? Put your hope in God and the the
quicker you learn how to not be led by what you see and what you
feel, the anxiety that tries to come, the better off you'll
because you're living by faith. OK, so let's go to Psalms 118.
Here's David again. You know, sometimes it's easy
for us to put our, our trust and our strength and our resources
and our connections and our, our status, our, our money, our
relationships, all of those things.
Sometimes it's easy for us to feel good about ourselves when
we have those things. But but really, the Bible says
your own righteousness is like filthy rags, and you ought to
think about that every day. There's not anything in my own
strength. It's all God and every good and
perfect gift comes from Him. And so I'm just going to give
him all the glory. It's not anything I can do.
If he gave me the ability to to make money, if he gave me the
ability to own a business, if he gave me the ability to do
anything, it's because He did it.
And I'm going to give him all the glory.
I'm not going to be like the Scripture and Deuteronomy that
says once you get into that land and that blessing, now don't you
forget, Don't you forget who gave that to you.
You ought to be real quick all the time to say, God, I'm so
thankful, Father, you're worthy. I'll give you all the glory all
the time, all the time. Psalms 118 says I called on the
Lord in distress and the Lord answered me and set me in a
broad place. The Lord is on my side and I
will not fear. What can man do to me?
Now listen to this next part. The Lord is my strength and my
song, and He has become my salvation.
You know, and I know probably a lot of you know this, but inside
of salvation is everything that you need.
It's everything that God has done.
It's the peace that you need. It's the the quietness that you
need. It's the provision, it's the
health that you need. But one of the definitions for
salvation is that you're no longer molested by the enemy.
You're no longer, you know, tossed to and fro by every wind
of doctrine or every voice that comes at you.
You got to get really good when all those things come at you
that every day. I've shared this before.
When I was a little girl, I ran out of the house without my
shirt on and and I was little, so it wasn't that big a deal.
But but, but I was horrified. And I remember I ran outside
talking about being distracted. I ran outside and I was like, I
don't have a shirt on and I ran back in the house and I would, I
cried and I was so upset. And you know, a lot of times we
walk out of the house and we don't got our britches on and we
don't got our shirt on. I'm talking about in the spirit
now we come on, get, get, get back over.
We got to make sure we're putting on the full armor of God
every day, every day that the helmet of salvation.
I know who I am in Christ and I know in whom I believe the, the
belt of truth buckled around my waist, the breastplate of
righteousness in place. That means I I know that it's
him that gave me that righteousness and that's
protecting all my vital organs. So anytime something tries to
tell me different, I say no, no, I got my breastplate of
righteousness on. I got my feet fitted with the
gospel of peace. I've got the sword of the
Spirit, which is the word of God.
And that's the part that's the offense.
And that's the part that you got to be saying that you got to be
speaking out. Now let's go to Philippians
chapter one. I'm going to read Philippians
chapter 1 verses 27 through 30 in the amplified classic edition
because it just breaks it down so good.
Verse 27 says only be sure as citizens so to conduct
yourselves, that your manner of life will be worthy of the good
news of the gospel of Christ. So that whether I do come and
see you or I'm absent, I may hear this of you and this.
We want this to be said of us, that you are standing firm in
united spirit and purpose, striving side by side, and
contending with a single mind for the faith of the glad
tidings, the gospel. Now listen to verse 28 and do
not for a moment be frightened. Do not for a moment be
frightened or intimidated in anything by your opponents and
adversaries, no matter what your opponents, no matter what your
adversaries bring to you, the scripture says.
Don't even for a moment be frightened or intimidated by
anything that they bring, for such constancy by you and
fearlessness will be a clear sign, proof and seal to them of
their impending destruction, but a sure token and evidence of
your deliverance and salvation and that from God.
I don't think y'all got that. So I'm going to read that verse
again. And do not for a moment be
frightened or intimidated in anything by your opponents and
adversaries, for such constancy and fearlessness will be a clear
sign, proof and seal to them of their impending destruction, but
a sure token and evidence of your deliverance and salvation
and that from God. And all of that is because you
didn't. For a moment, for one second,
you didn't allow fear or intimidation to stay in your
mind. Not for a moment in Luke 2119,
that scripture is talking about, you know, the last days, and it
says in your patience possess ye your soul.
And that scripture in another translation, what it means is in
your steadfastness, you possess your soul and all these things
that are happening in the these last day, last days that we're
living in, all the things that we're seeing, the scripture says
you need to possess your soul. You need to get on top of what's
happening up here. Because if you give, if you give
fear one second and then you give it 2 minutes and then you
give it about half an hour and then next thing you know you're
down in the ditch having a stronghold of the spirit of
fear. You can't give it a minute.
You can't give it a second. Second John chapter 2 says, I
wish and desire, brethren, above all things, that you would
prosper and be in health even as your soul prospers.
And that word prosper means that there's a, there's a direct way
in your mind, There's an easy flow in your mind.
And how do you know that you're, that you are prospering in your
mind and that you're not yielding to fear, that you're
not worrying? Brother Hagin used to say, if
you're, if you're constantly thinking about something, you're
probably worrying about it. You wake up thinking about
something, you're probably worrying about it.
You got something on your mind all the time.
You've probably allowed worry to come in.
Worry and anxiety is really fear.
So in this time that we live in, if you're going to have the
victory, if you're not going to lose your mind, you can't let
any of these things have even a second.
And you got to be that fiery about it.
The the Bible says the Kingdom of heaven is advancing and the
violent take it by force. You got to be that violent about
it. You've got to practice peace.
You've got to be skillful about it.
It cost him everything for you to have a sound mind.
It cost him everything for you to be able to walk in peace.
So why do we walk around disturbed?
Why do we walk around with anxiety and fear and worry and
and being agitated about stuff? He paid for all of it so that
you could have a sound mind. Psalm 42 five is the Scripture
that I gave you about David saying, why are you in despair,
O my soul, and why have you become restless and disturbed
within me? Hope in God and wait expectantly
for him, for I shall again praise him for the help of his
presence. Psalm 23 from the Scripture we
just read about the the enemies. Don't you give them a second?
Don't you give them a minute? They're there and they're
talking. Psalm 23 says the Lord is my
shepherd. I shall not want.
He makes me to lie down in green pastures now Is that peaceful?
Green pastures is pretty peaceful.
He leads me beside the still waters.
Is that peaceful? He restores my soul.
He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's
sake. Yeah.
Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will
fear no evil, for you are with me.
Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.
You're seated at a table in the presence of your enemies.
You anoint my head with oil and my cup runneth over.
Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my
life and I will dwell in the House of the Lord forever.
I remember the first time I realized that I was seated at
the table and and my enemies were there and they were talking
and I was a Rhema student. I've shared this story before.
I was a Rhema student and I had pulled into my apartment and I
was listening to a, a teaching by Brother Hagin called Casting
Your Cares. And in that, in that teaching,
he started talking about Psalm 23 and how we're seated at the
table and how our enemies are there and they're talking to us
and they're saying stuff. But he started, he started
saying, well, just pass me the bowl of victory and then just
pass me the bowl of joy. I'm, I'm, I'm going to stay
seated right here. And I know they're talking and I
know they're saying stuff, but just pass me the bowl of, of
joy. Just pass me the bowl of peace.
Just pass me the bowl of provision.
And I got so excited listening to that, that I opened my car
door and took off running. It was at night and I just took
off running down the street and I didn't care.
And I didn't care who was watching because I learned that
I was seated at the table. And I learned that I had
authority over those voices that were talking to me.
And when I learned that that I had authority over them, I was
able to go, no, no, no, no, no. I know who you are.
I recognize that all you can do is lie.
All you can do is tell me who I'm not.
All you can do is tell me what I don't have and I'm just going
to, I'm going to stay seated in my place of victory.
Far above. You know, the scripture says
you're far above all rule and authority and power and
dominion. Far above it, You're far above.
You just sit here and and all those enemies and all those
little things are down there and they're under your feet.
Cygnus is under your feet. Whatever it is, it's under your
feet. And you can know it and you can
say, yes, Amen. But if you don't walk out of
here and you don't say it yourself and you don't get it in
your spirit and in your mind yourself, then you're just
sitting up in here like Saul was when David came and played the
harp for him. And, and, and every time David
did that, there was an anointing and, and Saul was comforted and
he had peace. And this church is not going to
be like those religious leaders who walk up in here and say
Hallelujah and then we walk out of here and we're all bound up.
That's not who we are. That's not who you are.
You get too good of teaching here and there's too great of a
body right here for you to be connected for you to walk out of
here and look all bound up. And if you're married and you
got a spouse that is all bound up, you better keep them
accountable and help them get out of their little thing.
Speak the word to them. You know, I was that way in the
beginning of, of my marriage. We're teaching marriage class
right now and, and we've shared this and I was a mess.
I was a Rhema student and I was, my mind was being renewed and,
you know, I was growing a lot, but I still had a lot of baggage
that I was carrying. And I was still emotional.
And I had, you know, some fits here and there.
And I remember I threw myself on the bed and I can't remember
why. I don't need you to pipe in.
I saw his eyebrows go like that. But I threw myself on the bed
and was pitching a fit. And he didn't, he didn't look at
me and say, what's wrong with you, woman?
He didn't do anything like that. He just stood there, just
watched me and said, you're a woman of God.
You're a woman of God. And, and in the beginning, and I
shared this with our class, in the beginning, I was like,
you're a liar. Quit saying that.
And and what he was doing was speaking faith to me.
And eventually it caused me to stand up a little taller, and it
caused me to go, yeah, I am that woman of God.
And you got to do that for your spouse.
If they're all bound up in the house and not live, and they can
come in here and run a lap and shout a victory and do
something, but they go home and get in their little depressed
bed, you better say something to them.
I don't know who that was for, but don't look at your spouse.
OK, Let's go to Acts 20, verses 22 through 24.
Oh my goodness, Acts 20 verses 22 through 24 says, and now you
see, I'm going to Jerusalem. This is this is Paul.
And there was all kinds of stuff that he was had to deal with
leading up to these verses. I'm going to Jerusalem bound by
the Holy Spirit and obligated and compelled by the convictions
of my own spirit, not knowing what will befall me there,
except that the Holy Spirit clearly and emphatically affirms
to me in city after city that imprisonment and suffering
awaits me. You heard that right.
OK. That imprisonment and suffering
awaits me. The Holy Spirit told him that
some of y'all would say, devil get behind me, that I'm.
That's not happening. I know that's the devil.
You better know the Holy Ghost well enough to know who's
talking to you. So he said the Holy Spirit
clearly and emphatically told him that imprisonment and
suffering awaited awaited him. And he said, But none of these
things move me. None of these things move me,
Neither do I esteem my life dear to myself, if only I may finish
my course with joy. And the ministry which I have
obtained from which was entrusted to me by the Lord
Jesus faithfully to attest to the good news, the gospel of
God's grace, His unmerited favors, spiritual blessing and
mercy. Everybody say none of these
things move me. That's another great confession.
When something comes, some trial comes right in your face that
you say. None of these things move me.
I will not be moved by this. Isaiah 12 two says, behold God
is my salvation. I will trust and not be afraid
for Yahweh. The Lord is my strength and my
song. He also has become my salvation.
Psalm 18 says verse one, I will love you, O Lord, my strength.
The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer.
Listen to this what David says. I love this scripture.
The Lord is my rock and my fortress, and my deliverer, my
God, my strength, in whom I will trust my shield and the horn of
my salvation, my stronghold. I will call upon the Lord, who
is worthy to be praised, So shall I be saved from my
enemies. The Lord is my rock and my
fortress, my deliverer, my God, my strength.
In him I will trust my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my
stronghold. What a great confession of
faith. Psalms 28 verses 7 and 8 says
the Lord is my strength and my shield.
My heart trusts, trusts in him and I am helped.
He is my strength and my shield. My heart trusts in him and I am
helped. Therefore my heart greatly
rejoices, and with my song I will praise Him.
The Lord is their strength, and He is the saving refuge of His.
Anointed. Anointed, that's you.
Ephesians 610 says, finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord
and in the power of his might. You know where the word of the
King is, there's power. So when that says be strong in
the Lord, that means you can be strong in the Lord.
When he tells you do not be anxious, that means you don't
have to be anxious. When he tells you don't worry,
that means you don't have to worry.
That means he's giving you the power to do it, the power to
walk it out, the power to live it.
His commands are empowering Ephesians 610 and the classic,
amplified classic says in conclusion, be strong in the
Lord. Be empowered through your union
with Him. Draw your strength from Him,
that strength which is His boundless, His boundless might
provides. Draw your strength from Him,
that strength which His boundless might provides.
The greater 1 is in you, the greater 1 is in you.
You have the Holy Ghost in you. You have the same Spirit that
raised Christ Jesus from the dead living within you.
If you don't encourage yourself in the Lord, nobody's going to
do it. Nobody's going to do it for you.
I had to Get Me Out. What's his name?
Eddie James song today about being it's deliverance from your
enemies and they stumbled and fell and it's a song and I was
doing all that. Nobody was home and I was just
dancing, right? Because I had to get myself
together. I had, I had to get some stuff
off me. I had to get myself in a
position of joy. And it didn't take much for me
to step out in faith and do a little jig and the Holy Ghost
come and say I got you. I'm your strength, I'm your
shield, I'm your strong tower, I'm your peace.
It didn't take long for that to happen, but I had to.
I had to step out and do something.
Sometimes we get so stuck in our patterns and our ruts and our
strongholds and our our routines that we don't want to get out of
it. You got to get uncomfortable.
You got to step out and do some stuff, sometimes by faith.
I'm not talking about right now. I'm not asking anybody to take a
run right now. You can, but I'm not asking you
to do that. I'm talking about when you're in
your quiet place. I'm talking about when you're in
your car, when you're in the shower, when the bombardment of
thoughts is coming at you like this, that you're able to say
the Lord is the strength of my life.
I'm seated far above this, and you've got to do that.
We've got to do that. I feel like I'm basketball
coaching right now, like I need everybody to huddle up.
I need everybody to just come huddle up and let's get together
and let's do some kind of chant or something.
We might have to do that. Thank you, Mr. Arraign Beast,
being strong is not just encouragement, it is the power
infused of the Holy Ghost on you.
Isaiah 4110 says fear not for I am with you.
Do not be dismayed for I am your God.
I will strengthen you, yes, I will help you.
I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
These are Old Testament scriptures.
Isaiah is is talking about the day we live in.
But even the Psalms, when David sings and cries out and lays
things out before God, sometimes we are not doing that with God.
We're not in a position to say, OK, Lord, I'm casting the weight
of my burden on you. There it is.
I see it. But I'm casting all of my care
on you because you care for me, because you sustain me, because
you quicken me. It's too easy for us to to do
this. It's too easy, easy for us to
get on social media. It's too easy for us to to be
busy about so many things that we're not taking time with him,
that we're not dwelling with him every moment that you can.
And if you don't do it the minute you get out of bed, those
little, those little, now, a lot of times it's your flesh most of
the time, like Pastor Chase said on Sunday and like the scripture
says. But those little demons, if they
know what your weak spot is, they're ready to send.
Do you ever wonder why people of the same offense and the same
stuff, they just all find each other?
Why does that happen? Why does that happen?
You think that's a coincidence that that happens?
Nope. That that, that the demonic, the
spirit realm is more real than what you see right now.
And if there's a weakness and you've released it out of your
mouth and there's an offense and you've released it out of your
mouth, then there they are. There they are to, to go and,
and, and get everybody all together and on the same page.
But we have authority over them. That's why you got to watch what
you're saying and what you're thinking.
Psalm 46. God is our refuge and strength.
Oh my Lord, thank you, Father, thank you that you're our refuge
and our strength in this season of life.
Thank you, Father God, with everything that's going on in
the last days, I thank you, Lord, that you're our strength
and you're our refuge. And we will not fear.
We will not fear. We will not give way, we will
not yield. We'll be strong in you and in
the power of your mind. We thank you, Lord, that you are
our strength and our refuge. We can run up into You and we
are safe. We can run up into your
pavilion, we can run up into your refuge and we're saved.
And we thank you for that. We honor you for that.
We give you all the glory and all the praise and we won't
forget. We won't forget.
We won't walk out of here and forget who you are and that the
Holy Ghost is right there to help and to guide and to
quicken. Holy Spirit, we thank you.
What a gift you are to us. What a gift you are.
Holy Ghost, we're so grateful and we will do everything that
we can not to grieve you, not to quench you, not to put you out
in our own lives, in our own heart.
When you speak, we'll be quick to trust, quick to obey.
Have your way, Holy Spirit. We give you all the praise and
all the glory, all the glory. God is our refuge and He's our
strength. He's our very present help and
trouble. Therefore we will not fear.
Even though the earth be removed, and though the
mountains be carried into the midst of the sea, though its
waters roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with
its swelling, we will not fear. Isaiah 5414 says In
righteousness you shall be established.
In righteousness you shall be established.
So much I could say right here. I need to flip my hair.
OK, I'm sweating, all right, righteousness, is it bigger?
All right, right. They're not videoing so I can do
what I want up here. Isaiah 5414 and righteousness
you shall be established. That is His righteousness.
That is who you are in Him. This is your foundation.
This is who you are. When the Hebrews talks about
those who are are still babies are not skilled in the word of
righteousness, you know what that means?
It means we don't know who we are.
It means we haven't learned. This word of righteousness is
not a religious word. It is.
That's why the the Bible says seek first the Kingdom of God
and his righteousness and all those other things will be added
to you. Because in Isaiah 54, you know,
in the church world, not y'all, but in the church world, people
love to quote verse 17, No weapon formed against me shall
prosper. I'm more than a conqueror.
And it does say that, but you got to scoot up, back up to
verse 14, where it says in righteousness you shall be
established. You shall be far from oppression
and you shall not fear and from terror, for it shall not come
near. Terror shall not come near to
you. 1000 may fall at your side, 10,000 at your right hand, but
it will not come near you. You shall be far from
oppression, you shall not fear, and from terror shall not come
near you. And then jump down to verse 17.
Because you understand this righteousness, no weapon formed
against you shall prosper. Because you understand who you
are in Christ, no weapon formed against you shall prosper.
And every tongue which rises against you in judgement you
shall condemn. This is the heritage of the
servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is from me, says
the Lord. Psalm 34.
I will bless the Lord at all
times. His praise shall continually be
in my mouth before I finish reading this.
When we went to Rhema, Keith Moore was one of our instructors
and and he taught a class called Praise Life.
And in Praise Life, every single day we had to quote this
scripture. And you didn't always feel like
it. You didn't always want to, but
he didn't care. He didn't care if you wanted to
stand up every. I'm not telling you stand up,
but He's everybody. Stand up.
And we would say, I will bless the Lord at all times.
His praise shall continually be in my mouth.
My soul shall make its boast in the Lord.
The humble shall hear of it and be glad.
O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together.
I sought the Lord, and He heard me, and He delivered me from all
my fears. The scripture says that I just
read, I'll bless the Lord at all times, and His praise will
always be in my mouth. And then it goes on to say, He
delivered me from all my fears. Now jump down to verse 7.
The Angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear Him and
delivers them. Oh, taste and see that the Lord
is good. Blessed is the man who trusts in
him. Oh, fear the Lord, you his
Saints. Listen.
There is no want to those who fear him.
There is no lack to those who fear Him.
The Young Lions lack and suffer hunger, but those who seek the
Lord shall not lack any good thing.
Come, you children, listen to me.
I will teach you the fear of the Lord, who is the man who desires
life and loves many days, that he may see good.
Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit.
Depart from evil and do good. Seek peace and pursue it.
The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are open
to their cry. The face of the Lord is against
those who do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the
earth. The righteous cry out, and the
Lord hears and delivers them out of all their trouble, all their
troubles. Are you troubled?
The scripture says He delivers you out of all your troubles,
all of them. The Lord is near to those who
have a broken heart and saves such as has a contrite spirit.
Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers
him out of them all, all of them.
Second Timothy 110 says, God did not give you a spirit of fear,
but of power, of love, and of a sound mind.
You cannot leave your mind unattended, not for one second,
not for one second. Pressure is going to come, cares
are going to come, worries going to come, fear is going to come.
You cannot leave this alone for one second.
You're the one that has to take authority.
Everything is brand new in Christ, in your spirit man.
God lives in you. But then he tells you now, OK,
now be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
So you're the one that has to grab hold of these scriptures.
That's why I said this should be a, a shot in the arm for you
tonight, that you go home and go, I'm going to Psalm 34.
I'm going to say that Psalm 27, the Lord is the strength of my
life. That's going to be my confession
of faith that you do it, that you grab hold of it, that you
say it, that you meditate on it. God didn't give you a spirit of
fear. Don't give place to it.
You know the Bible says don't give the enemy a foothold.
Well, if you think long enough on something, yeah, he's going
to have a foothold. If you remember for not one
second, not one moment, don't yield to fear.
Not one moment. Isaiah 26 verses 3 and 4 says
you will keep him in perfect peace.
Whose mind is stayed on you, You will keep him in perfect peace.
Whose mind is stayed on you because he trusts in you.
Trust in the Lord forever. For Yahweh the Lord is
everlasting strength. Psalm 5522 says, cast your
burden on the Lord and He will sustain you.
He will never permit the righteous to be moved.
John chapter 14, John chapter 14, verse one says let not your
heart be troubled. In other words, do not let your
heart be troubled. And then if you jump down to
verse 27, it says peace I leave with you, and my peace I give
you. Not as the world gives do I give
you. Let not your heart be troubled,
and neither let it be afraid. Peace is not feeling good.
Peace is a supernatural power. And you know if you've
experienced the peace of God or not, because the peace of God
will come in the middle of a trial.
The peace of God will come in the middle of what feels like
the hardest thing of your life. The peace of God will come and
flood your mind, and that's where it is is in your mind.
You'll have peace in your spirit, but you'll have peace in
your mind. There's not anxiety, there's not
fear racing around Psalm 5522. Cast your burden on the Lord and
he'll sustain you. He'll never permit the righteous
to be moved. Peace He leaves with you.
We can't be double minded. You know James talks about the
double minded man is unstable in all of his ways.
Wrong thinking opens the door. Wrong meditation opens the door.
You cannot give the enemy a foothold.
You know, the Bible says that God sits in the heavens and he
laughs. All these things are happening,
all these things are going on. His enemies are there, but it
says he sits in the heavens and he laughs.
Can you sit and and just laugh? Can you by faith just get peace?
I've shared many times and I've had many laughs since then.
But in the beginning of our marriage, my husband, while we
were laying in the bed, decided and I was frustrated about
something and I think he was too.
There's something going on. I don't remember what it was.
And he just laid down and went ha ha, ha.
And I was like, cut it out, what are you doing?
And he was like, ha, ha, ha. I am not going to be moved.
And I thank God for that example because that example of faith is
what caused me next to the Lord Jesus to be where I'm at today,
to be. We're in a position where I can
say I won't be moved. Ha, ha, ha.
I'm not moved by that. Yeah, I see it.
Yeah, the enemy's there. But I'm not moved by that.
I want to. I want to close with Psalm 27
again, again. I want to read it again now that
we've gone through some of these other scriptures.
The Lord is my light and my salvation.
Whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my
life. Of whom shall I be afraid?
When the wicked came against me to eat up my flesh, my enemies
and my foes, they stumbled and fell.
Though an army may camp around him against me, my heart shall
not fear. The war may rise against me, and
this will I be confident. One thing I have desired of the
Lord, and that will I seek, that I may dwell in the House of the
Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord,
and to inquire in His temple. For in the time of trouble He
shall hide me in His pavilion, in His thicket, in his in His
Hut, in his fence, in his strong tower, in the secret place of
His Tabernacle, He shall hide me.
He shall set me high upon a rock, and now my head shall be
lifted up above my enemies. All around me, therefore, I will
offer sacrifices of joy. In His Tabernacle.
I will sing. Yes, I will sing praises to the
Lord.