1- We are in a fight, each and everyone must do their part.
Ephesians 6:10-11 TPT
“Now my beloved ones, I have saved these most important truths for last: Be supernaturally infused with strength through your life-union with the Lord Jesus. Stand victorious with the force (weapons) of his explosive power flowing in and through you. Put on God’s complete set of armor provided for us, so that you will be protected as you fight against the evil strategies of the accuser!
The Bible is not for a private interpretation but it is written to a group of people. Most of the letters was addressed to local Church, Ephesus, Philippians, or leaders of local Churches, such as Timothy or Titus.
The Old Testament was written to the people of Israel and the New Testament to every believer that is born again, called the Church.
The universal or global Church must have a local expression and those individuals must come together in unity and stay in unity working together and fighting battles together. No believer is called to be independent and do his own thing. Many today say they are part of the global Church but don’t belong to a specific local expression of Church, this kind of isolation will get them into trouble.
The Church is to equip, train, coach believers to engage in the battle of bringing God’s kingdom to earth and rescue lost souls.
2- We have been given powerful weapons for us to use.
II Corinthians 10:3-6 NKJV
“For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, and being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled.”
God’s Arsenal:
-The Name of Jesus
-The blood of Jesus
-The Word of God
-Praise and Worship
-Spirit language
3 gates to keep guard
-Eye gate
-Ear gate
-Mouth gate
Watch carefully and stay alert what you allow to come in and out those gates.
If you don’t push from where you are to where you want to be with Jesus you will settle for 2nd, 3rd, 4th best.
Many have a relationship with Jesus but they have given up fighting and winning every time and they say: “oh well, you win some and you loose some.” This is not what the Bible says.
“Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place.”
II Corinthians 2:14 NKJV
“But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
I Corinthians 15:57 NKJV
3- The Weapon of Praise
Sounds are important. In a Winning team there will be shouts, jumps, dances, lots of joyous noises. But the Loosing team will go silent or will complain and curse.
Praise was established before the world began. God doesn’t loose power if people don’t worship Him but we do.
Praise is the higher level of faith
Hebrews 11:1 NKJV
“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”
You can sound things that are not as if they were.
For example, if you begin to give praise in the middle of a time you feel you are loosing and sing the way you will sound as if you already won, then the Victory will be yours.
Praise is a force field around your lives that cause you to be invincible to defeat, you are victorious regardless what is going on around you.
Proverbs 27:21 AMP
“The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold [to separate the impurities of the metal], And each is tested by the praise given to him [and his response to it, whether humble or proud].”
What do you boast in? What do you praise in hard times?
Feelings make you say things that are wrong, you cannot base yourself on your feelings, but who you are and your position.
The devil knows if he can get you to sound the problem, he’ll keep you in the problem. LOOP
The way you sound will affect your position.
You must get in the realm of heaven where there is no pain, no tears, no suffering, no stress, no anxiety or depression
Luke 6:43-44 TPT
““You’ll never find choice fruit hanging on a bad, unhealthy tree. And rotten fruit doesn’t hang on a good, healthy tree. Every tree will be revealed by the quality of fruit that it produces. You will never pick figs or grapes from thorn trees. People are known in this same way. Out of the virtue stored in their hearts, good and upright people will produce good fruit. Likewise, out of the evil hidden in their hearts, evil ones will produce what is evil. For the overflow of what has been stored in your heart will be seen by your fruit and will be heard in your words.”
Opposite Sounds cancels victory, it’s like Writing a cheque and then tearing it up.
Stay in the loop of Victory.
4- We fight from a high position
Ephesians 2:4-7 NKJV
But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), 6 and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
We have been given through the Blood of Jesus a License to fly in high places. We sit in high places with Jesus.
Praise is for every believer not just for those who know how to sing or play an instrument.
“But You are holy, O You who are enthroned in [the holy place where] the praises of Israel [are offered].”
Psalms 22:3 AMP
I Peter 2:9 NKJV
“But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;”
Planes don’t break gravity but they operate in a higher level, in the law of lift.
Lift is initiated by propulsion, cruse power will not lift up a plane.
A kite will not fly high unless the person runs and pushes it higher.
It is not consider praise unless you do it in the maximum energy
There is No difference between praise and worship
Praise is the sound of victory
Worship is the sound of submission
Praise and Worship is not something you do but who you are.
“But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.””
John 4:23-24 NKJV
Psalms 104:33-35 TPT
“I will sing my song to the Lord as long as I live! Every day I will sing my praises to God. May you be pleased with every sweet thought I have about you, for you are the source of my joy and gladness. Now, let all the sinners be swept from the earth. But I will keep on praising you, my Lord, with all that is within me. My joyous, blissful shouts of “Hallelujah” are all because of you!”
Karina Maile