The Way Church Podcast

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Second Chronicles, chapter number 20.

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I'll read a few verses in your hearing this morning. Skip around a little bit. Second Chronicles, chapter number 20. Starting at verse one. And it came to pass after this also the children of Moab, the children of Ammon, with them other besides the Amorites came, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.

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Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat, saying, there cometh a great multitude against thee from the behind the sea on the side of Syria. Verse 3. And Jehoshaphat feared and set himself to seek the Lord and to proclaim a fast throughout all Judah. Judah gathered themselves together and asked help of the Lord. Even out of the cities of Judah they came to seek the Lord.

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If we drop down to verse 14.

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Then upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, came the Spirit of the Lord in the midst of the congregation. Verse 15. And he said, hearken ye all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, thou King Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the Lord unto you, be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude. For the battle is not yours, but God's. Tomorrow, go ye down against them.

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Behold, they come up by the cliff of Zig. And ye shall find them at the end of the brook before the wilderness. Ye shall not need to fight in this battle. Set yourselves, stand ye still and see the salvation of the Lord with you. O Judah and Jerusalem.

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Fear not nor be dismayed. Tomorrow God go out against them, for the Lord will be with you. Drop down to verse 20. Verse 20. And they rose early in the morning and went forth in the wilderness of Tekoa as they went.

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For the Jehoshaphat stood and said, hear me, O Jews, Judah and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem. Believe in the Lord your God, so shall ye be established. Believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper. And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed the singers unto the Lord, that they should praise the Lord in the beauty of holiness. And they went out before the army and to say, praise the Lord, for his mercy endureth forever.

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Verse 22. And when they began to sing and to praise the Lord, set ambush against the children of Ammon, Moab and Mount Seir, which will come against Judah. And they were all smitten. Family.

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This is not the title, but this is a word for somebody. The Lord is with you. Somebody is in here. You think you by yourself, but God told me to tell you just now as I was reading this, the Lord is with you. I want to talk.

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I want to talk from the subject. This morning, as we Round out this series. Strategy over strength. Strategy over strength. As you take your seats, just tell somebody, the Lord is with you.

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The Lord is with you.

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Family, we've arrived at the final installment of this Art of War series. Throughout this journey, we have explored tactics and truths necessary for spiritual victory. We've talked about the enemy schemes and God's armor. We've talked about the power of prayer. But today, I want to close this series with something that might surprise you.

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Here it is. If you're taking notes, sometimes the secret to winning isn't strength, it's strategy. Our victory in spiritual warfare isn't always about intensity, but it is about intentionality. Many times, our tendency in battle is to swing harder and to push through and to muscle our way into breakthrough. But there are moments in our faith walk where God says to us, this next move is not going to be a power move, but this next move is going to be a positioning move.

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Because strength may impress people, but it is only strategy that releases the power from heaven. You see, far too often, we burn ourselves out trying to push through in our own power. I can be honest and say, yeah, I've been guilty of that. But God is offering us a higher and a holier strategy than we can do and operate in on our own. Exhaustion isn't a sign that you're fighting hard always.

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Sometimes it is a sign that you are fighting wrong. Yeah, if we be honest, some, most of us were raised that if something is not working, if you are not good at something, you need to try a little harder or you need to push a little bit more, or you need to do a little bit better or fight stronger. But the longer that you walk with God, the more you realize that strength alone is not going to cut it. In fact, sometimes the very thing that is wearing you out, not the size of the battle, but it is the absence of a strategy. The enemy isn't just fighting against your strength.

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He's counting on your lack of strategy. This entire Art of War series has reminded us that spiritual warfare is not just about swinging wildly in the dark, but it is fighting with precision and with prayer and with power that doesn't come from us, but it comes through the one that fights for us. Tell the person next to you you're not losing because the enemy is stronger. You're losing because you're swinging without a strategy.

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In Second Chronicles, chapter number 20, King Jehoshaphat teaches us this in real time. King Jehoshaphat is confronted with a crisis, but instead of crumbling, he consults heaven. It's a crisis that he did not cause and he could not control. But he is blindsided by a triple threat of a vast army coming against him. But it is how he responds to this threat that makes the difference in the outcome.

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He models for us a masterclass in spiritual strategy. Family. His story teaches us how to win battles that we didn't see coming. Anybody ever had a battle that you didn't see coming? Anybody ever seen something that you didn't expect to happen but ended up happening?

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He teaches us how to win in battle we didn't see coming without burning out in the process. It's a blueprint on what to do when you are outnumbered and you are overwhelmed and you are under pressure. Listen to me. You don't need to fight every battle with sweat and stress. Brute force may win the fight, but it's only spiritual strategies that will win the war.

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Your victory is not going to come from you trying harder. It is going to come from you trusting God smarter than you've trusted him before. So let's unpack this story and walk through four strategic moves that he made so that we can learn how to change the way that we face every battle in our lives. When we get outside of these four walls and the music isn't going and the singers aren't singing, you won't have to face a real battle. When you get back on your job, you won't have to face a real battle.

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When you get back in that family that's unsaved, you won't have to face a real battle. And you were not called to wear yourself out, but you were called to wage war with wisdom. Somebody shout wisdom. So here's strategic move number one. Number one, you gotta pause before you panic.

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Pause before you panic. Verse 3 says, Jehoshaphat was afraid and he set his face to seek the Lord. Jehoshaphat heard the news that three different armies were marching towards him. His initial emotion was fear, but his first action was to focus. I hope you didn't miss that.

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He did not run and he did not react and he did not retaliate. Jehoshaphat's first response wasn't to build more weapons or call more soldiers or start planning a counterattack to his resolve was to seek the Lord. Yes, he was afraid. Yes, the threat was real. But instead of reacting, Jehoshaphat said, let me recenter myself before I face this battle.

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Here is the truth, family. Sometimes fear is not the enemy of faith. Sometimes impulse is because when you panic, you act without strategy. When you act on an impulse. You act without God's wisdom, but when you pause, you give God time to speak on your behalf.

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God will tell you exactly what to do. What am I trying to tell you? Oftentimes, your first move will determine your next victory. And a whole lot of us would have had different results in our lives, in some situation, situations, if we had paused instead of panicked, if we had sought God instead of operating out of our emotions. Oh, you're not going to talk back to me in here, but it's okay.

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See, he is not like some of us. Jehoshaphat did not pretend that he wasn't afraid.

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Far too often in the Christian culture, or should I say religious culture, we believe, or have been conditioned to believe, that ignoring our emotions is the spiritual thing to do. That real faith means suppressing how you really feel. But Jehoshaphat shows us something different. The text says that he was afraid. In other words, he felt the fear, but he did not let the fear lead him.

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He brought his emotions to God not as a sign of weakness, but as a starting point for. For wisdom. Can I tell you, acknowledging your emotions does not make you less spiritual. It makes you more surrendered to God. You're saying to God, I can't handle this on my own.

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I'm feeling this way. Yeah, I want to be able to tell God how I feel. I want to be able to tell him what emotions are going on. But I trust you, God, that you're going to be the one that I can drop my emotions off to and you're going to show me exactly, exactly what to do. Nudge your neighbor and say, yeah, go ahead, feel your feelings, but take them to God.

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Yeah, feel your feelings, but take them to God.

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Because your feelings do not have to lead to foolishness. I'm going say that again. Your feelings do not have to lead to foolishness. Ah, too many Christians operate on one or two extremes. They either ignore their feelings altogether.

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I'm not feeling this. Nothing bothers me. I don't have any emotions. Or they live on the other side where they're always controlled by their feelings and they're always in their feelings and they always got a mood and they always down in the mouth. But I am convinced that you may not be able to control your emotions, but you can control your reaction.

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I may not be able to control how I.

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And wisdom. Somebody say wisdom. Wisdom in spiritual warfare begins with seeking. The one who seek sees the entire picture. The one who sees the end from the beginning.

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Jehoshaphat did not pretend that he wasn't afraid. He didn't let the fear dictate his decisions, but what he did was he redirected his fear into focus. I hope you're getting this. The first step in any spiritual battle is seeking God.

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You gotta seek God. If you skip strategy and go straight to strength, you may end up swinging in the wrong direction. That's why the psalmist said, In Psalm 34:4, I sought the Lord, and he answered me and delivered me from all of my fears. When life gets loud, you gotta silence the noise of everything that's going around and say, I'm going to seek God's voice. I know we got a lot of voices out there, but I'm going to seek God's voice.

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You get that text that your job is restructuring before you are losing and before you start spiraling and posting on social media. Seek God and ask God, lord, what do you have for me in this moment? What should my posture be in this moment?

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Before I scroll, before I call, before I crash out? I gotta seek the Lord.

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Because that, brothers and sisters, is strategy. Fear may show up first, but wisdom gets the final word. Fear may show up, but wisdom gets the final word. I gotta get God's voice. In this situation, you cannot just feel the fear.

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You have to filter the fear. Don't just ignore it. Ask, is this situation demanding a response, or is it demanding a retreat to my place? Am I supposed to go to the secret closet? In this, everything doesn't require a response response from you.

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You create. When you create a rhythm of prayer, you are in a position that when the crisis hits, your first response is to go to prayer rather than go to the emotional side. Another translation of that third voice said, alarmed. Jehoshaphat resolved to inquire of the Lord. In other words, he said, before I do anything, before we talk about which way they're coming, before we talk about how many of them are coming, before I do anything, I need to stop and seek the Lord.

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Sometimes we confuse urgency with obedience.

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But Matthew 6:33 tells us what Seek first the kingdom of God. I want to operate the king's way, but I can only get the king's way when I seek the king first.

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Yeah, see, See, a lot of us want to operate the culture's way. The culture's way says, you handle it yourself.

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You got this? You go get it yourself. Religion's way says, ignore that you feel any.

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But I want to operate the third way, which is the king's way. I want to seek God first because I know when seeking God first, it is never a waste of time. When I invest in the outcome of what I'm getting ready to face. I want to seek God first. The psalmist says in Psalm 46, Be still and know that I am God.

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Sometimes we need to judge the be still.

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That's good. Somebody lift your voice and say, lord, help me to be still. Help me to be still.

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When you are hit with a major decision on your job, in your family, a crisis going on, the temptation is to move fast. Solve it now. I gotta get it now. But what if the first step is to stop and ask, God, what are you saying to me right now? Before answering the text, before responding to the email, answering the problem, pause and pray, God, what are you saying to me?

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Rushing may feel productive, but when you seek God, that's where power comes from.

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That's where the power comes from.

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The promise is this in James, chapter one, verse five. He says, if any of you lack wisdom, let them ask of God.

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See, the culture says, you know everything. What to do? I will be the first to say I don't know what to do. In every situation, I will gladly put my trust in God. The praise team was right on it today.

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They didn't know what I was preaching, but they were right on it. I put my my trust in God, the one that will never ever fail me.

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Here it is. Second strategic move number two. Let God write the playbook. Let God write the playbook. Look at verse 15.

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He says, this is what the Lord says to you. Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the battle is not yours but God's. Watch it. God gives them a plan that looks nothing like a normal military strategy. No weapons drawn, no surprise attacks.

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Show up, stand still and watch me work.

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The strategy makes zero human sense.

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But instead God sends this prophetic word through Jahaziel that he says, this isn't your fight. This is where. Hear me. This is where many of us struggle. We struggle because we want results, but we want reliance.

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We want the results, but we don't want to rely on God. We want to win, but we want to control the strategy. And this is hard to for us because we want control and we want closure. But God is trying to get you to understand this battle is not yours. This battle is mine.

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And some of us are dog tired, can barely make it. Not because we are weak, but because we are fighting a battle that does not belong to us.

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Many of us are missing it because we insist, insist on having it our way. But I have a news flash for you. This is Not Burger King. You don't have it your way. Faith isn't just believing that God can win.

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It's trusting how God wants to win. And if he says, this battle is not yours, you gotta step back and let God have his way.

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Watch it. Jehoshaphat didn't ignore the threat. But what he did was he yielded to heaven's plans. I'll be the first to admit, sometimes God's strategy feels like surrender.

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But here's what I found out. Obedience is the only position that guarantees victory.

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You will only be guaranteed victory when you are obedient to to God. That's why he said, my thoughts are not your thoughts. Neither are my ways. Your ways? Stop asking God to bless your plans and ask God, God, what is your plan for my life?

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What do you want me to do over here? What do you want me to do in this relationship? What do you want me to do in this job? What do you want me to do in this purchase?

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You don't need to understand it. You just need to obey it. He said, trust in the Lord and he will direct your path. This is the way I want you to walk. Walk in this way.

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You're trying to navigate that conflict the kingdom's way, and your flesh wants to clap back, but God says no. I want you to apologize first. Stay soft. That's not weakness. That's warfare.

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You're not losing because you choose the king's way. That's warfare. That's heaven's playbook. God tells you forgive when you'd rather fight. He tells you to give when you rather keep it for yourself.

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He tells you to rest when you would rather run. That is not weakness. That's warfare. The strategy doesn't feel strong, but it'll win every single time.

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When things start feeling overwhelming, even with myself, I have to ask myself, am I fighting a battle that I'm not supposed to be fighting? Because God don't want me stressed out. He don't want me overwhelmed. Am I fighting a battle that does not belong to me, something that I should be giving to God? Sometimes the smartest thing you can do is surrender.

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I told some people this week, I said, listen, one of the best things that you can do is just say yes. You can say yes now. You can try it your way and you can end up in the belly of a whale wrapped in seaweed, or you can just say yes to God. Don't miss this, because obedience is what gives your gives power to your position. When you walk in obedience, you can walk with your head up high because you'll know God's got my back because I obeyed what he said.

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My dad used to tell me when I was growing up, let them be wrong by themselves. Yeah, I want to be right because I want to make sure I have the position of power with God. Control may feel safe, but strategy is what is supernatural. Are you getting this? All right, let's look at the third stage.

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The third strategic move is worship is a weapon. Somebody say this. My worship is a weapon. Verse 21. He says this.

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He says, appoint men to sing to the Lord and praise him for the splendor of his holiness. God instructs them to send worshipers to the front line. Not warriors, worshipers. This was not spiritual theatrics. Praise was a part of the strategy.

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Send the praisers to the front line. Instead of swords, y' all go with songs. Instead of shields, y' all lift up a praise. Why? Why?

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Why? Because praise is prophetic. Praise is prophetic. Hear me. Because it announces what God is going to do.

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Before you see what he's going to do, you have to understand that your worship is a warfare. Psalm 23 or 22 and 3 says, God inhabits the praises of his people. In other words, God gets inside of the praises of his people. God lives and dwells in the praises of his people. See, some of y' all don't get this.

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Let me. Let me see if I can break it down. Watch it. See, when you read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, there is one consistent theme throughout all scripture. And that consistent theme is worship.

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Worship is not just something that is mentioned in Scripture. It is the main point of scripture. In other words, we were created to worship God. Somebody throw your hands up and say, I was created to worship God. I was created to worship God.

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Watch it, watch it, watch it. Listen. Listen, because I need you to understand. This man fell into sin because he stopped worshiping God and he began to worship himself. And the one that tempted man to do it was Satan.

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He was once an angel and he tried to turn worship on himself. So when you really look at it, worship is not just a part of the program. Worship is the heart of the entire program.

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Worship is not just something that we do for warm ups. It's not just something that we do before the sermon happens. It's not just a filler. It's not just an extra song to pass the time. Worship is what we do.

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You can have church without preaching, but you cannot have church without worship. Because preaching may get us here, but worship is what get God here. In other words, if we all show up and God doesn't show up, we're in trouble. But when God shows up, anything can happen.

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Let me, let me slow down, let me slow down. Because worship is what creates the atmosphere for miracles to happen. It is the doorway to breakthrough. It is what makes God feel welcome in a place. Can I go a little bit deeper?

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Do I have your permission to challenge your religious programming? Because I have to say this, and I want you to take this and understand it. Preaching is not the most important part of the service. Worship is the most important part of the service. We preach because man sin.

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Had man not sin, we would still have to worship. So yes, preaching draws people here, but worship draws God here. And if God doesn't show up, salvation doesn't happen. If God doesn't show up, healing doesn't happen. If God doesn't show up, deliverance doesn't happen.

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But hear me, when worship happens, when real worship happens, even before the altar call is made, people will throw up their hands and say, what must I do to be saved? People are saying, I want to be healed. Bodies will be healed and lives will be changed and chains will be broken. When worship happens, worship gets God in the room. But hear this, hear this, hear this.

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And this is why some people are losing battles. Because they don't value worship. They think worship is optional. They think I can show up late because they'll be singing for a little while. So I'll come in after the praise and worship just in time for the preaching the shark to start.

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But the most important part of the service has already happened and you missed it.

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But when you learn to worship under pressure, whatever battle you may be facing in your life, whatever pressure that you might have come in this building with, whatever sickness that may have tried to attack your body, when you lean in to worshiping God, God says, I'm gonna get inside your worship and I'm gonna begin to turn some situations around on your behalf.

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Because worship shifts the atmosphere. Praise confuses the enemy. Worship begins to remind your soul of who's really in charge. Worship is not just changing your mind and your mood, but worship is changing the moment in your life.

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The psalmist says it this way.

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He said, he said God told the people, he said, put the worshippers at the front of the army. The psalmist says in Psalm 149 and 6, let the high praises of God be in their mouth and a two edged sword in their hand. You remember Paul and Silas was in prison at midnight, locked up some People in this room are locked up. In some situations in your life, there are some things that are locked up in your body, locked up in your mind, and locked up in your finances. Paul and Silas, when they were in prison, the Bible says that they prayed and sang praises.

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And when they sang praises, the place shook.

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When you begin to praise God, there's some shifting that happens in the areas of your life that seem like they're locked up.

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We live in a world where people just want somebody to do it for them. We live in a world where people want somebody. Just give me a word. Just touch me. Just speak it, and I know it's happened.
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No, you got to do your part. And when God. When you do your part, God will do his part. He said, let everything that have been breath praise the Lord. When you praise the Lord because you got breath, God says, I'll get in the midst of that praise.

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I'll get in the midst of that worship, and I'll make some things happen that otherwise would not have happened.

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Praise is not your celebration after the fight. Praise is your weapon during the fight.

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I gotta praise God while I'm in the middle of this thing.

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Here's a prophetic word for some people that have some situations and circumstances in your life. I don't know who you are, but here is your prophetic word. God told me. He says, when your voice goes up, heaven will show up. When your voice goes up, heaven gonna show.

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Oh, yeah, some people got it. Yeah. I hear some voices that went up. He said, when your voice goes up, heaven's gonna show up. It's gonna show up on your behalf.

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Show up in your family. Show up in my finances. Show up in my body. Show up, God. Show up, God.

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Show up with my kids. Show up on my job.

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Yeah. Yeah. Let other people sit and look. But I'm gonna get a praise on my lip. Cause I need heaven to show up.

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I need him to do some things in my life.

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Let me finish. Let me finish it. Yeah. Huh? See, somebody understands it.

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I need heaven to show up. I need him to move on my behalf. And when I praise him, that's exactly what will begin to happen. When I begin to lift voice, he'll show up. He'll begin to move.

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He'll begin to touch it.

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Watch it.

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Somebody shout, show up, God. Shout it again. Show up, God.

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All right, let me finish this. Here's the fourth strategic move. The fourth strategic move. Obedience activates outcomes. Obedience activates outcomes.

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Verse 17. He says, you will not have to fight in this battle. Take Your positions. Stand firm and see the salvation or deliverance the Lord will give you. Somebody say, show up and stay in position.

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Say it again. Say, show up and stay in position. Now watch it. God did not ask them to fight, but he did ask them to show up.

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You don't have to fight, but you gotta show up. Because posture is a part of the promise. Some of us want victory, but we refuse to stay in position.

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The moment the battle comes, we want to retreat and we want to retract and we want to stop being in position.

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Faith is not always loud, but sometimes it's standing still with your eyes on God, saying, God, I'm gonna stand right here because I know you gonna work this out on my behalf. God didn't say, don't do anything. He said, stand. In other words, show up, be present, serve the Lord with gladness and watch me handle the part that you can't handle.

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The people still had to march. They still had to show up. But their faith was in the part that they couldn't do by themselves. It was what God had promised them. Sometimes spiritual warfare is less about doing and more about being.

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I'm going to say that again. Sometimes spiritual warfare is less about doing and more about being. Being in the place that God wants you to be in when he wants you to be there. I don't have to fight this battle by myself.

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Stand still. Watch him work. They obeyed, they stood, they sang, and God showed out on their behalf. What does this teach us? What does this teach us?

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Sometimes your outcome is often waiting on your obedience.

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Sometimes your result is waiting on you just obeying God. Not perfection, not performance, just obedience. Can I ask you a question? What was the last instruction that God gave you that he's still waiting for you to say yes to?

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What is the last thing that he told you to do that you have not done yet? Sometimes your breakthrough is on the other side of a simple yes. It's on the other side only obedience. Turn God's promises into reality in your life. What we have to do is we have to choose consistency over convenience.

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It's not about my convenience. It's gotta be. I gotta be consistent. Consistent when it's hard, consistent when I don't understand, consistent when I don't see the whole plan. Everybody say this.

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I must choose consistency over convenience. Because, listen, there is a difference between passivity and positioning. Positioning is obedience in action. He told him to get in position. Position is obedience in action.

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Your consistency is your positioning. Will you keep praying when it gets done? Will you keep Praying. When it gets tough, will you keep serving? Will you keep trusting?

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Will you keep loving? When it gets hard, when you will you keep position?

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Because God fights for those who stands with Him. God stands on the side of the person who is like him.

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Strategy, brothers and sisters, wins the war. The story closes with Jehoshaphat in an overwhelming victory.

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And they. All they did was follow God's lead. No sword, no shouting, no fighting, just a strategy, surrender and a song. Jehoshaphat didn't win with strength. He won with strategy.

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Because he understood. I got to pause before I panic. I got to let God lead me. I got to worship instead of worrying. I got to obey even though it doesn't make sense.

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And here's the result. They won without them even lifting. Lifting one weapon. You don't have to get anybody told. You don't have to get out of character.

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You don't have to lose your cool. You don't have to get all emotionally discombobulated. All you have to do is obey what God says for you. And here's what I'm telling you. You don't need more force.

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You need more focus.

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Power is not what's missing. It's just a better posture.

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Victory belongs to the Lord. What did I say?

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But strategy begins with you.

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You got to operate in the strategy that God gives you. The victory is on God. But if I'm gonna win spiritual battles, I gotta choose strategy over strength. Are you getting this? So as we close this series, I want you to carry this truth that God doesn't need you to wear yourself out, but he wants you to stand in position, show up and let him fight for you.

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Stand with me all over this place.

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Every week we've made a declaration making sure that we concretize the word that God is giving us. Lift your hands to heaven. Say it with a loud voice. I don't fight with fear. I stand in faith.

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I don't move by impulse. I move with instruction. I will not panic. I will pray. I will not collapse.

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I will praise. I will not fight for control. I will follow God's command. I'm not battling for victory. I stand in it.

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I let God lead while I lift my worship and I obey his word. This battle is not mine. This battle is not mine. This battle is not mine. It belongs to God.

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And I win not by strength, but by strategy. Not worn out, but fully aligned. Today I choose wisdom over weariness and I win God's way. If you believe that, put your hands together, open your mouth and tell the Lord. Thank you.