Surviving the Times: Pt 2 Covered in Righteousness
- Our Battle is Four Fold
- Principalities: Demons has ranks. Demons that are structured in rankings: Lead Demon /Subservient Demon
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- Demons that are over territories. The enemy loves territories, communities, states
- Certain areas of your life he doesn’t want you to get together
- Ex: Subservient Demon-your ugly, your short, not pretty, no one wants you, change your look Head Demon- You are not acceptable Defeat it: I’m Fearfully and Wonderfully Made
- Subservient Demon-They Can’t tell you what to do/ Head Demon- Rejection of Authority Defeat It: I’m submitting to my neighbor out of Reverence for my Christ
- Stop wrestling with the lower-level demons, and go after the chiefs
- God designed you to rebuke the lead demon
- b. Powers: Demonic force that cripples abilities, sabotages capacity, takes control, defies authority manipulates delegated influence
- Likes to manipulate with signs and wonders
- Likes to create fear
- Wants you to think you not valuable & God doesn’t love you
- The Devil loves to Bring Up your faults, and failures
- I’m not going to God on the basis of my righteousness, but Im coming in His righteousness. Who He is
- I’m Thanking God its not based on me, not me but its you Oh Lord
- Ephesians 1:15-23
- Ephesians 3:8-12
- Colossians 2:9-151 Peter 3:22
- Know Your Role
- Use Your Mouth (Quote what the scripture says
- Make It Known With Boldness ( Don’t be scared, use your authority)
- c. Rulers of Darkness: Devil loves and is a master of secrets, lies, and deceptions
- Rules in areas of darkness where there is an absence of light, and truth
- Some lie that has been accepted as truth
- He loves to torment you and keep you in bondage
- Paints pictures in your mind to make you think something is a certain way and in reality its not that way at all
- Eve & the Fruit / Jesus in the wilderness
- The devil knows how to come up with a scheme and a plot for every generation
- Every age has its own area of darknessConfession Breaks the hold and torment
- James 5:14-16
- Light will always dispel the darkness
- d. Spiritual Hosts of Wickedness in Heavenly Places: Demonic Plots, Plots and schemes that the devil is orchestrating to knock you off track, pull you away from your walk with Christ. He go after what you loves and what you like.
- These plots are set up to hurt and offend
- Planned and executed in High Places
- In the spirit realm demons plot, scheme, control, manipulate to put you in a place to worship the wrong thing.
- Orchestrated events that happen in your life that gives him credit
- This is a place of worship for him
- The devil stopped me, he won’t let me win
- The devil made me do it
- He wants you to give him credit
- Joseph Example shows in his natural standpoint he could’ve said God don’t care
- God has not finish writing your story
- Don’t close the book until you get to the end
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- Devil, you meant it for evil, but my God meant it for my good
- It was painful but it made me better
- I am able to Praise God while I wait
The Evil Day: The day when the devil unloads and aims all his guns at you and brings temptations, attacks, sickness, storms all at you at one time. Your whole world turned upside down.
God wants you to stand and not just stand but withstand all the devil can send against you.
Celebrate that when the devil sent everything (lies, false accusations, lost job, got sick, relationships broke, money funny, children turned but yet say devil Im still standing if that’s your best shot I still can say the God I serve is still better than anything I lost
Our Weapons
The Whole Armour: Every day we have to put this armor on
The Strength to Stand
- Gird Up With The Belt of Truth
Most critical piece because all the other pieces of a soldiers armor attach to this. We have to have a belt on
Key Components of the belt of truth
Truth Brings:
- Unconcealed Reality: Real thing that’s not hidden (The devil wants to hide reality, live pretending) God wants you to see who you are and what you are in
- Matthew 14:22-32
- You can’t ignore what’s around you God wants you to see both Him and the situation so you can raise up
- Absence od Deceit: Keep being tricked by the devil deceits
- Declared Absolutes: God has absolute truths, not situational ethics
- Scriptures about Truth
- John 1:14 Jesus is Truth
- John 3:21 Truth Brings Light. Darkness must flee (My whole job is to get you to believe truth)
- John 8:32 Truth MAKES you free. Creates Freedom to live and thrive
- John 8:44 Satan has NO Truth
- John 14:17 The world will not easily receive the truth. We get frustrated because people don’t life truth. You can see the things of God until you open your eyes to Him. His thoughts are not like your thoughts
- John 16:13 The Holy Spirit will guide us into all truth. Stop listening to what people says about you and hear what God has to say about you. He will lead you to the revelation of what you need to hear. Things you once couldn’t handle
- John 17:17 The truth sanctifies you. It cleanses you, washes you. Any strong hold is rooted in a place that’s not sanctified in truth. We like to look clean, but you have to get washed. You are more than a conquer, a you have a plan and future prepared for your life. If your still struggling with the same issue from 5 years ago IS YOU
- 1 Peter 1:22 Obeying the truth purifies your soul. How? Get the truth and obey it. This is how we win. Get this and nothing the devil brings will win
- 7 Principles of Truth
- Design and Purpose: God created you to make an impact. (Everything in our lives shapes a permits by Gods Design) if he allowed it something good gonna come out of it
- Psalm 139:13-18a
- Romans 8:28
- Authority: We all have to submit to somebody. When you fight authority your fighting God (children disobeying, wife not submitting, husband not listening)
- Hebrews 13:7
- Hebrews 13:17
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- 4 Primary Authorities (Submission: Do what is asked of You)
- Family
- Ephesians 5:21-33
- 1 Peter 3:1-6
- Ephesians 6:1-4 (child: obey, adult: honor)
- Employer
- 1 Peter 2:18
- 1 Timothy 6:1-3
- Titus 2:9-10
- Government (as long as its not creating scriptural harm immoral or unscriptural)
- Rom 13:1-7
- 1 Peter 2:13-17
- Church
- Hebrews 13:17
- 1 Thessalonians 5:12-13
- 1 Timothy 5:17
- Responsibility
- Romans 14:12
- Matthew 12:36
- We must give an account to God for our words and deeds (we will have to answer for what we do)
- Ownership
- We don’t own anything. Everything belongs to God. Its His will take the stress off
- Psalm 24:1
- 1 Corinthians 6:19-20
- Suffering
- We will have seasons of suffering (God does not care about your happy)
- 1 Peter 2:18-24
- 1 Peter 5:10
- 1 Peter 4: 12 No suffering, No reining
- Freedom
- God Provides true freedom
- Devil wants you to think you will never be free and delivered
- John 8:36
- Success
- True Success is when we are doing and being what God has called us to do and be
- Psalm 1:2-3
- Joshua 1:8
Everything in life is attached to the truths. The devil wants to violate it God wants to Manifest it.
These are the seven parts to the belt of truth. Everything else attaches to this belt and hinges off one f these truths. Satan lie will be spun off of this truth
- The Breastplate of Righteousness
The Breastplate covers the vital organs (Guard your heart)
Righteousness means to be in right standing with God.
1 Thessalonians 5:8 But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet.
2 Components that are needed:
- Faith- Right standing before God
- Faith is the ability to trust God and know HE will deliver
- Believe deep in your heart somehow, someway God is going to make away
- He is Going to Bring me out (Believe God)
- Romans 4:3-5 Accounts for Righteousness
- Hebrews 11:6 Without faith you cannot please God
- Why would you doubt God brought you this far and think He wouldn’t bring you through
- Love -Right standing with man
- Love is a deep and constant benevolence
- We use love to describe a lot of things
- Eros- Erotic, Selfish, WHAT can you do for me
- Phileo- Friendship, mutually beneficial
- Agape- gives with no expectation of it being returned; benevolent ( I want the best for you, I want you to win)
- John 13:35
- This is how God sees how close you are to Him
- 1 John 3:10-19
- 1 John 4:20-21
The devil wants you to doubt God and hate people
A lot of people are missing out on God’s best because of bruised and broken relationships. WE have to find the place of Forgiveness.
Ask Yourself is there anyone I need to go get right with. WE have to defeat the Enemy
WE have to remember we’re not fighting the person were fighting the spirit that’s operating behind the person.
- The Shoes with the Gospel of Peace
- The Gospel is Good News Message which brings inward peace
- You can external turmoil, warfare but when you have the gospel inside of you you have an internal calm that produces peace. No matter your circumstance
- God wants us consistent with knowing He wont let you go through nothing He has not equipped you to handle. That’s Good News
- Romans 5:1
- We have Peace with God Through Faith`
- Without a relationship with Jesus Christ, they are empty inside. There’s avoid
- Philippians 4:7
- God’s peace goes beyond human understanding
- How can you be calm and all hell is breaking loose? Can’t Be Explained
- Feet Shod- Think about the things you could not do if you couldn’t stand
- That which you stand on
- That which empowers you to move forward (make progress)
- Shod- bind under, strapping it down, to tie down tightly and not easily removed
- Strap the gospel of peace on your life so that no matter where you going, where your standing, you are tied down.
- Get delivered from the flip flop mentality:
- Why do people wear flipflops?
- comfortable, slide on and off easy
- Slide out of lifestyle real quick so they can go jump into something else
- Paul Says take the gospel and strap it down on you. No matter where you go, you cany easily jump out of it
- When you go somewhere you don’t suppose to be you will stand out like a sore thumb
- 2 Timothy 2:15
- Preparation
- Prepared, Made Ready (Practice)
- Equipped on the inside
- I’m ready to deal with and bring someone to the understanding of God’s love
- 1 Peter 3:15
- Ready-Fit, I’ve been in training
- Always- Do it with Regularity
- Answer- Speak for yourself, your own testimony, own story
- Meekness- Mild and Humble (not rudeness and arrogance
- Fear- Alarm, fright and terror ( I don’t want to see you go to hell) 1 Thessalonians The House is on Fire, I’m trying to save your life
- Know Romans Road:
- Romans 3:23,
- Romans 6:23
- Romans 5:8
- Romans 5:12
- Romans 10:9-13