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Date:     2025-04-25
Title:    Undefeated Battleground Part 3
Speaker:  Undefeated Battleground
Church:   What Do You Mean By
Type:     Church Service
Duration: 2h 0m
Language: English
URL:      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6Or3eoWlfw
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In that beautiful home where we'll never more roam. We shall be in the sweet by and [Music] by. Happy praise to the king through eternity. Sing is a land where we never shall die. will never grow. Never grow in a land where we'll never grow. We'll never grow. will never grow old in a land where we'll never grow. Amen. Let's pray before we sing that last verse. Father, we commend our spirits into your hands tonight, Lord. We thank you, Lord, to be here. We thank you Lord for the opportunity Lord to hear your word and to come together Lord as brothers and sisters in Christ Father to to place our faith with our with our partner and our family's faith together Lord God that we might please you Lord and that heavenly revelations might come to us tonight. Father we thank you for the healing you've given us all these years. We thank you for the direction Lord God and for the sound mind. We pray now, Lord God, that you'd bless, you'd anoint, and that you would just be pleased with this service, Lord, as we give our praises to you, Lord, would you come down and give your word to us? In Jesus' name we pray. When our work here is done and the life crown is one and our trles and trials are all our sorrow will end and our voicees will blend. and with the love ones who've gone on before. Amen. Do you believe that this evening? will never grow. Never grow old in a land where we'll never grow. Never grow. Never grow. In a land where we'll never grow old. You know what the blood of Christ does to confess sin? Did you ever take your woman? Could you imagine a wash tub full of bleach? Take a little eye dropper full of ink. You drop it in this ink down into this wash tub full of bleach. What happens to the ink? The ink becomes bleach. What happened? It doesn't hurt the bleach a bit. It just takes on and becomes bleach. That's what confessed sin does when it's confessed. But in the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, it changes its color and it becomes righteousness. For you're willing to acknowledge it and accept God's provided way for you to be saved. Nothing like it, friends. Amen. And that's why we're here. It's because the mercy of the Lord took our dark dark blotted ink sins and dropped it into the spiritual bleach and it's just gone. Amen. So I love that. Love the Lord tonight. Key of [Music] D. In moments like these, I sing out a song. I sing out a song to Jesus. In moments like these, I lift up my hands. I lift up my hands to the Lord singing I love you Lord. Singing I love you Lord. Singing I love you Lord. [Music] I love you. Amen. Amen. You know, I preached on holding your profession of faith. And you know, how do you do that? Well, how do you keep a how do you keep a oil lamp lit? Keep putting oil in it. Don't let the oil run out. Let's sing that little song. Give me oil in my lamp. Who wants the oil of the Holy Ghost to keep it going? Otherwise, it gets very tedious, very tiring. And in our flesh, that's just what happens. But we're we're here to serve God. We're here to represent a kingdom and to to to go to that kingdom by faith in Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. Amen. Do you believe that tonight? So God, give us more of that oil. How do we get it? You pray. You ask, you sing, you listen, you walk, you walk by faith. Oh, give me oil in my lamp, keep me burning. Give me all in my lamp, I pray. Give me all in my lamp. Keep me burning, burning, burning. Keep me burning till the break of day. Oh, sing hosana. Sing hosana. Sing hosana to the king of kings. Sing hosana. Sing hosana. Sing hosana to the king. Oh give me all in my lamp. Keep me burning. Give me all in my lamp I pray. Give me all in my lamp. Keep me burning. Keep me burning till the break of day. Oh sing hosana sing hosana sing hosana to the king of kings sing hosana sing hosana sing hosana to the king. Amen. F still remember being in Chile, the great earthquake, saw a crowd of probably 200 people as the earth was shaking. They just kept worshiping. It's the most glorious sight I ever saw. And I thought, "Yep, my little daughter Ruth was just a little one. She thought the worshiping had caused the earthquake. That's pretty good." And and so I found myself saying, "Well, if I would die, this would be the most glorious time to die. This would be the most wonderful time worshiping the Lord and telling Jesus how big he was. And we can do that this evening. Amen. Maybe we can have our own little earthquake. You know, you get a little earthquake in your life. You start getting close to Jesus. All the demons in hell come after you. The angels of God will protect you and you will walk where angels dared to trot if you have the faith to do it. Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised. In the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness, beautiful for situation. The joy of the whole earth is Mount Zion on the sides of the north. The city of the great king is Mount Zion on the sides of the north. The city of the great king. Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised in the city of our God in the mountain of his holiness. Beautiful for situation. The joy of the whole earth is Mount Zion in the sides of the north. The city of the great king is Mount Zion on the sides of the north. The city of the great king. Amen. I hope you're feeling better and feeling like being in church and finding out what happens. Pray for sister Jenny's grandpa. He's fishing. He fell and broke his neck and I think a vertebrae or two cracked or something, but his face looks all mashed up, but he looked happy and he said he's all going to be well. And I think he they sent him home to recuperate. So let's be remembering that you know you get a little older and the balance just is a little different but the faith is not. So let's remember him. Also please pray for sister Suzanne. She's coming home from Georgia today that the Lord would strengthen her. Amen. I'm sure brother Jimmy's missing her. Maybe she just got back or something. I don't know. Also a praise report. Sister Jenny got a job. Guess Walmart hired her. So we'll be praying for Walmart. Just happy for her. That's real good in the prayer. Mom and dad as they are home. Okay, let's remember them also from Sister Jenny. Any other prayer requests? Just raise your hand to the Lord. Many times I raise my hand to the Lord and just remember lost loved ones in my family that they'd come to know Jesus Christ and this message so that they could be free to believe all the word and just walk out free from sin. And the revelation of just how free we are is for us. And I want it to be for all my family. I don't want anybody for that matter. If an enemy comes through the door, I'll be happy to tell them about it, too. Why? Because we don't really have an enemy when it comes to this. You want them to be in heaven. We want everybody to be Do you feel that way? That's very good because that means you're getting ready for the word of God. Let's um let's just take up our offering. Josh, you want to come up or and pray over these prayer requests again and take the offering up. Heavenly Father, Lord, we pray you please be with Sister Suzanne's sister as she's traveling, Lord. Uh, and we pray we pray you please be with Jenny's grandfather, father, who fell and he broke his neck. Lord, we pray you please heal him up. Lord, give him strength. We thank you, Lord, for the victories you've given us. Lord, we pray you please bless Jenny's job. And Father, we pray you please bless tonight's service in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Amen. Let's sing that little song as he's taking up the offering. Make me more like thee. Is that our prayer tonight? That's what I want. I want to be more like Jesus. Make me more like thee, Jesus. Make me more like thee. me. Oh Lord, I need so much. Oh, give me a heart that's filled with love and make me more like thee. Let's sing that to the King of Kings [Music] tonight. will make me more like thee, Jesus. Make me more like thee and give me a heart that's filled with love and make me more like thee. Amen. Do you believe that this evening? I still remember back in 1988 or the end of ' 87 going into a church, my name may as well have been Lazarus cuz I was dead spiritually, Sister Fay. Lost in sin, confused. I even backslided from the Catholic church if you could imagine getting that low. And through the preaching of the word, I began to hear Lazarus, come forth. Lazarus Cersine, come forth. Then also it didn't say Lazarus. It was Tom, come forth. I thought, "Oh, this is so good. I can hardly take it. I can hardly take it." I got myself to an altar. And I cried and I prayed and hardly knowing, so ignorant of God's law, had to ask a sister on the way up because they were saying, "Go get the Holy Ghost." And I asked that sister, "Is the Holy Ghost of God or of the devil? She said, "Why don't you go find out?" I did. I found out it was certainly of God. It was God. Amen. That's what we want more if you already have it and get more of it. It's like a good meal. There's nothing like this first two bites, but by the end of it, you're almost pushing your plate away, but just 6 hours later, you want more. That's the Holy Ghost. Just more and more and more. And God's willing to to give us more and more and more. Amen. Let's sing that little song just a minute or two. Jesus, I'll never forget. It's good. Go down to 1988 if you Tom Cresine. That's when it all started changing. Met my wife, met my savior, had a dream about my first living child. Oh, I had three dreams about the first one passed away. All was changing. Oh, dear God. But I just don't want to ever forget. Don't be a forgetful Christian because if you remember it keeps you humble. And when you're humble, that's who he reveals himself to unto the humble and unto those that fear the Lord. Jesus, I'll never forget what you've done for me. Jesus, I'll never forget how you set me free. Jesus, I'll never forget how you brought me out. Jesus, I'll never forget. No, never. Jesus, I'll never forget what you've done for me. Jesus, I'll never forget how you set me free. Jesus, I'll never forget how you brought me out. Jesus, I'll never forget. No, never. And before we sing it one more time, could you imagine if Jesus was right here, maybe the Apostle Paul and Philip and Matthew, would we be shouting and raising our hands up just a little to see Jesus? Or would we let the devil say, "Oh, I'm just going to keep my hands down. I'm a I'm a Roman Catholic. I can't be putting my hands up." You can put your hands up if you want. If you want to be free, hands that means subjection. It means submission. It means Lord take over. Amen. Oh my. Moses was armed with more than this than the staff when he went to Egypt. He was armed with faith and he trusted God. He put his hand up and his armies were winning. When that hand was up, when he got tired, his great his great mighty men were lifting up his arms of and and adding their faith to his faith. Start doing what the devil doesn't anticipate. Amen. Don't do just what he wants you to do. Do exactly the opposite. Amen. Jesus, I'll never forget what you've done for me. Jesus, I'll never forget how you set me free. Jesus, I'll never forget. Now I do four. Jesus, I'll never forget. No, never. Jesus, I'll never forget what you've done. Amen. For me, Jesus, I'll never forget how you set me free. Jesus, I'll never forget how you brought me out. Jesus, I'll never forget. No, never. I love watching YouTube and seeing animals get rescued. There's two different kinds of animals. One animal just stops fighting, puts its paw out or its wing out, people can or its fin out and they rescue him. The other animals, they're biting, they're scratching, they're running because fear has them where they don't understand that the help is there. And that's how the devil works. Keep people fearful. So, they're actually afraid of the very life preserver being thrown out to them. I bought a pontoon and one of the rules says you got to have a life ring with a 50ft rope. I got a 100 foot rope and I got a good life ring. Why? Cuz if somebody's drowning, I want to put it out to them. But what a shame it would be if we threw the life ring out to him, Josh, and drove our pontoon right next to him. They refused to grab on. Oh, dear God. Dear God. All right, let's go right to the word tonight. We're going to get David out here and just see what God has on his heart. Is everything clear between you and God? It's quite simple. Dear Jesus, I'm sorry for everything I've ever done wrong in my life. I plead the precious blood that you shed at Calvary. I plead that blood, Lord. It is the righteousness. And I believe, Lord, you can cleanse me and make me perfectly clean and pure before you through the name of Jesus Christ. That's it. You actually believe that. And God accepts that because you're not bluffed. And you got to believe it and you're free. I don't care if you're a bank robber. If you've got faith to do it and God receives it, you're not a bank robber in God's eyes. You're a Christian. And then if he fills you with his spirit, you'll stop robbing banks and you'll start robbing the devil's coffers and and and blessing the people of God. Amen. Do you love him? Let's all stand and let's uh let's sing uh Amazing Grace as we invite David out. appreciate the musicians so much. It just sounds so good up here. I don't get that opportunity often to hear everybody playing. And I I know God likes it, too. It was amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like [Music] me. I once was lost. David Cresine. [Music] relieved. How precious did that grace appear the hour I first believe and will God bless you. You say why do you raise your hands? Because I'm not here for a social thing. Sure it can be socially weird to raise your hands. Everyone's looking at you. But I'm not here to for a social thing. I'm here to worship the Lord. And the thing that I compare it to is the picture we have on there is Jesus carrying the cross. If he can carry a cross up a mountain side after the worst torture anyone's ever endured, I can raise my hands and hope people might see me. Well, praise the Lord if they see me. If they see me doing nothing, what are they encouraged to do? Nothing. If they see me raising my hands, they're encouraged to raise their hands because it's an act of defiance to gravity. I don't care that it's easier to put my hands down, but it's easier not to die for us, but he puts his hands up for us anyway. That's why I raise my hands cuz it's an act of defiance to my flesh. That's why. And I may look silly, but I'm not here to be socially looked one way or the other. I'm here to worship God and to get more from God. Amen. Amen. Let's sing. Praise God. Praise God. And don't worry if you raise your hands, Satan will get on to you. If you don't raise your hands, Satan will get on to you. So it doesn't matter to me. I'll just raise them and sing praise God. Amen. Praise God. Praise God. Praise God. Praise God. Praise God. Praise God. Praise God. [Music] Praise God. Praise God. Praise God. Praise God. Praise God. Praise God. Praise God. Amen. Oh, praise the Lord. Praise the [Music] Lord. So good to be here with you all. Thank you, musicians. It's an honor and a privilege to be here. There's nothing I'd rather be doing than this. This is my favorite thing to do. I don't believe that it's wrong at all. Uh you can be seated just for a little bit to say, "Oh, I have fun preaching. It's the most fun thing I do. It's something I enjoy." And there's nothing I'd rather be doing. I take it the most seriously as well. And you can have fun and do your best for the Lord. Amen. Brother Brandham said that when it's not in the projector. When even the weakest of sinners gets down to the knees to pray, every demon in hell trembles. And I and I don't think that that literally means you have I used to think that literally meant you have to be on your knees praying. And that's not quite true. But it means when you open up that gateway, that gate to talk to God, every demon in hell trembles. I got a special tonight I want to sing. Can you turn the air down to us to 69 or 68, please? It's hot up here. Turn this mic on for the guitar. And the chord is you play in G with a capo on the second fret. Praise the Lord. I'll just play just myself so that the musicians can rest because they do so well. You guys provide such an atmosphere and I've never sung this song before. So, I'll do my best. You guys do so much for us. Love to give back some. Thankful for our piano player Anna and uh Ruth on the other piano keyboard and Sarah and Josh. It all adds so much. You say, "Oh, well, you can't hear Josh yet." I don't care. Even if you just sit there with a smile on your face, you add so much to the service. Amen. Thank you, Josh, for starting the play. It's really neat. God can only bless that. I That's the only one of the only things I've done in my life longer than you [Music] have. I've seen a vision harsh and sweet of one who gave all he had for me. I felt the passion of his death and the forgiveness of his final breath. Now I can never be the same. My heart has been forever changed. I've got to live and love and give the way he gave. Now I'm giving my life [Laughter] away. Laying it down on the altar. Now I'm giving my life away. The very least I can offer is my all. So here I stand today giving my life away. No earthly price could be too great. No sacrifice too much to make. No way of measuring the cost next to the blood of Calary's cross. So if I live, I live for him. Or if I die, I count it gain. My life is not my own. But here from there I stay on. Now I'm giving my life away. Laying it down on the altar. Now I'm giving my life away. The very least I can offer is my all. So here I stand today giving my life away. Now I'm giving my life away. laying it down on the altar. Now I'm giving my life away. The very least I can offer is my own. So here I stand today giving my life away. So here I stand today giving my life [Music] [Applause] away. Amen. Is that your desire? You just want to give your life away to the Lord? That's what I want. Amen. I remember listening to that um Wes Aral song when we were dealing with Amy and we were wondering what would happen. But I know a God that regardless of the situation, regardless of what's going on, he brings us through. Amen. So stand. We'll be turning in our Bibles to 2 Corinthians chapter 10, John chapter 14, and and 1 John chapter 5. So you can just follow the projector. It's a lot to follow or it's a lot to turn to rather. Let's all stand as we read the word. For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God through to the pulling down of strongholds, casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exaltth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. And then John 14 and verse 13, whatsoever you ask, you shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the father may be glorified in the Son. If you shall ask anything in my name, I will do it. 1 John 5:14. And this is the confidence that we have in him. This is the confidence that we have in him. That if we ask anything according to his will, he heareth us. And if we know that he hear us whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him. It's such a beautiful verse. Let's just um I certainly count an honor and a privilege to be here with you all. Before I pray, I it's just an honor and a privilege and I thank you for this opportunity. Let's just bow our heads as we give this reading to the word of God. Gracious Lord, I come to you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank you for another opportunity to preach your word. Have your perfect will through every word that is spoken and help us to get out of the way to hear your word. Ask all these things in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. You may be seated. God bless you everyone here and everyone online. online audience do not think that we forget about you. Your presence is felt very much. One of my favorite things to do is after service I'll go and I'll check what people said online. So even though you're not here with us physically, we know that you're here in another dimension. And I look forward to in heaven when I'm in glory and people say, "Oh, it's brother David Cresin. So nice to see you." I'm like, "Oh, who who are you?" "Oh, I'm brother so and so from Quebec. I used to watch your service the services online. You know, I'm with the so- and so from Chile. We never met, but we saw your services. So, every little thing that you do, every you think that you don't matter, but all of it matters. And even if you just sit there with a smile on your face, it encourages me, which encourages you. We do our best. Amen. Amen. So, tonight we're going to continue the series of Undefeated Battleground. We're going to part three, weapons. Weapons. All throughout history, war has waged in several different ways. We went through how different formations of troops worked in different units and the inner and the outer gates, faith and doubt. But tonight, I would like to look at a very important part of warfare, and that is weapons. The definition of weapons on the projector is a thing designed or used for inflicting bodily harm or physical damage. A means of gaining an advantage or defending oneself in a conflict or contest something such as a club, knife or gun used to injure, defeat or destroy. And we know that we are in a war, a war for our very souls. And all through history and through the Bible, we talked about the inner and outer gates, faith and doubt. And I believe that Satan wants us to fight with certain weapons where when we fight with those weapons, we can't win. And God wants us to fight with weapons to where when we fight with those weapons in certain ways, we can't lose. Which goes across the thought of undefeated, meaning you can't lose. There's been different weapons through history. There's been clubs and stones that were used at first and then spears. And spears are very powerful. There's a story of a man in the Bible, one of David's mighty men, who killed 800 men on one occasion with one spear by himself. There's slings such as David used against Goliath. There's bows and arrows, which changed everything. You can fight manto man, but then they discovered, I can just shoot you with a bow and arrow, and that changed a whole lot. Then there were swords and the bronze swords and the iron swords and the steel swords and the different materials used in these weapons, axes and crossbows, and then armor developed to try to block all the slashes and the and the bows. But then they said, "Hey, why don't we charge in a way where we can get through the armor with these crossbows, siege weapons like catapults and trebuchets to throw pieces of rock against big giant fortresses or these big giant structures that carried men to where it would where the door would fall down and break a wall so that men could just charge straight into a city." Yeah. And then there was cannons and artillery. Amen. Where they used gunpowder and musketss to fight where they weren't accurate. They had to just stand in a line and fire in a general direction. And there was pistols, then rifles that function like pistols and gatling guns to to do something to get bullets to come out. Then machine guns, then flamethrowers and grenades and bombs and then nuclear weapons. But the Brandon said that it's not in the projector that Satan's got manned so much through the tree of knowledge to where we're just destroying ourselves more and more. I want to tell you another weapon. There was a project that America worked on in the 1950s after World War II. Just all right tonight. Amen. It was called the Project Sundial. And Project Sentile was the goal was a single nuclear weapon. Is this all right? So powerful it could wipe out all life on Earth with just one bomb. And not just wipe it out, but overdo it big time. It has the energy equivalent of 10 billion tons of TNT. And that's enough TNT if they stacked it to be 30 times taller than the actual Great Pyramid of Giza. It was so powerful, Thomas, that if you dropped this sundial bomb once a minute for 15 months straight, it still wouldn't be as powerful as the sundial bomb. Only after 15 months of dropping it once every minute would you get as powerful as this one bomb as they dropped in Hiroshima, the Sundial bomb. Now they discovered that, you know, it wasn't really a uh a good idea to create such a bomb. Thank God. So they didn't. Instead, we'll have enough nuclear bombs to cause everyone to die, but not one that can do it all at once. But there's one more weapon that I want us to talk about. An undefeated weapon. It's the most unstoppable weapon of all time. It's never lost a battle. Brother Brandham called the greatest weapon God ever gave to man. And that is prayer. Prayer. And there's an attack on prayer. I saw a video of a of a woman talking to a police officer in Britain. And he was asking a lady because she was standing on a public sidewalk doing this. Now, there's an abortion clinic over there. So the so this door is an abortion clinic. This is what she was doing. That's it. That's all she was doing. And a policeman walks up to her and says, "Ma'am, what are you doing?" She's like, "Well, what do you mean?" He's like, "The abortion people called us and they told us that you were actively protesting and protesting is illegal." She's like, "What? I'm not holding any signs. I'm just standing here silently praying for the for the unborn victims of abortion." And they said, "Well, good." They said, "Ma'am," and I've wrote this down word for word from the actual report. "Ma'am, are you aware that you are breaching the public space protection order in place? Will you move from here to outside the protection zone?" And she's like, "What do you mean? I'm just standing here silently just thinking a prayer." He says, "Well, why are you not willing to move outside the zone?" She's like, "Why would I need to? I'm silently praying. I'm just standing here on a public sidewalk praying." And this says, "Well, we're going to issue you a fixed citation order. We believe that you're here to protest." She said, "I'm not here to protest. I'm here to pray." She said, she said, "I've already been arrested for this twice, for this terrible sin of praying." And she wasn't. Now, it's one thing if you get all blatant and super loud and you cause a disruption in the public. She was she was just standing in place praying. There's something in this world that naturally degradates and says you shouldn't even be allowed to pray if it's against the popular belief that it's okay to actually kill the baby in the womb. Wow. Even in a public sidewalk looking at an abortion clinic. Think of it this way. If a girl was sitting there with a baby in her stomach thinking, "I just want to kill this baby." They would not only not charge her, they would encourage her to go into the abortion clinic and kill that kid. Yeah. But if you're standing there with no thought, with no outward motion, just standing there in silence, what are the thoughts that you're thinking? So, Satan is the ruler of this world. Yeah. I won't even hardly blame Britain. I'll blame the devil. Blame them for yielding to him. But that's just the devil in his works. It's the un We're preaching the undefeated battleground. And there's going to be two approaches to prayer. And there's going to be God's approach and Satan's approach. Remember, Satan's approach to what he wants us to do is 99% truth. But if we do it God's way, we can't lose. And if we do it Satan's way, prayer, we can't win. But I've always wondered this question. Why do we pray? And what's the balance between fighting our battles and letting God fight our battles for us? Good. Amen. Is it God's battle or is it mine? We're told by two things in the Bible. We're told that the battle is the Lord's and we're also told footsteps is possession. I don't believe that's a contradiction. The battle is the Lord's and footsteps is possession. The definition of prayer is a solemn request for help or expression of thanks addressed to God or an object of worship. An earnest hope or wish and address such as a petition to God or a God in word or thought. I believe that when we pray, we have a part to play and God does too. And as long as we do our part, God always will. I remember having to preach after hearing the news that brother Ed had passed away. And you know, dad asked me to preach on the Thursday. We found out that brother Ed went on on Tuesday and I said, "Dad, used to want me to preach." He's like, "Yeah, of course. This is the this is the pressure." And he passed away while playing chess, right, Sister Fay? And when you win in chess, it's when you move your pieces to such a point where your opponent can't move without losing and you declare and say checkmate. Y So God is always in the right place. Amen. So the question tonight is what does it look like for us to be in the right place approaching prayer in the right way in order to win every time? Sure. My brain works in extremes. I I don't want to talk about a nuance of winning sometimes and losing sometimes like no I want to win every time. Anybody else want to win every single time? Cool. Awesome. So do I. Is a prayer just something we do once? It seems like though sometimes we just pray a prayer and that's it though. I know that because I've done that. God has an approach for us to prayer that is undefeated. And it's not just to pray a few times a day. It's not just that. That's just 1 Thessalonians 5:16. This scripture is Paul telling this the Thessalonians in the end of his book, hey, this is the thing list of things that I want you to do. Rejoice when you feel good. No, rejoice ever more. Lord, help me to achieve that. Amen. Pray and then go on talking about your problems to everyone. No. Pray without ceasing. That means pray without stopping. Does that mean that we always have to be in a constant state of Lord I'm so sorry for what I've done wrong Lord would you I don't think that that's what it's saying in everything give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you now in order to be real balanced we can go what did brother Brandham say about it brother Brandham said God making intercessions upon your confession why brother kick them crutches away throw away that old stomach trouble go on out and eat your supper and get well amen believe him you got the greatest weapon in the world in your and prayer. Amen. Greater than the sund dial, greater than the atomic weapon, greater than this the the sneak bomb. All of it. Here's some time ago passing through a meeting. I was playing it back for the people. There was a woman's come through the meeting through this line. She had a serious stomach trouble. And the Holy Spirit spoke and said, "Thus saith the Lord." After seeing what was wrong with her, and she was going to make right what she had done wrong or something other on that order. And he told her that she was going to get well. He told her, God did. He said, "Thus saith the Lord." A woman right behind her, another another woman said, "For her, had a growth in her neck. The neck growth stayed right there." Told her to go eat her supper. She went and tried to eat, but she liked died, which is southern for she felt like she was going to die. Oh my. She got sick. Days passed. She got sicker and sicker. Wait, hold on. Wait, wait, wait. No. Thus sayeth the Lord, you're healed. And she's still not healed. That's a contradiction. But God's understanding is different. Yes. She said she went back and got the tapes and played it. She's like, I gotta make sure. Didn't he say, "Thus sayaith the Lord, you're healed." She grabbed the She bought the tapes. You know, you have to watch what he says. But when you hear him use, "Thus sayaith the Lord." Remember, that's not your brother. That's him. See? Well, I would be dared to say that. No, sir, brother. And so, let it be him and him alone. And see, even brother Brandon recognized that it seems like a contradiction. may said, "Hey, wait, hold on. It may seem that way, but God said it." So, it's different than when you and I say it. You and I can say something and change your minds. But when God says, "Thus sayaith the Lord, that's it." And she seen it was the voice of the Holy Spirit that had spoke to her. And then several weeks passed, six or eight weeks, and she just so bad with her stomach trouble, she'd try to eat. She'd just vomit. She'd try to eat again. Praise the Lord. She tried to eat again. And she tell going around tell everybody I'm healed. Why? Her husband and her children even laughed at her and made fun of her. Some of the neighbors made fun of her said you're going to you're going crazy. Said what did that holy roller preacher do to you? She said it wasn't what he done. It wasn't what brother Brandham did. It's what God did. God give me his promise and I believe it. See, and one morning after that after the family had gone to school and to work, she was washing the dishes and and she got real hungry. So she picked up a little piece of bread. She said, "The woman may be sitting right here tonight. I don't know." And so she picked up a little piece of bread with with toast and she ate it. One of the children had left it on the table. She hadn't washed the dishes yet and she was standing at the window and she said something just come over her and she got real hungry. She started eating that piece of toast. Usually would make her sick in a few minutes and it didn't make her sick. So she said, "Well, I I'll try some oats." So she ate some oats. It didn't make her sick. So she said, "I I really will go to extreme." She drank a cup of coffee. That didn't make her sick. She felt good. So down the street she went to her neighbor that had come with her had the big growth in her neck. And she run down the street and went into the neighbor's house. She was going to tell her what the Lord had done for her. And when she got down there, the neighbor was screaming and jumping up and down and carrying on. Said, "What's the matter?" Said, "My growth just left this morning. It's not there no more." And they had a great big jubilee together. Now what happened? Here's what happened. If God speaks anything, God is under obligation to take care of what he says. God can't come to your rescue. Rescue just said every minute. The angel of the Lord just can't get to you at every You remember Daniel prayed and I believe there are 21 days the angel, wasn't that right, scholar? 21 days before the the angel could get to him. He said, "I was withtood by the prince out there that meets of Persia, but he got to him." Said, "I heard you, but I couldn't get to you." What happened? The angel of the Lord was passing through that neighborhood confirming the word of God. That's exactly what's taking place. Don't disbelieve except Jesus. When you pray, believe you get what you ask for. Go right on testifying, praising his name. You'll get just what you ask for. Jesus Christ said so. Jesus Christ said so and not brother Brandham. Jesus Christ said so and not brother Brandham. Jesus Christ said these things and not David Cresin. The Lord Jesus said, "When you pray, believe that you pray. Receive that and you'll have it. May he give it to you tonight in a double portion is my prayer." I want to see an hour where there won't be a wheelchair sitting there. I could look to you, sure, in a little while and know what's wrong with you. But what good would that do? See, unless I knew you were healed. You believe tonight, uh, whatever's wrong with some of you, of course, now you say, "The person in the wheelchair, the people rally to see that." But the thing that they do instead of seeing it, you see, they find it. that why the person you wouldn't I say that person here is crippled or sitting in a wheelchair or got something or other well you wouldn't notice that but when a fellow says somebody got a cancer or something that's not going to live is going to die in just a day or two that's the person that a person in a wheelchair would probably live an ordinary life as long as for years but a man with a cancer or with heart trouble unless something happens to him right away he's going to die is that right so but God heals the sick he heals the afflicted and as Jesus passed through the pool there was nothing he could do about those things. Those people were crippled and lame in halt. He went over to a man with an infirmity made him well because God told him where the man was and showed it to him. And he went over and healed that man went away. And he said these words, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the son can do nothing in himself. But what he sees the father doing, is that right? That doeth the son likewise." He is Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever. Do you believe it? Then he is obligated to his word tonight to listen to his word and to confirm it as you believe it. Shall we pray? Is that true? Amen. Satan has an approach to prayer that always loses. Amen. I believe that approach is Satan even wants you to pray. But right after you say, "Lord, I got this back trouble or this headache and Lord, I I claim my healing in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank you for the blood you shed at Calvary. And you said in your word, Lord, that by your stripes were healed in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Oh, it hurts. Oh, Jenny, did you My headache could hurt so bad. And I even took Tylenol extra strength and I still feel terrible. Oh, Sister Fay, my back hurts so bad. That's Satan's approach. He's the most religious. He can pray a better prayer than you and I can. But when you're done, oh, it hurts so bad. He wants you to spend your the rest of your time, maybe it's a a problem that's not like a a part of your body or whatever, praying the prayer of worry. Someone said once that worry is imagining your life without God. Worry is praying the devil's prayer. We hear, "Oh, be in the right position and think of geography." I'm talking about a place in your mind and heart, not just geography. The three Hebrew children, Daniel in the lion's den. They were in the right place. But where is the right place? In the worst possible place. That's the the right place in Christ is rationally the worst place to be. Sure. Where was the best place, Dad, for the three Hebrew children to be? In the fiery furnace. Where is the best place for Daniel to be in the lion's den? And also, where is the best place for King Saul to be surrounded by Philistines? Where is the best place for God's people to be? Surrounded by critics and surrounded by circumstance saying you can't win. That's the best place. The situation is supposed to look impossible. I believe if it wasn't impossible and you could somehow get out of it on your own, you wouldn't need to pray. It's not in the projector yet, but uh Romans 8:24, my one of my favorite verses in the whole Bible, is for we hope for that we see not. But hope that is seen isn't hope. What's God's weapon? Prayer. What's Satan's weapon? Rationalization. Yes. The position you need to be in is the impossible one. Saul was in an impossible situation. And instead of praying, which I believe that he did prayer, he did pray, but he got the 99% exactly right. He was converted the way God said. Amen. He was converted the right way. He did Samuel's stuff the right way. He was in the right place. He had the right weapons for his men. He had the right provisions for his men. He had prayed in the morning. He had the sacrifice perfectly set up. But that 1% that was a lie that he believed what the Satan told him was his final percent of that 100% which was his conclusion which is I need to take matters into my own hands. I saw that the people are scattered that were surrounded. So, I did it my own way. God's way that is undefeated is praying without ceasing. Satan's way is rationalizing whether or not God's prayer can come true. Shadrach, Meshach, Shack, and Abednego got into position in the fiery furnace with full faith that contradicted all rationalization because of one reason. I'm not against rationalization. I think it's a great thing. But what I'm saying is that the rationalization that that that trumps all else is one thing. And that is three words. Can you guess what those words are? God said so. It doesn't matter if it's really hot in the fiery furnace. It didn't matter if Saul was completely surrounded. It didn't matter if Daniel was in the lion's den. God said, "I will keep you safe." And that's all that he needed. Samuel was waiting around a corner watching. What will Saul do when he's helpless? What will he do when all hope is lost and his only option is have faith in God or take matters into your own hands? Yeah. Pray without ceasing. Saul wasn't praying without ceasing. He prayed and then he waited for his rationalizing mind to rationalize the situation. They had no fear though of being in a fiery furnace or being in a lion's dead. Why? Because they had a constant connection with God. They rationalized too, just like Saul did. Except their rationalization, Dad, was through the word of God. Okay? They're going to put us in a fiery furnace if we refuse to worship the the uh the image. Okay? Will we be okay according to the word of God? Yes, we will. Okay? Perfect. That's more true than the fire kills you. God said so is more true than fire kills you. What is truth? That's God said so. That's that's truth. a constant a constant connection to God. Prayer is a connection with God where where your thoughts it's not oh dear gracious God I come to you in the name of the Lord Jesus at 9:00 a.m. and then by the time you get to 3 p.m. And oh Lord, when you brought the Hebrews to the fiery, it's like you pray the prayer, said Lord, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, amen. And then when the thoughts come back, which they do, of negativity, you said, "Hey, I prayed the prayer. It's already done. Doesn't matter what my symptoms are, it's already done. Logic will inevit inevitably lose. Feelings will inevitably lose. Money will inevitably lose. Praying without ceasing in God's word never loses." Amen. Amen. Well, you say, "What about when God says thus sayaith the Lord in my prayer and but I want the opposite of what thou sayith the Lord is?" Well, it just so happens that there was a king where God said, "Thus sayith the Lord, you're going to die." Do you know that prayer can actually change God's mind? 2 Kings chapter 2 20 verse one. In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah, the son of Amos, came to him and said unto him, "Thus sayaith the Lord, set thine house in order, for thou shalt die and not live." God had said it, thus sayith the Lord. Now, he's about to weep sore, but we sore. There's a definition of it. It says, "A profound and intense expression of sorrow, grief, or anguish, often involving copious shedding of tears and outward displays of distress." This wasn't a random prayer. This wasn't a business transaction. This was a sec second verse. Then he turned to his his face to the wall and prayed unto the Lord, saying, "I beseech thee, oh Lord. Remember now I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and I've done that which is good in thy sight." And Hezekiah, but he wept sore. He said, "I beseech you, Lord. Remember, please how I have walked before you in truth, with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight." He didn't even ask God to change his mind. He just said, "Lord, remember I live for you." But he didn't tell he didn't ask God to change his mind. He just prayed and said, "Lord, please remember that I've walked with a perfect heart." And he was so humble before God. Lord, help me. When was the last time that I went to an altar and I cried my heart out until God answered my prayer. Lord, help me. And it came to pass at before Isaiah was gone out into the middle court that the word of the Lord came to him saying, "Turn again. Turn around and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, "Thus sayaith the Lord, the God of David thy father. I have heard thy prayer. I have seen thy tears. Behold, I will heal thee. On the third day, thou shalt go up into the house of the Lord, and I will Adams of thy days 15 years, and I will deliver thee in this city out of the hands of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake." Amen. Amen. Should we change God's mind with a with just a very sincere prayer? Brother Brandham said, "Turn." Brother Brandham said, "The heart of God seen that and couldn't cross over as prophet." Oh my. Can you see it? Can you see it? What prayer can do? Change God. Yes. After God's already spoke something, that's going to be prayer can change it. Prayer changes things. Hezekiah was told by the prophet that he was going to die, put his house in order, for it was thus sayaeth the Lord. The king turned his face to the wall and began to whip weep bitterly and said,"Lord, I beseech you to consider me. I've walked before you with a perfect heart." And when he did, looks like God would have talked right back to the king. He's the biggest, greatest man in the land, but God has a way of doing things. He went back out and told the prophet, "Now you go back and tell him how humiliating it was to Isaiah after coming out of the palace to all the celebrity. What about our beloved king? Thus sayith the Lord, he's going to die." Walked out to the soldiers. "What about our king, oh prophet of God?" Thus say, "Thus sayaith the Lord, he's going to die." Weeping. Went out to the poor people of the gate. What about our king? Thus sayaith the Lord, he's going to die. So Isaiah is telling everybody, "Your king, he's going to die." He gets up there and sets down his little cabin. Weeps a little bit for the king. He's sad even too. But thus sayith the Lord spoke, picks up his scriptures and goes to read it. Here come a vision down. God stood in the vision said, "Go back and tell him, I heard his prayer." Here he comes right back again. All the poor people at the gate. Thus sayaith the Lord, he's going to live. Right back up again. Thus sayith the Lord, he's going to live. Brought him a little sack of figs along. Made him some puses and put it on the king. Third day he went to church to worship. Prayer changed from death to life. Prayer faith shall save the sick. God shall raise them up. There you are. I don't care what the situation is. Prayer changes things. Amen. God's position is that he is always in us waiting for us to just take him at his word. That's all he's doing. Oh Lord, if if God would just come on the scene, everything would be better if he would just speak. No, you were supposed to be the one praying. Why cry? Speak. Brother Brandham said in the Pergamian church age, he is the word. So when a spirit-born spiritfilled man in faith takes that word into his heart and places it upon his lips why that is the same as deity speaking every mountain has to go Satan cannot stand before that man. When you approach God I was listening the other day to the temp prayer preaching and so true he said when you approach God in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ it is the same as Jesus Jesus himself making that prayer. Jesus did not call us to be useless beings, junkyard dogs. I'm just a worthless sinner saved by grace I have nothing. No, he called us. Did you know that we are predestinated sons and daughters of God? Kings and priests. Did you know that the book of Revelation is the only book in the Bible that was actually written by Jesus himself? Revelations 1 and verse 5. This is who you are when you approach the throne of grace. and from Jesus Christ who is the faithful witness and the first begotten of the dead and the prince of the kings of the earth unto him that loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood and hath made us who made us God did the Lord Jesus Christ the baptism of the Holy Ghost through meeting him at his conditions and that predestinated seed in you being activated he made us kings and priests unto God and his father not junkyard dogs not worthless beings but kings and priests unto God and his father to him be glory Glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. So when you pray to God, you are not a meaningless speck of dust, a hopeless sinner that maybe might reach the father. You are a king and a priest and a son and daughter of God. You are the wife of the Lord Jesus Christ. And brother Brandham said that deity is not in heaven. It's in you. When you pray, you are not praying with uncertainty. When you pray, it's the same as God himself speaking because it is God himself speaking. Stay with me now. Stay with me. Brother Brandham said in the greatest battle ever fought. See his attack. Watch. Listen close this evening. His attack is what? Disbelieve God's word. That's his attack. There you can see the greatest battle that was ever fought. There's only two forces. Satan and God. And what is Satan's weapon against you? It's to try to get you to disbelieve your weapon. He disarms you. Let's let's listen real quiet now. Listen. If he can get you to disbelieve your weapon is equivalent. If he gets you to to believe that your weapon is not strong enough, he has disarmed you. Oh, brother Neville, I hope we never believe that. Oh, Dad, I hope you never believe that. Look, he's disarmed you when he gets you to disbelieve that weapon. When you lay that down, that finishes your fight. You're done. Hold that weapon. Don't you lay it down. Brother Brandham said in Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. Now, he can't do nothing to you or for you until you accept what he has already done and confess it. I'm not saved tonight because I feel like I'm saved. I'm saved tonight because I met God's requirements in his word. God is under obligation. Take care of me if I meet those requirements. Is that right? Well, somebody says, "I'm saved because I feel good." Drunks do that. Sure. The devil can beat you around and around the stump on your feelings. But when he meets the word of God, no sir, he can't come on that. Amen. And God brought salvation and divine healing so simple that the the weakest Christian can have every attribute of his life. Oh, I'm the weakest of Christians. Good. You're not supposed to be strong. You're supposed to have Jesus Christ through you. The weakest of Christians can have every attribute of his life. When Jesus, do you believe he was Emanuel? All that God was was in Christ. Reconciling the world to himself. Every gift that was in God was in Christ. And he had all those fine qualities in him. Everything that God was was in Christ. Need more water, please. Reconciling the word to him world to himself. Thank you. But when he meant Satan to let you know that you have this authority, when Jesus met Satan to let you and I know that you and I have this authority, he never used one of his gifts. He didn't just snap his fingers and make and just create food or use any of his power. Satan said, "If thou be the son of God, do a miracle here before me. Let me see you." He said, "It's written, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedth out of the mouth of God." He took him up on the pinnacle of the temple and said, quoted some scripture. quoted some scripture and said, "Angels bear thee up. Less than any time, dash your foot against a stone." He said, "And it's also written." He took him up in the mountain, showed them, thank you. Showed him all the kingdoms of the world. Said, "These are mine. I'll give them to you if you'll worship me." And Jesus said, "It is written." Every time he Satan comes in, he said, "It is written. My father has said thus." My father has said thus. And he defeated Satan on the word of God. But what do we do with our problems? Do we say it is written or do we try to rationalize the beginning, middle, and ending the likely doing job interview, situation, task, action, result of how to fix the problem? Do we say God said so and that's the solution? Or oh, I got to figure out the beginning, middle, and ending of this situation, task, action, result, and I got to solve it. Like, no. Jesus didn't do that. He said he didn't say, "Okay, in order to solve my thirst, Satan, I need to go walk outside of this desert and go to a place and beg for food or work and, you know, wash some dishes, make enough money, buy some food." No. He said, "It's written." That was his rationalization was that it was written. Every time Satan comes in, he said, "It is written. My father has said thus. My father has said thus." And he defeated Satan on the word of God. And every Christian in here can defeat Satan. Any place, anywhere, anytime on the word of the living God, say, "Thus saith the Lord, it is written." When you pray tonight, say, "Lord, I accept my healing. I believe it." No matter what you feel like, say, "I believe it." Jesus never did say, "Did you feel it?" He said, "Did you believe it?" not your feeling. He's not the high priest of your feeling. He's the high priest of your confession. You accept it, believe it, and confess it. The same principle. Come and get to the altar. You You could come up here at the altar, cry all night long, beat on the altar, scream holler, get up in the morning, cry all day long, beat on the altar, screaming holler until you get greyheaded for year in and out. And you'll never never accept have salvation till you accept what Jesus did for you and then confess it. Is that right? You've got to confess it. Amen. It is the rising of the sun 1965. And as he being the groom, you remember I said when we pray since we're God's bride, it's the same as God speaking. It sounds strange, but let me read what brother Brandham said. He said, "And as he being the groom, the bride has to come forth cuz it's part of him. And it can only be the manifestation of the fulfilling of all the revelations any others has spoke of the bride. It can only manifest if it does something different from the groom. It isn't the bride because she is flesh of his flesh, bone of his bone, life of his life, power of his power. She is him. God has not given us any less power and authority than he gave Jesus. We have the same power Jesus did, which is why in the word it says, "Ask anything in my name, I will do it." Amen. The only difference is whether or not we continue to confess it after we pray the prayer of faith when it's easy to in the meeting or in the gathering or in the place. It's easy to pray to God, "God, save me when you're in pain." But it's harder to keep that same confession when Satan offers the alternative, which is rationalizing, fixing the problem with being comfortable in this world. Right? Satan wants so bad though to get us just to pray God's prayer once and then for after that all after you say amen all your thoughts and words you tell yourself and things you tell others to be the problems not the confessions of faith in the prayer. Those lady that that got healed of the of the lump in her neck. She didn't tell people oh well I still got the lump. Brother Brandham said I'm healed but like I still got the lump. No, she said I'm healed. Not because brother Brandham said so but because God said so. Amen. Lord, please heal my headache. I thank you for my headache and I'm already healed in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Oh, it hurts so bad. No. Pray without ceasing, without stopping. Get out of position of doubt and into possession of faith in what God said. Oh, but God didn't say it. When you pray the prayer of faith and it's a good request, you I'm not going to say, "Lord, I want a Lamborghini and he makes it." That's not it. But it's a good request in good faith. You know what that is or it isn't. It's the same as God saying it. You say, "Oh, my back hurts." And God didn't directly say that, "David, your back is healed." Oh, yes, he did. Because Brother Brandham said that she is him. And that when a any son or daughter of God takes the word of God and puts it on their lips, it's the same as deity speaking. So, Dad, when we pray, Amy be healed, that was the same as God himself saying she was healed. And when we have conversation, oh, she is still sick. We are doubting the word of God. Oh, but the Bible doesn't say that Amy was healed. Oh, yes it does. When you say the words of God, it's the same as God himself saying it. So when you pray it, that is God speaking. Amen. She is him. Your words are not separate than God's words when you're speaking according to the word of God. If I say, "I'm healed. This message is the truth. I believe it with all my heart, and it still has the power to take away any any addiction and any power of demon power." That's the same as God saying it because I'm his wife. I'm his bride. I'm his son. I am flesh of his flesh. Bone of his bone. And when you approach God's throne in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ in good faith with the good request, I don't care what the request is and you say it's already done when clearly clearly in the natural physical world it isn't. As long as you keep that same confession, it is the same thing as God saying it. Amen. God above us speaking to us from pillar of fire. Let me explain. God with us. And a man called Jesus, saying, "The things that I do shall you do also, for I go to the Father. The things I do shall you do also, and I will not leave you comfortless, but I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another comforter, which is the Holy Spirit." God in us in the form of the Holy Spirit, where his voice is heard. God, what did God give us when he gave us prayer? He did not give us a request form to fill out and send to the throne, and God will decide whether or not he does it. He gave us his voice. Amen. That's what he gave us when he gave us prayer. It was his own voice. Brother Brandham said in the Leodyian church age, the Lutheran spoke for God at that time, but they organized. So, David, where does it say that in the message? I'll show you. And but they organized. And again, the pure word was lost for organization, tend towards dogma and creeds and not simple word. They could no longer speak for God. Then God sent Wesley and he was the voice with the word in his day. The people who took his revelation from God became the living epistles read and known of all men for the generation. When the Methodists failed, God raised up others. And so it has gone on and through the years until in this last day there is again another people in the land who under their messenger will be the final voice to the final age. Where is God speaking today? Through his bride through me and through you. Yes, sir. The church is no longer the mouthpiece of God. It is its own mouthpiece. So God is turning on her. He will confound her through the prophet and the bride. For the go voice of God will be in her. Yes, it is. For it says in the last chapter of Revelations chapter verse 17, the spirit and the bride say come. Now I'm not saying that you get to do whatever you want. But I'm saying that when we take the word of God and we pray like, "Lord, this situation's so dire. Lord, my I have cancer. Lord, I have this and I have that." And you know that God already gave you that victory over whatever addiction addiction it is. Oh, I'm addicted to cigarettes or smoking, whatever else. And you say, "I'm healed." Even if you're still smoking, that's the same as God saying it. No matter how long it takes, it's the same as God saying it because it's according to his word. You are Jesus Christ to this day. And when you say, "Oh, I wonder if did God say or did he not?" Yes, he did. When you said his word through your own lips, the children of Israel waited from a for a voice from God. That was the program in that day. The children of Israel under Roman rule waited for Jesus to speak to them. And us today, we take God's word and speak it. We're the voice of the final age, under our messenger, of course, any son or daughter of God takes the word and puts it on his or her lips. It's the same as God speaking. When God gave us the baptism of the Holy Ghost and he gave us the seal of the Holy Ghost, when we take God at his word, it is God speaking. We are the final voice of the final age. But remember remember though Satan also is this all right tonight. Satan has an undefeated weapon that is Satan transforming himself into an angel of light. And what is it? It's I'll tell you it's 99% all of what I just told you is the same of Satan's approach to it except 1% has changed. 1%. Praise the Lord. I got time. Joshua and Caleb said, "We are more than able to take the land." And the other 10 people with 99% truth said, "The people are bigger. People are better at warfare." All true things. They're better. They're bigger. They're stronger. Those were right things. But the only part that was wrong, Dad, was that 1%. We can't take the land. the the Joshua and Caleb's report and the other 10 spies was exactly the same except that last part which was the conclusion we can take the land. We are more than able. Footsteps is possession. Joshua and Caleb said, "Yes, all those things are true and we are more than able to take the land." Not because we have the we have the ability, but because God said so. Oh, you're rational. Yeah. The rationalization is that God said so. Footsteps is possession. Satan's completely all right with you and I, Dad, believing this message. God sent a prophet. Praise the Lord. Go to church, pray, sing the song, say the right things, dress the right ways. But what he's not okay with us doing is believing God's word without also looking at the what the world thinks. He's completely all right. He even will encourage you to believe the 99% of God's word. He just has an issue with that last percent. He wants that last percent, I believe, to be what I've observed in my opinion, you and I rationalizing God's word according to worldly understanding. Yes. Tech technically according to worldly understanding they couldn't take the land that was true but the rationalization of God said so said that they could according to worldly science no rain would fall and they were right that that was rationalizing God's word but God said it would so that was final according to worldly rationalization Abraham's and Sarah couldn't have Isaac but God said they could and they didn't wait for it to happen they bought the booties they bought the the clothes for the baby they bought the the crib they bought the clothes and everything else knowing that God would make it happen. Not because it made sense, but the part that actually made sense wasn't the signs of their day. Dad and mom, it was because God said so. God said, "You will have another daughter named Ruth." That doesn't make sense at what? 42. 41. 41. But the rationalization that old dad needed was that God said so. Even your mom with gallstones and terrible sickness and everything with Ruth being being pregnant with Ruth. Why do we have faith, Dad? Why do we continue to have faith? Because God said so. The rationalization of the world said abort her. They even said to abort me because I was born a month early. But the r rationalization of God said so said no, you will have a son. His name will be David and he will have blue eyes. That's right. Satan's undefeated weapon is to get us to have a complete rational understanding of God's word and the message and ultimately to find fault where we can. The last percent, that last percent out of 99 to 100, Dad, is the conclusion. It's what you do. That's why 99 to 100 is the last part. It's the conclusion. The the uh Saul had 99% the truth. They were surrounded. He did have his conversion, right? He did do the sacrifice. It's just that last percent where at the end he said, "I forced myself, therefore, and offered the burnt offering. Therefore, said I." because we're you know is your conclusion is that God can't or that there's this flaw or this flar this flar this flaw you can't win Joshua and Caleb had the same situation as Saul impossible odds impossibility of victory without divine intervention but Saul didn't consider something Anna he didn't consider that God had said so that God had said he would be all right he didn't consider that and if he would have people like, "Oh, I have nothing to worry about. It doesn't matter if I'm surrounded." Samuel said he'd come, so he will. And that was just as sure as the sun shining. But they both approached that last percent of a conclusion differently. Saul said, "Well, it looks impossible." And Samuel isn't here yet, so I forced myself. But that was a lie that he believed. If we try to rationalize God's word according to worldly training, we will never win. When we take God at his word and move forward, regardless of what rational thinking tells us, we can't lose. Amen. Once Joshua and Caleb defied the people, even though they wanted to stone them, they won because footsteps his possession. Once Joshua and Caleb didn't care what rational thinking said according to the world, they won because God's thinking is above rational thinking. Are you against rational thinking? I love rational thinking. I'm a very rational. I try to be a rational person. They said try to be, but I'm just against it when it goes against uh this That's when remember what brother Brandham said earlier. What is Satan's weapon? What is his approach? Disbelieve God's word. Doubt your weapon. Satan always rationalizes why the conclusion is that God's word isn't true and all these things. And the last person he'll say, "Yeah, God's word is true." And you all these things, but it can't be it can't come true because of these rational reasons. Yes, Saul, God told you to wait. Yes, Saul, all these different things. But you're surrounded. And that's the truth. It's just that last percent that was wrong. I love the way that the chosen portrays Judas a scariot. Judas says, "But Jesus, I don't understand. Don't you want my advice? I'm trained and I'm educated and you're doing it wrong." And Jesus said, and he's like, Jesus, why don't you listen to my advice? It's true. It's rational. He says, I never asked you for your advice. Then why am I here, Jesus? To learn from the king. Rational thinking isn't wrong. It's only wrong when it contradicts God's word. As I close here, if we try and rationalize God's word after our prayer, that is Satan's undefeated weapon against us. I prayed for healing, but I don't feel anything yet, so it must not be true. Satan's undefeated weapon is to pray and then rationalize why the situation is dire. Pray and then rationalize. You need to take matters into your own hands. pray and then rationalize why your idea instead of God's original idea is the truth. Yes, she is him. Yes, we're sons and daughters of God. Yes, you're kings and priests. But that little lady I I know brother Brandham said, "Thus sayith the Lord, you're healed." But you still have the tumor. You still can't eat. And I said, "It doesn't matter." He said, "Thus say that wasn't brother Brandham. That was the Lord Jesus saying, "Thus sayith the Lord, you're healed." And since God said so, I'm not going to change it. That's no different than when you or I pray something that we know is true according to God's word. It's the same as God himself saying it. Oh, if Jesus could just be here and speak, that would be great. He is here. He's in you. And when you speak God's word, it's the same as him saying it. Brother B said, "Dity is not in heaven. It's in you." When you pray and keep your mind's conclusion on that prayer and claim your healing or or deliverance regardless of rational worldly evidence, you can't lose. When you pray and keep your mind's conclusion after the prayer, ruminating, that means thinking over the negative of the situation, you can't win. There's different approaches to these things. What weapon will you fight Satan with? 100% God's word and faith and prayer regardless of worldly rationalization. Or here's Satan's weapon, guys. 99% God's word and that last percent worldly rationalization. One last scripture and then I'll close. Romans 8:24 as musicians to come. For we are saved by hope, but hope that is seen isn't hope. For what a man seeth, what is it? Why is he hoping if he sees it? Why would we pray if it was impossible? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. Light wait for it. Likewise the spirit also help with our infirmities. For we know not what we should pray for as we ought. But the spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. So spirit also help with our infirmities. We know not what we should pray for as we ought. The spirit itself maketh intercession. God, brother Ram said in a different place, God can't do anything for you until first you confess that it's already done. Oh, why isn't God answering my prayer? I'm a headache. You haven't said that you're already healed yet. Every time you say that you're still hurting, you give that p you give that power back to the devil. And you can't win doing that that way. Yes, I believe in taking medicine. I'm still going to put take Tylenol and I'm I'm going to take Tylenol and proclaim my healing. I'll go through chemo and proclaim my healing. I'll do both. There's one time Brother Brandon was there was a kid that wanted to be healed and brother Brandon took him over his shoulder, walked him into a drugstore, bought him some penicellin, and the kid was healed. That actually happened. And he that searchth hearts knoweth what is the mind of the spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints, according to the will of God. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. For whom he did for know, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover, whom he did predestinate, them he also called, and whom he called, them he also glor justified. Whom he justified, them he also glorified. What shall we say then to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? Well, what do you mean if God be for me? If you pray any prayer in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and you know that it's something God wants you to have, God did say that thing. I don't care if it's God, would you move on this court case? God, would you make this addiction go away? God, whatever it is, that is God saying that you are God's voice to the final age. He that spared not his own son but delivered him up for us all. How shall he not with him also freely give us all things? People have gotten upset with me. How can you be so confident, David? How can you be so without neuroticism? Because when I speak God's word, it's God saying it. It doesn't matter if it's me, if it's Jenny, if it's Sister Faith, Josh, or anybody else. When I speak God's word, when you do, it's the same as Jesus Christ himself saying it with the same authority. Even greater than these things shall you do, which means more. For I go to the Father, who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifith. Who is he that condemnth? It is Christ that died. Yay. Rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. Satan wants you to think that you're helpless and hopeless and everything looks terrible. That's when you're in the best place with God. When everything looks hopeless and terrible and awful, that's when God's working the most. And that's when we're supposed to take him at his word. What's his word? Whatever you pray, who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword? As it is written, for thy sake we are killed all the day long we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Satan's undefeated weapon is to get you to rationalize God's word according to human thinking. God's undefeated weapon is to get you to pray and pray without ceasing and live God's word and claim your healing and deliverance even if and especially when nothing naturally changes after your prayer. to make your rationalization that God said so. And that's more rationalization than all the rationalizations the world has to offer. Oh, but David, my back still hurts, but God said I'm healed. There's no scripture directly saying that you're healed. When I pray that I'm healed, that's the same as scripture. It's the same as God's word when it's according to his word. And that settles it. As long as that is your approach to the weapon of prayer, you can't lose. But as long as your approach to prayer is to rationalize the completion of results, you can't win. What will your approach and my approach be to the undefeated weapon that God gave to us, which is prayer? God bless you. [Music] [Music] Can you say amen to the word of the Lord? I know for sure if you go into a game expecting to lose, pretty much you'll lose every time. But if you go in as a winner, if you go in with faith, oh, you're so much better off than going in with doubt. I think we ought to believe that we're more than junkyard dogs sooner or later. We have to believe that through the blood of Jesus Christ, we are sons and daughters of God. Amen. I don't think we'd ever get the Holy Ghost if we constantly say to God, "I don't think I have it." I think he wants us to say, "Lord, I receive it by faith and by your promise." I don't think we can ever be healed hardly if we keep saying, "But my symptoms, but my symptoms." I think God would rather heal us when we say, "By his stripes, I was healed." Amen. Well, that was real, real good. I enjoyed that a lot. appreciate his efforts and of David and just uh think we ought to just keep pressing on a little longer. Amen. Some of us maybe are almost done with our trip in this life, but I think we still should press on a little bit longer. Amen. Let's just have a word of prayer and we'll sing a song. I enjoyed that a lot. [Music] I won't cross alone. I won't have to cross Jordan alone. But let's just have a word of prayer. If God's spoken to you and just reminded you that you need to have more faith in his word, just say, "Thank you, Lord, for reminding me again." If if God has talked to you and just said he is the healer and he doesn't forget, even if it takes a long time after the prayer to say, "Thank you, Lord. You're always on time. be never late. Father, Lord, we love you. We love the word of God. We know, Lord, you are speaking to our hearts. You're wanting a people, Lord, that are not doubters, but believers. Lord, you're wanting us to be armed from head to toe. And Lord, you're wanting us to understand the weapon of prayer that you have given to your people, Lord, and how to use it, Lord, like a sword, how to to punch the devil and to slice him and to to push him away, Lord God, and to overcome him. And Father, we ask that you'd help us to be real prayer warriors, Lord. people that pray until people that don't doubt and don't pray according to their observations but pray according to their faith and the promised word of God Lord let us be that people Lord and pray till that go with us Father and be in us and equip us Lord day by day reveal unto us Lord your perfect will thank you Lord for the word of God tonight in Jesus' name we When I come to the river at ending of day, when the last winds of sorrow have blown, there will be waiting to show me the way. I won't have to cross Jordan [Music] alone. I won't have to Jordan alone. Jesus died all my sins toone. [Music] When the darkness I see, you'll be waiting for me. I won't have to cross Jordan alone. God bless you all. You dismiss in the name of Jesus. I won't have to cross Jordan [Music] alone. Jesus died all my sins to atone. [Music] When the darkness I see, he'll be waiting for me. I won't have to cross Jordan alone. God bless and keep you this evening in Jesus name. [Music]