World Challenge

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I could take you to the mansions of Beverly Hills
and we can knock on a door and say, do
you need prayer? And they might say a lot of
those homes might say need prayer. I have a therapist.
Do I need to always pray? Knock on another door.
I say, I have a life coach. I don't need

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to always pray. Another might say I have my financial
advisor is taking mighty good care of me. I don't
need to always pray. Another might say I have a
plastic surgeon taking care of me. I don't need to
pray at all. They might say I have a chef,
I have a butler, I have a baker, I have

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a pool boy. Why do I need to always pray?
I could take you to the Silicon Valley and we
could go knock on the doors of the fortune five
hundred CEOs and they say, pray always. I invent things.
I make the world move. Why would I need to
pray always? I've got a trophy wife and I got

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a mansion on the hillside. Why would I need to
always pray? I got a doctor on call. If I
get the sniffles, Why would I always need to pray?
It's a little tough when you feel like the world
has offered you everything to feel like you need God.
But I have a suspicion here this afternoon, there's some
people in this room understand what it is to need

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to always pray. You see, when you are desperate, you
don't need a preacher to come up here and tell
you to always pray. You're on your knees day and night.
When you're needy. You don't need anybody to tell you
pray again, because you are always praying. When you're hungry,
when you're hurting, when you're troubled, when you're dependent, when

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you're down and out, when you're in crisis, oftentimes the
first thing on your mind and then your heart is
I'm gonna allways pray. I'm gonna always pray, I'm gonna
always pray, I'm gonna always seek the Lord with all
my heart. I've known what it's like to go without prayer,
and when I was self sufficient, but through trials and

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tribulations and family troubles, when my own son, who is
now would have been the fifth, sixth, maybe even seventh
generation pastor in our family, turned from God. He turned
from God found that he was stealing from us, found
out that he started to take drugs, first smoking pot,
then pills, then cocaine, then then shooting heroin into his veins.

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And when my own son, the grandson of the founder
of Teen Challenge, David Wilson's grandson was living on the streets, homeless,
purse match and crime ridden jail, visiting little boy of mine,
you don't have to tell me, pray always when when

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my wife comes to me and says, my son could
at any moment overdose and it could be the end
of his life. And she had this dream, she had
a dream that the Lord took from her my son.
He held out his arms and says, give me your son,
and she had to take our little boy, or our
teenage boy and put him in the arms of Jesus.

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And in this vision she had his arms had flailed
back and his head was down, a lifeless body. And
she thought it meant that the Lord was going to
take him home, and we were needing to be prepared
for it. And she said in this dream that she
turned around, she turned around and didn't know what Jesus
was doing. And then all of a sudden, he turned
back around and our son was alive, transformed, changed, feeled,

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And it wasn't much longer after that that my son
called me from the Santa Fe City jail and said,
I was in prison last night, totally dark in my prison,
he wasn't serving the Lord. He was ready to get
out of that jail and start using again. And he said,
in that dark prison cell, a supernatural not the prison light,

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snow flash light, a supernatural light came into his dark cell,
and the presence of God filled that cell, flooded his soul,
filled him with the power of the Holy Spirit. He
started speaking in tongues, and he called me and he said, Dad,
all the sermons that I heard Grandpa preach, all the
sermons that I've heard you preach, all the Bible studies

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we had together, they now finally make sense. So I'm
not standing up here as a theologian. I'm not standing
up here as a expert. I'm standing up here as
a desperate, hungry man who knows what it's like to
me the power of the Holy Spirit working in my life.

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And that's why this text is so important to us.
Will keep you, this text will touch you, This text
will help you survive. This text will help you stand.
This text will help you fight. This is no mere
little word. It's no mere Sunday school lesson. When the
Scripture says in verse eighteen of Ephesians, chapter six, praying
at all times in the spirit, because you need the

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spirit to pray with all prayer and supplication to that end, alert,
with perseverance, making supplication for all the saints. Now, if
you've studied scripture before, you'll understand that you can't just
take one verse and isolate it. It's written in a
context of a letter, and in several verses before it.

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And if you've had opportunity to read the verses as
we have been coming to this gathering, this spiritual emphasis week,
understanding this would be our text. I hope you've taken
some time to read the whole chapter, and I just
want to read several verses before we get to the
place where the question is at Are you willing to
pray always? And that's the title of my message today.
Are you willing to pray? Are you willing to take

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a stand? Are you willing to be aggressive? Are you
willing to have that effectual, fervent prayer of the righteous
that availeth much? And here's the context of this need
for prayer. Finally, brothers, be strong in the Lord, in
the strength of his might. Can somebody say amen to that?
Put on the whole armor of God, that you may

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be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.
Anybody have a schemer in your life, and anybody under
attack at times, anybody have cravings occasionally, anybody wonder what
the old world is like. I'm glad a lot of
you're saying no, but some of you might be saying yes,
because this is true. It says there's schemes against you.

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And if you're feeling those schemes, don't be ashamed, don't
be si, don't be afraid. The devil does what the
devil does. But you're gonna do what God tells you
to do to stand against the schemes of the devil.
Or you do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but
against the rulers and against the authorities, and against the
cosmic powers over this present darkness, and against spiritual forces

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of evil in heavenly places. Therefore you, this is you,
and I take up the whole armor of God, that
you may able to withstand in the evil day. And
having done all to stand firm. Stand therefore, having fastened
the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate
of righteousness and the shoes for your feet, having put
on the readiness given by the Gospel of Peace in

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all circumstances, take up the shield of faith, with which
you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one.
I love that it says the word all. There are
not some. All you can extinguish all of the flaming
darts of the evil one, and take the helmet of
salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the
Word of God. Then are Texts eighteen and pray, praying

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at all times. In the context here you see a
spiritual battle. This is not a luxury liner. This is
a battleship. When you met Christ, you got engaged in
a warfare. You switch sides, and you were no longer
his buddy, his partner, his comrade. You were marked now
as his enemy. And ever since you met Jesus on

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that precious day and the blood of Jesus washed you
from all sin, you've become an enemy of the devil,
and all his schemes are flailing against you, and his
fiery darts are shooting at you, and his accusations are
coming against you. This is the context of pray always.
It's not pray a nice Sunday school prayer, pray for
your meal. It's pray because this is life and death.

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It's pray because this is a spiritual battle. Win or
lose is determined on the man or woman who prays,
the man or woman who sticks with it. The man
or woman Like the early days of Teen Challenge, when
my father, David Wilkerson stood at the four forty four
Clinton Avenue, a four sixteen Clinton Avenue, and the young
men would come in there, Nikki Cruz and Sonny Arganzoni,
and they would come into the Teen Challenge Center, and

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they didn't have therapists, and they didn't have a curriculum
even at that time. They just had what one what
one residence said, they give me Jesus in the morning,
and the Holy Spirit at night, and the and the
Father in the afternoon. I just get Jesus all the time.
And they would invite them down to the with called
the altar at the front of the auditorium and they

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would do a thing, you know what they called it.
In the early days of teen challenge. I don't know
if they still use this word or not. It was
called praying through. You got a problem, let's pray through it.
You want to go back out on the streets, let's stay.
Let's let's stay on our knees until you pray through it.
You're you're worried about what your wife is doing. Get
on our knees and we're going to pray through this thing.
You're worried about your children. Are they going to reject

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you when you graduate? Or you're gonna go back home
to a happy family. You're worried. Let's pray through this issue.
Let's pray through. Let's learn again, my brothers and sisters,
to pray through our problems, not just to talk about
our problems, not just to wonder about our problems, but
to pray and pray and pray. That's why it says
pray always on that poster over there, to pray always
because we are in a battle. The battle comes. Listen

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to this battle. It's cosmic, cosmic forces in heavenly realms
that can be scary, right, because heavenly is above us,
cosmic is above us. But wait a minute, that's my
first inclination is this is not a level playing field,
that these warfare is above me. But the Bible tells

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us that Christ is seated far above all power and principalities.
And then it says that you and I are seated
with Him in those heavenly places. So if you're here
on earth and Satan and his powers and cosmic forces
are up here above you, well, then I want to
encourage you today to take your seat above him in
the heavenly places, seated with Christ Jesus ruling and reigning

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over all power, over all authority, over all demons in hell.
This is the where's this battle coming? It's coming from
a heavenly place, from a cosmic place. What type of
battle is it? It's this text here says two different things.
One is schemes, the schemes it's it's the word schemes
in the Greek is methodeal, And you know that the

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English word for that it is methods, the methods of
the devil. He has methods. Teen Challenge program has methods
how to run their program. Did you know that Satan
has methods to destroy your life? He's coming to kill,
seal and destroy, and he uses certain methods. One of
the methods is described in this passage. It's called fiery
darts boom boom boom, coming at you day and night,

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accusations mostly of the mind, you're not good enough, you'll
never make it. Why don't you just give up go home,
it's all over. You're you're not called. Like the pastor
said earlier in the earlier session, you'll hear these accusations.
Those are called fiery darts. When do these fiery darts
come occasionally? No, it says, on the evil day? When

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is the evil day? Can I? Yeah? Can I tell
you when the evil day is it? It starts on Monday,
and then it's Tuesday. That's the evil day, and then
it's Wednesday, then it's Thursday, then it's Friday. Then it's Saturday.
And you think, oh, Sunday's the Sabbath. I got the
day off. Satan doesn't take a day off. It's the
evil day seven days a week. And from whom do

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these forces come? It says, it comes from spiritual forces.
The Greek word there is cosmos kato, and it means
a world ruler, one who's coming out against you. Therefore, therefore,
that's where the scripture begins to change. It says, there's
certain things that you and I are called to participate in,

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and that is is get involved in the fight. When
I was in high school, a bully said he'd learned
that I was taking some kickboxing and taekwondo lessons, and
the bully said, I'm gonna fight you after school. Well
he was like sixty four two and fifty pounds, the
middle linebacker from our football team. And I was a
Sunday school kid. You know, I didn't know how to

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fight except few little things I learned. But I had
boxing gloves on and a helmet on and you know,
pads everywhere. But this was like the real thing. And
so he said, I'm gonna fight you after school. I said,
I don't fight. I'm a Christian. He goes, well, I'm
gonna fight you, whether you fight back or not. And
he started swinging. You guys know what a roundhouse is.
It's those really weird windmill kind of punches. He started
doing that, and I thought, man, and I was just

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ducking and weaving and bob and I thought, I'm glad
I was trained, and I'm glad I'm a Christian because
I'm not dead yet. And then I just I thought,
you know what, he's he's hitting me so and I
just kind of put out a jabb or two and
I just hit him in his nose and his mouth
and his eye, and I did I did the one
two combo one two three combo one to the ribs,
and I thought, I don't I'm not sure you're supposed

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to say hallelujah when you're in a fight. I was
a Hallelujah. I don't say that to boast because I'm
not a good fighter. I could get beat up any
day of the week. Monday, Tuesday went every evil day.
But but I tell you what I say that to
say this, You are in a fight, whether you want
be or not. Okay, you can try to excuse yourself

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or pray it away, or fast it away, or get
it counseled away. But he's going to keep coming at
you because he does does what he does. But the
good news for you, my friends, is Jesus does what
Jesus does. And in John first John, chapter three, it says,
in one of the translations I Love, it says, Jesus
came to destroy the things the devil does everything that

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the devil's done in your life. Jesus came to destroy it,
to wash it away, to cleanse it, to remove it,
to make all things brand new in Christ. Jesus A
couple scriptures tewod Corinthians ten to four, for the weapons
of our warfare are not of the flesh, but of
divine power, for destroying strongholds first Thessalonians five eight. But
since we belong to the day, let us be sober,

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having put on the breastplate of faith. Romans thirteen twelve.
The night is far gone, the day is at hand.
So let us cast off the works of darkness and
put on the armor of light. One Timothy one a teen.
This I charge you. I entrust you, Timothy, my child,
in accordance with the pro prophecies previously made about you,

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that by them you may wage the good warfair pulse
talking to a child. He's saying, my child. So so
we see here the devil's not looking just for mature
people to fight. He's not a fair fighter. He'll take children,
he'll take the young in faith, he'll take the day
one entry you know, through rehab, he'll take the day one,
and he'll start the fight. And that's why the scriptures

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are full of this thing. I chart pulses. I charge you,
even though you're a child in the faith, so to speak,
I charge you fight the good fight. For Timothy six
twelve says fight the good fight of faith. Two Timothy
four to seven says I have fought the good fight.
I have finished the race. I have kept the faith.
The reason I wanted to be here at this conference

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was not just to have another speaking engagement, but to
challenge you, to encourage you, to equip you to fight
the good fight of faith. When you can say, like Paul,
not when you graduate, not when you've been sober five years,
not when you've been in the ministry ten years, not
when you've been in leadership twenty years, but when you're
able to say on your dying deathbed, or before the
day Jesus comes, you'll be able to say, I fought

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the good fight. I have finished the race. I have
kept the faith. It's not starting the faith, it's keeping
the faith. And that's why I'm here today to encourage
you to do so. The text says praying. It uses
the word praying four different times, twice, the word pray twice,

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the word supplication when prayer doesn't work, you turn to supplication.
Supplication is like, Ah, help, help Jesus, I don't know
what to do. Prayer is you have a specific goal
in mind, and you're a target you're looking for and
something you want to accomplishment. But supplication is God. I'm
on my hands and knees. I'm in the desperate hour
and I need that breakthrough. It's a breakthrough prayer, and

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so it's saying pray, but it also says this, pray
at all It says prayer four times. It says all
four times, Pray at all times, not just when you're up, norton,
just when you're down, not when you're feeling good, and
not just when you're feeling bad. What does the Bible say,
pray at all times? Say one more time, Pray at
all times? Keeping alert, keeping alert? The word the original

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language for this word here is I think it's very interesting.
It comes from two different Greek words. The first is ah,
from the letter alpha meaning not not, so when he
says it sounds positive keep alert, but it's actually a negative,
keep from not. And then the second word is hypnos
Have you ever heard that word before? Hypnosis, not hypnotized

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pray at all times so that you don't get hypnotized,
because you live in a world that is hypnotic. It
will do you in. It will lure you in, It
will sucker you in, It will call you in, It
will the siren voice will whisper to you, come on
back into this world. Oh and they won't say just

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start off crazy, it'll start off small. Just get an attitude.
You deserve to have an attitude because the way they're
treating you that you may think that's nothing, but you're
being hypnotized to go back into the things of this world.
Hypnotize is the allure of the world. Hypnotizes letting your
guard down. When somebody were to hypnotize somebody, they do

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something to cause them to let their emotional and mental
guard down, so they could say, cluck like a chicken,
or run around in circles or scream at the top
of your head. And when somebody's under hypnosis, they do
what they're told to do if they fall into that trap.
So Paul is saying, you pray at all times so
that you're keeping alert, so you're not hypnotized by the
things of the world around you. That's why second Corinthians

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two eleven says lest Satan should get an advantage of us,
for we are not ignorant of his devices. He's trying
to hypnotize you. When you caught an attitude, when you
feel like giving up, when you want to throw in
the towel, it's not just you doing that. It's this
worldly effect. It's the Satanic effect of trying to hypnotize

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you and fall under that spell of the things you
came out of. You see, it's not just what you
come out of, it's what you're going into. The children
of Israel came out of Egypt, didn't they They were slaves.
They came out, Praise God. They went through the Red Sea.
Praise God. They had the Egyptians fall in the Red Sea,
and all their enemies were scattered and drowned. Praise God.

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Then they went out to the wilderness, and they wandered
for forty years, and most of them never entered into
the Promised Land. God doesn't want you just to start
your journey out of Egypt. He wants to get you
into the Promised Land by not being hypnotized by the
things of this world. There's an old hymn I used
to sing as a child, and the things of this
world grow strangely dim in the light of His glory

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and grace. And that's the only way to stay not
hypnotized in a hypnotic world, of the allure of materialism,
of the various forms of getting high. It's staying in
this place of being alert. Another word I love in
this passage of scripture, all the way from ten to
eighteen is the word stand, stand. And that's where I

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get the title of my message. Who will take a stand?
Who's ready to take a stand? You see, it's mentioned.
It's mentioned six times more than even prayer, more than armor,
more than fight, more than anything else. This one word
is it throughout this is laced throughout this whole scripture,
and it's this word stand, stand firm, stand, stand up,

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make up, difference, stand up, believe, stand up and pray,
stand up and hope, stand up and dream, stand up
and believe that what God has for you to take
a stand. But I want to say this, and we'll
close in just a moment with this. When you stand,
it's not just standing in your own flesh, it's not
just standing in your own willpower. Who can take a stand? Oh,

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I'll take a stand. Look at me, I'll take a stand.
I'm a mouth. I'll take a stand. No, you won't
take a stand. You take a stand like that, and
you're bound to fail. How do I know that from this?
Adam took a stand and he failed. Abraham took a
stand and he failed. Know it. Took a stand and
he failed. David took a stand and he failed. Jeremiah
took a stand and he failed. All the prophets took

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a stand and he failed. Peter took a stand and
he failed. John took a stand and he failed. You
can't take a stand in your own strength. It's it's
a stand of the spirit. Stand in the spirit, Pray
in the spirit, get rid of your flesh, your cardinal
desires to be tough, to make it. How well did
that serve you when you were out in the world.

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I'm gonna take a stand. That's the last time I'll
use Oh, I'll take a stand. Monday was the last time?
Is a Tuesday. I'll take another stand. That's the last
time I'm gonna sleep with that girl. No, I'll take
another stand. All your stands failed you until you came
to the cost of Jesus Christ and said, it's not
by my not by power, but by my spirit. Saith
the Lord James for Sevan. You resist that devil and

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he will flee from you. That's taking a stand.

Speaker 2 (22:19):
The Spirit of Christ lives in me, and he gives
me some holy ghost gumption to stand up and say,
I want to give in, and I want to and
I want to, I want to just let this thing
roll off.

Speaker 1 (22:30):
Of me, and I want to, I want to go
back to Egypt. But but but the spirit comes in you,
and he said, no, stand having done all, And the
other script says, having done everything else, it didn't work.
Now you stand, having done all, stand stand in the
power against the things that come against you. It resists
the devil and he'll flee from you. This is not

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a major warfare. This is not like Ukraine and Russia
that's been going on now for three months, or the
Afghanistan war that went on. This this is not like
the Malma I was fighting the bishops. It's not the
blood versus the crips. It's it's it's it's it's it's
you and the power of Spirit living in you. The
King of Kings, the Lord of lords, the creator of

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all things, and he's fighting your fight for you. He's
fighting your fight for you. So you stand in the
strength of the Holy Spirit. But what do we stand?
It says, and this is a word that's not used
very much in our politically correct culture. But we're not
just standing. We're standing against another word used six times

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in these eight verses. We're standing against things. We live
in a mamby pamby, milk toast, watered down, fairy kind
of church world where where where, nope, where people are.
People are afraid to take a stand. People are afraid.
What is what's the world going to think of me?
What's governed? Newsome going to think about me? What's what's

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the What's what are these people going to think about me?
If I say things that are against the tied of
the culture. But it's time for the Church of Jesus
Christ to take a stand and listen, we and it's
not just a stand for like, I believe in peace,
I believe in goodness, I believe in neighborly love, I

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believe in joy, I believe in all those things. We
take a stand for the things we do believe in,
but Church, we also take a stand for the things
we don't believe in. We don't believe in, and so
I'm against some things. I don't know about you, but
I'm against some things I'm against. I'm against Satan. That's
that's a no brainer. I'm against the evil one. I'm
against his his desire to destroy lives. I'm against the

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lure of the devil. When he calls somebody to go
back into drugs, i stand against that in the name
of Jesus. I'm against marriages falling apart. I'm against gay marriage.
I'm against abortion. I'm against I'm against first, second, or
third grader is learning about becoming how to become a transvestent.

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I'm against water down preaching. I'm against hang on guys.
I'm against compromised churches. I'm against being compromised myself again.
I'm against lukewarmness in my heart and my life. I'm
against the church being lukewarm. I'm against Christians who refuse

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to be against anything. We need to be against things
in our culture, in our church. But most of all,
the thing we can control the most through the power
of holdly spirit is our own lives. I'm against the
temptation that rails against me I'm against the desires that
that that come against me. I'm against these things, but

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I'm against them the same way. I keep alert, the
same way I stand as the same way I'm against
things in the spirit, not in my flesh. I want
to get in a fight again, I learned Taypekwondo, I
can get in the fight again. No, this is in
the spirit. We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but
against powers and principalities in the spiritual realm. And so
the fight that you're fighting, my friends, is in the

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spiritual realm. And that's why the Bible says, it's not
by might that I fight this fight. It's not by
might that I stand. It's not by my own power
that I stand. But you can stand against everything that
comes against you. Some of you were saying pray always.
You know, it's like I started this message. If you're

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living in the mansions of Beverly Hills or in the
in the Silicon Valley and the upper echelon of things,
you may not think you need prayer. But you and
I in this room today, we know we need prayer,
don't we. If you if you just started Team Challenge
and you got eleven months and fifteen days left before
you get through phase one. You need to pray always,

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right converse lee if you got one day left in
the program. Now, let's talk double portion because you need
to pray always. Brothers, you want to go home because
you've got a girl somewhere out there waiting for you,

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sending you secret messages and you want to you want
to give up and go, and you know what you need.
You need to pray through, pray always. Some of my
some of my dear sisters here have children at home. Oh,
I can't imagine that one month, two months, five months,

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six month, ten months, twelve months, I don't get to
see my babies. And you could want to say I'm
good now I can go home. But I want to
say to you, pray through, pray always. Pray. Yeah, if
you're if you're the first ones, if you just came
into teen channels weeks ago, I don't know if if
you've invited him here or not. If you made it

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through detox and you're here, you're still shaken. Pray through
all right, Pray through, pray, pray always, and then not
take that stand. Pray through, fight against the works of
the devil and then nothing that's good news. And then

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nothing can stand in your way, nothing can keep you
from the promise of God in your life. Standing with me,
if you would, speaking of standing, let's all stand worship team.
You guys are so kind to come back. I want
a minister to you here right now. Some of you
are in a in an evil day, could be Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.

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What's today? Wednesday? Do you know what? You know what?
Wednesday is? Right? An evil day? So so we needed
to take a stand. Some of you are some of
you are just in a place where you need to
pray through about something. You need to get that holy
ghostcumption back in your heart. You need to get that
fire back to Jeremiah said, there, if I don't speak,
there's a fire shut up in my bones. And we

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need to pray always that we get that fire in us.
So we're not that lukewarm. So we're not that compromised.
So we're not that ready to give up. So we're
not ready to go back. We're gonna stand. We're gonna
stand for him. Where's the team. Whenever you get a moment,
go ahead and start. And I want to just pray
for you. I'm gonna don't. I don't know if you
guys do this that your your spiritual emphasis week or not.
But I'm an alter call kind of guy. I don't
know about you or not. I just I just do.

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I've come to learn that the Holy Spirit never ever
proclaims a message without the power to accompany finishing that
good work that he starts in you. And so he's
starting something in you by saying you're gonna stand when
you feel like giving up. You're gonna stand when you
feel like laying it down. You're gonna take a stand.
You're gonna pray through and believe God. You need a miracle.

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Just come come out wherever you are. Come on, let's pray.
Just begin to pray, even right now. Just pray in
the spirit, pray in your understanding against Paul said. If
you don't know the words Paul said, you can just grow.
Go God, God, help me help me make it through
another day, an evil day. Lord. I want to stand,
having done all, stand firm. This passage of scripture that

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we're reading here says we wrestle not against flesh and blood,
and sometimes we lose this battle because there's no we
in it. It's just I it's passage. Scripture doesn't say
I wrestle against flesh and blood. I wrestle not against
flesh and blood. But again I wrestle against powers and principalities.
It says we wrestle. So so it's it's two on one,
it's three on one, it's four on one when we

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join together against the powers of darkness. So I want
you to take the hand of the person next to you,
and I want you to take just a couple of
minutes and just pray for them. Stand in faith with them,
stand believing with them, stand and trust in God for
their life, the keeping power of the Holy Spirit, that
they're gonna have breakthroughs in their life. Father, we thank
you in the name of Jesus, that you're going to

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touch life, change lives, move lives, keep lives, keep the
fire burning in their heart. God, thank you Jesus. When
they're in that fight, God, you're gonna fight for them.
You're gonna fight on their behalf. You're gonna win the
victory for them. We thank you for the victory at
the cross. We thank you for the blood of Jesus.
We thank you for the power of the Holy Spirit
and Jesus he