good morning my friends i'm pastor
stephen brooks welcome today
to morning glory our midweek bible study
today we're going to be in the book of
first peter chapter 2. i invite you grab
your bibles
meet me there we're going to focus our
study today on
verse 11. and let's open up today in
prayer
heavenly father as we go into your word
we ask that your holy spirit would come
bringing illumination and insight
into christian living we thank you
father god that you have made provision
for victory in every area of our lives
through your son jesus
and his atoning sacrifice at calvary
we thank you for answers in your word we
give you praise
in jesus name let's all agree and say
amen now today as i mentioned we are in
1st peter chapter 2 verse 11. he says
beloved so he is writing to christians
he's
writing to believers he's not talking to
unbelievers or those who are outside of
christ
but this would be to the christians
beloved
i beg you in other words he has a strong
desire for them to walk in this i beg
you as
sojourners and pilgrims and i think it's
important
that we realize that we are only on this
earth for a limited time
and we are moving through this
sinfield world and we are on our way
to heaven praise god so we are
sojourners we're travelers
we're pilgrims in other words we are
in the world but we are not of
the world beloved i beg you as
sojourners and pilgrims
abstain from fleshly
lust which war against the soul
praise the lord you know there's a lot
of challenges a lot of difficulties
in the earth today as a believer
you you look at the nation uh
particularly the nation that you would
be living in and you think wow
you know my country has a lot of
challenges we have a lot of problems
and there are certain threats there are
natural disasters there's sickness
disease
plagues and other types of things and
threats looming threats of war
for example but my friends there's a war
that is continually going on against
your soul now your mind
is the battlefield here on planet earth
there are natural battles where tanks
and guns and
naval vessels fire off their weapons and
things like that can occur
uh you know take place when we have
these you know various wars and so forth
but within your mind there can be this
battle
and the reason the battle is within your
soul now remember your
your soul is your mind your will and
your emotions
is because of the soul's connection to
the body now let's think of it like this
the apostle paul said in first
thessalonians chapter 5
verse 23 that we are spirit
soul and body
when you were saved when you were born
again
and you gave your heart to jesus what
part of you was born again
it was your spirit you were recreated
on the inside upon salvation and the
spiritual death
that you were in has left you and the
newness of life
of christ himself has come into you and
you have passed from death
to life and that's you the passing from
spiritual death into spiritual life
so when you were born again the part
that was born again
was your spirit or we could say the
hidden man
the inner man now you are a spirit
you have a soul and you live in your
body i'm sure that you've noticed
that when you gave your heart to christ
whether it was two weeks ago
or you know two decades ago or 40
decades ago
regardless of when it was you realize
that it was not your body
that got born again in other words you
you know you somehow didn't go
back to a different age or your hair
color didn't change or you
suddenly had a different color eyes or
something like that no
the transformation was on the inside so
your body was not born again
but this is very important to understand
neither
was your soul your soul
is in a process of being saved
and much of that process deals with the
conformity of
our thought life and how we work with
our mind
based upon the word of god to combat
these
lust that are circulating throughout the
earth
let's look at it again beloved i beg you
as sojourners
and pilgrims abstain from fleshly lust
which war against what your big toe
no no they war against
your soul so they war against your
thought
life and a soulish mind a soulish nature
connected with a body that is
moved by the five physical senses
is really the primary threat that as a
christian
you have to deal with it's not some uh
evil power of somebody threatening to uh
you know send a bomb over here or
something like that although there can
be literal physical threats
and those have to be uh dealt with when
when certain things like that happen
but this is something that touches every
believer
sometimes even to a degree on a daily
basis now there are certain days that
everything can go pretty smooth and you
can have these other days where
these trials or challenges really can
come
we know that when jesus defeated the
three
primary temptations aimed at him by
satan
that it says that after satan's defeat
and christ won all three rounds it says
that satan
left for a more convenient time in other
words he's going to come back
probably not the next day probably not
the next
you know three or four days he needs to
recalculate and replan
a different approach because what worked
on the original adam
did not work on this man jesus christ of
nazareth
so there are days when you can go
through the day pretty smoothly and
there are other days
where there is literally it's like a war
is going on within your mind maybe it's
a war
where worry and fear are just trying to
overwhelm you
and it could be other things where the
the nature of the flesh
wanting to express itself in ways that
god said
no that's not right don't do that but
yet your flesh
seems to have a mind of its own and the
soulish nature of man
is dealing with that because there's
that connection with the flesh
and there is this constant battle that
takes place
so we are told to abstain from fleshly
lust
which war against the soul
they war against your way of thinking
they were against your fault life
and it can be like sometimes if this
thing
gets the jump start on you because uh
maybe you haven't spent enough time in
prayer
maybe you you haven't been walking
closely with the lord
suddenly it's like your spirit can get
hijacked
by who by your soul and by the
urges and desires of your body
praise the lord now this past week i
have received
some very good emails with questions
about this
and certain online church members or
ministry partners saying
pastor stephen how do you deal with
certain things that
touch anybody that's a human how do how
do you deal with these types of things
that
perhaps we could call the fleshly lust
which war against the soul well
let me tell you what works for me
and then you can take these ideas
and implement them in your walk with the
lord according
to your character and your makeup and
the way that god
has made you to be praise the lord
so let me say this when you walk
close with the lord you're still going
to have attacks
the enemy is still going to try to do
things against you to tempt you and
things along that line but there is a
place that if you
really stay very close to the lord
there is a place of shelter there is a
place of relief
where many of those darts they're just
going to bounce off your shield of faith
because you're protected but what can
happen is that the adversary
he'll watch he'll watch your life and
he'll look for moments
where you characteristically lower your
shield and guess what
that's when he's going to attack and it
could be that you have neglected your
time with the lord and suddenly
you find yourself where you're in a
precarious situation
where these things are really pressing
on you and you feel like you're about to
give in
and it's almost like you're hanging onto
a cliff
barely hanging on and your grip could
give out
at any moment and thus you would yield
to whatever temptation it is to
you know get in the fear or pick up the
phone and uh
call somebody and say something you
shouldn't or
send off a volatile email that later you
wish you could
retrieve but it's too late so we have to
know how
to deal with these things of the soul
and of the flesh
that would try to come against us
because at times
this war is very very real praise the
lord
hallelujah now
i know that from a biblical perspective
of
having looked at the scriptures and many
of you you know the scriptures very well
we could easily say well pastor stephen
what we're supposed to do is we're
supposed to crucify the flesh and then
we could
maybe we could have a crucifixion parade
we could all walk around and
quote galatians chapter 2 verse 20 and
we could have a big
crucified with christ's parade and uh we
could say this is what we're supposed to
do we're supposed to die to it
yes we are but how do you actually work
that out
when it says here abstain from fleshly
lust how do you abstain
when it's screaming against you oh well
pastor stephen you should drop to your
knees and pray and begin to intercede
but what do you do when your
mind or your soul or your body
doesn't want to drop down on the on its
knees and start praying
so what do you do because remember
there's a war going on so it's a pull
back and forth and so sometimes you can
feel like you're caught in the middle
and you know you're wondering lord this
thing is raging who's going to win
praise the lord so let me give you some
tips
of how you can turn the tide and get out
of that
precarious uh position of dangling
over a cliff and getting onto some solid
ground
praise the lord and i want to bring you
also
from for what is many christians
a way of living i would call it like
living in the outer court experience
their entire christian life where this
is uh
uh you know they're just yielding to the
soulish nature or the flesh nature on a
continual basis
and god didn't design the christian life
to be like that
so i want to encourage you to leave the
outer court
come to a closer walk with god move into
the holy
place and then move further into the
holy of holies
where you find peace and relief praise
god
but our subject today is what do you do
though when you are
not so as we would say in the holy of
holies but you're out here in this place
where all this stuff is hitting you
how are you supposed to respond and i
want to try
in this message today to address this
because of some of the very
uh desirous emails that i have received
of people that really want to know how
do you overcome these certain things
that just
hit you and it's like a war is raging
praise god let me say this i had an
amazing
encounter with the lord some years back
he came to me and he talked to me in a
vision it wasn't a long
visionary experience but you know
these times with the lord can be very
powerful from the sense that anything he
says
any time he's ever told me something
it's always been uh
rock solid it's been pure gold but
one time he he said because i was
concerned about
you know my my past life and failures
and things like that
and the lord told me in a vision he told
me face to face he said some of the
things
that you have struggled with and that
you have failed in
i don't hold you fully responsible
because no one ever taught you
how to live the way you're supposed to
live now
in context and i knew the context of
what he was referring to
he was basically saying no pastor that
you ever
sat under in their church basically
demonstrated or explained to you
how do you get through uh
trial situations where your flesh is
screaming and going wild how do you
actually get through that
well you know a lot of pastors will say
well now just crucify it and you're like
okay uh how do you how do you do that i
mean
am i supposed to go out and get a cross
and actually hang on it
i mean so how do you work this out well
pastor stephen do a 40-day fast
well what if you don't get the flesh
under for 10 days what are you supposed
to do
until then you know so you have to have
some
type of remedy something that you can
begin to implement
right on the spot that will bring the
relief that you need
and of course you know the lord he
explained to me
how you can disarm the soulish nature
that has a strong will of its own and
then of course when that soulish nature
teams up with the flesh
you know your spirit is over here going
hey you know we're going in the wrong
direction
so you have to get your spirit back into
dominance
you never want to be led by your body
and you never want to be led by the
soulish nature or the carnal
mind of man it'll take you in a wrong
direction
because remember it's your spirit that
is born again
praise god thank you jesus so this is
what i do
when the war is raging beloved i beg
your surgeries and pilgrims abstained
from fleshly lust which war against the
soul
this is how i abstain not by walking
around saying
i abstain i abstain because remember
when that stuff hits there's a part of
you there's a part of you which would be
your soul in your body
that doesn't want to abstain that's why
there's a war
so what i do is i find a place where i
can
get alone and sit down now i may not
have
a lot of time but i can take what i have
if i have
some free time where i can break away
then i can i can definitely
break free so what i do is i find a
place where i can sit down
and i can get quiet and i'll st and i'll
slowly start speaking in tongues well
pastor stephen why don't you get on your
knees and just pray real hard and fast
because there's a part of me that
doesn't want to that's the part that
needs to get crucified
and if by spirit times like that were
fully dominant
i would just get right on my knees but
remember there's a war
raging so i just sit down somewhere
and maybe get a coffee and i all i do is
start
praying in tongues pastor stephen why
don't you pray in english
because my soul doesn't want the praying
english doesn't want to pray at all
so i'm going to pull that over onto the
side of the spirit
by just sitting there and gently praying
in the spirit
yes she and while i'm praying in the
spirit
those those urges and that war can still
rage but i'm going to continue praying
in the spirit
and then i'm going to do something that
has proved very
helpful for me over the years and this
is found in psalm
16. i'd like for you to look at it with
me
psalm 16 verse 8
this is david speaking
he said i have set the lord always
before me because he is in my right hand
i shall not be moved now let's ask
ourselves a question
he says i have set the lord always
before me how did he do that well pastor
stephen he took a picture
and he took a picture of jesus and he
said it right there in front of him and
whenever he faced temptation he looked
at the picture
well they didn't have pictures back then
not not like we have today of oral
paintings and things like that
so he he obviously could not have done
that
so what did he do in essence to
set the lord before him
well we do know that there was the
tabernacle system that was initiated by
god
through moses and then when david
was the king of israel and the overseer
in a sense of
the tabernacle at that time it was a
very different situation
from the temple that solomon would build
or zerubbabel's temple or herod's temple
david's tabernacle was basically the ark
of the covenant
beneath a tent with no veil to conceal
it
from him or the people so it was it was
like a foreshadowing of grace
where you could come directly to
the lord now of course even back in
david's day it's not like you would
take the mercy lid or the mercy seat off
the top of the ark and look into it or
something like that but
i think david somehow would just get
around the ark
and he would look at it and he would
probably start looking at
this the beautiful uh angelic creatures
that were
the cherubim that were up on it and he
would he would look at that and i think
it bar
it would bring like a soothing into his
soul now
on my phone i have a couple of
images and we can do this today because
we have pictures and we could take an
image or something like that
but whenever i sense that war raging
maybe it's anxiety you know so many
things to do and
you know how you're going to get it all
done you're starting to get maybe
stressed or worried or something like
that
what i do is i sit down i just start
slowly
praying in the spirit maybe i'm sitting
on the couch or something like that
and i'll take that image and i'll
start to look at it while i'm praying in
the spirit
pastor stephen is it an image of jesus
hanging on the cross
no but it is an image of something
that glorifies the lord here's an
example
one of the images i have that i'll just
look at it and pray in the spirit
it's an image taken by the hubble space
telescope
of a what they thought was an empty area
of space
and they you know took this time lapsed
photograph of the deep sky in this one
particular area
and when they developed it later and saw
the image
it was you know countless
star systems and galaxies and clusters
of nebula and all this stuff and so
whenever i see that and i meditate on
that and i pray in the spirit i start to
get
calm because i realize if god can create
all of this by the word of his power and
he can operate
all of this and make all of it spin the
way it's supposed to
surely he can he can he can strengthen
me to manage
the very simplistic life that i have and
so as i sit there
and pray and look at that image
eventually now maybe not within five
minutes
maybe not within 10 minutes but
eventually a soothing
will start to come and what is going on
when that happens
it's like you're able to reach up and
grab a plateau
with your hands then you can feel it and
you grab it and that once you grab it
just like a cliffhanger who's been
hanging there
if it's a good grip now you can pull
yourself
up on that plateau to a place
of safety praise the lord now i have a
few other images too
that work for different things if
there's another type of war perhaps that
starts to uh
to rage or these things begin to float
around
i'll take that image i'll pray in the
spirit and i'll look at it
what is it pastor stephen what is the
image i don't want to tell you
specifically
because i want you to find
something that works for you and the
image that i look at which glorifies god
is an image that is pure
it's holy and it's just full of what i
would call a representation of god's
love and as i look at it
maybe not within five minutes maybe not
within 20 minutes
but as i keep looking at it and praying
in the spirit because it's such a
soothing beautiful
sweet image then the yucky stuff
will start to evaporate pastor stephen
what do you mean the yucky stuff
oh all that stuff that floats within the
soulish mind
that needs to be put under that needs to
be crucified
starts to evaporate and
the war starts to subside
why because the spirit is now winning
now this is very important let me say
this
you want to move from a position of
being like a cliffhanger
where you pull yourself up and get on
the plateau and you can tell
the the yucky stuff is leaving you it's
evaporating this is very important
don't make the mistake
of pulling out too quick well pastor
stephen i got some relief that's all i
need
no you're not filled up yet and if
you're not filled up
you're not even still yet in the holy
place and you're definitely not in the
holy of holies
you're still somewhere there in the out
of court you just moved to the front of
it now you've gotten a little bit closer
to the holy place
you need to stay with the lord until
you're filled
and you're just solid you're solid to
where
any vesture of that thing has now
left you it's evaporated praise the lord
i have set the lord always before me
that's between you and the holy spirit
to find
a format that works for you there are
two images
that i have that whenever those things
happen with me oh pastor stephen i
didn't i didn't think that you had to
deal with these
let me tell you a very honest truth any
person
no matter who they are who is a
christian
that lives in a flesh and blood body has
to deal
with these types of things and if they
act like they
don't then they are not being honest or
sincere with you
or with themselves praise the lord
so find something that you can look at
as you pray in the spirit
that will bring that comfort that will
bring that soothing
and you will find that you are you are
moving
into a place of strength to abstain
to say no to just
have the craving dried up praise the
lord i'm speaking to some people today
and you greatly need to know these
secrets
praise the lord you need to know how to
get out of the dangerous cliffhanger
position
where your soul and your body are
dominating your life and pull yourself
up to a plateau of safety in the lord
praise god now you want to maintain
that place but should you ever get in a
place where things are difficult
this is how you get back into that
stable place now
you will see some christians that
it would appear as if they live their
entire lives
in the outer court area they they live
in a place
of worry they live in a place of doubt
and unbelief they live in a place
of habitual defeat to various
sin patterns or sin habits and they
don't even really want
to walk into a place where they have
victory over it
but i know today that i'm talking to
those
who want to be overcomers
praise the lord and this is why
we need to understand these principles
praise the lord
if you stop and think about it for a
moment and we ask ourselves
what actually is holiness
well we could describe holiness as
being moral and ethical purity
it's purity in your morals purity in
your ethics
you're not stealing you're not doing
things that are immoral
so you are walking in a place
of holiness but this is what
many believers don't understand holiness
always carries with it in its root
meaning one who has overcome
the trial or the temptation
i'll give you an example why are the
angels of heaven
called holy well pastor stephen they're
called holy because they're in god's
presence
well that doesn't that does not impart
holiness
into them just because they're standing
in a certain position or place
again holiness always carries
a core meaning of having denied
a trial and overcome it denied a
temptation
and overcome it so we know that there
was a rebellion
in heaven many years back and
lucifer invited tempt it
asked all of the angels to come with him
but two-thirds did what two-thirds
said no we're not going with you so he
got one-third
and two-thirds decided to stay the
two-thirds that stayed
are considered what holy angels
why are they holy because not only are
they in heaven in god's presence
but also because they are the ones that
overcame
the temptation or the trial in that
moment
when they were faced with that and they
did the right thing
so holiness yes it's not just a state of
being
it's a state of having accomplished
something in the lord
praise god i want you to see something
in second peter chapter 2 and this all
goes along with abstaining from these
fleshly lust why we should do it
and the rewards that are involved not in
not just in this world but in the one to
come
second peter chapter two let's look at
the life of lot
just for a moment and uh get ready for
an amazing statement to be uttered
under the inspiration of the holy spirit
through peter
that we have to look at today
now it says uh concerning god's
righteous judgment verse six and turning
the cities of sodom
and gomorrah into ashes condemned
them to destruction making them an
example to those who afterward
would live ungodly
verse 7 and delivered righteous lot
is that not one of the most amazing
statements in the bible
that lot is described by god
in his word as being righteous and
delivered righteous
lot who was oppressed by the filthy
conduct of the wicked for that righteous
man
twice he's called righteous for that
righteous man dwelling among them
tormented his righteous soul from day to
day
by seeing and hearing their lawless
deeds now when you
read through the book of genesis
particularly chapter 19
where many of these events with lots
life unfold
and you see that he lived in
this area of solemn and gomorrah and his
wife
and uh you know the children and so
forth and
you know the wife and the kids didn't
want to leave and lot himself
he had to have the angels just come and
grab their hands and
and pull them all out so when it's
saying that he was righteous and you
look at his standards
even when these perverted men came
banging on the door and said we want
those two men that are staying with you
he said well
don't take them take my two daughters i
mean you think he's righteous
how on earth can this be and then later
when they leave
uh that the plain area where solomon
gamora had been destroyed he's
uh now staying in a cave with his two
daughters and
you know the crazy stuff that happened
there and the uh the heathen nations
that were always enemies to israel that
were produced
out of that ungodly relationship that
happened there and you think this man
is called righteous but you have to
remember my friends that
he was connected with abraham through
covenant
and god was connected with abraham
through a covenant
it's known in scripture by theologians
as the abrahamic
covenant and what that covenant did for
abraham
is that from god it imputed
righteousness into abraham because of
abraham's faith
and trust in god and in his word
and lot joined in on that covenant as
well so the abrahamic covenant
was working in his life and because of
that and because of lot's
general faith in god and trust in god
righteousness was imputed into him as
well
now we have a better covenant in christ
and we have
righteousness christ's righteousness
imputed into us
so god the father when he sees us he
sees the righteousness of christ
in us why because we are in
him however you must realize that with
lot
that although he was called a righteous
man
he would not be considered a holy man
because a holy man would be like hey i'm
not living in an atmosphere like this
now was he righteous yes but was he holy
no absolutely not and he was willing to
tolerate a lot of things for the great
climate
and the tremendous financial economy
that was taking place there because of
all the tar
and things like that and that being sold
all over
that part of the world but
holiness is not imparted
holiness is a choice and that's
something that you choose
to step into in order to honor the lord
and to please the lord praise god and we
see
that god has a desire for us to walk in
this again first peter chapter 2 verse
11
beloved i beg you as sojourners and
pilgrims abstain from fleshly lust which
war
against the soul don't think it's
strange if
this war is going on that's part of the
battle
the good news is that one day we are
going to experience our full
redemption in the sense that we will be
out of this body and we will get a new
glorified body and so instantly that
struggle
will be over with it also when
our full redemption is manifested our
minds
will be completely made whole
so up until that part uh until that
point we keep
renewing them and washing them with the
word
of god and it is possible
it is possible in this life to walk
close with the lord
in a place where you overcome these
struggles
and these trials and you don't have to
be overthrown by them
but you can step back and you can get
refreshed
in the lord that's one of the reasons
why many of god's people get in trouble
they get too busy they neglect their
prayer time
and they're running around doing all
kinds of things maybe even they're good
things
but that closeness with the lord begins
to slip
and that's when the enemy will launch an
attack and the war is suddenly on
and you're just trying to hang on for
dear life so if you ever find yourself
in a place like that you can pull
yourself up
and this is how i again i suggest you do
it just find a place where you could sit
down
and just start praying in the spirit
until that peace comes
put the lord before you in some way
that you you can meditate on his beauty
there have been many of the old
saints who have had very close walks
with god
and sometimes they would have images
maybe it was nothing more than a cross
if that's all they could
uh you know maybe there was not an
artist or not a painting so all they
could get was a wood
a little wooden cross and they would
just look at it and they would meditate
upon the cross the instrument of death
the instrument of cruelty
by which our salvation was purchased
through christ and they'll just meditate
and pray and meditate and pray
before you know it they're in a place of
calmness
and serenity and what's happened they
have gotten up on that plateau of safety
and then they have gone into the place
of security and you can do the same
thing
i know for several of the well-known
saints for them it was an image of mary
and you know i i've seen some of the
images uh one particular saint that i'm
thinking of right now that lived in
italy
he had this image of mary and i've seen
the image it's uh it's a very crude
image and you would think that the
person who painted the image
didn't even do a very good job but
that's not really the point
the point is that when this holy man
when he would have trials
and he would have things come against
him and attack him and he would feel
these temptations he would start to pray
and he would just look at that image
of mary the mother of jesus and there
was something
in the image that he could relate to of
christ's
likeness that began to bring soothing
and comfort
and consolement into his life and before
you knew it he was back into that place
where
his spirit is dominant and the
temptation has
left and again that is a state of
holiness
not that you're not tempted not that you
don't feel it
but that you keep walking with the lord
you stay with the lord he gives you the
grace to overcome it
and then you know the sweetness of that
victory that in essence is what
holiness is and that's what belongs to
the overcomers
praise god let me pray for you heavenly
father
as your people are watching right now
and there are those who have struggled
with certain issues
maybe not for just weeks or months but
perhaps some that have struggled
um since their youth and they're now
adults
and they think lord i've never oh i have
never overcome this thing
and so father we thank you for mercy
because one of the reasons for these
struggles can be because
we just weren't taught it wasn't
unveiled
it wasn't talked about and perhaps
father because those that were in
leadership
they themselves did not know so father
we thank you for
mercy we thank you for grace and we
thank you for the ability to get
refreshed in your presence to pray
and for those things leaving and then
father for the deeper dive of still
staying with you and getting filled up
until we know that it is okay to leave
now father we give you all of the praise
we bless you thank you for your grace
and for wisdom
in this area in jesus name amen
praise god my friends there there is a
place
in uh even in the natural world
that if you are speaking to a sovereign
to a king
for example when you when you conclude
the conversation
and the conversation is over you do not
turn around and just walk out
you don't turn around at all you back
out until maybe you get 20 steps back
and then you turn
there is a place with the lord where you
sense in your heart i'm full i can leave
now
and it's that place not before but it's
at that place
where you humbly say lord this has been
wonderful and i'll see you
next time and then you can exit from the
presence of the lord
but to just pull out when you're not
full or the conversation is not
concluded
and just leave i think that can actually
be
disrespectful to the lord and it would
certainly be
dishonorable to do that in a royal court
you never
you never do that you you back out so we
are learning more and more
the ways of god the ways of his royalty
the ways of his
kingly protocol praise god and we are
flourishing
in his kingdom as we take these
principles and apply them
to our lives now if you're watching
today's message and you don't know
jesus christ the great redeemer the one
who has paid the sin
penalty then you can know him today
by putting your faith and trust in him
and by receiving
full salvation that he purchased for you
at calvary if you would like to do that
pray this prayer with me
right now say lord jesus i'm a sinner
but you died to save sinners
like me jesus come into my heart
wash all of my sins away with your
precious blood
i give my life to you right now thank
you jesus
take control of my life from this day
forward
in your name i pray amen
and amen praise god if you have prayed
that prayer for the first time
welcome to the family of god
praise the lord praise the lord now
let's take holy communion
today and communion could be something
that
perhaps would work for you or that you
could implement into your life
should you find yourself in a in a
cliffhanger type
situation now it could be that that
might not work in the sense
that your soulish nature doesn't want to
do that but it could also be that
maybe that for you works the same
as it does for me as looking at an image
that glorifies the lord so you have to
find what works for you
and just keep praying keep praying and
that that peace
will come and the victory will come
praise god now let's grab some
unleavened bread today
and some grape juice praise the lord
hallelujah glory
glory to god and let's pray father we
thank you for the bread
and the juice we consecrate it through
this prayer
and we thank you that this is the body
and the blood
of christ our savior father as we
receive the body of jesus
i pray for strength for your people
because father the world
is so crooked and twisted
and what's evil is so often celebrated
as good
and what's good is now so often
persecuted
and spoken against so i pray for
strength for your people to live a clean
life
in a very dirty world i pray father god
that your people be marked as those of
the remnant
those that will not compromise or bow
but they'll continue to hold to your
word and your principles
now father we thank you for the great
work that you're doing
we give you praise in jesus name amen
let's receive the body of jesus
praise the lord and father i pray for
strength for your people
fresh anointing and the joy of the lord
we thank you father as we receive the
blood
of jesus we ask father that if we have
committed any sins that you would
forgive us that you would wash them all
away
and father we forgive anyone who has
sinned against us we ask that you would
lead us
away from temptation and that you would
deliver us from
the evil one father we give you praise
and glory in jesus name amen let's
receive the blood of christ
praise the lord glory to god
my friends the holy spirit is helping
right now for you to identify
those forms of abstaining that
work in your life just sit down start
praying in the spirit begin to meditate
upon the lord
set the lord before you in a way that's
effective for you
i would suggest don't try to copy what
worked for somebody else you may want to
consider it but find
what works for you and then you'll be
walking
in a place of ongoing victory
praise the lord thank you for watching
today i look forward to seeing you back
next time till then stay blessed bye bye