 ball out when you went to play at lunch and you stood at the front of the line and you led your classroom to the lunch benches now a lot of you young folks don't know about lunch benches back in the day we used to take our lunch to school say what yes we used to take our lunch to school in a brown bag paper bag someone said a greasy bag in a brown bag yeah okay and i remember that day she had given me the right to do that and it was a bully he was almost a foot taller than everybody in the class they must have held him back three or four years i don't know for sure was a bully and my mother usually gave us peanut butter and jelly or bologna but this particular day she had given me a tuna sandwich and my mother usually gave us in this bully this bully ran up to grab the ball but in the process he smashed my lunch and before i realized sister sharon i had hit him and i hit him so hard i raised him up off the ground and we hit the floor he was crying and said don't hit me don't hit me don't hit me and i ran i said get up get up and i was thinking lord jesus this boy gets up he's gonna beat my brains out don't help y'all can go ahead and turn that i don't i don't need this i don't need this at all you can cut that off completely and so y'all can go ahead and turn that i don't i don't need this hey man hey man hey man we're gonna get it straight in a minute and so and so glory to god and so he cried and he cried but you know what after that he became my best friend in the world matter of fact he wouldn't let anybody mess with me or do anything to me he was ready to fight for me but see nothing happened until i began to fight the bully back and see the devil will run you and chase you and do all that stuff as long as you let him but until you stop and say enough is enough i'm through god has anointed me god has appointed me i'm armed and dangerous and i'm gonna fight the devil i'm gonna fight the enemy i've got the victory in the name of jesus you've got to decide see when the enemy attacks you you've got to be willing to fight back bishop tells us that all the time james four and seven says resist the devil he will flee from you first timothy said fight the good fight of faith Ephesians chapter six let's turn to that Ephesians chapter six Ephesians chapter six and it says it tells us to put on the whole armor of god starting verse 11 no let's start in verse 10 it says finally my brother be strong in the lord and the power of his might then it says put on the whole armor of god that you may be able to withstand against the wilds the tricks the strategies of the devil says but we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities against powers against the rulers of the darkness of this world against spiritual wickedness and high places thirteen that's what i want to look at says wherefore take them to you the whole armor of god that you may be that you may be able to withstand in the evil day and having all and having done all to stand in other words be prepared to fight and you prepare for war in the time of peace not in the heat of the battle see a boxer he does not prepare for the main event the night of the main event when he's getting in the ring days and weeks and months in advance he's getting ready for a fight now one of the problems is a lot of times when things are going smooth for us we don't fast we don't pray we don't read our bible like we should we just kind of coast alone until we find ourselves in the middle of a battle and all of a sudden we're trying to play catch up but if you stay ready if you stay ready you don't have to try to get ready with the enemy attacks you're ready to fight you're ready to push back you're ready to say devil get out of my way the bible says put on the whole armor of god that you might be able to withstand the word withstand comes from the greek word and this temi means stand against to oppose to resist to fight and so says we're for take unto you or put on you the whole the complete armor of god it says so that you might be able to withstand to stand against to oppose to resist because the devil is not going to leave on his own you're going to have to fight back you're going to have to push back but if you do your part god will do his parts stand and resist and it says and in the evil day note it didn't say days but it says evil days meaning one day at a time lord give us this day so we fight the good fight of faith one day at a time turn to 2nd Corinthians chapter 10 2nd Corinthians chapter 10 here we go thank you sir to Sharon says though we for though we walk in the flesh we live in the flesh bodies we walk in the flesh we do not war after the flesh here it is for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal coming from the word carnivorous meaning fleshly our weapons are not fleshly but they're mining through god god is a spirit so we do not war after the flesh we war after the spirit of god and in that spirit we pull down the strong holds of the enemy see we have to be ready to fight for ourselves see when i was a baby my mother fought for me when i was a baby my father fought for me but when i began to be a grown man my father said look boy you will have to fight for yourself you're gonna have to do some things for yourself i used to feed you and clothe you but now it's your turn to do it for yourself he said so we pull down the strong holds of the enemy by the spirit of god we live in the flesh but we do not war after the flesh but we war in the spirit we are not fighting a fleshly battle and the sooner you recognize that the more victory you'll have in your life these last three weeks the devil has attacked me because he knew i was gonna preach this he's gonna try to make a lie out of me i just spent time in the hospital i went to the hospital and the doctors checked and they ran every kind of scan that they could run on me and the doctor says we don't we do not know what's wrong with you two days later my wife made me go back to the doctor they ran more tests and more scans and the doctor said at the end of the test we do not know what's wrong with you and that's when i realized this is spiritual warfare i said devil you done made a fool out of yourself because i'm getting ready to fight you made me mad enough to fight and i and god told me what to do and i began to fight and i began to push back and i began to resist and the devil had to take his hands off my body in jesus name i've got the victory and i'm still fighting but i've got the victory i know that the weapons of my warfare are not corner but money through god and god has given us many weapons to fight with and i believe the most the three most potent weapons that we have or praise prayer and the word of god but today i want to talk about that weapon of praise in the book of joshua at the end of the fifth chapter and and the the entire sixth chapter turn to the book of joshua chapter six if you would moses the servant of god is dead and joshua has taken leadership over the children of israel moses brought the children of israel to the promised land and now joshua's assignment is to take the children of israel into the promised land so joshua he comes to the city of jericho and he's looking at this great fortress and sometimes we begin to look at the enemy it seems overwhelming it seems like we don't we won't be able to get the victory but as he is gazing up god speaks to him and he says joshua i have given you the city of jericho i've given you the king and i've given you the mighty men you see i don't care what you're facing in life as long as you have a promise from god as long as god says i will deliver you as long as god says i will bring you out you don't have to be afraid you don't have to be intimidated all you have to do is find out god what do you want me to do and so god says to joshua have the people march around the walls for six days one time for six days and on the seventh day seeing the priest out before the ark of the covenant and march around the walls seven times and in joshua chapter six let's look at verse seven and it says and he joshua said unto the people pass on and compass the city or march around the city and let him that is armed let him that is armed pass on before the ark of the lord god will never send you out into a battle unarmed if he sends you out into a battle he's going to make sure that you have everything that you need to have the victory i like that verse 10 and joshua commanded the people saying you shall not shout nor make any noise with your voice neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth until the day i bid you shout then you shall shout so he gives these instructions that we are going to march around the wall for six days one time and while you're marching don't say a word because i believe that god understood a lot of times when we get to march and sometimes we get to complain i don't know why they got us marching around this wall this wall is so high it's so big as a matter of fact i want to go back to egypt at least we had some or some onions and leaks see when we get to sometimes when we get to marching we get to complaining we say now what i want you to do is march and keep your mouth shut verse 15 said initial come to pass on the seventh day that they rose up early about dawn of the day and they come past they marched this city in the same manner that they had done only that on as they continued on the seventh day they did it seven times verse 16 says and it came to pass at the seventh time i like this point and the priests have they blew the trumpets hallelujah they began to make some noise they began to send a shout of praise and joshua said unto the people shout out shout out shout out shout unto the lord joshua he commanded the people on the seventh day to send the priests out and they began to shout unto the lord and the children of israel did that and they marched around and they sent the priests before them and on the seventh day they began to shout look at verse 20 and so the people shouted to them when they heard the priests blow the trumpets and it came to pass them that is the people heard the trumpets the people shouted to them with a great shout come and open up your mouth and give god a great shout today he said shout unto the lord shout unto the lord huh shout unto the lord hallelujah he said and the walls fell flat the bible said clap your hands all you people huh shout unto god with the voice of triumph the bible says lift up your heads all you gates and be lifted up you everlasting doors and the king of glory shall come in who is this king of glory the lord strong and mind him the lord mighty in battle if you will open up your mouth if you will begin to shout and give god praise if you'll quote that i am armed and dangerous in christ if you declare that greater is he that's in me than he that's in the world if you know that the enemy is coming you don't know when but you don't have to worry because you have the weapon of praise you have the weapon of prayer you have the weapon of the word jesus have been fasting in the garden for 40 days and the enemy came and he began to tempt him and jesus kept saying it is written see when you know you have a promise from god you don't have to be afraid god has given you his name he's giving you his spirit he's giving you power the bible said after the holy ghost has come upon you you shall have power say power say power we have power to some real in y'all come on up we get ready to do this thing don't be afraid to fight don't be afraid of the enemy don't be afraid of what he's trying to say he's going to do you have power you have the blood of jesus and the blood still works what can wash away my sins nothing but the blood of jesus remember your armed and dangerous remember your more than a conqueror remember your born to win winning is in your spiritual DNA you are a victory getting ready to happen tell somebody i'm a victory getting ready to happen i've been oh my god he's giving me his spirit he's giving me his words he's giving me his power and i'm armed and dangerous so i'm going to fight him i'm going to fight him i'm going to fight him the words said the kingdom suffered violence and the violent take it by force i'm made up my mind i'm going to the enemy's camp and i'm taking back everything that he took from me i'm taking back my family i'm taking back my children i'm taking back my grandchildren i'm taking back my joy i'm taking back my peace i'm taking back my song i'm even taking back my dog lassie come home but if you know that you've got the victory today if you know that you're armed and dangerous today i want you to stand up on your feet and clap your hands and give god praise and then what i want you to do is say enough enough is enough enough is enough enough is enough tell you tell the devil this means war leave this place without offering salvation if you have not been born again born of the water and of the spirit pastor bob should tell you baptize in his name in the name of jesus and filled with his elder son don't say the precious gift of the holy ghost if you have not done that we offer that to you today and if you're watching us by live stream and you have not been born again we invite you to come to minister to you in the name of jesus but after that you need to know that god will give you the victory he will give you deliverance over the enemy and he'll give you deliverance over yourself see i i i discovered the enemy bishop one time but i found out that the enemy was me and he delivered me from myself i said thank you jesus and my wife she really said thank you jesus come on somebody watch out merlin i'll be yelling too loud now i heard you over there praise him praise him i can't stop you from praising him but we want you to leave this place knowing that you have been armed and dangerous that you have the victory that you have declared it with your mouth you have declared it with your actions that god has done a great thing but he gave us the victory and we're glad about it and i'm so honored to bring our bishop and our pastor to have remarks i thank god for him and for what he is in my life such a blessing come on stand on your feet and receive the man of god as he comes to have remarks before we leave this place here today let me say it again aren't you glad you're in the house of the lord on this morning amen the lord has blessed us with a word from heaven that's going to cause us to be victorious amen i'm you know i i wouldn't be afraid to be in a war unless i thought i was going to lose but god has said to us today you've got everything that is necessary he said i've armed you and i've called you and you can do it that's what we in the military we're running uphill downhill can do it that's what we say can do it if you can't say that you are victorious you'll never be victorious never be victorious until you're able to claim it when you claim it the lord's gonna give you the wherewithal continue to strengthen you to accomplish the task of walking with the king all right i'm glad for each of you who are here today i'm so thankful for what is transpired here on today let's prepare to receive our offering at this time amen amen i'm i'm happy for our children's church amen come on y'all say amen i appreciate it and they appreciate it i saw them as they lined up to march out they were anxious to get to hear what the lord would say to them let's uh let's support them all right uh somebody supported us helped us to get where we are i started out in in the in the cradle role in sunday school and i had somebody all along the way helping me to know about jesus yeah so i thank the lord that god has made that available to us here at this place all right uh let's raise your offering eternal god our father we thank you for you who you are for your strength for your power and for your might thank you oh god for your love and your compassion for us your people thank you oh god that you do all that calls us to do all things as you should have it we thank you oh god for the opportunity to come and bring this offering into your house we ask you to help us oh god that we'll be faithful to you and to your church in jesus name we pray amen i thank the lord for all that is transpired i thank the lord for our musicians we want to do all things and decently and in order we're not we're not hobos we're children of the king all right deacon ask the lord to bless the offering thank you all god for this day oh god that you brought for us as we prepare to leave this for the professionals let your angels and camp around about us and go forward with us for our safety and our perfection bring us back into your house in the appointed time with vitri and our hearts and in our souls in jesus name we pray amen praise him come on amen if you prepare for war better not be playing either this is serious thank you