 Good afternoon pastor David. Hey John. Welcome everybody to a random moment unfiltered with pastor David. Well pastor we're sitting in this freshly Fresh chapel. Yeah, and you know last night we had service here and The worship and everything about last night was just amazing and and that's what I want to speak a little bit about last night You you opened up our Wednesday night spiritual warfare, and I love what you said about how sometimes we can think spiritual warfare is this Demon or this big lion, and it's this big battle when in fact Spiritual warfare are the little frustrating things that we go through every day. Yeah, very often what spiritual warfare We don't even recognize it for what it is, and we have to be careful Not every single thing that we encounter in life is not and necessarily a Spiritual warfare. There's so very very many dimensions in various things Obviously that we experience that aren't necessarily Demonic, you know attempts to destroy us. I have to be careful with that Hopefully as we go through the series together, I'll make that clear There are things I can do by the flesh in the flesh that just reap the repercussions that Didn't even require a demon of any sort or Satan strategies, you know, I'm just being fleshly but often they are the things that we don't even realize our Our our strategies that the enemy is using we don't realize that because we fail to remember That as long as we've been alive There has there has been an observation of our lives There are multiple billions of of demonic spirits. We don't know how many of course, but You know God created a host and a third of that host Failed with Satan and that host that he had created is is certainly more than population on the face of the earth and so we know that that there are demonic entities we're going through Ephesians 6 and Paul speaks of the the wilds of the devil the the strategies devices That he has plans that are evil and all of that So so we spoke about that last night and I was trying to mention that we need to be aware That it's not always a demonized a person that we're encountering or Something that is blatant But in fact very often what it is is the small things that seem to add up That are once they have their effect on us well, they undermine our faith or they steal our joy and Remove our hope Those are things that we have in Christ We we have love because of Jesus and we have faith because of Jesus We have hope because of Jesus and so the thief comes to steal and to kill to destroy the enemy has been scrutinizing humanity from the beginning and Usually brings the same kinds of tactics in one form or another But as he observes through his minions He he learns your weaknesses and and he's aware of your strengths. Now. How do we know that? Well in The book of Job, it's it's made very clearly Made very clear there that when the angelic hosts including Satan Came to to assemble before God God spoke to him and asked him where have you been and in the way he's speaking. It's as a interrogation Declare to me give to me A rendition of the things you've been up to and and there's an inference there I know you're up to no good. So you need to say what you've been doing Well, I've been going to and fro throughout the earth. He says and have you considered Have you weighed Job? I know you've seen him. Have you set your affection and attention on Job and Immediately Satan says of course, you know you put a hedge about him and that's where the whole battle in the book of Job ensues The thing I'm pointing to is the fact that I was he was very aware of Job and Satan is very aware of Those who belong to the Lord. He's aware that we're Christians. He's aware that we want to serve God bring honor and glory to him He's aware of that So what does he do? He does what he can through his imps if you will to undermine and to steal to to make us or try to render us useless in the in the battle and To have his way so if he can cripple a soldier if he can take you out of the battle Then he has a form of victory in all of that and so It's not always encountering a demonized man. It's not always some very obvious Spiritual thing where you just know it's it's normally subtle. It's more subtle. It's it's you awakening to it all of a sudden realizing This is this this ought not to be this way. Why is oh I'll give you an example. It's like we were sharing earlier talking in When my children were small and I was preparing a Bible study And I needed to concentrate and I didn't have an office. I was was working out of my house and My babies would be kind of arguing or getting upset and it would always seem to take place Just before I was to go out and and give a Bible study or while I was in preparation of a study And I was mentioning that what I would do is I would I would put down the pen because they used to use just pen and paper And I would pray and I would say father if this is something that is Needing me to go and correct I will but if this is something That is spiritual. There's a provocation to disturb my peace and my attention to my preparation Father, I pray that you would settle this down that you'd bring calmness John that happened so many times and I before the Lord it became my habit Because the enemy I know was working through my children to take away my peace take away my attention from his word and Then to cause me to be provoked to an anger towards my babies I mean there were some very real things going on and I I began to learn that a long time ago the first thing That I need to do is pray and and Lord if this is something that is is Provoking me in the wrong direction. I ask in Jesus name that you would awaken me to it And that's what the Lord many times That's what happened and and to this day it continues that way John and it's the you said last night It's the prayers. There's some stuff going on there in the back It's the prayers that really would help you or at least answer when we're going through a spiritual warfare Yeah, just Lord help me with that And so last night was very practical pastor even the the scriptures that were shared in Ezekiel how Satan how he was before and how he was now cast yeah Yeah, and but you know at the end and I want to wrap it up with this pastor would really tied everything together Was before come out right right before communion. I really personally I really love that time because you share your heart and You're sharing how much you love for your family, obviously but how much you love our church and and I think people sometimes may not understand how much you truly love our church and Because I work here to work close our office are very close in proximity I see the love that you have for our church and it was amazing for you to share that last night with our Congregation well, they need to know that you know and you know and if you're watching I can say that Truly our pastor loves our church and he's not hand-signally emotionally me right now like say this say this say this No, but but how much you really love and and they just seem that everything just tied together with that with the practical aspect of pray during our spiritual warfare and And and to top it off with you express it how much you love our church, you know that we'll be looking at the Weapons of our warfare Obviously, we'll be looking at being girded with truth You know when the Apostle Paul was describing the weapons what you know This is a man who was guarded by Roman soldiers. He was very familiar With their armor, but he was also aware of the order in which the armor was put on and He actually enumerates said as we go through it putting you know Yourself with truth and all of that each one of those pieces he speaks about came in a certain order So we'll be looking at that as we go through the study. So again, invite your friends and family come join us on Wednesday evenings The cool thing about it is just you just started the series on So it's not too late to come check us out on Wednesday nights at 7 p.m. And then on Sunday morning It's at 8 30 and 10 45 we have our services as Pastor David's taking us you're taking us to mark And we're going to be looking at the the widows mites widows mites. Yeah, and so I mean if anybody's ever been Israel That's their they're very very small. They are and so well pastor. Thank you so much and you guys thank you for tuning in Thank you again. God bless you and we look forward to see you on Sunday. Amen. Thank you pastor