Be Gods Instrument: Gideon's Incredible Victory

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Coming up on Renewed Mindsets.

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You know we should all listen to God for understanding, but sometimes we need to listen to the enemy to gain empowerment.

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Today, we're going to discuss the importance of surrendering to God and utilizing what he's given us, no matter how we feel about it.

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Faith and praise is all we need.

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Yeah, trust me, let's go, boys.

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Hey, welcome to Renewed Mindsets, the totally awesome podcast for Gen Xers who are ready to bust a move with the hand we were dealt.

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I'm Rick, and if you're feeling discontent with the way life has turned out, well, we're the Goonies you're looking for.

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We're here to guide you in purging what you think you know, breaking free from conforming to this world and transforming your mind into the Christ-centered powerhouse it was destined to be.

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Calm that mullet and grab a can of new Coke.

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It's time to get radical, dude.

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I'm so glad you're here.

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Lots of scripture in this one today.

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So I'm going to give you a quick synopsis of Judges 7, verses 1 through 8.

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We're talking about Gideon.

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He's ready to rumble, he's got his army and he's ready to go, but God has other plans.

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In Judges 7-2, the Lord said to Gideon you have too many people for me to hand the Midianites over to you, or else Israel might brag that they did it themselves.

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So God proceeds to give Gideon a couple tests to whittle the number down.

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The first test culled like 22,000 men out of the army, leaving 10,000.

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Still too many.

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So in verse 4, a second test was given and God tells Gideon to take his men down to the water and let them drink.

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Weed out any men who stick their face down in the water to drink.

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Just keep the ones who ladle the water with their hands.

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Gideon must have gulped hard when he counted how many were disqualified, because he only had 300 men left.

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Can you imagine how Gideon felt?

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Chapter 8 tells us that the Midianite army numbered 135,000 men.

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8 tells us that the Midianite army numbered 135,000 men, that's 450 Midianites to every one Israeli soldier.

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God wants Gideon's army to face this horde with a mere 300 men.

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And those men, the only thing that made them any different was they knew how to drink politely.

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God created an impossible situation of human weakness to exalt his own strength.

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That's God's specialty.

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So of course, gideon's freaking out at this point, which takes us to verse 9.

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That night the Lord said get up, go down to the Midianite camp, because I've given you victory over them.

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But if you're afraid to attack, you can go down to the Midianite camp.

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Because I've given you victory over them.

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But if you're afraid to attack, you can go down to the camp with your servant.

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Listen to what the Midianites are saying and you'll be greatly encouraged.

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Then you'll be eager to attack.

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So Gideon took a servant and went down to the edge of the enemy camp.

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The armies of Midian, amalek and the people of the east had settled in the valley like a swarm of locusts.

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Their camels were like grains of sand on the seashore, too many to count.

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Gideon crept up just as the man was telling his companion about a dream.

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The man said I had this dream and in my dream a loaf of barley came tumbling down into the Midianite camp.

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It hit a tent, turned it over and knocked it flat.

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His companion answered your dream can mean only one thing God has given Gideon, son of Joash, the Israelite, victory over Midian and its allies.

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And when Gideon heard the dream and its interpretation, he bowed in worship to the Lord.

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Then he returned to the Israelite camp and shouted Get up, for the Lord has given you victory over the Midianite hordes.

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And he divided the 300 men into three groups and gave each man a ram's horn and a clay jar with a torch in it.

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Then he said to them Keep your eyes on me.

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When I come to the edge of the camp, do just as I do.

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Then, as soon as I and those with me blow the ram's horns, blow your horns too, all around the entire camp and shout for the Lord and for Gideon.

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It was just after midnight, after the changing of the guard, when Gideon and the hundred men with him reached the edge of the Midianite camp.

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Suddenly they blew their ram's horn and broke their clay jars.

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Then all the three groups blew their horns and broke their jars.

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They held their blazing torches in their left hands and the horns in their right hands and they shouted A sword for the Lord and for Gideon.

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Each man stood at his position around the camp and watched as all the Midianites rushed around in panic, shouting as they ran to escape.

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And when the 300 Israelites blew their ram's horns, the Lord caused the warriors in the camp to fight against each other with their swords.

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Those who were not killed fled to places as far away as Beth-shed Ran to some places that are pretty far away.

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You can read that one yourself if you want to.

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It's verse 22.

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So what do you see here?

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Sometimes the significance of your calling can be determined by how intimidated the enemy is by you.

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You can gauge their level of intimidation by the amount they talk to you or talk about you.

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God had initially tried to communicate with Gideon through an angel, but now he wants him to go listen to his enemy.

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Gideon obeyed and went down to the outpost verse 11.

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You'll hear what they say and afterwards you'll feel empowered to go confront their camp.

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Did you understand?

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God didn't say your hand will be strengthened when you hear his message about you, because the angels didn't convey it.

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Rather, gideon, you are a mighty warrior.

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The angels had been telling Gideon that God is with him and that God will deliver the people through him, but Gideon didn't believe any of it.

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And God responded to him.

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Said do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth?

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Jackie Chan said if you don't believe me, maybe you'll believe the enemy.

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So he went down to listen to the enemy for a while and after hearing what his enemies were saying, his resolve to confront the camp grew stronger.

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Gideon, who was accompanied by his servant Burah, went to the outpost of the Ammon, where the Midianites, amalekites and the eastern people were camped.

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Now they lay in the valley like a vast number of locusts, with an abundance of them and countless camels.

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In other words, there was a lot of them and countless camels.

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In other words, there was a lot of them.

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And the scripture compares the abundance of the people with the abundance of sand on the seashore.

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There are so many of them.

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And look, there are plenty of reasons to be afraid and fear in life, you.

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But if you start listening to them, you're going to drive yourself crazy.

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In the story of Gideon that can be found in verse 13.

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We witness a man telling a dream to his friend and he says I had a dream.

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A cake made of barley bread came rolling down the hill into Midian, right into our camp.

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Barley bread doesn't seem very threatening, does it?

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But when this bread reached a tent and caused it to collapse and overturn completely, his friend responded this can only be the sword of Gideon, the son of Joash, an Israelite man.

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God has given him power over Midian and all their possessions, which terrifies them.

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Gideon is scared because he's trapped by the hand of Miriam, who's against him, and the hand of God who he can trust.

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God declares I am giving them into your hands, people.

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I don't know who this message is for today, but God is saying let go of your perceived needs, let go of your identity, let go of what's holding you back, release it.

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Move forward towards the next thing I've called you to do.

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And watch Gideon go on and gather courage.

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Gideon's taken aback and he's thinking are they really talking about me and barley?

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He realizes that the impressive part is not the barley itself, but what it represents.

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He transforms from being scared to being courageous, from trembling to tumbling.

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God says let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go.

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As soon as Gideon heard the telling of verse 15, he worshiped by raising both of his hands, and then he returned to the camp of Israel and said get up.

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The Lord has passed by and he's given the host of Midian into your hand.

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Whose hand?

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The hands of those who took the trumpet, the hands of those who didn't turn back, the hands of those who were still trembling, and my own trembling hands.

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But I have a trumpet.

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All these trumpets are about to become significant, the trumpets that the rest of the nation left behind.

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I have them.

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And when they left, I obtained a trumpet, and I obtained a God whom I can trust and watch this.

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Gideon divided the 300 men into three companies and placed a trumpet in the trembling hands of each one of them, along with empty jars containing torches.

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Now I have something in my hands, I have something in my heart, I have a skill, I have a weapon, I have an instrument.

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God said he will put something in your hands this season.

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Now, it may not make sense.

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A trumpet against an army or even a torch against an army may not make any sense to you, but it doesn't need to make sense.

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What it needs to do in your hands is to be surrendered and submitted to God so that you can move forward with the strength that you have.

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Praise God.

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He placed a trumpet in their trembling hands and held a torch in his other hand, and he said I need you to have something that you can utilize.

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Now, what has God entrusted to you and what have you entrusted to him?

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You have the ability to give it to him.

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The battle belongs to the Lord.

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You have the power to surrender it into his hands.

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It's not through my efforts or strength.

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He's the one speaking, and he's the one providing strength today.

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This is why the enemy has been fighting against you.

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He's attempted to hold you captive, but we have come here to release you from the enemy's grips, just like Gideon did.

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God declares today I will break the enemy's hold over your life.

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I will it to him as you do.

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He will entrust it with you.

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In return, I have my trumpet and I have my torch.

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What represents the torch?

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It symbolizes the light of God's spoken word, and the trumpet?

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It signifies the sound of your praise and the declaration of his word.

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My goodness, this is the message that I'm going to preach to you right now.

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He divided the 300 remaining men into three groups and placed trumpets in the hands of everybody.

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Not 32,000.

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Nope, Not 3,200.

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Nope, only 300.

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Who will move forward?

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Today, god is in search of 300 people who are going to say Lord, I will take the trumpet and move forward boldly into what you have called me to do.

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I'll take the torch and I'll march confidently towards the person God has called me to be.

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I will do this even if I tremble and doubt, and I will do it with faith, one step at a time.

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He provided them with a trumpet and an empty jar.

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Both of those items serve a purpose.

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The trumpet is used to hold the breath, while the jar contains the light to turn it into a torch.

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It's exciting.

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God will give you something that will transform it from a trivial instrument into one that gives victory.

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And then, in verse 17, he instructed them to observe him and do the same.

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So when Gideon reaches the outskirts of the camp, they should mimic his actions of blowing his trumpet and filling it with breath.

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Now, both he and his companions will do this, followed by blowing the trumpets.

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They were to replicate his actions.

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Even more than that, he directed them to blow the trumpets and shout for the Lord and for Gideon on every side of the camp.

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Gideon, along with his hundred companions, constituted a third of a small army.

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It was all they needed.

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They didn't require what they thought they did.

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They only needed to present their instruments to God.

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And here's what happens next.

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Gideon led the 300 men to the outskirts at the beginning of the middle watch.

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It was like two in the morning, when the guards were less alert.

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They blew the trumpets and shattered the clay jars that they held.

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They utilized what they had, and then the three companies together blew their trumpets and broke the jars.

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They blew the trumpets and broke the jars they held in their left hands, while holding torches in their right hands to light up, and they cried out a sword for the Lord and for Gideon as they held torches in their left hands and trumpets in the right.

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What do you have in your right hand right now?

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Whose hand are you in?

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Why are you so stressed and scared of an enemy that's so intimidated by you?

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Intimidated by you.

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Blow your trumpet, break your jar.

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God wants you to use the jar and the torch to symbolize the enlightenment of your knowledge.

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Use what you know yeah, but I haven't figured it all out yet.

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You don't need to have it all figured out what?

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Yeah, you already possess enough knowledge for now, and more will be revealed later.

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Break your jar, use your torch, blow your trumpet.

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Make a sound with God's word, make a sound of praise.

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I'm looking for three individuals who will make a sound.

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Look at this.

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They blew their trumpets and broke the jars in a beautiful first verse in chapter 20.

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It says you possess the instruments of victory.

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You are the instrument of victory.

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You are held in God's hand, with the torch in your right hand and the trumpet in your left, and they cried out a sword for the Lord and Gideon.

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The part I couldn't understand was where the sword came from.

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All I have is a trumpet and a torch.

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In my possession, all I have is a trumpet and a torch.

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Do you feel that way?

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Do you feel like I do sometimes, that I lack the necessary weapons?

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But I believe that will come as a surprise to you that I do.

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In verse 21, where the sword was, it stated that every man held his position around the camp and the entire army ran.

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They cried out and fled.

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This describes the enemy army.

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They began to flee.

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Gideon possessed both military brilliance and the supernatural support, and when he combined them, it proved to be very oh my gosh.

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It was incredibly powerful and he decided to confuse the enemy, making them believe that his forces were larger than they actually were.

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He instructed his troops to blow their trumpets, praising the Lord with every breath, while simultaneously breaking their jars and making a victorious sound.

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He encouraged them to have faith and take a step forward, relying on praise and faith instead of what they could see.

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This is the torch and the sound of victory.

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This is the torch and the sound of victory.

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I want to get further into the significance of the torch as a step of faith in the symbolism of light.

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You see, we feel like we're empty jars, but inside us is a precious, precious treasure.

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But we got to remember that if we surrender our minds to the enemy, he's going to take control and manipulate us.

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We have to reclaim our instruments, break our jars and use the light of faith that we have, accompanied by the sound of praise represented by the trumpet.

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People, when you take a step of faith and offer a praise, when you do move forward in that belief, see what God's going to do.

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In verse 22, the Lord anointed the blowing of the 300 trumpets, causing every man to turn their swords against their comrades, and the enemy army fled.

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The instrument of victory that God used to defeat the enemy was the very weapon the enemy was holding.

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Gideon didn't have to physically fight and kill the enemy himself.

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Instead, the jars were broken and the trumpet was sounded with praise.

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When you take a step of faith and break the barriers and offer praise, what will God do?

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I'm telling you he will take care of your enemies.

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Why?

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Because Gideon and the Israelites were outnumbered, but in God's hands they were empowered.

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This is the whole core message of this whole verse Surrender to God.

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You are his instrument.

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He's called you for greatness.

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He wants to use you to speak, to be and to bring about change.

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Even though you may have felt confined, like being in a wine press, remember that you have weapons and instruments in your hands.

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You're an instrument in God's hands.

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You are significant.

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We should rejoice and surrender our lives to God once again.

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We need to put our trust in Him.

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Whose hands are you in today?

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You're not in Midian's hands.

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Whose hands are you in?

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What do you have in your hand?

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You possess the qualities necessary for the path that God has guided you through, a season where he intended for you to understand that it was not solely your power.

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He allowed certain things to depart.

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Be willing to release your grip on all these things.

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Let go Today, just let go.

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Let go Go to the camp and take the step towards the task that God is beckoning you to undertake, and then get moving.

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Let's go.

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And now Deep Thoughts with Rick Yuhas.

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If you're in a war, instead of shooting first throw rubber duckies at them.

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Then, when they stand there thinking how stupid you are and how dumb war is, you can shoot them really easily.

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God always deposits blessings in vessels.

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The Bible says in 2 Corinthians 4-7, god doesn't invest treasures in things in earthen vessels.

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That the excellency of the power may be of God and not of us.

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God doesn't invest treasures in things.

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He invests treasures in people.

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The treasure that you seek is not in the car, it's not in a building, it's not in your job, but in the belly of your spirit.

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You're the carrier of every investment that God put inside of you.

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It's all in you.

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Why does God not put it in a frame?

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Because things are temporary but people are eternal.

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That's powerful.

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Even when you leave this earth, you continue to carry the consciousness of the blessing and the embodiment of the investment that God has put inside of you, and a lot of people care more about the things that have life than they care about the capacity of their own spirit.

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You are the Lord's investment.

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You have to see yourself as the biggest investment of your own life.

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If you lost your car, if the internal factors of your spirit that produced the car were still intact, you'll get another car.

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If the Lord sent you to a city to plan a ministry and God moved you to another city, to plan another ministry.

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If the anointing is still there, you'll produce the same result.

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In Psalm 51, when David was in some situation, he was not protecting the throne, he was protecting everything around him, but he was asking God to preserve his anointing.

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He said cast me not away from your presence, do not take your Holy Spirit from me.

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He knew if he lost God's anointing he would lose everything.

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This is a really powerful truth and your priority needs to change in this new season that you're walking in.

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Do not take the things of God lightly.

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Your priority needs to change.

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The inner workings of your spirit is major.

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Having your joy is so important.

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Having your anointing is essential.

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Having your peace with God is major.

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Walking with God in righteousness now is so important.

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Being a holy, consecrated vessel unto God that is major.

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You need to major in the major and minor in the minor.

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As long as your major stays major, you'll always be in a major place of life.

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When we're talking about the manifestation of blessing of God on a person's life, it doesn't just start on the outside, it begins from the inside, and the moment your anointing increases, the impact of that anointing also increases, and that's how it works for God.

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So when God says I will promote you, that promotion does not start from the outside.

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With God, it begins from the inside.

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The moment the capacity of your spirit increases, everything around you begins to experience a transformation.

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Proverbs 4.18 says the path of the righteous is like a shining light.

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It shines brighter and brighter until the perfect day when God lays his hands on you.

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Everything about you, from the crown of your head to the soles of your feet, become an instrument in God's hands for a miracle.

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So everything about you has been reconfigured, rewired, reorganized to become an extension of who God is in the earthly realm.

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Organized to become an extension of who God is in the earthly realm.

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The Bible says you are the battle axe of the Lord.

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That's Jeremiah 51, 20.

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God told Moses to lift up his hands against the Red Sea with the rod of the Lord in his hand, and you know what happened the Red Sea parted and this is why the enemy was targeting you.

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Some of you don't understand that every attack that the devil is sending against you is not about the job, it's not about the haters, it's about you, because the devil knows that you are the embodiment of the instrument and weapon of God.

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Your tongue is God's instrument and weapon.

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The Lord has given me the Isaiah 54, and I shall not be confused.

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God told Ezekiel I made your face to be stronger than their faces and your forehead to be stronger than their forehead Ezekiel 3.8.

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So your face is a weapon.

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Your ears are God's instrument and weapon.

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He shall hear a voice behind you saying this is the way.

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Walk in it.

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Isaiah 30, 21.

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Your ears are a weapon for divine direction.

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Everything about a child of God, from the crown of your head to the soles of your feet, is a weapon.

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You are empowered to win, from the crown of your head to the soles of your feet, and that is why God has made your life a mystery to the enemy.

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They can't understand you because they thought they took your car.

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They thought they'd take your power.

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They thought if they took your job they would take your power.

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They thought if they took your spouse or your child, that they would take your power.

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But then they see your power is not in your car, it's not in your job, it's not in your wife or your power.

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But then they see your power is not in your car, it's not in your job, it's not in your wife or your kids.

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The Bible says some trust in horses and some trust in chariots Psalm 27,.

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The horses and the chariot are the place of the power and defense, but we remember the name of the Lord, our God.

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We are empowered from within and that's why we cannot be defeated.

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We are configured to prosper everywhere we go.

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Take a child of God who's cultivated to the desert, and they will turn the desert into the Garden of Eden, because the power that produces the prosperity of the Lord is inside their spirit.

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That's what the devil can't do.

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The devil can't shut you down unless you let him.

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If I come into any environment, I come with the full measure of the gifts and fruit of the Spirit of God and I command today that the expression of that anointing, I command the expression of the full capacity of the Spirit and the glory.

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2 Timothy 1.7.

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God commands them to come alive, receive activation in the name of Jesus, because all of God's children are an investment of God.

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If your anointing has become stale or it's not moving anymore, some people have eyes but they don't see.

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And this generation that's coming up?

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They have eyes but they don't see.

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They have ears but they don't hear.

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They have mouths but they're not speaking.

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Or, when they speak, their words have no power.

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This is the generation that have feet but they're not running.

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It's a generation that has hands but they become crippled and their feet have become paralyzed and they don't understand that the investment of God is in their spirit.

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Anyone that's listening today who's lost their cutting edge because of sin.

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They've lost that cutting edge to the devil.

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God can redeem you.

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There is nothing as exciting as when a believer has their cutting edge.

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Everything about you is lit, burning, activated, supersonic, fully charged up and intensified.

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The Bible says we need to be fervent in the spirit, not slothful in business.

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Fervent in the spirit of serving the Lord Romans 12, 11.

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The spirit of serving the Lord Romans 12, 11.

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That cutting edge I'm talking about, that anointing, is always awake and dynamic.

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When you're with the Lord, you can be set ablaze in your inner man in the name of Jesus and everything about your spirit can be activated and you won't miss one more opportunity.

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You will not for one day walk slowly anymore, you won't crawl anymore, you won't drag yourself anymore.

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Everything can be accelerated, everything is on point, everything is on fire in the name of Jesus.

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If you're not in a godly, holy Spirit-filled church that preaches the full gospel, you are not in the realm of God.

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You can't see what God is revealing in the realm.

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You could be in the room and not be in the realm.

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The Bible says it is the spirit that quickeneth the flesh.

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Profit nothing the words that I speak to you.

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They are spirit and they are life.

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John 6, 63.

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Get plugged in into the realm of the spirit.

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Find you a good church.

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Find you pastors who will cover you.

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Don't just accidentally find yourself in the God realm, consciously enter it.

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The Bible says I will enter this gate with thanksgiving and I will enter his court with praise Psalm 104.

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The Bible says Pray always, building up your most holy faith, praying always in the Holy Ghost.

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Jude 120.

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You've got to stay in touch by activating your spirit throughout the day, especially when you're praying in the Spirit.

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Supernatural transactions take place when you constantly pray.

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The Bible said For men ought to pray and not faint Luke 18.1.

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So when you're constantly praying, god builds up that full capacity of your spirit.

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Your vision is sharp, your hands are enabled, your feet are light.

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It's like everything is faster.

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Your vision is sharp, your hands are enabled, your feet are light.

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It's like everything is faster, your mouth is sharp and when you speak it has impact in the spirit in the godly realm.

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Be God's instrument.

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It's taken from the words of Romans, chapter 12, verse 2.

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