Psalm 69, the humble will soon hear your
song.
A Psalm of David.
Save me, O God, verse 1, for the
waters are come in unto my soul.
I sink in deep mire where there is
no standing.
I am come into deep waters where the
floods overflow me.
I am weary of my crying and my
throat is dried.
Mine eyes fail while I wait for my
God.
They that hate me without a cause are
more than the hairs of mine head.
They that would destroy me, being mine enemies
wrongfully, are mighty.
Then I restored that which I took not
away.
O God, thou knowest my foolishness and my
sins are not hid from thee.
Let not them that wait on thee, O
Lord of hosts, be ashamed for my sake.
Let not those that seek thee be confounded
for my sake, O God of Israel.
Now, David, the king of Israel, is speaking
of a time in his life where the
very confidence of who he is and the
God of his salvation is under a vicious
attack.
In verse 4, he talks about enemies who
are speaking wrongfully.
And the word wrongfully in the original text
means it's a false prophetic voice.
These are groundless words that have no basis
in fact or reality.
And yet their arguments in his mind, David
says, my mind are mighty.
And he said, so mighty, so much so,
he said that I restored that which I
took not away.
If you look in the other translations of
the Old Testament, it means I came to
the point where I began to repay debts
that I didn't owe anymore.
I was doing everything I could to clear
myself and yet I seemingly was unable to
do so.
And you know, beloved, I think some of
you understand what that is all about.
Time to time the enemy will come after
your mind in a way that is absolutely
nothing less than demonic.
Will sit against every argument that you've ever
known, every truth you've ever known about your
position in Christ.
And come against you like a mighty flood,
causing you and I to confess things that
are not even necessary to confess.
They're under the blood.
They're gone.
And David said, I was so oppressed, so
weary of crying.
I was in such a place of sinking
that I in desperation, I began to confess
things that I don't even know.
Things just God, somehow I feel that there
must be something I need to clear in
my life.
And in verse six, David cries, Oh, God,
don't let me go under.
Not just for my sake, but for the
sake of those who are looking to the
testimony of my life to find their hope
in God.
This is the cry, I believe, of every
true child of God.
It's not just about you and me.
It's about our family.
It's about our children.
It's about our grandchildren.
It's about our neighbors.
It's about the coworker associate who's looking to
you is looking to me to find God
in their moment of despair and desperation.
And David cries a prayer that I believe
emanates from the heart of every true Christian.
Lord, don't let me sink.
Not just for my sake, but for the
sake of every person who's looking to your
working within my life to find an answer
to their life's problems and to find direction
for their future.
In verse one, he cries, save me.
Oh, God, for the waters are come into
my soul.
In other words, these things that are coming
against me are coming into my very heart.
They're becoming part of the fabric of my
life.
And they're bringing me into a place of
where there's no standing, where I'm sinking and
I'm coming to some very deep waters and
the floods are overflowing me.
The apostle Peter says in first Peter, chapter
five and verse eight, be sober, be vigilant
because your adversary, the devil is a roaring
lion walks about seeking whom he may devour.
Now, it's interesting when we think about a
lion, we think about being devoured by simple
brute force or brutality or viciousness.
But the actual translation of this word has
another context as well.
It means not just these things, but it
means also to swallow somebody up or to
drown them.
In other words, the enemy walks about as
a roaring lion seeking whom he may drown,
seeking whom he may swallow in something that
is going to come out of his mouth.
Now, how does he do this?
How does he attempt to drown those that
are righteous, to swallow them up with despair,
to cause them to be as David was
in this particular psalm?
As some of you are this morning, I
know for a fact in a place that
you are so desperate that the cry of
your heart, even as wonderful as the worship
was this morning, the cry of your heart
is, oh, God save me.
You know you're a Christian and you're crying
out, God save me, because I'm in a
place of seeking.
There is this flood coming against my mind
and coming against my inward heart.
It's attacking the very core of who I
have thought I was in Christ.
And, Lord, I need you like I've never
needed you before.
You are a victim now of this roaring
lion that stalks about seeking whom he may
drown with some kind of a water, as
it is, that comes out of his mouth.
In Revelation chapter 12, if you want to
turn there, please, with me, you're going to
see something.
How Satan does this.
Now, this passage of Scripture describes a future
event.
I know that.
It speaks in measure about physical Israel.
But it also shows the methodology that Satan
will use to attack those who belong to
Jesus Christ.
In Revelation chapter 12 and verse 15.
Now, this chapter is talking about Israel, the
chosen people of God.
And from Israel was going to come a
Messiah.
And, of course, from the Messiah would be
a seed.
The seed would be those who believe in
him and become co-inheritors of this, not
only salvation, but a new life in God.
A testimony of God's faithfulness in his provision.
In verse 15 says, the serpent cast out
of his mouth water as a flood after
the woman, that he might cause her to
be carried away of the flood.
So, this is how the devil himself is
going to come against the people of God.
The pattern was already set back through Old
Testament Israel and actually through the Garden of
Eden itself.
He cast out of his mouth this water,
this flood that came after the woman to
cause her to be carried away.
To cause her to be moved as it
is from her position that is rightfully hers
because of her legitimate relationship with God.
And the earth, verse 16, helped the woman.
And the earth opened her mouth and swallowed
up the flood which the dragon cast out
of his mouth.
And the dragon was wroth with the woman
and went to make war with the remnant
of her seed, which keep the commandments of
God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Now, if you are a Christian, if the
testimony of Jesus Christ is yours, you can
be sure that you're going to find yourself
in a war.
And it's a war like none you've ever
known before.
This is a war of the mind.
This is a battle for your thought life.
This is a battle for your very confidence
of who you are in Jesus Christ.
This is a demonic sabotage as it has
come to cause you to be carried out
of that position that is rightfully yours and
mine in Jesus Christ.
To cause you to lose strength.
To cause you to lose confidence in your
God.
To cause you to retreat.
And instead of standing strong, making a firm
declaration of who God is in a very
darkened hour, you find yourself sinking now with
the rest of society.
Unsure of where it is that you are
standing and who it is that is your
righteousness.
Now, in the Old Testament, a man who
is called Job was also subjected to this
flood.
A flood that came from the devil's mouth
and that tried to swallow up his confidence
in God and drown him in bitterness and
self-pity.
The Bible tells us that Job was a
righteous man who feared God and walked with
him.
And suddenly, and without any explanation, he lost
family.
He lost his property and he lost his
health.
Many of us here have known some of
these, at least in some measure.
You've known those moments when things that you
trusted in or thought even were the blessings
of God, and indeed many of them were,
all of a sudden are gone.
It's as if there's an unseen conflict going
on around you and you don't know why
this is happening to you.
Some of you are here this morning and
you are suffering from sorrow because of the
loss of one or more of these things
in your life today.
And the enemy circles you like a roaring
lion, seeking now to devour you.
The enemy showed up in Job's day in
the disguise of three friends, but these were
not three friends.
These were three men who were misguided, plus
a fourth young fellow who really doesn't get
much mention in Scripture.
And they had a satanically inspired theology.
And this theology was sent to condemn a
man who was suffering.
And you can see as these friends came
and virtually encircled Job, you can see in
your mind the lion stalking about this righteous
man.
He was a righteous man.
He had nothing left.
He had no health.
He had no family.
He had no property.
All he had left was the fact that
he was righteous in the sight of his
God.
And the enemy had to get at that.
And he brought this flood of ungodly theology
against this position of righteousness that Job held
to before his God.
And he surrounded him.
And the theology sounded something like this.
If God was with you, you would be
always healthy.
You would never be struggling or suffering in
your body.
If God was with you, you would be
blessed.
You would never be suffering want.
As a matter of fact, you'd be rich.
You'd be so rich, you'd be overflowing all
of its borders if God indeed was with
you.
If God was with you, you'd have no
trouble in your family.
Your home would be this blissful place that
you walked into every day.
All of your children would be serving God.
They'd be getting up at 5 a.m.
to make you breakfast every morning.
They'd be at their Bibles and in their
devotions before you had a chance to even
get out of bed in the morning.
If God was with you.
And then the fourth was even more insidious.
It was just a young foolish man after
all this satanic theology had come to attack
this suffering man.
Then this young man got up and his
theology was even another dimension.
He said, God is punishing you less than
you deserve.
You deserve even more punishment than you are
receiving for your sins at this particular moment.
So just confess your sin and you're going
to be back into a place of being
blessed again.
And you see, if Job would have fallen
into this trap, he would have proven the
enemy right.
Because the devil had come before the throne
of God and said, look at this man.
He only serves you for what he can
get.
Touch him now.
Touch his family.
Touch his health.
Touch his property and he will curse you
to your face.
And God says, no, he serves me for
more than this.
He serves me for more than health and
property.
He serves me for more than just this
good feeling that is common to all of
humanity that we like to have around us,
but from time to time may find ourselves
suffering the loss of.
Just confess some wrong thing in your life,
Job, and God will forgive you and he
will restore all of your fortune again.
Remember David in Psalm 69 said, the argument
came so powerfully against me that I began
to restore that which I didn't even owe.
I began to pay back debts that that
were already paid.
I began to do everything that I could
to try to get out of this place
of being attacked the way I was being
attacked.
And that revelation chapters 12 or 16 tells
us something interesting.
Remember, in verse 15, it says the serpent
cast out of his mouth a flood in
an attempt to carry this woman away or
out of her position in her God.
But it says the earth helped the woman
and opened her mouth and swallowed up the
flood, which the dragon cast out of his
mouth.
Now, what does it mean that the earth
opened her mouth?
How is this?
This is, I know, symbolic speech as it
is.
We can we can see this dragon sending
out this this flood of false reasoning, this
this flood of contrary argument to truth to
attempt to destroy the seed of Christ.
But the earth suddenly opens its mouth and
swallows this flood.
And we begin to wonder how how does
this happen?
What does it mean?
Now, in Numbers, chapter 16, if you'll go
back there with me for a moment.
We remember that Moses and Aaron were called
of God.
They were not perfect.
As a matter of fact, they were quite
weak in many areas of their life.
But that doesn't matter.
They were called of God.
Remember, in the New Testament, Paul said God
doesn't call the strong or the wise or
the royal or the noble, but he calls
the weak and the foolish and the things
that are not the things that are despised
all to bring to nothing the things that
exist in and of themselves apart from God,
or at least they think they exist and
are strong apart from God.
And in Numbers, chapter 16, in verse 30,
we see this rising of religious accusers.
They were imitators of godliness and their voices
stood in judgment of those who were rightly
called of God.
They said to Moses and Aaron, you take
too much upon yourselves.
And they stood and accused them that the
position you have, in other words, we are
also entitled to.
This is exactly what demonic powers do.
Who do you think you are to live
in such an exalted position?
Who do you think you are to call
yourself priest to the Most High God?
Who do you think you are to stand
and say that you speak for God?
Who do you think you really are?
We are just as you are.
And, of course, the enemy brought forward men
of renown to accuse two men who knew
very well that they were very weak of
themselves.
Aaron knew he had failed numerous times in
his service to God, and Moses knew that
he had failed God even in the inception
of not circumcising his own son and focusing
on his own frailty rather than the strength
of God.
But now you see these voices coming as
a flood, 250 of them.
It's almost as if you're caught in a
low place when there's a deluge of rain
all of a sudden and these rivers are
rising and you don't know which way to
go.
And I can imagine how Moses and Aaron
must have felt deep down inside for even
just a moment when these men of renown
are rising up and accusing them of holding
too lofty a position in their God.
In Numbers chapter 16 and verse 30, Moses
said, But if the Lord make a new
thing, and the earth opened her mouth, remember?
In Revelation it says, The earth opened her
mouth and swallowed up the flood which the
dragon cast out of his mouth, and swallowed
them up, all that appertains to them.
And they go down quick into the pit.
Then you shall understand that these men have
provoked the Lord.
And it came to pass, as he had
made an end of speaking all these words,
that the ground clave asunder that was under
them.
And the earth opened her mouth and swallowed
them up and their houses and all the
men that appertained to Korah and all their
goods.
They and all that appertained to them went
down alive into the pit and the earth
closed upon them and they perished from among
the congregation.
Now, folks, listen to me carefully.
The whole congregation in one single judicial act
of God were released from the spell of
these voices that were raised against the position
of those that God had appointed to follow
him.
And they became aware that these accusers were
under judgment.
And this is how God will fight for
you.
God will fight for you by once again
showing you clearly that your accuser is already
judged.
Your accuser is under judgment.
Not you.
Your accuser is under judgment.
You are free.
You are bought with a price.
You belong to the Lord Jesus Christ.
You are the righteousness of God in Christ.
The glory of the Lord lives within you.
God promises to seal you in his hand
and says, No man can take you out
of my hand.
You are redeemed.
You are glorified.
You are sanctified.
Jesus Christ is your wisdom.
He is your righteousness.
He is your redemption.
You are redeemed.
The devil is damned forever.
Jesus said in John chapter 16 and verse
11, The prince of this world is judged.
He is judged.
And he tells us that when the Holy
Spirit comes, the Comforter comes, he will show
you things to come.
He will show you.
He is going to open.
Now, I know the context of that is
everything that is ours in Christ.
But not only that.
The enemy is judged.
The devil is judged.
And God will fight for you, but one
more time, opening up the earth as it
is, and showing you the future of the
devil himself.
Showing you the future of every fallen angel,
every demonic power, every voice that rises against
your righteousness in Jesus Christ.
He will show you the future.
He will show you them.
He will show you them burning forever in
the lake of fire, tormented day and night
forever.
He will show you them.
He will show you the power of God
that will take your accuser and cast him
into a lake of fire that will never
go out.
He will show you.
Hallelujah.
He will open to your understanding that the
accusations of your enemy are false.
John 10, 5.
Jesus said earlier, My sheep know my voice,
and a stranger they will not follow, but
they will flee from him, for they know
not the voice of strangers.
They will not listen to this voice.
You see, beloved, whom God loves will bear
fruit.
They accused Aaron, for example.
But God told Moses, take his staff and
put it in a place with others who
think that they are also righteous, apart from
the righteousness of God.
Put his staff in with those that maybe
line up and are prepared, if they haven't
in the past, they are prepared to accuse
him.
And the next morning, this dry stick that
represented the life of everyone who was called
by God and who comes to him by
faith began to blood, bud rather, by the
blood, I guess you could say that way,
had fruit and almonds and blossoms on it.
The enemy will come to you and say,
you're never going to change in this area
of your life.
You're never going to be any different than
what you are.
But you see, the true children of God
begin to discern that voice and say, no,
that's not the voice of God.
I might be a dry stick in this
area of my life, but I tell you,
by the grace of God, by the life
of Christ within me, I will bear fruit.
God Almighty will change me from image to
image and glory to glory.
I will come out of His presence a
new creation in Christ Jesus.
I will be a person who has a
song in his heart.
My life will bear fruit for His honor
and for His glory.
The Scripture will open to you an understanding
if you'll go with me to the book
of Ezekiel, please.
Chapter 28.
You begin to understand two truths.
Firstly, that Satan once was adorned and now
stands naked before God.
You once were naked and now you stand
adorned.
Ezekiel 28, 14.
Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth, and
I have set thee so.
Thou wast upon the holy mountain of God.
Thou hast walked up and down in the
midst of the stones of fire.
Thou was perfect in thy ways from the
day that thou was created.
Now this is an understood thing that this
is a reference to Satan himself.
Until iniquity was found in thee, by the
multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the
midst of thee with violence.
Thou sinned, therefore I will cast thee as
profane out of the mountain of God, and
I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from
the midst of the stones of fire.
Thine heart was lifted up because of thy
beauty.
Thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of
thy brightness.
I will cast thee to the ground.
I will lay thee before kings that they
may behold thee.
Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude
of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy
traffic.
Therefore will I bring forth a fire from
the midst of thee, it shall devour thee.
And I will bring thee to ashes upon
the earth in the sight of all them
that behold thee.
And they that know thee among the people
shall be astonished at thee.
Thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt
thou be any more.
The Lord says, Satan, you were adorned, but
the adornment that you had, you forfeited because
of the pride that came into your heart.
And now you stand naked before Me.
But now I have a people that were
naked, and I've chosen to adorn them.
Beloved, you are not naked.
The enemy will accuse you of being the
very thing that he is.
He is bankrupt.
He has no hope.
He will never change.
He will come to you as a roaring
lion.
He will encircle you and accuse you of
being the very thing that he is.
But look at Isaiah chapter 54.
Go back just a little bit, please.
Isaiah chapter 54, verse 11.
O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest and not
comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with
fair colors, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.
I'll make thy windows of agates and thy
gates of carbuncles and thy borders of pleasant
stones.
And all thy children shall be taught of
the Lord, and great shall be the peace
of thy children.
In other words, the adornment that your accuser
lost, I'm going to give to you.
I'm going to build you on a beautiful
foundation of truth.
And you're not just going to sit on
this foundation.
This foundation will become a very real part
of who you are as your life is
built and rebuilt in the image of the
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
And it's interesting that he says, I'll make
your windows.
In other words, I'll give you beautiful windows
so people can actually look in through your
life and see me within you.
They will look to you.
They will see my life.
They will come and say, what is the
reason for the hope that you have?
Why do you have such a song within
you?
You seem to have a whole church choir
going on inside of you in the midst
of such a difficult time.
He says, I'm going to adorn you, but
I'm going to give you windows that people
can look into.
And they will see the beauty of your
Christ.
They will see it.
The humble will see it.
They will be glad.
And all your children will be taught of
the Lord, and great shall be the peace
of thy children.
They're not going to be taught because you
just opened a Bible at 7 or 8
o'clock every morning.
They're going to be taught because they too
will look within, and they will see the
beauty of Jesus Christ within you.
They will see this crown and glory of
the One whose Spirit has raised you from
the dead and seated you in heavenly places
with Christ.
In righteousness thou shalt be established.
Thou shalt be far from oppression.
Thou shalt not fear and from terror.
And it shall not come near thee.
Behold, he says in verse 15, they will
surely gather together.
In other words, your enemies are surely going
to come around.
The accusers are surely going to try to
take away this righteousness that is yours in
Jesus Christ.
But not by me.
Yes, they will use my name, but I
didn't send them.
They don't speak for me.
They'll use forfeited holy voices as it is.
Falsehoods.
And they will stand and accuse you.
But I didn't send them.
And whosoever shall gather together against thee shall
fall for thy sake.
Behold, he says in verse 16, I have
created the smith that blows the coals in
the fire and that brings forth an instrument
for his work.
And I have created the waster to destroy.
In other words, everything is in my hand.
Everything that has been created, I have created.
God says I am in charge and control
of everything.
The devil is in my hand.
He can't touch you even without my permission.
Verse 17 says, No weapon, say it with
me, no weapon, no weapon, no weapon that
is formed against thee shall prosper.
And every tongue, say it with me, every
tongue that rises against thee in judgment thou
shalt condemn.
This is the heritage of the servants of
the Lord.
Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.
No weapon.
Every tongue.
No weapon.
Every tongue.
No weapon.
You have the right to condemn it.
You have the authority to stand against it.
You don't have to listen to the lies
of the devil any longer.
He is a liar.
He says, and their righteousness is of me,
saith the Lord.
I took off my robes.
God says I came down and became a
man.
And when you came to me, I took
my robe of righteousness and I placed it
upon you.
And you are clean.
You are clean.
And when I have cleansed, no man has
the right to call it common or unclean
any more.
The devil is a liar.
You are going to be raised from this
foundation of Christ.
You are going to have a testimony and
a song in this last generation of time.
You will sing the song of the redeemed
even in the midst of the fire.
The devil is naked.
I am adorned with Christ.
Satan's destiny is eternal fire.
If you don't believe it, look in the
book of Revelation chapter 20.
Eternal fire.
When Brother West was alive and he used
to preach in this pulpit, he'd say, I'm
looking forward to the day when the Lord
throws him in this lake of fire and
puts a steel lid over this entranceway.
And he says, I'm going to dance a
jig on the lid.
His destiny is eternal fire.
Yours is eternal life.
Chapter 21, Revelation verse 1.
I saw a new heaven and a new
earth.
For the first heaven and the first earth
were passed away and there was no more
seed.
And I, John, saw the holy city, New
Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven,
prepared as a bride, adorned for her husband.
And I heard a great voice out of
heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is
with men, and he will dwell with them,
and they shall be his people, and God
himself shall be with them and be their
God.
And God shall wipe away all tears from
their eyes and there shall be no more
death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there
be any more pain, for the former things
are passed away.
And he that sat upon the throne said,
Behold, I make all things new.
And he said to me, Write, for these
words are true and faithful.
I make all things new.
Your destiny, if you are a Christian, if
you are an honest Christian here today, your
destiny is eternal life.
Your destiny is an abundant presence of Christ
within your life.
On this side of eternity.
Your destiny is not to sink, it's to
stand in the midst of the storm.
Your destiny is to stand strong in a
day of compromise, a day of extreme darkness
on the face of the earth.
To stand in the strength of our God.
Know who you are in Jesus Christ.
And to be singing the songs of Zion
like you've never sung them before.
Not songs that are dependent on health.
They're not dependent on property.
They're not even dependent on family.
This song is dependent on the life of
God being lived out within you.
Satan's promise is the justice that evil deserves.
A day of justice is coming when our
accuser is going to be cast down forever
and ever and ever.
Hallelujah.
You won't be able to hear an accusing
voice in heaven.
There will be no such a thing.
You won't be able to cry a tear.
You won't be able to sigh a sigh.
You won't be able to feel a sorrow
in your heart.
All these former things will have passed away.
David prayed it this way in Psalm 69
where we began.
Verse 23.
Let their eyes be darkened that they see
not.
And make their loins continue to shake.
Folks, you've got to start praying this way.
You've got to stop listening to the voices
of your enemies.
You've got to stop giving heed to seducing
spirits and doctrines of devils.
You've got to stop to listen to voices
that are sent to condemn you in your
time of struggle and trial.
You've got to begin to pray, God, let
their eyes be darkened and make their loins
continually to shake.
God, put something of your life within me
that causes hell to begin to tremble.
Send a trembling into the host of the
enemy.
Send a trembling into every lying stronghold.
In every life everywhere that you send me
to go.
God, do such a work in my life
that when I walk into a room, hell
begins to shake.
Every devil begins to shake.
Every satanic theology begins to crumble.
Pour out thine indignation, verse 24, upon them
and let thy wrathful anger take hold of
them.
Let their habitation be desolate and let none
dwell in their tents.
God, use us and bankrupt the enemy.
Bankrupt his dwelling place.
Bankrupt his tents.
Bankrupt his strongholds.
Bankrupt his armies.
Satan's promise is the justice of evil and
that evil deserves.
And yours is the forgiveness of God for
which you have believed.
Oh, beloved.
Job was restored, the scripture tells us.
And he was given twice what he had
before.
We may not have twice the house we
once owned.
You probably owe a house here like everybody
else does.
But you will have twice the confidence in
God.
You will increase in the knowledge and the
life of Christ.
You won't do this without a battle.
But remember, the battle has already been won.
We lay hold of this by faith and
have finished work.
There is a time when you have to
confront the devil himself and state to his
face your position in Christ.
I'm forgiven because I trusted in the shed
blood of Jesus Christ.
I'm changing because the spirit of the living
God lives within me.
And he has promised that as I behold
Christ, I am by this same Holy Spirit
changing from image to image and glory to
glory.
I'm not going to heaven.
I'm already in heaven.
I'm seated at the right hand of the
Father in Jesus Christ.
I'm already there.
My head is already there.
My body is just following after.
But I've already gone over like a runner.
I've lunged and I'm already over the finish
line.
My head is already crossed and the body
is on the way over the finish line.
I'm already seated in heavenly places in Christ.
All my heart's desire now is that Christ
be glorified on this side of eternity.
That he be seen in this body.
That he be glorified that others created in
the image of God who are dear and
important to the heart of God, so much
so that he would shed his blood for
them, would see who he is, and they
would begin to trust in him and be
released from the grip of satanic lies and
theology.
Psalm 69, verse 30.
David said it this way.
He started out, remember, he said, Oh God,
save me.
The waters have come into my soul.
I'm being accused and I'm weary of crying.
But now by verse 30, things begin to
change.
He says, I will praise the name of
God with a song and I will magnify
him with thanksgiving.
This also shall please the Lord better than
an ox or bullocks that has horns and
hoofs.
The humble shall see this and be glad
and your heart shall live that seek God.
For the Lord hears the cry of the
poor and despises not his prisoners.
God will allow this generation to know that
he lives because they will see in my
life a song.
He does not despise the poor.
He does not despise the prisoner.
He will let them hear the humble who
are looking for God.
David says, I'm not giving up my song.
I'm not forfeiting my song to this flooded
enemy.
I'm not giving up my standing in God
and sinking in this place.
God has promised to give me a song,
so I'm going to praise him.
There's nothing I can do to gain this
place.
He has given it to me by faith.
I'm going to accept it by faith and
I'm going to start praising him with everything
that's in my heart.
And those that are looking for God, those
that know they need help and a hope
for their future will see this song within
my heart and they will be glad.
The humble will soon hear your song.
Hallelujah.
There was a day when they were rebuilding
the city of Jerusalem and the enemy had
come against them with a full fury and
caused fear to come into the hearts of
the people, caused them to believe that they
were not on as firm a foundation as
they had been told.
Lying voices came and said, you think you're
going to rebuild this life?
Even if a fox runs on the wall,
it's going to come tumbling down.
We'll come against you at night and catch
you when you're not aware and we'll overpower
you.
When the enemy came, this flood has always
come against the people of God.
And those who have determined in their heart
to not just exist as a Christian, but
to rise in the strength of their God
and begin to build something for his glory.
But God had leadership in those days and
one of those leaders was Nehemiah.
And Nehemiah said to the people, do not
be afraid of them.
Do not be afraid of these voices.
They have no power over you.
All they can do is roar.
But there's a huge collar and a chain
on this lion, this evil lion.
And all he can do is roar and
cause you to begin to think that the
things that are emanating from his mouth are
more real than the truth that God has
spoken to you.
And Nehemiah said to the people, don't be
afraid of them.
Remember the Lord, which is great and terrible,
and he's great, powerful, awesome.
And fight for your brethren, your sons and
your daughters, your wives and your houses.
Don't give up the fight.
Don't give up your position of righteousness that
God has freely given to you through Jesus
Christ.
Don't give up the faith that God's able
to take you, not somebody beside you, you,
and use your life for his glory.
Don't give up the courage that God wants
to plant in your heart to face some
of the giants in your own heart, your
own home, your own neighborhood, and your own
world.
Don't give up the fight.
Remember, we're not just fighting for our own
survival.
We're fighting for our brethren.
We're fighting for those who are also born
in the image of God.
We're in a war, and this war is
not just to survive and be prosperous and
happy until the end and healthy.
We're in a war for the souls of
men.
Fight for your sons.
Don't let your children die in their sin.
Don't let them go through life hearing all
these things about God, but never seeing it,
in their own mothers and fathers and guardians
and grandfathers and grandmothers.
Fight for your sons and fight for your
daughters.
Take your position in Christ.
If you're in a prison today, do you
understand that there's no prison can hold you
as a child of God?
There's no mental battle can hold you.
There's no physical place can hold you.
Fight for your wives and your houses.
It's time now.
Take your position in Christ.
It's time for the humble to hear your
song.
This song of great confidence in God.
I'm giving an altar call today for all
of the sinking.
All of those who you could say, Pastor,
I've come to this house today and you've
preached my very life.
This is where I am right now.
But I am getting out of this place.
I'm tired of trying to restore that which
I don't know.
I'm confessing sins I've never committed.
I'm tired of doing the devil's bidding every
time he yanks on my leash.
I'm tired of it.
And today I'm getting up.
I'm going to trust in God who is
my righteousness.
I'm going to take back my rightful position
in God through Jesus Christ.
And I'm going to have a song back
in my heart again.
I'm believing God for this song.
There's no amount of human effort that's going
to procure this for me.
I'm going to receive it by faith.
And the humble, which includes my neighbors and
my brothers and my sons and daughters and
wives and houses.
They will see this and they also will
be glad.
For God has heard their cry.
And they're going to see that he is
alive.
Because they're going to hear his praises coming
from the very depths of my heart.
Now, Father, I ask you today for a
mighty deliverance.
A mighty deliverance in this house.
Lord, this has been a battle.
God, I thank you, Lord, that you are
already the victor.
Lord, this altar is the victory side.
And I pray God with all my heart.
You give courage now to those that are
sinking.
Those that have lived under the lie of
the devil.
Those that are going down and not up
in their theology and their thinking.
I pray God, you give them the courage
to get out of their seat.
Come to this altar and receive this song
that only you can give.
A song of faith.
A song of confidence.
A song that people around will begin to
see and hear and turn and trust in
God.
Lord, I stand against all these weapons of
darkness.
Jesus, you said the anointing of the Spirit
would open the prison doors to those that
are bound and release the captives.
And I believe it with all my heart.
God, you have delivered your word today.
And your word has come to put a
song in the hearts of your people.
Father, I pray now for those that have
been not singing the songs of Zion.
Would have the courage to respond.
The courage, oh God, to let you take
away all of the strife of their heart.
All the plans of their enemy to see
these things just fall into the dust literally
at their feet.
God, there is going to be a shout
of victory in this house.
And I thank you for it with all
of my heart.
Jesus, we give you the glory even before
it happens.
We give you the glory.
Thank you, God.
Thank you, Jesus.
Now listen to me.
If you're in this sanctuary, in the education
annex, and you are in a prison.
You're in a literal prison.
The devil has put you there.
You have bought in to theological falsehood.
You begin to believe a lie about yourself.
And today the Holy Spirit has exposed that.
Come meet me at the psalter.
We're going to pray.
In the annex, stand please between the screens
not to obstruct that.
And we'll pray for you too as well.
Make your way here.
Let's all stand.
Make your way to the psalter.
And we're going to pray together.
And we're going to believe God with all
of our hearts.
We're going to believe him.
Hallelujah.
Thank you, Jesus.
Thank you, Lord.
Thank you for mighty deliverance.
Thank you, God, for opening prison doors.
Thank you for setting captives free.
We give you the praise.
We're a free people.
We are free.
We are free from the lies of hell.
We are free.
We are free from the condemnation of the
devil.
We are free in Jesus' name.
Hallelujah.
Thank you, Lord.
Thank you, Jesus.
Thank you, Lord.
Thank you, Jesus.
Thank you, Lord.
Pray with me, please.
I am the righteousness of God in Christ
Jesus.
My sins are washed away.
I am a new creation.
I live in victory because Jesus Christ purchased
that victory for me.
When He died to pay the price for
my sin.
I have trusted in Him.
Therefore, I shall not slide.
I have trusted in Him.
Therefore, I am seated with Him at the
right hand of God in heavenly places.
No weapon that is formed against me can
prosper.
The righteousness I have is given to me
by my God.
And I live a life where God Himself
will be glorified through me.
I believe this.
I will be set on a beautiful foundation.
The windows of my life will be glorious.
The humble can look in and they can
see and they will hear a song that
will make them glad.
God, thank you.
I'll give Him a shout of praise.
Give Him a shout of praise.
Hallelujah.