How To Get Your Fight Back - Bishop T.D. Jakes

I am excited to share the word of the Lord with you tonight. I believe God will bless you in a special way as we delve deeper into God's word. I enjoyed ministering to you on Sunday. We had fun. No? It was incredible, it was incredible in the presence of the Lord as we were sending the message to the rainmaker and we were talking about Elijah. God has told Elijah. I want you to go there and confront Ahab. If you face a hand, I will do it. Stop the drought and Elijah comes to Ahab and says, I'll tell you what you have.

All these prophets of Baal. Gather as many of them as you can and meet me on Mount Carmel and the god who answers. fire the fire came down from the sky and burned the wood and burned the bullets and licked the water and all the prophets were horrified and they all retreated and for a while Ahab was convinced that Jehovah was god Elijah climbs up the mountain of Mount Carmel, returns to Mount Carmel and lies down on Mount Carmel and gets into the birthing position where he lets his head fall between his knees. He has told him that I heard the sound of an abundance of rain, it doesn't seem like much, but I see a cloud the size of a man's head.

The skies turned black and lightning began to flash and thunder began to roll and suddenly it rained heavily. Don't listen to me a lot of rain started out small but meanwhile it got bigger this is what

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future sounds like this is what your prophecy sounds like this is what your destiny sounds like this is what your prayers sound like I seem to be going to pick up where I left off on Sunday and delve a little deeper into his life story. For some of you, it will not take you into deeper waters and you are used to going to for others of you it may be something new but for all of you I believe that God is going to direct you to a way of looking at this that will really help you to go to first of kings chapter 19 verse one to nine and I am going to be reading in the lv but it is 1 of kings 19 1-9 and it reads this way now Ahab told Jezebel everything that Elijah had done and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword, then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah to tell him that if the gods deal with me, let the gods deal with me, even if very severely, if tomorrow at this time I don't make your life like that of one of them um , that was a strong statement, Elijah was afraid and ran for his life when he arrived. sheba bear in judah left his servant there while he himself went one day traveling through the desert he came to a broom king james version since the juniper tree sat under it and prayed that he could die I have had enough lord he said take my life I am no better that my ancestors then lay down under the bush and fell asleep suddenly and the angel touched him and said get up and eat, he looked around and there next to his head was some bread baked on hot coals and a jug . of water he ate and drank and then lay down again the angel of the Lord returned the second time and touched him and said to him get up and eat for the journey for the journey for the journey for the journey it is too much for you then he stood up and He ate and drank strengthened by that food strengthened by that food strengthened by that food He traveled 40 days and 40 nights until he reached the mountain of God There he went into a cave he spent the night and the law and the word of the Lord He approached him and told him He said: What are you doing here?

Elijah the father sanctified the word in our hearts tonight as we enter into the word so that we may have a deeper, fuller and more complete understanding of the word tonight so that we may grow by the word which could be built up so that we may be strengthened by it in the name of Jesus we pray amen wow, I trust you are doing well tonight. I'm excited to have the opportunity to be with you to share the word tonight and I believe God goes. To do something special for you tonight as we go through the word, I can go

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to the Scriptures again and talk a little bit more.

It is absolutely amazing when you read the previous chapter how dynamic Elijah was, how he faced uh uh uh ahab and how he faced the prophets of baal and how he destroyed the 450 prophets of baal with great courage, great tenacity, how he came

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and He threw it upon Mount Carmel and prayed again and put his head between his knees and blocked everything and then prayed until he produced the rain that broke the drought that broke the famine that changed things for everyone he had done everything for everyone he had freed everyone and then King Ahab comes back and tells Jezebel about a woman that I talked about at length on Sunday, a woman that was a foreigner to them was not really one of them, she had been brought to their camp from Phenicia and she had married this Hebrew boy although they were both actually Semites and she married him and it was the the king and queen came together because the two countries came together it was a political agreement she didn't choose him she didn't want him it was an arranged marriage not just for the parents but for the countries because they thought so It would be good politically and here she is in this country and I talked about it quite a bit on Sunday and here she is in this country in this atmosphere far from her people far from Phoenicia far from her customs and rituals away from her liberal attitudes she is now thrust into this extremely conservative environment and not only are they conservative, they are controversial, yes they are conservative, but they don't get along with each other and she hated it.

First of all, she sent for the prophets to have something. from home something that was true to her faith, her background and her religion and she is trying to convert them by killing the prophets and now Elijah has killed the prophets of Baal in a dynamic display of the glory of God. Fire on Mount Carmel licking the water. licking the wood looking at the stones and burning the sacrifice God showed himself to be strong in the life of Elijah Elijah prays in the rain and it begins to rain again God has proven to be strong Elijah kills 450 prophets God has proven to be strong in the life of Elijah , Elijah then tells King Ahab to just get in his chariot and don't relax riding unless the rain stops you and then he girded his loins around his belt on his belt and started running and ran away. car powerful man superman amazing man incredible man accomplished man admirable man in that chapter of his life but when he heard that Jezebel had said that the gods will do that to me and more if I don't kill you in the next 24 hours he got scared Now I would like to say that the pressure started with the Jezebel threat and sometimes we have something that happens in our life that is the tipping point that pushes us over the edge that takes us to a place where we just can't take it anymore and suddenly we react to that the Jezebel threat in her life she never touched him she never caught him she didn't catch him within 24 hours she really cursed herself but he is running scared and he is not a fearful person but now he is I am afraid and I wonder if there is someone watching me tonight.

Normally you are not a fearful person, but now you are afraid that your emotions will be expressed in such a way that you will respond in this way and that way, that something that you would normally be sure of is now you are scared or tired or frustrated or tired and he comes to the juniper tree. I'm going to use King James English. He comes to the juniper tree and said: enough is enough. which really means it's too much but he says it's enough let me die the man who just killed 450 prophets now says let me die I'm no better than my ancestors I want out of my own life I wonder if there's anyone out there listening to me Tonight, who has ever reached the point of exasperation where you want to cut him out of your own life?

Maybe maybe not suicidal. We will not use such a big word because many people cannot appropriate that word. not suicidal, but depressed, discouraged and frustrated enough that you want to get out of your own life, get out of your own skin, get out of your own world, you could get in the car and drive until you run out of gas and then keep going. a bus and I'm going to you I ran out of money and wherever you were you change your name and you become someone else because enough is enough, you've had it and you know you're a believer and you know what we have, but you've had it and you know the scriptures but you have had it and you have seen miracles work in your life before but you have had it and you have seen god use you in a powerful way but now for some reason in this season with all these things happening on top of everything else that It happened to you you you you have been protected in a place some of you have lost your jobs you have lost your loved ones you have we We have seen a quarter of a million people die, now we are seeing an increase in the virus and, if that does not If enough, every day we are faced with political chaos like we have never seen before, no matter what your politics, these have been a stressful four years.

It's always bad when all kinds of hell breaks loose, but this has been exceptionally contentious, everyone

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s everyone and you try to avoid it and you try to spin around and it's almost in every season now, it's one thing to have hell outside and pressure on you. outside and chaos outside, but it's not like your own personal problems went to bed while the world was going crazy, it's not like your beetles stopped coming because of covid, no, no, it's not Like all your kids are lined up and everyone. your brothers aligned and all your parents aligned because of kobe no no no no you still have all the drama you always had plus this new drama you're saying look I'm a strong person but this is enough what do you do? what to do when when you feel like giving up you feel like walking away first of all there is the shame of feeling this way the guilt that comes from saying I should be a guy a person I should be an alpha male I should be this I should be that I am a superwoman I am the woman for work you've always thought that about yourself but now you don't want to tell anyone shh but get out of your own life get me out of my own skin oh yes I could be someone else for a while and the pressure and anxiety have made the great man of God lands under a bush and has despaired of life itself and says it is enough.

I want to talk about breaking points because all of us have it. We don't all know how to deal with it, but we all have it. It's especially difficult for those of us who have been powerful in other chapters of our lives to reach a point of exasperation because the feeling is not. It's frustrating that he's a foreigner and you'd dare say it in front of anyone. Elijah didn't say it in front of anyone. That's why he wanted you to realize that he left his servant at Bear Sheba Judah and left them there. Did you stay here and leave? a little further away where the servant couldn't hear and said God, I'm sick of everything and everyone.

This is not the kind of prayer you do on Sunday morning in front of church. This is the type of prayer that is said when no one is there. listening where you can really keep it real and understand what God is saying I'm sick of my husband I'm sick of my wife I'm sick of my kids I don't like my goldfish my dog ​​is stupid I'm going to kill that cat just maybe you haven't been there I understand that feeling I understand that feeling where you're overwhelmed and you need to be honest with God for a minute not religious not spiritual not perfect nothing and tell God I'm sick of this I've had it I'm tired enough is enough when when people who is normally feisty it gets to this point the shame also comes from being there because they are not used to being there I feel like I'm talking to someone tonight I don't know I don't know I feel like I'm sitting talking directly to someone I don't even know you're not even used to feeling the way you feel it's a strange feeling it's strange Feeling like Elijah is not only in a strange place, but he's having a strange feeling at a strange time in his life, lying under a tree, a Bush, so to speak, can't go any further, it's not like he checked into the Bush Hotel.

It's not the Juniper Resort no, this is as far as you can go and it just collapses and everything spills out. I have been faithful to you. I have worked for you. I've done this and that. I did everything he went through. the whole list then moves on to something else, he says there is no one left but me, they have killed all the prophets, but I am left alone now I want to stop right there because I want you to see something of what he just said. It is not true and he knows it is not true because in the previous chapter Obadiah has reserved at least some prophets in a cave and is aware that those prophets exist.

What do you do when what you know doesn't align with how you feel intellectually? he knows they are there, but emotionally, emotionally and experientially he feels completely alone, he has left his servant alone for a little bit, but he knows where he is, there are other prophets who are still alive, he knows he knows it, but he doesn't feel it. And sometimes what you feel about something becomes your reality and the Bible says he fell asleep under the juniper tree. How do you get your

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back? That's what I'm talking about tonight. Can I tell you something, you're tired?

He has been doing. everything for everyone he has fought against all odds he has faced his greatest enemies he has faced 450 prophets of baal he has faced 450 prophets of baal he has faced him in the face and spoken ill of him, he has been fierce but he istired, he has climbed all the way back to Mount Carmel again and prayed and prayed and prayed and prayed and prayed and prayed and prayed and prayed for rain, his literally was born rain and God has answered him. and if that were not enough, he has left the king behind.

Ahab was in a chariot and Elijah was on foot and he has left him behind, he is tired and god who caught fire from the sky and god who sent a valley use of the rain who rebuked the drought and stopped the hunger doesn't work miracles under the juniper tree other than allowing you to rest a little you can't help it when you're burned out when you're at the end of your rope there's nothing wrong with resting now I want to show you some things here this is going to be fine now okay he tells god to take my life i'm no better than my ancestors and then he lies down under the bush and falls asleep his body is trying to tell him i can't keep up with the life you lead his body says he's tired it's not just his mouth saying he's tired he fell asleep he wasn't planning on falling asleep he fell asleep before he fell asleep he said take my life away he's depressed his emotions are off - focused, his fight is gone, he doesn't even sound like the guy in the last chapter, but he's the same guy who caught fire on Mount Carmel and he still has miracles left and he still has powerful gifts left inside of him. him but he has lost his fight the threat of Jezebel was the straw that broke the camel's back but it was not the only straw on the camel's back and I am talking to someone tonight who you have tried hard to hard to hard to hard to hard to hard to hard to hard to hard to for trying hard trying hard so far They feel like bricks on your back and the Lord has you in this class tonight not only to learn about Elijah but to challenge you to curl up somewhere in the fetal position with a blanket or a blanket or a pacifier, yes, something, yes, and he fell asleep. and the bible says that suddenly an angel touched him and said get up and eat now I want to get into this so one thing to get your fight back is to get some rest the second thing is to get up and eat is to do Make sure you eat well, make sure eat healthy, make sure you do all the things you need to fuel your body and give it the nourishment it needs, that's one part of it.

That's very important, we don't want to minimize the importance of that because the car can't run without gas and you can't run without the right fuel in your body and when you get tired, you know some people react differently. people get tired, they lose their appetite, some people get tired and overeat, it just depends on how you are composed, but you understand what I'm saying. God sent an angel to tell him to get up and do what his body would normally tell him. let him get up and eat and there is bread breaking over hot coals I want to tell you that God has prepared food for tired people and he delivers I said he delivers I said he delivers he will come right where you are no You don't have to go to Hawaii You don't have to go to Disneyland No You have to go to the Swedish Alps You don't have to go to Paris to get some rest He will come right where you are if you rest and he will feed you I want to go deeper into this food thing, we talked about it but I want to go deeper, we talk about the risks, We talked about nutrition, I went to a seminar for clergy and it was uh, the clergy and the CEOs and we were all in a room together and the gentleman who was teaching a workshop told us something that I want you to do, he said, I want you to write in a sheet of paper all things and all people. the choir whatever the fried chicken committee the hand baking committee the board you're on all the grandma your aunt nelson your cousin willie who's so nervous right now write to everyone in your life who cares about you They need you I want you To do that, I want you to make a list right now of all the people you can imagine of all the people, organizations, causes, jobs, houses, taxes, everything that needs you, that makes you run faster than others. chariots, which makes you a slave, false prophets, which makes you climb the hill. and pray for all those people who need you to do all the amazing things you do every day, even if it's making peanut butter and jelly and helping the kids with homework while trying to run a business for yourself while trying to figure out how to pay bills I want you to write down everything that needs you every person that needs you that calls you who wants prayer who wants advice who wants support who wants you to pick them up who wants you to carry their clothes who wants you to do something for those who want you to stop by and see how your grandmother is doing, all the people who need you and are wonderful, they can be great causes, great missions and wonderful people, we are not trying to fix any of them, I just want you to put them on a list where you can see them.

Keep going. Make a list. The people you advise. The people you comfort. The people who call you and abandon you. People who ask you to borrow money. The people who ask you to borrow your wisdom. The people who want your help. the people who demand your company, the people who take your attention, your time and your energy, and I'm not saying you don't love them, just write a list of all the people who need you and I'll bet you everything I can. I don't see it, but I bet you anything you're still writing and if you're like me, the list got longer than I thought it was than I'd ever written on paper to see what it was.

I had never looked at her. everything in isolation call by call I need my needs situation my situation but I had never made a list to stand in line and see how much was on my back look at all the people who need you come check the garage door I'm getting ready to move I need help me get this refrigerator down all the people who need you this baby is running out of diapers all the people who need you don't judge them just write the list and I'll give you time because I guess their list is like my list of laws because every Every time I put down my pen or every time I stop writing I think of someone else and the list gets longer and longer and longer and longer and longer and then he said For us in this room, now make a list of all the people. that feed you and that was harder to write than the need, the need, you list everything that came to mind really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really quickly, but without any distinguishing features. the people around you feed me, the people around you replenish me, that was a much shorter list and if that list is that big and the other list is that big then you're operating in the red in which Elijah was operating. the red one and he didn't even know it and the bible says that he ate and went back to bed he is exhausted he just woke up he woke up at eight and went back to sleep he gets up and eats again and the angel tells him continue the second meal get up and eat because the journey is too big for you, oh God, I know you don't want to admit that nothing is too good for you and that anything is too much for you and you sign up for everything and do what everyone does. the rest is useless and go get everyone that no one else will get go check on the people it's too much it's not enough it's too much the trip is too big for you he was saying it's enough the angel said the trip is too much Okay if your journey is too much and it's too great for you, if your list is too short of people who feed you intellectually, spiritually and emotionally, validate you, being around them rekindles your flame and all that, and you have more people who drain your life. battery and pull you and pull you all the time all the time all the time you are operating in the red and we have to achieve some balance in the balance of your life and sometimes the people who need you will always find you but you have to be intentional with the people who feed you the places that feed you the things you like to do that feed you you don't have time for them because you've said yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes to this list here you have said I'll call you later I'll call you soon I'll spend some time with you on this list here now you're wondering why you feel the way you feel and where your fight went it's not Jezebel that's the problem it's out of balance it's terribly out of balance and some Of us we do it to ourselves we are not happy until we are surrounded by people who need us and it is For many of us it is a hidden symptom of low self-esteem because everyone is more important than us and we continue to relegate ourselves to the background because secretly We don't believe we matter enough to prioritize ourselves and get what we need. that we can continue to serve people with more moderation and more space in between and take time for ourselves so that we can be available to God and to ourselves and you are on the front lines and many people need you and they don't know that the person that they need is about to die and as they watch this Bible class and as they go through this Bible class with me, tears come to their eyes because they are tired and empty and exhausted.

You can't even tell anyone because what would they think of you if they knew that the person who called fire from heaven and has all the answers and solves all of everyone's problems is in a mess and you have all the shame? I don't want to disappoint anyone and I call these types of people God's players. We've been so busy being God in people's lives that God doesn't get to be God in their lives and we think what if we take some time off and stop. and if we rest and refuel or if we surround ourselves with people who feed us, sometimes it's not about sleeping, sometimes it's about being around someone who has something intelligent to say that invigorates and motivates you, that's speaking in the next level, that feeds you. intellectually that feeds you spiritually that feeds you emotionally some of you are in this this this Bible place tonight and they're going to close in a minute because you know you're passing through and you thought you'd check it out.

It may be going on and you get distracted, you're going to do something, some of you in this Bible class like this, you're trying to eat like a man who just got out of jail because there are a lot of places you can go to be fed and You have a title and you have a position, you have done all the things and you are in power. You have very few places where you can go and be honest and say man, I'm so tired it's affecting my thinking. about my life and I completely forgot that there are other prophets.

I could have gotten those guys Obadiah had in the cave and they could have helped me, but I forgot how to say help. Maybe I didn't think they would do it right. I didn't think they would do it like me for whatever the excuse: this list is too short and this other list is too long and it gets longer every day, every day and now the great man of God is not helping anyone, It's not healing anyone. It does not forgive any water It does not rebuke any disease It does nothing because it is curled up under the juniper tree and only God knows what your juniper tree will be if you do not stop seeing what about fainting and what about falling is that you cannot choose where you are going to do it the other day someone he was getting out of the bathtub, he fell and hit his head, split his head open, hemorrhaged and finally died and someone else made everyone say why he fell there.

He didn't choose him, he chose him, you can't choose where you pass out, it's not like Elijah went and started saying I'm going to come up here and I'm going to stand under this juniper tree and I'm going to collapse no, he was going to go pray, I was going to go a little further and pray like Jesus went a little further and prayed, you clap your hands, you can't choose where you fall, thank God for the angels that come and minister to us when we are in our most vulnerable places and That's what I want to be tonight.

I want God to use me to be God's angel. The angel of God means a messenger. I'm not saying he's an angel, so don't write to me about that. I'm saying I'm just a messenger, that's what the angels sent by God to tell you get up and eat and then lie down again and get up and eat again because where you're getting ready to go you have to change your pattern and recover. your balance and get your fight back and the Bible says he went with the strength of that flesh for 40 days, he went with the strength of that meeting you see some of us don't need much if we can get a little we can get back up and we can keep running for a while and we'll have this false start and we'll get this feature and have you ever been sick and had a good day and overdone it and relapsed?

Sometimes we want to get up so badly that we get up too early and he had enough to last for 40 days, but then when he gets to Mount Horup, he goes into a cave and collapses again because he hasn't actually fully recovered yet. It has not finished. I want to show you this, come on, come with me, go with me, I want, I want to get into this and I trust that someone is being blessed by this word and then you should share this with someone that you know needs to hear this. word, you should communicate it to someone who needs to hear this word and it ends in the cave and the Bible says in verse 9 there he entered a cave and spent the night and the word of the lord came to him.What are you doing here Elijah?

Do you think God didn't know why he was here? He's trying to let Elijah know why he's here. I have spoken very seriously with the Lord. Almighty God, the Israelites have rejected your covenant, they tore down your altars and killed your prophets with the sword and I am the only one left and now they are trying to kill me too. He was not the only one left. but they were trying to kill him and the lord said: go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the lord because the lord is about to pass by you and then a great and powerful way to destroy the mountains and shatter the rocks before the lord , but the Lord was not in the wind, he is not in all those big and noisy things that you think he would be in and after the wind came an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake, he is not in the tremors, the shaking and hakamas, all that kind of stuff. things you cannot hukam an ashunda pass tired you cannot take a spiritual antidote for a natural problem you cannot put an anointing on an emotional breakdown after the earthquake came from the fire but the lord was not in the fire and after the fire came a soft whisper oh god father make me a soft whisper tonight use me to be a gentle whisperer holy spirit push these who are watching online tonight a soft whisper they have trembled they have seen fire they have seen dancing they had inmates who have done all kinds of things trying to revive but let me be that still small voice or use me as a general whisperer when Elijah heard it when he heard it he put his cloak over his face and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave then a voice told him what are you doing here Elijah god go on asking him the same question what are you doing here god doesn't know why he is here and then repeats the same answer i have been very serious uh uh uh for the lord god almighty the israelites have rejected your covenant they broke down your altars and killed your prophets with the sword I am the only one left and now they are trying to kill me he just said that a minute ago he was saying the same thing again so the Lord told him go back the way you came and go to the desert of Damascus when you get there anoint Haziel king over Abraham also anoint Jehu son of Nimsha king over Israel and anoint Elijah son of Shafat of Abel Mahola to succeed you as a prophet get a plan get a strategy get help anoint some people to handle some things that are too big for you you are handling things beyond your anointing beyond your calling beyond your gifts you don't have to fix things on a national level problems prophet and anoint a successor and then the successor's name is elijah some people say elisha however you want to say it seek help because although he is not ready elias eliseo is not yet ready to succeed elias and although he has to walk with him a long time and although he has to train and prepare him, some help is better than no help and when you can look into the future and see that one day you can pass on some things that give you hope and make you pull your anchor forward. and you can forget those things that are behind you, you can reach the things that are before you and you will be fine and not once does God mention Jezebel because what took him under the tree and what took him to the cave has nothing to do with Jezebel, it has a lot to do with how your life is structured and ordered.

I'll tell you this and then I'll close for the night. I learned it a long time ago. My life has a lot of stress, a lot of responsibilities. I have a lot of things going on there are only 24 hours in a day there is only one I am a limited resource I am not God I am not I am the president I cannot be everywhere at the same time I cannot respond to everyone I cannot fix everyone I cannot reply to all I had to admit that I am not god and in the process I began to learn that as stress increases it puts more pressure on you, you have to add more structure and all God did was call him out of that cave and give him structure and strategy for where God is preparing to take you and how He is preparing to use you and what He has planned for your future.

Don't wait until you get there to prepare, you must get structure and strategy while you are at the mouth of the cave and yes, your downtime is downtime and rest time, but it is also a time for God to calm you down enough. he can give you the structure, the strategy and the successor you need to get your fight back when Elijah leaves the caveman, starts doing his thing again, starts doing his miracles again, starts moving with power and glory again, he has direction and perception the fog is gone the confusion is gone he was fed not only food perception direction clarity thought as I close tonight I pray that a still small voice will speak to you your life is not over you are not going to be with your ancestors you No you are the only one left, those are all distortions of reality based on the fact that you need to take some time, rest, eat something and intentionally make that short list longer, taking time to be around things and people . and the events that fuel you because anyone who has more withdrawals than deposits ends up bankrupt.

Can I pray for you tonight? Can I pray for you tonight? because no one knows what it's like to be like you and people can be so cruel and so judgmental and so judgmental and so quick to get angry you didn't do this you weren't here you should have been there you should have been here if you had been here my brother wouldn't have died If you had been here that would not have happened if I had been there, let me know that the enemy is an accuser of the brother. Some of you are walking and not only with pain, you are walking with guilt because the enemy is accusing you of not being in the president. don't be everywhere you can't fix everything you can't solve all the problems take off that responsibility of trying to be everyone's god and everyone's savior and I want to pray for you tonight because your thinking is sometimes distorted and you forgot that you have help and that god has more people than you and that yes, you can turn down an engagement and the world won't stop and you don't have to be at every luncheon and you don't have to do every funeral and you don't have to attend every wedding and you don't have to You have to go to all the events and you don't have to make cookies for the Girl Scouts you don't have to do everything to be able to fight When you regain your balance, when you have heard that still small voice speak to you, when you have added enough structure to the life you lead and a strategy for the future, not what is behind you, but a strategy for what is in front of you. you and don't worry about your Jezebel because God is going to fix his red wagon and they have to do it and you don't have to worry about that, what you do have to worry about is getting your fight back.

I feel the holy spirit ministering to you. Someone I don't know who it is, but I'm praying for you tonight that this Wednesday night Bible class will be your still, small voice and I'm praying for you tonight that you'll recognize that what's in front of you is bigger than what is chasing you behind you and that you would walk in the power of his strength and I want you to live like this and I want you to give like this I want you to sow like this I want you to walk like this but you can't do any of those things if you haven't heard of God tonight you will hear from God tonight and tonight a Wednesday night not a Sunday a Wednesday night not a lecture on a Wednesday night queen of the bible just you and me hanging out tonight you take back your fight this tonight you get a renewal tonight you get a sense of relief tonight you get a moment of clarity tonight you can hear a still small voice what Elijah did right wasn't so much his prophecy Elijah has the gift of listening this is how he heard the sound of rain abundant but I had stopped listening you need to get into a place of steel this is how you can speak to be able to listen because God is not going to be in an earthquake and he is not going to be in the fire and he is not going to be in the strong wind whistling around you and all that distraction, he will speak to you in a still small voice, holy spirit, I pray tonight that you will touch the people around the world who are listening to this.

Bible class tonight and some of them are executives and some are janitors and some are nurses who work in double sheds and some of them are home labs trying to be teachers and housewives and trying to be wives and trying to do their business and They run their lives and some of them are young people sitting on the couch and they are all exhausted because they have tried and tried to get up and they can't figure it out and some of them have cell phones and they have money and some of them are in a crisis right now and the journey It's too much for them they have lost the fight so many doors have been closed in their faces that they have lost the fight so many boyfriends have I rejected you that you have lost your fight sir many of them have been hurt so many times that they have lost their fight but tonight let May a still small voice speak in the midst of all the clamor, speak to them tonight and give them clarity and above all things.

May this be the beginning for them to recover their fight, may this be the beginning for them to intentionally write a list when I go to my grandmother's house, she feeds me. I'm going to visit my grandmother when I do this. He feeds me when I play golf He feeds me when I go to the library He feeds me when I go to the opera He feeds me whatever God lets the list he feeds him get longer and the list get shorter list of people who need them to be able to have balance and complete their entire journey in the name of Jesus of Nazareth, I pray, amen now, if you do not know Jesus in the free forgiveness of your sins, this is not just an exercise in motivational understanding .

I am preaching from the Bible the same word of God and if while we are in the spirit of prayer, if you would simply bow your head and say lord Jesus, I am a sinner and I admit that I am a sinner and I am tired of being a sinner I confess that I say that I am incapable of fixing myself without you entering my heart or I am a repeat offender, I walked away from you, I need you now, I need you now, I am so sorry, I disappointed you, I embarrassed you, I failed. I hurt you I rejected you Please forgive me and give me a second chance in the name of Jesus Amen Just before I leave I will be gone in just a minute If this ministry is a blessing and you were late and you didn't do it You have the opportunity to give and you think it's worth it It's worth it to keep this ministry on the air if you think this ministry is valuable please support it plan it I'm not just I'm not just a man I have 300 employees I have offices i I have workers, I have people working with people in the hospital, I have people feeding the people, I have people who come up and do all kinds of things and provide all kinds of services trying to make the world a better place, but I have to pay them and they have families and they have electricity and water bills and all that.

I have musicians and technicians and people and all kinds of people and social media people and they are wonderful. I have the best team in the world. world and I have to feed them and I want to challenge you to help me keep them employed in the midst of the biggest crisis we've ever seen in this country in the last 100 years, in any small way you can, I would appreciate it. I hope that some of what I have said tonight has been of value to you. I hope it unlocks the second half of your life and above all, above all, I pray that you take back your fight in the name of Jesus, we pray, amen, that's all.

I love you have a great night