Thankful for the Thorn

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SPEAKER_03 0:00

I want to go to Second Corinthians chapter 12. And um I'll be very upfront with you this evening. I don't have a lot of time for fluff. I don't have a lot of time for uh fancy words or platitudes, and I don't feel I have a lot of time to qualify any of the statements I'm gonna preach tonight. Um to the Lord today in deep prayer this afternoon. Forgive me if I say I feel like we might have missed an opportunity this morning. There's been a lot of attack on God's people throughout this week, and I'll be honest with you, I've felt light as a feather. I've felt happy, jovial. I've joked around more this week than I've joked around in two years. My wife's getting a little tired of it. I've been joking on, I've been picking on her so much, she's just picking back. Maybe I'm getting a little tired of it. Um, but tonight I feel like I got a word from the Lord that's gonna help his people, it's gonna stir us up. And I'll be honest with you, there's some people that needed to be, I'm just gonna be blunt. Is that okay? There's some people that needed to be here tonight, but they let the devil keep them out of the house. So you go ahead and share it with them and you let them know you weren't here, Pastor said this is for you. And I'll be honest with you, I'm tired of us. We act like we want to act like a lamb, but at some point we got to start being like a lion. We can be bold, we can speak the truth in love with great boldness, but uh the kingdom does not the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence. It does not say in the pancake, does not say in the pansy, it does not say the weak. It says the violent take it by force. So sometimes we gotta get something that rises up within us that gives us a little bit of a spiritual backbone that says, I'm I'm gonna quit making excuses for people that are unrighteous, for things that are unrighteous, and I'm gonna go ahead and speak the truth. And so that's what God's asked me to do tonight. As you can tell, I'm feeling myself already, and you're gonna be like, My God, what he's preaching ain't got nothing to do with what he just said. It does. Second Corinthians 12, beginning at verse 7. Paul writing to the church at Corinth, and lest I should be exalted above measure, through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan. That word messenger is the Greek word angelos. Literally means the message, the errand runner, the angel of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. For this thing I besought the Lord thrice that it might depart from me, and he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee. For my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly, now listen, when he said that, it was a continuation of the statement that God made to Paul. It was not Paul saying, My strength, his strength, it was Paul saying, God said that his strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly, therefore, will I rather glory in my infirmities that the power of Christ may rest upon me. I want us to pray. I'm gonna have evangelists pray for us tonight. I don't know if I can have more monitor wherever I was at, put it back there. It was great. I felt like I could growl and get in it. It's uh he the sound man decided tonight you're gonna move one or two ways. You're either gonna move because the Holy Ghost is hitting you, or you're gonna move because it's loud and it's shaking you out of your seat. Praise God. I want us to have the evangelist, he's gonna pray over us tonight, but I want there to be a loud prayer that rises up in God's people right now. Can we do that?

SPEAKER_01 4:46

God, let's lift up our hands in this place today. Come on. Let's lift up our hands. Come on, the Holy Ghost wants to speak in it, he wants to minister to us tonight. I feel the gifts of the spirit already moving in this place tonight. Come on, this is not an ordinary service. Come on, I believe that God has spoken a word to the pastor. Come on, about the tabernacle tonight. Come on, you need to open up your heart and receive a word from the angel of the Lord to the city of Wilmington right now. Hitarobo shot.

SPEAKER_00 5:25

God, we're praying tonight. God, that you would open up the windows of heaven. God, we pray, God, that the gifts of the spirit would be an operation. God, we pray you touch the mind of the man of God. We pray, God, that you would anoint him, God, to deliver a word. God, that as he speaks, his tongue would be like a flaming sword of fire. God, we pray in the name of Jesus that every high thing will be brought down. We rebuke every spirit of distraction, we rebuke every spirit of wickedness. We come against everything that would exalt itself above Jesus Christ, and tonight we lose the spirit of liberty in this place, we lose the spirit of impartation, we lose the spirit of faith. I want you to put your hands together, I want you to cry now as you lift your voice to begin to release faith into this atmosphere. Open up your mouth and claim an atmosphere now for the word of God to germinate. Come on as you lift your voice, bring the spirit of getting this to a place where God is gonna help this church to go to another level of life. Come on, open up your hearts, lift up your hands, and I want you to shout on the come on lift the voice of trial.

SPEAKER_03 6:55

Come on, let's see it, let's see it, let's see it. Come on, that's what's been missing in your day, right there. In the name of Jesus, amen, amen. God bless you. If you're gonna preach with me tonight, you can be seated. Amen. Paul, Paul the apostle, he was the one that had been called up into the third heaven, the one who has heard things that he is not even permitted to repeat, words unutterable, glory unspeakable, and when he came down from the mountain peak of Revelation, from that point, between that time and the time that he wrote what we read tonight, in his body, in his ministry, somewhere that we cannot precisely identify, a stake gets driven into his flesh by the enemy. He does not describe it as a splinter, he does not state that it is a small irritation, the Greek word that he used, the apostle used, describes a sharpened wooden stake or a spear, something that pierced deeply into him, something embedded in his flesh, something that stubbornly would not come out. Paul, the chief apostle that called himself the chief sinner of all, did what every good Christian should do. He took it to prayer. The Bible says he prayed once, thinking surely God will remove it, but nothing happened. Why, God, would you not remove this thing from my side or from my flesh when I can cast out devils and I can lay hands on the sick and see them recover? But when I pray, I can't get the thorn out. He prayed a second time. Surely, God, I imagine he might have been thinking, surely God just hadn't heard him the first time. Again, the thorn was there, piercing even deeper. And finally, three times he prayed, and on that third time, an answer came back. It's not the answer Paul wanted. Some of us here tonight know what that feels like. Because you've lived in that moment. You prayed once to no avail. You prayed twice, and there seems to be no victory in sight. You prayed 300 times, and that thing you keep asking God to remove has not been removed. The thing you begged him to take away has not been taken away. Tonight I want to ask a question that the church does a very poor job of asking. What if the Lord was not a failure of prayer? What if the thorn was an answer to a deeper prayer? That even Paul didn't know how to pray. That's why tonight I want to preach to you from my heart about why I'm thankful for the Thorn. It don't make any sense. Why anybody would be so thankful for something that dug so deeply into your flesh that every step you take, every move that you make irritates it. It makes no sense why someone would be thankful for something that the enemy came to do. And when it used that word buffet, it did not mean buffet. It meant tribulation and trial and attack. It meant that he was pulling out all of the stops. It was like in the Greek, it meant that he was engaging in hand-to-hand combat, fist to face, face to the ground, beaten down time and time again. So I asked the question, why would I be thankful for the thorn? Because the thorn, first of all, pushed me to do something that the good would not do. The thorn pushed me to pray in the spirit. Paul said in 2 Corinthians 12 and 8, for this thing I besought the Lord thrice. Paul could have chosen from dozens, if not hundreds, of words to go right there, but he chose that word besought for a reason. It is the Greek word parakeleo. It would be a family or in the same family of the Greek word paraclete or paraclis. And it is where we get our word from. When Jesus prayed and was speaking, he was talking to his disciples in John chapter 14 and verse 6. And he said, I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another. What did he say? Comforter. Now you tell he he prayed to the point that it resembled when the comforter came along. It resembled that moment when the comforter came and rested and dwelled in his life. Brother Clater, it it resembled the moment that when he had first believed in the cross and first believed in Acts 238 message when he was first filled with the gift of the Holy Ghost. I'm here to tell somebody tonight I'm thankful for the thorn, not because of what it did to my flesh, but because it drove me to a place in prayer that I was not just speaking empty words and I was not just speaking English, but I would be on my face, bowed down, speaking words that no English language could hold. It's that moment of praying in the spirit, a prayer laden with tongues of fire. It don't make any sense. I don't believe the thorn just pushes you to your knees. It pushes you into a state of praying in the spirit, or it should. Can I tell you tonight? Comfort doesn't make you pray. Money don't make you pray. Your job don't make you pray. Well, it may sometimes, but when it's going good, it don't. Let me tell you something the comfortable Christian will never understand. When everything is going your way, you don't pray like you pray when you got a thorn in your side. You pray over your meal, you pray patty cake prayers, you you pray before you go to bed. Lord, lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord, my soul. You pray nice, petite, pretty little prayers, but a thorn. You want to know what a thorn does? A thorn drives you to the kind of prayer that the comfortable have never touched in their life. They have seen the anointing that came from that type of prayer, they've seen the miracles that have come from that type of prayer, and they have desired the sign like a generation of serpents that came before them, but they could not endure the thorn that pushed them to a place where they were warring in the spirit, where they were praying and telling. I need somebody to hear me tonight. You want to know why this revival's came? The revival has come not because we're good enough, not because we're talented enough, not because the systems are all in place, it's because the church got to a place in prayer where they can be trusted with revival. And I ask you tonight: is the cost too high? Let it be said that apostolic tabernacle is willing to pay the price for revival. That's why I thank God for the thorn. The thorn pushed me down past my knees onto my face. I believe that's why Paul Paul had the type of prayer that the thorn produced so he could write Romans 8 and 26. Likewise, the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities, for we know not what we should pray for as we all, but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings that cannot be uttered. Your thorn was not designed to kill you, it was designed to put you on your knees, praying in a place of prayer you've never prayed before, in depths you've never gone to before, in things seeing things you've never seen before. It was designed, God allowed it in that moment for it to be a strength and a help to you. Comfort doesn't make you pray. Oh, but a thorn will. Sometimes thorns have a name. Praise God. Thank you, Jesus. When you've just been stabbed in the back and ran over and the truck backed up and did it again. You don't want to hear anything about that thing being a thorn. But I also know without it, I'd have never prayed like I prayed. I'd have never fasted like I fasted. I'd have never been submitted like I was submitted. I'd have never been broken like I was broken. I'd have never studied like I studied. I'd have never lived like I live. So many people under the sound of my voice, you've been running away from the thorn so long that you've gotten used to the pain when the pain was designed to push you into a place of prayer, but instead it's pushed you into a place of bitterness and to a it's put you into a place of unforgiveness. But this God has called you right now into a place of prayer. He's asking you tonight, will you be thankful for the thorn that puts you on your face in a place and postures your heart in such a way that he can use you for his glory? I know this is different preaching, and y'all are gonna be all gonna be begging for the evangelist to come back. I might be begging by the time it's over, Brother Jeremy. But I'm gonna tell you right now, hey, let me give you a word of caution over thorns. Thorns can do one of two things. If you don't respond in prayer, if you respond in your flesh, it'll make you hardened. Hardened things can't be molded, they can't be shaped, they can't be put on the potter's wheel, as as the prophet spoke of in the Old Testament, brother Joshua. They can't be put there and let the hands of the potter come down and begin to shape them. You know what happens? They end up in the potter's field, brother Larry, where broken things like Judas went to go when they had died. That's where they end up. They look at them as like, my God, what could have been? Brother Rodriguez, my God, what could have happened if they would have just taken it to prayer? Heed my warning tonight, somebody, that that thorn in your side is not designed. The devil may have designed to take you out, but God has designed it for you to go to a deeper place in prayer in Him, it's the perfect storm of what hell meant for evil. God will turn it around for the good. It's the perfect storm of all things really do work together for the good of them that are called according to his purpose. It's the perfect storm of the devil sent the messenger to take you out time and time again. But the longer you stay in, the more you pray, the more you fast, the more you talk to God. The devil wants to take you out, but prayer's gonna keep you in, prayer's gonna make you stable, prayer's gonna make you holy, prayer's gonna give you authority, prayer's gonna give you dominion, prayer's gonna it's it's gonna give you the anointing of the Almighty God. Prayer changes everything, and I'm thankful for the thorn that pushed me to pray. Come on, lift your hands to heaven right now. This revival, we're getting too comfortable in this revival, we're getting too comfortable in all these souls being saved. We're getting too comfortable, we're getting too comfortable with all these guests on a Sunday morning. We're getting too comfortable. Let me go ahead and tell you. God's got the perfect way allowing that thorn to get festered and fed up and aggravated when things start going good. He knows. I love you, but this revival has nothing to do with you except for your faithfulness. Except for your continued prayers. God would have God could have had other people in this moment, but he has us here. And God forbid that it takes a thorn to get you to pray. But if it does I'm thankful for the thorn I'm thankful for the I'm thankful that something would drive me to my knees when God chased me, wouldn't get me there. I'm thankful for that. Somebody in our church connected with somebody that left our church. Listen to me. This week in the next two weeks something's gonna come up about that person. God always gives me a two-week head start. I don't know why. I wish you'd just give me the next. Before the end of the day up, I gotta worry about it too. But when I'm praying, I don't I'm not as worried about it. You know why? I know God's got all things in control, but you better protect your heart, somebody. God would not give you his spirit just to help you pray. God also gives you his spirit for discernment. A believer who prays in the spirit but never lets the spirit diagnose what they're carrying will always enduring what should have been broken, and they will always fight against what God sent to form them. I need you to hear me tonight. There's some people, and and when I say this, people's people's names are gonna pop into your mind. There are some people that it started out a flesh thing, but it has turned into a spiritual thing. That was started out as just being stubborn and stiff-necked. Now they have given themselves over to a spirit that is attached to a demonic entity that's trying to take down the church. Sometimes it'll cause more bitterness and sometimes it'll just pluck at the wound. And somebody needs to hear you. Wanna know why, brother Limwood? You want to know why we get around some people and we start feeling icky when we're around those people and we start feeling you want to know why? God's trying to tell us, He's trying to get our attention. You don't need to be around that person, you don't need to be. I mean, I know I'm preaching some kind of way tonight. I know you've got to love everybody, but for the love, don't love them to your own death. And you think, well, I can handle it. Well, I'll be okay. No, I know when you've hung out with them and everybody else knows, you know why? Because you walk in looking heavy, because you're carrying something you were never called to carry, and you are being oppressed by something that took somebody else out. There's some people at the sound of my voice, what you've been calling a thorn is really just spiritual oppression. The devil has got you walking under a weight, and every time you say, Well, it's just a thorn, well, it's just no, no, no. The devil laughs in your face when you misdiagnose an attack. There's a difference between what God has permitted to perfect you and what the enemy has sent to paralyze you. Don't listen to me, do not sanctify as holy what God in his word and through his spirit would call you to resist. And don't resist what God has sent to sanctify you and make you holy. Sometimes we misdiagnose the problem, and sometimes we misdiagnose people. It's just the way they are. No, it might have been the way that they were, but now they've given themselves over to a way of thinking that causes them to walk in a state of constant oppression. It's getting tight. It's what happens. Man, it gets tight. You want to know how it starts? If God, the devil's got a good counterfeit, it starts with obsession, then it goes to oppression. If you don't have the Holy Ghost, you better watch out because it ends with possession. When your mind starts to obsess over the thing, and your mind starts to obsess over the enemy, and your mind starts to obsess over the lust, and your mind starts to obsess. Listen to me. I've been here, I know what I'm talking about. When your mind starts to obsess over the hurt that was done to you when you felt like an innocent victim, if you are not careful, you will go from being obsessed in your mind to being oppressed in the spirit. You say, Well, how can I tell a difference? Well, first a thorn's gonna push you toward God. A thorn, when you get close to God, it's gonna create more hunger for him. A thorn through prayer makes you humble. A thorn through prayer comes with sufficient grace. How do I know if it's a thorn? A thorn produces Christ's likeness with high patience, endurance, compassion, tenderness, spiritual credibility. Listen to this, this was very important, and at least we're out of there and everything. A thorn has no open door behind it. That means you have repented, but it's still there. You fasted and it's still there. You prayed and it's still there. But oppression looks different. With oppression, oppression has an open door. Ephesians 4.27. I'm probably gonna spend more time here than I would like, but it's needed tonight. Ephesians 4.27, neither give place to the devil. That's a Greek word topos. That's where we get our word topography from or typography. It means territory, ground, or real estate. The enemy does not get authority over a believer without that believer giving them ground. Kids say it's living rent, but you got the devil living rent-free in your head. Every time you have a thought, you chase the thought. Every time fear comes in, you chase the fear, and you start thinking about what could happen and what may happen. And you know what happens most of the time? Most of those things never materialize and they never actualize and they never come to being. Why? Because the devil has caused you to waste time chasing fear down a rabbit hole. And if you're not careful, you're gonna give ground to the devil where he will be able to take up residence and oppress your life. Unforgiveness is an open door. Uh-oh. Matthew 18, the unforgiving servant, was delivered to the tormentors. Bitterness is an open door. You could be a Christian for 30, 40 years, you could be born again in 1989, 1998, it doesn't matter. But if you've given the devil space in your mind to cause bitterness, you are walking a fine line between delivered and oppressed. Pride is an open door. Pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a prolong. Pride says, I'm right, they're wrong. Hello, somebody. Pride says, I can handle it even though they can't. Hello, somebody. Pride will make you link up with people you should have never linked up with all because you felt like doing what you wanted to do and how you wanted to do it. And you wonder why you're so listen to me. You want to know why you're so oppressed? Because you're not just giving place to the devil, you're giving place to the devil through people that are speaking into your life and wreaking havoc in your spirit. You want to know why you feel so bad after you get off the phone with them or after you go out and hang out with them? You know, you say, Well, I just want to reach out to them. I just I don't have any other friends. I would rather have no friends and my mind be secure than I would my peace be gone every time I speak to somebody, every time I'm preaching to somebody tonight. You gotta be careful who you I feel the Holy Ghost, who you're letting speak into your life, because it will not just cause you to be destroyed, you'll be oppressed before you're destroyed. God, we gotta get loose of some of those relationships. Well, I'm filling my Wheaties, y'all better be careful. Let me go ahead and speak to some old school way of thinking. That you you you want to know why you mess it up? Because every time you call you call people that left the church disgruntled, and you let them talk about why they left and how they left and who they left over, your life is going to be nothing more than riddled with problems and circumstances and heaviness. You know why? Because that same spirit that oppressed them is gonna try to get into your life as well. You have got to be careful that you guard your mind and you guard your eyes and you guard your ears and you guard your heart, guard your home, guard your heart with all diligence, for out of it flows the issues of life. You want to know why you got issues in your life? Because you got issues in your hearing, you're hearing lies, you're hearing slander, you're hearing division, you're hearing all these things, but you know what you need to listen to? Unity, love, peace, joy, long suffering. I can't give place to the devil. Come on, poke your neighbor, say you can't give place to, I can't give place to him, I can't give him any real estate. I'm not giving him any real estate in my mind. That's not a thorn, that's your own stubbornness. Well, they've always been that way. Well, maybe you should have cut them off a long time ago. I got people I love, Brother Rodriguez, but our lives are going two different directions with two different destinations, and I'm gonna be kind to them and I'm gonna be loving them, but I can't link up to them, brother Larry. You know why? Because I'm going to a different place. I'm not saying my place is better, I'm just saying my place is different, and I don't want to go there. You know another open door? You may be seated. I'm almost done. I'm not even close to being done, but I'm gonna have to be. You know another open door? Unrepented sin. Uh-oh. Well, I do pretty good, I'll just keep Instagram. I do pretty good, I'll just keep you two. You know what, Brother Clayton, Monday night, Tuesday night, the devil woke. I'm not kidding. I I know I don't. Well, not every bump of the night's the devil. But when you wake up, I woke up coming out of my bed, my heart was racing, and I started rebuking stuff. That's not just Evan eating pizza rolls late at night. Okay, there's something that was trying to keep me awake and wear me back down after being so light on Sunday night. And you know what? I started praying. I started praying, God, show me the open door. You know where he took me? He took me to Instagram, he took me to YouTube. I said, Okay, God, I'll delete it. You know what I did? I deleted it. I started reading the Bible right before I go to sleep. I started reading books right before I go to sleep. You know what I've done? I've slept like a baby. You know why? I shut the stinking door. You wouldn't let the devil walk into your house. Why in the world are you letting the devil walk into your mind and live rent free in a space that is designed and dedicated to God? Unrepentant sin. Uh oh. Well, I'm just struggling. Don't use that as an excuse. Well, my family's always done. Don't make it right. I love this one. Oh, you church kids who grew up, y'all gonna know this one. Well, so-and-so's doing it. I don't want to go to hell with them. I want to go to heaven with Jesus. Somebody else in the pew doing it is not a good indicator of whether I should or not. I gotta work out my own salvation with fear and trembling. Hello, somebody. If you've grown up in church, you know what I'm talking about. Well, so and so does this, and so and so does that, and what they're trying to do, they're trying to garner favor with the pastor so that pastor won't find out what they're doing. Guess what? God done showed me what you're doing, just stop doing it, repent of your sin and get your life right with God. I'm almost done. You maybe seated occult involvement, occult involvement. There's some people under the sound of my voice, you're entertaining spirits, you don't even know what you're doing. It's come in under the disguise of cute little coachella jewelry and all this other nonsense that you could pick up at anthropology and free people and all this other nonsense, and they're trying to make it look cute and make it look cool. Well, you know what the Bible says there shall not be found among you anyone that maketh his son or his daughter pass through the fire, that uses divination or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a weir wizard, or a necromancer for all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord. That is not old testament cultural baggage, that is the word of a living God. The horoscope on your phone, you need to listen to me. It's divination, you need to get rid of it. The tarot card reading you did with your friend, and you thought it was all well and cool and neat. No, no, no. That's the devil's work, and that is witchcraft. That psychic medium your aunt took you to, and you thought it would be no problem, and they're just gonna cleanse your aura. There's nothing clean about it, it is nothing but the enemy. That witchcraft you've been entertaining as a TikTok aesthetic is sorcery. We have got to stop mixing Jesus with the world and realize He called us out to be separate from the world. Get the crystals off the nightstand, get the Ouija board out of the closet, stop obsessing over devils God has released you from and walk in freedom. I gotta hurry. That's just the first thing. That's the first thing. You know what the second thing oppression does is it intensifies around God. Oppression intensifies around the things of God. You wanna know it ain't no accident you argue with your spouse on the way to church on a Sunday morning. Hello, somebody. It ain't no accident, it ain't no accident that before you worship you feel heavy. It ain't no accident that before the word you feel confused. It ain't no, it ain't no accident that before you walk into a spirit-filled atmosphere that you feel nervous or anxious. You want to know what that is? That's the devil trying to oppress you and keep you out of the thing that's gonna set you free and let you go and cause you to come out and cause you to be the devil's trying to keep you. You want to know what oppression means? A heavy laden burden. He's trying to take that thing off of you. You want to know why you fight it so much in revival? Because the devil's trying to get you distracted by the enemy rather than being in the middle of what God's doing. Oppressive spirits try to dominate your mind, they try to abort your future. There's a third thing. Oppression produces relentless lying thoughts. And words that are contrary to the word of God. It was very it was not a natural type of prayer. I can't explain it. It was very intense. As I was praying, I was walking back and forth. I had my eyes closed. I almost walked into the wall like three times. And as I was walking, God gave me a vision. I was praying, I was praying for God's people. I was praying for strength and the leaders and for the people of this church. I was praying for protection. As I was praying, as I was walking, God gave me a vision. He showed me a woman. I could call you by name, but I believe it's multiple in this building. That every time you go down to pray, your hands were covering your face. You were kneeled down over in almost a fetal position on your knees praying. And I saw that as you were praying, a devil leans down into your ear and whispers Why are you praying? You're just gonna leave afraid of you. Why are you praying? You're always gonna have freedom. Why are you praying? You're just gonna leave and do what you want. Why are you praying afraid of the world? You'll always be this way. Those thoughts have weight and they feel intrusive. You want to know why? Here's the problem. God forgive us if we're guilty of this. We have been too ignorant of spiritual things to tell you that is not your thoughts, but it's the voice of the enemy. You've been thinking it's you this whole time. It ain't you. I feel the Holy Ghost. I feel some opposition, so we're just gonna dig in a little bit. The devil's been whispering things into your ear, and you want to know how? I know because he's done the same thing to me. Brother Rodriguez came last year and he started praying. And you know what he prayed? He said, God, I feel the Holy Ghost right now. God gave him a vision, and I told Sister Bethany about it last week, Brother Micah, that at night the devil I had dreams that evil men were standing beside my bed and they were laughing at me, and they would lean down and they would whisper in my ear. And then Brother Rodriguez came, Brother Clater, and he said, He saw that as I'm laying in bed, that spirits are leaning down and whispering into my ear. And he prayed a violent prayer. He said, God, put your foot on the throat of the devil and stop the lies of the enemy. I can pray that prayer over you tonight, but you need to pray it over yourself. You you need to lift your hands in this building right now, and you need to pray it over yourself. You need to get sick and stinking, tired of the devil whispering lies in your ear that it's always gonna be this way. Your family ain't never gonna get straight. You're you need to speak to the devil. Come on, that's it. The devil, you're a liar. You are a liar. The blood of the blood of Jesus is against you. Devil, you are a liar, and I rebuke your voice in the name of Jesus. You have worn out your God's people all this week, but tonight we take territory back. Hey, this is the year to take territory, isn't it? Tonight we take territory back. Tonight we take territory. Don't just clap it, pray it with apostolic authority. I need some prayer warriors that are willing to open up their voice and begin to pray. Pray in English if you want to pray in English, but pray in the spirit if the lead you to do so. But you need to we need a war right now against what the devil's doing, he's telling you lies.