The Arena of Faith or the Arena of Politics? A Review of ‘Unleashed 2026’

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[00:00:00] Whatever you went through has a purpose. You're not fighting for temporal things. You're fighting for eternal things.
[00:00:07] So I want you to hold that hand.
[00:00:11] Say I'm proud of you. Tell them say I'm proud of you.
[00:00:15] Say you're gonna make it.
[00:00:17] You're not just gonna drag in.
[00:00:20] Say you're gonna make it strong.
[00:00:23] You're gonna make it victorious.
[00:00:26] You're gonna finish your course.
[00:00:30] Let them know just squeeze that hand. Now begin to pray over that person for the next 60 seconds.
[00:00:37] Spirit of the living God, do what only you can do.
[00:00:41] I yield myself completely in totality.
[00:00:45] Possess me.
[00:00:47] Take my tongue, my mind, my spirit, my body, and use it for your glory.
[00:00:55] We ask for an open heaven.
[00:00:57] We ask that you seal this because this is a commissioning service.
[00:01:01] When we go, we leave resolute.
[00:01:05] We don't leave just feeling good.
[00:01:07] we don't leave just experiencing or making a new friend but we leave with a divine supernatural encounter and we'll never be the same they're world changers that are here agents of change kingdom builders breathe on them tonight thank you that spiritually I see God just like
[00:01:49] putting in a it's almost like a metal backbone in you tonight it's just like he's he's aligning things and it's unbreakable in the name of Jesus open effectual doors give 52 day miracles like you did for Nehemiah that what couldn't be done in years and decades will be done in days
[00:02:20] bring suddenlies answers to prayer in fact I heard the Holy Spirit say turn your prayer into a praise because it's already been done yeah yeah and you won't understand this next statement I'm going to say unless you're real spiritual but America's going to thank you for
[00:03:01] coming here because something shifted and ignited in the realm of the spirit that did some things to this nation it was deeply spiritual and then up against the face of impossibilities and principalities and darkness and powers God's about to show off remember he's laughing and the voices
[00:03:31] of God are going to stand up at bail and say did your God go on a vacation that's what I said he said is he using the bathroom and the more they cut themselves and the more they try to build the
[00:03:44] altar it's not a 63 word prayer because you don't spend time with God it's a 63 word prayer because you did all the work before you ever faced the battle before you ever faced the entity and God
[00:04:00] says I'm about to do some things and Baal's coming down come on the structure of Babylon you aren't hearing what I'm saying that Jezebel it's coming down in the name of Jesus I'm talking in spiritual
[00:04:11] terms in the name of Jesus every controlling spirit that aligns itself as an anti-Christ spirit let it come down in the name of Jesus on the basis of the blood of Jesus and the finished
[00:04:23] work we declare nations to be harvested call out to nation right now we thank you that america as we dedicate it as one nation under god on may 17th that the glory will visit this earth the
[00:04:35] glory will visit america from washington dc to california to florida come on up to massachusetts to rhode island it'll go all the way into canada let it be god let it be god let it be god let it
[00:04:50] be awaken a generation i thank you i thank you one god encounter changes it all and i thank you protect president trump his mind his body his physical being his family his office everything that pertains to his purpose and destiny lord we pray for our leaders we pray that they would be
[00:05:15] godly let the wicked either turn to you and get saved or let them get removed in the name of jesus turn to somebody say it's worth fighting for get out of your seat go to three people say it's
[00:05:33] really worth fighting for i'm going to give you a lot of scripture i'm going to teach preach prophesy lay hands on everything that moves and we're going to have church tonight um baby i love you so much will you put your hands together for my husband the love of my life i'm
[00:05:57] vibing with you i was gonna wear a real dressy dress and i was like nah i don't know if i feel like journey rocking it out with leather jeans tonight or a little bit of church or dc so i went
[00:06:08] all the way and i walked in i'm like my baby's vibing with me i see we we were we were on the same plane there tommy his brother is with him we love you tommy thank you so much and um nfab
[00:06:21] staff story life paula white ministry staff just wave your hand right now we're going to honor you pastor rachel pastor brad prophet gideon eddie james come on bj putnam and all our 50 something speakers that came to drop by of the elite of the elite come on and let this team know how much you
[00:06:38] love them amanda you guys all stand up they're working like crazy no sleep come on going energized like nobody's business let them know how much we appreciate them even elders hanging she's hanging in she's hanging in she's right over there elder your husband might be here tonight
[00:06:55] let him find you in jesus name i love elder all right guys you ready uh first timothy chapter 6 verse 12 we're going to teach for a bit and we're going to lay this because i'm really going
[00:07:08] somewhere and i have a prophetic word i didn't come here just to preach or teach i came here to prophesy and that's just not to foretell but it's to tell forth some things about to shift
[00:07:18] because I want you to think about what it is. What are you fighting for? What is it? Is it your family? Is it a generation? Is it this nation? Is it your ministry? Is it, is it you're contending
[00:07:30] for the prophecy, the word that God spoke over you? What is it? Is it your business? Because business people have to be raised up. There's always a prophetic voice. There's always a priest.
[00:07:41] There's always a King. There's always got to be someone funding the ministry, someone doing the ministry someone on the back side of the ministry it takes all of it and ministry is not just in a
[00:07:51] pulpit or the four walls of the church more people will be one to jesus at their workplace than they will in the four walls of the church you you have a purpose ceos owners educators lawyers come on
[00:08:06] let's start that litigation lawyers start raising up a bunch of righteous lawyers amen you're here you're under the sound of my voice it's not too too late to go back to school if you need the
[00:08:21] degree get it if you don't go for it what are you fighting for what are you fighting for i want you to see it close your eyes and see it for a minute is it your marriage what are you fighting for
[00:08:34] your life you got it it's worth fighting for first timothy 612 i would normally have you stand but y'all been going all day first timothy 6 12 say it with me fight say it with me guys fight the good
[00:08:57] fight of oh say it again fight the we don't fight anything fight the of thank you they hold on to which you were also called and have confessed the good of confession in the presence of many
[00:09:19] witnesses. Fight the good fight of faith. Now everyone's arena is different, but it's a similar fight. Fight the good fight. I will. I'm going back to DC tomorrow morning. I'll walk in that West wing humbly. I'll put my bag down and I'll turn to the little table by my desk where there's
[00:09:54] bottle of anointing oil and a bowl of communion and i'll take holy communion and i'll take that anointing i'll put it on me and i'll put it on my door and i'll proclaim the name of jesus christ
[00:10:12] fight the good fight of faith for four days we've worshiped we fasted we prayed we prophesied we danced we jumped some of you broke your heel on your shoe we encountered the presence of god
[00:10:42] that was a force fast or like i wanted to eat but we didn't have time to we experienced his glory we witnessed healings we made new friends we sensed his nearness we've watched god heal
[00:11:00] and deliver and empower and speak through revelation we've seen him awaken hearts and save souls. We've heard from general after general after general after general. Revival was never meant to make you comfortable. Revival was meant to make you courageous. Revival gives you something
[00:11:29] that just ordinary things don't give you. To have a true reformation and awakening, which I believe that the glory of the knowledge of the Lord is covering the earth as the waters cover the sea.
[00:11:41] I believe that we are in a movement of God like no other generation that we've known of.
[00:11:46] I believe we'll be the greatest harvesters to see God's kingdom expand.
[00:11:52] While the world gets small, the kingdom is going to get bigger and mightier and more glorious.
[00:11:58] But revival wasn't about making you comfortable or feel good or a goose bump.
[00:12:03] It's about making you courageous.
[00:12:04] For God did not give you a spirit of fear, of cowardness.
[00:12:08] but he gave you one of come on love power and of a sound mind you better help me out acts 1 8 says but you shall receive power somebody look at your neighbor say give me some dunamis say dunamis
[00:12:20] say you're going to get some power five words for power you're going to get some power when the holy spirit has come upon you and you shall be witnesses and right things that means that i'm going to talk
[00:12:30] well no you should be witnessed as a martyr you you you will be ready for anything when they talk about you write about you defame you slander you mock you on facebook or whatever put you in prison
[00:12:45] weaponize the government against you are 344 million people that proclaim christ as their savior as god lord of their life who will give their life this year and then they will die for their faith and they will die proclaiming and they'll be tortured and persecuted proclaiming
[00:13:07] the name of Jesus Christ so while we get made fun of or harassed or lose a few material things or followers or they weren't really friends or parishioners in the first place they weren't because if you if Jesus starts with 12 goes to the multitude and gets to the most important part
[00:13:31] of his entire assignment all the rest really didn't matter it was just bonus and benefit for us to get a peek at because the only thing that mattered was when he went to that garden of
[00:13:42] Gethsemane and said not my will but thy will be done and his two closest couldn't even I mean the disciples couldn't even abide with him and his two closest fell asleep they couldn't tarry with him
[00:13:55] or walk through and then when he was arrested and betrayed and crucified the night before he said if you can't drink of my blood and eat of my body you have no part of me and everybody scattered
[00:14:09] because it was too difficult and he had not even been arrested or betrayed or crucified yet scattering and betrayal is part of your walk look at somebody say it's worth the fight see let's get this thing in perspective it's worth the fight a million babies
[00:14:28] are worth the fight it's worth the fight pre-born is worth the fight Eddie James those kids coming off drugs and whose mama just got killed by his daddy is worth the fight I can't even imagine how many times you wanted to
[00:14:46] give up it's worth the fight John you've got to go back God hasn't totally released you yet it's still worth the fight when you go into that place of darkness and you are the light of god somebody better hear what i'm saying rachel as long as you keep doing what all
[00:15:04] you've always done keep praying keep prophesying it's worth the fight don't ever stop that i don't care how much they make fun of you keep doing it it's worth the fight keep waking up at 3 a.m
[00:15:20] keep waking up and saying but god gave me a dream god give me this keep doing it it's worth the fight every one of us are this piece to a master puzzle and if you don't feel your part we don't
[00:15:32] fit we're the bride the body of christ somebody better help me and the upper room the where the place where power came it wasn't a destination it was a deployment center you didn't come here
[00:15:46] for destination you can go to disney for a destination you came to be deployed it's a deployment center when sam brownback ambassador spoke something hit you when tanya talked about revival something hit you come on everybody different flows different different ways of
[00:16:09] bringing forth what god is doing in the earth to deploy something in you your baby started kicking when prophet gideon was prophesying when brad and pastor travis and gideon were talking about africa something was awakening in you and dan got up and shared about pre-born and literally tens
[00:16:28] of thousands watching the fire was not for goosebumps it's always been about boldness holy boldness a boldness that's not arrogant but a boldness that says i know my god i know whom i believe in his promises are yes and amen and the heavens and the earth will pass away but the word
[00:16:49] of the Lord shall remain forever and every dot and every tittle and every promise in that book is for me it's for you come on it's a covenant that was made with the blood of Jesus Christ
[00:16:59] sealed by it I've been redeemed by it not by silver and gold the spirit was not given so we could feel something the spirit was giving so you could face something i have a word tonight
[00:17:20] it's building you can't face if your bills late or if you got fired from your work seriously that's an everyday human problem y'all are like it is some boss is gonna hate you somewhere and
[00:17:39] just not like you and be not mean to you it's just everyday human problems your kids are gonna I know the rest of y'all y'all act like angels like they don't sneeze and get you know sick or
[00:17:51] the flu well I know everybody in this church must either have sin in their life or something because all y'all had the flu about two weeks ago what I'm saying is there's things that it's not
[00:18:03] about you being exempted from life this move is not for you to feel something so when you go out you can face something this is really the heart of what God's wanting to get to because when we
[00:18:19] say is it worth fighting it sounds really good in the sanctuary and is great for marketing until you really begin to understand what we're talking about because goliath is taunting right now where's the god of the united states of america they're going to call you everything
[00:18:44] what are we called now we're what are we they call us christian nationalists what's the new one uh the uh what's that one nor uh new yeah new apostolic reform i don't know they call me
[00:18:57] all kinds of stuff that i don't even know what it is it used to just be she's a prosperity preacher i said well i'm not a good one if that's what i am whatever you want to say so the point of this is
[00:19:11] help me out we're not here to feel something we're here to help me face something because revival when it hits you when you start getting touched by the power of God it's not just for
[00:19:26] recovery which that's happened but it's genuinely for recruitment I'll never forget when the the revival broke out in central Florida it's amazing and they said Paul you need to go over there a lot of our people are going over and you need to see if it's good and if it's of God and it's like oh
[00:19:45] yeah i love to go to revival so i went and it was packed out 10 000 people and they were laughing and i'd never seen that the joy of the lord but i know the spirit of god and i walked into there
[00:19:57] and i was like man this is awesome this is god so i just yielded myself and jumped in the river myself i mean if it's god if i can you know the spirit of god came back and i was like when the
[00:20:11] spies sent out to come back and i said it's god you should go over there so so i went and night after night we'd go because it was just right down the road it was amazing it was incredible
[00:20:25] but i remember one day i got up and uh actually it's what launched the worldwide ministry of paula white ministry i'd been in the inner city forever and uh love it in the inner city i thought
[00:20:38] i just get to negotiate between the bloods and the crips the rest of my life be in the hood eddie i started out with roller skates dressed up like a clown with a bullhorn nobody told me don't wake
[00:20:50] the hood up at 8 a.m in the morning hey jesus loves you boom boom it was wild well i can tell y'all stories now when they we had the rodney king riots for the beatings the lord told me to go into
[00:21:05] Los Angeles. I lived in Nickerson Gardens, Waverly, Jordan Downs for two years. Then I docked. I'd come back about every other weekend, Saturday night. I'd catch that, go to Sunday service, leave Sunday afternoon, go back, preach. 50,000 people were born again. The revival's
[00:21:25] taking place in Central Florida. And Carl Strader came up. He goes, hey, I heard people really getting saved and God's moving. I said, yes, sir. He is. Now I'd never preached in a real pulpit in
[00:21:38] my life. He said, I heard you can preach. Are you any good? I said, yes, sir. I didn't know if I was good or not, but you better believe in yourself. Come on. I knew God had called me. I said, yes,
[00:21:52] sir. He said, are you going to be here tonight? Now this is important part because revival is not just about recovery it's about recruitment and so I went and he said Paula get up here and
[00:22:04] tell what God's doing man there were 10,000 people don't act like you're not going to be a little bit like so I just I did what I do out when when the gangs is like this they hold the
[00:22:13] back let me know they're packing I just put my head down I figure if I'm going to die today if I close my eyes I'll just be in glory and I won't even know what it feels like I feel like if people
[00:22:24] are going to look at me and start throwing apples I'll just close my eyes and I won't know what it looks like. So I just closed my eyes and I started preaching. I had one message. I'll still preach it.
[00:22:34] Numbers chapter 16. Can one person make a difference? The difference between this stage and that door is the difference between heaven and hell. And outside of there is the prostitute and the drug addict and the rapist. Come on. And the lonely person and the suicidal mom and the
[00:22:51] kids that don't have food to eat. And you're standing between the dead and the living. And there's a plague that hit the land verse 44 and when the plague hit Moses told Aaron to run to
[00:23:00] the altar you can't make a difference unless you run to the altar get down to the altar and get a censer and get the fire of God and I was preaching I can preach that message inside now because
[00:23:10] that's the only message I had for 10 years and get the fire of God and take the fire and stand in the plague and the plague stopped come on if you don't take the fire to the plague then nothing's
[00:23:23] going to change in your family. It's not going to change in your nation. It's not going to change in America. If we don't get outside of our comfort zones and go where people are really hurting and
[00:23:34] where they need the love of God and the fire of God and the power of God and the prophetic word of God and the grace of God and the mercy of God and the goodness of God, there's a dying lost
[00:23:43] world right now and they desperately need Jesus and you're it. You're it. And so I looked up and said this amazing 10 000 some people but i said what are you doing once you are on the floor
[00:23:58] laughing what you're so what i didn't understand it and i was being very sincere if joy is to give me strength what's my strength for because everything god deposits to me is a purpose there's a supreme reason for being in an intention for so why would i be allowed to
[00:24:29] to experience your fire or encounter or this wisdom or these generals or why are these people in my life or why have they laid hands on me or anointed me with all or why would I be with
[00:24:40] Schambach and he would hold my hand on a person that was sick and I'd pray for five ten minutes and I'd be done and I'd ready to pull my hair he goes no don't pull your hand until you feel that
[00:24:51] release why would God bring a Lester Sumrall into my life who would tell the devil when he took his bed and moved his bed said put it back devil and the bed went back in the
[00:25:03] Philippines why would would I be with the man who seems so rough and gruff and and he would pour into me and pour anointing all over my head I could keep on going all night long it wasn't just to be cute you know why did when it was
[00:25:18] packed out at National Church of God in 1985 and or 86 and there were flags everywhere and they were dedicating the building and I was in that seated auditorium about 4,000 people sitting in the back with a thrift store dress on and I was just so
[00:25:33] excited to be in the sanctuary and Miles Monroe was there and he was teaching and Miles teach forever I love Miles and he just goes on and on and I thought okay and then he looked at all the
[00:25:44] flags and he said you you and every preacher stood up in their nice three-piece suit come on decked in all their in all their shoes and you know pointy toes and everything else and they all stood up and started coming he's like no no no you you no no no no
[00:26:02] you you and he keeps on I'm just looking around like soon he's gonna get to one of me goes you in the green dress I look like a Christmas tree I don't a green thrift store dress and red shoes cuz it's all I had and I look like a
[00:26:16] Christmas tree in the middle of summer he goes you I said me he said yeah he He said get up here and he said see that see that see that see that he's pointing to the flags
[00:26:27] He goes you will go to all those nations. God will take you around the world. I was living in a trailer. I Couldn't even say god bless you. I couldn't even hardly feed myself with my baby
[00:26:41] Let me tell you something your situation or circumstance or past has nothing to do with your purpose It was all designed as part of God's plan and God will use every aspect of it You better look at somebody slap them say you don't have a clue who you're sitting next to
[00:26:57] It's important Because I couldn't understand If I get this touch by God if a man of God takes time for me If a woman of God takes time if somebody lays hands on me or gives me a minute or two
[00:27:15] One minute with the general will last me a lifetime time I'm serious and Rachel I had it and what I mean by then I knew I have it still I have it and God's allowed and what I'm saying this is that I realize
[00:27:36] like everything has a purpose it wasn't just for my recovery that's that's wonderful that I get touched it's wonderful I get healed it's wonderful I get whole but I still have something dysfunctional y'all my pinky toes gonna
[00:27:48] always be dysfunctional it sticks out like that and it's bent and it's ugly John still loves me all right it's you always gonna have some kind of dysfunction y'all better do a foot check don't don't think I'm the only person here come on you got something not working
[00:28:04] too in your life and it's more than your toe so don't don't look at me like that so the point is that when you leave unleashed you're not leaving as spectators but you're leaving as enlisted
[00:28:15] warriors now do I have my warriors I'm just looking for somebody who I'm here for come on my warriors because some things in life they're optional and some things are convenient and some things are seasonal but then some things are eternal and this conference isn't for everyone
[00:28:37] but it's for those who understand we're in a kairos moment and you are in an eternal place and everything you do matters i told my team at the white house i said it's not what we do it's
[00:28:48] we don't do i said you've got to say no to 75 of the things coming in because if you don't say no you'll never get to your yes because the enemy is going to load you up with distractions diversions
[00:29:00] and all kinds of things there is something you have to do you must needs go to samaria you better look at somebody say i've got something on my life i don't even fully understand it look at somebody
[00:29:11] say i've got to do something come on because whatever that is that eternal it's worth fighting for nate you're moving your whole family up to dc it's worth fighting for malachi it's worth fighting for jesse it's worth fighting for come on bruce it's worth fighting for amy it's worth fighting
[00:29:28] for you better look at somebody say it's worth fighting for so let me get you down into what that really means because in the text we find the arena and the grip the arena and the grip
[00:29:41] Paul says fight the good fight of faith say it fight the good fight of faith so the Greek word there y'all know I'm gonna get you some etymology here a lot of it the Greek word is ago knee ZMI I even went to YouTube to pronounce that
[00:29:57] right ago knee ZMI say it ago knee ZMI once you get it I go say I go knee ZMI so look at somebody say I go knee see my are you gonna get it it means you ready
[00:30:18] to struggle in the arena now you aren't hearing me because the problem I have is you're struggling but you're not in the arena that's not the kind of struggle that's being duped by the devil your struggle is not outside of your
[00:30:44] assignment oh see y'all looking at me funny right now your real struggle is not outside that's your flesh that that's a simple fix crucify your flesh every single day yield yourself to the holy spirit
[00:30:59] crucify your members bring them under the subjection the holy spirit every single day that's not the struggle that's just your flesh you have a real purpose beside crucifying your flesh that's just living for god and not being done with your decisions y'all that's just too
[00:31:17] much everybody's like whoops the struggle is where y'all better help me in the arena let's keep going it means to oh no i better take y'all back somebody say fight say i go fight struggle in the arena now there's there's a double i'm gonna i'm gonna get you to the
[00:31:47] blessing here it means strain towards a prize the prize the strain is not when you're going in your own direction the strain is when you're going toward the prize so now if you're not in the
[00:32:06] arena or going toward the prize what kind of struggle or strain are you really having let me keep going it means to contend when resistance is present resistance is against what your purpose is you ready it means to endure an agony level effect so rach people think i wake
[00:32:32] up and i'm just like my breath don't stink my breast stink my feet stink i have all the same problems all the same challenges but i am an extremely intentional person i am 24 7 focused
[00:32:49] on one thing that affects and impacts everything. God. A lot of people, they can't handle it. They don't like it. I don't really play much. I'm good with that. I'm fine with it. Everybody's always
[00:33:08] going to change your life, but I'm fine with it because I'm extremely intentional. Why? Because there's no better place to be in the purpose of God with his presence backing you every single step of the way every single moment, every single day. Somebody say fight. It's not a casual word
[00:33:32] for try. It implies intensity, exertion, resistance, opposition. You see, faith was never meant to be passive. It was always meant to be contested. Look at somebody to say, agal nizimi nizimi hebrews 11 verse 33 faith subdued kingdoms it worked righteousness
[00:34:04] it obtained promises it stopped the mouth of lions faith oh y'all know where i'm going fight the good fight of faith fight resist opposition strive agony remain at the highest impact and a level in agony, but you're not just fighting anything. You're fighting the good fight. We'll
[00:34:48] get to that, of faith. Faith subdued kingdoms. Huh? Faith took down wickedness in the Senate, the House. Faith took down wickedness in a DEI agenda. Like, faith took down wickedness and subdued kingdoms in our school boards and school systems. Faith subdued kingdoms of darkness
[00:35:18] that wanted to demonically control and possess our kids. You don't hear what I'm saying.
[00:35:25] What subdued kingdoms? I'm going to tie it all together for you. And what did it do, guys?
[00:35:34] It worked righteousness. Faith without works is dead. And then it did what? It obtained promises.
[00:35:42] did I tell y'all that we're rededicating this nation to God on May 17th one nation under God come on did I tell you that we're going to have worship and we're going to preach the gospel
[00:36:02] and baptisms come on and communion and did I tell you that we are calling on churches and we're calling on people of faith and synagogues and parishes to pray a minimum an hour every week from now until July 4th and then an hour a week from their own come on did I tell
[00:36:28] you that we're rededicating this nation as one nation under God somebody say obtaining promises now remember I'm equipping you I'm not preaching revival is not about comfort right it's about recruitment so faith moves without evidence faith endures under pressure
[00:36:55] faith stands in the midst of opposition jude 3 beloved while i was very diligent to write you concerning our common salvation i found it necessary to write to you here it is exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith look at somebody say contend earnestly see this isn't a
[00:37:15] Slogan, I'm gonna do it until I'm ready to lay hands on you to it So deep in you that you walk out with such a fortitude that you literally look the devil in the eyes and say that's the best
[00:37:25] You got take your communion. Take your body take the blood and say let's go. Come on And when he torments your mind say I have the mind of Christ according to Philippians 2 5 when he said you can't do this
[00:37:38] You're not smart enough. No, but I've got the wisdom of God according to James 1 5 but I'm gonna stress you out and I'm gonna mess with your family he keeps my mind in perfect peace whose mind has stayed upon thee I let my request be
[00:37:50] made known to him and the peace of God which passes all understanding will keep and guard my heart and mind through Christ Jesus you can't do it you'll never be anything oh I'm fearfully and wonderfully created in the image of God
[00:38:02] I was formed in my mother's belly not by you not by my mom and dad they had to go to Motel 6 they had to get hot in the backseat of that car because I had to be
[00:38:11] conceived because God had a plan and I'm a simp person you're a simp person you didn't just show up you were sent into the very date that you came in as an almighty move of God who released the miracle don't you know you are already
[00:38:26] an overcomer you beat it out a billion sperm went for that egg but it could only be you you had to have the face you have the ethnicity you have you got to have that funny nose you got and you had to have those short little feet come on
[00:38:40] everything about you your nerdy self your your wild wild ways everything about you is absolutely perfect and the enemy knew it so he came to sabotage you at an early age but the devil is a
[00:38:54] liar because when you got saved and blood bought and redeemed come on and started getting in that book called the bible it says that it cleanses your soul it washes your mind it changes you
[00:39:05] because Romans 12 1 and 2 says be not conformed to this world but be conformed come on transform by the renewing of your mind renovate get that old stuff out and put the new stuff in
[00:39:16] I am who you say I am I can do what you say I can do I can have what you say I can have because you gave me a better covenant with better promises according to the word of God in the book of
[00:39:28] Hebrews that now I can enter boldly into the very throne room when you rent the veil I didn't have to stay on the outside. I'm not an outsider. You're my daddy. You're my Abba. You're my father.
[00:39:39] Jesus is my elder brother. Holy Spirit, you've got me down here. You cling to me. You're my age.
[00:39:45] You're my paracletos. I'm not alone. Come on. I'm not in the fire by myself. There's a fourth man with me. You aren't hearing what I'm saying. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, you better talk to me. You're not in the lion's den by yourself. The lion's about to quench because God is with you.
[00:40:01] Lo am I with you always if you make your bed in hell. I'm thou I'm there. I'm with you. I'm your shield I'm your force. I'm everything that you need. Yeah, don't make me preach right now, but somebody say contend
[00:40:16] Somebody say fight The good fight somebody say it's a good fight. It's a good fight. It's a good it's a good slap Somebody say you've got to understand you are something else. Come on. I'm proud of you say that say you made it here
[00:40:30] you went through hell you almost lost your mind a decade ago they thought you were out come on cancer came into your body but you said this is not my lot I will not die of this curse when God
[00:40:44] was wounded for my transgression bruised for my iniquity and the chastisement of his peace is upon me and with his stripes I'm healed I'm healed I might be down for a day but watch out I'm getting
[00:40:57] back up a good man falls seven times but keeps getting back up you better look at somebody say watch out it's not over watch out Micah already prophesied it don't have your party just yet
[00:41:10] don't have your balloons out just yet it's Rachel's favorite scripture because when I fall I shall arise again when I sit in darkness the light of God will come to me again you don't have
[00:41:25] the final say his name is alpha and his name is omega he's beginning and he's the end you better look at somebody say watch out it's not over till god says it's over be seated i gotta teach you
[00:41:38] fight fight the good fight good means noble it means beautiful it means excellent it means worthy what you're fighting is worthy i'm looking for somebody i'm looking for my remnant right now I'm working it I'm looking for my remnant Dan I know some of us are in here come on Malachi they
[00:42:02] I think over here this is a section of my remnant come on Norva come on I'm looking for my remnant Twana Jeff come on come on come on come on I'm looking for my remnant not my occasional show up
[00:42:15] not my when it feels good I'm looking for who can get in a foxhole with me who can go through that sewage and come up with a surprise attack you got to read your bible to understand what I'm
[00:42:28] talking about there come on you already say it's good it's beautiful it's excellent it's worthy i'm not fighting for a house or a car or parking space i gotta be honest i'm not trying to do
[00:42:42] anything to anybody but i think christianity got real stupid like god died to give you a parking space walk you need to walk anyway lose the weight stay healthy minimize god and he does care about the details but that's silly then we make him like our like our Santa Claus our
[00:43:14] tooth fairy our genie in the bottle he's no genie he's no tooth fairy he's God he stepped out on nothing and created everything he looked at you as a bag of dirt and me and he
[00:43:31] rue a breathe life in a man you became a living soul he's God you can't even begin to describe it it's an excellent fight this struggle is not just any struggle it's a worthy one it's an excellent
[00:43:50] one it's an excellent one how many of y'all were in the military anybody in the military Bruce y'all you said you go in the military boot camp is rough in it you're gonna throw up you're gonna
[00:44:04] get in shape you're gonna eat right you're gonna listen to the sergeant why because they're getting you in shape for the struggle because you might have to go defend all of us. You've got to
[00:44:16] spiritually be in shape. How do you get faith muscles? If you never have resistance, if you keep getting your favorite parking space, how do you handle it? When you find out your son's on crack working those muscles, right? It's like, I want to do that. I want to be there. You didn't
[00:44:45] even know how to pray through. When you stubbed your toe, you started cussing like a sailor.
[00:44:53] Am I helping anyone?
[00:44:55] Somebody say, bring it on, Pastor Paula.
[00:44:58] Somebody say, fight!
[00:45:01] Fight the noble contest of faith.
[00:45:05] Okay, so I'm going to take it deeper.
[00:45:07] So for all my theologians and nerdy people, let's go deeper.
[00:45:12] All right?
[00:45:14] Because what you're doing is noble.
[00:45:16] It's worthy.
[00:45:17] It's excellent.
[00:45:18] And it's still early.
[00:45:19] I can go.
[00:45:21] The genitive, y'all go, what is that?
[00:45:23] Keep going deeper with me.
[00:45:24] Tells us what kind of fight it is.
[00:45:26] It's not a political fight that we're in a political arena. Some of us, it's not a personal ego fight. It's not a carnal fight. It's a faith fight. And the fight is characterized by faith.
[00:45:45] So in other words, you're not fighting people. You are fighting to hold on to faith. Now watch you're in an arena you're in opposition you're fighting through faith you're fighting because of faith you're fighting with faith now Paul takes it even deeper and he uses a present
[00:46:12] middle imperative which means that the present tense means continuous so Rach it's not like I had this battle on Monday and Tuesday everything was good people are like how are you you know what we say in the white house you run into people and i'm telling you it's the greatest pressure you
[00:46:31] could ever ever imagine there are decisions that are being made that i literally tremble in fear when i have to go brief president or do something with secretary rubio or chief of staff because i
[00:46:45] recognize what will be done what will be said in meetings will not just impact five ten people millions nations millions of people how their outcome will be how the life will turn here you know what we say they go how are you never heard anybody say oh it's rough because they
[00:47:08] didn't make it in that building if they talk like that and they're not all saved we go live in the dream live in the dream now you think in reality every day is a dream life for me it's absolute
[00:47:24] hell hounding you in every way you could ever imagine and not imagine but every day I'm like I'm in the arena and I'm not in with peewee Herman I got Muhammad Ali coming at me right now and Mike Tyson on the other side and Evander
[00:47:44] Holyfield and my ears about to get bit off and my toes about to be broke you got to be old to understand what I'm preaching right there so how's it going that arena live in the dream you know what i'm saying amanda i've got an opportunity that god
[00:48:05] allowed me to face every struggle not from when the time i was 18 from the time i was born breech with an umbilical cord around my neck and had something on the inside of me that said live
[00:48:17] before i could even speak because mom and i were both supposed to die but something said said nope something inside of you even before you knew christ the way you know him before you came
[00:48:32] to unleash before you were prophesied over and you're going to be commissioned over tonight to go fight the good fight something and you kept making you get up and keep going they said quit walk out leave it don't do it stop and something said i gotta keep going how are you living the
[00:48:50] dream because you got tired of all that nonsense of everybody talking about how bad their problems were you're living in God's presence with this very small window called a dash between your two dates which you don't know the next date you know the first one but you don't know the last one yet
[00:49:08] and every day if I live I live for Christ and I don't live sloppy for Christ I don't live halfway for christ i don't live little wins for christ i i i like championships come on i like some big wins
[00:49:22] i like to see god magnified and nobody can deny his name or his works or his power or his presence come on you got to believe god and paul says this it's not just a a a little bit of a fight
[00:49:36] it's a continuous action and actually when he's saying fight the good fight it's a command so he's not saying to us hey this is optional malachi if you think you'd make it jesse if you think
[00:49:47] you've got it come on he's saying i don't care what your personality is like because i designed it and i made you perfect so i command you to continuously be in action of struggling in the
[00:49:58] arena and you continually to be in action while you're struggling in the arena don't worry there's about to be a 30 second break and the water boy is going to come bring you some water they're going
[00:50:14] gonna splash some things coach holy spirit's gonna slap you come on you're gonna get it back because you came to unleash and i promise you i know you think when you wake up tomorrow and go home on
[00:50:25] monday that everything's gonna be totally turned around no you're gonna be turned around you're gonna have a new fortitude you're gonna have something on the inside that says i'm going back in a similar situation or the same circumstance but something in me changed something said i see
[00:50:41] i'm in the arena i'm in my purpose come on i'm doing what god's called me to do the middle voice come on means personally engaged means you have to be involved you have to be invested do you
[00:50:52] understand what he's saying he's saying struggle in the arena and i command you to continuously have action personally for you to be engaged to be involved you don't just get to sit back and go oh
[00:51:05] got a devil oh i had this oh they hit me this time oh i gotta notice oh they threw a lawsuit on me here oh they put me in the media there oh i had this oh my kids are acting like crazy all the
[00:51:17] grandkids oh this one's in the hospital oh that's no i'm continuously engaged i go really in the name of jesus bam isaiah 53 exodus 15 he was wounded for by transgression he's the god that
[00:51:29] healeth thee i'm going my footsteps are ordered by the lord i know this day was made by god and i know this day will be carried by god so god right now give me your wisdom of what i need to
[00:51:38] do where i need to go but one thing i won't do is sit here and go why me oh god i can't believe this is happening i go oh this must mean that i am living the dream this must mean that millions
[00:51:51] just got changed maybe a billion by that decision this must mean you are not going to get to surgically mutilate our children anymore this must mean that we're getting ready to say no life is
[00:52:03] from the moment of conception and we are going to believe god for every child that is formed in that womb this must mean come on that every state's gonna turn like florida come on you say impossible
[00:52:15] i say stand back and see the salvation of the lord there are all things all things all things are possible you better slap somebody say you don't know who you're messing with say keep on
[00:52:28] fighting continually engage in the struggle because we have this mentality it's gonna just go away it's gonna increase it's gonna increase eddie because you're gonna increase it's gonna increase because you're gonna get stronger it's gonna increase because you're gonna say that's
[00:52:52] your best shot wow i must not be doing enough you're gonna get stronger you're not fighting a natural fight you're fighting a beautiful excellent worthy noble one you better slap somebody say stay in here come on come on come on this is not a one-time burst it's a sustained
[00:53:14] intensity now that gets different rage it means i'm sustaining the intensity i'm not moving i'm not moving so that means whatever is resisting me either has got to fall out fall down or be moved i'm gonna keep going it's a sustained intensity paul goes on to say in first timothy
[00:53:39] 6 12 he says then lay hold on eternal life i'm almost through the greek word somebody say there there goes that Greek again. Come on. It's epi lam banomai. Say it with me. Epi lam. Y'all good.
[00:53:53] Say it again. Epi lam banomai. And it doesn't mean casually receive. It does not mean gently accept. You ready? It doesn't mean passively wait. It means seize it. Now get the imagery in your mine. I'm in an arena. I'm struggling. And God says, you're going to go through a divorce you
[00:54:34] didn't expect. You're going to go through 19 life crisis. You're going to wonder where I am and if you can ever make it or get up again. Everything in your life is going to be touched. Your reputation,
[00:55:00] your health, your daughter's going to die. Your ministry is going to be rocked. Your finances, your marriage you're in the arena and stand and to fight at that part god you ready but when you're
[00:55:32] in the arena striving when there's the resistance and the opposition to lay somebody say lay hold to seize hold on to grab hold of force to take possession deliberately to grip something and refuse it because the reality if it's not part of your destiny it can't stay with you and if it is
[00:56:07] part of your destiny it can't leave you and I never lost one thing that was part of the eternal plan of God in my life people left things left come on situations happen but God says when you're in that
[00:56:22] arena and you you're struggling in opposition he says I want you to deliberately not passively I want you to deliberately take possession of your peace, deliberately take possession of going out and preaching the gospel. Deliberate. God, I can't even put two sentences together. Go preach, book
[00:56:41] yourself, do what you got to do. Cause when you get up there at 90 pounds, I'd lost so much weight.
[00:56:46] When you get up there at 97 pounds, he said, when I, you open your mouth, I'm the one that's going to fill it with power and fire and promise. He said, you keep doing what you've been called to
[00:56:58] do I don't know what your call is but God didn't just send you in here to look cute you have a reason you have a why you have an intention you are a sick person and God has raised you up for
[00:57:11] such a time as this take position possession deliberately he says grip something and refuse to release it I refuse to release the eternal calling of God on my life I didn't care what man thought I don't care about anybody's opinion you can figure that out by now I didn't care about
[00:57:28] what they say, didn't say. I didn't care about who gave, who didn't gave. I didn't care if there was money in the bank, no money in the bank. I don't care if he stayed or he walked out. Ask
[00:57:37] anyone around me because when my hand gets a hold of something, hum baby, I'm going to take possession. I will not release that grip. I'd rather hold the hand in the heart of God than
[00:57:48] any hand of any man any day because I am yours, God. And in this arena, I'm going to, I'm going to face opposition but i'm going to strive come on in the arena i'm going to keep moving in the
[00:58:00] arena i'm going to lay hold come on i'm going to seize it i'm going to make sure that i refuse to let go of it and paul is not saying feel eternal life he is saying to you and he's commanding to
[00:58:12] you seize it and take hold of it for yourself now that would be good pentecostal preaching most people would be going and they'd be excited but most people have no idea what eternal life is there there's an urgency with this verb so the next question you've got to ask you and this is
[00:58:33] our conclusion and i'm going to commission you is what is key what is i almost gave it away what is eternal life what does that verb mean you ready because it's an urgency in that verb like you've
[00:58:47] got to do this now so again the genitive case of this the greek and these eternal means age long belonging to the age to come life zoe life not your bios not your natural life but divine life
[00:59:03] so it's not just live forever because that's what people think i'm going to live forever with jesus that's not what this means you're going to have presence with god if you have him as your savior
[00:59:19] forever and ever and ever and ever and ever because there's no end of beginning him with him but this is where christians miss it they think they only get presence when they get up on the
[00:59:30] throne and so they preach to them a future and they put in themselves a future mentality because i got to suffer so much down here i mean that's not what my bible tells me suffering's just for
[00:59:44] a season a short time you don't have suffering but understand it's not just oh woe is me down here if i can just barely make it we have missed this so bad which is why you guys are the remnant
[01:00:00] i'm preaching to the warriors right now but it's why the rest of people who are blood-bought and i believe they love jesus but they're not activated and that's why we are all suffering because if the church rises up and does what the church is supposed to do then righteousness will
[01:00:18] rule and the lord god will be lord over the nation this doesn't just mean live forever what it means this is the life of the age to come breaking into the present when you break that down it means watch the life of the age which is to come
[01:00:39] breaking into the present that's what a kairos is so eternal life in what would be called pauline theology or johannine john theology means god's quality of life it means kingdom life it means resurrection life it means life that originates from god himself so what he's telling me is paula
[01:01:08] you're in your arena you know what the sad part is most people john bought me a really nice house i love my house thank god for my rock star husband you brought me a nice car too thank you baby
[01:01:29] you buy me no nice clothes too but you know what i'm barely in that house that house is not my arena most christians are striving for something that is not even their arena it's a place i lay
[01:01:49] my head i'm trying thank you sir i'm taking you there come on doc help me you know me for over 30 years struck in the arena are you in the arena steve amy mr rico dr legrand shea derrick past
[01:02:22] todd anna niv my friend you in the arena johnny in the arena because if you're in the arena you are 100 in your purpose you were you were breathing the reason for your your life
[01:02:42] well i just can't do that whatever you were called to do ceo fund the kingdom eddie james take in more kids how much does it cost you to take in kids eddie what's it cost a week about a year
[01:03:05] 30 to 40 000 a week good we're gonna raise you some tonight do you think he goes yeah i think that gang member should die he's not really a good guy so i won't get in the arena and believe god
[01:03:24] for 30 000. you lit i've known you how long we known each other 30 years almost since the 90s over 30 years we've been we've been doing this a long time together i used to dance a lot faster
[01:03:36] and better too but i'm not bad for 60. i'm almost through y'all ready i'm are you getting it if you went home if my arena cost me 30 000 a week i couldn't do that did you grow up rich eddie
[01:03:55] did you have a silver spoon in your mouth you didn't you didn't get a big inheritance no no none of that you sure when the world poor like dirt poor like real bad poor lights off poor like outhouse in the backyard poor
[01:04:19] why would you get an arena that costs you thirty to forty thousand dollars a week for people who aren't in your blood because that's why you were sent into the earth and given those vocals and
[01:04:35] that ability to rescue and raise up warriors come on and mighty men and women of God thank God because everybody God's called a lot more Eddie James into this earth but they just afraid to get
[01:04:48] in the arena so they're they're going to bed in their nice comfy bed while you're down there at the Hampton Inn tonight in a van still pushing kids around and making sure you can push product
[01:04:59] you don't have to push product we'll take care of a week's worth of stuff for you come on we'll get you thirty thousand dollars you aren't even hearing me if i gotta ask john to give it come on we're
[01:05:09] gonna get it to you because i'm in my arena i'm in my arena right now i'm in my arena nate you aren't hearing what i'm saying you see if everybody's in their arena they would have
[01:05:25] just dropped 30 000 on the stage right now they would have because they're not they're not called to do what you do or called to do what i do but they're called to something else and why they're
[01:05:37] they're holding and saving they can't wonder they wonder why is life just not working why is there not this flow it's not that there aren't difficult times if you're in the arena out of the arena
[01:05:49] you're going to have it but when you're in the arena there's opposition coming against you but here's the thing i wake up every day i'm in the arena you aren't hearing me and when i'm in the
[01:05:59] arena, then I'm grabbing intentionally. Are you hearing me? I'm like, I will grab the enemy's throat and say not today. And once I get past that devil, there's another one over here. I say, get behind me in the name of Jesus. The blood be against you. Sometimes I'm not even kidding you.
[01:06:16] Sometimes I take communion four or five times at the white house. I for real do. I'm like, I'm going into what meeting? I go, what am I doing right now? I call, I start, I start texting
[01:06:26] rachel get a hold of prophet papa i need the prayer warriors activate all africa give me everybody intercessing right now because i just found out i'm walking into the arena that's about to affect some nations right now you aren't hearing what i'm saying i'm deliberately
[01:06:46] seizing it rachel deliberately my mama you're going to deliberately seize it don't let go keep your grip on it I don't care what the devil uses I don't care what voice he uses you grab it
[01:07:02] Brad you grab it I don't care what comes against you guys I don't care who walks out who walks in what they say what you have what you don't have stay in the arena strive come against the opposition
[01:07:13] grab it every single day be intentional you will not lose it and there's a day God will say oh she graduated that arena now get over here Nate you're getting ready there's a day my goodness
[01:07:25] Nate you could be the next president one day you'll be a senator you'll be in not only congress you didn't just go through the legislation this is all a process because God's going to raise you
[01:07:36] up for great things and who knows it might be Nate for president I can be a real good campaign manager but I'm not just saying that there's an anointing on your life that is raising you to the
[01:07:47] very top the highest levels of government you will be faithful you have been faithful and God says I'm enlarging your arena and you've got to be very intentional your wife your children the agreement the power come on you're in the arena you're not fighting just laying in bed or going to a comfy
[01:08:05] house you don't even know where you're going to live and it doesn't matter but it does matter because this isn't about your comfort this is about your activation another step in the purpose and the plan of God come on you better hear me I don't know who I'm here for but somebody's got to
[01:08:20] fight and when you fight you gotta grab it and seize it what are you grabbing the kingdom of god don't make me start preaching on the kingdom of god what are you grabbing the quality of life of
[01:08:30] god what does that come with a whole lot of responsibility a whole lot of decisions a whole lot of anointing that it takes to do what god's called you to do what did i grab first just a
[01:08:43] turkey that i went down and started feeding the homeless what i grabbed first just some old intimate bakery stuff that I went and started feeding people and telling them one by one Jesus just a clown outfit you mean you kept grabbing and seizing and
[01:08:58] going and you never quit not because I'm just stubborn but I am because I'm resolute and I understand the mentality of the church is so wrong you're waiting for something out there that's already here and you're not even standing in
[01:09:18] your arena spiritually guys I'm done I'm done I'm gonna commission you think about the body of Christ people come people go as if they have a choice it's crazy you know how many people through
[01:09:41] 47 years of ministry said to me they go I'm called to the nation you know what I say I'm gonna pray over you now go I'm like one less on payroll I am you know how many of them went to the nations
[01:09:56] that came to me and said that in 42 years of ministry 40 years you want to know how many tina zero i didn't go and say to dr lowry or any overseer archbishop or bishop jakes i never went
[01:10:13] i'm going to the nations i need your platform i never did that i just kept in the inner city preaching carl strater asked me i got up i preached and ronnie said we go to australia
[01:10:30] with us. I was like, sure. He goes, I'll buy you a first class. I said, no, that's too expensive.
[01:10:35] Nobody told me it's a 26 hour flight. I did it. I got ready to go back. He goes, Hey, we go to Europe with us. I'm like, sure. We go to Singapore. Okay. And in three months,
[01:10:50] I went around the world three times and laid my hand on over a million people in stadiums everywhere. And God launched a worldwide ministry. It's faithful. Just getting in the arena.
[01:11:02] how many of you know your arena stand up how many of you face opposition every day when you step in the arena if you're really doing it right you're just living in the arena how many you have a struggle in the arena how many of you
[01:11:26] are having serious opposition in the arena congratulations you're doing it you're doing it you're doing it how many of you still have a tight grip deliberate intentional keep that grip tight guys keep it tight now lay hold in
[01:11:58] the arena with all hell coming against you every day smiling why cuz you live in the dream look at somebody say live in the dream you live in the dream now watch this ready you've got it because what are you laying hold of God's
[01:12:14] quality of life kingdom life resurrection life and life that originates from God himself. They hold of it. It's a life that death cannot extinguish. Hold it because we have it so wrong. D.L. Moody said, when I die, don't say, he said, they're going to say
[01:12:42] that Moody is dead, but do not believe it at all because I am more alive than ever because he doesn't lose anything you're just transferring you're just moving it's like have y'all ever moved to another country you're just moving to another i can't even call it a universe you're
[01:13:05] moving to a place called heaven and you're getting a body that can handle the kind of power that is in heaven just like you have a body here to have handle the kind of power that is here by the holy
[01:13:19] spirit for what your purpose is in the earth so grip it grip it come on come on grab it grab it because if we're leaving living kingdom life then i'm telling you we're going to advance mightily
[01:13:31] you ready you fight and paul's saying this i'm through eternal life is this possessed positionally but must be appropriated experientially so you're possessed right positionally paul's saying don't just believe in eternity grip it live from it operate out of it anchor yourself in it
[01:14:09] and he gives two commands stay in the arena and while you're fighting seize eternity it's forceful it's a continuous struggle it's a decisive grip you fight daily so what do you have to do condition your mind condition your spirit condition your body but you seize intentionally
[01:14:34] you fight daily somebody say i'm getting it come on but i seize intentionally are you with me because i'm going to go after the one thing right now that's fighting you so you make a decisive
[01:14:47] personal forceful appropriation of the divine life that you've been called to and you refuse to let go period if god commands you to fight and he commands you to seize then what he's called you to must be worth fighting for it's valuable because you only fight for what's valuable hold
[01:15:14] it. Say, I'm gripping it. Now I'm going to start prophesying over you. I only have 70 more pages to preach, but I'm not going to do it. Grip it. Come on, grip it. I'm going to start prophesying
[01:15:25] over you. I've got 70 more, but I promise I'm not going to do it. I just went to right to where I want to prophesy over you. Come on, grip it. Somebody say, I've got it. Say, I've got it.
[01:15:35] Now let me tell you what's going to happen. The enemy wants you to get weary. How many of you been tired how many of you been tired okay father that's what the lord spoke to me he said they're
[01:15:45] in the arena they've got their hand on it they're grabbing it but they're tired and this conference though it made you physically tired it energized you spiritually and it was designed to take you to a whole other place spiritually so you ready for that because now i'm going to commission you
[01:16:04] you. Now I'm going to commission you. First off, lift both your hands and grab it. Grab it. Grab it. Come on. God's got you, baby. It's good. She's getting deliverance. It's good. Pressure in your arena. Pressure's tried to keep creep in. Pressure to be silent. Pressure
[01:16:38] be soft pressure to blend pressure to shrink the devil is a liar the enemy doesn't always roar sometimes he sedates passivity is a lot more dangerous than persecution a lot more dangerous and the holy spirit came upon them and they had boldness boldness
[01:17:12] grip it i'm keeping you in a position because god's moving right now god's about to break every chain and everything that has had you in a place of weariness and had you in a place of
[01:17:23] bondage and tired in the name of jesus and questioning even hebrews 10 39 says we are not of those who draw back the the difference makers of those who made it in and those who didn't were
[01:17:35] they drew back and and they irritated god they drew back even to perdition i'm almost done baby just another minute we're not those who retreat i'm going to prophesy over you now lift up your
[01:17:46] hands. Come on. We're not those who surrender. We are not those who shrink back because of fear.
[01:17:52] Let all fear be broken off you right now in the name of Jesus. We are those who believe. Let your faith be strong. We are those who endure. You can stand firm under pressure. You can stand because
[01:18:05] faith was never meant to be fragile. Faith was meant to fight. And Paul said, agonimazi. Come on, agonimasy. It's where we get the word in the English of agony. We've entered into the arena.
[01:18:19] You're contending now. You're straining toward the prize. And he said, epilambanami, seize it, grip it, eternity, refuse to let go. You are not called to observe the arena. You are called to enter into it. You are not called to admire eternal life. You are called to seize it. You
[01:18:37] were called to bring it into the earth you were called to be a kingdom mover and a mountain shaker come on tonight something shifts tonight something settles tonight something solidifies tonight you have a resolute mind tonight you're not going to waver a double-minded man not all to think he
[01:18:55] should get anything from the lord because this generation will not be remembered by surrender it will be remembered by courage it will be remembered by the fight we put up the president won the election because when they shot him and almost killed him instinctively he rose up it
[01:19:13] could not be scripted it could not be calculated but what was in him the whole world witnessed and they said what kind of man is that that raises up and says fight fight fight someone who's in an
[01:19:25] arena someone who's got their hand on it he knows his purpose is to save america come on and to restore it to its original condition. I don't know who I'm here for because you are not here to
[01:19:36] surrender. You will not surrender. It will not be remembered by compromise. It will be remembered by conviction. It will not be remembered by silence. It will be remembered for standing. This is not the time to let the world shut you down or shut you up. There are mothers in the room and your
[01:19:54] children are worth fighting for. There are fathers in this room and your legacy is worth fighting for.
[01:20:00] you will not lose your inheritance you will not lose your children they will not overdose the devil is a liar we put a hedge of protection around them we put the blood of Jesus we command
[01:20:11] angels to go around them there are pastors in this room your city is worth fighting for your community is worth fighting for their intercessors in this room your nation is worth fighting for come on and stir up the gift of God, there are young people in this room, your purity is worth
[01:20:31] fighting for, come on God's holiness is worth fighting for, there are leaders in this room, your calling is worth fighting for, do not misinterpret, resistance for rejection, you are not being rejected, you're being resisted and it's forming you, it's making you stronger, even people
[01:20:50] who love you can sometimes feel hard on you. They're being used by God to make you into the pliable vessel. He's making you into that. Resistance is confirmation that you are called by God. Resistance means you're in the arena. And if anybody's had any resistance, come on.
[01:21:08] Resistance in your business. Resistance in your family. Resistance in your ministry. Resistance in your arena. It's a confirmation. You just got the receipt. You got proof that you're in the arena. You've got proof that you are a kingdom builder. I don't know who I'm here for, but show
[01:21:25] me some people who've been going through some resistance. If the enemy is fighting you, it's because what you carry threatens him. If the enemy is coming against you, it's because you're carrying something that is a threat to the kingdom of darkness. He does not go after people who do
[01:21:42] nothing and go nowhere. You do not tackle the guy that doesn't have the football. You don't go up in the stands you don't shoot the bodyguard you shoot the president or the congressman or the
[01:21:55] celebrity or whoever's being protected come on the reason that the enemy's been shooting at you i'm not talking natural i'm talking that your weapons of warfare are not carnal but they're mighty to the pulling down of stronghold somebody better help me take this up another level come on
[01:22:11] if you've got pressure it's because you're carrying a purpose if there's opposition it's because you're in your assignment stay in the arena in the arena grip eternity do not disappoint do not loosen your grip do not betray your loose or your
[01:22:34] grip come on do not delay do not loosen your grip do not let fatigue loosen your grip do not let delay loosen your grip you are hearing me do not let betrayal or opposition. Loosen your grip. Seize it. Seize it. Somebody say, I'm getting it. Come on, start
[01:22:53] praying over yourself. Start prophesying. Seize your eternal calling. Seize your calling. Seize your backbone right now. Seize your voice. Seize your faith because your fight is temporary, but your crown is eternal. Your crown is eternal. Second Timothy 4, 7, I fought the good fight of
[01:23:14] faith. Paul did not say I admired it. I discussed it. I talked about it. I thought about it. He said I fought it. And there is now henceforth laid up for me a crown. Can you see it? There's a crown
[01:23:27] for those who refuse to quit. There's a crown for those who are in the arena. There's a crown for those who endure. There's a crown for those who love his appearing. I'm looking for my called
[01:23:37] people i'm looking for my chosen right now i'm looking for my fire baptized got their mind made up filled with the boldness of the holy spirit says i will not back down i will not back up in
[01:23:50] the name of jesus god called me in this place i know it seems wild to you but i know the voice of the lord the sheep know his voice and they will follow it and obey it i declare over to you
[01:24:02] tonight you will not die in that arena you will rise in it you will not be crushed by the pressure you will be strengthened by it in the name of jesus you will not be silenced to culture
[01:24:13] you will speak with grace and truth you will not bow you will not blend you will not back down you will be strong you will walk in love you will walk in might you will walk in power you will
[01:24:25] stand in truth you will fight the good fight of faith i commission you in the name of jesus and generations will say they stood and history will record the remnant that stood and most people's name will never be written on this side of eternity but there is a church there is a people
[01:24:47] that they will know your name they will know your calling they will know your arena and they'll say we are able to possess the land because you stood thank you mama for standing thank you papa for
[01:25:00] standing thank you grandma for praying thank you for preaching thank you for not compromising truth just because you wanted to fill the seats with some butts thank you for preaching the uncompromised word of god i don't know who i'm here for but all generations will say they stood they contended
[01:25:18] they loved fiercefully and they fought tenaciously where are my people who are called to fight the good fight of faith i'm not here for everyone but i'm here for somebody talk to me malachi say it with me my faith is worth fighting for say my family is worth fighting for my calling is
[01:25:42] worth fighting for my nation is worth fighting for the harvest is worth fighting for now say it like you mean it say it like you mean it say i'm worth fighting for say it is worth fighting
[01:26:02] for now father in the name of jesus release courage release conviction release clarity mark this generation let watchmen arise let intercessors arise let businessmen arise let mothers arise let reformers arise let revivalists arise i'm calling you right now let evangelists arise let
[01:26:23] pastors arise let let righteous politicians arise let sons and daughters arise may it be said that when the pressure came they did not retreat they did not go back they did not grieve the heart of
[01:26:37] god but they went boldly into the fire i'm sorry but i'm not going to eat your food because that cannot touch my lips if it means a lion then i'm taking a lion i'm sorry but i cannot bow to bell
[01:26:51] so go ahead and throw me in throw me in that fiery furnace when culture shifted they did not bend when the night was long they seized the dawn i don't know where you are but i'm calling you
[01:27:02] forth out of your comfort zone into your arena you fought you endured you overcame and you will lay your hand on eternal life both in heaven and here in the earth you will advance the kingdom of
[01:27:17] god and when you see him face to face you will get a victor's crown because it will say you overcame by the blood of the lamb and the word of his testimony do not quit let your body be energized
[01:27:32] let your spirit be energized let your mind be clear you are getting a new season a new day fight The good, the beautiful, the valuable, the noble, the worthy.