The Battle You Can't See | Ps. SAM LAWRENCE | RHEA ABIGAIL | Tamil Sermon | Rock Eternal Church

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[00:00:00]The battle you can't see, but one that you can feel. The battle you can't see with your eyes, but the battle that can that you can feel on the inside. Just I know you can agree with me that there have been days where probably we didn't hear a bad news or a bad report or something drastic did not happen but we felt that there was something off. We felt heavy.

[00:00:30]We felt irritated for no reason. We felt that there was no peace inside. We were frustrated. We were tense. Or probably we were super discouraged than usual.

[00:00:45]And you know what's the most frustrating part? When someone comes to us and ask, "Sister, what happened? What's bothering you? Oh, brother, how have you been?

[00:00:54]What's going on?" We get so frustrated because we don't have an answer because we don't know how to explain this. We look around, we look at our life, nothing drastic change yet something feels off.

[00:01:11]And you know what? We forget. That's the nature of battles. Battles don't come with an announcement or a prior warning.

[00:01:22]They don't come on according to your calendar. But no, they show up in your spirit. And those are the battles we don't realize or we often misunderstand.

[00:01:34]And those are the exact kind that Paul talks about. If you look at Ephesians chapter 6 and verse 12, you see, we all know this verse. Paul is saying we are not fighting against flesh and blood. We are fighting against the powers of darkness, against spirits. That is what our battle is about. Probably you can't see it. Just because you can't see it doesn't mean the battle is not existent.

[00:02:03]Probably you don't know the reason. But the battle is very much present. But because we don't understand the nature of this battle, we spend our time and energy on fighting the wrong enemy charge. We think the people are the issue or the situation. We start blaming the people. We start blaming the situation while we fail to address the actual problem and the enemy does an amazing job keeping us busy with the wrong enemy while the actual battle is waging on. But I want to tell you today, look at you and tell you that if you are finding yourself in the midst of such battle, if you are finding yourself in a battle that makes no sense, that you think you can never overcome, I want to encourage you that the Lord of hosts is on your side. How many of you believe with me, the Lord who defeated death is on your side? The Lord who rose from the dead is on your side. And as long as he is on your side, the victory is ours.

[00:03:03]How many of you say an amen with me? Can you say a louder amen, church? Because that is the truth. We got to hold on.

[00:03:10]The Lord is fighting on your behalf.

[00:03:13]Even though the battle looks like that battle is going to have the final say.

[00:03:17]No, the Lord is going to have the final say in your life. Can you lift your hands and say an amen with me? Come on, church. Do you claim the victory this morning? Yes. All right. This brings me to my first point. The first point for the for the day is some pressures are not physical, they are spiritual.

[00:03:40]A lot of times we think this pressure that we're facing is part of the physical world is probably because of the workplace or what going on around us. But a lot of times that pressure is spiritual. I want to turn our attention to first kings chapter 19 and verse 4.

[00:04:02]He sat down under a solitary broom tree and prayed that he might die. I've had enough, Lord, he said. Take my life for I have for I am no better than my ancestors who have already died.

[00:04:18]Church, we're talking about Elijah the prophet here in this chapter. We all know who Elijah is, right? Elijah is not a young struggling new believer. No. Or Elijah is not a new prophet, not new to walking with the Lord. No. We're talking about a prophet who changed the trajectory of the nation Israel. In fact, just one chapter before, he brings fire down from heaven. He overcomes. He defeats hundreds of Bal prophets. He brings a revival moment in the nation of Israel. And it's the same prophet who is looking here who's saying, "God, I've had enough. Take my life away. I can't do this anymore." It's surprising, church. You see, a lot of times in our life, we would have just testified about something. We would have just witnessed God doing an amazing miracle in our life. And we think from then on life should go smoothly but it's exactly after that we face a battle and we're caught off guard. A lot of times like Elijah was we think I should be I shouldn't be facing this. Why is there a battle now? But church a lot of times a spiritual battle or spiritual pressure will follow after a spiritual victory.

[00:05:43]And that's what was happening in Elijah's life. But Elijah lost sight of it. Because he lost sight of it, he thought this was the end. He thought he's going to give up. He thought the Lord has forsaken him. He thought his anointing was gone. He thought his life was over. A lot of times we find ourselves in that situation, right? We think we will never overcome this battle. We think this is where our life is going to end. We think our family is always going to be like this. We think our work or career or our finances is going to remain like this.

[00:06:16]But we often don't realize that it's more of a spiritual battle than we actually think.

[00:06:24]You see Elijah, when you look at Elijah, a lot didn't change, George. It was just one chapter later that we see this man losing his mind. He was the same person, right? The God who was with him was the same yesterday, today, and forever. The anointing he had on him was the same.

[00:06:44]The calling God had on Elijah's life was the same. The purpose did not get defeated just because he was under pressure. But he lost sight of all that because he didn't understand that this was a spiritual battle. And I want to tell you today if you are finding yourself in a position like Elijah's, I want to tell you God has not given up on your church. The Lord will never forsake you. When you fight yourself in the middle of a spiritual battle, the Lord is not going to revoke your anointing.

[00:07:13]He's not going to revoke your calling.

[00:07:15]He's not going to abandon you. He's not going to give up on the promises he made on your life. No. Just because the moment is looking like that, don't lose faith. Because church, I want to tell you, I want you to be alert because this is more of a spiritual battle than you actually realize. It's not a physical one. It's a spiritual one. Now, let's move on to the second point.

[00:07:43]The second point for the day is if you fight the wrong enemy, you lose the real battle. I repeat, if you focus on fighting the wrong enemy, you end up losing the real battle. Let's read Ephesians 6:12.

[00:08:03]For we are not fighting against flesh and blood enemies, but against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world.

[00:08:12]We always know this verse. We already know this verse. We've heard this verse many times both in Tamil and English. A lot of people have used this verse. But have we ever wondered why did Paul say this? Why does this why did Paul write this to the Ephesians?

[00:08:30]The people who had received this letter had a specific problem. church.

[00:08:35]To help you understand that issue better, I want to turn your attention to this one term that people use in the medical field and that is misdiagnosis.

[00:08:46]Have you heard the term? Yes or no?

[00:08:49]You've heard the term misdiagnosis? Yes.

[00:08:52]Is not when a doctor fails to treat a patient? No. It's when a doctor fails at identifying the right problem. It's when a doctor misidentifies the issue, misidentifies the disease or illness and gets the patient on the wrong treatment, wrong medication, a wrong procedure. All time, energy and money is wasted on the wrong treatment and the patient ends up even in a worse state.

[00:09:21]And that's the same issue the people who received this letter had. A lot of us have too misidentifying the battle that you are in. We think this is more of a physical battle and we end up fighting the wrong enemy. And that is what Paul is addressing here because the people of Ephesus thought the people were the enemy. They had a lot of conflicts. They had a lot of arguments. And they thought, you know what, the person who sitting beside me is the enemy. The person in my family is the enemy. the person in my church is the enemy. And Paul is saying, "Hey, you got it wrong."

[00:10:00]The people are not your enemy. This is more of a spiritual battle than you think it is.

[00:10:08]How many of you have seen a puppet show?

[00:10:12]Yes. Have you been to a puppet show?

[00:10:14]Have you taken your kids to a puppet show? Have you seen videos of a puppet show? Yes. Okay. I hope you got my point. All right. So, if you look at a puppet show, you see this puppet and it's part of a story, it's part of a narrative, it's causing chaos on stage, it's throwing things away, pushing things away, and you're angry at how the puppet is being portrayed. And you start yelling at the puppet like this man is.

[00:10:41]You start blaming the puppet. You start throwing things at the puppet. You start attacking the puppet.

[00:10:48]But we forget that the puppet is not the enemy. The puppet is not the problem.

[00:10:53]But there's someone behind. Can you see that man there? Yes. He is the puppeteer. He's the one making the decisions. He's the one orchestrating the problem there. And like this man in the picture, we often misidentify our enemy. We think this is our enemy while our enemy stays behind. The actual battle happens behind. Church, this is what we do a lot of times when there's something wrong with our family. We immediately start blaming your spouse.

[00:11:25]The husband starts blaming the wife, the wife start blaming the husband, starts attacking. Even the parents thinks the same thing. Probably it's the problem with the child. They start attacking the child. The children do the same thing.

[00:11:37]They think the problem is with the parents that the parents are the enemy and they start attacking their parents.

[00:11:43]We start attacking our relatives. We start attacking our siblings, our co-workers.

[00:11:49]But I want to tell you today, they are not the actual enemy. The Satan does his best job to keep you focused on them while you lose the actual battle. It's not the people church. It's the spirit of division. It's the spirit of pride.

[00:12:05]It's the spirit of jealousy. is the attack on unity on your family life that you have to war against that you have to battle in prayer in the spiritual field but it's easier to blame people and that's what the enemy does but I want to tell you today if you've been in a place like that or the next time you find yourself in such a place where you want to react to the person where you want to start attacking the person with words with arguments I encourage encourage you to pause, take a minute and think, is this my real enemy? Is this the person I should be attacking? Is this the battle I should be fighting? Or what's underneath? What else is at play? Is this a spiritual battle? Or is this the person that's my enemy? Next time you find yourself in that place, discern. Discern. Pause and discern. Because church, I tell you, if you are going to spend all your time fighting the wrong enemy, we're losing the ultimate battle. So next time you find yourself in that position, make sure you don't end up fighting the wrong enemy and lose the battle. Over to pastor.

[00:13:25]Thank you, Ria. So as Ria said, sometimes all we have to do is to just pause and discern.

[00:13:32]We need to realize who are we fighting.

[00:13:35]Sometimes we are just shadow boxing. We don't even know who our enemy is. All right? We think is the enemy and the actual enemy is something else.

[00:13:46]But we just go on keep fighting. See I tell you the actual enemy the Satan is very very clever about it. All right.

[00:13:55]And when I say this let me go to the third point. It says the enemy works best when he remains unnoticed. I repeat, it says the enemy works best when he remains unnoticed.

[00:14:12]What does it mean? Let's turn our book uh to the uh the book of the Bible, Job 1 6-7. The book of Job 1 verse 6-7.

[00:14:24]It says one day the members of heavenly court came to present themsel before the Lord and the accuser Satan came with them. Where have you come from? The Lord asked Satan. And Satan answered the Lord. This is more important. If you have your Bibles or notes, please make a note of it. Says, I have been patrolling the earth watching everything that's going on.

[00:14:50]There are two words that are very important in this passage. one patrolling and watching. This is the the theological heart of this point, right?

[00:15:02]What does it teach us? The enemy studies us before it strikes us. This is something that we have to learn. He studies us before he strikes us. Even as we read this verse and point which says the enemy works best when he's unnoticed. So we should understand why is that we are not able to notice him.

[00:15:28]That's question number one. Have you ever asked this question? Why is that I'm not able to see Satan working in me?

[00:15:34]There's not a clear sign of warning. Why is that? Why is it we're not able to notice him? One. Second, why does he work really good when he remains unnoticed?

[00:15:46]That's the point. Why does he really work fervently when he is left alone?

[00:15:52]When he's unnoticed, when you're not considering him.

[00:15:56]And third thing, what exactly is he watching for? Because the verse says he is patrolling and watching for. This is a very very important in it's a military term that is written watching is not just just looking at it's actual reconnaissance, right? He's actually studying you.

[00:16:15]That is something that we have to be careful of. What is he? What is he studying? He's studying your patterns.

[00:16:23]He's observing your weakness. And he's tracking your habits.

[00:16:29]Probably I want to repeat this again.

[00:16:30]He's studying your patterns.

[00:16:34]He's observing your weakness.

[00:16:37]And he tracks your habit.

[00:16:40]Let me tell you, he's not random. Satan the enemy is not random. He is very very very strategic. That's the reason sometimes you feel the battles that you face are custom made for me.

[00:16:54]Why it's you cannot generalize your battle. It is custom made for you. Why?

[00:16:59]Because he studied your pattern. He studied your weakness and he's also aware and he's watching your triggers. Where do you get triggered?

[00:17:14]He's watching your tired moments.

[00:17:17]And he's watching when you are unguarded.

[00:17:21]When you let loose of your guards, he's closely monitoring all of these things.

[00:17:26]Say for example, somebody is as as majestic as I am. You stay on the road.

[00:17:32]I walk towards you like boldly like this. Immediately your response to stimuli, what does it do? You'll be alert. Why is he coming towards me? All your your entire system it alerts you.

[00:17:45]You are always in the alert mode. But imagine somebody who's aspun or some somebody's very amicable is coming this way. You'll probably ignore him. You will because you feel this is not a threat to me.

[00:18:00]We always feel Satan comes like this majestic dramatic entering into your life. No, but many times he quietly enters into your life. He quietly enters into your situation. He quietly enters into your business, your finances, your health.

[00:18:19]Sometimes you we feel that it is going to be a dramatic entry. But it is as small as your stress is as negligible as your tiredness.

[00:18:33]Probably your discouragement.

[00:18:36]I tell you this is a gradual drift that happens. You never notice. It usually goes unnoticed. But that's where Satan is watching over you. He's patrolling you. All right.

[00:18:51]I tell you the greatest advantage that Satan has is not his power but his ability to camouflage.

[00:18:58]Right? Not just his power, his ability to camouflage.

[00:19:04]Right?

[00:19:06]So next question, why don't we notice him? Why is it we are not able to recognize him at the moment of entry?

[00:19:12]I'm going to give you three things.

[00:19:14]Please make a note of it. Three things.

[00:19:16]First, we are distracted by the visible.

[00:19:21]What does it mean? We are so used to meeting the demands of our life, our daily life, our work or rather our business, our daily work, our family, our finances, our health or probably social media.

[00:19:40]All these demands simply do not allow us the stillness we all require.

[00:19:48]Only when you're still, you'll be able to actually notice him.

[00:19:53]If you're distracted, you can never notice what's happening in your life. Am I right or wrong? And you should understand a distracted person is a vulnerable person.

[00:20:08]If you are distracted, then you are vulnerable. That's an entry point to Satan.

[00:20:14]Right? Second, what happens? We are distracted by the visible. Then we normalize the drift. What is the drift that we are talking about? I didn't pray today. I'll pray tomorrow.

[00:20:29]All these one days they compound to become and create a larger gap between you and Christ.

[00:20:39]You didn't pray. You didn't attend church. Probably you didn't read the word of the Lord. You've been busy. And what happens? All these things create a larger gap between you and Christ. And Satan uses that as an opportunity to enter into your life.

[00:20:57]You should be very, very, very careful about the drift that's happening in your life. Ah, it's negligible one day.

[00:21:03]What's going to happen? That's the opportunity you're giving to Satan.

[00:21:08]Third one, we underestimate the enemy's intelligence.

[00:21:14]All right. As I said, the text says Satan was watching everything that is going on.

[00:21:21]It's not just casual observation. He's studying patterns. He's identifying your rhythms.

[00:21:28]He's choosing when they are most vulnerable. Maybe when you do a test. So I get I got reminded of the lesson that I took in my life group. It says when do you when are you most vulnerable?

[00:21:38]All right. If possible, you can note it down. When are you most vulnerable?

[00:21:42]Halt. H A L T. All right. You're most vulnerable when you're hungry.

[00:21:50]You're most vulnerable when you're angry.

[00:21:54]You're most vulnerable when you're lonely.

[00:21:57]You're most vulnerable when you're tired.

[00:22:01]So if you see, if you're hungry, you will not be able to take the right decision. In fact, the passage that Ria read, we studied what happened in Elijah's life. He gave up on everything.

[00:22:13]What did God do? He made him soup and meat.

[00:22:16]Eat first.

[00:22:18]Because when you're hungry, you tend to be vulnerable and you end up doing something crazy.

[00:22:25]One, angry. Of course, no need explanation. When you're angry, you're eventually going to screw up.

[00:22:33]You're going to hurt the people next to you. You're going to hurt your family.

[00:22:36]You're going to lose some words.

[00:22:38]That's a moment of vulnerability.

[00:22:40]Next, lonely. When the moment you feel you're lonely, you have all the opportunity and you open doors for people for Satan to come into your life.

[00:22:50]You're vulnerable. Most vulnerable moment. And of course, when you're tired, classic example, you come back after a long day at work. What happens? You snap out of your kid. You snap out of your wife. Why?

[00:23:05]Because you're tired. You're vulnerable.

[00:23:08]And Satan is using that opportunity to come and do the necessary damage in your life.

[00:23:14]Right? So as I said, he's closely monitoring you. He's watching for patterns. He's monitoring your rhythms.

[00:23:23]Quickly, I want to just give you three doors in which Satan enters into your life. Right?

[00:23:29]Three doors. One, patterns of neglect. The first door.

[00:23:35]What is this patterns of neglect?

[00:23:38]As I said, your spiritual disciplines.

[00:23:42]Sometimes when you join a work, you be so into it after a moment of time negligible.

[00:23:49]This attitude of negligence come to you.

[00:23:52]It applies with your relationships. It applies with your friendships. It applies with your finances. It applies with your products that you use.

[00:24:00]Negligence, I tell you, that's a door for Satan to enter into your life.

[00:24:06]pattern of negligence.

[00:24:08]The second is the very important point is a pattern of unresolved offense. Turn down to the next person and say unresolved offense. Bible very very clearly says do not let the sun go down. Why you are still angry?

[00:24:32]Which means what? You need to forgive even before you go to sleep.

[00:24:40]No matter what has happened.

[00:24:43]Forgiveness is very very very important.

[00:24:47]If you are not able to forgive and if you hold a grudge, all right, that gives you a foothold for edi for the enemy for Satan to enter into your life.

[00:24:58]Right? That is your spiritual entry point.

[00:25:03]Finally, the third door is a season of transition.

[00:25:08]As Ria said in her previous point and said, the moment of great spiritual awakening, great spiritual victory.

[00:25:15]Immediately after that comes a moment where there's great spiritual vulner vulnerability.

[00:25:22]the most.

[00:25:25]For example, if you go into a job, you get a new job, you get all excited about it, you loosen your guard. You get into a marriage, you get excited about it, you loosen your guard.

[00:25:36]All these seasons of transition, a new job, a new season of ministry, a marriage, a move, a new calling. These are vulnerable moments because our spiritual routines are disrupt disrupted and our identity is in a flux.

[00:25:53]So these three doors are very very important.

[00:25:58]A pattern of neglect, an unresolved offense and a season of transition. Let me make it even more simpler. So everybody has furniturees at your home.

[00:26:07]Am I right or wrong? You've got furniture at home. We buying new furniturees. We stack up things. We're so happy about it.

[00:26:15]And we all have this termite problem.

[00:26:18]What happens with termite on the outside? If you see everything is good, but deep inside the termite start to act.

[00:26:29]Outside it is unnoticed. That's what we've been seeing. It's unnoticed. Enemy works best when unnoticed.

[00:26:37]The furniture is good. It looks good.

[00:26:39]But deep inside the termites are acting upon In our lives as well, we have allowed certain termites like this into our lives. And these termites have taken captive and these termites are destroying what God has called us to do.

[00:26:57]If you leave them unnoticed, one point of time the furniture are going to be completely useless.

[00:27:05]So it is very very important that you notice what's happening in your life.

[00:27:10]Notice what's happening inside of you.

[00:27:12]Sometimes he does not give a dramatic entry. Sometimes he's very careful. HE PROWLS LIKE A LION WAITING for an opportunity to pray upon you.

[00:27:25]Right? He's watching your routine. He's watching your silence. He's watching your spiritual gaps.

[00:27:31]But this morning I want to reassure and declare that every enemy of every strategy of the enemy is being exposed in your lives. You'll be able to see them clearly with your eyes. Hallelujah.

[00:27:47]How many of you ex How many of you believe that God is delivering your battles this morning, church? No matter whatever battles you go through, you might have left it unnoticed, but I certainly believe the Lord is exposing the acts of the enemies in your life this morning.

[00:28:03]You will not be defeated with what you did not see. Probably you have missed it, but I certainly believe Lord is giving you a new beginning. Lord is giving you a new chance. Every silent attack, every unnoticed door is being shut in the name of Jesus right now. Oh, hallelujah. Hallelujah. Maybe you've let him inside in any of the three doors. I sincerely believe God is chasing him out and he's shutting the door against all of this. Hallelujah.

[00:28:33]>> This morning, I firmly believe, prophetically declare that your eyes will start seeing things clearly.

[00:28:39]I want you to lift your hands and receive it in the name of Jesus. Daddy, let my eyes see clearly.

[00:28:48]Let my spirit sense quickly. Come on, repeat after me, daddy. Let my eyes see clearly.

[00:28:56]Let my spirit sense quickly.

[00:29:00]Let my heart discern sharply.

[00:29:05]Hallelujah. Just ask the Lord this morning. Ask the Lord this morning. I tell you, I rest assure the enemy will no longer go unnoticed in your life. You might think, okay, this has happened in my life. But I certainly believe our God is a God of new beginnings. Amen. And the enemy shall definitely never go unnoticed in your life. Come on, church.

[00:29:29]Quickly, we move on to the point number four. It says, "Pressure does not mean defeat. It means elevation." I repeat, pressure does not mean defeat. It means elevation. All right? We all have this natural reaction to pressure.

[00:29:48]When the work pressure increases, we think something is going wrong. When life gets easy uh very heavy and busy, we feel why is this happening to me, daddy? Why? We all have this tendency tendency to see pressure as punishment.

[00:30:06]All right, that's natural. We see if there's too much of stress and pressure, we see it as punishment. Oh, I think I think they've I've done something wrong.

[00:30:15]I think I've screwed up my finance. I think of my I probably have uh uh screwed up my relationships. No, I tell you, start looking at pressure as promotions in your life. Right? I tell you, whatever pressure you go through this morning, I sincerely believe this pressure is not to punish you, but to promote you in the name of Jesus.

[00:30:38]Whatever presses you go through, it could be in your business, it could be in your workplace, it could be in your family, it could be in your finances, you feel if even if you're sitting here under pressure, daddy, what is that I'm going to do tomorrow? What is that I'm going to do tomorrow? I am going to tell you and I'm here to assure you that your pressure is not to punish you. The pressure is to promote you in the name of Jesus. Hallelujah. Come on, church.

[00:31:00]You should say a loud amen and receive it in the name of Jesus. Right. Let's turn our books to James chapter 1 verse 2 3 and 4. James 1 2 3 and 4. It says, "Dear brothers and sisters, when troubles of any kind come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy. Have you ever seen somebody write like this?" He says, "If you are under pressure, if you're going or facing any problems, you need to consider it to be great joy." It basically SAYS SMILE AT YOUR PROBLEMS.

[00:31:38]Smile at your pressure. That's what the verse says. It does not say tolerate it.

[00:31:43]It does not just say survive it. It says but rejoice in it. Turn to the next person and say rejoice in it.

[00:31:52]Because I always say your pressure is not pointless. It is productive.

[00:31:59]Hallelujah.

[00:32:00]No matter what pressure you're going through, I don't think it's pointless.

[00:32:04]It's productive.

[00:32:07]Right?

[00:32:10]So stop looking at your pressure as punishment.

[00:32:14]It is a process.

[00:32:17]Have this different perspective today.

[00:32:20]I'm not going to be looking at my pressure as punishment from two from now on. My pressure is a process. That's the reason I think God has given us the especially the Indian women to ability to store up gold uh more than the government of US. All right everybody can you see your hands your neck full gold. Why? I think God is giving us this a reminder to understand. Without pressure, you will not be able to wear that. Without pressure, it's not gold.

[00:32:52]Without pressure, it's not diamond.

[00:32:54]Without pressure, the diamond you think it show beautifully and you ask your husband is just carbon.

[00:33:02]It's just coal. Curry, right? It's just coal. It has to go through certain pressure.

[00:33:12]It has to remain in that pressure for it for it to become a diamond. Similarly, God is saying you if you are going through pressure, you need to have that mindset that this is a process and I will endure this process. So at the end of the process, I shall become a diamond.

[00:33:32]Hallelujah.

[00:33:33]Come on church. It says resistance produces transformation.

[00:33:42]Right? You got to endure. That's the starting point for transformation.

[00:33:49]This morning, I want to assure you, church, some pressure is meant to protect you.

[00:33:56]Some pressure that you're going through in your life is meant to protect you.

[00:34:01]Some pressure that is allowed in your life is meant to prepare you.

[00:34:06]Some pressure that you are allowed in this in this life that you go through is meant to promote you. Right? Even if you're going through pressure right now, have this mindset. This pressure is to protect me. Turn to the next person and say, "To protect you."

[00:34:22]The pressure that you're going through is to protect you. The pressure that you're going through is to prepare you.

[00:34:30]Turn to the next person and say, "Prepare you."

[00:34:34]The pressure that you're going through right now is to promote you.

[00:34:40]Right? Have this mindset this morning. I want I'm here to tell you the the pressure it will not crush you but will complete you. You might think that is I'm going to be crushed at all sight perplexed. I don't think so. It's not going to crush you. It's going to complete you. This season that you're going through right now will not break you but build you in the name of Jesus. This test that you're going through will not defeat you but elevate you in the name of Jesus.

[00:35:15]Hallelujah. That's the God gives. Even before I started this sermon I said this sermon is for you. This sermon is for you. This sermon is for you.

[00:35:26]Even if you're going through some kind of pressure at workplace, your relationship, I tell you, it's to protect, it's to prepare, and it's to promote you in the name of Jesus.

[00:35:36]Hallelujah.

[00:35:38]Every struggle you face is turning into growth, church, this morning. Just give it to the Lord. Just give it to the Lord. Point number five, let's go. Let's complete. You don't win in invisible battles with visible methods.

[00:35:53]Right? I want you to write this because it is very very important because we are fighting the wrong battle. That's one level. Sometimes we are go we go unprepared for the battle.

[00:36:05]That's another level. Sometimes we go into a battle with weapons that are useless.

[00:36:11]That's like legend level. All right.

[00:36:17]The thing is battle is something. The battle that you go through something but the weapons that you take it matters. Am I right or wrong? But sometimes we go unprepared.

[00:36:29]You don't win invisible battles. I'm not talking about the visible battle that invisible battle that happens inside of you. But I tell you many of the I always say this many battles that you go through we feel it's external. But I tell you most of the battles that you suffer and struggle it happens inside.

[00:36:46]It happens with your mind.

[00:36:48]That's that's what the verse says. Let's turn a book to 2 Corinthians chapter 10 3 4 and 5. 2 Corinthians chapter 10 verse 3 4 and 5. It says we are human.

[00:37:02]Can we say amen? All right. Good. You're alive. We are human but we don't wage war as human do. Come on. And I want you to lift your hands and say we don't wage war like humans do because I'm going to talk something about that. Right? Many a times we wage war as humans. What does it mean pastor? What does it mean to wage war as human? Let's talk. All right. We use God's mighty weapons and not worldly weapons to knock down the strongholds of human reasoning and to destroy false arguments. What does the word say? It says we do not use worldly weapons. We use God's mighty weapons to wage war against what? strongholds of human reasoning which be basically invisible battle that happens inside of us and destroy every false arguments. We destroy every proud obstacle that keeps people from knowing God. We capture the rebellious thoughts and teach them to obey Christ.

[00:38:13]There are battles in life that does not show up outside church. You will have to know this.

[00:38:21]If you see a lot of people who sitting here will be all smiling, all cheered up. But you never know the battle that they go through inside.

[00:38:30]Many people are sitting here like that, right? You look fine, but your mind is restless.

[00:38:38]I'm talking to somebody here. On the outside, you look very fine, but your mind is restless.

[00:38:46]You smile, but your heart is heavy.

[00:38:53]Outside you look very calm but inside is complete chaos.

[00:39:01]And how do we fight these battles?

[00:39:04]We fight it with worldly weapons, not godly weapons. How do we fight? We fight stress with entertainment.

[00:39:12]We fight anxiety with distraction.

[00:39:16]Am I right or wrong? all worldly weapons, right? But I tell you, Paul is very clear. He says the battle is not physical.

[00:39:29]So the weapons cannot be physical.

[00:39:33]We are not so used to the godly weapons that Paul is writing. We are so used to all these physical weapons. What I'm trying to say, we say it feel better to argue than to pray. It has to be there.

[00:39:47]Now I should say my point should stand valid. I've argued you're using a worldly weapon. Instead, God says pray.

[00:39:57]But we are so confident about it because we are used to using these worldly weapons. We argue it's than to pray. We feel more powerful to fight than to worship.

[00:40:13]Right?

[00:40:15]We feel more logical to analyze than to trust.

[00:40:20]If you look at certain people, they have all logical reason. They will put all calculation. Eventually they fail, right? They'll do all you'll talk as if they know everything all logical solutions. They will give analysis all kind of business analyst job and all they'll do but end up failing usage of worldly weapon. God in turn says trust. Right? So what are these weapon that God is talking about? What are these godly weapons that we don't use often? Brother turn to the next person and say start using these godly weapons sister. What are these godly weapons? One prayer.

[00:41:07]We don't pray.

[00:41:10]Our prayers are just transactional.

[00:41:14]We read the book of Job, right? Job, we we see the book of suffering talks about suffering. But I tell you, Job is a book of spiritual warfare. You need to know what's happening in that that heavenly realm. You need to know we don't have stillness. We don't have the discernment to pray. Prayer. Second, word of God. Third, worship. Fourth, authority in Christ. I'll repeat it.

[00:41:40]Prayer. Word of God. Worship. authority in Christ and discernment.

[00:41:45]These are not just religious activities.

[00:41:49]These are your weapons.

[00:41:53]But we don't want to use them because we are not used to using these weapons.

[00:41:59]But God says replace godly worldly weapons with godly weapons. Right?

[00:42:07]Prayer, word of God, worship, authority in Christ. So for for example to make it more simple as I said sometimes a battle is invisible long time before I saw a real I think it's one of our a real from an Hindi serial all right husband comes with a laptop which says laptop has virus what does the wife do it takes away the lap she takes away the laptop washes it with soap and she dries it exactly how we deal with our problems.

[00:42:42]It might sound funny like how we laughed, but just put it in your life. That's exactly how we deal.

[00:42:50]Invisible battle inside. We're just trying to wash and dry things up.

[00:42:57]You need to fight invisible battles with godly weapons.

[00:43:02]Prayer, worship, word of God, authority in Christ, and discernment in the name of Jesus. Hallelujah.

[00:43:10]Some of you are sitting here who are exhausted. I can see that you are exhausted. You are fighting a spiritual battle with your emotional strength, worldly weapon, right? You're trying to fight a spiritual battle with your mental effort, you will lose. You are trying to fight in a spiritual ba battle with human wisdom. Again, you'll end up losing.

[00:43:35]And we have the audacity to ask the Lord, "Daddy, why is nothing changing?

[00:43:40]How will it change?"

[00:43:42]Because you're using the wrong weapon.

[00:43:45]Right?

[00:43:47]But this morning, whatever invisible battle you are going through, whatever weakness that you're going through, I firmly believe that you're receiving divine weapons today in the name of Jesus.

[00:44:03]>> Hallelujah. divine weapons to defeat invisible war that is happening inside of you. I tell you this morning, your prayer will carry the power. Turn to the next person and say, your prayer will carry the power. Your mind will have the clarity. Hallelujah. Your mind will have the clarity and your spirit will have the authority. Turn to the next person and say, your spirit will have the authority. Hallelujah.

[00:44:34]And when you do this, like in the verse we read, your strongholds are coming down. Whatever strongholds, whatever strongholds, whatever barriers, whatever the the walls that is standing before you, I sincerely believe God is bringing down all of these things. Your mind is being renewed and your victory is around the corner. Hallelujah.