[SPEAKER_01]: We'll turn with me to Ephesians 6.
[SPEAKER_01]: We are finally going to conclude our series, all right, equipped and ready, equipped and ready.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we've been talking about the armor of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: We've been discussing,
[SPEAKER_01]: All that that entails and really fully understanding each and every piece, each element of the armor of God, and getting the full grasp and revelation behind what each piece of armor really means and what it's all about.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's one thing to grow up in church or even be mindful or aware of the armor of God when you're young and and, you know, hear certain things and, you know, oh, yeah, I put on the helmet and I didn't, you know, and all that, but what does it even all mean?
[SPEAKER_01]: Right?
[SPEAKER_01]: And so we've taken time over the past month plus.
[SPEAKER_01]: to really break down each and every thing, each and every piece of the armor to ensure that we fully understand what this thing is all about.
[SPEAKER_01]: So Ephesians chapter 6, we're going to read verses 11 through 17 and it'll be on the screen if you want to follow that way.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ephesians chapter 6,
[SPEAKER_01]: verse 11 through 17, it says this, it says, put on the full armor of God so that you can stand against the tactics of the devil.
[SPEAKER_01]: For our battle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, you can see authorities against the world powers of this darkness against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavens.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is why you must take up the full armor of God, so that you may be able to resist in the evil day
[SPEAKER_01]: How do we do that?
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, here we go.
[SPEAKER_01]: Verse 14, stand there for, with the truth, like a belt around your waist, righteousness like armor on your chest, and your feet sandled with readiness for the gospel of peace.
[SPEAKER_01]: In every situation, not in some, in every situation, take the shield of faith, in with that you will be able to extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.
[SPEAKER_01]: Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: which is the Word of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: Amen.
[SPEAKER_01]: So if you're taking notes this morning, the title of today's message is, you need the Word.
[SPEAKER_01]: You need the Word.
[SPEAKER_01]: Turn to someone and tell them, you need the Word.
[SPEAKER_01]: Come on, slap your other neighbor and tell them, you need the Word.
[SPEAKER_01]: Come on, get their attention this morning.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, you need the word.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, Father, we thank you God for your word, God, and we thank you for teaching us something new today.
[SPEAKER_01]: We thank you for the revelation of your word.
[SPEAKER_01]: We just praise you right now, Father, in Jesus name.
[SPEAKER_01]: Everybody said, amen.
[SPEAKER_01]: So Paul says in verse 13, this is why you must take up the full armor of God so that you may be able to resist in the evil day.
[SPEAKER_01]: Remember that word evil there is the Greek word Panero switch means labor.
[SPEAKER_01]: It means pain.
[SPEAKER_01]: It means sorrow, okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: It's those days where it's just laboring.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's those days that are painful.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's those days that are sorrowful.
[SPEAKER_01]: And each and every one of us have experienced those kind of days.
[SPEAKER_01]: Have experienced them.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe you've experienced some recently.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let me tell you, there will be days that are coming your way that you will have paneroast type days.
[SPEAKER_01]: Where you feel like man, it's just a laboring day.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just laboring.
[SPEAKER_01]: Or it's just painful or just sorrowful.
[SPEAKER_01]: Those days will come.
[SPEAKER_01]: What Paul is saying is that those days will happen.
[SPEAKER_01]: There will be days where there's chaos, where there's confusion, where things are chaotic, where things are frustrating, it's challenging, but praise God, there's also going to be days of victory.
[SPEAKER_01]: Come on, there's going to be days of blessing.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's going to be days of breakthrough.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's going to be days when you wake up with a big ol' smile on your face and you feel more than victorious.
[SPEAKER_01]: Amen, and so if you remember, I shared with you that the armor of God is given to you for two core reasons that's explained right here in Ephesians.
[SPEAKER_01]: Number one, it's to resist, to resist, and number two is to stand, and that word resist there is that word anti-Histemi, which means to withstand, to set against, it's like you
[SPEAKER_01]: You take your allergy pill ahead of time.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's why it's 24 hours, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a 24 hours, like a time release thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: You take your allergy pill ahead of time so that you don't get allergy.
[SPEAKER_01]: So your nose doesn't run.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's an anti-histomy, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: It's working in your body in that way.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's the same thing when he says, take up the full arm or God so that you may be able to resist.
[SPEAKER_01]: In other words, you're being able to withstand.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're putting up a barrier ahead of time.
[SPEAKER_01]: So that nothing can come against you.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then the second thing he says, not only to resist, but also to stand.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's the word, his to me.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you knock off the first part of the word.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then you just leave you with his to me.
[SPEAKER_01]: So they're much similar.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're just alike.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that means to cause to stand, to set into place.
[SPEAKER_01]: So not only are you putting up a barrier, not only are you putting up a resistance, right, by resisting, but your feet are established, you are set in stone, you are upon the firm foundation, and no matter what comes your way, you cannot be moved.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're firm in the Lord, you're firm in the power of His strength, amen?
[SPEAKER_01]: So we've learned about the belt of truth.
[SPEAKER_01]: We talked about that the belt of truth comes first because before you have anything in your life, you better make sure you got some truth.
[SPEAKER_01]: You better know that you've got some truth, you better know the truth of the Word of God, you better know what God says about you and who he says you are, and you better know what God says about your situation.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you gotta have some truth, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: And the belt comes first because for the Roman soldier, the belt is what held everything together.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was the belt that was the center core piece to the whole armor structure.
[SPEAKER_01]: The chest plate is buckled into the belt.
[SPEAKER_01]: The shoes all strapped up and tied into the belt.
[SPEAKER_01]: Everything was attached to the belt.
[SPEAKER_01]: The only way that the sword can be held was as if it was attached to the belt.
[SPEAKER_01]: So before you have anything in your life, you gotta make sure you have some truth, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Then we talked about the breastplate of righteousness.
[SPEAKER_01]: We came to the understanding to know that the breastplate of righteousness, it makes us righteous.
[SPEAKER_01]: We have the understanding and we have the knowledge that we have been made righteous in Christ Jesus, that He calls us His righteousness.
[SPEAKER_01]: He is righteous and He calls us righteous.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we put on that armor like a breastplate in His righteousness, guards and protects the most important vital organs in our body.
[SPEAKER_01]: Most importantly, our hearts.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's His righteousness when we understand who we are in Christ and who He's created us to be.
[SPEAKER_01]: When we come into that rightful place and rightful knowledge in Him, it guards our heart from thinking other things.
[SPEAKER_01]: from our heart going in different directions, from us feeling certain things about something.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's the breastplate of righteousness that protects our hearts.
[SPEAKER_01]: Then we talked about the shoes of peace, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: The shoes for the readiness, the Bible says, for the gospel of peace.
[SPEAKER_01]: And what that means is coming up under peace.
[SPEAKER_01]: We are ready in the sense of we are coming under peace.
[SPEAKER_01]: We don't try to find peace.
[SPEAKER_01]: We live under peace.
[SPEAKER_01]: We don't have to go searching for peace.
[SPEAKER_01]: We are under God's peace.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we can be comforted, and we can be a sure of that, that when we put on the gospel of peace, when we put on the shoes for the readiness of the gospel of peace, we know that in every situation we're walking into peace.
[SPEAKER_01]: That peace is right there, no matter what.
[SPEAKER_01]: Even though things may be chaotic and crazy and confusing and all of that, we know that at the end of the day, we can be under God's perfect peace, amen?
[SPEAKER_01]: Then we talked about the shield of faith, the shield of faith, which is, which is our faith having faith, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Faith to stand, faith to resist.
[SPEAKER_01]: We talked about how for the Roman soldier, the shield was literally from the ground all the way up about this high, over the head.
[SPEAKER_01]: It wasn't a small little shield.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was a big shield because it protects the whole body.
[SPEAKER_01]: It protects all of who you are.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's what your faith does.
[SPEAKER_01]: Your faith is a protector.
[SPEAKER_01]: Your faith is a covering.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you don't have faith, you don't got much at all, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: You got to have faith and faith will protect you and when you feel like you can't protect yourself.
[SPEAKER_01]: Faith will cover you and you don't have anything else to be covered.
[SPEAKER_01]: And remember, we talked about how the shields that they would be so large that they would be used to defend against the enemy, even if your brother went down.
[SPEAKER_01]: So even if he got hurt, it was the shield of one another that can come together to protect everybody.
[SPEAKER_01]: It wasn't just to protect yourself, but it was protect those around you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Amen?
[SPEAKER_01]: And so you've been given a perfect faith of faith that not only is for you, but of faith for one another, of faith that you can join in with one another, that you can believe with one another, that you can pray with one another.
[SPEAKER_01]: Amen?
[SPEAKER_01]: And then we talked lastly about the helmet of salvation.
[SPEAKER_01]: We talked about how we put on salvation that we put it on like a helmet.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it protects our whole entire minds.
[SPEAKER_01]: It protects all the way around us.
[SPEAKER_01]: We talked about how the Roman, for the Roman armor, that it wasn't just a helmet that went on the top of the head.
[SPEAKER_01]: But it was a helmet that literally covered the entire head all the way around, top the bottom.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's what our salvation, our salvation is like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: We know that we are guarded and protected by the most high God.
[SPEAKER_01]: We know that our minds are covered.
[SPEAKER_01]: When we know that we are saved, we know who we are in Christ Jesus.
[SPEAKER_01]: It changes the way we think.
[SPEAKER_01]: We don't even think the same anymore.
[SPEAKER_01]: We don't even allow the same emotions or the same feelings anymore because we have salvation.
[SPEAKER_01]: Amen?
[SPEAKER_01]: And so we talked about all those things.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so this week, we're concluding with the sword of the spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: Come on, somebody.
[SPEAKER_01]: The sword of the spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now go to verse 17 with me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Go to verse 17 here, here's my sword.
[SPEAKER_01]: I told you I had a sword.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my God.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I've got a sword.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I told you I was going to preach with the sword.
[SPEAKER_01]: I will take it easy.
[SPEAKER_01]: We have the sword of the spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: Verse 17 says, very clearly, that the sword is the word.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's looking at me like, what in the world is going on up in this church?
[SPEAKER_01]: It's okay, baby.
[SPEAKER_01]: But it says that the sword is the word.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's important that we understand and we know in the Bible that there are two words that is used for the word, word, the word of God, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: They're not the same, but they have the same intended purposes.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so if you're taking notes this morning, I want you to write these things down.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's two swords of the Bible, if you will.
[SPEAKER_01]: And number one is this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Number one is the logosword.
[SPEAKER_01]: The logosword.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: The logos is the very expression.
[SPEAKER_01]: The very expressive thought or the written word to you and I.
[SPEAKER_01]: Logos is what God has written upon the Word of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's the literal heart of God that has been written and communicated for all of humanity.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's for all of us to read, it's for all of us to know, it's for all of us to come to the understanding of, and it's through the logos, the written Word of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: The Bible is just not a collection of stories.
[SPEAKER_01]: You need to know that.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, a lot of times, I say, oh, I like that Bible story.
[SPEAKER_01]: What's your favorite Bible story?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the Bible is not just a collection of stories, but it is the actual written word of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: Amen.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is the very word of God that was communicated to us through the pin of some very holy and righteous men who were moved upon by the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: As the Spirit gave them the utterance to, and they wrote as the Spirit of God would speak to them.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, we know that the Bible, that the logos is not one big story, but it's made up of a lot of different stories.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just one big book, but it's made up of a lot of different books, a combination of 66 books to be exact that make up the entire canon of scriptures.
[SPEAKER_01]: And these 66 books throughout all of these books contain history, contain poetry, contain prophecy, contain wisdom literature, contain letters and so forth to name a few.
[SPEAKER_01]: And these 66 books were written by some 40 different authors, 40 different authors, not only that, but written in three different languages.
[SPEAKER_01]: And somehow, some way, 66 books, 40 authors, three different languages, it all comes together.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it makes sense from the beginning to the end.
[SPEAKER_01]: If this whole room, if I said, every one of you, I want you to write a chapter, just write a chapter.
[SPEAKER_01]: Each person would write something completely different.
[SPEAKER_01]: If we put it all together, we would have nothing like a story.
[SPEAKER_01]: It may no kind of sense.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's a supernatural thing that there could be 40 different people writing in three different languages.
[SPEAKER_01]: Come together and it's still all makes sense.
[SPEAKER_01]: That goes to tell us it wasn't them writing to begin with.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was God.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's supernatural.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's divine.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the authors, they're all special.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're all significant.
[SPEAKER_01]: Some were shepherds, some were fishermen, some were doctors, some were tax collectors, tent makers, kings, prophets, and so forth.
[SPEAKER_01]: These 66 books by these 40 different authors with all different kinds of experience and different kinds of things that they did in their lives.
[SPEAKER_01]: They, these books were written in palaces.
[SPEAKER_01]: They were written in wildernesses and various different places all scattered all over the place.
[SPEAKER_01]: And here's the most unique thing about all of it is that most of the authors didn't even know who each other were.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not like they got together and compared apples to apples.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not like they knew each other like they were all best buddies.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, some of this span the course of thousands of years, they didn't know who each other were.
[SPEAKER_01]: So all of this is a reminder that each book is written differently.
[SPEAKER_01]: There are many different authors, authors didn't know each other personally, but it's the same spirit that inspired all of them.
[SPEAKER_01]: It wasn't the spirit of God who inspired them to, it wasn't the spirit of God to be who inspired them to write, line up on, line the Bible, says, and precept upon precept.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's supernaturally, it's all in harmony with itself.
[SPEAKER_01]: How many of you know that the word is current, despite its age?
[SPEAKER_01]: The word is ageless, because it was written by the ageless one.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's current, because with God, he was with us in the past, he's with us in the present, he's with us in the future, he's in omnipresent God.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's prophecies are true.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's facts are accurate.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is the Word of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: People have tried to prove it wrong.
[SPEAKER_01]: People have tried to say different things and say that this doesn't line up or look at this or look at that all to conclude that they were wrong.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because at the end of the day, the Bible doesn't need nobody to defend it.
[SPEAKER_01]: It could defend itself.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so if all of this doesn't inspire you enough,
[SPEAKER_01]: then you should be because you should be wanting, understanding, knowing coming to the knowledge of the logos, the logos word of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let me tell you it's the logos that can actually speak to any situation you're going through.
[SPEAKER_01]: me seriously.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, you can be going through what you seem like you're the only person on the earth that's going through right now and you can get into your logos and you can actually find something that can minister to you right then and there.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's amazing.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is the only book that is alive.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not the no other book is alive.
[SPEAKER_01]: The Bible is alive and active
[SPEAKER_01]: It has the power in the ability to slice through and cut through anything.
[SPEAKER_01]: It has the ability to penetrate the heart of each and every man through its power.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because it's from the Almighty God.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so when we understand it, when we're coming to the revelation of the Word of God, we need to understand first and foremost that there is the Logos Word.
[SPEAKER_01]: And secondly, that we didn't talk about, we have the Logos word, and then we have number two, the Rama word.
[SPEAKER_01]: The Rama word of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: The Logos is what has been written to us, but then we have the Rama word of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not what's written down, but rather, Rama has been spoken by God.
[SPEAKER_01]: We have the Logos Word, and we have the Ramah Word.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's the way that the Word works in our lives, through His voice, through Him speaking to us.
[SPEAKER_01]: Logos is God making His Word available to you, but Ramah is when God makes what is available yours.
[SPEAKER_01]: But now, his word can become your word through the rainbow word.
[SPEAKER_01]: His word now becomes your word.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah.
[SPEAKER_01]: People say all the time, well, I just want a rainbow word.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just need a rainbow word.
[SPEAKER_01]: Have you ever heard anybody say that before?
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, you know, they're just looking for it.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're just hungry for it.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, they just want it so bad.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just need a rainbow word.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, let me tell you something.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can't have a rainbow word unless you have a relationship with the logos word.
[SPEAKER_01]: It won't, it won't work.
[SPEAKER_01]: It won't ever line up.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you don't know what the word of God says about you, don't be looking for the next word.
[SPEAKER_01]: You got to know the logos so you can have the Rama.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hello.
[SPEAKER_01]: So if you don't know the logos, there's really nothing that the Holy Spirit can pull out of you when you're looking for a Rama.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you got to have the logos word to receive the Rama word.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Listen, how can you know what God is saying if you don't ever know what he has already said?
[SPEAKER_01]: God, what are you saying about my situation right now?
[SPEAKER_01]: I already said it.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's already there.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't feel like you're doing anything.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't feel like you're you're speaking.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't feel like you're moving in my life.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's go back to the logos.
[SPEAKER_01]: The logo says you are more than a conqueror.
[SPEAKER_01]: The logo says you are the head and not the tail.
[SPEAKER_01]: The logo says you are above and not beneath.
[SPEAKER_01]: The logo says with God, all things are possible.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so all of a sudden you go from the place of, well, God, I'm waiting for you to speak to me.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's saying, I'm gonna speak to you, but I need you to go back to the logos first and remember and find out what I have said about you in your situation before you go looking for a rema.
[SPEAKER_01]: people go to all the wrong things looking for an answer before they go to the word of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's like they're also on looking for love and all the wrong places.
[SPEAKER_01]: Look for the, we're looking for answer and all the wrong places.
[SPEAKER_01]: We go into this person and this person to try to find the answer.
[SPEAKER_01]: They ain't got no answer for you.
[SPEAKER_01]: They may have something nice to say, something cute to say, they may have something that kind of gives you a little bit of encouragement and a smile on your face, but that's all temporary.
[SPEAKER_01]: You need the logo sword of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: You need to have that hidden within your heart so that when the Ramah comes, it reminds you of the logo that's already been spoken.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah.
[SPEAKER_01]: And can I encourage you with something today?
[SPEAKER_01]: You've got to apply yourself to the word, because if God is talking to you, he's confirming what he's already said.
[SPEAKER_01]: So when you apply yourself to the Word, you're only ever just going to receive confirmation of what's already been said.
[SPEAKER_01]: What's already been done?
[SPEAKER_01]: Ephesians 617, again, it says, take the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: So that word there is actually that word, Rama.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not the word logos.
[SPEAKER_01]: See, when I was little, I thought, oh, take up the sword of the Spirit, which is the logo.
[SPEAKER_01]: That means I got to carry around my Bible.
[SPEAKER_01]: In fact, devil's with my Bible, and hit people upside the head with my Bible, and all that.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's not what this is talking about.
[SPEAKER_01]: It says, and take the sword of the Spirit, which is the Ramah of God, which is the spoken word of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: When you release the, when you take the sword, think about it spiritually speaking, when you take out that sword, when you draw it and you begin to speak, you are speaking what heaven is saying.
[SPEAKER_01]: You are declaring what God is speaking in that moment.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's a rainbow word.
[SPEAKER_01]: It says, take the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not your physical Bible.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now that's great too.
[SPEAKER_01]: but it's the Ramah, it's the Ramah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now why is that?
[SPEAKER_01]: Because in the heat of the battle, you need the quickened, spoken word of the Spirit of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, in the heat of the battle, it works like this.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you have a relationship with the word, you can have an encounter with God at any given moment, at any given moment.
[SPEAKER_01]: People say, oh, I'm just looking for my next encounter with God.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you have a relationship with him, you shouldn't be looking.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh God, I hope you meet me this Sunday at church.
[SPEAKER_01]: I hope I hear your voice.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh God, I hope I experience you.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you have a relationship with him, you're not looking for that.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're already experiencing it.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's already made available to you on a daily basis for you to have daily encounters with him.
[SPEAKER_01]: And let me encourage you.
[SPEAKER_01]: You should be wanting a daily encounter with the most high God.
[SPEAKER_01]: The one that created you, the one that forms you and your mother's womb, the one that speaks life over you, that protects you, that provides for you, that cares about you more than anybody else in this world.
[SPEAKER_01]: You should desire a daily encounter with him.
[SPEAKER_01]: Even if that's two minutes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Even if it's on a 15, 30 minute drive to work, whatever, just encounter God, have an encounter with him, because let me tell you, he wants to encounter you.
[SPEAKER_01]: He wants to have an encounter with you, and he desires that more than anything else, more than anything else, and it's in those encounters, it's in those moments that the Word
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it just comes alive.
[SPEAKER_01]: All of a sudden, you could be feeling some kind of way and you could be driving and like, I really don't want to go to work today.
[SPEAKER_01]: I ain't feeling this today.
[SPEAKER_01]: And all of a sudden, you start having a counter with the Lord, you start worshiping, you start praying, you start getting into this right space with God.
[SPEAKER_01]: and you have the encounter and all of a sudden the Rama starts coming to you and it starts filling you up and it makes you alive and all of a sudden you go from really doom and gloom to rejoicing and victorious and upbeat and you go from having a frown on your face to a smile on your face and you go from not feeling so great to feeling really good.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it doesn't matter.
[SPEAKER_01]: The encounter that you receive with God and when the Rama word comes to you it changes everything.
[SPEAKER_01]: changes how you feel in a moment.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let me help you.
[SPEAKER_01]: It will change how you handle situations.
[SPEAKER_01]: It will change how you handle people when they miss handle you.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's true though.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, somebody at work says something to you yesterday and you're driving a work and you're like, I'm going to make this right today.
[SPEAKER_01]: I got them, I got, it's coming back at them.
[SPEAKER_01]: And in all of a sudden, you get in the presence of God, and God says, shut your mouth, who do you think you are?
[SPEAKER_01]: What are you talking about?
[SPEAKER_01]: And God will change your heart from hate to love.
[SPEAKER_01]: He'll take you from a place of disliking somebody.
[SPEAKER_01]: All of a sudden, saying, hey, would you like to go have lunch today?
[SPEAKER_01]: And that person says, wait a second, I just told you off, yesterday, and you're asking me to lunch today.
[SPEAKER_01]: This don't make sense, but that's what God does.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's how the Rama works.
[SPEAKER_01]: The Rama comes in and it shifts and changes and flips everything upside down.
[SPEAKER_01]: It changes your perspective.
[SPEAKER_01]: It changes your view of life.
[SPEAKER_01]: It changes the situation that you're in.
[SPEAKER_01]: It turns all things around.
[SPEAKER_01]: hear me loud and clear church when when you're sitting in a doctor's office and and the doctor says you have a a cancerous tumor you don't just need the logos but but you need what you already know mixed with the word that he is saying over you and your situation right then and there.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean when all hell is breaking loose you need the logos but you need the raima.
[SPEAKER_01]: You need what God is saying over you right then and there.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's why when we got on the phone, Ellen, when I got on the phone with you, I said, oh, heck no, devil.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, you ain't gonna take this woman out.
[SPEAKER_01]: She ain't gonna be stuck up in this hospital.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I just spoke life and life and we prayed and we interceded and we went to war.
[SPEAKER_01]: And in the matter of moments, she was better.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because of the power of God, it was the Ramah.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was the Ramah of God, meeting her situation and coming into alignment with the Logos already says about her.
[SPEAKER_01]: The Logos says by his stripes, you were healed.
[SPEAKER_01]: And all of a sudden, now we speak the Ramah, and we come into agreement with the Logos and it changes the situation.
[SPEAKER_01]: Demons begin to flee.
[SPEAKER_01]: All hell begins to get scared and to shake at its core because now you're coming into alignment
[SPEAKER_01]: And what God says, now what you say, what God says, you know, it's in those moments when man, you all hell is breaking loose in your life and you're feeling all kinds of emotions and all kinds of things when you begin to pray, have you ever realized when you're praying and when you're going to war for that stuff, all of a sudden the logos is coming out of your mouth?
[SPEAKER_01]: Like where was that?
[SPEAKER_01]: And all of a sudden, you start saying things that the Word of God has already said about you.
[SPEAKER_01]: And now all of a sudden, it's changing from logos to rema.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you're coming into a aha moment.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're coming into a moment where all of a sudden, you're saying, wow, I'm agreeing with what heaven already says.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it begins to change everything.
[SPEAKER_01]: Everything.
[SPEAKER_01]: Have you ever been?
[SPEAKER_01]: literally in the heat of the battle, or in the midst of a situation or a trying time, and you didn't know what to do, but then God quickened a word to you, and once he quickened the words to you, then all of a sudden, faith followed it.
[SPEAKER_01]: You got the word from him and then all of a sudden, your faith said, whoa, here I am, a wake in the Lord now.
[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't have much faith the second ago, whenever this came at me or I was experiencing this.
[SPEAKER_01]: With all of a sudden, I applied the word and immediately after the word followed my faith and my faith began to increase.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I began to see things differently.
[SPEAKER_01]: I began to feel differently.
[SPEAKER_01]: I began to speak about my situation differently
[SPEAKER_01]: because the word meant my faith and the two of them together caused an explosion.
[SPEAKER_01]: Come on, somebody.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you need the word of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: You need the logos.
[SPEAKER_01]: You need the Ramah, but you gotta have the faith to mix in with what the logo says and what the Ramah is saying and all of a sudden your faith increases, your faith goes to the next level and then with that, skies the limit, baby.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is why Romans 10, 17 says, faith comes by hearing and hearing by the what?
[SPEAKER_01]: Word of God, wow, what didn't you know?
[SPEAKER_01]: One thing you know, that my faith is somehow connected to the logos.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just don't have faith for this right now.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm struggling.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you do.
[SPEAKER_01]: Apply the logos.
[SPEAKER_01]: and you'll watch your face go up.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't have much faith for that.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't have faith to believe for that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Apply the logos.
[SPEAKER_01]: Speak the Rama and watch what your faith does.
[SPEAKER_01]: is automatic.
[SPEAKER_01]: You don't have to do anything.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nobody has to come and pump up your faith.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nobody has to come and pull up your faith bridges.
[SPEAKER_01]: All of a sudden, you go from the logos to the Raymond and your faith starts going up and up and up.
[SPEAKER_01]: And all of a sudden, you went from walking like this.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know how I'm going to get to all of a sudden.
[SPEAKER_01]: And Jesus name, I declare that I am the righteousness of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know you won't what just happened my faith went to the next level How did my faith go to the next level because I applied the logos and I heard the Rayma?
[SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just helping anybody today.
[SPEAKER_01]: I hope this is encouraging us today Hit your neighbor until I'm you need a Rayma
[SPEAKER_01]: Some of them need to be hit a little bit harder than that.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: I won't say who, but you know, there's a few people.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, I'm just kidding.
[SPEAKER_01]: But you need the rainbow.
[SPEAKER_01]: Listen to me, church.
[SPEAKER_01]: These days, I wouldn't get married without a rainbow word.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hello?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, seriously.
[SPEAKER_01]: I wouldn't even move across the country without a rainbow word.
[SPEAKER_01]: I wanted to choose a church without a rainbow word.
[SPEAKER_01]: You need the rainbow word of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I'm pastor, I'm just not sure if God's gonna speak to me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well listen, sister complaints a lot.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what religion says.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's exactly how religion talks.
[SPEAKER_01]: Religion says, I'm not sure.
[SPEAKER_01]: Religion says, I don't know if it's gonna happen.
[SPEAKER_01]: Religion says, I don't know if this is gonna line up or this is gonna make sense.
[SPEAKER_01]: But if you seek Him in His Word, he'll quicken the Word, that's already inside of you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Whoo!
[SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Glory to God.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it's time that some of you start pulling out the sword.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're saying it has been keeping your assort hidden.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, sometimes you've got to show face to the enemy, hello.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes you've got to walk up to the face of the enemy and show them you mean business.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hello.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, sometimes you've got to pull out the word of God that is within you and use it, how it's designed to be used.
[SPEAKER_01]: So many times we say, oh God, well, God's working for me.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's just doing all of it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't have to do it, I know God's working it all out.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, He's working it all out, but you step up and play your part, too.
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't just depend on God to make it happen for you.
[SPEAKER_01]: You step up into your rightful place.
[SPEAKER_01]: You pull out your sword.
[SPEAKER_01]: You say, I know I got a, I got a sword that sharper than any double-edged sword.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know that it can slice and it can cut down any devil and any demonic force and idiot, attack that comes my way.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know I'm victorious with this thing in my hand.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, hello.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, if you, I'm not, don't go crazy when I say this now, okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: And people online don't go crazy either.
[SPEAKER_01]: If I walked into a mall right now and I pulled out this sword, people would scatter.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, they would run.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not even a gun, but the fact that it's a weapon?
[SPEAKER_01]: People start running.
[SPEAKER_01]: And let me tell you something.
[SPEAKER_01]: When you're in the midst of a situation, all you gotta do is pull out the sword and you will watch demon's flee.
[SPEAKER_01]: All you gotta do is pull out the sword and watch what the logos begins to do.
[SPEAKER_01]: Watch how the logos begins to work.
[SPEAKER_01]: Watch how the Ramah begins to work on your behalf.
[SPEAKER_01]: And all of a sudden you'll go from scared and timid and shy to be in the right and front of the face of the enemy and say, come on baby, attack me how you thank you, can.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I'm more than a conqueror through Christ Jesus.
[SPEAKER_01]: and ain't nothing going to take me down because I know how to resist and I know how to stand because I got the full armor of God and I got the sword of the Spirit which is the word of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: I got the sword.
[SPEAKER_01]: Come on turn to somebody and say, you can eat the sword.
[SPEAKER_01]: You need the sword.
[SPEAKER_01]: My Lord.
[SPEAKER_01]: This thing's been sitting in my garage for a while.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's coming out, baby, yeah, it's a... Let's say, I've been waiting for the day to preach with the sword, and this was it right here.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think I've preached with this thing before.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have, maybe I have.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll listen to my wife on that one.
[SPEAKER_01]: This sharp.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, it's sharp, baby, that's why I got to keep it in that thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: because I've cut my finger before on this thing, we don't need no issues.
[SPEAKER_01]: The Lord told me to swing this at each person today, no kidding.
[SPEAKER_01]: He can't imagine, we'd be a church on TV.
[SPEAKER_01]: He passed through a tax congregation with the sword and says it was the Lord, no, it wasn't the Lord.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was the devil and something got in him.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now we don't, we don't need none of that, we don't need none of that.
[SPEAKER_01]: But we need the Ramah, we need the Ramah.
[SPEAKER_01]: We need the Ramah word of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: And let me say it this way, when God says something, it literally becomes a sword in your life.
[SPEAKER_01]: When God says something to you, it becomes a sword.
[SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't become a word that just goes and lands on dry soil.
[SPEAKER_01]: When God speaks something to you, it becomes a sword in your hand.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you have to use it in that way.
[SPEAKER_01]: You have to be activated in that sense of knowing that when God speaks that rainbow word, he is now equipped with the weapon that I need in that moment.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have a sword in my hand.
[SPEAKER_01]: How many times did it look like the enemy was gonna win, but then the word became a sword in your hand?
[SPEAKER_01]: Come on, I think we can all testify to that this morning.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just when you thought that the enemy was gonna win, all of a sudden the word of God came into your life, and the word became a sword.
[SPEAKER_01]: And started changing everything.
[SPEAKER_01]: You started taking out devils that you didn't think you could take out.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hello.
[SPEAKER_01]: You started saying things and you didn't think you could say.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, all of a sudden, it started coming.
[SPEAKER_01]: The Word of God just began to flow up out of you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just began to happen that way.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Josh, no well.
[SPEAKER_01]: I came to tell you this morning that no matter how tough life may
[SPEAKER_01]: or how hard things may seem, you've been equipped with a weapon.
[SPEAKER_01]: And now weapon is in your hand, and it is a sword.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is a sword.
[SPEAKER_01]: It says, and take up the word of God, just the sword of the Spirit, take that sword.
[SPEAKER_01]: Use it as a weapon.
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