Ms. Annie led us singing Surrounded (Fight My Battles)
Ms. Annie…
I thank you all for praying for me yesterday. It truly was a day of victory. So many battles were going on that are just like wars of attrition. And this morning I woke up with a note of victory. So, I was singing that song. But you know we have to sing it in the valley too. Our weapons are praise and thanksgiving. I’m going to shout with the voice of triumph! Glory to God!
♪ My weapons are praise and thanksgiving, this is how I fight my battles (ha, ha, ha)! ♪
Pastor Ray…
I don’t know if you keep up on the finances for the church? Do you think we are where we should be? No. Do you think there has been too much snow? Yes. At the wrong time, on the wrong day, cold, whatever… So, how do we fight that battle?
Ms. Annie…
He who watches the clouds will not sow. So, we got to sow! Whether there is clouds or whether there’s snow, we’re going to sow! Because it’s the Word we know!
Pastor Ray…
And the sowing that’s been done has caused us to have won! The sowing that we’ve given, the sowing that we’ve placed, the sowing that we’ve sent has caused this church to walk in victory. And so what do we do about that? We praise Him because the church is surrounded by Him! And ministering spirits are on the job going out to the north, going out to the east, going out to the west and the south too! To bring forth the seed, to bring them up, and bring them into HARVEST TIME! Hallelujah! So, we praise You for it, Lord! We thank You for it, Father! We thank You for the increase! We thank You for the momentum! We praise You for the greater, greater, greater, greater, greater individual and corporate – blessings from heaven!
Oh we praise You and thank You for it, Lord! Glory! Glory! Glory! Glory! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! No weapon formed against us will prosper in Jesus’ name. For we prosper in what we put our hands unto. This church is a prosperous church. Every care… where does that have to go? Out and away in Jesus’ name! Sudden change, a sudden turn! More and more and more and more, to do more and to do more and to do greater! Thank You, Father! Hallelujah! Thank You, Lord! And where symptoms have tried to attack, symptoms have got to get back! Go! For we are surrounded by such a greater power and authority! Power from heaven, deliverance from heaven, freedom from heaven, wholeness, and wellness of every kind in Jesus’ name! Every attack we thwart it and cut it off in Jesus’ name! Individually, we declare wholeness, health, and wellness in Jesus’ name!
A turnaround, a turnaround in Jesus’ name! Thank You, Father! No, we are not leaning on that. We’re not trusting that. We are leaning on You and we’re trusting in You. Resources from heaven and an abundance they shall come behind in no good thing, lacking of nothing. A spirit of seeing and knowing that there are more of us than there are of them, a spirit of seeing and knowing to see that He is moving on our behalf and meeting the needs today, bodies that are changing, natural bodies, internal parts and external parts, whatever it is, hearts, blood, legs, knees, whatever, from the top of the head to the soles of the feet – wholeness and health in Jesus’ name! We roll the care off in Jesus’ name – no care, no anxiety in Jesus’ name!
Sounds of victory! Sounds of victory! (ha, ha, ha) Ooooohhh! A turn, a turn, a turn, a change, a rearranging, an opening! Thank You, Father. In every way, I can’t think of a single way. There is in no way we have not overcome.
Ms. Annie led us singing in other tongues in a way of victory
♪ When our enemies and our foes surrounded us to swallow us up and defeat us, oh, the Mighty God, the Mighty God of Israel went forth to fight, oh, He’s mighty in battle, mighty and victorious, victorious, He’s gone forth to conquer, worthy is the Lamb, He has defeated them with the sword of His mouth, yet He’s gentle, gentle, full of mercy and loving kindness, all the earth will tremble before Him and bow before His throne, for His mercies and His power and His justice will be made known, (tongues) He reaches to the highest mountain, He flows to the lowest valley, He stands with kings and sits with them upon their thrones, yet He’s a friend to the lowly and the prisoners in the deepest pit, He speaks to the little children and makes His power known, oh, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah ♪
Ms. Annie led us singing It Was Finished
Scripture focus…
(1) He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall remain stable and fixed under the shadow of the Almighty [Whose power no foe can withstand]. (2) I will say of the Lord, He is my Refuge and my Fortress, my God; on Him I lean and rely, and in Him I [confidently] trust! (3) For [then] He will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence. (4) [Then] He will cover you with His pinions, and under His wings shall you trust and find refuge; His truth and His faithfulness are a shield and a buckler. (5) You shall not be afraid of the terror of the night, nor of the arrow (the evil plots and slanders of the wicked) that flies by day, (6) Nor of the pestilence that stalks in darkness, nor of the destruction and sudden death that surprise and lay waste at noonday. (7) A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand, but it shall not come near you. (8) Only a spectator shall you be [yourself inaccessible in the secret place of the Most High] as you witness the reward of the wicked. (9) Because you have made the Lord your refuge, and the Most High your dwelling place, (10) There shall no evil befall you, nor any plague or calamity come near your tent. (11) For He will give His angels [especial] charge over you to accompany and defend and preserve you in all your ways [of obedience and service]. (12) They shall bear you up on their hands, lest you dash your foot against a stone. (13) You shall tread upon the lion and adder; the young lion and the serpent shall you trample underfoot. (14) Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore will I deliver him; I will set him on high, because he knows and understands My name [has a personal knowledge of My mercy, love, and kindness—trusts and relies on Me, knowing I will never forsake him, no, never]. (15) He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him. (16) With long life will I satisfy him and show him My salvation.
Pastor Ray…
There has to be no place for fear, no fear or anxiety that would try to bring us into a place of fear or fear that would bring us into a high place of incapability or put us in a locked box almost, but we’re not in a box! We’re out of the box! The Church is out of the box! The Church is moving ahead. The Church has momentum, all of the body of Christ is moving upward not downward. We’re not backing up. We’re not backing off. We’re moving ahead, contending for more that God almighty has promised us in His Word, that He did for us on the Cross through His Son at Calvary, and the blood that was shed in that we have overcome! Thank You, Father.
Ms. Annie…
I just saw multiple breakthroughs yesterday. You know everything is in the spirit realm. It’s not what you’re seeing in the natural. But that oppression that comes from the spirit realm pushes you down in the natural. I just felt so pushed down. Thank you for praying yesterday because some things that were there, they have just lifted. Anyway I was saying that I woke up this morning with a note of victory. And I just kept singing that song. You know it may look like I am surrounded but I’m surrounded by the Lord. We are surrounded by Him no matter what we feel like. The song goes, “There is a table You’ve prepared for me in the presence of my enemies. It’s Your body and Your blood You shed for me. This is how I fight my battles.” How do I fight them? I take His body. I take His blood into myself. I eat His flesh, I drink His blood, and I am victorious no matter how it feels. It feels yucky sometimes like “How can I possibly have the victory here?” The Devil just knows he’s got me right where he wants me right now just blah, feeling defeated. You can feel but we don’t live by our feelings. We live by His body and His blood that He shed for us. We take it. We eat it. We drink it. We live it. And there’s more that be with us than be with them.
So… ♪ This is how I fight my battles! This is how I fight my battles! This is how I fight my battles! This is how (ha, ha, ha). ♪
Pastor Ray…
When you are saying that, this is what I was remembering. It works individually and it works corporately. We come in together, of course. But we come in and we work on behalf of others. As much as we can, we leave our cares, so to speak, outside the door. But some cares, of course, keep trying to come back up or come back on us. But we do what we can to press ahead and call forth the things we should call forth over the corporate body, over the earth, over our President and then He does that for us individually. He sets us free. He brings us into a place of victory because we SOW into others and we receive in the same way we sow, an abundance of freedom and breakthrough.
Ms. Annie…
I’ve been in this battle for three months. It’s just been a circumstantial thing. The Lord gave me a job to do that I didn’t want to do and that I didn’t feel equipped to do and brought me down a lot emotionally. And so every day I was having to believe God. Early on maybe two months ago there was a morning and Sister Constance came up and she gave a word of wisdom. She said “This is a test. It is a test of obedience. It is a test of believing. It is a test of love.” And I was like “Oh, busted by the Holy Ghost.” He read my mail. I was having such a hard time believing Him. I was having such a hard time wanting to obey. I didn’t feel the love of God. Let’s just put it that way.
Love, obedience, and believing – that’s the note of victory. So, every day I said “Lord, by faith I take that. I will obey You. I do believe You. I yield to the love of God in this situation.” But I never felt like any of that was happening in my emotional realm. I would be praying and say “Lord, I want to pass my test here. You said this is a test. I feel like I am getting F, F, F, F every day.” That’s how I would feel. When you get in the Word then He ministers to you beyond your feelings. He shows you that faith is not a feeling. Faith is walking it out. So, I would just keep saying “by faith I believe in You. By faith I will obey You. By faith I am walking in the love of God in every situation and I receive Your wisdom to do it.” Well the note of victory I am trying to describe to you, the note of victory that I woke up with was… on different levels the spiritual pressure lifted. And then when the spiritual pressure lifts, you see like Elisha’s servant saw. You see that there is all these things going on in the spirit realm and it was like He just showed me that no matter how weak I felt, no matter how much failing my test, all you have to do is just hold My hand. It’s not how you feel. It’s not how weak you are. If you just keep holding My hand, because I am pulling you through. I am pulling you through. It’s not you pulling you through. It’s Me pulling you through.
And I just felt such an awe of the Lord. When we are weak, then He truly is strong. It wasn’t something I did. It was what He did at the Cross for me. I just want to encourage all of you. We all go through different stuff and the Lord knows our hearts. He see what no one else sees. But if we’ll just hold onto Him, it’s what He wants, like a little child holds onto his father’s hand, He’ll pulls us through. It’s just marvelous. Hallelujah.
Pastor Ray…
It was good that you kept singing that, right away in the beginning, enough that we could exit out of our brain and enter into more of what you were singing about. And it is a huge hallelujah that we don’t have to pull ourselves through. We can’t. But He’s pulling us through. He’s our victory.
Ms. Annie…
♪ In the valley I know that You’re with me. And Your goodness and mercy follow me. So, my weapons are praise and thanksgiving! This is how I fight my battles! ♪ It’s praising Him and thanking Him in the valley! And all of the enemies are amazed when they see Him being lifted up. The Devils speaking is put to silence as we lift Him up, as we praise Him for who He is, for what He’s done!
Ms. Annie led out in praise
