[Music] you are call you are just not anybody you are a child of God you are set apart men and women of God are not simple men and women of God are not weak men and women of God are warriors we are not built to be soft Saints how long are we going to be marshmallow gummy bear spineless children of God there is a very real devil who is described as the adversary who walks around like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour I have used for you tonight just as the devil desired Peter
so that he may sift him as wheat he desires you and he'll do everything in his power everything in his power to sift everything useful in you and to stop all progress in your life he wants to stop you walk with God he doesn't want you to prosper spiritually physically financially or emotionally year after year the same things keep happening to you take one step four and deadlocked three steps back and you feel like time is running out and you feel as if you have missed your season and your window of opportunity is gradually closing
faster and faster as you age how long until you realize you are not fighting natural things nothing just happens the obstacles you are facing are not by accident nothing just happens nothing ever seems to work out for you but for other people it does nothing just happens those bad breaks those unfortunate events in your life were not random or because of bad look they were set against you they were calculated moves by the enemy the spirit world governs the physical world what this means is that what you see happening in the physical world is a
result of what's already happened in the spiritual world before anything takes place physically it's already happened spiritually some things you and your family have been fighting against have been sent against you and if you look carefully similar things you are fighting against didn't begin with you look back at your family tree and you see that the enemy has been attacking your family tree for years and are you really going to sit there and let the enemy take another year from you and let him sit on this demonic throat laughing at you telling you that your
mother wasn't nothing your father wasn't nothing and I have enjoyed ensuring that you will be nothing you'll never be good you will never be adequate you will never be free you are just another cupcake Christian which I have enjoyed devouring the devil is a liar take a stand in the name of Jesus in 2020 you are going to be bold like a light problems 28 verse would the righteous are bold as a lion the righteous are bold as a lie the dictionary definition of boldness is not hesitated or fearful in the face of actual or
possible danger synonyms of this word include brave fearless courage a time that we as children of God believe in the correct doctor we are not children of a weak timid calm yes be humble but humility is not weakness yes we meet but meekness is not weakness look at Jesus in the God of Gethsemane according to John 18 verse 3 there was a band of men that came to arrest him in the garden the Greek word for a band of men his spirit this word describes a military cohort of a number of soldiers between 300 and
600 soldiers not just men but soldiers and not just any regular soldier but these were extremely trained soldiers that were equipped with the finest weaponry of that day essentially they were the Special Forces of the Roman army 600 Roman soldiers came for Jesus that night Jesus asked them whom do you seek they answered him Jesus of Nazareth jesus said unto them I am he as soon as he said unto them I am he they went back and fell on the ground Jesus was bald like a life and Jesus is the gold standard of Christianity and
if you claim to be a child of God you have to be bald like a lion and you know what they say about Lions Lions don't lose sleep over the opinions of sheep for you to become everything God has intended for you to become to reach the heights God has granted it demands boldness it demands boldness to be a child of God it demands boldness to walk by faith and not by sight to go where you've never walked before it demands boldness to reach for what you've never reached for before it demands boldness to win
it demands boldness to break the chains it demands boldness to fight when you're time it demands boldness to be above average it demands boldness to be more than a conqueror boldness bonus bonus and don't think you understand the door is open to those bold enough to knock it says in the Word of God ask and you shall receive seek and you shall find knock and the door shall be opened it demands boldness 600 of the best soldiers in the world at that time came to Jesus and Jesus stood up to them with no fear and
said I am he do you have the boldness to stand in front of whatever enemy you are facing and whatever enemy you may face this year whether the enemies the devil himself whether it's sin whether its death whether its financial debt whether it's illness whatever you are facing whatever you will face stand up to it stand up against it the comes a time when you have to have some aggression some tenacity and some might about you and you have to stand up and fight back no matter what is happening to you no matter how hard
the fight is as long as you keep fighting you will win the devil only wins if you let him life will only win if you let you fight on fight on Fight on don't tell me you can't fight anymore don't tell me you can't fight anymore don't tell me I'm tired and alone after all you have been through you've got to take a stand you've got to take a stand stand in the middle of heartache stand in the middle of glam stand in the middle of the floor stand in the middle of chaos stand in
the middle of failure stand firm in the name of Jesus Christ whatever it is it will not defeat you if it is an illness fight back against it it will not win it will not win the devil and his army cannot stop what God has a day for you in 2020 you will experience the blessings of the Lord this year the trial of favor is a part of your head God will open doors for you but your duty your responsibility is to revolve like a lion look at the ones who have gone before Moses described
in the Bible as the meekest man ever yet Moses had the boldness to go face to face with the most powerful man on earth at that time and told him let my people go boldness the great soldier Joshua who took the sword and led the children of Israel to conquer Kingdom after Kingdom after Kingdom after Kingdom boldness King David who slayed a lion a bear and a giant as a small boy boldness you can't be bold if you see yourself as a victim you can't be bold if you see yourself as a loser vote if
you see yourself as a coward this is the end you realize you have the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob on your side and he has equipped you and he has fashioned you and shaped you to be more than a conqueror this is the air for you to walk in boldness God's angels will protect you his angels will minister to you they will walk with you the holy spirit will dwell inside you and will bind you victory will follow you the trial of favor is upon your head God has favored you God has invested the
blood of Jesus in you you have royal blood running through your veins this year is the year for you to finally take a stand in the name of Jesus you are a warrior you are a child of God don't you dare let the devil dictate another year of your life if the truth were told tonight every person in this room who's 21 years of age or older has a burden and a heartache I could I know these men on the platform and I promise you every man I know on this platform this man that over
here all were down the line has a reason to have a broken heart tonight not only do the adults in this room have broken hearts and burglars but so do the young people the teenagers I went to a high school basketball game I go to one a year of our high school a couple of years ago and I sent behind Dyer the 12 men on our high school basketball team and as they were steady sitting there waiting for the game to start and the coach was giving final instructions I went down the line the first
boy his mother dying with cancer the second boy his father given birth had fathered a child outside of wedlock the next boy his mother Dan had just gotten a divorce I went right down the line every single one of those basketball players had broken heart that I knew about now the honest truth is if the truth were told tonight and I'll not ask you to let me know but the truth were told I promise you that 95% of all the adults in this room tonight have a reason that you could weep we laugh a lot
and that's good we ought to but I promise you that 95% of the people in this room tonight have a reason they could weep I have burdens you have burdens mine are perhaps no better than yours and yours perhaps no greater than mine but all of us have burdens now God tells us what to do when these burdens come he said when the the battles come and the problems come and the heartaches come he said here's what I want you to do he said the first thing I want to do I want you to fight
I walk to the fire he said wrestle it means fight until you Brian vibrate I want you to fight now you said the day is gonna come when you can't fight he said then I want you to his fan brother you can take it just withstand but he said the day is gonna come when you won't have the strength to withstand he said having done all having wrestled having withstood having done all he said of won't you to stand lastly dear God what does the word stand mean here may I tell you exactly what it
means it means don't change don't change see God knew that with the burdens come with the tempted to change and God knew that and God knew that the diversions the problems the heartaches the trials God knew that with that may be a temptation to try something else and God said when the battles come and they will when the burdens come and they will when the heart is broken and it will he said I want you to fight I want you to fight bye-bye why did he say he said when you can't fight anymore he said
I want you to have the guts and gumption to his stand but he said when you can't withstand anymore he said I want you having done all to stand
