Why You're Losing Battles (And How to Actually Win)

It's an honor and a privilege to stand here. It's an honor and a privilege to stand here. It's an honor and a privilege to stand here, standing in the presence of God. So this morning my message is victory battle. Victory battle. Now I want to bring a few things to your mind. How the message is going to go ahead. Firstly, I will explain to you what is a battle. then from what is a battle I will then move on to helping you to prepare for the battle then once we've been preparing for the battle we're going to see we're first going to see what is it that makes you to lose the battle so we're starting off by saying what is a battle? what makes you lose a battle? and then we say preparing for a battle and then winning a battle so any of these you should be understanding that this morning as we am going to go into this I want you to know that the battle is the Lord's firstly, that's it because just by knowing that you have already won the battle you have already won the battle you have already won the battle but now I just want to bring something to you this morning that will encourage you as well and whilst encouraging you I want you to also look at it from a perspective what is God telling you what is God telling you this morning While the world looks upon me As I struggle alone They say I have nothing But they are so wrong In my heart I'm rejoicing How I wish they could see Thank you Lord For your blessing on me There's a roof above me I gotta find place to sleep There is food on my table and shoes on my feet. You gave me your love, Lord, and a fine family. Look at that. Thank you, Lord, for your blessings on me. I know I'm not wealthy, and these clothes may not be new. I don't have much money, but Lord, I have you. And that's all that matters to the world may not see. Thank you, Lord, for your blessings on me. There's a roof up above me And I've got a fine place to sleep I don't have much money My Lord, I have you You give me your love, Lord And I find family thank you lord for your blessings on me if you want to sing with me come on sing with me sing with me this is something i can tell you that as you sing with me You will also feel what is God doing in your life While the world looks upon me As I struggle alone They say I have nothing But they are so wrong In my heart I'm rejoicing How I wish I could see Thank you Lord For your blessings on me Thank you Lord For your blessings on me I got a roof above me and a fine place to sleep. Got shoes on, put on my table and shoes on my feet. You gave me your love, Lord, and a fine family. Thank you, Lord, for your blessings on me. Thank you Lord for your blessings on me. Thank you Lord for your blessings on me. thank you heavenly father for your blessings upon my life this morning thank you lord for the blessings upon my life this morning Thank you Lord for the blessings upon my life this morning Thank you Lord for the blessings upon my life this morning Okay, let me start off by saying the battle is not yours. The battle is the Lord's. Because only when you realize that the battle is the Lord's victory is about to happen. so victory is about to happen if only if only you know that it is that the Lord is the one that will win the battle the Lord is the one that will win the battle not you because you are just mere men and mere men normally doesn't actually won battles easily they just give up firstly so what is the battle? What is a battle? Now, according to Google, now Google is saying it's a sustained fight between large organized armed forces. And then the battle sometimes lasts for hours, years, months, whatever the case may be. Like in certain cases, it is a battle that is given up by others, but just within a second. and that is a battle. Now, if you're looking at a battle as a verb, it is a fight, it is a combat, it is a resistance, it is to withstand or it's to stand up to. It is to put up a fight against something. It is to confront. It is to war, to struggle, to strive and to campaign. Now, when you're looking at these words individually, you will understand that how you've been going through a lot. That is why when somebody is sick, they would say he has actually fought the battle against a certain illness. He has fought a battle against a certain... Let's say for argument's sake, he fought the battle and he won the battle against cancer. He fought the battle, he won the battle against tuberculosis. He fought and he won the battle. Whatever he won, you will always see, they will say, when you are sick, you are fighting a battle. Now, certain battles is not for you to fight because you will understand why I'm saying it to you as I go along. So I want to tell you what is a battle and a battle is to resist something. Like for argument's sake, knowing that Satan is actually behind you. But the Bible says, resist the devil and he will flee. So it's a battle against the devil the whole time. So as it is a battle against the devil, you need to resist him. Keep on resisting. Keep on resisting. Stand up to him. Stand up to him and standing up to him, it shows that you are in a battle. And this battle is actually about to be won. I'm telling you this morning, I prophesied to you this morning, the battle that you are going through, you are about to win that battle. The battle that you are going through, you are about to win that battle this morning. So as you go with me through this message, I will tell you why I'm saying to you that you are about to win that battle. Because that battle does not belong to you. The battle is the Lord's because this is what happened in a time like where David was standing up against Goliath. That day when he stood up against Goliath, he had just mere one word to say. And he said it so nicely in 1 Samuel 17 verse 47. He said it and you read in 1 Samuel 17 verse 47. And he said, and all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with sword and spear. For the battle is the Lord's. And he will give unto you. He will give you into our hands. Now, this is a giant of a person that is standing in front of a timid little guy. And the guy knows for a fact that here there's no need for a sword or a spear. There's no need for a word of argument. There's no need for anything except for knowing. So how would you win a battle or how do you lose a battle firstly? Now, when you lose a battle, the battle is normally starting in the mind. And as the mind is playing tricks on you you will actually realize that you will sometimes think that I already lost out on this battle But you have not lost because you only lost in the mind first Because what happened is that you foresee things that is happening But not knowing that anything can happen within a battle. I just remember we had a game that we were playing at work. And this is battleship. Now, battleship is something that you put, you have a few ships that you put, and the ships are packed on this side, and the ships are packed on that side, and then there's something in front of you, and as you call out A1, then you put your, you shoot your arrow like, let's say, cannonballs or whatever, you shoot them, and as you shoot, if it is where the ship is, you will fight. And as you go along, you can actually realize that your battle is just shooting. And the more cannons you shoot towards the other ship, the better it becomes for you. Because the quicker that other ship will sink. And this is the same in our lives. Because we're going through so many battles. And so many things that we see in our mind already that we have lost. But anything can happen. Because if you're looking at it, the day when you decided that this girlfriend has just been giving up on me, and as I gave up on her, you realize that she came back and she said, I didn't know you were feeling like this. And then suddenly you won the battle because you won her heart over again. And imagine if you then say, let's flip the coin this way. This is how you lose a battle. You lose a battle by keep on fighting back with the guy. Anytime he smacks you, you just tilt up and say, you're not going to hit me like that. I'm going to hit you back. And by hitting back, the more you hit back, the more the fight becomes more stronger and stronger and stronger. And by hitting back, the fight becomes stronger. And sometimes it's just for you to say, but this battle, I cannot warn it because the first time a guy hit on me, he will always hit on me. So there the battle is already lost, even though you think you can still win the battle by fighting back. But the battle you won only by stepping back and says, But I am more than a conqueror to Christ Jesus that has given me the strength. I am more than a conqueror that through God that gave me the strength to stood up not with sword and spear but to step back and say but God this guy cannot keep on hitting me like this I am tired of this guy keep on hitting me like this. Today the battle stops here and I will walk away winning the battle knowing that my life is with more than this relationship, that he's been using me as a punching bag. So that is a battle that you know you already won if you say to yourself that this guy, by hitting me once, he will keep on hitting me twice. He will be like a dog. The moment the dog starts smelling blood and he ate somebody's meat, they normally come and they shoot the dog because they know once a dog has bitten somebody once, they know that dog will keep on coming back and bite another person and another person and another person because the dog already smelled the blood of a human being. So it will be like that. And that is why whenever you see that you keep on fighting back, you will lose that battle. So by losing that battle, it is something that I can say to you. It is not worth your life this morning. And the way somebody loses a battle is for always saying, I am alone in this. I am alone in this. You cannot be alone in any battle because a battle is something that you can have somebody who will strategize for you. If you know the combat strategy, combat strategy is that you have certain people in certain areas of their lives that have certain expertise. knowing that whenever they go into combat there's a strategist then there's a fighter then there's a driver then there's this and that the other i don't know much about combating but what i know is that whenever the the sa army let's say south african army goes into combat they will have certain people who have certain skills sets to go into that some will be like a who has skill set in communication so they will communicate with somebody from the other side saying can you have a look for me when you when you're looking at your screen like for argument's sake a laptop or whatever that they can see there's an infrared of where the enemies might be and then they will be having a fighter jet on top then they will have somebody at the bottom These things I don know much about But from what I know is that when you lose a battle it's because you think that you will be alone in this battle. Anytime you lose a battle, it's because you're standing alone. And you're telling yourself, I. But I only exist in an island where you stand alone. So I only exist where you are just a mere human being and trying to do things on your own. So you will always lose a battle if you're looking at I. Then another way of losing the battle is the fear of the outcome. Because the fear of the outcome is something that I can tell you now that most people already have lost the battle just by the fear of the outcome. Because the fear of the outcome will then tell you, oh, okay, I have already lost. I have already lost. I have already lost. I have already lost. Because the fear of losing Job said it so nicely Job said it so nicely Go and read into Job Go and search What Job was saying What I fear has come over me What I feared Has come over me That's what Job was saying What I fear Come over me So how do you How do you actually win the battle You win the battle by choosing Your battles Some battles are not there to win Some battles are there to walk away And say I'm done Like the one I just mentioned to you That whenever a guy starts hitting you As a woman the very first time they hit you, you just say, I'd rather lose this battle than lose my life. So some battles are worth losing. Instead of you being a stronger person, telling yourself, no, I will win this one. But losing your life, it's not a battle worth fighting for. Now, you might be asking me, how do you prepare for a battle? Thank you. How do you prepare? Now, man of God, I hear you when you are saying, how do you lose a battle? I hear you when you are saying, what is a battle? I hear you when you are saying that the battle starts in the mind because some of us already has lost the battle just by thinking what the outcome will be. Because as you think, as you think it, as a man think it, so he will be. As a man thinketh, so he will be So as a man has thinketh A thought of defeat already in his mind You will be defeated So therefore, when you lose the battle You have lost it in your mind You have not prepared yourself You have not stand confident In it So when you stand confident in it When you stand confident in the battle you tell yourself that this battle I'm having is a battle that only through God's grace I can win. So this morning I want to take you through a few things. Now the few things I want to take you through is to let you know that God's battles sometimes is a better battle. But I want to help you how to prepare for this battle. How to prepare for this battle. How to prepare for this battle. How do you prepare for this battle? First thing to know is that any time whenever you stand in a battle, You need to know that The battle is not yours That's To prepare the battle I want to go back I want to take some Scriptures to you And I want to tell you Why I'm saying What I'm saying First thing that you need to do to win a battle is to be in God word Now being in God Word is quite simple because Joshua 1 verse 8 says it this way, The book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth, but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, and thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein. For then thou shalt make thy way prosperous and thou shalt have good success. I repeat it. The book of the Lord shall not depart out of thy mouth, but thou shalt meditate therein day and night and thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein. For then thou shalt make thy way prosperous and then thou shalt have good success. Now, when the Bible says it so nicely, make thy way prosperous, it is meaning that God will make their way of a battle prosperous by going into his word and learn how to be prosperous and thou shalt have good success. Now, good success comes from knowing God because God is the one that already started a battle from the beginning and also winning at the same time. Because since the beginning he has been winning a lot of battles and who is the best person to go to for winning battles? Isn't it that he's the one that keeps on winning, keep on winning regardless of whatever you're saying. God is always winning. So my question to you this morning is to start knowing that the battle is the Lord's. The battle is the Lord's. The battle is the Lord's. So when Joshua said it so nicely. Joshua said it this way. Joshua said it that then thou shalt make thy way prosperous. So God will make your way prosperous in it so you need to know to be in his word but then what the use of you being in his word if you don know him because if you know him you he will also make your way prosperous because this is what the bible says it so nicely. He said it in Psalm 46 verse 10 Be still and know that I am God and I will be exalted among the hidden and I will be exalted in the earth. How would you know that He is God? How would you know that He is God? anytime whenever you fight a battle and you exalt his name and you tell God I exalt thee among the heavens and I will be exalted and I will exalt you on earth as well I give you everything because I know you by knowing God you already won the battle because you can see how he moved in. So when you are in His Word, you start knowing Him. And when you know Him, you will actually have a way of winning the battle. And how do you know Him? It's just to be still and to know. That's it. You don't have to go and climb the mountains and shoot over whoops to go to God. Just know and just be still to know Him. know that he is God that he is God so this morning I want to say to you so how do you prepare for the battle is just by starting to get into his word then starting to know him through the resurrection power that he has been risen from the death Jesus has been risen from the death once you start knowing Him, then you will know that He is on your side. So the battle is won when you start reading His Bible get into His Word knowing him and then when you know him you will actually start knowing that he is on your side And how is he on your side? It's the same scripture that David was saying in 1 Samuel 17 verse 47. It's the same thing that he said, and all this assembled shall know that the Lord saveth not with shortened spear. For the battle is the Lord's and he will give you into my hands, into our hands. In fact, he didn't say my, he said our hands. So how do you know God? Because once you start knowing God is on your side, that is when you will actually realize that it's already a battle won. According to Joshua 1 verses 9, he said, Have not I commanded thee to be strong and be of good courage? Be not afraid, rather be thou dismayed, for the Lord thy God is with thee. Whosoever, wheresoever, withersoever thou goest. I repeat it again. Have not I commanded thee, be strong and be of good courage. Be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed. For the Lord thy God is with thee, whithersoever thou goest. So what it simply means is that when you know the Lord is with you wherever you go, you will already have a victorious one. And having the Lord on your side is having a victory already. knowing the Lord is on your side is knowing to have a victory already now look at this when you go to look at the fishes, now a fish is something that lives in water now when the fish lives in water he end up not knowing that the water is there because he lives within the water that is how you need to live within God but knowing that the moment the fish is taken out of the water, he will soon realize, oh, I need water. That is how you need to live in God, because by loving God, In God, a fish don't know the value of the water until it's taken out of the water. That is how you should be knowing. You need to know the value of God, even though you feel like the fish, not knowing that what is happening. So the battle is won by knowing God and knowing that God is surrounding you as the water is surrounding the fish. You should be knowing that that fish is actually there. knowing that if he must be taken away out of the water, he will not be called a fish anymore, but a dead fish. Like Psalm says it so nicely. Psalm says it in 46 verse 1 that God is our refuge, strength, and a prison help in trouble. So whenever there's a battle, the Bible says it, whenever there's a battle, you go back to Psalm 46 verse 1 and it says, God is, not God will be, God was. He is, not the past tense or the future tense. It is a tense that is now. So God is our refuge and strength. So meaning to say that whenever the battle becomes too tough for you, the only thing you need to do is to know and trust Him. know that is on your side know that is on your side know that is on your side know that he is your refuge and your strength and your very present help in trouble your very present help in trouble so when that that birth comes when that birth comes just look at this when the birth comes you have a tendency of saying am I going to be able to manage this and you tend to look at how can you steal something from this side how can you make a plan to crook somebody out of that and how can you take that bill and maybe just pay half of it so that they don't come back to you and ask you you're thinking of all those things but God says that He is our refuge and strength in very present help in trouble Now when the verse comes, you are in trouble. So all you have to do is call upon the Lord. Call upon Him Because He said it so nicely in Jeremiah 33 verse 3 He says it Call upon me and i will show you great and mighty things call upon me and i will show you great and now how do you call upon jesus anytime whenever the trouble is surrounding you you just have to mention the name of jesus because the bible say by the mention of the name jesus every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that he is not knowing that he is not already is helping you because by that same name he has won victories so this morning if the battle is becoming too tough for you just by preparing is to know how? now how do you how do you know that I have been prepared now number one I have been in God's word knowing that if I go into God's word that is how I can win a battle but I cannot win the battle if I don't know God himself who is the author and the finisher of that same word that has been given through to me I cannot win a battle if I don't know God. And then also at the same time, I might be knowing God, but I won't be trusting upon Him. So at the same time, if I want to win the battle, I don't need to just know His worth. I don't just need to know Him. I have to trust upon the word because His worth is yea and amen. Nothing can be added. Nothing can be taken up. And he said he is actually the one that has set out his word. And when he set out his word, all you have to do is to trust upon his word. Because his word never returned to him void. So whenever he said a word, you have to just stand upon that word and say, I believe it God and I receive whatever you have given to me. Because by you knowing that God has been there, God is there like the fish knowing that the water is there but the moment is gone you just have to make sure that you are constantly reminded that the water God is surrounding you like the water is surrounded by a fish so that you can know so I coming back to my point to say to you so whenever you you you know his work you know him and you start trusting in him the battle is won because by trusting in god trusting in god is that he already won the battle and then by him winning the battle he makes it so easier for you and for me and you, that anytime, whenever, He is the one that takes up the battle, He is the one that will actually be the one that will help you. Because the Bible says it in Deuteronomy 20 verse 4, can you see all the scriptures I'm giving to you is a battle that has already been won? Because if you're looking at Deuteronomy 20 verse 4, For the Lord your God is He that goeth with you. Not He goes against you, He goes with you to fight for you, against your enemies, to save you. So God is actually with you to fight your enemies, to save you. So whatever battle that you are going through today, like we have said earlier on, when we were talking about what a battle is, we have said a few things. And one of the things that we said, a battle is a fight, it's a combat, it's a resistance, it's to withstand and to stand up. So why do you need to know what a battle is? It's because whenever somebody is confronting you, do you know that it is a battle? And you have been winning so many battles by when somebody confronts you and say to you, Look, this is what I think this is. And then you as a person will actually tell that person, this is what I stand for. I stand up to. And that's why whenever you stand up like a Rosa Parks, a Rosa that stood up in a bus saying, I will not let this take me down. And therefore the name of Rosa is still up till today because she stood up. The battle that she stand up against, she won it. And even today we mentioned her not even talking about our own Jesus that we said that when he stood up and says that I don't care what you are saying. When they crucified him he knew for a fact that this is what he is supposed to go through for us to have victorious lives So your victory today is a victory battle It not a battle of losing So I want to say to you this morning, the victory battle that we have today is a battle that is a victory battle, not just a battle. Because by God giving you the victory in any situation. so I want you to allow him just allow God this morning to be that he can go with you allow him to go with you allow him to go with you because if you are also going to Isaiah now fear thou not for I am with thee, be not dismayed, for I am thy God, I will strengthen thee, yes, I will help thee, yeah, I will abode thee with the right hand of my righteousness. So imagine this, if you go and you say, you are fearful, when you fear the outcome of a case, then what will happen as you fear the outcome of the case, you will say, God, the Bible says when Job said it, what I feared, it has come over me. I will not fear because you as God am with me. You as God am with me. Now, if you're looking at it, now, sometimes whenever you fought a battle, you tend to give up the battle just as you were about to win. So as you were about to win the battle, they were giving you ultimatums saying this and that and the other. Anytime whenever you do something, they will tell you, if you don't do this, we will not do that. If you don't do that, you will not do that. By the time you gave up, it's the time that actually was just your breakthrough, was just about to be there. So this morning, pardon me. This morning, I want to tell you that the battle that you are going through is not a battle that you should be saying, Oh God, I am giving up. Don't give up because the more you're not giving up, the more you fight battles. Because by consistent battles that you are fighting, you strengthen yourself. because if you can look at it, when you start with a small battle, you win a battle, you get greater for a second stronger battle. And the more stronger that you become, the more battles you find yourself winning. And the more stronger battles you fight, the more stronger you become. So this morning, I want to tell you that anytime whenever you go through a battle, don't give up on the battle because the battle has already been won on the cross of Calvary for you and me. You have already been warned to death when Jesus was dying on the cross of Calvary. Because he said it so nicely. Also, James 1 verse 12 said it also so nicely. Blessed is the man. No, no, no, no. Let me repeat it again. He said, blessed is the man. James 1 verse 12 says, blessed is the man that endure temptation for when he is tried, He shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to them that love him. So this morning, as you go through your trials and your tribulations and your fighting of battle, don't give up because you're consistent moving, moving, moving. You're consistent moving. It will actually be the one that will help you. I was actually looking as I was cutting my hair. And I realized that anytime when I cut my hair, every time I'm finished cutting my hair, there's a little piece here at the back that is actually just here where the glasses comes this way. And every time whenever I cut my hair, I realized there's a small piece that is always left. And I always used to wonder, but why can't I cut them nicely? And then soon I realized that these glasses, they are not strong. But anytime, whenever I put them on, they're making a deep mark inside my head here. And anytime when it makes a deep mark inside my head, it started making anything to grow on the side and that place to be deep inside And that is how it happens So consistency makes you to win battles Why I'm mentioning this is that if you're looking at it, the water, when it moves from one place to another, the constant move of water comes through so many mountains because anytime the water goes, water is not strong, But water is consistent. Whenever they consistently go, it starts carving out ways and roots. That is how you should be when you turn into your battles. Anytime there's a battle coming your way, be consistent like water and cut through the rocks that is standing in your way, the mountains that is in your way. So anything that comes your way, stand strong. because by being consistent and steadfast, being consistent and steadfast, being consistent and steadfast is how you will be winning this battle. It's how you will be winning this battle. So I want to prophesy to you this morning that any battle that you've been fighting, if you are listening to me this morning, I prophesy that any time, whenever there's a battle your way, You will win it through Christ that is giving you that strength. Because through Christ that is giving you the strength. Because when Christ is giving you that strength, no one else can help you but only Christ. Because we are more than conquerors to He that gives us, that is our refuge and our strength and our very present help in times of need. So this morning, I want to take you back to Jeremiah 17 verse 7 and 8. because when you win the battle, there are certain things that will come to you. And how do you win this battle? You win this battle by just trusting God. How do you win this battle? Blessed is the man that trusted in the Lord and whose hope the Lord is. And whose hope the Lord is. So this morning, I want to tell you this morning that by trusting upon God, this is your, what God has given to you this morning. Because God says blessed are the men that trusteth in the Lord and whose hope the Lord is for he shall be as a tree that is by the waters and that spread out her roots by the river And shall not see when the heat cometh. But her leaves shall be green and shall not be careful in the year of the drought. Neither shall cease from healing fruit. So you shall cease from healing fruit. You will not cease from healing fruit. You will always be healing fruit. So any battle that you win is yielding fruit. Anytime, I prophesy in the mighty name of Jesus that any battle that you're going into, you will yield your fruit in that. Anytime whenever you go into a battle, you will be like a plant that is planted by the rivers of water. Anytime when there's a drought that comes, you will just sink your roots deeper into it. I prophesy in the mighty name of Jesus that any battle that you've been going through this morning, I prophesy that you will overcome that by going through it and being consistent. Anytime when there's a consistency, I prophesy that you will overcome. Anytime you trust upon the Lord, you will overcome. I prophesy in the mighty name of Jesus as you go about this week. Anytime whenever you see that there's a battle going on, you will say the battle is not mine. It's the Lord and you will overcome. Anytime whenever there's a battle that comes, I prophesy that anytime you say that the battle is yours, God, God will fight the battle for you. God will fight the battle for you. God will fight the battle for you in the mighty name of Jesus. I prophesied this morning according to what the Bible is saying. Also, the Bible says, so are the children of God only knows when the enemy is screaming that God has been fighting their battles. So if there is a fish knowing that there is water surrounding him, he knows. So I want to end up my message this morning. I want to end up this message this morning by saying to you the battle is only won The battle is only won if you know him If you don know him, the battle will always be tougher for you and you will keep on losing battles. So this morning I want to ask you, if you want to be the one that says, Lord Jesus, this battle has been tough for me. I cannot do it without you. And you have not been giving your life to Jesus this morning. I want to say to you, you can lift up your hands because through you giving over to him, you are already in the winning team. You are already in the winning team. If you are already in the winning team, you are with God. because if you are not with God, you are against Him. So meaning to say that if you are against God, it means that you are in a team, that you are actually in the losing team. So this morning, I want to say to you, if you have decided that today, I want to give my life to the Lord so that I can also win battles. I've been having so tough battles. My husband has been leaving me. My wife has been leaving me. My children has just gone their own ways. So this morning, if you want to be the one that says, I want to win this type of battles, please, Lord, I want to be on the winning side. I want to give my life to you this morning. I want you to take up your right hand and say these words after me. Lord Jesus, this morning, I come to you in the mighty name of Jesus. Lord Jesus, I come to you in the mighty name of Jesus. I surrender to you. I surrender to you Knowing That I cannot go without you this morning Knowing that I cannot go without you this morning This morning I cannot have life Without the one that gives life And I want to give my heart to you I want to give my heart to you Because you gave me life my God And I want you to please write my name On the book of life as well because I have given my life to you, Jesus, this morning. So this morning, Lord Jesus, I want to say I turn around from anything that has not served me. thus far. And I ask that you forgive me for all the wrong that I've done. For all the wrong that I've done, anything that went against your plans for my life. I want to say I'm sorry Lord Jesus. Lord Jesus as I'm coming to you and asking for forgiveness. Please Jesus also know my address that where I am. I trust in you. And know that anytime I trust in you, the battles is given over to you. In the mighty name of Jesus, I pray. So this morning, I want to, if you have given your life to Jesus, call me on the cell phone number that you will see. Call me also, or just drop me an SMS, or just come after the service to me when you when we done here and then tell me i've given my life to jesus because this is the promise that i can give to you as well because according to first john verse four i mean first john four verse four ye are of god little children and have overcome them because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world so this morning i want to say to you that as you have taken God as your personal Lord and Savior He will be within you And as He is in you you will overcome them Anything that comes against you, you will overcome them. Because greater is He that is in you than He that is in the world. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you. Thank you, Jesus. We praise you. Give you the glory and the honor that you deserve. The battle is yours, my God. The battle is yours. The battle is yours, my God. The battle is yours. Regardless whether we know it or not, we fully believe in you. We fully trust upon you, my God. Regardless whether we can feel it, sense it, or know it, as long as we know that you are God and you will overcome this in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. Now may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, the sweet fellowship of the Holy Spirit, rest and abide with us until Jesus comes. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow us all the days of our lives and we shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever and ever. in Jesus name, amen