The Victory Song - Dr. Anita Phillips

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Victory Song - Dr. Anita Phillips

ONE | A Potter's House Church
Date: December 10, 2025
Speaker: Dr. Anita Phillips (Teaching)
Host/Introductions: Pastor Touré Roberts & Pastor Ed

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Episode Overview

This episode centers around the transformative and spiritual power of singing as both a weapon and a source of victory for believers. Dr. Anita Phillips reflects on the biblical narrative of Deborah’s victory song, explores the science and spirituality behind singing, and urges both individual and community participation in worship as a pathway to triumph over fear, adversity, and generational struggles. The teaching weaves biblical history, neuroscience, and modern-day examples, culminating in a prophetic message of transition from the valley (struggle) to the mountain (victory).

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Genesis of Victory: Context from Scripture

• Isaiah 55:11-13 sets the tone—God’s word never returns void and leads people out with joy and peace, as creation itself joins in song ([01:08]).
• Deborah's Story in Judges 4-5: Focus on how Deborah, Barak, and Jael led Israel to victory, followed by Deborah composing and singing a collective victory song ([02:01]).
• Dr. Anita emphasizes the importance of not just reading scripture, but knowing God intimately—hearing the “tone of love” in His voice ([03:36]).

2. Why We Sing: Spiritual, Emotional, and Biological Roots

• Singing’s uniqueness: It requires deliberate pitch, rhythm, and breath, setting it apart from speech. It easily unites people both emotionally and physically ([03:36]–[06:37]).
• Quote: “Singing uses sustained, intentionally chosen pitches to create a melodic pattern that is different than just talking.” — Dr. Anita Phillips ([03:36]).
• The biological impact: Singing activates multiple brain areas, releases bonding chemicals (oxytocin), reduces stress (cortisol), and forges deep communal bonds ([06:37]).
• Singing as a corporate act: "We all follow the same pattern, the same rhythm, the same pitch... That's one of the special things about singing over talking." ([03:36])

3. Singing as Spiritual Warfare

• Case Study: Jehoshaphat’s Victory (2 Chronicles 20)
  • Jehoshaphat admits his fear, gathers the people, and God instructs them to send singers ahead of the army ([09:08]–[12:20]).
  • Quote: “The battle is not yours, but God’s.” — (Quoting 2 Chronicles & applying it) ([09:08])
  • Singing before the battle shifts the people from fear to faith; as they sing, God sets ambushes against their enemies ([12:20]).
  • Physiological insight: Singing drops cortisol levels, shifts the body from fear to safety, and allows faith to take root ([14:36]).
• Application to today: Singing in worship isn’t just emotional—it's a spiritual act that builds a unified, powerful faith community ([19:01]).

4. Past and Present: Singing as Resistance and Remembrance

• Civil Rights movement connection: Songs like “We Shall Overcome” unified and fueled protestors with faith and courage ([17:07]).
  • Quote: “The calling on God made the difference… They sang in faith to God.” ([17:37]–[18:46])
• Modern worship: Criticism that worship music is "too emotional" misses the point—God designed emotion and body to participate in worship, maximizing spiritual authority ([19:25]).
  • Quote: “Until I get my body, my heart, my mind, and my mouth on the same page, I’m not powerful enough.” ([19:25])

5. Victory Songs and Legacy: Transmitting Faith through Generations

• Singing after victory serves as testimony, remembrance, and identity formation ([22:28]).
• Song memory is enduring, even beyond cognitive decline; God designed memories of songs to last so that stories of victory are never lost ([23:33]).
  • Quote: "Our victory song was not meant to be forgotten." ([23:33])
  • Psalm 145 and Psalm 89 highlight how one generation passes faith to another through song ([24:43], [28:53]).
• Examples of generational memory and the importance of sharing and singing personal victory songs so future generations will know God’s faithfulness ([26:17]–[27:12]).

6. Prophetic Application: From the Valley to the Mountain

• Return to Isaiah 55—the song brings believers out of the valley and into the mountains, where even creation "breaks forth into singing” ([30:20]).
  • Zephaniah 3:14-17: As we finish our song of victory, God Himself sings over us. The ultimate sign of victory is both us and our Creator singing in harmony ([32:31]).
  • Quote: “When you have finished singing your victory song, He starts singing.” ([32:31])
• Spiritual metaphor of thorns: Thorns represent stunted growth due to fear, but singing and faith turn them into mighty trees—symbols of fulfilled destiny ([34:37]).

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Memorable Quotes & Moments

[03:36] Dr. Anita Phillips:
“Singing uses sustained, intentionally chosen pitches... There's a rhythm to it. And all of these things actually contribute to us being able to do it together.”

[12:20] Dr. Anita Phillips:
“Believe in the Lord your God, and you shall be established. Believe his prophets and you shall prosper.”

[14:36] Dr. Anita Phillips:
“My physical condition is actually critical to my faith... because when I am focused on what's scaring me, my body shuts down... It is very hard for us to shift into a faith space when our body is shut down like that.”

[17:37] Dr. Anita Phillips:
“Oh, you can get mad if you want to, but honey, the calling on God made the difference. How do you think people who were not protected... were fearless? We shall overcome. That's how they were fearless. They sang in faith to God.”

[19:25] Dr. Anita Phillips:
“It's supposed to be. Because until I get my body, my heart, my mind, and my mouth on the same page, I'm not powerful enough. And so, yes, it is supposed to move my heart. It's supposed to shift me from fear to love, from weak to strong, from confused to clarity.”

[23:33] Dr. Anita Phillips:
“Our victory song was not meant to be forgotten... because it is how our testimony is supposed to echo through our lifespan, but also to the next generation.”

[28:53] Dr. Anita Phillips:
“Singing is generational work... If God delays the rapture, every one of us is going to die. But, honey, I want it to be known that I sang his word to my last breath. A victory song. Coming out of the valley I came, I went in singing. I came out singing. Victory song.”

[32:31] Dr. Anita Phillips:
“When you have finished singing your victory song, He starts singing.”

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• 00:54 — Opening scripture: Isaiah 55, the foundation for victory and singing
• 02:01 — Introduction to Deborah’s victory song in Judges 4–5
• 03:36 — The science and spirituality of singing
• 06:28 — The collective power of singing (“Doe, a deer...” example)
• 09:08–14:36 — The story of Jehoshaphat: Fear, faith, and singing before battle (2 Chronicles 20)
• 14:36 — Singing shifts us physiologically and spiritually out of fear
• 17:07–18:46 — Singing’s role in social justice and the Civil Rights movement
• 19:25 — Defending emotional worship: Body, mind, and spirit in song
• 22:28 — The victory song as testimony and legacy; memory and identity formation through singing
• 24:43 — Psalm 145: Songs as cross-generational transmission of faith
• 27:04–28:53 — Personal stories of worship songs and their enduring memory
• 30:20 — Back to Isaiah 55: God’s song answering ours, Zephaniah 3: God sings over us
• 34:37 — Thorns as stunted growth; singing brings full life and victory

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Actionable Takeaways

• Sing before, during, and after the battle—let worship precede your challenges and celebrate your victories.
• Engage physically, emotionally, and communally in worship—don’t underestimate the literal power of singing.
• Share your story and song—be intentional about passing on faith testimonies through music.
• Gather with others—corporate singing multiplies individual faith and forms spiritual unity.
• Remember your legacy—sow victory songs into your life so future generations inherit unwavering faith.

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Final Encouragement & Prophetic Declaration

Dr. Anita Phillips closes with a prophetic word:
[32:31] "You have been changed, and you are victorious. We are turning the corner and we are coming out. You shall see disaster no more.”
And as we sing our victory song, God Himself takes up the refrain, singing over us as we transition from struggle to breakthrough.

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To be victorious, Dr. Anita teaches, is to sing—intentionally, collectively, and generationally. Our song unites the body, builds faith, and activates God’s miraculous response.

Transcript

[Torre Roberts]

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[Pastor Ed]

Hey, good people, this is Torre Roberts. Blessings to you and welcome to the ONE Podcast. I'm excited that you're here. ONE is a community of dynamic and vibrant thought leaders, preachers, teachers, and just a community of wonderful people all together. And we're excited to bring you this weekly podcast from our Services from ONE in la. If you haven't been the One, I encourage you to check it out. You can go to One the Word one O N E online and find out all about the service times and all about the teachers and all the philanthropic things that we have going. I believe you're going to be blessed to be a part of it. And speaking of being blessed, we're getting ready to get into a teaching right now that I believe is going to bless you. So tune in, enjoy, and I'll be back with you at the end.

[Torre Roberts]

Isaiah 55. Still in there, the message and the. And the offering overlapping each other and. No, I'm not about to preach an offering message. You're okay. Isaiah 55:11.

So shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth. It shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish what I please. And then. And shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it. For you shall go out with joy and be led out with peace. The mountains and the hills shall break forth into singing before you. And all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. Instead of the thorn. We had some thorns in here last week. Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress tree, and instead of the briar shall come up the myrtle tree. And it shall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off. Amen. Amen. Grab your seats. Let's talk about victory some more.

God laid it in my spirit some months ago, maybe a month or two ago, to preach victory all through the rest of the year. And I've been obedient to do that, and Pastor ev's been doing it with me. Victory. Victory. Victory. Victory. And this is the third, and, I believe, final week that we're talking about Deborah's victory. Has anybody enjoyed just diving deeper and deeper into one story? Like, there's so much in there. I feel like we jump all around scripture and we haven't really got all the juice out of that orange yet. You know, you just. You juice it and then you just let it go. But I want to be like everything in here. And this story is so rich. And what stood out to me this week about Deborah's story is Deborah's song. Her entire story is told in Judges 4 and 5 and the victory that she led Israel to and Barak leading her armies. And that bad girl, Jael. Hey, who killed the head of the army of the enemy by putting in a nail through his skull while he was sleep. And he judges five women in here. I told y' all, I gave up on Proverbs 31. I want to be Judges 5. I want to be that bad sister that nobody saw coming and wiped out the head of the armies. Oh, man, I'm her. I'm her. I'm her. But after all that's said and done, Deborah, one of the historic things that she did is that she wrote and sang a victory song. All of judges five is her and Barack joining her in singing about victory. And so I got to thinking about singing. God, why do we sing?

What is the purpose of it for us? Because I believe that our future sounds like singing and was interesting, which I'll get to it. I was already looking at how we sing. God woke me up at 3 o' clock in the morning and spoke this Isaiah 55:12 to me. That the mountains and hills shall break forth into singing before you, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. So we're gonna see how we get from our singing to that singing. And we're actually going to start by just looking at what singing is, because we do it. We know a song when we hear it. But you know me, I want to dig into the details. And so I was like, what is the definition of a song? How is it different than talking? And it's different because it's defined by pitch. So singing uses sustained, intentionally chosen pitches to create a melodic pattern that is different than just talking. Singing is also different than talking because it follows a structure rhythmic pattern that organizes time and beat. If we all say the same thing, we might not say it the same way at the same time. There's tones of voice and intonation. That's why when somebody sends you a text message and you know them real well, you hear it in their voice, and it doesn't sound like anybody else's voice. You know where they would have went up and you know where they would have slowed down. You know them when you don't know them and you read their words, you might misinterpret some meaning because you haven't heard their voice enough. I think the same thing sometimes happens with scripture. You've been reading it, but have you been knowing him? And so we read it and we don't Hear the tone of love. We hear sometimes judgment where it's not. We hear issues that are not there. We don't always hear God clearly because you can't just read the word. I want you to read the word. But that's not the only way to know Him. You got to be in his presence. That was free. That's different. But anyway. But when people talk, they speak differently. But when we sing, there's a rhythm to it. And all of these things actually contribute to us being able to do it together. That's one of the special things about singing over talking is that it's easy for us to do it together because we all follow the same pattern, the same rhythm, the same pitch. And I love this part. The breath has to be intentional in a way that talking does not include. And considering that the breath we breathe is the breath he breathed into us, I think that there's something so holy about singing because of what breath requires. And so we all know that it can bring us together. I can be talking right now, and it's fine. And also, music and song carry history because we remember them. And so people easily fall in line with each other based on memory. So you don't know what I'm saying now, but if I started going.

Doe, a deer, a female deer re a drop of golden sun. We're together.

Because the rhythm is known and the intonation and the pitch is known. So singing is about us individually, but it's also about us corporately because it's easy to do together. Something else that is important about singing is how it affects our bodies. Human singing is unique because it blends biology, emotion, language, and social connection in a way that no other animal does. This is one of his prize elements of how he made us. When we sing, more areas of the brain fire together than almost any other activity. Motor regions for breath and pitch, Emotional sensors like the amygdala and our memory sensors and our hippocampus, which is where our memories are. And our language networks all. All synthesize. Singing also releases bonding chemicals so that oxytocin hit that you get when you see someone you love. Singing releases it too. That's why we sing unto the lord. Ah, Pastor E.B. got it. You got it. You with me? It helps us fall in love with him because we sing to him. Oxytocin, it stabilizes stress responses, and it creates those shared rhythmic patterns that connect us at a deeply neurological level. Unlike a bird song, which is instinctive, or animal calls, which are functional, human singing only is creative. Intentional, emotionally expressive and relational. It is a uniquely human way of turning breath and vibration into meaning, beauty and connection. So then, how does singing come in to victory? Well, we know Deborah sang for them after the victory, but I want to start with a song that happened before the victory. Do you remember last week when we were preaching about victory in the valley? And we saw that in every valley there's some kind of victory to be had? Well, in that Jehoshaphat valley, do you remember him? King Jehoshaphat, who had descended from Judah, who had acted up with Tamar? Those who were here remember the story. I won't tell it again. Watch last week's message if you don't know. But what Jehoshaphat did was he recognized that he was afraid when the enemy was coming to attack Israel. I'm going to read those verses again from last week. And I might not have given them to the staff, so forgive me. 2nd Chronicles 20, verse 1. It happened after this that the people of Moab, with the people of Ammon, and others with them besides the Ammonites, came to battle against Jehoshaphat. I'm going to skip to verse three. And Jehoshaphat, who was king, feared and set himself to seek the Lord and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah. Verse 4. So Judah gathered together to ask for help from the Lord. And from all the cities of Judah they came to seek the Lord. I love that King Jehoshaphat was willing to admit that he was afraid. Because kings aren't supposed to be scared. That's why they're king. They're supposed to be brave all the time and know what to do all the time and rush into battle. But he admits that he was afraid. And then he calls the people together to do something about it. Go on now to 2nd Chronicles 20, verse 14. And I'm gonna read all the way to verse 22 or 21 or 22. Because His Word is more important than mine. You ready? Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon Jahaziel, the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaniah, the son of Jael, the son of Mathaniah, a Levite, and the sons of Asaph in the midst of the assembly. And he said, listen, all you of Judah, and all you inhabitants of Jerusalem, and you, King Jehoshaphat. Thus says the Lord to you. Thus says the Lord to you. Do not be afraid nor dismayed because of this great multitude. For the battle is not yours, but God's. Tomorrow go down against them. They will come up by the ascent of Ziz. And you will find them at the end of the brook before the wilderness of Jeruel. So he tells them when to go, not to be afraid, when to go, and that they are going to go towards the enemy. Last week we talked about this particular battle being in danger by the thorns of pleasure, the desire to avoid difficulty, avoid pain, to be afraid of it, to not want to go into it, and how that chokes the fruit that we could bear in the valley. But now they are choosing not to do that. They admitted they were afraid. They fasted. They intentionally chose discomfort through fasting. And they waited to hear from God. So that's important for us to remember. And so then going on to verse 13. And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground, and all Judah and the habits of Jerusalem bowed before the Lord worshiping the Lord. Verse 19. Then the Levites of the children of the Kohathites, I really don't know that one. And the children of them stood up to praise the Lord God of Israel with voices loud and high. Verse 20. So they rose early in the morning and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. And as they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, hear me, O Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem. Hear me, O Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem. Believe in the Lord your God. Believe in the Lord your God. Believe in the Lord your God. You have to recognize that fear is actually an attempt to stop you from believing, believing in the Lord your God. Because fear says there are things that are threatening me. And because I don't have power to do anything about it, then I'm in trouble. And that means that I'm putting more emphasis on my capacity than God's capacity. I'm putting more emphasis on my desire to escape than what God wants to walk me through. And if I don't allow him to walk me through, I will never be the general of the faith that I want to be. That will inspire other people.

Believe. Believe in the Lord your God, and you shall be established. Believe his prophets and you shall prosper. And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed those who should what sing to the Lord, and who should praise the beauty of holiness. As they went out before the army, they were saying, praise the Lord, for his mercy endures forever. And now, verse 22, now when they began to sing and to praise the Lord, set ambushes against the people of Ammon, Moab and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah. And they were defeated. A song actually defeated the enemy in this battle that is specifically defined by a valley and by fear. And so this is such a beautiful gift because God is not out to hurt you. I know it feels like it sometimes, but he's not. And so in this space where the king himself is scared, they have prayed. They don't want to deal with the pain. They want to feel good. They want to feel pleasure. But they're willing to fast and pray. And the word that God sends through the prophet is sing. What feels better than singing? God wasn't trying to keep them in pain. He just said, give me your pleasure and let me give you one instead. You still gonna be okay, but it's going to be through singing and not escaping because we try to feel better through escapism. And those thorns choke our fruit. But he actually gave them a song instead. How does singing make us feel better? Singing actually increases faith. Our bodies are such a big part of this because we try to separate our bodily existence from our spiritual life. And they are not separate. We are living Souls. In Genesis 1, and it says, it actually in Genesis 2, that when God created us, he made our bodies from the dirt. And then it says he breathed life and man became a living soul. That literally means an embodied soul. So my physical condition is actually critical to my faith.

Because when I am focused on what's scaring me, my body shuts down. It makes it hard for me to think clearly. It makes it hard for me to think creatively. I only start to think about escape mechanisms and how I can get away from pain and what might not happen. Sometimes I can't think at all. Have you ever been so scared, so stressed, so worried you couldn't think at all? All you could do was stare at the wall or sleep. And it's very hard for us to shift into a faith space when our body is shut down like that. It is also because you cannot separate your spiritual life from your emotional life, because the seeds of the Word are sown on the soil of the heart. And so when my emotional life is full of fear, the thorns grow and choke the fruit. And so by having them sing, he was shifting their bodies out of fight or flight state. Singing literally drops cortisol, the stress hormone that rises when you're scared. So when we sing, we become less afraid. Cortisol starts to leave our bodies. You are fearfully and wonderfully made. Do you think God didn't handcraft the function of your body so that you can could worship him and speak to him and be in relationship with him? I'M designed physically to function at my highest level in relationship with God. And so when I sing, my cortisol drops, my breath stabilizes. Singing actually shifts the brain out of fear mode to safety mode. We start to feel safer when we sing. You've been experiencing that in worship every week, but you just hadn't thought about it that way. We start to feel safer when we sing. Singing also unifies the community's emotional state. So we're pouring strength into each other and drawing strength from each other when we sing. That's what makes us an army and not just a whole bunch of individual fighters.

And singing places God's truth in our mouths. And so the action of him having them sing wasn't just to show that God is more powerful and they didn't have the weapons to. It was actually shifting them out of a fear state into a faith state so they could hear God and be focused on God as they approached the thing that they were formerly afraid of. Why do you think our ancestors marched? We shall overcome. We shall overcome. They marched, they sang. That's been missing.

I thought about that all through 2020 when we saw that last wave of protest and we saw it this year and no case, there's no singing our songs to God made a difference in the civil rights movement. Don't get it twisted. Yes, we organized, yes we marched. But if you want to replicate the actions of social pressure, but you don't want to replicate the song to the Lord who we trusted to change something.

Oh, you can get mad if you want to, but honey, the calling on God made the difference. How do you think.

People who were not protected. This is a modern day example of what this looks like in Jehoshaphat's moment. I am sure that Dr. King was scared at some points. And do you realize he was 36 when he was killed.

He was yalls age doing this big thing. But he trusted God and he led a movement that was faith infused. And so for people to walk, we can go out and protest now. Yeah, they may act up, but they're not going to just lose 20 dogs. Crazy. We got constitutions now. But then they had nothing. And for them to get up and be like, I'm going to march out here and a dog is going to probably jump up and bite me.

How did they do? How were they fearless? We shall overcome. That's how they were fearless. They sang in faith to God.

We have to do that together. If you are a part of organizing any social movement, please bring the songs of the Lord with You. We haven't sang since, and we're losing.

I said it. And it feels like we're losing. We have to sing his songs. But here in this room, every time we gather in corporate worship, this is why we now worship before the word. And when we have the time, we worship after the word. This is why we have worship night. Because every time we come together and start singing, we are a unified spiritual army marching in. Our individual battles are all becoming one target.

For God to send his armies to defeat. I need you not to just. I need you not to underestimate or underutilized the tool of song, because it's not just that. Well, that's just make us feel better. And even the worship movement that we're in right now, there was so much anger in certain aspects of the dimensions of the church, saying it's too emotional. Oh, this music is so emotional. Absolutely it is. It's supposed to be. Because until I get my body, my heart, my mind and my mouth on the same page, I'm not powerful enough. And so, yes, it is supposed to move my heart. It's supposed to shift me from fear to love. It's supposed to shift me from weak to strong. It's supposed to shift me from confused to clarity. Yes.

We are actually engaging in a spiritual act when we sing together. It is our victory song. That's why I beg you, watching my global family. If you are local, get in the room with us. But if you cannot, you truly cannot stand up in front of your computer or your phone and sing with us. This is our victory. Advance. We need each other. Does that make sense? And this is so critical because what God is doing in this movement, if you've been here these last six, seven months, you know, every worship just keeps escalating and escalating and escalating. And it's not just because our leaders are anointed and they are. Is because you.

Are joining in unity and contributing your work to the corporate work. Do not underestimate the power of singing. This is how Jehoshaphat won the battle. They sang before they went into the valley. They went into it. They started singing before they went in. So they walked into the valley that they battled in singing. Remember last week I taught you that valleys amplify sound.

Valleys are the perfect acoustical atmosphere for a song. And the trials and tribulation in your life. Perfect acoustical atmosphere for your song. When you are in trouble, sing. It will echo so loud, it will shift everything in your body. When you sing, you must grip your Victory song On the way into the fight.

What do all saints say? Don't wait till the battle is over. Shout.

We are often missing using our spiritual weapons. And many of you wake up early. You pray, but are you singing?

You gotta sing a victory song. I'm singing. Hallelujah. I'm singing. Oh.

[Pastor Ed]

Oh, God.

[Torre Roberts]

We gotta sing. We gotta sing. So we got that victory going in. And I'm rushing because I want us to sing some more.

Jehoshaphat showed us that. And that valley became the valley of blessing. They won in that valley. And then we see Deborah. She's singing after the battle. I want you to do that too. Because the song after the battle is testimony. It's reflection, it's remembrance, it's celebration. But most important, importantly, it is memory and identity formation. Because our brains store the memories of songs in different spaces than our other memories. This is why people who have advanced dementia and Alzheimer's, they may not remember who you are. They don't remember what year it is or who the president is or where they are. But if you start singing their favorite song, they will start singing it with you. Because the memory of our songs does not become destroyed by age or disease. Why do you think God constructed us to make a song memory indestructible? Because our victory song was not meant to be forgotten. And we misuse it.

We misuse it. It's okay. You like music? That's not worshiping God. Listen to hey, Doom. Come be the man I need. I've been listening to some songs.

I would like a ring I would like a ring I would like a diamond ring on my wedding finger I would like a diamond ring I heard some songs, but we can get so caught up.

Like get her off, ig, please.

We can get so caught up in just the part of that. Songs make us feel feel better that we forget to use that feeling better as a war cry. Work for God. You must use your victory song. It is indestructible in our memory.

Why is that? Because it is how our testimony is supposed to echo through our lifespan, but also to the next generation. Victory songs are about legacy as well. When we sing, we remember what God has done. Psalm. Go to Psalm. Oh, where's that? Psalm 145.

Psalm 145, verse 3. It says, Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised. And his greatness is unsearchable. One generation shall praise your works to another and shall declare your mighty acts. I will meditate on the glorious splendor of your majesty and on your Wondrous works. Men shall speak of the might of your awesome acts, and I will declare your greatness. Verse 7. They shall utter the memory of your great goodness and shall sing of your righteousness. The children of Israel were initially an oral culture. It was like a big deal for them to start writing things down. They did it out of necessity to make sure that next generation and next generation did not lose the Torah and did not lose the history. But initially, they passed on all of these stories by singing them psalms. It's all songs. Singing is how we replicate. That's why you know what happened with your grandmother. Because when I say, what's the matter with Jesus?

We ain't never sang that in here.

But somebody in this room absorbed the goodness of God's stories from. From the generation before them. And so you may not have the same story that I have, but when I say, what's the matter with Jesus? And you say he's all right, that is. You remember my grandmother used to sing that song. And then she would always talk about how God delivered her and how God brought her through and how she prayed for me. It brings back a memory.

We have to sing not just for ourselves, but for legacy and for the next generation. That is how the spirit of God is passed down because we're telling about his mighty works. It's not the songs that my grandmother sang, but, oh, man, so many of us have our songs. Every single time I hear Christ is my firm foundation, the rock on which I stand when everything around me is shaking. I've never been more glad that I put my faith in Jesus. He's never let me down. He's faithful to generations.

So why would he fail now? He won't.

Come on.

Now. If you're anything like me, you might have a story attached to that song. The first time I heard that song, I was standing in one of the darkest moments of my life. And it gave me faith to sing a confession that he would not fail me. I didn't know how it would turn out, but I was able to sing that song saying, however it turns out, he won't fail. He won't fail. He won't fail. And look at me standing here. He did not fail, baby. When my 2025 self talks to my 2020 self, she is in shock because she was completely wiped out. But God came through and he was my firm foundation. Now, every time you hear that song, you're going to remember that I had a story.

About God. And I need you to leave here today and tell somebody your story about that. What songs are caught up in your spirit because of the story that they're attached to Sing your victory and tell your victory stories.

Jesus. But the power of the anointing on singing when we are following Christ is that every person in this room was taken to the same place in that verse. And so your individual stories weren't heard, but they were heard. And another generation will sing. Those do not fall off the power of singing. Psalm 89:1 I will sing of the mercies of the Lord forever with my mouth will I make known your faithfulness to what?

Singing is generational work. When I'm 105 and I pray, my mind is still good, but if it's not, I'll still be singing of his goodness. Matter of fact, I'm going to tell my children today if God forbid, I'm not in my right clear mind my whole life, every time you see me, invoke a song from me. There's gonna be so many songs of worship in my body. Pull em out. That is how we remain in victory till the day we breathe our last breath. That is how we stand. We can't make this thing about life and death some abstraction that we're afraid if God delays the rapture, every one of us is going to die. But honey, I want it to be known that I sang his word to my last breath. A victory song. Coming out of the valley I came, I went in singing. I came out singing. Victory song. Amen. I'm almost finished. I'm almost finished. I know this is a different kind of word, but it's going to change your because we don't realize the power of what we're doing with. It's like we're playing with a gun and don't even know what we got.

You see a kid, you're like, oh my God, give me that. Because they don't realize how powerful it is. And so they weren't using it well. But now you're gonna be like.

I got it. Hallelujah. Go back now to the beginning verse. Isaiah 55, 12, 13. It's so interesting to me that God gave me this and I want to tell you what, prophetically, what he said to me when I was like, well, God, you told me to preach about us singing. Why did you ask me to start with a word about creation? Singing Isaiah 55:12 for you shall go out with joy and be led out with peace. Out of where? The valley. The valley. Because when we're let out, the mountains and the hills shall break forth the Reason you see in mountains and hills is because you just came out of valley. But as I sing my way out of the valley, as I worship him, it says that the mountains and hills will begin to sing. And so when my song is done, guess who else sings a victory song?

Our God. Our God. Let's go to. Nope, that's not scripture I want. That's not scripture I want. That's not the scripture I want. Come on. Come on. All right. Nope, that's not the one I want to either. Hey, hey. There we go. Psalm 145. Nope, that's not the one I want either. Oh, my gosh. Where's the one I want? Hey, Zephaniah. That's in the Bible. Zephaniah. Not Zechariah. Zephaniah. It is a book in the Bible. We don't hear it too much. Zephaniah. Chapter 3, verse 14. Sing, O daughter of Zion. Shout, O Israel. Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, O daughter of Jerusalem. The Lord has taken away your judgments. He has cast out your enemy, the King of Israel. The Lord is in your midst. You. You shall see disaster no more. I'm prophesying over you today. The Lord has taken away your judgments. He has cast out your enemy, the King of Israel. The Lord is in your midst. You shall see disaster no more. The wild ride of 2025 is wrapping up, baby. 2026 is not going to be like this. You're going to have to come on New Year's Eve to hear about it. But I'm telling you, he said, we are coming out of the valley. We are walking out of the mess you have been referring to, confined. And you have been stretched, and you have been changed, and you are victorious. We are turning the corner and we are coming out. You shall see disaster no more.

Hallelujah. In that day, it shall be said to Jerusalem, do not fear Zion. Let not your hands be weak. The Lord your God is in your midst. The mighty One will stand saved. He will rejoice over you with gladness. He will quiet you with his love. He will what? Rejoice over you with what? Singing. When you have finished singing your victory song, he starts singing.

[Pastor Ed]

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[Torre Roberts]

The Mountains and the hills have a song coming out. Creation of God is singing, singing over you. And it says, the trees, the trees, the trees. Because I'm a tree planted by living water. I will clap my hands to the song that God is singing. Stand on your feet and clap your hands. God is singing over us. Clap your hands, Hallelujah hallelujah.

He is singing over us as we come out of the valley. The mountain in front of us, that's our next mountaintop. That's the desires of my heart. That's my dream come true. That's my healing. That's the spouse. That's the job. That's the thing I've been believing for. That's the financial breakthrough. I'm coming out of the valley and the mountain itself is singing over me.

Clap like you believe that.

We are turning.

We had our victory in the valley, but now God is saying, I got that mountain you wanted and it's singing over you. Are you ready for it? It's singing over you. It's singing over you. We will clap our hands instead of the thorn. Fear is over. Shall come up a cypress tree. See, here's the thing about thorns. Thorns are actually stunted branches. A branch started to grow there.

And because of a malfunction in the tree system, it did not complete its growth. And so it becomes a thorn. There are some plants that have thorns that are protective. That's different. But the other ones with thorns over overwhelm the tree. It's a stunted branch. And so where you were trying to grow something, fear stunted it. But instead of the thorn, now an actual tree will come up. The briar is like another kind of thorn. The myrtle tree will come up and I'm prophesying over you. It shall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off. What he has called me to do in this earth, it will not be cut off. The desires of my heart that he made the desire of my heart, it will not be cut off. Joy in my life. Blessings in my life. Abundance in my life, it will not be cut off.

We're walking into victory. Victory. And we're doing it with a song. Hallelujah. That's what he sent me to tell you today. Sing, sing, sing, sing. And do it with intention.

Target the fear, target the lie. Target the enemy and sing what a God we serve. What a God we serve.

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[Pastor Ed]

Walk out the door.

[Torre Roberts]

Jesus. Is there anybody in here who is not in a relationship with Jesus? Maybe somebody invited you today. I forgot to welcome my first time visitors. Hey, welcome. I hope you enjoyed it. Raise your hand if you're a first time visitor. Hey, hey. Welcome, welcome. Oh, it's a lot of y'.

[Pastor Ed]

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[Torre Roberts]

I see you. Hi. Welcome to one. I hope you felt welcome when you walked in the door. I hope you felt love in this room, because it's here for sure. And I hope you already feel how much I love you, because I'm just feeling like I'm a burst sometimes. I love you so much. Welcome to One. I hope you'll come and see us again. Please let us know. Tap the thingamajig and tell us where you're from so we can keep in touch with you. And if you're local and you don't have a place that you call your church, like, this is my church and that's my pastor. We want the job for all of that, so please come back or watch us online. If you're not local, welcome. And also, if you or anybody else in this room has never explicitly made a commitment to Jesus, like, I want what these people have. I want to be in relationship with Jesus. Just slip your hand up today, because if you're here, I never want to assume that just because people came to church, they know him. Is there anybody here who wants to lock in a relationship with Jesus? Hey, come here. Hey, come here. Come here. He's like, oh, my gosh. Really? Yeah, come here.

Anybody else that's like, I want to be in relationship with Jesus? Maybe you heard about him before. What's up?

I'm so glad you said yes. Yes. What's your name? Ben. That's a good name. Like Benjamin, son of my right hand. That means nice. That's a good one. Pastor Ed, would you come hang out with Benjamin? And now it took his whole name, Benjamin. That was all his old government name. That's what mothers do. Oh, God. Is there anybody else? Maybe you've heard about Jesus before, But what you heard about Jesus was different than what Jesus feels like in this room. And you want to follow the Jesus that was in this room. I want to invite you. All right, well, let's. Let's have a conversation. Ben. Ben. We believe that Jesus is God's son. We believe that he came to earth, was born. We're celebrating his birthday this month was born. And that he. He died because he loved us that much. And then he's so powerful. He rose from the dead, and now he's sitting next to God. He's at God's right hand, son of my right hand, praying for all of us. And if we believe that, we're in. Do you believe that about Jesus? Yes. He said yes. Welcome. Welcome to the family of God. He died to wash away your sins. He loves you. And none of us are perfect. But even when we're less than perfect, we just say, God forgive us and he forgives us and we keep working on it. He gave us. He gives us chance after chance after chance. I'm so glad that you came. Who invited Ben today? Is that my friend Brenda? Brenda, did you bring Ben here today? And you too. Y' all are the bomb. They steady bringing folks to God. I love it. Amen. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

[Pastor Ed]

Hey, family. Well, I pray that you were just as blessed by this teaching as I was. I'm just so grateful again to be a part of a dynamic community full of love, full of revelation and wisdom. One has been a movement that's been blessing people for over two decades. And I'm so glad that you got an opportunity to experience. I also have a podcast called the called it's right here on wherever you're listening to this Spotify or Apple or wherever you're listening to this podcast, you can just look up the call T H E C A L L E D with myself, Terre Roberts. This is designed for entrepreneurs, leaders and business people. It's a weekly podcast and it will bless you. But hey, I enjoyed having you here. Meet us here to next week. Check out the called Much blessings to you. We'll catch you next time.