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Overwhelming Force | Pastor Craig Field | Sun. Feb. 15, 2026
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Okay, turn with me in your Bibles, please, to the book of Exodus, chapter 12. This morning, the Lord said. I said, what do you want me to preach, Lord? And he said, I want you to preach about overwhelming force. And he reminded me of a quote by Winston Churchill. Remember Winston Churchill, who was not much like before the war, was not revoted in after the war, but he was the man for the hour in the war. And many military historians say, without fear of contradiction, that if it wasn't for him, England would have lost because he was just a bulldog of courage. Praise God. I want to read you a quote. Is that okay of what he said? The Lord reminded me of this, and so I'm going to read it to you, and then I'm going to give you some scripture. All right, you're with me this morning. So this is what he put in his journal. Okay? He wrote this in his journal that the day after Pearl Harbor. Because when Pearl harbor hit, December 6, 1941, they awoke a sleeping giant. And President Roosevelt in the United States said, we're joining the war. Do you understand? Up until that point, America was not in the war. And England was completely alone. And they were on the verge of defeat. If you've ever read about what they went through from September 1939 to December 6, 1941, just over two years, they were on the verge of defeat. If America had not gotten the war, England would have been occupied by the Nazis. And they were praying. Rees Howells and others were praying in England for God to turn supernatural events, to turn the war. And not only did God do it by bringing America in, but God also did it by having Russia. The first miracle was Russia. In the summer of 1941. When they had England on the ropes, they got cocky. See, his arrogance, the spirit of the Lord used his arrogance against him and influenced Hitler. Angels influenced him to turn his focus to the East. And he started Operation Barbarossa in 1941. And they started to invade Russia. And with taking critical needed material and men there, it allowed England to start to rebuild. That was because Rees Howells was interceding in that prayer school. You have no idea how much prayer can change the course of events. And less than six months later, America joined another answer to prayer. And then Russia joined another answer to prayer. And Hitler's on the ropes now. It looked like he was unbeatable. Now he's on the ropes. All within one year, six months. Actually, from six months, he was undefeatable to. He was on the ropes. And so right after Roosevelt called Churchill and said, we are entering the war. He wrote what I'm about to read you in his journal. Okay. He said, let's find it here. He said, no American will think it wrong of me if I proclaim to have the United States at our side. The fact the United States was at our side, that it was to me the greatest joy. I could not foretell the course of events. I did not pretend to have measured accuracy. I did not pretend to have measured accurately the martial might of Japan. But now, at this very moment, I knew that the United States was in the war up to the neck and in it to the death. So we had won the war after all. He's saying we've won it. They haven't even started the first battle. That's what God does. He calls things that be not as though they are. So we had now won the war after all. Yes, after Dunkirk, after the fall of France, after the horrible episode of Iran, after the threat of invasion, when apart from the air and navy, we were almost and unarmed people, after the deadly struggle of the U boat war in the Atlantic, the first battle of the Atlantic gained by a hand's breadth after 17 months of lonely fighting and 19 months of my responsibility in dire stress, we had now won the war. England would live, Britain would live. The commonwealth of nations and the empire would live. How long the war would last or in what fashion it would end, no man could tell. Nor did I at this moment even care. Once again in our long island history we should emerge, however mauled or mutilated, safe and victorious. We will emerge. We should not be wiped out. My God. Our history would not come to an end. We might even have to die as individuals. But we will win. Hitler's fate was sealed. Mussolini's fate was sealed. As for the Japanese, they would be ground to powder. All the rest listen. Now, this is the statement. All the rest was merely the proper application of overwhelming force. The British Empire, the Soviet Union and now the United States, bound together with every scrap of their life and strength and were, according to my understanding, twice or even thrice through the force of their antagonists. No doubt it would take a long time. I expected terrible forfeits in the east, but all this would be merely a passing phase. United, we could subdue everyone else in the world. Many disasters, immeasurable cost and tribulation lay ahead. But there was no more doubt about the end. Being saturated and satiated with emotion and sensation, I lay down upon my bed and slept asleep on of the saved and the thankful. He's saying we were going to lose, but our allies came to our aid. And even though I don't know every detail that's going to play out or how long it's going to take, none of that really matters because all of this rest is merely a proper application of overwhelming force. We now have overwhelming force and if we properly apply it, there might be some little battles and loss of life, but at the end, I know the end we're going to win. The Lord reminded me of that. When I woke up this morning, I found this quote. I read it to myself again and the Holy Ghost started ministering to me and he said, son, you know, before you were saved, you were just like Britain before December 6, 1941, you were facing an enemy. Hitler had the largest army on the planet at that time, by far. There was no one that could match him. The largest and more disciplined and more well funded army, even more than the Soviets. They had a lot of people, but they didn't have a lot of equipment the way that Hitler did. He was like Satan, an overwhelming enemy and England like us, facing an overwhelming enemy. It's like we're trying our best, but we know we're going to lose. They knew they were going to lose. But all of a sudden I get born again and now all of a sudden everything's changed because the Bible says my citizenship is in heaven, so I'm more than a Canadian. When I get born again, I'm a citizen of heaven and all of heaven's resources, they become my allies. It's like heaven joined me in the fight against the devil, just like Russia and America joined England in the fight against the Nazis. And from that moment, even though there might be some little battles, yes, I might have to go through some tests and trials. I might have to fight my way through certain things. Just like he said, we don't know how long exactly it's going to take and we know there's going to be, it's going to be challenging. The Bible says we're all going to face tests and trials. But he said, from the moment they joined me, I knew we'd won. And all now that we have to focus on is the proper application of overwhelming force. Let us take the overwhelming force and properly apply it. Because if you don't properly apply it, you'll waste it. And when I got born again and the allies of heaven stood with me against that enemy, it really is, yeah, there might be some little tests and trials here, but I've won. I can write in my Journal that I've won the day. I got saved. I can lie down and sleep the sleep of the saved and the thankful. Because even though there might be some little problems ahead, I know it's impossible to lose. Can you see that analogy? That's what it is. When you're saved, all of heaven is backing you up. You cannot lose against the devil Nazi. You can't lose against him because all of heaven. Now there's going to be some things that you're going to have to deal with in the natural. There's going to be some troubles and stress and trials you're going to have to go through with joy. But if you'll just hold your ground and not quit, you know that you've won. Because no one can overcome you. With heaven with you, the devil can overcome you alone when you're not saved. But when you're saved and God is with you, God is with us. Greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world. Nothing can. I see the end and I win. This was a natural in a war environment, and ours is a spiritual. But it's the same principle. When heaven joined me, even though I know I've got some battles ahead, I see the end and I win. But the key phrase, just because I know I win, I have to have the proper application of overwhelming force. God is our overwhelming force. But you have to properly apply that overwhelming force, if you will. You'll see victory in every area of your life. And I heard the Holy Ghost this morning, Jenny. He said, I want you to talk about Winston Churchill's quote. I mean, he doesn't normally tell me to preach about a secular quote, but this morning he said, talk about that quote. Because if they would have the proper application of the overwhelming force of heaven, they will overcome in every scenario of their life. And it will be just as sure a victory as it was for the Allied forces. Think about that. December 6, 1941. They didn't win until 1945 in April. That is 1942, 43, 44. That is four years, just under four years, three and a half years later of appropriate, proper application, proper application of the overwhelming abilities of their overwhelming force. You can have overwhelming force, but you must properly apply it. You can have a gun in your holster and a person could be assaulting you. But if you don't know how to load that gun to take the safety switch off, and you don't know how to fire that gun in an appropriate way, not jerking it so the bullet goes in the tree, but into the person in front of you. You may have the overwhelming force, but you don't have proper application of it. And the overwhelming force is worth nothing to you. We have the power of God, but we must understand the proper application of that power. If we understand how to apply that power and first of all, what that power is and then how to apply it win in every situation. So I started thinking to myself, what is the overwhelming force? Now I'm going to give you eight things. It's not limited to these eight things. There's obviously more than these eight things. But I just, you know, I just came up with eight. I'm sure that you can come up with more. And if you can, then add to the list. Okay, we're not ending at eight. I'm just saying these are the first eight that came up in my spirit. And I know you know these, but I'm reminding you of them under the anointing as your pastor because this is the overworld force that you have. But you have to apply it with appropriate application. Are you still with me?
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Hallelujah.
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Are you happy you came to church today? Are you happy that I'm £52 less? I have 48 to go. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Anyway, let's move on. What is thou number one? Overwhelming force? I have it listed in my notes. The overwhelming force of the blood. The overwhelming force of the precious blood of Jesus. Are you appropriately applying that force? Remember, proper application means if you got, you got to know it's the blood. And you're also going to know what the blood does and you've got to know how to apply it. And I could take a whole series of sermons on this, and I just only have five minutes. So I'm going to give you just a brief, brief thing. Let's read. Let me read with you Exodus, chapter 12, one of my favorite scriptures. And verse 13. This is when Moses had said, put the blood and the death angels coming. Let me read verse 13. And the blood shall be unto you for a sign upon the houses where you are. And God said, when I see the blood, I will pass over you. And the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you when I smite the land of Egypt. Why are plagues coming into Christian homes? Because they don't apply the overwhelming force of the blood. When you apply the blood to your property, a bloodline around all you own, blood over your children, blood over your vehicles, blood over yourselves, There is an overwhelming force in the blood that nothing can stop. And God said, even the angel of death will not be able to penetrate the overwhelming force of the blood. And when that plague comes, when that plague to kill comes, it will pass over you.
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Hallelujah.
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What about verse 25? No. Verse 23. For the Lord will pass through to smite the Egyptians. And when he sees the blood upon the lintel and the two side posts, the Lord will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to smite you. How many are allowing the destroyer to come in? Because you don't have a proper application of the overwhelming force of the blood. How do you do it? Again? This is a whole series. But to boil it down to one simple statement. When you apply the blood, you speak the word. Now, I'm not saying legalistically, because you can apply it without quoting scripture, just like you can release your angels without quoting scripture. But the primary highest platinum standard is you speak the word when you. When you release those angels and you speak the word when you apply the blood. And you need to have a scripture that is about the blood. So you could say, father, your word says that when you see the blood, that just the plague and the destroyer will not be permitted in to smite me. So I apply the precious blood of Jesus right now by faith in Jesus name. Because remember, they always applied it with hyssop. Hyssop is a bushy green plant and it always represents faith in the Old Testament. So they applied it with the branch of hyssop or with faith. Symbolic parallel is faith. And of course we have. We have to use the name of Jesus because that's the new covenant. Power is all in the name of Jesus. So Father, I apply according to your word. That's the foundation of our believing is the word. That's where our faith comes from. The word I apply according to your word. You can quote the scripture, you don't have to the precious blood of Jesus in the name of Jesus and by faith. And then say what you're applying it to. I apply it to my property, around everything. I apply it to my house. I applied to my car as I drive. I applied to my children. No pervert will touch them. No kidnapper will touch them. No plague, no sickness, no disease will touch them. No vandal will come onto my property. The blood of Jesus will keep them out. And you gotta apply it by faith. And you're gonna do it boldly every day because that is the proper application of the divine overwhelming force of the blood. And if you'll do it more and not be lazy with it, you'll be protected more.
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Hallelujah.
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There is a divine application of the blood. You remember Maxwell White, Benny Hinn's pastor? Pastor here in Toronto for many years. Gone home to be with the Lord. Wrote the power of the Blood book. The devil said, your children, three children are on that farm there in wherever it was, I think it was Montana somewhere. And he said, I'm sending three rabid wolves. They're going to break into the house because they're crazy. Rabid wolves are crazy. They're not afraid of guns. They're not afraid of fire. They're not afraid of anything. And they are going to kill him. And he said, devil, you might be telling the truth about the three wolves, but I've got a truth that you cannot overcome. He said, I apply the blood of Jesus around every square inch of my property, around all I own, on every side. Along the fence post of my property, I apply the blood. And if anything tries to cross it, the angel of the Lord will smite it. He flies down. He calls the next morning. Are you guys okay? Yeah, dad, why wouldn't we be okay? He said, I'm coming. I'm on my way. He flies from Toronto down there to Montana. He gets on the property. You okay? Yes, dad, we're okay. Why are you asking? He gets on his little 4x4 recreational thing and he starts going around the fence line. And these weren't like a fence. They were just posts every 50ft that showed his properties ending and the other neighbor's property beginning. The fence post was the line. There was no actual physical fence. So he's driving around the fence post line and he comes upon a wolf. He gets off. The wolf is dead. It's lying across the line this side. Half its body is on the neighbor's property. The front part of its body is on his property. He picks it up, puts it in the back of that little 4x4 and keeps driving. It's a large. Hundreds of acres. It's a large property. He's driving, driving, driving. He comes across a second wolf. Completely different part of the property. It's dead. Half on the line, half off the line. He puts it in the back of the truck. He drives around, finds a third wolf. He, it's dead, half on, half off. Puts it in the back, drives off. No more wolves. Takes the three wolves to the vet, said, test the blood. I want to know if it's a rabid. The guy called him back the next day and said, all three wolves are rabid. And he looked at his children and he said, the devil said, I'm sending three rabid wolves to kill you. And I applied the precious blood of Jesus. And when those demonic inspired animals with death in their eyes touched the blood, even though it's invisible to the human eye and the animal eye, when they touched the blood, the angel of the Lord smote them and they dropped dead. They didn't even get their whole body across the line. That's how fast the angels smoked them. There are angels that work with the blood of Jesus, and it is a divine overwhelming force of protection for the believer.
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Hallelujah.
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I don't have time to read them, but just some other scriptures. You know, it talks about that. Hebrews 9:12 to Hebrews 9, chapter 12, chapter 9:12, 14 and 16:18. Talks about how that blood is better than animal blood. That blood is what cleanses us. That blood is what allows us to come into the holy of holies. Meditate on that blood. Meditate on that blood. Ephesians, chapter one, verse seven. I'm just spending a little bit more time on this one. The others, I'm going to go real quick, but. Ephesians, chapter 1, verse 7. In whom we have redemption. That means we've been bought back. That means we've been redeemed from sickness, from demons, from disease, from attack. We've been through. We have redemption through the blood caused us to be bought back from all of Satan's works and the forgiveness of sins. And they overcame him. Revelations 12:11. By the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, we overcome by what we say.
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Hallelujah.
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Hebrews 10:19. We have access into the holy place by the blood. My God, the blood does so many things. But what I'm focusing on this morning is the power of its protection.
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Hallelujah.
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The overwhelming force of the blood. Number two. The overwhelming force of the name. Philippians. Can I read it to you? Chapter two and verse nine. There are so many verses, but I'm just giving you a couple. Wherefore God has also highly exalted him and given him a name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow of things in heaven and things in earth, and things under the earth. And every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. He gave him a name that is above all names. And because we're in Christ, we have been given that name. He said, I give you my name. He said, in my name you shall. And he lists things. The overwhelming force of his name. What A weapon. No name. That's why. Notice you don't hear people cussing on the movies saying, allah dam, Buddha dam, Satan dam. They say, God damn. Because the devil knows in his perversion that the only name that has power is that name of Jesus. And that is why they try to trample it. And that is why we never, ever speak that name in any way other than in a holy way. Do you understand? If you have to cuss, which you shouldn't, because you're a flesh pot. If you do, until you renew your mind, you pick another word, even a worse word, but you don't ever use that name. That name is so precious and is so holy, and it has been given to us as the overwhelming force. One of our weapons is that name.
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Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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Acts 4:12 says, Only salvation comes in that name. Acts 3:6 says, Healings and miracles happen in that name. James. John 14, 13, 14 says that when we enter and we talk to God, we do it in that name. If you ask anything in my name, I will give it to you. Lastly, Proverbs 18:10. His name is a high tower. The righteous run in and are saved. His name. His name. You see, I applied the blood in his name. I release the angels in his name. The overwhelming force. Jenny of his name, number three. The overwhelming force of angels. Psalm 103. 20. Are they not all ministering? Sorry, that's Hebrews 1:14. Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister? Chapter two, verse one. We ought to give the more earnest heed of what we've heard about angels, lest at any time we should let it slip away. Which means it's easy to let it slip away. And then verse three says, if they got punished for neglecting things in the Old Testament, how much more will we not escape consequence if we neglect this great salvation? Verse 3 of chapter 2. What is the great salvation in context? Angelic assistance. The overwhelming force of angelic aid. Psalm 103, verse 20. They are mighty. They are strong. They excel in strength, hearkening to the voice of His Word. When we speak His Word in the name, because of our position in Christ, they obey us.
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Hallelujah.
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And they do things that will blow your mind. They do stuff that you can never do on your own. Get them working in your business. Get them working for your children. Get them working for. We're getting. We're having them work on our church to influence people to come, to influence the wrong people to stay out. We don't just want everybody. When you're fishing. You want fish. You don't want sharks and eels. We're going to throw them back overboard. The overwhelming force of. Did I tell you I'd lost 52 pounds? The overwhelming force. The overwhelming force of authority. The overwhelming force of authority. Matthew 16:18. God has revealed this to you, my Father, not flesh and blood. Upon this rock of Revelation I'll build my church. The gates of hell will not prevail against it. And behold, I give unto you the keys of the kingdom. Whatever you bind shall have been already bound. Amplified Translation in heaven, whatever you loose shall have been already loosed in heaven. What is he saying? Imperfect tense in the Greek. Very rare. This is one of the only scriptures in the New Testament that has it. What they're saying is you have to do it for it to manifest in the natural. But God has already done it in heaven. Whatever you bind, he's already overcome. But he needs you to do it so it can manifest whatever you loose. He's already done it, but he needs you to say it, for it to manifest the overwhelming force of authority. If you bind.
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Hallelujah.
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And you've got to bind and loose brother and sister. You can't wait for me to do it. Luke 10:19. Behold, I give you power to tread upon serpents and scorpions. And I give you all power over all the power of the devil. And nothing shall by any means hurt you because of my authority. He gave me power. He gave me authority over everything. And it cannot hurt me, and it cannot touch me. In Jesus name, hallelujah. The overwhelming force of my authority. Praise God. In my name you shall cast out devils. Mark 16. Heal the sick, raise the dead. In my name. You'll drink deadly poison. It won't hurt you. In my name. You'll take Covid vaccines if you have to, and it won't hurt you. Notice I said if you have to. Because if you don't have to, don't do it. But if you have to. I had to, or I wouldn't be able to be by my mama. I had to. But because of the name. Anything that's poisonous that goes in me, whether drinking, whether breathing, whether injecting, it cannot hurt me. And it didn't, and it never will because of the authority. In his name. You see the overwhelming force we have in all these areas. Oh, Jesus, I have to read this one. Ephesians, chapter 1. Ephesians, chapter one. It's 12 o', clock, but I know because I'm preaching so good and you've missed me so Much. You're going to give me an extra 10 minutes, and then you're going to consider an extra three minutes on top of that, and then a bonus of an extra two minutes on top of that, which gives me till 12:15. Because you've missed me so much. And I've been in the bowels of Africa, so your mercy toward me is abundant today. The overwhelming force of position is number five, Ephesians, chapter one and verse 17. That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation and the knowledge of him, the eyes of your understanding, being enlightened, that you would know what is the hope of his calling, who you are, what is the riches of his glory, of the inheritance in the saints, what you have. And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us where Believe what you can do according to the working of his mighty power which he wrought in Christ when He raised him from the dead and set him at his own right hand in heavenly places. Where is Jesus? Far. Verse 21. Above all Principality, power, might, dominion, and far above every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come. And has put all things under his feet and gave him to be the head over all things to the church. Now watch verse 23. Which is his body, the fullness of him that fills all in all. Jesus can't fill the earth, his body does because he's in heaven. He is the head far above, and we are the body far above. And if there was any question mark, then chapter two, verse six answers it. And has raised us up together with him, and made us sit together with him in heavenly places. In Christ, I am the body, he is the head, and I've been raised up high to sit with him far above every name, far above every sickness, far above every demon. If you're far above, why are you talking about Him? They're not worthy of our utterance. I'm not impressed with devils and witchcraft and sickness. I'm far. I'm so far above, I can't even see them. The overwhelming force of my position. You get a revelation that you're in Christ and that he's far above. Whatever you're facing, you're far above. You'll stop talking about the thing that you're far above and you'll start commanding the thing that you're far above. It's a weapon. Understanding who you are in Christ is as much a weapon as the blood. The overwhelming force of position. Hallelujah I just want to read Colossians 2:10 very quickly, because that's another scripture that really adds to this. And it says, ye are complete in Christ, which is the head of all principality and power. You are completely in him, and he is over everything. If you're in him means you're over everything. That's your position. Glory to God. So what's number one? The overwhelming force of the blood. Number two, the overwhelming force of. Number three. The overwhelming force of angels. Number four. The overwhelming force of authority. Number five. The overwhelming force of position in Christ. Number six. The overwhelming force of resurrection power. The overwhelming force of resurrection power. Ephesians, chapter one. And the Bible says in verse 19. And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us? Word who believe, what is that power? It's according to the working of his mighty power which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead. So the raising him from the dead is resurrection power. And the exceeding greatness of the power, because we believe is resurrection power. I'll just quote it Romans 8:11. If the same spirit that raised Christ from the dead, that's resurrection power, power of the Holy Ghost. But it's resurrection power lives and dwells in you. It will make alive, and it will quicken your mortal body. I don't care what sickness you've got. Meditate on resurrection power that's in you by the Holy Ghost. And your body will be quickened and made alive unto the revelation of that. And it will drive out sickness and it will drive out pain, and it will drive out sorrow in your mind. It will drive out torment in your brain. It will drive out physical symptoms in your body. Because that same spirit that raised him from the dead, resurrection power, lives in me and it quickens my mortal body, makes me alive.
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Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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If you're getting older and all of us are getting older, but some of you are really old. Like, I mean, wrinkly old, you know what I mean? Like, Mama, you're getting, like, really old. You're getting wrinkly. But Mama, every day, you and Willie and all the other old folk, you say every day, resurrection power's working in me. The Spirit of God is living in me, and it quickens and makes alive my body. My eyes are strong, my bones are strong, my blood is strong, my memory is strong, my hair is strong, my ear hearing is strong. That's what you got to do, especially as you get old. That's how your youth renewal covenant works. Some people said. Well, it says that he'll renew my youth as eagle. So they said to me, I'm going to go buy myself an eagle. I said, honey, it's not the ego in your backyard in a cage that's going to make you have young youth renewal. Are you stupid or something? Like, what's wrong with you? It's your words. Yeah, the ego has this little thing it goes through and it plucks out whatever and then it has another renewed thing on life. That's why it says eagle, because the eagle has a renewed take on life. But it doesn't matter about the physical eagle. And you're not an eagle. I was at the church with Dr. Dufresne and the lady said, you know, I'm an eagle for Jesus, right? And she had this big outfit and then she said, I'm a cherubim eagle. And she was in a full out suit, a silk suit. And I mean it had like a thing, like a connection from her waist to her hand. And she came up beside Dr. And I'm looking at Dr. And Dr. Is looking at me and he said, what is going on? I said, I have no idea. And she said, I'm the cherubim angel of the Lord. And she starts to dance in front of him. He almost cast the devil out of her. But since we didn't know if it was a devil or just a religious thing or just a weirdo, he kept his peace. I remember the eagle cherubim of the Lord. It's not about getting a suit that makes you look like the eagle cherubim of the Lord. It's about your words. The overwhelming force of resurrection power. Not eagle cherubims. Okay, number seven. The overwhelming force of the anointing. Hebrews, Isaiah 10:27. And the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing. And the burden lifted. Now remember also First John, where is it? First John 2:20. You have an unction of the Holy Ghost inside you and you know all things. You need no man to teach you. Not teach you the Bible. If you say to me, I think we're going to buy a new house, what do you think? Unless I have a word of the Lord, how can I answer that question? And many times I don't have a word of the Lord because God's trying to get you to listen instead of me making it easy for you. So in that case, you don't need me to teach you what house to buy because you've got an unction of the Holy Ghost and you know all things. That's what that's talking about wrong hearted people that don't want to submit. Say I have an unction from the Holy Ghost. I know all things, so I don't need a pastor. That's an inappropro because that violates other scriptures. You can't take things something that violates other scriptures because the Bible tells you to have a pastor. So you come to learn the word, generally speaking from a pastor, but specifically you've got an unction from the Holy Ghost. That's the anointing inside you, Sammy, and it will teach you the decisions individually that you have to make. Teaching you broad. That unction teaches you specific. Are you with me? So you can come and ask me, pastor, do you have anything in your heart? If you want to, but I'm just warning you, most times unless I have a real check, I'll tell you I have a real check. But most times I won't have a thus saith the Lord because you're showing honor by asking. That's good. But you got to remember God's trying to grow you up. He's trying to get you to hear. He doesn't want me to tell you everything, otherwise you won't ever learn. He wants you to look to your spirit and look for the unction so that you know all things. You don't need anybody to teach you on the specifics of your life. Do you understand? But you still need people to teach you the broad word of God. You get it? The overwhelming force, Jenny, of the anointing. Not only does it give me supernatural knowledge, but it removes yokes and destroys burdens. And it can operate in my life through me to others as well as for my own life to destroy any yoke or burden that is there.
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Hallelujah.
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The overwhelming force of the anointing. And lastly, number eight, the overwhelming force of divine connection. The overwhelming force when you're rightly connected, I'm telling you it is a force. God works with you differently when you're submitted and in the right place. What does 1 Corinthians 12:18 say? It says that God places in the body as it pleases him. God places every member in the body as it pleases him. You don't get to pick your church. The Holy Ghost picks your church and he bears witness that it's home when you get there. He don't. You don't. He don't. He don't expect you to go to a church where your grandma went or that's my denomination or it's close to my house. None of those are good reasons. You go and shop around until you find a place. And the Spirit of God bears witness in your heart. That anointing, that unction bears witness in your heart. This is home. You may not understand it, your mind might fight it, but you just know. I don't understand why this is home. See, that is him placing you in the body as it pleased him, not as it pleased your gas bill. How far it was from your home, the color of the pastor's skin. You know whether. What kind of carpet we have. None of that stuff matters. God knows what's best, and he puts you in that place.
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Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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Can I just read you two more? Because I just love these scriptures so much. Psalm, chapter one, verse three. And the Bible says this. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water that bringeth forth fruit in his season. His leaf also will not wither, and whatsoever he does shall prosper. A tree planted. That is. Speaking of planted in the house of the Lord, you say? How do you know that? Well, I'm glad you asked. Jeremiah, chapter 17. Anytime you see that planted, it's referring to planted in the house of God or the local church. What About Jeremiah, chapter 17, verse 8? For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters that spreads out her roots by the river and shall not worry when trials come, heat comes, but her leaf shall be green. And she shall not be careful or fearful in the year of drought, neither will she cease yielding fruit.
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Hallelujah.
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Planted as the waters. Waters represents the Word. Moving waters represents the revelation of the Word. The house of the Lord. Planted in the house of our God. Psalm says, when you're planted in the house of the Lord by the waters that are moving, it represents you're in a church and you're getting continual revelation from the Scripture as you come. That's what planted by waters means. Waters. Moving waters always represent revelation. Still waters always represent the Word. But moving waters is the revelation of the word. If you study Bible symbology. Are you with me? And of course, there's many scriptures that talk about the planting in the house of the Lord. But one of our favorite ones, which everybody knows, even sinners, is Psalm 23. And he talks about the good shepherd, Jesus. The Lord is my shepherd. He does all these things. And then watch. Now, at the very end, surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord. That word dwell means to be planted. I am planted in the house of the Lord forever. Why? The shepherd is in the house, the pastoral office is in the house. And then Psalm 1 and Jeremiah 17 tells me that I'm planted by waters, living waters, moving waters. Because when I come to the place that God planted me, the divine connection I'm around, the revelation of the Word, it'll change my life. My leaf won't wither, I won't be afraid of tests and trials when the drought comes, it won't hurt me. I mean, all these promises, if you're planted. So this divine connection that God plants you with a pastor is part of the overwhelming force of your victory. Because I've watched people that apply the other seven, but they don't apply the eighth, and they don't have full victory. You got to have it all. So, in summary, what's number one? I have the overwhelming force of the blood. I have the overwhelming force of the name, I have the overwhelming force of angels. I have the overwhelming force of my authority in Christ. I have the overwhelming force of my position in Christ. I have the overwhelming force of resurrection power. I have the overwhelming force of the anointing, and I have the overwhelming force of divine connection being planted. From the moment they joined him, even though he knew, he didn't know then, but it would be three and a half years of vicious fighting, but he knew. There's some battles, there's some tests and trials, but I know we've won now. It's just the proper application of the overwhelming force that has come to my aid. I get born again. Yes, there's going to be tests and trials and battles, but I know I win. But I have to appropriately apply the overwhelming force that has come to mind. And even greater than Winston Churchill is us. Because Winston Churchill knew that he had won, but he didn't have. He just knew it because he knew it, but he didn't have any evidence of it. We, when Jesus showed up, we don't just know that we win, we actually have evidence of it because Jesus stripped him at the cross. So the fight is already won. We're just mopping up with them. They still had to fight. There could have been a chance that they lost. But he knew because of the might of my allies, I. The war is over, it's won. So that applies to us. You can see the symbolic parallel. But we're even in a better place than him because there is no chance of defeat, because Jesus already got the victory. I'm just enforcing what he's already got. But when I stepped into the Allied kingdom of Heaven. Every bit of Nazi horror. Every bit of demonic satanic attack. They can't win. I've won. And now to see that victory manifested in my life, I have to have the proper application of overwhelming force. The overwhelming force for them was tanks and guns and planes and armies. Me. The overwhelming force is the blood. It's the name, it's the authority, it's the position, it's the angels. It's all these weapons that I've been given. Apply them so you could operate in victory.
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Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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What a wonderful day it's been in the church house. Nothing but good news today.
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Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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And even though it might have looked like bad news that Pastor Happy shut the church down, it's not. That's good news. Because he is in the perfect timing and the perfect will of God. And that means it's good news. Praise the Lord. Heavenly Father, I bless you. I bless these precious congregation members. I bless those that are watching. I thank you, Father, that no matter what they're facing today, they will meditate on these eight areas of overwhelming force. They'll begin to do proper application of them in their lives. And they will see that there's nothing but victory, that we see nothing but victory. That in the covenant believer's life, there's nothing but victory in Jesus, mighty name. And when we face tests and trials, which we will, we will use the proper application of this overwhelming force. And we will have victory even through the test and trial. And we'll do it with joy because you said, when you come into tests and trials of various kinds, count it all. Joy. Not joy for the trial, but joy that we've overcome and joy that we know that we win and that will stand our ground until it manifests. So we thank you, Father, for it. I bless them and I honor them. I look forward to seeing them on Wednesday night. Be blessed, everybody. Have an absolutely wonderful Sunday.