Anointed for the Altercation - Bishop T.D. Jakes By T.D. Jakes

Get your bibles and go to the gospel of saint Luke chapter number 4, verse, 1 through 15, and there you will find the assignment that the Holy Spirit has espoused. Unto me to share with you today. It is good to see you in the house of the lord this morning. We have no other agenda but to share with you what god has shared with us and to watch you grow, thereby can you say, amen when you have it say: amen and Jesus being full of the holy ghost returned from Jordan and Jesus being full of the holy ghost returned from Jordan and was led by the spirit into the wilderness being 40 days, tempted of the devil and in those days he did eat nothing and when they were ended, he afterward hungered and the devil said to him. If thou be the son of god command the stone that it be made. Bread and Jesus answered him and saying it is written that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of god and the devil taking him up into a high mountain showed unto him all the kingdoms of this world in a moment of time and the devil said unto him all this power will I give thee and the glory of them for that is delivered unto me and to whomsoever I will give it.

If thou, therefore, will worship me all shall be thine Jesus answered and said unto him get thee behind me Satan, for it is written, thou shalt not tip thou shalt, worship, the lord thy god and him only shalt thou serve, and he brought him to Jerusalem and set him on the pinnacle of the temple and said unto him if thou be the son of god cast thyself down from. Hence, for it is written, he shall give his angels charge over thee to keep thee and in their hands. They shall bear thee up lest at any time, thou dash thy foot against the stone and Jesus answering and said unto him. It is said: thou shalt not tempt the lord thy god and when the devil had ended, all the temptation and when the devil had ended, all the temptation and when the devil had ended, all the temptation he departed from him for a season and Jesus returned to the power of the spirit. Jesus returned to the power of what he returned to the power of the spirit into Galilee and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about, and he taught in their synagogues being glorified of all.

Can you say man remain standing, I'm going to pray with you, but for the next few moments I'm going to be talking about anointed for the altercation anointed for the altercation yeah? That's it right there that's the whole thing in a nutshell, anointed for the altercation, and it sure is a fight man. Somebody spirit of the living god fall afresh on us as we open up the word of god that we might hear what the spirit is saying to the church. I thank you in advance for what you're going to do. I believe you to do. Amazing things bind the devil hand and foot take authority over him in this place and around the world, as we open up our hearts to hear what the spirit of the lord is saying to the church.

I thank you in advance for what you're going to do in the name of Jesus we pray amen. You may be seated in the presence of god. Let's go to work, it is to be one of my favorite passages of scriptures, not because of the grimness of the text, but because it tells me a lot about life. The last time we heard from Jesus he was 12 years old in the synagogue from 12 to 30. He lives a life in complete obscurity in the text.

We know nothing and can find nothing about the 18 years that preceded him. Turning 30 years old, when he turned 30 years old, everything began to change. It is interesting to note that David was anointed to be king when he was 30 years old. It is interesting to note that you became eligible for the priesthood at the age of 30. Furthermore, it is interesting to note at the age of 30, Jesus hits the screen of the text again in a most dynamic way.

He goes from obscurity to celebration from isolation to celebration. He goes from isolation point one eighteen years of nothingness to celebration where he is brought down to the front by John the Baptist and is celebrated of the father in a moment of celebration, and he goes from celebration ultimately to altercation in the wilderness. Can you say amen? It is interesting to know that in the process of celebration, one of the most dynamic moments in my mind of the text, is when John the Baptist is standing there baptizing people in the Jordan River, and he looks through the crowd and somewhere in the midst of the crowd. He sees Jesus and says behold, the lamb of god, who take away the sins of the world and immediately Jesus was brought from the background to the fourth front. It is interesting to me because when god gets ready to bring you to the forefront, you don't have to self-promote when god gets ready to bring you to the forefront.

He can point you out and move you to the forefront if that is where destiny has designed for you to be he's not going to bring you to the forefront because of your ego, he's not going to bring you to the forefront because of your imagination, he's not going to bring you to the forefront, because your mother told you belonged in the forefront, god does everything according to his purpose as soon as you decide to settle on that, you will have a lot more peace when you stop trying to manipulate god to follow your agenda and start to understand that god has a purpose for your life, and he gave you or will give you everything you need for that purpose. If you needed to be taller, he'd make you taller if you needed to be shorter, he makes you shorter. If you need to be richer, he'll, give you more wealth. If you need to be more popular he'll, give you more popularity everything that he gives. You are not about your desire as much as it is about his purpose, for you in your life, and god can do it quick.

He can do it suddenly. He can do it in a hurry. Furthermore, he can do it without reservation. In one moment, Jesus went from being a face in the crowd until every eye was on him, as he made his way through the crowd came down into the Jordan River and there he was baptized in the Jordan River. I want you to understand a few things.

His validation first came from man. You don't get to the point that you don't need somebody senior to you to point you out. If Jesus didn't start until somebody pointed him out, you need to wait till somebody points you out. He was not self-appointed john pointed him out and said behold, the lamb of god, which take away the sins of the world. I will avoid the temptation to linger with the john and Jesus in the Jordan River and equate it to them being in their mother's womb when they first when Elizabeth and Mary first kissed, they have not we've not seen them since they were swimming in their mother's fluids, and now they're back in the Jordan River again, and they stand there outside the womb.

But they're still in the flow uh, I said they're outside the womb, but they're still in the flow. If you're going to get anything done with god, you've got to get in the flow. When, when there's a flow, you got to step into it. You could sit there with your legs crossed and your head back playing with your phone and not get in the flow. It is your choice.

Jesus could have stepped around the Jordan and not got into Jordan, but he became obedient, and he stepped down into the flow. I'm amazed that the people who come to church on Sunday who never step down into the flow they got up, they got dressed, they put their clothes on, they turned on their laptop, they turned on their iPad. They turned on their device, and they're sitting there, but they never get in the flow. Why would you come if you're not going to get wet? Why would you come if you're not going to get wet? Why would you come if you weren't, seeking a deeper relationship with god? Jesus and john are standing in the flow. I pray that the holy ghost would flow through this place today.

I pray that he would flow through this place until you decided. This really is a worship service, and I'm going to get into the flow. I prayed that he would come into this place until quiet people started praising god. I pray that he would come and flow through this place until sick people started getting in the flow and getting healed by the power of god. Furthermore, I prayed that he would come in such a flow until depressed people got in the flow and had their mind, uplifted by the power of god.

It's all in the flow it's in the flow. It's in the flow you need to get in the flow he is not going to break it. He's not going to sit a tsunami he's not going to sit a hurricane he's not going to send a tornado. You have to as an act of your will, humble yourself and step down into the flow and watch the Holy Spirit meet you there, John the Baptist, who is the premier prelate of his hour, he's drawing all the crowds all the people are talking about him. God is using him uniquely.

He has broken the tradition of his fathers. He has decided to go about it in another way, and yet god is using him effectively. Furthermore, he has forsaken the sanctity of the sanctuary and gone into the wilderness, and there he ate wild locusts and honey and dressed in camel's hair. Furthermore, he was not afraid to be different. Oh, can I stop a minute and ask god give us some more preachers who are not afraid to be different, who are not running from controversy? Who are not scared of what people are going to say about them? Who are not afraid that they won't get invited to dinner if you're going to preach for god in this season, you got to be radical enough for people to talk about you.

They talked about what he wore. They talked about what he ate. Furthermore, they talked about where he stayed, but he kept on preaching repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand next Sunday. Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand next week. Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

He wasn't trying to entertain you. He wasn't trying to impress you he was trying to fulfill his assignment and do what god had called him to do. Can I get a witness in this church? Is there a witness in this church? Somebody bears witness in this church you're watching on the internet, say I'm getting in the flow I'm too old to be around the water and not get in the flow. I've been through too many demons to be near the water and not get in the flow. I've been too sick to get here now and not get in the flow whatever it takes for me to get the breakthrough, I'm going to get in the flow.

Furthermore, I mean I'm going all the way down in the water. Furthermore, I'm going to get saturated, I'm going to get soaked, I'm going to get over well, I'm going to allow the spirit of god to take me out. Furthermore, I am getting in the flow there's somebody in this room. You may be in the balcony, you may be in the back. You may be listening in the hallway, but god is calling you out of the crowd and down into the flow.

Furthermore, you got to be willing to walk through people and pass people and around people. If you want to get wet with the glory that god has for you, you have to say. Excuse me he's calling me excuse me he's calling me excuse me, he's calling me I'm going to get in the flow somebody that's going to get in the flow, take about 10 seconds and give god a praise of the flow yeah yeah yeah, I'm going to get in the flow. I got too much to fight not to get in the flow I'm going through too much not to get in the flow I've been under attack too long not to get in the flow. I can't afford to sit there and be cute.

Furthermore, I got some things I got to get a breakthrough for I got to get in the flow. Furthermore, I got children in trouble. Furthermore, I got parents in the hospital, I need a touch from god. Furthermore, I came to get a touch from god. Furthermore, I didn't cut the shore off my cute breast.

Furthermore, I didn't cut the shore my stilettos or my tie. Furthermore, I came to get in the flow of the Holy Spirit. God send me some people that want to get wet. Send me some singers that want to get wet. Send me some deacons that want to get wet.

Send me some illness that want to get wet. Send me some pastors that want to get wet. I came to get wet. I came to step into the flow of the Holy Spirit. Everything that god will do is not in a flow everything that god will do is done in the flow from the Book of Genesis, where the spirit of the lord moves upon the face of the deep god is always moving in the flow to later on.

When he sends have Noah to build an ark on dry ground, he says I'll, send the flow. You build the ark, god always moved in the flow to the Red Sea when he stopped it on each side and drew it back so that the children of Israel could walk through the flow from the creation of man through the womb of a woman. Everything god will ever do. He will do it through the flow if, from the bleeding side of Jesus Christ stretched out on Calvary when they hung him high and stretched him wide. The New Testament was in the flow it's in the flow it's in the flow it's in the flow, so you can choose to get in, or you can choose to stay out.

You can choose to step in, or you can choose to step out, but god's going to send the flow and the flow is coming your direction. I prophesy to you today. The flow is coming your direction, there's a flow coming from god, and it's headed to your house. There's a flow coming, you can choose to get in, or you can choose to stay out. You can choose to get in, or you can choose to step out whose stepping into the flow.

This morning, holler at your boy, so I want to talk about the floor. I want to talk about the voice. There were three voices that honored him. First, it was the voice of john that told him who he was beheld, the lamb of god, who takes away the sins of the world who told the people who he was beheld, the lamb of god, who take away the sins of the world. He talks to Jesus as he is the lamb, but the voice spoke from heaven after he was baptized and called him behold.

This is my beloved son in whom I'm well pleased. So, while john saw him as the lamb, the father saw him as the son, the messiah, the Holy Spirit saw him as the messiah because he descended like as a dove. He was not a dove, but he's descended like as a dove. He was no doubt as gentle as a dove as he came to sit on him and from that day forward they ceased to call him Emmanuel or just Jesus. They started calling him Jesus Christ, Jesus, the Christos Jesus, the anointed one Jesus, the anointed.

One refers to him in his messianic power, so we know that he's a lamb, and we know that he's the son of god and now the Holy Spirit has let us know that he is the messiah, and it all happened while he was wet you'd, be surprised what you can learn about yourself, while you're wet the reason you're not any further than you are. Is that you're too dry? If you learn how to get wet up under the Holy Spirit, god will show you who your wife is he'll show you who you where your job is he'll show you when to buy the property. He'll show you when to make the decision. God can't do anything till you get wet, but if you get wet, god will start telling you who you are where you came from what you going to go through, what you have to do to get the job done. Is there anybody on zoom that's willing to get wet or you just going to sit there and look at me, or are you going to step in and get wet? I didn't come this far, not to get wet.

I've been through too much hell not to get wet. Furthermore, I expect something from god. Furthermore, I want to get wet somebody open your mouth and praise him right now, when the Holy Spirit descended like as above. It is the first place in scriptures since genesis where we see all three aspects of god manifested in one place. The father spoke from heaven.

The sun is in the water and the Holy Spirit descended like as a dove. It is because when Jesus was baptized, he was raised up from the dead that the fullness of the godhead might dwell in him bodily. There was not any part of the godhead that was a disconnect to whom Jesus was both the father. The Holy Spirit and the son come together into one. He was raised up.

Jesus spoke of the resurrection. He says. No man takes my life, I lay it down and if I lay it down I'll pick it back up again. Paul says the same spirit that quickened Jesus mortal body shall also quicken our mortal body. He also says that Jesus was raised from the dead by the glory of the father.

So was it the father that raised him, the son that raised him or the Holy Spirit that raised it? It was all three of them for all three of them are one and in one concert he lifted him up. Oh my god imagine how many devils would run if the fullness of the godhead was going to raise you up. Look at your neighbor and say I feel like getting up this morning. I've been down too long. I feel like getting up.

Furthermore, I feel like getting up. Furthermore, I feel like coming out of this stop. Furthermore, I feel like coming out of this depression. Furthermore, I feel like coming out of this hostility. Furthermore, I feel like coming out.

Furthermore, I feel like coming out. Furthermore, I feel like coming out. What I love about Jesus is that he was just as much god's son in isolation as he was in consecration, as he will be an altercation. He was still the same whether men clapped or didn't clap, whether they were there or weren't there, whether they supported him or didn't support him. Do not allow your situation to define your identity.

I am who god says I am. I can do what god says: I can do glory to god. Furthermore, I was telling some pastors. Furthermore, I said I would be a pastor. If I didn't have a church, I had to be a pastor.

If I didn't have a building, because none of those things define me pastoring is an anointing, it's an anointing. It's a flow of the spirit. It'll happen around a kitchen table it'll happen in a restaurant. When god makes you something you are that whether you got anybody to bear witness to that or not. Oh, don't fool with me.

Don't fool with me: you're going to fool with me: you're going to fool with me. If you're fool with me, you're going to make me preach. If you fool with me, you're going to start something hallelujah glory to god and all the godhead set it off. They had to all set it off to correspond with genesis when they said. Let us make the first man Adam.

Let us make the first man at him and now in the Jordan the US is at it again. I said the US is at it again. The US is at it again. The US is at it again the US is at it again. The US is, and let us make man let us make Adam, let us be at it again.

Ought you to tell the devil you're fooling with us now you're, not just jumping on me, you're fooling with us? I got an US behind me. I got an army behind me. Furthermore, I got a brigade behind me. Furthermore, I got support behind me. Furthermore, I got secret forces behind me.

It is amazing to be able to recognize how the Holy Spirit at one moment can descend like a dove. The father can speak from heaven and the sun can be immersed in the water and then the next moment, from this pinnacle of spiritual supremacy from from from this apex of spiritual awareness and identity, from this apex of an understanding of the messiah coming from which they had waited thousands of years in the very next verse. It plummets from the pinnacle of this height of spiritual, supremacy and authority down into the abyss of an altercation, and it wasn't like he just wandered into the altercation. He was led of the spirit into the altercation, see we don't have that kind of spirit anymore. The only kind of spirit we got today is the kind that leads us into a Cadillac or Rolls-Royce or a Mercedes.

The only kind of spirit we have today is the spirit that anoints us to get a new house. We don't have the kind of spirit that Jesus had. That would lead you into a fight. Sometimes god will lead you into an altercation because there's something that has to be done and you have to fight for it ain't. Nobody gonna, give you nothing.

Let me talk to the young people for a minute. Stop waiting on people to die ain't. Nobody gonna, give you nothing, you have to fight for it. You have to roll up your sleeves and snarl your teeth and fight for it. There's something you get out of the fight that you don't get any other way, there's something you get out of the struggle out of rolling around in the ground and get you got to get money for it.

You got to get wet for it. You may even have to get dirty for it, but when it's all over you're going to get the victory, somebody gives god a victory. Praise altercation is a nice word for quarrel. It's a nice word for quarrel, an argument. It's a nicer word for fight.

Furthermore, it's a fight! Furthermore, it's a fight! Furthermore, it's really fight! This is this one syllable word fight epitomizes. What altercation is a very civilized sounding four-syllable word that really says the same. Uncivilized thing we about to fight. He was led. You got to understand.

He was led by the gentle Holy Spirit into a fight. He didn't get anointed and start dancing in the Jordan. Furthermore, he didn't get his tambourine out in the Jordan and started beating this tambourine. Furthermore, he didn't start shouting in the Jordan River. Furthermore, he reserved his anointing for the fight.

I think. Sometimes we spend our anointing foolishly trying to impress people that, don't matter try to move people that won't be moved trying to touch people that won't be touched. But whenever the anointing comes upon you, the anointing is literally the enablement of god. It comes upon you so that it enables you to do what you could not do by yourself. Let me ask a question in this room outside this room and around the world, are you anointed that was okay, but if you got a cancer to fight you got to be willing to talk better than that.

I'm going to ask you again: are you anointed, if you're, trying to overcome Kobe, you got to be sure about this thing? Are you anointed? Look at your name and say I'm anointed, you got to be careful. You got to be careful because you're, not just fighting me, you're fighting us, you're fighting us you're, fighting us you're, fighting us this anointing. That's on me! This anointing, that's on me is not afraid to go down into a dry place. They went from a wet place to a dry place. They went from a wet place to a dry place, because the Holy Spirit is just as powerful in a wet place as he is in a dry place.

Oh, have you ever had god anoint you in a dry place. I wish I had somebody in here. That was in a dry place because, if you're in a dry place- and god anoints you in a dry place, hell gets nervous and demons start trembling and Satan is upset, or I love the praise of anybody, but when somebody that's been in a dry place opens up their mouth and praises god hell gets frustrated, I said hell gets frustrated if you have been captured in a dry place going through a tough time. Your emotions are working against you. Your situations are working against you or your finances are working against you and the devil thinks he's got you surrounded in a wilderness of despair.

I'm going to give you 30 seconds to praise your way out of it right now. You got about 15 seconds. You got about five seconds. Oh, you got about three seconds. Praise your way out, praise your way out, praise your way out.

I'm still anointed, I'm still anointed. I don't care how my emotions feel. Furthermore, I don't care. How my mind feels. I don't care what my haters are saying.

I don't care what my daughters are saying he whom the son has set free is free. Indeed, I wish I had a thousand anointed folks in this room to give god some kind of praise. Praise him. Like you, ain't sick praise him like you're, not broke praise him like you're, not defeated praise him like you got the victory praise him like you know who you are praise him like. You know who you are praise him like you're, a king praise him like you're the child of a king, sit down.

Let me teach you something. I want you to understand this. This is important. No good boxer prepares to box an opponent he hasn't studied, so we need to study the enemy. We don't talk about the enemy, we don't teach about the enemy, and therefore we don't understand the enemy, and when we get into a fight with him, we are ignorant of his devices.

He has devices, he has wows. He has tactics right when you're on the verge of getting what god has for you. Furthermore, he will release a tactic. So when things get worse, it's a sign. It's about to get better Satan is a fallen angel named Lucifer he's fallen down into the earth realm, but it is not enough for you to know that Satan is also organized.

So if you are unorganized, you are fighting an enemy, that's organized you better! Organize, because he's organized at one point: he defines his brigades as legions are military bases that move in synchronization, so Satan moves in synchronization. You never from genesis to revelations, see a demon fighting a demon he is united. He is orchestrated. Satan is not only a fallen angel, he has a kingdom, he has a kingdom with principalities and powers and regions and territory there is. There is a demonic influence that is assigned to you.

If you think about it. You've been fighting different versions of the same spirit, all of your life that you, you are in his territory. Like a commissioner like a councilman, he has a territory, it could be a family territory, it could be a geographical territory, but Satan is organized. Then he dispenses demonic powers. Regionally, you remember when legion was about to be delivered from the demons and Jesus was about to cast out the demons and the demons said: suffer us not to leave the region.

The enemy says. Please don't let me leave the region, I have an investment here. I attacked her mother. I attacked her auntie. Furthermore, I attacked her sister.

Furthermore, I attacked her brother. Furthermore, I don't want to get out of the region. Furthermore, I don't want to get out of the region, but somebody says get out of here: I'm taking over my territory, I'm taking over my I'm about to feel like preaching I'm taking over my rightful place when the bible said neither give place to the devil is talking about taking over your region. You got to region, possess the land possess, the land possess the land. If it's your mind, if it's your peace, if it's your body, if it's your health, if it's cancer, whatever it is, possess the land claim, it lay hands on yourself and tell them get out of my territory, I'm bought with the price.

I got a deed of trust, I'm covered by the blood of the lamb glory to god. He's already, given me the earnest of the Holy Spirit, my body belongs to god. My whole body belongs to god my mind belongs to god. My legs belong to god. My head belongs to god.

Who am I preaching to I'm preaching to somebody right now me give you this little of study go to Matthew, 12 22 for just a minute. I want to back it all up with bible, so you know this yeah yeah, Matthew, 12 22-28. I want to give you this. This is good. This is good, see it's good, because you've been thinking, you're, weak or meek or defeated or fail.

You don't understand that brigades of demonic powers have been dispatched against your house against your health against your finances, you're, not fighting, no one, little spirit, you're, fighting brigades of marching forces trying to tear you down trying to defeat you trying to destroy you trying to render you helpless, but touch somebody and say the devil is a liar. The devil is a liar. The devil is a liar. The devil is a liar type. It is on the line.

The devil is a liar type. It is on the line. The devil is a liar put it in the comments. The devil is a liar. You can't have my house, you can't have my son, you can't have my child, you can't have my daughter, you can't have my marriage, you can't have my people watch this Matthew, 12 22 then was brought unto him one possessed with the devil blind and dumb, and he healed him in so much that the blind and the dumb, both spake and saw, and all the people were amazed and said, is not this, the son of David, but when the pharisees heard it they said this fellow does not cast out devils but by bias above the prince of the devils, and this is what I love about this and Jesus knew their thoughts.

Has god ever let you know somebody's thoughts, they didn't say anything, but you could just tell sometimes god will let you know. Somebody saw the bible say that Jesus knew their thoughts and said unto them every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand, and if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself. How, then, shall his kingdom stand? You fight the kingdom. The kingdoms are in conflict, the kingdoms are in conflict. That's why you're coming to get word.

That's why you're coming to get word, because when you walk out of here, you got an onslaught and a pact, a warfare that you got to fight through. You got to fight your head through, we got nice little veins, for it now insecurities all kind of little stuff. We call it psychological terror. Sometimes it's not psychological. Sometimes it's just outright demonic, and you got to rebuke it in the name of Jesus, and sometimes we got to go back to acting like our grandmothers and anointing, our babies with oil and covering with the blood of Jesus and walking through the oh walking through the house, groaning and moaning in the spirit and get some of this frustration out of you.

You've been through 400 days of trauma. You can't just put makeup on top of that. Furthermore, you got to get in the spirit and start wailing and get that out of your belly and out of your spirit, get that poison out of you. Get it out, get it out, get it out, get it out! Somebody open your mouth and Holley. Somebody help me: oh I'MMA, get it out, I'm going to get it out, I'm going to get it out.

Until I get my sleep back, I'm going to get it out until I get my piece back, I'm going to get it out until I get my joy back, I'm going to get it out until I get minority back somebody claps their hands and praise the lord come on. Give me more monitor, come on give god a praise. Come on, give god a praise come on, give god a praise come on, give god a praise come on, give god a praise come on, give god a praise come on, give god a praise come on, give god a praise come on, give god a praise come on, give god a praise come on, give god a prayer. I have to get it out. I have to get it out.

Furthermore, I have to get it out. Furthermore, I have to get it out. Furthermore, I have to get it out. Furthermore, I have to get it out. Furthermore, I have to get it out.

Furthermore, I have to get it out. Furthermore, I have to get it out. Furthermore, I ain't. Having no stroke, I ain't having no seizure, I ain't have no heart attack. I have to get this out of me open your mouth and holler like sit down.

I want you to understand what you're up against. Furthermore, I was doing some research on witches, Wicca and pagans witches, Wicca and pagans some modern day. Research, though that that is sparse. What we do know is that the practice of witchcraft has seen major growth in recent decades as the which aesthetic has risen. So has the number of people who identify as witches the best source of the data on the number of witches in the United States comes from assessment of the Wicca population.

Not all people who practice witchcraft consider themselves Wicca, but the religion makes up a significant subset, as Alden wicker noted, for courts in 2016. So while we've been shouting and while we've been dancing and why we've been praising god and while we've been frying chicken, the witches have been having revival, I said the witches have been having revival. The Wicca are coming out as an organized religion, a subset of witchcraft, as Satan's kingdom is trying to take over territory he's taking over cities. He's taking over regions, he's even taken over churches hallelujah, but the bible said when the enemy comes in, like a flood, the spirit of the lord will lift a standing against it. Hallelujah to god.

God wants your house to be a standard against the devil. So when the witch tries to hex the neighborhood, she said, there's one house, I can't get the curse to work on. It seems like something is stopping it, because the spirit of the lord has lifted a standing against him. Somebody screamed not my house, so Jesus is anointed for the altercation look at somebody say: I'm anointed for this elbow somebody tells them. I'm anointed for this I'm anointed to raise this child, I'm anointed to build this church, I'm anointed to start this business, I'm anointed to be this boy's father, I'm anointed to be married to this man.

I'm anointed for this! Stop telling me! If I was you I wouldn't take it. You ain't me you're, not anointed. To be me, I'm anointed to be me. I can take stuff you can't take. I can deal with stuff you can't deal with.

Furthermore, I can fight you can't fight because I'm annoying it all the anointed people hollering at your boy, I'm almost trying to sit with me. Furthermore, I'm going a little further, so they brought Jesus out to the wilderness. They said you're anointed in the water, but can you be anointed in the wilderness sometimes Satan will change locations to see if the holy ghost will work on your job to see if it'll work, if their ain't no organ, if there's no tambourine, if there's no choir, if there's no praise dancer, but I want the devil to know this holy ghost, I got, will work in my car it'll work in my front yard. It'll work in my backyard on the lawnmower anytime. I call on the name of Jesus hell better back up out of my way cause.

I got the anointing for the altercation. Somebody anointed give me three seconds of praise. I'm about to go somewhere, I'm about to go somewhere, I'm about to go somewhere, I'm about to go somewhere, I'm about to go somewhere. Are you going with me? Let somebody say: let's go: are there any realtors in here? If there's any real, just wave at me, wave at me, realtors we're going to need your help because we're getting ready to take some titles and some deeds of trust and take some territory that the enemy has stolen. We're getting ready to take it back.

There's about to be a transference of deeds. There's about to be a breakthrough! Hallelujah glory to god. I feel the power of the holy ghost in its place, glory to god, I'm about to snatch my stuff right snatch. My family bite snatches my future back snatch. My prophecy backstretch my power back.

I don't have to be in the Jordan to be annoying that I can be anointed in the wilderness. So for 40 days he went without food 40 days without food will make you weak in the body, but there's a difference core between being weak in the body and weak in the spirit 40 days without food will make you weak in the body, but he wasn't weak in the spirit and the enemy tempted him for 40 days and after the 40 days was over. He comes along, and the bible says he saw. Jesus was hungry, so he said: if thou be the son of god, turn this stone into bread, and then he said, Satan took him up on a pinnacle and showed him all the kingdoms of this world, and he said all of this. Will I give you if you bow down and worship me, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah? If you just bow down and worship me I'll turn it over to you, and then he took him up to the top of the temple and said thrust yourself off this temple, for it is written, the angels will give charge over thee.

Now everything the bread to be hungry is not a sin. So how could you tip me with something? That's not a sin. The temptation wasn't the need. The temptation was how you go about satisfying the need. You're not wrong, to be hungry, but you got to be careful how you fix it.

Oh, you all, don't hear what I'm saying, you all don't hear what I'm saying to you. You are built to be hungry, there's no stand in being hungry, but Satan will try to get you to take a shortcut to satisfy a legitimate need. It is in essence, a legitimate need satisfied in an illegitimate way. Satan showed him all the kingdoms of the world showed him. The word emphasis should not be on the kingdoms of this world.

It should be shown him because it's the lust of the eye, and he showed him all the kingdoms of this world in the flesh. Have you thought about what that would look like to show him, Asia and Japan and Russia and Germany, and all the different countries in Africa and all the different language? And he did it all in a flash all over Europe and Norway and Belgium, and the Antarctica and Australia all the kingdoms of the kingdoms of the world? He showed it to him in a flash and said I'll give it to you. All you got to do. Is worship me legitimately that you would that it belongs to me, because the kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our god and of his Christ, but for me to have to worship you to get it? That is the temptation and by the way, why would you tip me to turn a stone? The bread when I am the bread of life cast yourself down off of this pinnacle for his written angels, will bear you up, in other words, show how tough you are, and it was written that the angels would bear him up, but it was not written for him to do things to tempt god. That's why this is my just my conviction.

You can have whatever conviction you want feel free to do whatever you want to do. You have to take peroxide, you can eat the container that the toothpaste comes in? If that's what you want to do, you do whatever you feel there to do, but it is my conviction that if I can do something that will protect me from the virus- yes, god can heal me, but just because god's a healer doesn't mean that I should tempt him come on. It does not mean that I should have to tempt him in order to do what he does, but this was the pride of life you're too important to get sick, you're too important. The angels will come down and get you. Jesus did not need Satan to lose the angels to bear him up.

Seeing as Jesus was the captain of the host, and he could have called ten thousand angels on the cross, he did not need Satan to lift him up. But here is the mystery. We have learned a trick. Satan only got three tricks: the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye and the pride of life. That's all he got.

If you pass him three things, you got an the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye and the pride of life. If you can bypass what your flesh is craving for the lust of the flesh and how you go about satisfying it, that's the temptation, the lust of the flesh, the lust of what you see have you ever had god bless you, and you are afraid to show people have you ever had a dress, and you were scared to wear it because you wondered: could they handle it? Have you ever had a house- and you didn't want to invite people over, because you weren't sure how they were going to feel about it, for some people, exposure makes them better for other people? Exposure makes them bitter when Satan has got a stronghold on you. The lust of the eye stops you from rejoicing with those that do rejoice. It's its. What haters are made out of.

They can't rejoice with you, because when they look at that they say they they they got a hatred about it, the lust of the lust of the eye. That's why? God can't show you anything because, instead of learning from it, you lust after if it's easier for you to lust after taking it than it is to learn how to acquire it. All Satan has in the world it's the lust of the flesh, the lust of the high the pride of life. I'm going to show it to you real, quick, and then I'm going to close genesis, three verse six and don't even turn to it. I'm going to read it to you and when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, oh that it was good for food, that's the lust of the flesh and that it was pleasant to the eyes, that's the lust of the eye and that it's desires to make one wise.

That's the pride of life, the same tricks he used on eve he's using on Jesus he's using on you. All you got to do is whip those three, and you got to be the lust of the flesh, the lust of the high and the pride of life. Am I important? Am I important you know you like to be important? Am I important the pride of life? God hates pride above all of them, because the pride of life will bring you down. Sometimes you need to be overlooked. Sometimes you need to be ignored.

Some of you have a syndrome where you need to be seen all the time. Sometimes you need to be ignored because god is killing out that pride of life. See me, look at me, come get me salvage me. The angels will come get me. The family will.

Forgive me, I'm too important. I can do something stupid, and the angels will catch me. Oh, you all got quiet the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye and the pride of life that the bible says. That is all that is in the world. John 2 15 through 17 says that is all that is in the world.

You know how the old folks used to tell us don't be like the world come out from the world and be safe, that's worldliness, earrings was worldliness, wearing pants was worldliness. Wearing makeup was worldliness a man having long hair was whirling it all of that was world, and it was worldliness because they couldn't read good. Let me tell you: what's worldliness the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye and the pride of life, and you can have them with earrings and with makeup and with pants on and wear shorts, and you can go swimming together, and you can still be full of lust in a long dress down to your ankles and be lustful dress on fire just on fire. All the way down to your angle, dress smell, like smoke, lust of the flesh lust of the eye yeah. I said it.

I meant it I'm here to represent it the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, glory that god, thank you. Jesus and the pride of life ain't, nothing more prideful than the old church were with their big hats and their high seats and everybody had to look up, and everybody had to acknowledge you every time they got up. They could give an honor to the bishop. We said it 20 times, and we still got to say it again. What is more, prideful than church folk, the devil is wreaking havoc in the house of god, but I bind that spirit in the name of Jesus.

I bind that spirit in the name of Jesus. I bind that spirit in the name of Jesus. Furthermore, I bind that spirit in the name of Jesus nudge. Three people tell them. I got a devil to fight.

I got a devil to fight. Furthermore, I got a devil to fight, I got a devil to fight, he's been studying me, and I've been studying him, and I'm anointed for the altercation, I'm anointed to fight the good fight, afraid I'm anointed to get the breakthrough. You might have defeated a lot of people, but you're not going to defeat me. A thousand shall fall at my right side. Ten thousand shall fall at my left side.

It shall not not come nigh me. It shall not come nigh me you all scared to say it. Furthermore, it shall not come nigh. Me say it again. It shall not come said.

Like you mean it shake your face at the devil's heads, I'm anointed to fight off everything, you tried to sin to kill me. Look at me, I'm 64 years old. I started preaching when I was 19. They said I wouldn't last but two weeks I was scared. They might be right, but I kept on fighting nineteen turned to twenty-twenty ten to twenty-two twenty-two turned to twenty-four: twenty-four turned to twenty-eight twenty-eight turned to 32 32 turned to 38 38 turned to fighting uh, touching myself.

Still in the fight, 42 turned to 46 46 turned to 50, tell your neighbor, I'm still fighting now, 54 turns to 58 58 turns to 60 60 turns to 61.61 turns to 62 63 turns to 64. Slap, your name and say I'm still in the fight, I'm anointed for this fight, I'm anointed for this altercation, I'm anointed for this battle, god wouldn't send Jesus in the wilderness till he anointed him in the Jordan and god won't send you into the battle until he anoints you. That's why you can't sit up in church with your lips glued together. Looking all cute, but you have to, open your mouth and receive the anointing, the anointing, the anointing, the anointing. The anointing you get on Sunday is preparing you for Monday, the anointing you're getting right.

Now it's preparing you for what you got to deal with when you're really anointed it'll fall off. You like water off a duck's back when you're really anointed. The witch cannot hit you when you're really anointed. The wicked cannot do you in. I feel the anointing of the holy ghost somebody in this room.

Some folk have been trying to do everything they could to curse everything you did, but the reason you're still here is that you were anointed for the altercation and all god wants you to do is learn how to give him the praise you didn't get here by yourself. You didn't stay here by yourself. You didn't do this by yourself. Furthermore, you didn't survive by yourself if it weren't for the anointing, you would have lost your mind if it weren't for the anointing, you would have thrown in the towel if it weren't for the anointing you'd have been in jail if it weren't for the anointing you'd have had a needle in your heart. I want some anointed folk to start praising god for the power for the power you shall have power.

After that, the holy ghost has come upon you, you shall have power, I decree and declare power over your life. I decree and declare power over your finances. I decree and declare power over your emotions. Furthermore, I decree and declare power in your family power over your business power over your you all ain't, receiving nothing. Furthermore, I decree and declare all over your house power over your dream.

How old are your vision, I decree and declare no weapon formed against. You shall be able to prosper. I decree and declare your joy will be full. I decree and declare you shall be the head and not the tail above and not beneath. Furthermore, I decree and declare every tactic that he'll sit against you not sitting back.

Furthermore, I sent it back. Furthermore, I sent it back in the name of Jesus and decree and declare your latter-day shall be greater than your former family. Furthermore, I decree and declare you go in better than you started. Furthermore, I decree and declare a breakthrough is coming your way. Furthermore, I decree and declare you shall win, you shall win, you shall not be defeated.

You shall not give up. You shall not give out. Furthermore, you shall not faith and dare you open your mouth and praise your god like you lost, I just need a hundred people that'll jump out in the air up unto the anointing of the holy ghost and fight that devil. Out of your, I feel the victory. Yes, yes, you don't know it, but you're dancing on rattlesnakes you're dancing on serpents you're, dancing on Saturday, you're dancing on evil, you're dancing on fear, you're dancing on the feet.

You shall not die but live and declare the works of the lord. You ain't seen nothing yet. The best is yet to come, open your mouth and give god. I dare you to praise him. I dare you to praise him.

Praise him, like you're, a child of the king, praise him like you're, a son of god, praise him like the anointing, is on your head praise him like you've, been in the Jordan. Let everything's in a half victory, victory! We got it history, we got it. Victory now get out of my mind. I can't hear you victory. This is spiritual warfare.

This is not AMC. This is not a movie. This is a fight. When I say praise him, you praise him. We are in a spiritual warfare, now sing it again and everything in here.

Everything in here needs to go in the wall victory. We got it. What I declare war, nothing. I love nothing in my house. Nothing on my property.

Come on! Take your territory. I got the victory. Gonna work, it ain't, gonna work when you get to the seventh person, just go into praise it. Ain't going to work. It ain't, gonna work! It ain't, gonna work when you get to number seven, just go into a praise and watch the curse.

Watch the curse, watch, the curse, watch, the curse, break, watch, the curse, break, watch, the curse, break, watch, the curse, break, watch the curse, wait, watch the curse, free wow. We got the victory in front of your computer in front of your laptop on your telephone. Give me praise. I break the yoke of playing it. I break every chain: every handcuff, every prisoner, every depression, every confusion, every turbo, I break the foreclosure in the name of Jesus flip your hands, I'm anointed for the altercation.

That doesn't mean it's always pleasant. That doesn't mean I'm not hungry. That doesn't mean I'm not tired. That doesn't mean I don't feel pain. That doesn't mean it doesn't get tough, but I'm anointed.

And when it's all said and done, I'm going to win this fight. I'm going to win this fight. I want you to get that in your spirit. When it's all said and done, I'm going to win this fight, and it is a fight, and I'm not going to sit back in a rocking chair and let the enemy slap, my teeth out. The devil is alive.

I'm going to get some licks in I'm going to get some oh yeah, I'm going to get some licks in you. Ain't just going to get to go bragging about what all you did, and I didn't do nothing back. I'm going to get some Dixie. Is there anybody anointed in here? I said it say anybody anointed in here all in your house, all in your living room. All in your kitchen open your mouth.

I don't care, you look crazy right, Jesus us when we call on Jesus us Jesus, surely the anointing of the lord is in this place. Surely the anointing of the lord is in this place? Surely the anointing of the lord is in this place? Surely they're the anointing of the lord in this place? You.

Source : T.D. Jakes