100426 Storming the Gates of Our Enemy

October 5, 2026

Storming the Gates of Our Enemy

Keywords

Lion Judah, Prepare way, Face gate, Storm gates, David mistakes, King David, Secure borders, Reclaim territory, Stand strong, Faith standing, Divine healing, Surrender all, Spiritual warfare, Take possession, God's presence

 

Judah team   Sang: Prepare the way,

Sonja 

Father, in the name of Jesus, I thank you, God, for who you are. I thank you, Father, that you are the great I am, and Father, every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that you are Lord. And Father, I thank you for the fire that blows from Judah's mouth, Father, literally burning up the pathway of the enemy. Father, I thank you that the fire of God consumes the enemy and refines us, Father, that our light may shine brighter in darkness. Father, I thank you for the release, a release, a release, in Jesus' name,

 

Judah Team Sonja 

You are the lion of the tribe of Judah, and fire comes from your mouth, holy fire. You are the lion of the tribe of Judah. The gates are open wide. Won't you step inside? The gates are open wide. Step on inside. Oh, thank you, Jesus. Step in, step in, step in, step in. Arise, arise, arise. Step in, step in, step in. The gates are open wide. The gates are open wide. Come on inside, inside, inside.

 

Ruth Ann 

So I hear the Lord say, "Walk up and face your gate. Walk up. He's going to walk with you, and he's going to start kicking it down with you. He says, "Walk up and face it. Whatever you're facing, he says, walk up. Don't walk away from it. Don't walk away from it. I remember, and God just brought this to my mind when I taught the book of Absalom. When I book, I wrote a workbook on Absalom, and I went through and I taught every one of David's mistakes he made with Absalom. Every mistake I pointed it out, and then I came back and pointed out how he overcame the mistake. Now, in Second Samuel, you start with chapter 15, and you keep going all the way down to verses 31. Okay, so what happens here is that, news comes to David that the people's hearts have turned against David, and they've gone to Absalom. And not only that, so his adviser-I can't pronounce his advisor's name, but his adviser also started advising Absalom. And what does David do? He packs up his family and runs. He said, "We're leaving the temple. We're going. This is a huge mistake of David. Huge mistake. He said, "You know, verse 14. He says, 'Arise and let us flee.'" For we shall not escape from Absalom. Listen to his mouth, man after God's own heart. Listen to his mouth. He just said he can't escape from his own son. Wow, then he crosses the Kidron Brook, and they even say, "David, come take the ark with us. And David said, "I'm not taking the ark. He left the ark in the castle. He left the ark. He left the ark of God. I'd have taken that ark, folks. He said, "God come with us, but He left it there. And what did He do? You get to verse 30, and David went up by the Mount of Olives and wept, and he had his head covered, and he went barefoot. And go to verse 31, and one told David, saying, "Your advisers among the conspirators. And then David said, "Okay, I can't take it any longer. When he found that out, and he prayed, he turned around and he started praying. Where he'd been running, where he'd been weeping, where he'd been saying, "Oh, Absalom's going to overtake me. He put the words out there. He said in Scripture, Absalom was going to overtake him, and then he turns around and says, "God, I can't take my counselor counseling Absalom. Let him give foolish advice. He got angry enough. He prayed a prayer, and God answered it. And the counselor gave Absalom foolish advice, and Absalom became defeated after that. Just one simple prayer. One simple prayer. I'm going back. God, let them have foolish advice. Wow, wow! That turned the whole thing, and David loads up and goes back and takes his place. So, Father, we come and we look at our gate. We look at our gate, whatever our gate is, whatever the gate of hell has got there for us, we look at it, and you're here, and you're here with us. I've heard you walking in this room this morning. I heard you walking through here. It was your footsteps, Lord Jesus, and you said, "Look at that gate, and I'll start kicking it down with you. David got mad enough when he heard his counsel betrayed him. He quit being sorry for himself, and he prayed one prayer that turned the whole battle at the gates.{ Sonja blew the SHOFAR]

 

Judah Team Sheila 

Coming for you, coming for you. Nothing can stop us. God is on our side. No more running, no backing up. Storming the gates. Storm in the gates, storming the gates of the enemy.

 

Judah Team Sonja   

Storm in the gates of the enemy, watch out, devil, or you're about to see the churches are rising, taking their stand, walking through the gates, taking the land.

 

Ruth Ann   

So I remember years ago we built a gate right here. We needed 100 something thousand, didn't have it. We stood right here and we took on Leviathan and all the witchcraft and everything that comes with Leviathan. We stood right here and we pulled it down and we faced it and we took that battering ram and we went through that gate. Next day, next day, not a year. Next day, money came through. Next day, we had no hope, but we had hope when we faced the gate, and we took that gate out. But we faced everything that was in front of that gate. We faced it. We called it out. We faced it, and we took it out, and it came down. We did it so good. Darrell told us to go back and do it a second time, and we did, and we own a piece of property totally paid for. We went after Satan. We did not let him keep us. We went after him that day. Let me say it again. I said we went after Satan. We went after him. That's what storming the gate is. We went after him. We faced every guard he put at the gate. You always face a Leviathan when you're going through a gate always, and we took out Leviathan and went over the gate.

 

Sonja   

Well, you know that's interesting because when I came up here and we started praising and you know and everything, I saw a gate. I saw the gate, and at the bottom of the gate across the threshold was a snake. Wow! I saw it. Wow! And I was like, "Lord, why am I seeing a snake? And now you just explained it.

 

Judah Team Sheila          Wow. So is it still there?

Sonja   

Yeah, I saw it. I mean, I saw it. I didn't, you know. I was like, okay. At first, what came to me is I need that sword back there to do a prophetic act that's hanging on the wall. Yeah, I saw that sword and doing a prophetic act and cutting that head off and removing the snake and stepping over the threshold into the gate, into it.

 

Rakha 

So when you were talking about. fleeing from fleeing from the gate, so yesterday somebody asked me. They said, "Well, if you are a Mississippi Choctaw, how did your people survive? And I said, "We fled. We fled into the swamps. And for a minute there, I felt shame, and I was like, "No, no, no, no, no! Hold on, hold on. That's the enemy talking. Why does the enemy want me to feel shame, shameful for my ancestors retreating into the swamp? Because the swamp was their survival. That's how we survived. But what I saw later on was, because of that retreat, it was still in the land. The retreating of the people, the stepping back, stepping away. We weren't at the gate. We weren't protecting the gate. We were we were stepped back away from the gate. So heavenly Father, where my ancestors retreated, where we stepped away from the gate that you had established us to steward here, we come out of that, Heavenly Father. We repent for that, and Heavenly Father, we remove this out of the land. We remove it out of the atmosphere. And Heavenly Father, we remove it out of the DNA. We remove it out of the RNA. Whatever else a A is out there that needs to be removed from, we remove it out. And Heavenly Father, we stand. And whatever loss there may have been. Whatever loss you may have that is preventing you from charging into for storming your gate, it's time for you to. If you're crying over, if you're remorseful over that loss, you need to use that energy. Use those tears. Use that energy that you have to storm the gate. Storm the gate with your tears, and drop that loss. It's time to remove that loss. And when you storm that gate, he will dry your tears. When you storm that gate, the treasure is on the other side.

 

Sonja 

Okay, I'm gonna do something with this sword because I saw it, and I'm gonna take it personal for me and my family, and all the families out there that are going through things, because when you attack my family, whoa, devil, you better watch out. And it's like that with any child of God, with people being under attack with different things. So this gate is not just for me. I don't. I won't believe. I believe it's for many of us. So, Father, right now, in the name of Jesus, I stand at the gate with the sword, doing a prophetic act to cut the head off of this serpent that has attacked my family and my heritage, my inheritance. So, right now, in Jesus' name, I cut it off, and I pick the snake up, and I throw it into the fire of Holy Spirit. Father, we step over the threshold into Your glory, into Your treasures, into Your blessings. Father, in the spirit realm, and I thank you, Father God, for the ecclesia and for all those that have been suffering, Father, that have been under attack through their whatever attacks there are, and Father, I thank you that we step into glory, we step into your presence, we step in to what you have for now, Father, for what you want to do, that your plans and your purposes would be accomplished here on earth as it is in heaven, for the ecclesia, Father. Father, I speak to each and every child of God, Father, with the sound of my voice that's here and those that will listen and those that it will go into the spirit realm, Father, that it would go across this nation, Father, that they would rise up and take their position, and take their gates, take your gate in Jesus' name. Take your gate and go over the threshold, and whatever's stopping you, you stop it, and Father, I thank you that just as David faced Goliath, he didn't run. He didn't have that armor on. He took it off because it was too big for him. It didn't fit right. It wasn't his armor. Father, you've equipped us with our own armor with your word, and Father God, I thank you that we don't run from the battle; we face the giants. Father, we stand strong and we step over the threshold for this nation, for this land, for this region, for this county, for this city, Father, for our families. Father, I thank you right now for the blood of Jesus, Lord, and we set a boundary around us and around this place, around this ministry with the blood of Jesus that the enemy cannot cross. And Father, I decree blessings, Father. Even though, let me tell you something: we take back, we take back this season where the enemy has perverted it for witchcraft. In the name of Jesus, we take it back for God. In the name of Jesus, and Lord, we're not ,I'm not gonna just expect this to happen and expect that to happen because of the way it's always been in the past in the month of October, but Father, we're I'm gonna look at you and what you are doing, and not what the enemy's doing. And if he sticks his ugly head up, we'll cut his head off too. We just cut it off in Jesus' name. We take it back. We take back. Territory for the kingdom of God, which the enemy has perverted, and where wickedness has come in. Father, we take it back. I take it back for Jesus, Lord..

 

Sonja

And Father, I thank you that you are a redeemer, that everything that has been lost, Father, you give back. The enemy's got to get back what he stole seven times, sevenfold return in Jesus' name. Ha, Father, you are a God of redemption. You are God of healing and restoration, and Father, I thank you. Ha, ha! No, in Jesus' name. But we take back what the enemy has stolen in Jesus' name. You get what you settle for, people. That's what I'm hearing the Lord say. You get what you settle for, and if you settle for whatever is looks like in the natural, whatever handed to you, and you come in agreement with that, that's what you get. But the Lord says, "Don't settle, don't settle, because you'll become like sinking sand and get lost in the situation. But the Lord says, "You cannot settle for what the enemy has handed you. That's not God. Absolutely not God. And the Lord says it's time for you to rise up and take your position. Take possession of your own gate, and the Lord says, "Not every gate looks the same. Ha. You know, I think about President Trump and how it's all about securing our borders to keep the enemy out, and what's been going on in the with Hamas and different areas, and how the war and the fighting and the infiltration of the enemy and how God has used him stop a lot of things and a lot of things have happened, but it's securing the border, our borders in the natural for our land and for America, and it's the same thing in our own personal lives. We have to secure our borders, and sometimes that doesn't. You know, it looks different from some for some folks. But I hear the Lord say, "Secure your borders. Secure your borders.

 

Rakha 

And when you're talking about securing the borders, so what I see when we're storming the gates is I think I'm starting to understand where this is coming from and where this is going. So for the most part, what we have done is we have put the enemy in a border and put them put a gate right there and said, okay, enemy, you this is you, this is you right here in this box. This is your gate, and as Christians, we shouldn't have even done that. We should not have given them an inch to even have. So when we're storming those gates, what we're going in to doing is we're gonna push through that gate. And we're gonna reclaim that that area that we allowed Satan to roam in. Basically, you know, it was, for the lack of a better word, you know, that was that was the area that, I mean, they we allowed the enemy to have that area, but as Christians, we're going to take it back. So whatever, and I'm just putting this out there, especially for Philadelphia, Mississippi, Neshoba County, the state of Mississippi. I'll even go regional and national. Whatever you are, enemy, we're gonna find you. We're storming the gates. We're gonna kick you out of that boundary that you once ruled and reigned over. As Christians, we are coming in. We are taking back what is ours. We're going to be the equivalent of ICE for the Lord.

 

Ruth Ann 

I just like the thought of being ICE. And come on, and remember, this is what we talked about earlier. Second Samuel chapter 15. David said, "David said, arise and let's flee. Arise and let's go. He said it out of his own mouth. He let the enemy in the door. Y'all see what I'm saying, even though something happened, he said, "Arise, for we shall not escape from Absalom. He's the one that said it. God didn't say it. It's just like Job in the conversation with his three, two friends, three friends. I had to count his friends sitting around. Okay, they had that conversation, and God said, "I can't move as long as y'all talking like this guy, he did. What did he say to Job? I put it in Southern English. As long as you're talking to these folks, I can't do nothing for you. Pray for them. Get up, dust yourself off, and get away from their thought pattern. Isn't that what he said? Come on, I've taught it in detail. I know this stuff, and David wouldn't even take the ark to Jerusalem back with him. He wouldn't take the ark with him. He left God sitting there. Come on, that's bad.

 

Ruth Ann 

He was mad. He was feeling all pity party. He took on a victim spirit. Can you see that? You want me to tell you what gifting he is? Redemptive gift, mercy. He went victimization. So, what happens then? Finally, when they tell him his own counselors turned away, he finally gets enough gumption in him to say, "Let him give foolish advice. That's all he did, and God answered it, and it turned the whole gate. So sometimes we don't, we can't figure out how Satan got in. We let him roam in our place, and we have to tell him to get out. I like what you said, Rakha. I like being ICE against the enemy and putting them out of the border.

 

Judah team 

Sang : Revelation19 

 

Sonja   

You know when we got started this morning, Ruthann was praying and she was talking to the Lord, and she said, "I heard you, Jesus, when you walked in here. I heard your footsteps walk in here, so He's here. So whatever you have need of, whatever you need Jesus to do, He's right here. And I'm telling you,

 

Judah Team Sonja 

One touch from the Lord, one touch from the Lord, just one touch from the Lord, just one touch from the Lord, and things will change and rearrange. One touch from the Lord. He's looking at your heart. He's looking at your heart. So whatever you have need of, Just ask Him. Thank you, Lord.

 

Ruth Ann 

Some of us just need to surrender to let him touch us. You know, we sit around and say he's going to touch somebody else, and we need to get that. We need to get that attitude gone and let him touch us. Just one touch, and just let him come and let him take away, take away everything you're carrying, and just let him heal. Just let him heal.

 

 

Judah Team Sheila 

Going deep, going deep, deeper. Let him go deep. Let him go deeper. It's deeper than you think. Surrender all. Surrender all.

 

Ruth Ann 

Just put yourself on the altar and just let him heal you in a different way. Let him heal you deep, both emotional, physical. That is an attitude.

 

Judah Team Sheila   

Lay that last piece of paper down. That thing you're holding on to, gripping in your fist. Lay it down. Lay it down. Lay it down, give it to Him. It really only works when you give it all to Him. Give it all to Him. Surrender all. Surrender all. to Jesus, to Jesus, to Jesus.

 

Ruth Ann   

Deeper and deeper. Let him go deep . Let him take all the attitudes. People tell me I have an attitude. I always say I don't.

 

Sonja 

You know, one of the things that we've talked about when we're coming up to the gate is standing, and something happened. I'm gonna testify. You know, you just testify and you just do it because you overcome, and it just makes the devil mad. But I had something happen to me a couple of days ago. I was carried on a conversation with somebody and listening. Something just rose up. I can't say it rose up in me. It came from me, from my spirit, where there was just a calmness and just a firmness in me. And I'm standing up here, and you're reflecting back over it. And the Lord says, "Share that, because that's what standing is, where you're immovable, unshakable, or that you know something. Now, your emotions might tell you one thing, okay? Because I mean, I know that, but I know one thing: when you know that you know that you know that you know that you know that you know that you know, and there's just this standing on the inside, it doesn't matter what it looks like on the outside. It doesn't matter. It doesn't. I mean, I'm not saying those things don't exist, but I'm telling you, and I'm standing up here, and the Lord said, "That's standing. That's standing in your faith, because the Bible says without faith it's impossible to please God, and it's faith that pleases God, and it's faith that moves His hand to create and to move on your behalf. But the Lord spoke to me a while ago, and He said, "That's standing in your faith, standing. 

 

Judah Team Sheila 

We gotta stand. Everybody, stand up! Stand up! Gotta stand. Gotta stand. Gotta stand with Jesus.

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He said it would be time for these families to possess the gates of their enemies. You realize what holding the gate of my enemy is? That means they can't come do nothing to me. That's huge. Do you realize what holding or possessing the gate of my enemy is? They can't come through to me. They can't bring nothing into my turf. If I keep, if I hold their gate, they my enemy, Satan or whoever, can't come through. That's huge. Okay, but there was a part that just went with what Rakha said. And it says 2027, the church will go beyond conventional boundaries. The true church will emerge in 2027. I want you to hear that again. The church will emerge far beyond its conventional boundaries. The true church will emerge. That's where you pull up, and they jump in. Medical breakthroughs. He said diseases connected with brain problems won't no longer exist. Ruth Ann This is just some of it, but it's really worth. Just to see what he saw. So, Father, we thank you. We thank you for the good. 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Storms, storms are on the horizon. Storms are on the horizon. God of the storm, the God of the storm, we agree. [Santi blew Shofar] Ruth Ann The Lord says, "There's some you see now you won't see no more. There's some you see now you won't see no more. He says, "I'm changing leadership in the world. I'm shaking. I'm shaking, and let me shake. He said, "Church, shake with me. I'm shaking the church. I'm shaking you deep. Shake with me as I shake the world. Don't isolate in your walls. He said, "Shake with me as I shake the world. I'm settling disputes in the world. I'm settling disputes in the church. He said, "Shake with me. He says, "I'll break your walls down because I'm breaking them down." He says there's leaders that think they cannot be moved, but I will move them. He says there's people in every position, even in the church, that think they cannot be moved, but I will move them. He said, shake with me, and he'll shake out on top. Judah team Sang "Help is on the Way" Rakha I'll just bear witness to that because before that song, when I was tapping, what I heard was I was tapping to the raindrops, and I heard the flood is coming. Jesus is coming as a flood. Ruth Ann So that's what we got to look at. Help is on the way. We can't come back and get all caught up in everything else. And when I tell you that, and when I say that I'm a longtime warrior for the Lord, okay, I've been warring for the Lord for years, and when I say you can't spend your time looking at the problem, you have to look at Jesus. I'm not taking away, not standing your ground. I'm not taking those things away, but we have to look at Him and where He is, and we cannot get caught up in, in the other. We have to look at, and we were yesterday where we were. I know I made the statement: is that what you have to do when God gives you an assignment and says you're going to overcome this. You look at every step of overcoming along the way. Your focus is okay. It may be one thing He moved today for you, but that's your focus. I'm looking at that. I am not looking at problems. Okay, and I do see the darkness, but I know the darkness is there. So I'm looking at the darkness, far as what to take out next, not what to focus on next. So basically, I've got to refocus myself. Okay, and that's a big, big thing to do is refocus myself because we're so used to looking at the big problem that we spend our time always focused on problems, right? And you could say when you've got to when you refocus yourself, you've got to refocus to say, okay, I saw this move today. I saw this move. Is everybody good with me? So I'm focusing on the victories I'm seeing because it makes me magnify that instead of the problem. Do y'all get what I'm saying? So as I look at the victory, I'm looking at what I'm overcoming, which is goes right along with tabernacles. Ruth Ann So welcome to tabernacles. Okay, here we are at tabernacles. It's always fun to be at tabernacles because we get to build a booth and we have a booth in the church, and we get to do all of those fun things that's unusual. See, tabernacles comes now. This is what I believe from all of my studies, but God put it right here. He brings us to His New Year. Okay, then immediately what He does instead of going out and having a party, you know, like people go party on New Year's. Okay, instead of having a party, he brings us immediately into the 10 days of awe, going back over everything that we need to repent for, and then he takes us immediately into Yom Kippur, which is the holiest day of repentance of the year. So instead of us starting our New Year's with a party, we start our New Year's with getting right with God. We start cleaning up everything, making sure everything is in order for us to come to Tabernacles and the Promise. Okay, so let's get it taken care of. This is the way I've always believed he meant it. Let's get it taken care of. Let's get everything that is holding us back out of the way, so that we can focus on you moving in the promise. See, God is always about promise. He doesn't, you know, the children of Israel. He says, "I'm going to give you the land, and we've studied this so many times. I'm gonna give you this land flowing with milk and honey. It's going to be this good land, right? But don't look at the giants. Okay, look at me and look at what I'm promised you. Don't look at the giants. So we're gonna move from promise to presence. Here's the promise. Let's move it to the presence, from delay to harvest, and from weariness to the sword. I didn't say from weariness to doing nothing, from weariness to a sword, because your sword is your word. Your sword is moving the enemy out of the way. So this is where we are. We're in tabernacles. So God dwells in the middle of your promise, is he in the middle of it? Ruth Ann See, sometimes I need to say, "Okay, God, is what I'm striving for something you're not in the middle of. Fair enough. You know, He's brought me to Yom Kippur before, and He's, you know, got me into the middle of repentance, and I'm repenting, and I think we're doing so good. And then he suddenly brings up something I don't want to repent for. Yeah, come on, I might be the only one that ever happened to. Okay, so we get. I remember it. I have never forgotten that Yan Kapoor, because right in the middle of all of the repentance, he brings up something I don't want to repent for. And he said, "Will you put that before me? It's your idol. That's your idol over me, because you're holding on to that. Okay, and I'm like, okay, God, it took me all 10 days to give it to him. Okay, everybody, good with me. Took me all 10 days to give it to him, but I finally gave it to him, and like, God. But every one of those days that I would give in a little more, I could see where it was me, not him. So he wants to get us to tabernacle. It's a point where you go get out your unfinished words. I want you to hear what I'm saying. Go get those words out. Go get your. Have you? How many of you have read over your prophetic words? How many of you listen to them, what's your promises? Go pull them out. It's a time to bring them into this season, and assignments that God has given you back under His government. See, we can take our assignments out from under His government because we get weary. What's He told you to do? Has he told you to go to a certain country for him? Has he told you to build something? What has he told you? Bring it back out. So delay does not mean denial. What do we do when a promise has not yet happened? We usually get weary. Some words are delayed, and they are opposed. I want you to hear that. You what you're doing can be opposed in the earth, okay? Misunderstood. See, one of the things I don't usually do is go share something immediately that God's told me to do, unless you know because you're going to get opposition or buried under disappointment. And I can add, maybe somebody stole your word. What do you mean, stole your word? They heard what you wanted to do, and they just decided they'd do it themselves and not support you. Yeah, that happens. You have claim jumpers in the body of Christ, but that doesn't mean God didn't have the promise for you, and you need to go pick up your part, your promise, and do it yourself. So a promise may be real, but our interpretation, our timing, and the method-we need to figure it out. A promise is real, but are we trying to push it ahead of what we need to walk through? Okay. Sometimes I got to say, God, what's my road of preparation for this promise? So Habakkuk 2:3, the vision is not yet for an appointed time, though it may tarry. Wait for it. This is King James. So basically, God says, when I give you the vision, it may not be yet, but you don't stop waiting for it. You don't stop going for it. Do you hear what I'm saying? You don't stop. Okay. And you know some people understand they have to keep the next vision in front of them to keep going forward. You know, if you ain't got something you're going after, you kind of give up. So Leviticus 23 commands Israel to dwell in booths, so that generations would remember how the Lord got them here. So what they do this time of the year is they build booths. Okay, why do they build booths? Because they're going to come together and they're going to enjoy festival, food, and all of this stuff. But they're going to remember how God got them there. How did they get here? What did they overcome? What has God fulfilled? What is God doing in the presence? What do you need to see finished? And they're going to gather the harvest. Ruth Ann Now you're gathering to remember how God got you here, and I heard Anthony Turner to say something that I've never forgotten. Okay, he's a black man. Love me anyway. When I say that, okay, when he said this, he said, "I know something, and I'm going to say it kind of as close as he said it. He said, "My ancestors overcame because I'm here. Y'all hear what he said? I know something. My ancestors overcame because I'm here. What did he understand? If his ancestors hadn't overcame, he wouldn't be here. Y'all get what you get what he's saying. So I'm not looking at the negative they overcame. I'm here and I can keep going positive. Does everybody get what I'm saying? I'm here, so there wasn't overcoming. So don't go back and say, "Oh, my family never did this or this or this. Look at what was overcome. Ruth Ann So prophetic revelation is like a puzzle. One person receives a piece, another person receives a piece, and the understanding builds over time with the picture. I want you to hear that it's like your puzzle. You're putting together a puzzle. Ask God to show me how the pieces fit together. Look, I have been fitting together prophetic words. Even in the last few days, my mind has been putting these pieces together. This prophet said this. This prophet said this. The third prophet said this, and this is how the puzzle fits together. I figured it out. Okay, so if I can do that, I'm not looking. If so, if a prophet speaks up, they're going to give me a piece to put in this puzzle board. If a prophet calls me out, they're going to give me a piece to put on my puzzle board. They may not tell me how I'm going to get there. That may be another piece from another prophet or God Himself. Do you get what I'm saying? I'm not trying to make you go just listen to people all the time, but I'm looking for the pieces of the puzzle, and I'm not trying just to hold on to one word. What's the next piece of the word? Ruth Ann So pick up the sword of the word again. So the written word must govern every prophetic word. That's it. The Bible has to govern every prophetic word. So nothing can replace Scripture. Okay, so the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God, Ephesians 6:17. So everything must be governed by God's Word. So three enemies that war against your voice. What are they in this season in tabernacles? Weariness. Isaiah 40:31. Why we keep praying? It's been such a battle. Weariness-that's your enemy. Weariness-you get tired of the battle. You get tired of waiting on the promise. You get tired of pushing through intimidation. So you just be quiet. Meaning, be quiet. You just quiet before the Lord too. You're just quiet in your intercession. You keep your mouth shut. That's 2 Timothy 1:7. Okay, and comparison. Someone else is already doing it. Ephesians 2:10. Well, this person did this, and it happened this way for this person, and this way for this person. So weariness, weariness, can hold me back. Intimidation can keep me even silent before God, and comparison can make me give up. So God restores the voice that waiting tries to silence. Do you hear what I'm saying? Waiting tries to make you quiet. Waiting wears you out. In comparison, waiting makes you compare. Waiting makes you weary. Am I right? So who's your big character here? Waiting. Waiting makes you be quiet. It makes you intimidated. I'm waiting. They got theirs. I'm waiting. They went forward. I'm waiting. They, and waiting makes you compare. Somebody else already got it, okay. Ruth Ann So I thought about this Excalibur, this sword in the stone thing, okay. And so, what's your sword in the stone? I actually read this on the Elijah list. So, what is it? There are assignments, calling, and purposes uniquely designed for your life, another person cannot carry your God given-assignment. They may snatch something, they may try it, but they can't do it as God assigned you to do it. You want me to say that one again? They can go snatch it. They can do something similar, but they can't produce what God put in you to produce. You with me? So draw your sword where your sword's been stuck, where you got mad, and you put your sword down. You know how you do that? Like you put your fist through a wall. Y'all hear what I'm saying? And you put your sword in a stone and you leave it there and you quit. That's just like you go stick your word of God down in the stone and say, "I'm finished. I'm tired. So go get what you put your word of God. Pull it out of the stone. And what did God? What you need to do today is say, "Tabernacles. What am I supposed to pick up and go forward with? Ruth Ann So, return to the cleft of the rock. I know. I know. I don't know what I thought about this, but one time I was praying, and I kept on saying to the Lord about something I was praying about. I said, Lord, I said, why can't I break through on that prayer? And He said, Well, they hid the answer to that in the cleft of the rock, but it's not my cleft; it's Satan's cleft. So the Lord is my rock, my fortress and deliverer, and is Psalms 18: 2, the Lord is my rock; He's my fortress, my deliverer. And the Bible often says, "Hide thyself in the I'm King James now in the cleft of the rock. Okay, so basically, Satan has his hiding places, but we're supposed to hide. God, so before I jump on my assignment or renew my assignment, I got to get back to God. I got to come in His presence, and I got to speak what I'm hearing from God. And before the sword is drawn, I got to be hidden in Him. See, most people say, "Oh, I can't go battle this, or I can't go battle that because, you can battle this or that as long as I'm hidden in Him. You hear what I'm saying? In other words, when I'm hidden in Him, Satan's not looking for me. I'm too hid. Y'all hear what I'm saying? So, review what your word is this season. What is it? What are you supposed to be doing? What is it you haven't done? Test it. Put your foot back in the water with it. Hold it, and find out what's good you're supposed to be doing. What's God told you? Does it agree with Scripture? He's not going to tell you to do anything that comes out of line with Scripture. That one's easy. Has God confirmed it more than once, and sometimes you may say, "God, I need another confirmation. Was there a condition or an instruction? Now, that's one of the most important things about a prophetic word that most people miss. They miss the conditions of the prophetic word. Okay, I've taught classes on that, and I brought people here to teach classes on that. What are the conditions of that prophetic word? In other words, for the word to be fulfilled, I have to meet the conditions of the word. If you will do this, then I will do this. If my people, who are called by my name, you get what I'm saying, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face. Do you get what I'm saying? And turn from their wicked way. That's all a condition. Does everybody get what I'm saying? It is a prophetic promise to each person of his from God. Okay, it is a huge prophetic promise, but it carries nothing but conditions. I do this to trigger the covenant to work for me. Is that making sense? This is where we miss God. Okay, this is where we miss. I don't get my conditions, and I don't do it right. Just love me anyways. Everybody good with that one? Love me lots on that one. But go back. Sometimes you say my prophetic word hadn't happened. What's your conditions? How did God word it to you? How was it brought back to you? I could spend hours on this one. I've had chalkboards set up right here and underline the conditions of the word. So now we know how to bring it to pass. Ruth Ann I've even heard prophetic words with conditions for our nation. When my people listen to these words, is so important. Okay, so despise not prophesying. Prove all things and hold fast to what's good. But God gives conditions. A contract or a covenant gives conditions, right? A contract says, or a covenant says, you fulfill your part, right? So basically, that's what we're in with God. We're in covenant. We're in contract. So you fulfill your part, and this is something we got to look for. What are the conditions of the prophetic word? So sometimes the promises is not the thing needing redemption. Okay, our relationship to our promise may just need healing. So disappointment can attach to a word. In other words, the word hadn't come, and you're disappointed. Fear can distort interpretation. Do you hear what I'm saying? And striving can produce an Ishmael. Can God heal the wounded place by waiting? Now, here's the thing about it: I've got to realize that I can be so disappointed. I'll put down my word. I will put down my promise. I will move away from what's promised, or fear can keep me from going where God wants me to be, or I can be living in Ishmael when I call. I think I'm living in Isaac. Sometimes I just need to say, God, where did I make an Ishmael? Look, God didn't make Ishmael. He accepted him. He gave him a promise. Okay, he didn't give him the promise of Isaac, though. Is everybody good with me? So basically, this is an Ishmael. This is something Abraham and Sarah produced. Okay, because they were going to fix everything. Now I know I'm being real straight on this. They were going to fix it. Okay, so what have we tried to fix? We got to think about the fixing. A prophetic seed may now be approaching harvest. So tabernacle is the feast of what's called in gathering. Prophetic words begin as a seed. So your word, when you're releasing a prophetic word, you're releasing a seed in the earth. It begins as a seed. Okay, now some seeds disappear before it emerges. See, I can throw one down. I could not take root. Okay, ask God to show the harvest you may have overlooked. That's why I say go back, pull out those whatever you have. You know we got all digital now. Get on that digital stuff and find what he said. Sometimes when I, folks, I do this now. When I want to know what's going on in our nation, I just start going through the digital libraries of what the prophets are saying, and you'll say, "Oh, but some prophets. But if you find the proven prophets, all you have to do is start following them down, and start putting and piecing together what they're saying, because each is planting a seed and telling us where the future is going. Ruth Ann So, during Tabernacles in John 7, Jesus stood up at tabernacles and cried, "Come unto me. So John anchors the whole teaching. The prophetic fulfillment is not by human strength; it flows by the Holy Spirit, because out of His belly shall flow rivers of living water. So God has had me many times take this one scripture, not by might, not by power, but it's by my spirit, and you know sometimes things get so tight you don't think you can overcome it. And I realized, okay, God, this can't be overcome by me, but it's not by might. Okay, but it's not by power, but it's by your spirit, Zechariah. Okay, it's by your spirit, Lord. Okay, it's not by might, it's not by power, but it's by my spirit that these things that are impossible to overcome are overcome. So I've got to do this. Ruth Ann I've got to realize that my living water is from Jesus Christ. My living water cannot come from the world. It cannot come from my friends' group. It cannot come from who I'm dependent on., that's a living water that's not good to drink. If my living water is dependent on now, just love me anyway. My living water has to come from Him first, above everybody else on Earth. My live water has to be in Him because if a human or an animal, because you can love your animals, okay, above our nation or whatever you do becomes your living water, it's a source that can stop. Do you understand what I'm saying? Anything, anything, man affiliated with can come to an end. Am I right? Then you have no more living water if the source stops. But if He's your water, if He's your main source, and then everything else is your source after that. You get what I'm saying. He's got to be the main living water. He's got to be what makes you get up every morning. He's got to be whatever gives you life every day. He's got to be the reason you do things and the why you do things. Ruth Ann So, what are we to do at Tabernacles? We're to remember what God has already done. Okay, what has He done? We got to review old words, dreams, and scriptures. This is your this week. This is seven days of tabernacle. We're already two days in. So review the old words, the dreams, and the scriptures. You've got to test everything by the word. What you're reviewing, what you're remembering, does it all line up with the word of God? Okay. So you take your sword, which is the word, and you look is everything lining up with this word, okay? So I'm good when it does. I've got to repent for fear, striving, and unbelief. Where did I strive? And I've got to release. I've got to release my timeline and my method of doing things, and I've got to say, God, I'll do it your way. I've heard, look, one of the things that kind of ups the well, it does it. It's like claws on a chalkboard to me when people say it is always in God's timing. I want to say, no, it happened when you finally got to where God needed you, you want me to say that one. I'll say that one one more time so you can think about it. Many people will say it was all in God's timing. I've studied the Word enough to I will say many times when I don't say it out loud. No, you finally got to the place God needed you to be for it happened, see what happened with Abraham and Sarah. Let's go back and talk about that a minute. When God told Sarah she was going to have a baby, what did she do? She laughed. She wasn't ready to carry that baby. She wasn't believing God could be her ultimate savior. She wasn't on top of it all. Does everybody get what I'm saying? What did God do? I'm waiting on you to get there. Are you hearing me? I want everybody to hear what I'm trying to say. Sarah, you laughed. You're not with me just now, okay. So what happens is sometimes it's not God's timing. He waited till we got ready. Okay, now He can use us wherever we are for whatever He called us to do. Ruth Ann So you're gonna have to release your timeline and your methods to God, and you got to realign with the next obedience. I'm going to realign myself here while I'm celebrating Tabernacles. I'm going to realign with what I need to obey. God is telling me to do realignment. I'm going to obey. Okay, God, I don't want to get up at 6o'clock in the morning and lead prayer downtown, but you know what? It looks good to go down there at 6o'clock now. Cause see, that would be hard for me. Are y'all good with what I'm saying? Okay. So basically, you just realign. You just realign your obedience to what he's telling you to do, and rejoice. This is the time to rejoice. That's what Tabernacles is about. Rejoice for what God is telling you to do. So He's faithful, and they were singing about it this morning. Okay. So it's time to pick up your sword again. What are you supposed to do? You will not allow delay to become unbelief. You will not allow the disappointment to become your theology. Oh, let me tell you what God brought me through. Have you heard those kind of testimonies, and what He's taken me through, and how bad it is now? Ruth Ann And I like help me. Okay, are you alive? Okay, so it's not bad. Is everybody good? You got a chance. Don't allow comparison to steal your assignment. Just because somebody else did it, you do what you're called to do, even if it's the same thing. Do it your way, your way. And I will draw my sword from the rock and declare His word with my faith, so where you put your sword down and you stuck it in some kind of rock, and you just let it stick there, you got to pick it up and go after it again. Okay, take all labels off, remove what you put on yourself, gather your pieces up, pick up your sword, and inner harvest. Ruth Ann So let God tabernacle in the middle of every promise. That's what this is all about. It's about putting God in the middle of the promise and letting Him be the tabernacle in the middle of every promise. So here we are, and this is definitely a time that the Lord has set aside because this is the time we're focusing on what He wants for all the sevens. Now, folks, this is pretty cool. We're already there. People are waiting and they're counting down for December 31. Okay, and they're counting down to enter all these sevens, but God's already entered His people that'll enter with Him into the sevens. That's pretty cool, right? Okay, so we can start and we can tabernacle now and say, okay, I'm going to go back to the slide where it says the seven tabernacle actions. I'm going to remember, okay, what God already did. I'm going to look at all the accomplishments He did. See, we might all just sit down one day and just say we're gathering together to talk about. That's what tabernacles is. We're gathering together to talk about. His greatness and what he did. Okay, then I'm going to review what I'm supposed to do. That's a pretty good big thing, right? I'm going to take a review. This is what I am supposed to do. Okay, and I'm going to test what I think I'm supposed to do, what I'm saying I'm supposed to do,. Is it line up with this word? Does it line up with Scripture? What does it line up with? And I'm going to repent. I'm going to repent for all the striving that I've ever attempted to do. Good time to repent for it, and I'm going to release my timetable. I'll do that next year. I'll put that off to then. I'm going to put my timetable apart, and I'm going to put my method on how I'm going to do it. That's hard for some people. Okay, and I'm going to realign. I'm going to realign, and I'm going to come under obedience to God. It's real important. And I'm going to rejoice, and I'm going to be in together, and I'm going to rejoice in who the Lord is. Ruth Ann So, we have communion in the Shokat out in the hallway, yeah, yay! So you can go yourself, or you can go and take your family and do communion together, which is so cool, right? Just bless your family. So, Father God, we thank you for Tabernacles, and we thank you, Father, that we can realign with you this week. We thank you, Father God, that we can rejoice with you, and we can bring Father God together. We can just come together with those that are like-minded with us in Tabernacle, Father God, and enjoy what you're doing, Father God, and we thank you, Father God, for this alignment of sevens. We thank you, Father God, for the richness of everything, Father God, and the blessing of everything, Father. And we thank you, Father God, that you always show up, especially when we show up for you. Judah team Sang: Help is on the Way.
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