[Music] go to second samuel chapter 5 verse 1-10 and stand to your feet if you would second samuel chapter 5 verse 1-10 and before we even read the word i want somebody who's got good lungs like you're hollering at your kids to shout pull it down [Applause] shout it again pull it down oh yeah yeah yeah yeah one more time pull it down yes [Applause] yeah that's what we're gonna preach about today beginning at verse one [Music] all the tribes of israel came to david at hebron and said we are your own flesh and blood in the past while saul was king over us you were the one who led israel on their military military military campaigns and the lord said to you you will shepherd my people israel and you will become their ruler when all the elders of israel had come to king david at hebron the king made a covenant with them at hebron before the lord and they anointed david this is his third anointing they anointed david king over israel it took a while but it happened glory to god yeah it took a while but it happened it took some years but it happened david was 30 years old when he became king and he reigned for 40 years in hebron he reigned over judah seven years and six months and in jerusalem he reigned over all israel and judah 33 years my god the king and his men marched to jerusalem to attack the jebusites who lived there now he's going on his first fight the jebusite said to david you will not get in here even the blind and the lame can ward you off they thought david cannot get in here nevertheless somebody shout nevertheless oh it's some nevertheless people in here [Applause] nevertheless david captured the fortress of zion which is the city of david on that day david had said anyone who conquers the jebusites will have to use the water shaft will have to use the water shaft to reach those lame and blind who are david's enemies that is why they say the blind and lame will not enter the place the palace david then took up residence oh i love that david then took up residence in the fortress and called what was jebusites territory in the city of david he built up the area around it from the terraces inward and he became more and more powerful because the lord god all mighty was with him shout amen somebody one more time pull it down spirit of the living god falls fresh on us as we endeavor to preach the word of god i thank you for what you're about to do have way in the mystery have your way in the midst of your people give us clarity of thought nimbleness of mind help us to avoid distraction as we focus on what you have to say to us this is a prophetic word i declare it in jesus name amen you may be seated in his presence pull it down i recently got ready to do some work on my house and as is my customer i asked for a lot of estimates little do the people know when they come out to do estimates on the property i learn from the people who are doing estimates while they are estimating the work i am estimating them i'm always asking questions how they would tackle the tasks not only to learn but to check out their confidence not only am i getting a free tutorial when i do that i also am estimating their knowledge and grasp uh of their craft and are they prepared to do the job it doesn't do any good to get the best price if they do the worst job truth be told all of us are always evaluating each other whether we want to admit it or not we're always evaluating it that not only do we evaluate other people by about simple things they're our impressions our instincts about them their dress their voice their intonation their body language you're reading people before they ever speak when they speak they confirm what you read but we evaluate the quality of fruit in the grocery store the freshness of meat the the neatness of homes when we go in the the honesty of individuals etcetera we we we're always evaluating things this this has little to do with our intelligence you would think that it does but it doesn't it is actual actually a primal instinct that even animals have in the jungle it keeps us alive to evaluate uh the prey or what is preying on us and can we handle it and can we take it you you have to understand this i was in i was in south africa on a safari years ago with my son and we were in a jeep and there was a rhino in the road and the rhino stood out there and he looked at the jeep now the rhino didn't know it was a jeep he thought it was an animal and because the jeep was the size of the rhino the rhino started pawing and put his head down to attack because he had estimated the size of the jeep to be a threat probably if we had been on a bicycle he would have paid no attention because he was evaluating whether we were big enough to be a threat to him these innate assessments operate in all living things all breathing all functioning things you don't have to be a human to evaluate these innate characteristics operate everywhere i mean literally everywhere in a club if you're a person who goes to clubs and you don't evaluate who's in the room and do an assessment and an estimation you you could get in all kinds of trouble in gangs it's true if you if you're in gangs but it's also true if you're in the boardroom and you're the corporate world you're in the corporate race there's always an estimation you're sizing each other up by their presentation their language their protocol their discipline to see whether this is a safe person to do business with or not and you will do its assessments and evaluations publicly and privately before you engage in business if you are smart uh so that you don't make decision even in church you evaluate you try out for the choir you try out for the praise team you try out for the day to evaluate can you function with other people can you harmonize with others are you looking for stage or are you here to serve that kind of evaluation is necessary whether you do it consciously or unconsciously you're always doing it that's why you date people they don't know you're not there for the food you could've ate at home so you're having casual conversation but you're trying to evaluate is this a candidate or is this a one-off experience let the church say amen we are forever evaluating risk versus reward risk versus reward there's always a risk and there's always a reward i personally have a rule never go to battle where there are no spoils if there's nothing to be won what are we fighting about what are we talking about this text really is all about how king david was extremely underestimated not just because he was royalty not just because he was anointed not just because he was chosen but but also because david was relentless and i suggest for your consideration that one of the reasons that david was chosen was because he was relentless you don't want somebody who's going to have to be a fighter and give up in the middle of the fight david was chosen because he was relentless he was tenacious but the jebusites underestimated him and give me a few minutes because i want you you're very familiar if you've been in church very long with who david is but you might not be familiar who the jebusites are and understanding who the jebusites are will help you to understand why they made the gross mistake of underestimating david the name jebusites means of the trodden underfoot or the down tramplers okay they had a reputation of taking you down of destroying you the name literally means the down tramplers according to the bible the jebusites were ancient descendants of canaan who was a descendant of ham who was a descendant of noah now you will remember when ham sinned god cursed canaan so the jebusites were the descendants of ham they occupied this particular territory which is jerusalem they were cursed by god throughout history they were attacked by joshua but a remnant remain god sent later an angel to remove them yet a portion of them continue to reside in the high country north of the dead sea because of the poor access to water the jebusites had built these underground huge waterways to irrigate the land with water when i was in jerusalem which this territory that we're talking about is actually going to be jerusalem when i was in jerusalem i had an opportunity to go through the waterways the waterways are big enough that four or five people could stand side by side and walk through them the jebusites had developed this irrigation system to accommodate them living in the high places if you start in jericho and go to jerusalem you have to go up if you start in jerusalem and go to jericho you have to go down because jerusalem is a city set up on a hill that cannot be hid so the bible says a certain man went down from jerusalem to jericho so i want you to see the height david is now coming to attack the jebusites because the jebusites are dwelling on what will become jerusalem so they they perched up on the hill for a reason so that they would have a strategic advantage though constantly playing by people angels and plagues i think if i'm not mistaken it was over 52 plagues throughout history that had hit the jebusites the jebusites had survived them all the angels had come against them and attacked them and the jebusites had survived the judges had attacked them and the jebusites had survived when joshua came to jericho the jebusites fought with joshua and the jebusites had survived you see when something has survived a long time and survived for generations there's a certain arrogance that comes with longevity when david comes to attack them the generational cursed people scoffed at him saying we don't even have to fight you our handicapped people are enough to totally annihilate you we could defeat you with crippled people now they are talking to the king of israel but nobody had totally annihilated them because of their position not necessarily their power they dwelt in a high place that high place would become jerusalem it would become what was considered in the scriptures the capital of israel today tel aviv is considered the capital of israel but biblically jerusalem would become the capital of israel not only that be going on the politics of that on into the deeper understanding that jerusalem is the capital for three different major religions but at this time it is occupied by the cursed descendants of ham called the jebusites they dwelt in the high places and david has paid his dues and become the king of israel the first thing that stood out to me when i read the text is that the text calls the king of israel a shepherd now it is interesting to call the king a shepherd because that was his old job okay so so when they call when god calls him i have called you to shepherd over israel and to rule over them he he that shepherd lit off in my head so so if you're taking notes write down the scuffling shepherd the scuffling shepherd now a shepherd in the bible is not considered a prestigious job if you're sent out to take care of the sheep you're not a high-ranking person you're an animal caretaker now david is the king and god calls him the shepherd but david wasn't just any kind of shepherd he was a scuffling shepherd now the scuffling shepherd seems like an oxymoron because when you call someone a shepherd you would think of somebody who was baby basically babysitting sheep but david had learned how to scuffle the reconciliation of israel comes after a long hard battle there was a time that david had ruled over judah but not israel because saul and his descendants controlled israel and there was a time that israel did not accept david as king david has bear with me three anointings the first one is given to him by samuel which anointed him while he was yet a shepherd boy to be the king over israel the second anointing comes years later when he is anointed by judah to be the king of judah but he is still not the king of israel the third anointing comes when he is 30 years old and he is anointed king over israel i want to stop there that is a fulfillment of the first anointing look at how long it took for david to become what he was anointed to be the problem with our culture and our society is that we get a little dab of anointing and we want to run out and move in that anointing when we don't understand that you have to pay your dues and fight your battles and go through your tests before you reach that point and just because the prophecy doesn't happen immediately that doesn't mean that god is not going to do it [Music] you got to have patience he was anointed to be king while he was a shepherd boy he is now 30 years old before he walks into the fullness of what was prophesied years ago on his life but when he walked into it he walked in it to rule for 40 years i'm trying to tell you it may be a long time coming baby but when it comes it's going to last longer than it took to get it david threw out his rejection uh he was rejected by israel by the way wednesday night i'm going to be teaching on rejection yeah we're going to pick up where we left off from the past wins tonight something is happening in this church on wednesday night uh it's it's just been amazing last wednesday night you would have thought it was sunday morning but david is anointed to be king over israel and he's now stepped into the full vesture of his anointing it takes time to come into the full vesture of your anointing it takes time to realize who you really are he was anointed way back then but the fullness of it didn't manifest till he was 30 years old don't let it miss you that christ started his ministry when he was 30 years old and and christ is called the son of david so there's a little shadow there in regard to david being the king of israel at 30 at 30 years old christ seeks to be accepted by israel as king though they rejected him want to go deeper in this david was a shepherd boy but he was a scuffling shepherd he had fought all his life all my life harper i had to fight he had to take care of sheep and yet he had to fight lions he had to take care of sheep and yet he had to fight bear but he was so precise in the fight that he was able to fight a lion and a bear with a lamb in his mouth watch this and he was able to kill the lion and the bear without harming the sheep some of us fight but in the process of fighting we kill what we're fighting for while we're trying to stop what we're fighting against that's why you can't be promoted it's not that you're not a rock thrower but your aim is bad you've got to be precise enough to save what god once saved and kill what god once killed david was a scuffling shepherd that's why samuel when he found him said i found a man after god's own heart david knew how to be a shepherd caretaker tinder saw and yet he knew how to go to war and fight and more importantly he knew when to do which there are people who have both natures but they're fighting when they are to be gentle and gentle when they need to be fighting but david was a scuffling shepherd who understood what was the time and when was the time to do both he is no longer a shepherd boy that his is the old job when he killed goliath he got promoted to his next job you know you're promoted by the level of attack that comes against you if you kill the lion the trophy is you get to fight the bear if you kill the bear the trophy is you get to fight goliath david was a boy when he killed goliath but that didn't make him any less dead now david who is fought a lion and a bear and then goliath he fought his way into transition now moving from the shepherd fields he has now come into the palace and now saul is trying to kill him and david cannot afford to use the same rock that he used on goliath against saul because then he would have assaulted what david called god's anointed so david had to duck so god is looking for somebody who knows when to fight and knows when to duck because had david tried to fight saul it would have been the anointing fighting the anointing and jesus said a house divided against itself shall not be able to stand so god doesn't anoint people to bring anointed people down so all of these bathroom prophets who got you pulled off in a corner and these parking lots to says who say they got a word that's aimed at god's anointed you are unbiblical unscriptural and unholy the holy spirit doesn't work against the holy spirit you can't pray that other wife away from her husband and call yourself anointed because god's spirit will not work against his word talk to me somebody that's not an anointing you're practicing it's witchcraft now david has to be shrewd enough because now he is being attacked by someone he respected he's shrewd enough to make his way into saul's tent and leave evidence there that he could have killed him but he wouldn't kill him lest the charge be laid on him that he has touched god's anointing we don't have enough respect for god's anointed when god anoints a person no matter what they do be careful about putting your mouth on them because they belong to god if it's any bring it down to be done god will bring them down not you because if you touch what god has anointed you become an enemy not as a person but an enemy of god talk to me somebody come on stay with me stay with me stay with me stay with me i want you to understand that that that saul from the beginning had promised david things he didn't receive he had promised him that if he killed goliath that he would get my cal his daughter but he never paid up abner comes along now that david is king bro actually before he becomes king and says not only will i help you to become king and i wish you had time if we were in bible class i go through how god used a rumor against abner to turn his heart toward david and how all of a sudden abner who is with israel starts working with david who is in judah to undermine the distance to help him to become king if i had time to show you that then you would understand how all things work together for good for them that love the lord and god will use somebody who's on the other side to help you accomplish your destiny and your purpose but i don't have time bother that apple did help david rain regain the kingdom and michelle who was rightfully david's wife but had been married off to another man part of abner's influence was to get david said i will take israel if you will get my call back because david is still suffering from a promise not kept is there anybody in here who is still suffering from a promise not kept and david says to abner i want what was promised me i killed goliath give me my care my cal is now married to somebody else abner pulled my kale out of her husband's bed and brought her to david with her husband walking behind her crying and abner told her old husband go back home and the reason my cal ends up resentful of david is because david had pulled her away from one man to another man because saul her father had never kept his word before she met the first husband god is bringing things in alignment but michael has an attitude come on stay with me the term shepherd just blew me away it explains to me that all he has prepared him for in his destiny is locked up in his history all that is in his destiny is hidden in his history so all of you who can't find your purpose and can't figure out what you're supposed to be doing god left clues in your history because your history is the foundation that prepares you [Music] for your destiny this is where history and destiny collide in the scuffling shepherd it is not that god has forgotten that david is king but he called him shepherd to draw an association between the skills i taught you as a shepherd boy you're now going to need them as a king in order to survive in this environment who am i talking to nothing that you've been through shall be wasted stop bemoaning what you went through no matter how painful no matter how grievous no matter how difficult no matter how embarrassing no matter how humiliating it might have been god took you through whatever he took you through to prepare you for what he's about to do next in your life get ready get ready get ready get ready get ready get ready get ready especially those who went through hell god didn't take you through it for you to stay in it but he was preparing you with the uniqueness of your history because of the dynamics of your destiny there's nobody like you your story is unique from anybody else's story your set of experiences is unique from anybody else's experiences so stop trying to deny where you've been because god's gonna use where you've been to establish you and where you're going somebody how to help me praise him about now when we first meet david he is shepherding sheep but the seed of his greatness germinated in a position of weakness all that david has become is all that he was in the first dimension of his life he went all the way full circle to come to the next level commercial is always about coming to the next level 11 is the next level of one 21 is the next level of 11. 31 is the next level of but you're back at one again now david has come through years and years and years to become king only to be called shepherd on the next level can i go deeper can i go deeper but don't forget he is a scuffling shepherd boy he was fighting in his early days and god has chosen him because david would not become weary in the battle david had endurance david had stamina david had tactics david led the armies of israel when he was working for saul his military strategic attack started when he was killing animals all his life he's been a fighter you gotta understand this so you can understand why they underestimated david david had been raised up for such a time as this because god wanted this territory to become the headquarters and it remains a headquarters today for all three major religious expressions if david didn't overtake the jebusites there would be no jerusalem which is the foundation of our faith which would have stopped the messianic reign of christ because jerusalem was paramount but it was occupied i'm telling you a devil may be occupying the territory that god is going to use in your life to exalt you to the next level i'm telling you that the qualifications for the new thing god is going to do in your life is hidden in the old thing that you've already done your triumph your triumph is often a derivative of your trauma oh can i go into just a minute your triumph is often a derivative of your trauma you wouldn't fight that hard if you hadn't been hurt that bad [Applause] you wouldn't have a made-up mind if you didn't have a broken heart you wouldn't have a tenacity that made you indifferent to the opinions of others if you hadn't been raised in isolation and rejected and ostracized what you call trauma could be training for triumph [Applause] your power your power for the next dimension is born from your pain you can't be exceptionally successful if you haven't been exceptionally hurt because it is the hurt it's what you're running from that gives your legs a strength to keep on fighting for what you're running to if you have been raised in a lot of luxury you wouldn't have the fight to go through what you're going through but because you were raised in the lap of suffering and you got so much behind you that you say whatever i'm gonna be i refuse to be what i used to be that's what causes you to have the power to go to the next dimension now god has cleared the way not your neighbors say god has cleared the way god has cleared the way to make sense out of your history as he opens up the door to your destiny some things don't make sense in real time speed but by the time you get to the next dimension it will all begin to add up while you had to go through what you had to go through to get to the next dimension of what god is going to do in your life and the reason it took so much time isn't just that you needed preparation god needed to clear the way by the time david is at the bottom of the heel of the jebusites saul has died on his own sword saul has gone out of the way now saul has long since died but his kingdom has fallen to his son who is also defeated now david is able to reign without killing what god has anointed his most important acquisition is before him not behind him you got to hear this some of you think your greatest victories are behind you you're wrong you've had a lot of victories you killed the lion you killed the bear you killed goliath you withstood saul you made it out of that alive you took a thousand foreskins and threw them down at his feet you've been mighty in battle and now you're at a stage in your life that you think that your major acquisitions are behind you no you're wrong your training is behind you the greatest acquisition of your life is in front of you if you don't get this you will buy into being an old woman or old man you will believe that you're 40 and your life is over you will believe that you're 50 and your life is over you haven't even began to see what god is going to do in your life you haven't even hit the runway of what god is about to do in your life who am i talking to in this place today point two i wanna i wanna show you this you've been shut out you come to the door of your destiny and you've been shut out because the jebusites fortress was in a strategic location it's not just that the jebusites are warriors they're strategically located in a position that's called a stronghold they thought themselves impenetrable because they were up so high they could see you any way you tried to access them so they looked down at david and laughed at him and said our crippled people can defeat you but david had been laughed at before goliath had laughed at him and said what am i a dog that you would send a boy to kill me that's why god let your feelings be hurt early so that you would have the resistance and the fortitude to take a licking and keep on ticking who am i talking to god didn't want you to come to the edge of your destiny and burst out in tears because somebody didn't believe in you so he let somebody not believe in you early so that he could walk proof you against the strategy of the enemy so that when they insult you now you say child i've been called everything i've been through everything and i still know who i am if you know who you are give him a praise right now now sit down this is what the lord told me to tell you [Applause] you've been shut out of what's next because god won't give it to you just because you want it god won't give it to you just because you deserve it god won't give it to you just because you think you ought to have it you're going to have to use the skill sets that you learned in your history to prepare you for your destiny that's why i say whatever you lost is not a loss if you learn from it if you learn something from it then you still profit it from it because you've now got a tool that you didn't have before i'm talking to somebody i'm getting somebody ready for something that god is about to do the jebusite strength is in their strategic location they are in a place of strength it is not that they are strong it is the position that they hold that they're lording over you to control you weak people have to use position to control strong people lest they get defeated they they had withstood all the attacks of the past as bad as joshua was he could not completely annihilate them as strong as the angel was he could not completely annihilate them and they moved into the mountaintops not because they're strong but because they're scared whatever is yelling at you right now is scared of you whatever's making fun of you right now is scared of you whatever's belittling you is scared of you whoever is talking about you what you call hate us they all hate us because they're scared of you you need to make up your mind right now would you rather be your hater or would you rather be hated there are only two job openings open either you're gonna stand down there and throw rocks at everybody or you're going to be the one who is an overcomer shall you ask somebody [Applause] this morning i am going after the thing that you think you can't attain that you think you can't have what has taunted you and flaunted itself to be something you can't attain or acquire what is the thing that god is talking to you about right now that looks like it is positioned too high for you that you can't find a way to get to without being destroyed the text has brought us to the point where we must do some self evaluation they have underestimated david that won't kill him but if david underestimates himself will destroy him it is not what other people think about you that brings you down it is the belief system that you have about yourself that determines the victory number one are you willing to fight for it if you're not willing to fight for it don't go after it whether it is prosperity or promotion or depression or lust or sin it has built a defense around itself underestimating your desire to break through it drugs alcohol prosperity whatever it is that needs to be defeated in your life has taken on a high place and whatever it is that god told me to preach this about it is generational you're not just fighting your devil you inherited this devil that's why i wanted you to understand how far the jebusites went back because david is fighting the jebusites which is a generational curse where god has cursed canaan these are his descendants and they have occupied the territory that belongs to the people of god somebody's living in your house somebody's driving your car somebody's sitting at your desk somebody's sitting in your position and this is a warfare message about what to do when you've been shut out nudge your neighbors say i'm through being shut out you remember how jericho was shut out the walls of jericho were so high that they couldn't get access to what was next in their life look at your neighbor and say you do have an x but in order to get to your next you've got to fight point number three your stronghold if it wasn't valuable there would be no stronghold the stronghold and the position and the longevity of the fight and how long it's been there is an indication that there's something on the other side of that problem that insecurity that addiction that mindset that sin that has engrafted itself into your life it has taken up a stronghold not because it is powerful but because there's something on the other side of it that you need to have and you can't have it till you take it by voice the kingdom suffered violence and the violence taken by force those three people say i'm gonna take it by force i'm gonna take it by force i'm going to take it by farts i'm going to take it by force i'm going to take it by force i'm going to take it by force i'm going to take it by force i'm going to fight till i wear it down i'm gonna fight till i get set free i'm gonna fight till i dethrone its power over my life i'm gonna fight till i bring it to its knees i'm gonna fight till it surrenders to my calling and my destiny i'm a fight till i win for kanan it was the jericho wall there's been something on the other side of it called the promised land but it was protected by a stronghold joshua has pulled his sword and he's ready to fight but the angel said to him you can't fight this kind of stronghold with that kind of weapon this is a spiritual fight somebody shout stronghold somewhere in your life whether you're online or in this room something has set up a stronghold in your life and you're wondering can it be done will i ever be happy will i ever be free will i ever be loosed [Applause] will i ever be loosed will i ever be loosed will i ever possess it will i ever have wholeness will i ever have completeness and as long as that is a question in your mind you can't win hey david took the stronghold of jerusalem and made it his capital david built a house where he had his greatest fight david called the jebusites territory the city of david when he conquered it come on sabat god said there's something that you've got to overcome to possess the land and when you overcome it you're going to rename it [Applause] in 2nd samuel 5 and 6 the jebusites taunted david the king and his men marched to jerusalem to attack the jebusites who lived there the jebusites said to david you will not get in here what what what is saying you will not get it here you you will not have wholeness you will not have healing you will not have restoration you will not be loved you will not have peace you will not live you will not survive you will not have strength again you will not have health what is hollering down off the mountain telling you what you can't have you will not get in here even the blind and the lame can ward you off they thought they thought this is a stronghold they thought that david could not get in and some of us have been convinced and here lies the problem if you believe the lie you cannot take the land i'ma say that again for the people in the back if you believe the lie you cannot take the land lies like this is just how i am this is how my mama was this is how my grandmama was this is how my great-grandmama was that's why i'm preaching it's a generational curse the jebusites have set up on your family territory for years and if you believe the lie that your mama believed that your grandmama believed that your great grandma won't believe that they probably talk to you you have a self-defeating belief system write that down a self-defeating belief system we are not so much talking about fighting the jebusites as we are fighting the self-defeating belief system that's stopping you from moving into your destiny that will kill your marriage that will ruin your ministry that will destroy your relationship that will cost you your job that will take away your promotions a self-defeating belief system is what you ought to be fighting against instead most of the time we're fighting with flesh and blood when in reality it is your mindset that has to change for the move to take place here's a good note for you anybody who is fighting you is fighting their own mindset but find it easier to attack you then to attack their own self-defeating mindset self-sabotage is killing us [Music] you think you're fighting a demon you're not fighting a demon satan doesn't have to send a demon to fight you if you have a self-defeating mindset a propensity to be self-destructive has been planted in your background to bring forth fruit right when you're at the edge of coming into your purpose but they underestimated david because david was determined i need a thousand determined people to jump up and hollow i wouldn't have come to church if i wasn't ready to fight i wouldn't have come to church if i wasn't determined i didn't get up this morning because it was easy i didn't get up this morning get dressed because i felt like getting dressed i got up and got dressed because i'm determined i can't feed off of where i work at i can't feed off of my neighbors but i had to get some food for the fight that's necessary for me to possess what god is about to give you in your life is going to require another kind of weapon that what you used before what brought you here will not take you there this is another kind of battle joe had broke through a tunnel that led to a spring and opened the gates to the citadel ancient babylon was also built up as a seemingly invincible stronghold but it came down jeremiah 51 53 says even if babylon reaches the sky even if it reaches the sky and fortifies her lofty stronghold i will send destroyers against her declares the lord god said i don't care how high the wall is built in your life i will send destroyers to bring that thing down give me all the power you got i don't care how long it's been around i don't care how much damage it's done i don't care how embarrassing it's been god said i will bring that thing down and the high places and the high places god said i will bring them down look at somebody who look like they got some faith and tell them something's gonna happen in here this morning god used cyrus and the persians who weren't even believers to overthrow babylon god will take somebody who's not even in your belief system that don't even believe like you believe and use them as a weapon to defeat the thing that's trying to defeat you you may not get it from your relatives you may not get it from your members you may not get it from your church friends you may not get it from your prayer partner but god is determined to bring that thing down somebody said it's got to come down now i want you to see this in the old testament david defeated the jebusites by climbing up through the waterways he went up through the waterways and they couldn't see him because they were big gutters big tunnels for the irrigation because the jebusites were up so high there was no water up there so they built a system so that they could irrigate what they thought was their land david used what they built against him wait a minute that sounds familiar did not david use goliath sword to cut off his own head david knew how to turn the weapons of his enemy against him to bring about the victory i feel a holy ghost breakthrough about to hit this place today a breakthrough is about to happen in this place today i mean something that has set up a high place in your life for a long time god's about to bring that thing down in the old testament david defeated the stronghold by going up but we're not in the old testament we're in the new testament and in the new testament you defeat the stronghold not by going up but by pulling it down shout it pull it down shout it again pull it down oh do you hear me second corinthians 10 3 and 5 said the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through god for the pulling down of stronghold look the devil in his face and tell him i'm gonna pull it down if it takes all night i'm gonna pull it down if i gotta talk in tongues i'm gonna pull it down if i gotta walk the floor at three o'clock in the morning i'm gonna pull it down i didn't fight everything i thought to get here and let you reign over top of me the devil is alive whatever it takes to pull it down the stronghold in my life i'm gonna pull it down i'm gonna pull it down for my daughter i'm gonna pull it down for my son i'm gonna pull it down for my grandchildren i'm gonna pull it down before i die i'm gonna what before i die i'm gonna what before i go forward i'm gonna what before i move in i'm gonna what shout it like you mean it shouted like you mean it sounded like you're tired of it shout it like you want to fight about it like you gotta made up minds shouting like you ain't scared shouted like you ready to fight roll up your sleeves and take off your earrings and pull off your way together whatever you got to do whatever you got to do whatever you got to do give him 30 seconds of crazy play 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 don't stop 13 12 come on 11 10 9 eight seven six five four three two i one the victory about to break loose in this place i feel a yoke about to break in this place i feel a door about to open in this place if you've got the holy ghost at all give your god a praise till you praise it praise him till you naked back praise him till you tear it down pull it down mama pull it down sister pull it down creature pull it down brother pull it down sister pull it take down god pull it down down it's coming down [Music] wait a minute the holy ghost said this is a war dance i want everybody who's going to war give god a war dance right now for your daughter for your finances for your future for your destiny for your prophecy award awardness this means war this means war this means war this means i'm gonna fight till i pull it oh you ain't ready to fight you standing there looking cute if you got a devil to fight up you better do what i said and go into a war dancer and commander if you don't do nothing but pull it down pull it down pull it down pull it down pull it down pull it down it's coming down it's coming down it's coming down it's coming down [Music] today is the last day of mental health month the text i just quoted is a mental health text it's about a mindset the weapons of our warfare are not carnal so put your slingshot up but mighty through god for the pulling down of strongholds watch this casting down imaginations imaginations the things you imagine to be true it's going to cast out imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of god it may be high but it's coming down it may have been around for years but it's coming down it may set up a stronghold but it's coming down shall yes sound yes [Applause] praise them somebody praise him anybody praise him somebody praise him anybody praise him somebody praise him anybody is there anybody in the father's house that's bold enough and bad enough and strong enough to give my god some praise yes [Applause] oh yes yes yes i'm sweating the reason i'm sweating is cause i'm tight and you would expect me to be in a fight and not break a sweat but when i get through sweating i'ma go back to dancing cause i'm about to take new territory somebody shout yes as i close [Music] yes [Applause] i'm in the process of selling off a piece of property and we're getting ready to ship the name on the deed [Music] i can't allow the deed to remain the same and shift the territory so my last point is shift the territory if you're gonna shift the territory you gotta change the name abram was called abram until god shifted the territory and he said if i'm gonna shift your territory i'm gonna change your name from abram to abraham from sarai to sarah any time there's a ship you gotta rename the name what you used to call depression change the name what you used to call fear change the name what you used to call trauma change into triumph it's time to change the name so your paul god is about to shift the name on the deed and the last thing the lord said he's going to give you houses hallelujah that you didn't bill and vineyards that you didn't even grow all my life whenever i went to jerusalem i thought the jews had built the underground irrigation systems that go to jerusalem they didn't build it the jebusites did but they got the benefit for what the german sites built whoever i'm preaching to you didn't build it but you won't reap the benefits of what somebody else built they didn't know that they were building it for you slap somebody and tell them it's mine i didn't build it but it's mine i didn't lay the brick but it's mine i didn't dig the tunnel but it's mine i didn't go through the pain but it's mine because god is about to shift the territory somebody turn around in a circle god's getting ready to shift i prophesy there will be a shift the tail will become the head the last shall become first the one you made fun of god is about to exalt him i'm talking about you i dare you to be glad about it and give your god some praise [Music] [Music] i'm finished i'm gonna quit i just need you to say pull it down seven times this is it now praising for it now praising for it coming down praising for it coming down praise the point coming down praising for coming down praising them forth coming down pray that pray pray pray pray praying for it coming down praying for it coming down waving forth coming down praying forth coming down here's my review i'm out of time i gotta stop here's my review number one you gotta be a scuffling shepherd this is a fight number two you gotta take what you've been shut out of number three you gotta deal with your strongholds you can't be shutting other people down and not deal with your strongholds the problems ain't the jebusites is how you think bring down your strongholds and god said if you'll be a scuffling shepherd if you'll attack what you've been shut out of if you'll deal with your nasty turbulent strongholds god said i'm going to shift [Music] the territory to this day jebus where the jebusites lived is jerusalem to this day it is the city of david to this day it is the epicenter of three of the largest religions in this world to this day it is still controlled by the movement and the dictates of what david was able to do thousands of years ago if you pull it down you're going to bless generations now i'm a witness strongholds don't come down easy don't picture people as strongholds this is spiritual [Applause] this is something that is taking a position in a high place it is an imagination that exalts itself against the knowledge of god it is not that you don't know god it is that you have a conflicting belief system that nullifies your faith so you know you have the knowledge of god but it has exalted itself above what you know about god it's an idol in your life just like buddha it's just as much an idol as buddha we could not get you to worship a statue but you are more loyal to your belief systems better in your head than your knowledge of god and it has messed you up before and it will mess you up again and the lord told me to tell you [Applause] as i close this message properties are going to shift opportunities are going to shift marriages are going to shift home life is going to shift when you pull down that unforgiveness that anger that hostility that resentment that bitterness that silence that rage that way you handle things it's gonna heal everything this is a word from the lord [Music] you