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Thanks for listening 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:04.360 to our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:06.840 If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:08.400 blessing and share it with a friend. 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:11.440 We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:18.800 your life. Well, God bless you. It's great to be 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:21.880 with you today, and we hope you'll stay connected with 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:24.799 us all through the week. We have a daily podcast 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:27.440 that you can download. You can go to our YouTube 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:30.600 channel watch the messages anytime, or you can follow us 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:33.880 on social media. I promise you we'll keep you encouraged 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:36.800 and inspired. But thanks for tuning in. Thanks again for 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:39.600 coming out. I like to start with something funny and 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:42.640 I heard about this family. They live way back in 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:46.639 the woods. They never left their little town, never watched television. 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:49.440 One day, they took a vacation to New York City 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:53.120 and the father was showing his son a famous skyscraper. 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:57.440 They were so impressed. They were especially intrigued by the elevator. 0:02:57.760 --> 0:03:01.320 They didn't know what it was. This elderly woman walked up, 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:04.799 pushed a button, The walls opened up. She stepped into 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:07.800 a little room. The walls closed back up. They sat 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:11.280 there contemplating what they had just seen. In a few seconds, 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:15.639 the walls opened back up. Outstepped a beautiful twenty four 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:19.480 year old girl. Almost in disbelief. The son said, Dad, 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:22.200 what just happened? The dad said, I don't know, son, 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:26.320 but go get your mother. Say it like you mean it. 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:30.080 This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:32.919 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:35.600 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:39.520 taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:42.800 is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:48.080 the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:51.840 to talk to you today about invisible to the enemy. 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:54.400 We all have things that come against us in life, 0:03:54.840 --> 0:03:57.960 people that don't like us. We're dealing with an illness, 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:00.960 we lost a big client at work. It's easy to 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:04.320 live worried, wondering how it's going to turn out. But 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:08.120 David said in Psalm twenty seven, in the time of trouble, 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:11.520 God will hide you. He will place you out of 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:15.280 reach on a high rock. It doesn't say we won't 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:19.800 have trouble. Difficulties may come, but the promise God gives 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:23.120 us is he's going to hide us. You could say, 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:27.159 he's going to make you invisible to the enemy. You 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:30.560 don't know how many times trouble has come, but it 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:34.039 couldn't find you. Sickness had your name on it, but 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:39.000 when it showed up, you were invisible. That calamity, that accident, 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:42.040 was sent to take you out, but when it arrived, 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:45.440 you were nowhere to be found. You didn't know anything 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:48.640 about it. You were just going about your day being 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:52.800 your best. And forces that should have stopped you, enemies 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:55.800 that should have defeated you, Trouble that should have caused 0:04:55.800 --> 0:05:00.200 you great heartache didn't have any effect on you. Why 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:04.040 you were invisible to the enemy. That's why we can 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:06.919 live from a place of faith, a place of trust, 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:11.359 not worried. What if my company downsizes and doesn't need me. 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:14.120 What if my child gets off course? What if I 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:17.360 get this virus? No turn it around? Father, Thank you 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:20.479 that I am invisible to the enemy. Think you that 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:23.720 my children are invisible to the enemy. Think you that 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:28.160 my health, my finances, my marriage, my dreams are all 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:32.159 invisible to the enemy. David knew what it was like 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:35.960 to have opposition and people trying to stop him Verse 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:39.120 Samuel twenty three. He was living on the run from 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:42.520 King Saul. He had done nothing wrong. He was one 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:45.839 of Saul's main armor bearers. He would play music for 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:49.640 Saul when he wasn't feeling well. But Saul was jealous 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:53.080 of David. He was so obsessed with getting rid of him. 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:56.600 That's all he could think of. And sometimes when you're 0:05:56.640 --> 0:06:00.839 doing the right thing, being good to people on your 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:05.040 life will stir up the jealousy in other people. David 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:08.960 was in the desert, hiding in caves, doing his best 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:12.760 to not get caught. Saul had the most skilled soldiers. 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:16.800 He had groups that were specifically trained in tracking people, 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:21.200 like a Navy seal team. David was a shepherd. He'd 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:24.560 been taking care of sheep a teenager. He didn't have 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:28.920 any professional training. He was outnumbered. They had more equipment, 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:33.040 more skill. Seemed like he would be easily captured. But 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:38.440 Verse fourteen says Saul hunted David day after day, but 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:43.120 God did not let him be found. God knows how 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:46.320 to make it invisible to the enemy. He knows how 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:49.720 to hide you from trouble, hide you from an accident, 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:52.960 hide you from people that are trying to bring you down. 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:56.599 Friend of mine was involved in a situation that was 0:06:56.720 --> 0:06:59.440 very big in the press. At one point, it was 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:03.599 the hottest news story around and practically every reporter was 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:06.200 trying to get to him. But the press was very 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:09.159 negative toward him, and he wanted to stay out of it. 0:07:09.720 --> 0:07:12.480 For the first few months, he had to travel back 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:15.679 and forth to another city. The press would get word 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:17.920 when he was going to be at the airport. They 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:20.680 would all show up. He said, Joel, it was the 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:23.760 most amazing thing. I would get out of my car. 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:27.160 All these cameras were lined up on the sidewalk waiting 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:30.720 for me. I would walk right past them. Not one 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:33.920 of them recognized me. They never got a shot of him. 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:37.640 One day, a reporter came to his house. He answered 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:41.560 the door, but the reporter didn't even recognize him at 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:45.120 his own house. He said, it was like God was 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:49.840 making me invisible to the wrong people. God knows how 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:53.400 to protect you. Just as he can make blind eyes see, 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:56.440 he can make sea and eyes blind, he can make 0:07:56.480 --> 0:08:00.760 you invisible to people and circumstances that to harm you. 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:05.120 David said in Psalm thirty one, you have not handed 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:08.040 me over to the enemy, but you have kept me 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:12.040 in a safe place. We all have things trying to 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:15.600 stop our destiny. But like with David, God has put 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:18.600 you in a safe place. He's not going to let 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:22.480 you be found. You may have difficulties now in your health, 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:26.720 your finances, your marriage. You could live worried panic, what 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:29.360 am I going to do? But when you know you're 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:33.000 in a safe place where God has you hidden, then 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:36.080 you can live in peace. When trouble comes, you don't 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:39.640 fall apart, give up on your dreams. You know God 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:43.640 has made you invisible to the enemy. Saul was so 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:47.920 frustrated he went back home. Some of David's own men 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:51.880 turned on David. They sent Saul the details of where 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:55.600 David was hiding. They gave him the exact location, how 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:59.400 to get there, what it looked like. All this inside information, 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:03.520 Saul was thrilled. He had his men go do surveillance, 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:07.760 study his movements, find out when David sleeps, when he eats, 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:11.200 where he gets his food. He went overboard to make 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:14.640 sure this time they would catch David. Saul and his 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:18.520 men traveled a great distance. They arrived to where David 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:21.920 was hiding, but just as Saul was about to attack, 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:25.520 a messenger came riding up as fast as he could 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:29.880 with an urgent message. It said, Saul, hurry home. The 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:34.160 Philistines are attacking our city. Saul and his men turned 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:39.160 around and left. They never did capture David. God knows 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:42.240 how to keep you in a safe place, even when 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:44.960 it looks like it's too late. He knows how to 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:48.720 distract your enemies. He knows how to change people's plans, 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:52.599 how to turn that trouble, turn the sickness, turn the opposition. 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:57.040 I can imagine sickness come and looking for you. It 0:09:57.080 --> 0:10:00.760 has all the details, knows where you live, where you work. 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:04.720 The enemy's done his surveillance. When that sickness comes to 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:08.280 the door, you may answer, But like my friend, you're 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:11.720 invisible to the enemy. It has to go back. Sorry, 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:15.000 I couldn't find them. When you know God has you 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:18.560 in a safe place, invisible to the enemy, then you 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:22.920 can live at peace. You're not at risk open game. 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:27.160 Any moment, something bad can happen. God has you hidden 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:31.520 where you cannot be found. Many things that were sent 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:35.760 to stop you, trouble, calamity, bad breaks, they had your 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:39.440 name on them, They had your address. The reason they 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:43.360 couldn't stop you is they couldn't find you. God had 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:46.200 you in a safe place. When you make the Lord 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:49.360 your god, when you stay under the shelter of the 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:53.520 most High, the scripture says, he covers you with his wings. 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:58.200 He'll hide you from things that could have brought you down. See, 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:01.880 the enemy has schemes and strategies to try to keep 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:05.880 you from your destiny. People were set in motion headed 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:09.760 your way to cause trouble. The problem was they couldn't 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:13.200 find you. They showed up, but you were invisible to 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:17.120 the trouble, invisible to the sickness, invisible to the layoff. 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:21.400 God protected you, and you didn't even know it. Well, Joli, 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:24.400 it didn't work for me. I must not be invisible. 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:27.840 I had an accident, I got laid off. I came 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:31.600 down with this sickness. Yes, but that sickness couldn't finish 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:35.640 you off. That accident couldn't take you out. That layoff 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:39.520 didn't stop your purpose. When trouble came, God put you 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:44.040 in a safe place. That difficulty is not how your 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:48.280 story ends. God has the final saying He's not only 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:50.720 going to take care of what's trying to stop you, 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:54.120 but he's going to bring you out better. In the 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:58.360 Old Testament, God sent plagues on Pharaoh and his people 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:02.000 for not letting the Israelite to go the final plague 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:05.320 was the first born of their children were going to 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:08.840 be killed. God told the Israelites they had to put 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:12.400 blood on the doorpost of their house when the death 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:16.000 angel came. As long as they had blood over their house, 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:19.600 they were invisible to the enemy. There was no harm 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:24.160 to their family. That night, thousands of lives were lost. 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:29.160 There was all kinds of grieving, great sorrow. What's interesting 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:33.200 is none of the Israelites lost their lives, yet they 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:37.200 were living next door to their oppressors. Was it like 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:40.280 they were hundreds of miles away. They were all in 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:44.000 the same area. What was the difference? One had the 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:47.720 blood and the other didn't. One was under the shelter 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:51.679 of the Most High, covered by his wings, the other wasn't. 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:55.440 When you keep the blood over your house, when you 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:58.640 honor God, you stay close to him, you have an 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:03.679 advantage guide you when trouble comes. He makes you invisible 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:07.560 to the enemy. When calamity showed up at your house, 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:11.320 like with them, it passes you by. When people want 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:15.319 to harm you, when sickness, when early death comes, that 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:19.080 may have been sent for you schemes and strategies that 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:22.400 have your name on them. Stay in peace. You'll covered 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:25.880 by the blood. You're under the shelter of the most High. 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:29.000 Things that take other people out can't take you out. 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:33.720 Trouble that defeats others won't stop you. Sickness that should 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:36.960 be the end can't take your life. You're in a 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:40.800 safe place. You don't have to live worried fearing what 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:46.000 might happen, fearing getting cancer, fearing being laid off. Enjoy 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:49.160 with this pandemic. I'm worried about my business. What if 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:51.800 my finances go down? You know the good news is 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:55.360 you have blood on your doorposts. You belong to the 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:59.160 most High. Now get in agreement with him. Lord. Thank 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:03.480 you that my finances are invisible to the enemy. Think 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:07.520 you that my income, my business, my savings, my property 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:11.520 are all in a safe place. I know this couple 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:14.720 that own a business, and when the pandemic hit, it 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:18.520 looked like it would go down. They're in the service industry. 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:21.720 With people not being out and having to stay home, 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:24.520 all the facts said they would have an off year. 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:28.760 But this couple had a different approach. They understood that 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:32.400 when trouble comes, God will hide you that he can 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:37.040 make you invisible to what's going on around you, invisible 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:41.240 to a down economy, invisible to an environment that says 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:46.360 lack and not enough. And instead of complaining, their report was, Father, 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:49.760 thank you that even in famine, we will have more 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:53.080 than enough. Thank you that the economy is not our source, 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:56.680 but you are our source. I told it the first 0:14:56.720 --> 0:14:59.080 of the year, how we were going to see overflow, 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:04.000 abundance running over blessings. It seemed like an odd time, 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:08.320 but they dared to believe for an overflow year. They 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:12.200 said this July, in the middle of the pandemic, they 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:16.200 had their best month ever, broke all records going back 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:21.120 over twenty years. They were so excited. Then August beat July, 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:27.480 then September beat August. They kept increasing, defying the odds. 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:32.200 They can't explain. It doesn't make sense. When competitors are 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:36.000 going down, they're going up. How could this be? They 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:40.280 are invisible to the enemy. When you honor God, when 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:44.360 you keep in first place, what limits others won't limit you. 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:47.360 Now you have to give God something to work with. 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:51.480 You can't go around with a defeated mindset. Joel, this 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:54.400 sounds good, but I'm afraid my children are going to 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:57.880 get off course. This sickness runs in my family. I'm 0:15:57.880 --> 0:16:01.480 afraid I'm going to get it. The scripture says, what 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:05.160 you fear is going to come upon you, quit living 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:08.520 out of fear and start living out of faith. Father, 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:11.520 thank you that my health is invisible to the enemy. 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:14.480 That I will run and not be weary. That with 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:18.720 long life you will satisfy me. Faith and fear have 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:22.760 something in common. They both ask us to believe something 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:26.760 that we can't see. Whichever one you get in agreement 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:30.120 with is the one that's going to come to pass. Well, 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:32.960 I'm afraid I'm not going to get well. You're using 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:36.600 your faith in the wrong direction. Turn it around. Father, 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:39.760 thank you that you're restoring health back into me. This 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:43.600 trouble may have come. I'm dealing with this illness, But Lord, 0:16:43.680 --> 0:16:46.600 thank you that you are hiding me, that you're putting 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:49.000 me in a safe place. That the number of my 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:52.800 days you will fulfill. A lot of times we don't 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:55.720 realize it, but we're using our faith for the negative. 0:16:56.160 --> 0:17:00.720 We're expecting defeat, sickness, trouble. On my father's side of 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:04.080 the family, there's a long history of heart disease, high 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:07.840 blood pressure. My father struggled with it most of his life, 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:10.920 and I could accept that and thinks that's my lot 0:17:10.960 --> 0:17:14.280 in life. But I have a different approach. Lord. Thank 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:17.720 you that my health is invisible to the enemy. Thank 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:21.200 you that heart disease can't find me. How blood pressure 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:23.480 may knock at my door, but it's not going to 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:26.600 recognize me. This is a new day. I'm setting a 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:29.840 new standard. The enemies we've seen in the past we 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:34.760 will see no more. Don't go through life expecting the worst, 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:39.800 anticipating bad breaks. This virus is spreading everywhere. I'll probably 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:43.600 get it to with all these negative influences, my children 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:46.720 will probably get off course. Zip that up. You have 0:17:46.840 --> 0:17:50.000 the blood on your doorpost. You belong to the most 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:55.440 High God. These things may come, but they're not going 0:17:55.480 --> 0:17:59.159 to stay. They're going to pass on by. Why you 0:17:59.200 --> 0:18:03.240 are invisible to the enemy. Trouble may have been sent 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:06.800 you away, but it can't find you. Sickness may have 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:09.639 shown up, but it's not permanent. God has you in 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:13.240 a safe place. Nothing can snatch you out of his hands. 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:17.520 Enemies may be looking for you, people at work against you. 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:21.280 Your dream seems impossible, don't worry. God has you out 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:24.360 of reach. He's not going to let you be found. 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:27.840 When my father went to be with the Lord and 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:31.640 I stepped up to pastor the church, I was very insecure. 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:35.159 I had never ministered before, and thoughts told me that 0:18:35.240 --> 0:18:39.320 I wasn't qualified and nobody was going to listen. Every week. 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:41.320 It was an act of faith to get up in 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:43.920 front of people. By the grace of God, the church 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:47.520 began to grow and people started watching and listening in 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:50.399 numbers that we had never seen. I was amazed at 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:53.320 what God was doing. But with the new growth and 0:18:53.359 --> 0:18:58.400 the new notoriety, there came opposition, people that didn't understand us. 0:18:58.880 --> 0:19:01.679 It was something that I had dealt with. This was 0:19:01.720 --> 0:19:04.280 four or five years in and it seemed like every 0:19:04.320 --> 0:19:08.480 week there was something new coming against us, some group 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:11.520 that didn't agree, and some person writing an article on it. 0:19:11.920 --> 0:19:14.600 I was tempted to live, worried, wondering if we were 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:16.960 going to make it. I felt like we were always 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:19.960 on the verge of one bad break from bringing us down. 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:24.280 One night during that time, I had a dream. In 0:19:24.320 --> 0:19:27.800 this dream, I was out running through an open field 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:32.280 and there were these airplanes flying very low overhead, just 0:19:32.359 --> 0:19:36.200 thirty or forty feet off the ground, dropping bombs all 0:19:36.240 --> 0:19:39.840 around me. One would hit twenty feet away. I would 0:19:39.880 --> 0:19:43.120 brace wait for the shrapnel. I knew it was the end. 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:47.960 It would explode, make this deafening sound, but nothing would 0:19:48.000 --> 0:19:50.880 harm me. I was amazed how I didn't get hurt. 0:19:51.160 --> 0:19:54.119 This happened a half a dozen times every time the 0:19:54.160 --> 0:19:57.679 bomb went off, but it didn't affect me. Finally, I 0:19:57.800 --> 0:20:00.960 ran to this small house, like a cabin out in 0:20:01.000 --> 0:20:03.960 the woods, and I was so afraid. It had two 0:20:04.000 --> 0:20:07.040 small bedrooms. I hurried to one and shut the door. 0:20:07.520 --> 0:20:11.080 I could hear these soldiers coming, their footsteps getting closer 0:20:11.119 --> 0:20:14.600 and closer. I was holding my breath, thinking, Please Lord, 0:20:14.640 --> 0:20:18.160 don't let them find me, Please let them pass. Then 0:20:18.240 --> 0:20:21.359 my worst fears came true. I heard them on the 0:20:21.400 --> 0:20:24.639 front porch. They came in the house, looked around the 0:20:24.680 --> 0:20:27.800 front room. Then they came to my room. They opened 0:20:27.840 --> 0:20:31.240 the door and I was standing there. My heart sunk. 0:20:31.720 --> 0:20:34.800 I thought, okay, I'm done. They looked right at me 0:20:35.359 --> 0:20:38.479 for about ten seconds, just a few feet away. Then 0:20:38.520 --> 0:20:42.200 they turned around and left. In my dream, I realized 0:20:42.280 --> 0:20:45.879 they couldn't see me. I was so amazed and so relieved. 0:20:45.920 --> 0:20:48.400 And as they were walking down the road, I woke 0:20:48.520 --> 0:20:52.119 up and I heard God say, down in my spirit, Joel, 0:20:52.160 --> 0:20:56.720 don't worry about who's coming against you, how big, how important, 0:20:56.720 --> 0:21:00.760 how influential. I have you hidden in a safe place. 0:21:01.880 --> 0:21:06.560 That's what David said. When trouble comes, God will hide you. 0:21:07.760 --> 0:21:10.240 I look back over these last twenty years that I've 0:21:10.240 --> 0:21:13.120 been pastoring. There's been a lot of chatter, but none 0:21:13.160 --> 0:21:15.960 of it to stop my destiny. Most of the people 0:21:16.000 --> 0:21:20.160 that were against me aren't even around anymore. What you're 0:21:20.320 --> 0:21:24.119 up against, it's no match for our God. He controls 0:21:24.160 --> 0:21:28.320 the universe. He knows how to hide you. Yes, it 0:21:28.359 --> 0:21:31.640 may get rocky from time to time, bombs going off 0:21:31.680 --> 0:21:34.959 around you, so to speak, they're not going to harm you. 0:21:35.760 --> 0:21:40.600 Enemies knocking at your door, debt, trouble, sickness, calamity, stay 0:21:40.600 --> 0:21:44.800 in peace. You're invisible to the enemy. It may show up, 0:21:44.920 --> 0:21:48.040 but it's not going to find you. That sickness can't 0:21:48.119 --> 0:21:51.560 take you out, That bad break can't stop your destiny. 0:21:52.119 --> 0:21:56.320 That trouble looks permanent, but it's only temporary. Things are 0:21:56.320 --> 0:22:00.359 about to change in your favor. That's what happened to 0:22:00.520 --> 0:22:04.800 Peter in Acts, chapter twelve. He was arrested for sharing 0:22:04.880 --> 0:22:08.800 his faith and put in prison. King Herod ordered sixteen 0:22:08.920 --> 0:22:12.000 soldiers to guard him. He wanted to make sure he 0:22:12.040 --> 0:22:15.679 didn't escape. He had him chained between two soldiers in 0:22:15.720 --> 0:22:18.479 his cell, and the night before Peter was to go 0:22:18.520 --> 0:22:22.359 on trial, he was asleep in prison, the other guard 0:22:22.440 --> 0:22:26.440 standing outside his cell. When an angel appeared. He woke 0:22:26.480 --> 0:22:29.080 Peter up and told him to get dressed. They were 0:22:29.080 --> 0:22:32.560 about to leave. Suddenly the chains fell off his feet. 0:22:33.000 --> 0:22:36.240 The angel said, come with me. The prison doors opened 0:22:36.440 --> 0:22:39.680 of their own accord. They walked past the first set 0:22:39.680 --> 0:22:43.840 of guards four men. Nobody saw them, The second set 0:22:44.000 --> 0:22:47.400 nobody saw them, the third, the fourth. They went by 0:22:47.560 --> 0:22:52.359 sixteen soldiers who were diligently watching, ordered by the king, 0:22:52.760 --> 0:22:56.600 and yet none of them saw Peter. God knows how 0:22:56.640 --> 0:23:00.200 to make it invisible to your enemies. He didn't say 0:23:00.400 --> 0:23:03.720 we would never have problems, but he did promise when 0:23:03.760 --> 0:23:07.320 trouble comes, he will hide you. He won't let the 0:23:07.359 --> 0:23:12.159 circumstances stop your purpose. He has angels watching over you 0:23:12.320 --> 0:23:16.439 right now, protecting you, guarding you. He knows how to 0:23:16.480 --> 0:23:19.280 open doors that you can't open, how to get you 0:23:19.320 --> 0:23:22.399 out of problems that look impossible, how to blind the 0:23:22.520 --> 0:23:25.399 eyes of those who are trying to hold you back. 0:23:26.280 --> 0:23:29.600 What you're facing may look permanent, Like Peter, you don't 0:23:29.600 --> 0:23:32.480 see your way out. The odds are against you. You 0:23:32.560 --> 0:23:35.600 don't know what God is up to. And that's why 0:23:35.880 --> 0:23:38.280 we don't have to live in fear. There are a 0:23:38.280 --> 0:23:43.120 lot of negative things that could happen, accidents, sickness, is trouble, 0:23:43.359 --> 0:23:47.760 bad breaks. We could go around worried, stressed. But when 0:23:47.800 --> 0:23:50.800 you know God has you hidden, that He's put you 0:23:50.840 --> 0:23:53.960 in a safe place. That because the blood is over 0:23:54.000 --> 0:23:57.399 your doorpost, because you belong to him. He's made you 0:23:57.520 --> 0:24:01.080 invisible to the enemy. He has a hedge of protection 0:24:01.600 --> 0:24:06.080 that nothing can cross without his permission. A thousand may 0:24:06.119 --> 0:24:09.040 fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, 0:24:09.240 --> 0:24:12.760 but it's not going to come near you. Why you're 0:24:12.800 --> 0:24:16.440 in the shelter of the most high. He has you covered. 0:24:16.720 --> 0:24:21.280 He's covered your health, coverage, your marriage, coverage, your children, coverage, 0:24:21.280 --> 0:24:26.560 your finances, coverage your dreams. Tewod Kings, Chapter six. The 0:24:26.640 --> 0:24:30.480 Syrian army had come against the Israelites, but every time 0:24:30.520 --> 0:24:33.400 the Syrians were about to make a move, God would 0:24:33.440 --> 0:24:36.919 tell the prophet Elisha, and he would tell the Israelites 0:24:37.400 --> 0:24:41.439 that way they always stayed one step ahead of the enemy. 0:24:41.560 --> 0:24:44.639 When the Syrian king found out what Elisha was doing, 0:24:44.840 --> 0:24:48.800 he was furious. He sent a great army with thousands 0:24:48.800 --> 0:24:53.080 of horses thousands of chariots to go surround Elisha city 0:24:53.200 --> 0:24:57.240 and capture him. When Elisha saw them coming, he had 0:24:57.280 --> 0:25:00.800 no chance in the natural. It was him worth tens 0:25:00.840 --> 0:25:04.639 of thousands of soldiers. He could have panicked, been depressed, 0:25:05.040 --> 0:25:08.159 But he understood this principle that God can make you 0:25:08.320 --> 0:25:11.800 invisible to the enemy, that plans that were sent to 0:25:11.880 --> 0:25:15.960 stop you, strategies designed to keep you from your destiny, 0:25:16.480 --> 0:25:20.160 cannot stand against our God. He knows how to put 0:25:20.160 --> 0:25:23.400 you in a safe place, how to hide you from trouble. 0:25:23.960 --> 0:25:27.040 It may come, but if you'll stay in faith, it's 0:25:27.119 --> 0:25:30.040 not going to turn out the way it looks. It 0:25:30.080 --> 0:25:33.320 looks like the sickness is permanent. Looks like your child 0:25:33.359 --> 0:25:36.720 won't fulfill his destiny. Looks like that debt will limit 0:25:36.800 --> 0:25:41.080 your future. But don't judge your situation too soon. Wait 0:25:41.240 --> 0:25:45.280 till you see what God is about to do. Elisha 0:25:45.400 --> 0:25:50.480 prayed something interesting. He didn't say, Lord deliver me. Lord, 0:25:50.600 --> 0:25:55.119 stop this army. Lord protect me from these people. He said, Lord, 0:25:55.320 --> 0:25:59.639 please make them blind. He was saying, Lord, make me 0:25:59.720 --> 0:26:04.119 in visible to the enemy. What a powerful prayer. We 0:26:04.160 --> 0:26:08.119 should pray that every day. Lord, make my family invisible 0:26:08.160 --> 0:26:12.160 to the enemy. Make my health, my finances, my dreams 0:26:12.320 --> 0:26:15.720 invisible to the enemy. The verse goes on to say, 0:26:16.119 --> 0:26:20.440 and the Lord did what Elisha ask. When you ask 0:26:20.520 --> 0:26:23.439 God to make you invisible, He's going to do what 0:26:23.600 --> 0:26:28.000 you ask. Don't go to God complaining, telling him everything 0:26:28.040 --> 0:26:31.480 that's wrong. God, these people aren't fair, and I've got 0:26:31.480 --> 0:26:34.440 this problem at work. My child won't do what's right. 0:26:34.840 --> 0:26:38.040 Try a different approach. Father. Thank you that I am 0:26:38.119 --> 0:26:41.479 invisible to the enemy. Thank you that you have me hidden, 0:26:41.760 --> 0:26:45.800 that I'm in a safe place. The Syrian captain knocked 0:26:45.800 --> 0:26:48.480 on the door and said, we're here to see Elisha. 0:26:49.200 --> 0:26:53.320 Elisha looked surprised, said, sir, you come to the wrong city. 0:26:53.840 --> 0:26:58.160 Elisha doesn't live here. Great men of God lying you know. 0:26:58.520 --> 0:27:02.640 The Syrians did their research. They tracked Elisha, made sure 0:27:02.680 --> 0:27:06.040 this was his address, confirmed he was home, had people 0:27:06.040 --> 0:27:10.920 that could identify him. Despite all that, the captain was confused. 0:27:11.280 --> 0:27:15.080 He said, where is he, Elisha said he's in another city. 0:27:15.440 --> 0:27:18.960 Follow me and I'll take you there. Elisha led them 0:27:19.000 --> 0:27:22.840 to Samaria, to the Israelites camp. Then he prayed that 0:27:22.880 --> 0:27:26.360 God would open their eyes. They realized it was Elisha 0:27:26.520 --> 0:27:30.440 all along, and they were captured by the Israelites. How 0:27:30.480 --> 0:27:34.399 many times has trouble knocked on your doors? So to speak? 0:27:34.720 --> 0:27:38.560 But when you answered, the enemy didn't recognize you. The 0:27:38.640 --> 0:27:42.040 trouble had your name on it. The sickness was your address. 0:27:42.359 --> 0:27:45.120 Are you sure this is not you? But God made 0:27:45.160 --> 0:27:49.200 you invisible to the enemy. He's been protecting you your 0:27:49.320 --> 0:27:52.560 whole life. There are things He has kept you from 0:27:52.600 --> 0:27:56.360 that you know nothing about. Schemes and strategies that were 0:27:56.400 --> 0:28:00.600 meant to stop you, but they couldn't find you. And yes, 0:28:01.440 --> 0:28:05.600 in those difficult times, it wasn't easy, but God hid you. 0:28:06.480 --> 0:28:09.240 Without him watching over you, you wouldn't have made it 0:28:09.280 --> 0:28:12.879 through the sickness, through the divorce, through the trouble. He 0:28:12.920 --> 0:28:16.920 doesn't stop everything, but He did promise when trouble comes, 0:28:17.200 --> 0:28:21.680 he will hide you. Instead of living worried, fearful, expecting 0:28:21.680 --> 0:28:25.560 the worst, have a new perspective, because the blood is 0:28:25.600 --> 0:28:29.280 over your doorpost, because you belong to the most high. 0:28:29.359 --> 0:28:33.199 You have an advantage. God has made you invisible to 0:28:33.240 --> 0:28:37.880 the enemy. Every morning, dare to declare it, Father, thank 0:28:37.960 --> 0:28:41.400 you that my family is invisible to the enemy. Thank 0:28:41.440 --> 0:28:44.880 you that you've covered my children, covered my health, covered 0:28:44.880 --> 0:28:48.320 my finances, that you've hidden me in a safe place. 0:28:48.760 --> 0:28:52.800 If you'll do this, I believe and declare, Like with David, 0:28:53.040 --> 0:28:55.920 when trouble comes, God is not going to let you 0:28:56.000 --> 0:28:59.160 be found. Like with Peter, doors are going to open 0:28:59.200 --> 0:29:02.440 you couldn't open. Problems that look permanent are about to 0:29:02.480 --> 0:29:05.960 turn around. God is going to protect you, heal you, 0:29:06.280 --> 0:29:09.800 favor you, and take you to the fullness of your destiny. 0:29:10.280 --> 0:29:13.280 In Jesus' name, And if you receive it, can you 0:29:13.320 --> 0:29:17.520 say amen, I'd like to give you an opportunity to 0:29:17.520 --> 0:29:20.320 make Jesus the lord of your life. This is how 0:29:20.320 --> 0:29:23.000 you put the blood over your house. 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