God Will Fight Your Battles and Use Them for His Glory

my leaders hey y'all thank you for joining me today um it's a pleasure to have you we're in my home again and I just want to say I appreciate all of you all who have been tuning in to this platform watching you know this is really a small group setting if you joined me and I appreciate you all you know about 30 to 50 of you all show up you know some of yall catch it in about 3 to 4 days I that's what we're averaging about 30 to 50 of you all and I appreciate you all sending me emails um requesting prayer requests some of y'all want to do

facetimes and it's a beautiful space that God is setting up so I thank you and if this is your first time joining me my name is Mike Jaa on your cheram I am a certified life coach I'm your online Pastor eventually one day I'm going to Pastor in church so God is building me up and he's been building me up for these past 10 years years and I love to Shepherd all right I love to Shepherd I love to connect with people I love to meet people where they're at and today if you join me this platform has shifted a lot um we've been doing a lot of Bible studies

God has revealed to me Michael I want you to read more of your Bible this year in front of the camera because many people they not going to pick up that bible they're not reading that word okay and in Revelations you see one of the names of Jesus Christ Christ Christ is the word of God literally as you're reading the word of God you're reading Jesus Christ right the thoughts and mind of God ABA our father and what I want yall to see today's video is that if you're going through a battle whatever battle you're going through if you're believer in Christ you're going to be going through certain battles

especially before you make it to any type of promised promised land when you're going through these battles battles one thing you need to realize is God is going to give you Victory not because of your name's sake but he's going to give you the victory for his name's sake okay no matter how big the battle is some of y'all in the battle right now that's Way Beyond you no matter how big the battle is when God gives you the victory over this battle that you could not defeat on your own it's going to to testify about the God of Israel right the god that you serve the god of Abraham

Jacob Isaac okay is going to testify of how powerful and how Mighty and how Sovereign God is and up until this point of my life I'm going to be honest the reason why my faith has been so strong has definitely been because of what God has been speaking to me in the word or speaking to me through the Holy Ghost it's been other people's testimonials and other people's stories and what we're going to read today is going to be in Joshua chapter 9 I'm going to break some things down we're going to read whatever scriptures God wants us to read and I'm going to do some cross references okay to

prove the text within the text of the Bible and uh one thing I want to do share is next year what we're doing a lot of is more testimonial films many of you all y'all have not seen the testimony movies that are on this platform the the short films um but they're literally going to be way better production this time around I got a team I've been learning more about screenplay writing um outlining storyboarding and so I said this year I want to create more fake films on people's testimonials and I want them to look beautiful we're still going to have people being featured on this platform but we're going

to be sharing so get ready you haven't subscribed make sure you subscribe so you can tune in for that um and there's more on the works I'm talking about podcast music more fake merchandise coming out but I'm very excited for the films and one specifically that's coming up is a brother in Christ by the name of bfred noble we're going to do a short film on his testimonial of how Jesus Christ delivered him from Ms all right multiple multiple sclerosis supposed to be will bound and this man is walking Le eans have disappeared twice okay and so that is a battle that God has used and gave him the victory

over so that what he can testify that Jesus Christ his faith made him whole so that's a whole another video that's coming out um so if you're with me right now let's get into prayer heavenly father in the mighty name of Jesus Christ Lord we thank you for this time we thank you for this moment Lord we uplift your holy Name Lord we thank you for your sovereignty we thank you that you love us so much that you would send your only begotten son to die on the cross for our sins God we thank you that when we repent that you forgive us Jesus Christ Lord today I ask that

you would speak to my leader speak to this believer this leader Loves You Lord they just want to hear a word from you they want to hear something that's going to speak into their life so that as you minister to them and as you comfort them Lord they can continuously testify boldly that it was God that delivered me from this season so father give us a word give me a word to share with your leader right now God in Jesus mighty name we pray amen amen amen my ladies I've I've been reading Joshua this season and I've been reading it very slowly very meticulously I've been going online and I've

been getting ex Jesus from it asking the Holy Spirit let me read this first and foremost let me get my own understanding but now let me exet the text exting the text or ex Jesus is just a word for let me see what the scripture says by itself right what is the word saying and as I've been reading it I've been asking different questions okay what's this Hebrew word here what does this mean why did this happen Okay God why did you do this why did you do that and it's so good when you reading the word to ask these questions and so Joshua now had a few questions question

to ask but there was a lot that been revealed to me so let's go to it in Joshua 9 to give y'all a little bit of background on what's going on here you we are going to run into a people okay the gianitsos land which is Canaan okay Canaan is a land that has many different cities in the land with a multitude of different kings in the land military military forces right great influence and gibian is one of those places which in chapter 10 it says gibian was a great City and it was a royal city gibian was also known for its military strength it was also known for its

trade okay it was a central place inside Canaan that's very important because they had power they had influence and they were also they were greater than the children of Israel okay they were greater and what we're going to see in this text is that they are afraid of the children of Israel because God has gone before them and he's put a fear in all of these Kings why because of the victory that the children of Israel have had and you're going to see here why they're so afraid it says in verse three okay it says and when the inhibits of gibian heard okay they heard fate comes by what fate

comes by hearing and when the inhibits of gibian heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to AI they did work with Wily in KJV that just means they worked crafty they worked tricky they worked deceptively they created a deceptive plan basically to trick the children of Israel and went and made as if they had been ambassadors and took old sacks upon their donkeys and wine bottles old and rent and bound up and old shoes and clouded upon their feet old garments upon them and all the bread of their provision was dry in m moldy so here in this text first and foremost gibian they heard of what children of

Israel their Commander Joshua them the Lord did to Jericho into Ai and AI was also a great city which it even says here gibian wasn't as great okay as let me rephrase that AI wasn't as great as as gibian and so what you're going to see here as I keep reading you're going to see how another king also feared the children of Israel because of what gibian is about to do here so gibian gibian this Royal City this great city is so afraid of how Jericho and AI are utterly destroyed if you listen to uh my message on Joshua 6 you're going to see that God gave an unconventional strategy

to the children of Israel Joshua the Lord came down in the form of a man a warrior with his sword drawn Joshua worships the Lord and the Lord delivers him a strategy Divine wisdom on how they're about to conquer Jericho Joshua obeys the command they utterly destroy Jericho I mean everybody in it the only person in the people that are saved in Jericho is a prostitute by the name of Rahab go to that video If you haven't watched it okay it's titled Joshua 6 is literally the first two words God's unconventional plan but then in the next chapter we see them also we see them take out AI now something

happens where Aon this individual in the children of Israel Aon he the spoil that they take from Jericho which is the gold the only thing that was spared was Rahab the gold and the silver and a couple other things there's a guy by the name of Aon that literally the lust of the eyes get him he's not content with the children of Israel have and he steals this accursed treasure that was supposed to be consecrated and set apart for the Lord he steals it this puts a curse upon the children of Israel where the favor of God has been removed and when they go to battle the next people AI

there's no favor there they get their butts whooped and it puts a fear on Joshua because Joshua's like confused God you you said that we were going to deliver these people you know you said we were GNA deliver these people what happened and if we read his frustration okay his frustration is in uh Joshua 7:8 I just I'm going to read it real quick oh Lord what shall I say when Israel turth their backs before their enemies for the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it and shall Environ us around and cut off your name from the earth and what will thou do unto thy

great name okay Joshua is pleading to God saying Lord I don't want the testimonial of the children of Israel to end here that we've been defeated at AI okay because it wouldn't be look good for us but God more so it won't look good for your name and what we see here what God will do for his name's sake okay and one thing we got to realize when we're going through battles as Believers God for your name's sake Lord deliver me from this enemy it's a very powerful prayer to pray okay and so to catch up God gives a command to find out who in the camp sto they find

out his Aon and God's commands is of no mercy he commits this judgment upon Aon and his family destroys Aon this is an act of judgment but also this Obedience of Joshua brings about about this like a repentance happens just like how we repent and we're able to repent because of Jesus Christ and what he did on the cross the blood that he shed we're just able to repent without having to sacrifice all these animals and things of that nature they get favor from God again and so when they go to defeat AI the strategy God gives them this time is different from the strategy that God gave them to

defeat Jericho and boom AI is defeated utterly destroyed everything within that dang city is gone they annihilate everybody and it's gruesome smiling but it's like it's really gruesome so the way that they annihilate Jericho the way that they annihilate annihilate AI the ganit they hear about this the king is terrified to the point where they know that we can't go up against the children of Israel and survive if you defeated AI dang who are y'all and we know that in the word it speaks about how everybody that um the children of Israel is about to go up against are greater Nations so these are greater enemies that they've never experienced

a face before okay and so here's the deal I'm going to read this to you all let me lock this so my face is still in Focus check this out here's what they do this great nation so what did I read they just they acted as if they weren't from this great Royal nation and they put on Old sacks of clothes they got owned b wine bottles owned garments right even their bread is Dr and his moldy is only to convince the children of Israel and Joshua that that they're not from the land that they said they were okay and so let's read verse 6 it says and they went

to Joshua unto the camp of gilgal this is um Joshua 9:6 verse 7 now and the man of Israel said unto the hivites peradventure you dwell Among Us how shall we make a league with you that word league in KJV is basically how shall we make a covenant with you okay and they said unto Joshua we are thy servants and Joshua said unto them who are you and from whence did you come and they said unto him from a very far country thy servants are come because of the name of the Lord thy God for we have heard the fame of him and all that he did in Egypt and

all that he did to the two kings of the amorites that were Beyond Jordan and seone king of heshbon and to OG king of Bashan which was at ashero wherefore our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spake to us saying take victuals with you for the journey and go to meet them and say unto them we are your servants therefore now make a league with with us so the gibeonites everybody in that place they heard about what had happened to the children of Israel and their Conquest victories all the way back to the days of Moses in Egypt dep parting of the Red Sea okay the battles that

they want in the the land and here we have it there once again they haven't answered the question of where are y'all from because if Joshua knew at that moment where they were from without a hesitation they would have been struck down okay because this was a commandment from the Lord I'm going to keep reading and then we're going to go to Deuteronomy and we're going to go to Exodus to prove what I'm talking about here why why do they why why are they doing this why are they Conquering the land in this way why are they taking out these people and utterly destroying these folks is it just Joshua

doing doing that so let's read verse 12 it says this is our bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses on the day we came forth to go unto you but now behold it is dry it is moldy they're lying once again they're lying about their food the provision that they took they chose to take this dry and this moldy food in order to be perceived that they were not from they they were not gites okay and these bottles verse 13 of wine which we filled were new and behold they be rent and these are garments and our shoes are become old by reason of a very

long journey another lie they took old garment it wasn't a long journey that they came from they lying their butt off right now man they just lying lying lying and the men took their victuals and act not counsel at the mou of the Lord so here's the here's the grave sin that happens right here the B my Tong the children of Israel they don't seek counsel of God okay they don't go to God to ask for discernment of who are these men they just take them from what they hear they hear the lie and they take the LIE as truth and they accept these guys it says in verse 15

and Joshua made peace with them and made a league with them to let them live and the princes of the congregation swear unto them okay so Joshua now has made a covenant With the Enemy okay people he's not supposed to make a covenant with one of the first places that you're going to see we not supposed to do this they weren't supposed to do this was an exodus let me see where I wrote it down 2018 if you pause for a moment and you go to Exodus 2018 I said well verses 20 um um 10-8 let's go there right now the Turning of the Bible is like it's like a

ASMR man it's so therapeutic so listen Exodus 20 all right you're going to find the Ten Commandments in this bad boy but if we go all the way down to verses 10 I said Exodus 20 sorry y'all Deuteronomy 20 20 Deuteronomy D I'm at I'm at my crib I can just sing anytime I want I'm at a crib all right so Deuteronomy 20 okay verse 10 it says when thou comest near unto a city to fight against it then Proclaim peace unto to it and if it shall be if it make thee an answer of peace and open unto thee then it shall be that all the people that is

found therein shall be tributaries unto thee and they Shall Serve thee okay so even before I read this I may I may just have to edit that one out because I have to read Deuteronomy 7 first okay yeah we going to edit some of this out I don't want y'all to have to wait this long for me to find my verses so we got to go to Deuteronomy 7 okay in Deuteronomy 7 let's read when the Lord God shall bring thee into the land whether thou goest to possess it and ha cast out many nations before Thee the Hittites and the gites and the amorites and the Canaanites and the

parasites and the hites and the jebusites Seven Nations greater and mightier than you so here we see that those Nations that the children of Israel are fighting are greater and they're mightier like they're greater in all aspects wealth riches power their Men of Valor Men of War are even mightier okay it says in verse two and when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee Thou shalt Smite them and utterly destroy them Thou shalt make no Covenant with them nor show Mercy unto them so here we see it no mercy and he even says neither take make marriages with them thy daughters Thou shalt not give unto your sons

nor his daughter shal thy take unto thy son for they will turn away thy son from following me that they may serve other gods so will the anger of the Lord be kindled against you and Destroy thee subtly okay but thus shall ye deal with them you shall destroy their altars break down their images cut down their Groves burn their graven images with fire for thou art a holy people unto the Lord thy God the Lord thy God ha chosen thee to be a special people unto himself above all people that are upon the face of the Earth that's Deuteronomy chapter 7 once again he says no make no Covenant

with them okay no show mercy so that being said that's why Jericho was utterly destroyed destroy other than Rahab who had faith in in God it was an idea of how even Gentiles receive grace through faith but none of these other people in Jericho showed that same level but here we have the gibian ites showing that they got this it's it's a it's a trembling fear that they have for God and because of that yeah they lied in order to not be murdered and we see why did they lie okay it says it right here let's go back this is when they found out okay so here's we going to

start here I know it's 25 minutes we going to cut all this we going to cut all this here's when they find out in verse 22 of Joshua chapter N9 he says this and Joshua called for them and he spake unto them saying wherefore have you beguiled us saying we are very far from you when you dwell Among Us now therefore you are cursed and there shall none of you be freed from being bondmen and hearers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God so first and foremost he did not Smite them he didn't Smite them because of the oath okay the oath that they gave

to the ganit they still honored it they were not going to Smite them they weren't going to go against their word okay and we see that we just read in what Exodus we read in Exodus that hey if it's a individual from another land and they do want to make peace they're just going to be laborers for you all that's what happens to the gibeonites but here's why they answered of why they lied to to Joshua verse 22 and they answered Joshua and said because it was certainly told thy servant how that the Lord thy God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land and to destroy all

the inhabitants of the land from before you therefore we were sore afraid of Our Lives because of you and have done this thing and now behold we are in thine hands as it seeth good and right unto thee to do unto us do and so did he unto them and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel that they slew them them not okay and Joshua made them that day hearers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation and for the altar of the Lord even unto this day in the place which he should choose verse 10 chapter 10 is a whole another I'm talking about

a whole another ball game with a whole another host of kings that hear of how the Gian nightes this Great Mighty City surrenders to the children of Israel and it just blows these Kings mind that's another message but here I want to tell you what do we just read what did we just witness this great city that was greater and mightier than the children of Israel were afraid not of them but of the god that they serve because the god that we serve has the ability to do things beyond our comprehension in order for us to see the victory for his name say so that every knee shall bow and

every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord in the Old Testament Jesus Christ wasn't physically born so they weren't proclaiming the name of Jesus but they were worshiping the Lord God the god of Israel and if anyone had faith in the god of Israel true faith in the god of Israel they could be spared we see this with with Rahab we see this with the fear that comes from the ganit because Paul's Ministry in the New Testament was to the Gentiles the Gentiles are the people who are Outsiders Outsiders they're not part of the lineage of the children of Israel but because of the grace of being able to

receive Jesus Christ through faith we are saved my leaders God assures that Abraham in the Book of Genesis you're going to come across this great land in Canaan Canaan which is the the promised land but there are going to be inhabitants and there going to be Kings there going to be leaders there you going to have to come against you're going to have to war against you're going to have to fight against but be assured God is fighting those battles giban ites they are so afraid because they know that God he's doing and he's completing what he said he's going to do they just defeated Jericho how in the world

they just defeated AI how in the world now the gibian ites surrender and if you have time go read chapter 10 of the Book of Joshua so you can find out what happens to another five Kings and More Kings to come after that the children of Israel the god that they serve is on a conquest to make sure that what he said come to pass and my believer who's watching this video before I close the god that you serve if he's given you a promise all right and there is a promise on your life and you're headed down the journey if you're following him you are headed down the journey

and you come against some battles in your life you must rely on the god that you serve Jesus Christ he's going to deliver you and he's already delivered you when the Bible says and we're praying God go before me God is not just going before you just like skipping he goes before you with might and he goes before you with power in the spirit clearing things getting you ready for a Victorious battle that's why we pray God before go before me before I enter in this thing God go before me before I mess this thing up God go before me God when the battle and the victory for me so

I could just walk through this thing so when that I step up right the enemy is so afraid the enemy is so afraid to step up to me because of who I truly serve and who you truly serve my leader is very vital that you hold on to this word not my words but the words that are right there in the Book of Joshua today in the beginning of the Book of Joshua what does he tell us in chapter one he says be strong and of good courage my leaders because of the god that you serve Jesus Christ the one that is advocating for you the one that is your

counselor fighting for you all he's asking for us is to continuously come back to him and Joshua what we see is Joshua going to God asking the Lord what is your strategy what do you want me to do what is your strategy when God gives strategy he's giving you wisdom because part of that word wisdom is skills the word skill you want the skill to move forward in whatever it is that you're praying for him to do but God will be victorious in this my leader y'all don't know what your battle is Jericho was a different battle the crossing of the Jordan was a different battle the battle of AI

was a different battle the way that the gods literally delivered them from the giban ites was a whole it's different so this season is not like last season and this battle is not like your last battle but all battles may be greater than the last season but at the end of the go at the end of the day God is the god who is the King of Kings and the Lord of lords the king of Jericho had to bow down the king of AI had to bow down the king of the gites had to bow down down and what you going to keep seeing in chapter 10 maybe I'm going

talk about that one in tomorrow's video is even those kings got to bow down too okay to the god that you serve heavenly father in Jesus mighty name Lord father we just want to come to you and say thank you for this word today thank you for your guidance thank you for your leadership Lord we thank you that you're showing us how powerful and how Mighty you are maybe somebody just needs to know how powerful and how Mighty you are maybe they forgot that you're the God that when you go before us you go before us like a fire of flames and you don't leave anything untouched that's meant to

try to come against us that you love us so much that you want to protect us from everything Hallelujah you love us so much that you get mad when other things try to come before us God that you're the god that wants to show us that you're the king of kings that you're the Lord of lords and that this problem in which we are facing it is not greater than you Jesus Christ so God give us the ability AB ility to submit to this the Holy Ghost give us the ability to submit to your Sovereign power give us the ability to lean on Jesus Christ this season like we've never

leaned on him before and pray that you will go before us heavenly father and Deliver us out of the hands of this enemy father I declare this leader delivered out of the hands of the enemy may you go before them today in Jesus name May something shift May something change may you shake and put a fear in the enemy anybody that's after them or against them Hallelujah may your Victory God may they begin to hear your victory that they have are going to hear in this Leader's life Hallelujah God we thank you for the victory God that individuals he and when they hear it God may they surrender Lord Jesus

may they repent Lord Jesus and commit their lives to you because you want to do a work in that person's life so God I just thank you for this time I thank you for this leader lead them go before them today they trust you it's in your precious son Jesus mighty name that we pray amen amen amen my my leaders I love you but Jesus Christ loves you more we are m