hi it's Jennifer LeClaire you probably know me from my book the spiritual
warriors guide to defeating Jezebel it's been a really hot seller because I dive
into these spiritual warfare issues but not just with Scripture which is very
important not just with practical experiences which is also very important
but with the balance of the two and with revelation from the Holy Spirit which is
the ultimate importance okay without revelation from the Holy Spirit it's
just man-made laws or man-made presumption and we don't need any of
that here so let's dive into a new article that I wrote this week and I
want to sort of flesh it out here on these weekly videos I was talking about
knowing when to shout and knowing when to stay silent you can find that article
on charisma magazine charisma mag calm or on my website at Jennifer LeClaire.org
it's very important you know I was reading Exodus and I was reading through
the scripture and I noticed there was a time where God said to stay silent but
then I remember other times in scripture where God said to shout and so I started
you know I got this revelation you know you got to know when to stay silent and
when to shut up if I can just be blunt about it you know
when it comes to spiritual warfare strategies there is no one-size-fits-all
you know there's no one spiritual warfare strategy yes we use the name of
Jesus yes we complete the blood well we need to sermon we need a strategy from
the holy spirit you know David used to always ask before he went to battle
shall I go up and so he needed that that witness that he was supposed to run to
the battle line he needed that strategy and so when it comes to these spiritual
warfare strategies in this section in this article I'm talking about where
there's a time to shout at a time to be silent and discerning the difference
discerning the difference can deliver you from the hand of your enemy or it
can deliver the enemy into your hand you've got to discern when to stay
silent and when to shout all right when to stay silent and when to shout now
listen although there's spiritual laws and in Kingdom principles you need to
know when to operate in which law and when to apply which principle that's the
basic nutshell of this article of this video you've got to know when to do
what and unfortunately we often shout when we should remain silent and we
often remain silent when we should be shouting and we wonder why the enemy's
not fleeing we wonder why we haven't gotten the victory yet and this is only
one reason why there's many reasons why we may not be seeing in the victory it
may just be you know we have to wait for God's timing but in this particular
article I want to talk about knowing when to shout and knowing when to stay
silent because here's the deal if you shout when you should remain silent you
could find yourself fighting in the power of your flesh and I don't care how
mighty you are and how much you've died to self
you're not going to defeat the enemy in your flesh you know it's not going to
work you know our weapons are not carnal okay
they're not fleshly they're mighty through God to the pulling down of
strongholds and we know that from Scripture Paul taught us that he taught
that to the church at Corinth and it's there for us to see our weapons are not
carnal but they're mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds casting
down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge
of God so if you remain silent when you should shout you could be neglecting
those spiritual weapons that will cut your enemies to bits so again on the one
hand if you shout when you should remain silent you can find yourself warring in
the flesh if you remain silent when you should shout you could be neglecting
your supernatural weapons that could lead you into immediate victory so let's
look at this in Scripture so Moses delivered the Israelites out of Egypt he
came to the Red Sea and of course you know the story you know Pharaoh's army
was behind them and the Red Sea was in front of them and there was really
nowhere to go and so they had no place to run they had no place to hide and
they were afraid and I don't blame them I mean you know we all had deal with
fear at times and you know you've got an army in front of you and a red scene you
know army behind you in a red sea in front of you I understand the temptation
to fear now the Bible commands us not to fear and we learn thank God through this
event in Scripture and through others that we don't have to fear now when God
tells us to go he's gonna make a way that when God says to run to the battle
line that we've got the victory you know when God says to do something he's going
to give us the grace to see it through so we know we don't have to fear because
of these sorts of miraculous events but they were afraid and you know they
hadn't had that experience with God so I don't blame I'm not gonna pick on him
here but the Bible says here's one thing I would pick on for the Bible says the
Israelites cried out to the Lord and that was good but then they complained
to Moses in Exodus 14 11 they complained to Moses that he led them out into the
wilderness to die like oh you know he should have just left us there we had
potatoes and you know and if they were just complaining complaining complaining
complaining now complaining can consorted delay your victory delaying
can complain it can delay your prayer answer and negate your prayer answer
your you're putting on these complaints and when you're complaining listen
you're really complaining against God because you're like God you know you
might not be saying it to God you might be saying it to your friend you might be
saying it to your Moses you might be saying it to your leader but when you're
complaining you're basically saying you know what I don't like that God has left
me in this position or put me in this position or won't deliver me out in this
position I don't like I don't have this or that I can't do this I want this and
I don't have it you're complaining that God didn't give you what you wanted to
do something that you wanted him to do that's the bottom line so think about
that next time you're complaining is oh you know you got to stop that you've got
to stop complaining all the complaining has got to go
but Moses bless his heart he didn't get frustrated with them many times but he
also stood in the gap for them and here he's trying to encourage them as a good
leader what he's trying to edify that he understands they're scared and he tells
them here in Exodus 14 13 through 14 do not be afraid
okay stand still and see the salvation of the Lord which he will accomplish for
you today now he's just about to deliver you for
the Egyptians whom you see today you shall see again no more forever the Lord
will fight for you and listen you shall hold your peace
you shall hold your peace there in the midst of the battle there in the midst
of a dangerous situation there in the midst of a life-and-death situation and
God is basically through his leader Moses saying hold your peace and that's
what many times we need to do when we get in these situations where we don't
know what to do we can't see a way out hold your peace that alone
walking in peace as spiritual warfare Paul talks about the shoes of peace but
he lists the whole armor of God and if you're gonna be effective in warfare
you've got to know when to hold your peace and sometimes it just means zip it
don't say anything don't go on a rant against the devil don't start binding
and loosing and screaming at the top you just be quiet just be quiet just hold
your peace so holding your peace is a spiritually one key and spiritual batter
to battle to keep the power of God flowing you will flow more in God's
power and God's grace and God's gifts when you remain in peace as a matter of
fact anything that cuts off your peace can also cut off that that source of
power or at least diminish it okay as I having a clogged pipe so complaining
about your situation only opens the door for another attack because you can't
hold up your shield of faith listen you can't hold up your shield of faith while
speaking words of death you can't hold up your shield of faith
and speak words of complaint you're contradicting yourself you're you're
working against yourself you're saying you have faith but your actions your
words aren't lining up with that and the devil knows that the devil is not
looking so much that you've got your shield of faith up but your faith is
manifested through your words your faith is expressed in other words through your
words so how you gonna hold up yours I got my shield of faith double I'm armed
I've got my shield of faith and you're sitting there complaining because God
has not delivered you it doesn't work that way all right so let's not do that
sometimes the battle really is the Lord sometimes it's really not yours to fight
in the battles always the lords but sometimes your part in it it's just to
be quiet wait upon the Lord be still and know that He is God
so all your binding and rebuking and you know all that you know here's the deal
listen all that could really be stirring up more doubles against you that you're
not even on their radar screen but you're out there binding you're rebuking
and casting down and all the stuff you're not even even you have no
discernment on the matter you're just praying wrote prayers you're just you
know screaming at the devil is really out of frustration you're just hoping
that's you hit something you know doesn't work that way if God doesn't
show you what you're battling be quiet until he does don't start binding and
you know doing all this stuff you just stir
up the enemy against your just Pollock pulse it you're just buffeting the air
you know you might hit something you didn't mean to hit it might hit you back
you might find yourself in a bigger problem than you had before you open
your big mouth okay so bless you but sometimes you need to shut the blessed
mouth all right okay so now here we see that God did the deliver that he did
deliver that is realized we know that he parted the Red Sea they marched through
on dry land and then when the is when the Egyptian army came through he closed
up the sea and they drowned and they never saw them again so that was only
though after they stopped complaining and kept their mouth shut
yeah the message Bible says shut your mouth for that particular verse shut
your mouths if it but God listen God gave Joshua a different strategy now
Joshua was there with with with when all this was happening but God gave Joshua a
different strategy you know Joshua could have just you know decided when when he
was going in to take over a Jericho he could have just said well we're just
gonna keep silent that's what worked for Moses you know we're just gonna keep no
but he didn't do that he got a strategy from God and that's why I'm saying you
can't just you know do what you always do you need to be led by the Holy Spirit
in spiritual warfare you know he's the one that knows he's the one that leads
us and guides us into all truth God always leads us into victory in Christ
it's when we get out of Christ in other words it's when we run ahead of him or
lag behind him that we find ourselves with more trouble and I'm not saying
you're never gonna have trouble if you're in the will of God you are gonna
have trouble if you're in the will of God but you're gonna get out of it much
sooner you're gonna see your way you're gonna have your peace if you do these
things you get known to shout you gotta know when to keep quiet so here we see
that in Joshua 6 to 2 through 5 one's gonna read this to you and the Lord said
to Joshua see I have given Jericho into your hand its King and the mighty men of
valor you shall march around the city all you men of war and you shall go
around the city once this you shall do six days and seven priests shall bear
seven trumpets of rams horns before the ark but the seventh day you shall march
around the city seven times and the priests
she'll blow trumpets it shall come to pass when they make a long blast with
the ram's horn and when you hear the sound of the trumpet see these are very
specific instructions for about it for six days you know you're going silently
for six days on the seventh day the priest blows the seven trumpets and when
the people hear it when you hear the sound of the trumpet that all the people
shall shout with a great shout that the wall of the city will fall down the
walls of Jericho the wall it will fall down now the result was that Joshua and
the men of war and the priests they they're the people they obeyed and the
walls fell down and Joshua and his men took the city but they had to shout as
loud as they could the Bible calls it a great shout they had to be obedient to
do that now I don't think if they hadn't shouted I don't think the walls would
have fallen down because God said do this and this will happen so if they
didn't do this this wasn't gonna happen okay so we need to be obedient this was
there were fare strategy now I don't know how God caused those walls to fall
down when the Israelites shouted anymore than I know how God parted the Red Sea
when Moses you know III don't know I don't get it I don't understand it
okay but what I do know is is that we have the victory in Christ but
manifesting the victory largely depends on our obedience the O word obedience
for example when we practice sin let's talk about when we sin and we were quick
to repent we make time when we practice sin we're in disobedience and we open
the door for the enemy to wreak havoc in our lives right when on the other hand
we practice obedience I don't mean that we're always never gonna make a mistake
or make a sin when we practice obedience when we set our hearts to 100-fold
obedience when we set our hearts toward perfect obedience we open the door for
God's power to flow through us and overcome every obstacle we need God's
power again the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through God to
the pulling down of strongholds they are not carnal weapons they're supernatural
weapons and we need to maintain that supernatural peace we need to maintain
obedience and God gives us the grace to obey this
good news now I'm gonna close with this the complaining complaining when God
tells us to stand and having done all stand according to Ephesians 6 and 13
complaining when God tells us to stand and having done all stand is not going
to deliver us from the hand of the enemy likewise staying silent when God has
told us to shout is it going to bring us victory either we've got to do what God
says we need to get that strategy before we enter into battle ok so before you
charge into battle get that spiritual warfare strategy from God that's 101 ok
I don't hear a lot of people talking about that you people don't like to just
pray wrote prayers didn't work for me brought more problems on me than it
solved you got to know what you're fighting against you got to get to
sermon you got to be led by the Holy Spirit so that may mean staying silent
it may mean shouting it may mean something else you know these aren't the
only two warfare strategies not one of the other okay there's there's other
things but we're talking about this now so spiritual warfare is not like a
cookie cutter okay you can't just hope this work this time this worked last
time I'm gonna do this this works every time well maybe it might work every time
it's at one time and that one time might be the bad time so get your get your
strategy from God and also although there's what I said before although
there's spiritual laws and Kingdom principles you've got to know which law
to operate and what's which principle to apply so fall the Holy Spirit and I
guarantee you you'll see victory every time the victory belongs to you like we
talked about last week the enemy has been disarmed it's Jesus disarmed the
enemies he disarmed the principalities and powers we rearm them we give them
ammunition with the words of our mouth with our disobedience and other things
like that so let me pray for you before I go I got to get over to the prayer
room so I'm gonna head out soon and I want to pray for you before I go a
father in the name of Jesus I thank you that you help us God to discern the
enemies we face not to run to the battle line to fight an enemy we can't see
buffeting the air and provoking enemies that weren't even coming against us god
we ask you God to show us when to shout when to stay silent when to run to the
battle line when to when to pull back for season when to when to do this when
it show us show us your strategy remind us to ask
you before we engage in battle remind us to ask you and we thank you that you've
given us the victory in the name of Jesus we have victory in you we can be
assured of that we thank you for it in Jesus name Amen
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bless you