the lord spoke to me he said i was in an apostolic church and i was very young in the lord and he
said to me for the body for the church for the for the congregation he said this is a season
when kings go to war and i didn't even know that was a scripture so i went and i told the
apostle i said the lord says this is a season when kings go to war and i don't know what that means
he said that is to samuel 11 1. this was a time and in in israel they went to war in the spring
because conditions were good to fight the weather was right and so the lord was giving me a heads up
that the church not just me not just the apostle but that the church was heading into a season
of war and that was a heads up prophetically so that we could armor up right shields up
arms lock together let's get the strife out of the church let's make sure everybody is on the
same page unity right because where there's unity god commands the blessing and so this was a heads
up and from that moment the lord began to teach me about seasons of war seasons of war and you
know it may seem like you're always in a war and in the big picture we are there's a cosmic war for
truth there's a cosmic war between heaven and hell that's always raging however we personally are not
always on the front lines of that war right we're always you know we have to resist the enemies
temptations through our thought life and the enemy's temptation to bring us into sin or to say
the wrong thing but i'm talking about onslaught i'm talking about a season of war and if you've
ever never been in one then you won't know what i'm talking about but you will in a minute but you
know what a season of war is amen you know what it is you know what it is it's just it's it's like
you know what a season of blessing is okay the season of war is the opposite it's the
opposite but here's the thing it may seem like you're always in a war but the truth is
and i can show you this in scripture there are also seasons of rest
and we need ultimately and this is what i'm learning this is what i think i've learned in
this season one of the biggest lessons because two times i've had this happen
a few weeks ago right before new year's my computer you know the hard drive burned out
i think i told you that was a brand new computer and they're still trying to fix it's been weeks
right it's been weeks i still can't figure out what's wrong with it and before that this company
stole ten thousand dollars from me and there was all these things that pop pop pop pop pop
remember that i told you the story and i told you there was such a grace on me that i didn't even
i mean i knew there was bad stuff happening but it didn't agitate my spirit i didn't get like oh
no know there was just such a great it was the same thing that happened with this past week
there was literally literally all these people on facebook the false prophets hired them to curse me
literally and i'm reading through some of these comments and i'm like man okay first of all
they're saying i'm not saved but then they're saying i have a religious spirit so which is it
you know i i i make up your mind and it was just like coming from all directions and i'm reading it
and i said i told prophet vanessa i said you know in past seasons when i would write articles for
charisma i would know that certain things i was going to write was going to really stir up people
with jezebel spirits i knew that certain things i was going to write is really going to make the
devil mad and so i would know that i was going to get hit with witchcraft i would just expect it
because if you brace for the attack it's not as bad if i tighten my stomach before you punch me in
the stomach then it's not going to hurt me as bad amen yeah i learned that so don't ask me how so
all these people are cursing me and i told prophet as i said and i told my friend ryan i said god
like their words have like literally fallen to the ground there's like not one bit of
witchcraft coming against me there's not like it didn't blip my radar i mean
nothing happened this they were so venomous and so big you can go read it if you want to
it's just you know because the devil just really hates me and i'm so happy about that amen
i always say when i can figure out what i did to make the devil so mad please help me lord to
see what i did not because i don't want to do it again but because i do want to do it again amen
that's the kind of attitude you have to have in warfare because if you back up every time the
devil says boo the devil will say boo all the time until he run off in a cave and hide like elijah
oh jesus so i don't know but here's what i've learned and here's my point i have
learned by the grace of god to rest in the warfare and this was a prophetic word that james
gaul spoke over me i was doing a a webinar with him maybe three years ago maybe four years ago
somewhere in that timeline at the end of the broadcast he prophesied
that i would learn how to walk in this be a a resting warrior something like that you know
how he makes up these cool twists on words and i'm like and at the time i was going through
such warfare when he prophesied and it made me mad i'm like what do you mean rest in warfare
don't you know what kind of fine i'm in don't you see the kind of i can't rest i've got to fight
but this is the fulfillment of that word and if you're not there yet you will get there you
will get there it's a process amen it really is a process and so we learn we learn that there are
seasons of war and there are seasons of rest but then the biggest thing is to be able to rest in
the warfare so david fought many battles for example um but see when we look at the life
of david i can tell i'm not even going to get through this message today when we when we look
at the life of david it seems as if he was always fighting right and he was a man of war that's why
he couldn't build the temple because god said there's too much blood on your hands i'm going
to give you the pattern for the temple and your son solomon will build it you gather up all the
materials all the gold everything he needs he will build it but in reality david did have seasons of
rest it only looked like he lived in non-stop warfare because the stories in the bible are
condensed i mean do you really think that david's whole life can fit in you know 15 chapters of the
bible or 25 no of course not it's condensed it got the highlights it's the cliff notes of david's
life and so we understand that david even had seasons of rest i want to show you this here it is
it is in 2 samuel 7 1 because if david could have season's arrest you can and that should
encourage you now when the king said the king settled into his house the lord had given him
rest from all his enemies on all sides i like that amen now i'm sure there were plotting and planning
but he had seasons of rest and proverbs 16 7 this is where i'm trying to get to
i want to get to this reality in proverbs 16 7 when a man's ways please the lord he makes even
his enemies to be at peace with him now that's a promise amen that's a promise so solomon solomon
david's son he didn't even have any warfare toward the end of his life he lived in peace
for most of his reign until he started falling into big time sin and then his enemies started
get started to attacking him and so we're going to talk more about that kind of stuff in a minute