A Legacy Worth Leaving

Jun 21, 2026 • Pastor Dr. Alton McKinley

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God says the battle still belongs to him. I know you've been fighting yourself. You've been trying to make it work, you've been trying to make it happen, but God says this battle, your battle, still belongs to him. Let me see it over here to this side over here. God says the battle still belongs to him, Bradford John. The battle still belongs to him.

He told me to tell you that because you keep trying to fight in your own way. You keep trying to fight these enemies and not knowing, amen, that God allowed the enemies to be there.

Let me get to the text because somebody don't believe me right now. I want to give you a glimpse into me and God's conversation the last 10 days, amen. God wants me to share with you what he's been talking to me about in these 10 days.

I said, “God, why is all this stuff happening?” He said, “Well, Eric, who told you the battle was yours? You missed to survive what I set up.”

“So what are you talking about, God?”

He said, “You remember in January when you had the leadership conference? Remember the section you didn't get to because it got so good, and we ran out of time?”

Whoop, there it is, Pastor Off. He said the section you didn't get to was telling people how you got to lead when you still going through and see it, amen.

See, God is teaching us that if we gonna be rooted, you got to demonstrate some stuff to other people—that they can see you going through the same stuff they're going through, but you gotta stand up. I wish I had somebody. You got to show up when you don't feel like showing up. You got to show up when you want in the fetal position and want to crawl up and cry. You got to show up because people are depending on you to be who God called you for.

Come here, King Jehoshaphat, because the enemy was just not only coming to kill the people, he was a part of the people. They were coming to kill everybody, but he still had to be king, and he had to demonstrate that if I'm the leader, I got to stand up and be the leader.

Somebody say amen. Sometimes you got to show up when you don't feel like showing up. You got to sacrifice when you don't feel like sacrificing. You got to do the things that God has called you to do. Your circumstances do not trump your calling. I wish I had somebody here.

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PART 2 — WHAT JEHOSHAPHAT DID NOT DO:

Some of the things that King Jehoshaphat did, but also some things he didn't do. Notice here, before we get too far, I want to show you some things that he didn't do.

I'mma get to what he did, Sister Shona, but I noticed what he didn't do. When he was surrounded by enemies, this is Nadia, he did not panic privately. Now mind you, the enemy was all around him. He did not panic privately, because if he panicked privately, it would show publicly. Right? Right. So that when he went to go do the thing that God told him to do in the midst of a crisis, the people would follow. But if they saw panic on his face, they would have panicked too. The worst thing you could do to a group of people is make everybody panic.

He did not pretend to have all answers. Let me just talk to the men for a moment. Brothers, we ain't got to have all the answers. I know sometimes we like to be the man, but being the man don't say you know it all. Being the man says, “God, what we gonna do? You got to fix this. I don't know which way is up. You know my limitations. I know I've been fronting, but you know my limitations.”

Hey man, Sister Sir, I'm subject to cuss. I'm subject. God, you know my limitations. I need you to cover me right now in the name of Jesus Christ and the blood of Jesus. I need to be covered. I know my weakness.

Watch this: he did not rely on his military strength. I'mma prove it in a minute. He didn't go around flexing his muscle. He knew that they had a military, but he didn't flex that.

He did not isolate himself. Now talk to some of the people that are kind of reserved, amen. He didn't isolate himself in a time of trouble. Worry about where I'm going — y'all just catch up with me in a minute, we get to the points, amen. He did not isolate himself in a time of trouble.

Can I be very transparent? See, right when I'm going through something, I get real quiet and back, because I'm contemplating. As a leader, you got to step out front and just say, “I don't know the answers. Come on, y'all, let's figure it out.” But you cannot retreat in the time of crisis, because the enemy is surrounding you, amen.

He did not ignore spiritual counsel. “Pastor, the Lord told me…” Lord didn't tell me that. Even if the Lord ain't told you that, Scripture also says listen to all prophesying and hold on to what's true. At least listen, so that then you have something to evaluate whether it's true or not. Nothing in, nothing out. You need something to counterbalance the world that we live.

He did not lead with his ego. That's all right, that's the devil don't want me to preach this above Bible. Don't worry about it, we good, amen. He did not lead with his ego. He did not create confusion. And he did not worship only after the victory.

Some people sit back and wait, First Lady, and when it's on and popping, now it's time to party. This leadership requires you to do something unique — he demonstrates when you worship.

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PART 3 — POINT ONE: ACKNOWLEDGE THE BATTLE IS REAL

Let me get to my first point. Y’all don’t believe me.

The first point you want to do when you know that the battle still belongs to the Lord is acknowledge the battle is real. Some of us are still in denial about the battle that we in. Somebody—some of us—are passive and just say, “Oh, this too shall pass.” Can I tell you? Some stuff ain't gonna pass until you do something.

Every now and then, God’s gonna orchestrate some stuff that’s gonna force you to have to do something. Let me prove my point. These enemies that they have—if you go up a few verses before that, King Jehoshaphat’s prayer—he asked God a question. He says, “God, these are the same enemies that when we were coming to the Promised Land, we could have destroyed, but you wouldn’t let us.”

I get y’all missing this. They could have destroyed them already. Now they coalesced together to come in and defeat them. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Getting this? He’s upset now when he’s talking to God. “God, we could have already took these jokers out. Now it has compounded. The problem has gotten bigger because you wouldn’t allow us to destroy them when we thought it was appropriate to do so.”

God wouldn’t allow you to overcome then because the lesson God wanted to teach to the other people was how to overcome the stuff you going through. You thought it was just for you. You thought the enemies was just for you. You thought, “Oh, woe is me.” Look—the reason it’s there is because God is gonna get some glory out of your life whether you want it to or not.

You gotta go through some stuff to have to overcome, because guess what? Every now and then, you the example. Somebody say amen. Every now and then, you got to be the one to stand up and say the goodness of God is real. And when them jokers look at you, and your eyes is a melody, they gonna believe you because you ain’t talking theory. You talking somebody that has experienced something with God, and you can look them in the eye: “God is good. God is able. I ain’t going through what you’re going through, but I know who God is, and God will bring you out.”

But all you gotta do is accept and acknowledge that the battle is real.

He said the first step to a victory is telling the truth. Tell the truth. It’s hard, amen, telling the truth about stuff—about you. It’s easy, Rob. Come on, Robbie. You know, “Rob, you need to do this, I need to do this, I need to pontificate to you.” Yeah, yeah. No—look in the mirror and pontificate to yourself, amen. Because I’m guessing what’s wrong with him, but I know what’s wrong with me.

Uh huh. You know how y’all look in the mirror and try to get the hair right? You can see it. Everybody else: “What’s the matter?” “I just can’t get this…” “I don’t even see what you’re talking about.” You can see what the problem is. And when you can see what the problem is, you wanna pray about your own problem, amen. Just make sure you acknowledge the problem.

He didn’t set himself to worry. He didn’t set himself to panic. He set himself to seek the Lord.

When he heard the enemy was there, amen, he didn’t call the generals. He called his wife, amen. He called his cousin. He called his mom and grandmama, amen. He went to the Lord. My question is: who the first person you call? You got an answer—don’t tell on yourself. Who is it we calling first? Who is it we calling first?

Are we calling an “amen crowd”? You know who the amen crowd is, right? The one that you call: “Yeah man, I hear what you’re talking about, dawg.” Yeah. Just gonna agree with you no matter what. Wrong as two left shoes, amen, but just gonna ride with you because you your partner. Or you call homegirl: “Girl, I know…” Uh huh. Soon as I hang up—child, they calling again. No help. Don’t waste your time.

If you gonna call somebody, call the Lord, amen. Call him first. Call him and seek him. He didn’t just call him—he sought him.

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PART 4 — SEEKING THE LORD

That’s the difference between just going to God, amen, and seeking after him. See, y’all just came to church today, so you seeking the Lord. You see—you coming, you at the door, amen, waiting for them to open. Uh huh, because you can’t wait to get in.

“Hey man, are y’all open yet?” You know, y’all remember the Black Friday sale when y’all was at Walmart waiting for—yeah, yeah, yeah. That’s what I’m talking about. That’s when you seeking the Lord to get in, because you know, “I need to get in the presence of God.” Because guess what? That’s the only thing that will soothe me and soothe the situation, because I got enough experience now that when I get in his presence, stuff begins to work out.

Hey, guess what? And when it don’t work out—amen—it ain’t right, amen, but guess what? I noticed something: I ain’t got no money, but I got food. Uh huh. I ain’t got no money, but I got just enough gas. I’m not talking to somebody here. Hey man, my child getting on my last nerve, but guess what? They still alive. Y’all ain’t praying with me this morning, amen. What 11 o’clock crowd?

He says, watch this. The second thing you want to do, amen, when you know the battle belongs to the Lord, amen, is that you take it to the Lord in prayer.

Sometimes we don’t want to pray. Let’s be truthful. If the situation is so bad, sometimes we don’t feel like praying. Depending on what the situation is, I’m more acquainted with crashing out than I am praying. Let me talk this out over here—they don’t know what “crash out” mean, amen. Crash out means: don’t push me, because I’m—yeah, I got the right crowd. Hey man, that’s what crash out means. “Don’t come for me.” Hey man, I’m subject. I need help. It’s by the grace of God that’s on my life that I ain’t crashing out.

Some of y’all need to go home and go on your job and say, “Thank you, God, I ain’t crashing out. I’m just happy to be in the present,” amen.

He says just take it to the Lord in prayer. When King Jehoshaphat was afraid—somebody say “afraid”—he proclaimed a fast and called all of Judea.

Some of us ain’t gonna fast on nothing, because somebody here right now—don’t tell on yourself—but you already know where you going to dinner after this. Got the right crowd. You see, if it’s serious enough, you put that plate down. Put that social media down. “No, God, we need a fix for this. We need a solution. We don’t need it next week—we need it right now. God, you said come boldly unto the throne, amen, and I’m coming boldly. God, where you at? God, fix this. I need you to—you said you were my God, amen, and these people, amen, these situations, amen, ain’t what they supposed to be. I need you to intervene.”

That’s prayer. You notice I didn’t say, “In the name of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.” No. “It’s me, oh Lord, standing what? In the need of prayer.” I ain’t got time to be praying about somebody else. I’m trying to pray about me, because there’s a demonstration that he wants us to recognize with this, amen.

He says he called a fast. All of them came, and then he prayed one of the greatest prayers in the Bible. He started with who God is.

Wait a minute. Texting in the text—I got three enemies around me. I didn’t start with who the enemy was. I started with who God is. That’s positive states identification.

See, some of us focus on our issues versus our God, as though our issues are bigger than God. And understanding, amen, Brother Peterson, that is an act of faithlessness. What we’re telling God—amen—the same God who reached out and grabbed nothing, threw it in the air, and called it heaven and earth… that God that made everything known to man… I don’t go to him? I come with my own pre‑thinking that this is too big for him?

Now, we don’t say that with our words. We demonstrate it with our actions.

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PART 5 — GOD REMINDS US WHO HE IS

I wish I had somebody. I found myself, amen, trying to—Sister Rob—trying to do it myself. But God says, “No, this one you cannot.” Every now and then, God will orchestrate it just so you can get a friendly reminder that this battle is still not yours. Because guess what? We can get a little uppity.

This is what I call the two Scriptures and a hymn, and we binge‑watch T.D. Jakes. Did y’all get that? And all of a sudden, stuff comes and hits us—gut punches us. And then I say, “Well man, what just happened?” God said, “Oh, you thought you knew. It’s best that you come back to me.”

So he started with who God is. And when he starts with who God is, what you’re doing is you’re acknowledging God, and you’re reverencing him. And when you reverence God, guess what? Things begin to happen. Because you reverence him because of the relationship.

What am I saying? Hermeneus—I don’t know who he got that from when he did the introduction today—but he referenced that based off the relationship. God wants you to reference him based off the relationship that you got, not the one that Pastor got.

Some of us come to church and rely on Pastor Alton, Pastor Rob, Deacon Bobby. “Oh, I’mma come there. I know these men and women of God are there.” No, no, no. God is not a grandfather. You gotta get to him for yourself. You gotta know who God is for yourself.

Look—if you don’t get anything else out this message, don’t you leave here thinking that everything is corporate. I have yet to go to a funeral, amen, and there was more than one person in the casket. I’ve yet to be in that situation. This is it. You were born by yourself, and when you leave, this is personal. It is an individual thing that we’re doing.

He started with God, and then what? He remembered what he’s done. Some of us, amen, have forgotten we are being North Texas. I can say this: some of us have forgotten that we from Mississippi. What I mean by that is that Louisiana. What I mean by that, Brother John, is just 30, 40 years ago, I can remember going to our great‑grandmother’s house, amen, and having to go outside. It was nighttime, amen, and having to go to the outhouse. And I’m picking which room I wanna use. Somebody say amen.

So you gotta remember what God has done. God has brought us thus far by what? Faith. Now ain’t the time to get faithless. It’s time to pick it up a notch.

He says you got to remember what God has done. God has blessed all of us, amen, and taken us to heights we never thought we could have. Rob, you were unqualified when you first went in there. The interview was coming, and you were shook. You were nervous, amen, trying to go in there for the interview—nervous. And matter of fact, when they told you that you had the job, you were shocked. You were shocked that you got the job.

Hey man, when you shocked you got the job, now all of a sudden you walking around complaining at the water cooler with the jokers that sitting on there. And God has blessed you to be in the position. You only there for two reasons—you forgot 1st and 15th. You get it?

All the politics and all the other stuff that’s going on—you just got to get your check and get on out. Come and worship God. And matter of fact, you’re to be an ambassador. So when the people that are going through on the job, you could be the ambassador for Christ.

That’s why you getting into it with them—because you lowered your relationship. Amen. It flipped from the mentor relationship to a poser relationship. You supposed to be mentoring. Now all of a sudden, you down there complaining with the chickens.

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PART 6 — REMEMBERING GOD’S FAITHFULNESS

…we start complaining about the stuff that we got, that we couldn’t get for ourselves. Let me say it again: we complain about the stuff that we got that we couldn’t get for ourselves. God said, “How dare you?” We can’t complain about what we got. We got to celebrate what we got. We’ll see in a minute.

He says, watch this: the same God who brought you through last year—let me say it again—the same God who brought you through last year, and you didn’t know how you were gonna make it, is the same God right now. The same God that kept great‑grandmama, that she lived in a situation where she didn’t have a lot.

Who in here can remember when they were a child and had nothing, but you didn’t have none till you got old? We can tell you what our grandma used to do every single—why my dear shouting every Sunday? My dear didn’t need a way made. She needed a way made that she couldn’t make for herself, because 80 to 100 dollars a week, amen, would have—Pastor Alton with his appetite—wasn’t gonna cut it. Hey man, she needed help for all of us. Hey man, somehow she made it because of what she did.

But what did she do, Pastor? What she did was, amen, she worshiped.

I want to get there yet—hold on.

The next thing he did was he got honest with God about his helplessness. Again, ladies, excuse me—we gonna have an iron‑sharpens‑iron man moment. A lot of times we don’t want to admit that we helpless. Am I the only one? But y’all just listen to me. My problem—do you know, y’all—I see admitting helplessness in our mind as a sign of weakness. But Scripture said when we are weak, we are strong.

And so as soon as you admit that I’m helpless, then God moves and acts on your behalf. But when you never admit your situation—oh God, come on—when we never admit our situation, God can’t move. It ain’t that he won’t move—he can’t move till you take a step forward, because it requires an act of faith on your part, amen, to get the ball rolling.

It ain’t that God ain’t powerful. It’s whether you faithful enough. Because we walk not by sight but by faith. The problem is we looking to see something, and God said you ain’t gonna see it yet.

So now we got a conflict in the situation where I gotta really step out on faith. And my stepping out on faith is that I cannot see it. I just gotta trust God for it. And I gotta trust God for it. I gotta hear from God and hear a word from God. I can’t hear a word from God if I don’t open up my Word. I’m too busy. “They getting on my last nerve.” I got too much complaining. I’m spending my social media watching the Cowboys report on what they gonna do or not gonna do. Don’t laugh, Brother Brett.

The next thing—him is all around anyway—the next thing we wanna do when we know the battle still belongs to the Lord is hear God’s answer.

Sometimes we pray, Sister Melody—soon as we say “amen,” we gone. Going to sleep, going to work, going to do something else. We never hear back from God. If God is real, and he’s the entity of our salvation, why don’t we have dialogue versus having one‑way prayer? Because guess what? God will speak back to you.

I know the question in somebody’s mind now, Brother Bobby, is: “How I know it’s God talking to me?” The devil won’t ever tell you anything good. That’s a telltale sign, amen, who you dealing with. If it’s bad, it ain’t God. If it’s manipulative, conniving, self‑serving—all those—that ain’t God. If it’s leading to your own understanding, it ain’t God.

God will give you a word. He will match it to a Scripture. Then he got the mitigated God to give you confirmation. He will not leave you in the dark. If God tells you something, he will give you confirmation on what it is you supposed to do and how you supposed to do it.

What am I saying? You sitting there reading, and God just dropping stuff in your mind. All of a sudden, you sitting there—your tuna fish sandwich—you just popping up on YouTube, it’s popping up on TV. All of a sudden you come to Bible study—oh, they talking about the same thing. “Oh, Pastor reading, preaching about that. What a coincidence.” That ain’t coincidence. That’s God giving you crumbs, telling you which way to go. “That way.”

But the problem is we get into what we call paralysis by analysis, and don’t know whether that’s God or not. “Is that God telling me to do that?” Well, the devil ain’t gonna tell you to go down there and bless the people. Come on, amen. He ain’t gonna tell you do that. He gonna tell you, “Look, get in the fetal position. Crawl up. You’re not worthy. You don’t belong. Look at all your infallity—in fact, your problems, your issues. Look at all that stuff that you got going on that makes you imperfect.” Not realizing God specializes in imperfection.

Everybody he calls is imperfect. Why does God—not only take—but why does God call imperfect people? God calls imperfect people because that makes you relatable to other people. And when God sees that he brought you out, Sister Kim, with your imperfection, somebody can say, “Sister Danny, you mean to tell me you went through so‑and‑so?” “I did.”

God has a funny way, amen, of using stuff, amen, to attract other people.

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PART 7 — THE SYMBOLISM OF THE ENEMIES

Y’all—he was talking about Bob. So y’all saw what Deacon Bobby did in Bible study the other night with the slow leak in the tire. He didn’t know it—seventy‑five percent of the people in Bible study had a slow leak in their tire. He didn’t know that. But that’s what God does. God does things that makes us—amen—that he uses the same symbolism to get a message across. And he does it.

That’s why he says, “Forsake not the fellowship of the saints.” He said, so what you want to do, amen, is make sure you hear a word from God. And what was the word from God? The word from God was telling them that, “Hey, wait a minute. This battle is not yours. This battle is the Lord’s.”

Well, what is the battle? I’m so glad you asked, because there’s a symbolism in the text that we gotta take a look at. There’s a symbolism in those enemies that we looking at. Those enemies that were there—yeah, they were enemies. But this is 2,000 years later, Rivera. Who are those jokers? Who are these enemies that’s in the text, and how did God want us to know who they were?

Amen. You see that Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir that were circling them—Pastor Alton was steady and said, “God, paint me a picture of who these jokers was,” amen. God said, “There’s a symbol in them that you can use right now.”

I said, “God, what—so who are the real enemies?”

Watch this. He said Ammon and Moab—they symbolize close or familiar opposition. That’s the close stuff. See, we always looking for the enemy across the street. We growing up, Pastor Alton, in the Boston, Bremerton, and from Stone Vista—yeah, we know them. But what happens when it’s the dude on your own street? Or your own cousin that broke your little yellow Corvette you got from Dollar Store? But it was his—I don’t recall breaking it, but I told him and got him a bigger one, amen, to satisfy the debt, amen.

It’s that closeness of stuff. He says they symbolize close or familiar opposition—threats that derive from new relations. That’s what Moab and Ammon represent.

Old conflicts. Some of us are still fighting battles, amen, from 20 and 30 years ago. Amen. That’s what Moab is talking about in this text. So in other words, what we’re doing is we’re fighting stuff, amen, that we need to turn over to God and worship about versus trying to fight it. We keep living it over and over in our heads, and we can’t let it go. Tell somebody—

Mount Seir—amen—symbolizes, watch this: pride, rivalry, fleshly inheritance.

Can I come—let me go back to something, Sister Danny. Pride. Rivalry. And fleshly inheritance. Sometimes it’s just me. Ain’t nobody—ain’t nobody bothering me. Just me.

What old folks say? “You got up on the wrong side of what?” Uh huh. Sometimes it’s just me. I’m just down. The problem is I’m not—you gotta get yourself up.

How do I get myself up? Get myself up by studying my Word. Getting a word from God. Listening to worship music. Getting into my devotion. That’s how you, as a disciple, as a believer in God—that’s how you get yourself up, amen.

Look—transparency. I love R&B. I love it. We all love music. But that music can’t get me where I need to go. It can make me feel good temporarily. It can make me reminisce about some times gone by—some scam, bless God and all his holiness, amen. But it can’t do me like Jesus.

Riding here this morning—just tears flowing. Present with God in the car. Ain’t nothing like it. It’s nothing like an experience with God. See, disciples—we gotta get more with the experience with God so that God can use and be of good use to us.

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PART 8 — POSITIONING YOURSELF FOR GOD’S VICTORY

So we heard the word: the battle is not yours, it’s the Lord’s, amen. But what did he do? Amen, he positioned himself. He stood still, and he saw the salvation of the Lord.

Let me say that. He positioned himself, amen. What am I saying? He changed positions. In other words, he changed perspective. “I’m more than a conqueror. I’m not gonna let this defeat me. I’m gonna get up from here, amen. I can’t stay in this position, but I’m gonna get up from here, amen. And guess what? I’m gonna see what God is gonna do.”

Hey man, I’m gonna stand still, and I’m gonna see the salvation of the Lord. That’s a declaration. That’s telling God, “God, I know you’re able. I know you can do it. God, I believe you gonna do it. God, I don’t know when, but I know it. You did it before. You did it for my grandmama. You did it for my mama. You did it for my daddy. You did it for all these other people. You did it for Pastor Alton, amen, when he was on a Navy ship, and they was getting on his last nerve, amen. He wanted to get out. He wanted to find a way, amen. You gave him a skill set, amen, and he can learn how hydraulic flows—now that he can use now. Now he changed it from hydraulic fluid to numbers, and I ain’t gotta be there.”

“I know there’s some similarity in how they flow. And guess what? I’mma give him a skill set. I’mma give him a trade. Then guess what? The love of God is already in him, because I got the DNA of his mama and the DNA of his daddy to make him who he is. And guess what? Now I can use him. Now he’s in position. And when he’s in position, all you gotta do is stand still.”

What’s the problem? Standing still. All of us are so busy. If we all went back and looked at our calendar right now, y’all so duties. Watch—tell my wife about a week ago, one of my weaknesses is that I can’t stand a calendar. Just counting—a calendar telling me what I gotta do, when I wanna do it, when I feel like it. Hey man, knowing there’s consequences to that, but I wanna do it when I feel like it.

But some of us over‑calendar, calendar ourselves, and overschedule ourselves. Well guess what? We never schedule God in it. And guess what? Our only scheduled time for God is Wednesday and Sunday. And guess what? That’s two hours out of 168. You gotta say amen—just say ouch.

He says position yourself. Stand still. Do not—watch this—stand still does not mean do nothing. It means stop trying to fight in your own strength. Some of us been fighting so long. Maybe grew up fighting in the neighborhood, having to defend certain people that I won’t call their name, because the other kids were trying to—“No, you can’t touch him. I know he talk a lot, but no, you can’t do that.” Time I had to be boo‑up for you, amen.

Stop scheming. Stop manipulating, amen. Stop staying up—oh, this was my rim, Rob—stop staying up all night trying to figure it out. That’s one of my weaknesses. “I got this 7:30, I got 8:00, I got to do this, and maybe if I do it this way, it’ll work…”

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PART 9 — STOP FIGHTING IN YOUR OWN STRENGTH

…“and maybe if I do it this way, it’ll work.”

And God said, “Stop. Stop trying to fight in your own strength. Stop trying to figure it out. Stop trying to manipulate it. Stop trying to scheme it. Stop trying to out‑think it. Stop trying to out‑plan it. Stop trying to out‑maneuver it. Stop trying to out‑strategize it. Stop trying to out‑logic it. Stop trying to out‑work it.”

Because guess what? You can’t. You can’t. You can’t. You can’t.

And the reason you can’t is because God didn’t design you to fight this one. This one is his. This one is above your pay grade. This one is beyond your strength. This one is outside your ability. This one is outside your intellect. This one is outside your emotional capacity. This one is outside your physical capacity. This one is outside your spiritual maturity. This one is outside your circle. This one is outside your network. This one is outside your resources.

This one belongs to God.

And God said, “If you keep fighting it, you’re gonna keep losing. If you keep fighting it, you’re gonna keep stressing. If you keep fighting it, you’re gonna keep crying. If you keep fighting it, you’re gonna keep breaking. If you keep fighting it, you’re gonna keep exhausting yourself. If you keep fighting it, you’re gonna keep draining yourself. If you keep fighting it, you’re gonna keep wearing yourself out.”

But if you give it to God…

If you give it to God…

Then God said, “I’ll fight it. I’ll handle it. I’ll deal with it. I’ll fix it. I’ll move it. I’ll shift it. I’ll break it. I’ll bind it. I’ll loose it. I’ll cover it. I’ll protect it. I’ll restore it. I’ll redeem it. I’ll resurrect it.”

But you gotta stop fighting.

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PART 10 — STANDING STILL AND TRUSTING GOD

…“and maybe if I do it this way, it’ll work.”

And God said, “Stop. Stop trying to fight in your own strength.”

Stop trying to figure it out. Stop trying to manipulate it. Stop trying to scheme it. Stop trying to stay up all night trying to work it out. Stop trying to out‑think it. Stop trying to out‑plan it. Stop trying to out‑maneuver it. Stop trying to out‑strategize it. Stop trying to out‑logic it. Stop trying to out‑work it.

Because guess what? You can’t. You can’t. You can’t. You can’t.

This one belongs to God.

But if you give it to God…

If you give it to God…

But you gotta stop fighting.

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…“and maybe if I do it this way, it’ll work.”

Stop scheming. Stop manipulating, amen. Stop staying up all night trying to figure it out. That’s one of my weaknesses. “I got this 7:30, I got 8:00, I got to do this, and maybe if I do it this way, it’ll work…”

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PART 12 — STILLNESS MAKES ROOM FOR GOD

…“and maybe if I do it this way, it’ll work out differently.”

“Well, Rob, if I do it this way…” They always stop. “I got to get ready for Bible study. They got to get a lesson ready for that,” not knowing already.

Last week, I sent Dick, Bobby, and John some notes. Always do it just for us to have it. I sent them some notes of Bible study, just in case they don’t have anything they can fall back on, right? Took me about an hour to do that. Right? Now—he didn’t use none of it. Anybody who was on Bible study—he used none of it. He didn’t have to.

My point is: in my mind, I needed to do that. What I was demonstrating to God—God said, “Look at you. You ain’t gonna trust me with what I’m doing. Huh? Huh? Huh? Look at you. Look at you.” Kevin Hart: “Look at you.” You talking about trust—you don’t trust it. Look at you.

“But it’s my job. I’m the education director. I got this battle.”

This battle ain’t yours. It’s the Lord’s.

“And let me show you something.”

Look at Bobby and John rolling, amen. The men just—Rob, you suck your teeth, amen. Look—they rolling. I had to do nothing. Walking around—look, Pastor Alton, look at them. Look—chatting with each other. Rob, you was chatting. Look, look. Look at the women—looking scared. Now victory is imminent. Haha. We just having fun.

Y’all watch this: sometimes your stillness is your strongest weapon.

Watch this, Sister Danny. Sister—because it makes room for God to move. When you moving all the time—God don’t move in chaos. God don’t enter into that. You better sit down and be still.

You want to hear God? You gotta be still. Ripping and running and all that—“I’mma get in my car and get me a prayer.” You better sit down and hear from God, because God will not operate in our timing. He will not operate how we want him to operate. He operates in the stillness, amen.

Why is that? He wants you to be able to hear him. Y’all know when your friend call you on the phone, y’all turn that TV down so you can hear. That’s why God wants you to sit still—so you can hear him when he’s talking to you.

PART 13 — WORSHIP BEFORE THE VICTORY

He said, “Come on, let’s go. Let’s keep it moving.” He says the next thing you want to do—watch this—is worship before the victory.

That’s three claps. Can I get two more? Amen.

Worship before the victory.

See, sometimes we want to wait until it’s over. Faith is worshipping before it gets there. What pleases God is your faith. God wants you to worship like you know he’s able. And if he’s able, let him be able.

The problem with us—we waiting for the move of the water. No, no, no. You create a stir from God. And God is subject to one thing—that’s his Word. And when you act out on his Word, it gets him to move.

Watch this—you don’t believe me.

He says, “Let me clear these two things up,” because there’s tension in the church. He says there’s a difference between praise and worship. Right, right. But both are essential.

Yeah. You ever go to church—Sister Kim—some people over there, they don’t worship. They don’t get up and clap their hands. Then the people that don’t do that look at them people and say, “Why them people all loud?” Tension in the church, right?

Why is it important for both of them to be present?

I’m glad y’all asked this morning.

It’s important because in this text both happen. King Jehoshaphat called a fast, and what he did—he lay prostrate down and began to worship. Then all of a sudden, the Levites—the Levites from Asaph’s family, amen—they came, and they said, “Bless the Lord.”

Y’all ain’t getting this.

Worship represents: “God, I thank you. I know you’re able. This is my lifestyle—to lay down and worship you.”

Praise is: “I can’t help but thank God for what he’s done.”

And when you combine the two, amen, it causes worship to break out.

I gotta go—my time is running out.

He said when you got praise and you got worship, something begins to happen. Amen. They hadn’t won the battle yet, but they began to worship.

And guess what? When King Jehoshaphat saw the worship, guess what he did?

He didn’t put the soldiers out front. Read the text when you got time, amen.

He didn’t put the soldiers out front—he put the singers and the worshippers out front.

Y’all ain’t getting this.

He put the singers and the worshippers out front, amen. And what happened was as soon as they started singing—y’all not getting this—he said, as soon as they started singing…

I’m in point number five, because he gave me a victory. I gotta run.

Their praise was the trigger.

As soon as they started worshipping—watch this—I want to read it to you, because I know you trying to get me out of here. He says in that verse—it has a comma in it—he says:

“As soon as they began to sing,

God set ambush.”

I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I know a comma is not a period. The grammatical text demonstrates that this happened at the same time.

God help me teach this morning.

Because somebody came down here with a problem. You ain’t getting what I’m putting down, Brother Peterson. When you start singing—God moves.

Let me go up here.

When you start worshipping, your problem that you thought you had—yes—God says, “Ambush.”

Y’all not getting this.

So your worship, amen, is the trigger and the key for your enemies to be destroyed.

PART 14 — THE PERSONAL SIDE OF WORSHIP

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PART 14 — THE PERSONAL SIDE OF WORSHIP

…your worship, amen, is the trigger and the key for your enemies to be destroyed.

“Yeah, thank you.”

“Hey man, bro, I don’t know your name, but thank you.”

See—let’s make it personal.

What are you going through that you can’t handle?

What your children going through?

What your siblings going through?

What your family member—what your spouse—what your family members are going through?

What your mom and them going through?

See, when you start making this stuff personal, your worship is not only tied to you, but your worship is tied to people that need, amen, a blessing from you.

Brother Everett said yesterday his family is joining Zoom. He said most of them don’t go to church. I think some of us got people like that. And I’m here to tell you that your worship ain’t just for you.

Your worship is for people, amen, who don’t know who God is. You ain’t just worshipping for yourself. “I don’t feel like worshipping.” You sacrificing because a thing that has been tied—weighting you down, and had you tied up—as soon as you start…

“I see the shoe.”

Jesus is mine.

To some of y’all worrying about the note—I’m worried about deliverance. You can haggle over the note. I’m trying to get deliverance. So excuse me if I worship and I sing, because guess what?

My mama needs me to worship.

My sisters and my siblings need me to worship.

My dad right now, as I preach, needs me to worship.

My brother in California right now needs me to worship.

You can sit down and be quiet if you want to, amen, but I got people that are needing, amen, me to worship.

My wife—ain’t gonna put our business out there—but she’s been back and forth to get healed from the doctor. I need to worship not only for myself, amen, but for other people who are in need.

We need to be worshipping for our church to get to the next level.

God says, “Guess what? When you begin to sing—God moves.”

That was a shout.

If that one don’t click right now, Sister Tanisha, take it back home and, amen, play it again. And when you play it again, apply it to what you know to be true.

All of us came with some stuff. God said, “This battle ain’t yours. This battle is mine.” So much so that what you’re going through—I orchestrated it just so you and the people around you, amen, could receive something.

PART 15 — GOD PAYS WELL

I’mma say this—I’m done.

Watch this: what was the angle of the text?

It was to be used by God.

How many of you know that when God uses you, he pays you well?

Why I get all them claps on that one?

How many of you know—when you worship God, you serve God—he pays you well?

When you allow God to use you, he pays you well.

What am I saying? If you keep on reading—when God sent ambush, those enemies, amen, had been going around stealing and plundering all this stuff. When God set ambush, they killed themselves. Right? Right.

And guess what happened?

When King Jehoshaphat and them—after they got through with their praise break—came down to the battlefield, and all those soldiers were dead… but what was there?

All the spoils that they had been going around plundering.

So God—oh Lord—the wealth of the wicked is stored up for the righteous.

Thank you, Holy Spirit.

What God did—he didn’t let them kill them, because they hadn’t got all their stuff yet. And when King Jehoshaphat and all them went down there and saw all those bodies, they got all the spoils.

Where the spoils?

The gold.

The silver.

They got all that stuff.

So much stuff, Brother Tim—yeah, yeah, yeah, hear this—it was so much stuff for Judah and the whole army…

Visualize this, y’all:

It took them four days to gather it.

What you were going through—you thought you quitting before you get the reward. If you just worship and let God do the fighting, you get the benefit of the reward, amen.

But you can’t cut, amen, and do it your way. You can’t keep fighting. You can’t keep doing all those things. You gotta let go. You gotta surrender and just worship.

Don’t try to figure it out. Don’t try to analyze it. Don’t try to do all that stuff. Just worship him. Sing your song. If you don’t—you never get to the reward, amen.

PART 16 — THE FIRST U‑HAUL BLESSING

Yeah, I call this—in another sermon idea—the first U‑Haul.

Y’all get it later.

It was so much that they were hauling away. That’s why Israel is still rich to this day. They were set up for the future.

And God sent me down here to tell you: this battle ain’t yours. He’s just trying to set you up for your future. Not just to set you up—but set your children and your grandchildren up.

If you would worship or praise—he gave you two options. “I don’t like to praise. I don’t like to worship.” Well then praise. But if you do that—as soon as you do—you trigger God to move.

And if you read the text, it said God did it.

What am I saying? I’m saying the one that made everything got up off his throne and did this himself. He didn’t send Michael. He didn’t send an archangel. He did it himself. That’s what the text said. He says he did it.

He said nobody—God ain’t send nobody else for you. He’s coming directly to you himself.

When God puts you in a situation, he’s dealing with you, not nobody else, because he wants to get the glory out of y’all.

I’m sorry. I’m done. I’m over my time. God bless you.

PART 17 — CLOSING APPEAL

God said this battle is still not yours. For those—that’s your first time—it ain’t yours. For those who’ve heard it before—it’s still not yours.

So whatever side of the fence you stand on this morning—this battle not yours. You just gotta learn how to fight.

The song said, “This is how I fight. This is how we fight our battles.”

You fight your battles through worship.

You don’t fight your battle through the old stuff—it won’t work.

God can’t get glory out of you crashing out. Only thing crash out does is crash your witness.

“Look at Mike—he crashing out.”

“Look—this how he do.”

They getting everybody pointed over the edge that you crashing out.

God bless you on this morning.

Listen—don’t crash out. Just worship. And God will fight your battles, and got the unmitigated gall to bless you like never before.

Whoever came here today—you’re dealing with something, and you don’t know how to deal with it—amen, worship.

You got money problems—worship.

Relationship problems—worship.

Children problems—worship.

Grief problems—worship.

Job problems—worship.

Whatever your issue is—it’s a one‑fix solution for everything you got going on.

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In this powerful message from 2 Chronicles 20, Pastor teaches that “the battle still belongs to the Lord.” Through the story of King Jehoshaphat, we learn what true spiritual leadership looks like when surrounded by pressure, fear, and enemies on every side. Instead of panicking, isolating, or relying on his own strength, Jehoshaphat sought the Lord, prayed honestly, remembered God’s past faithfulness, and positioned himself to hear God’s answer.

This sermon walks us through the practical steps of acknowledging the battle, seeking God, standing still, and worshipping before the victory. Pastor reminds us that worship is not just for us — it becomes the trigger that releases God’s ambush against the enemy and blesses generations connected to us. When God fights for us, He not only brings deliverance but also leaves behind the spoils, the overflow, and the setup for our future.

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PART 1 — INTRODUCTION: A LEGACY WORTH LEAVING

What God wants to speak to the men about is not what you can give them in the world. It’s not even something you think you need to leave them in this world. It is really building on an idea of who God has made you in this world, and it’s the idea of a legacy that’s worth leaving.

So if moms are a legacy of faith, what’s yours?

And this is where Psalms—this very powerful Psalm that is overlooked in the totality of the hundred and fifty Psalms—comes in. But this one, God puts his weight in this about an establishment of leadership, an establishment of direction.

And here, I want to kind of dig in for the men this morning. I want to kind of cheerlead a little bit, but I also want you to know the race is not over. For y’all who are empty nesters now—it ain’t over. For y’all who are almost there—just a few more years—it still ain’t over. And for y’all who just started—it’ll get over soon.

But to dig into this this morning, light it up a little bit this morning, because I want to hit on something heavy and hard here.

Because this trend in our society is saying that we don’t need strong men to lead. We need to have whiny, spoiled men who only want stuff their way, how they want it. And we wonder why the world is going crazy. We wonder why we’re not where we need to be as a world. It’s because: Where are the men who leave legacies?

And so the writer here hits on something very hard. These opening verses—he is speaking with the authority of God toward who we are.

PART 2 — TELLING THE STORY OF GOD

This thing is critical to me, because when we look at the first point I want to pull here, it really started to mess with my mind when God led me to the Psalms. It’s this idea that he is saying something that we miss out on.

He says in this first part that we gotta be able to tell the story. Gotta be able to speak on what God is doing in our life. He said it was never meant for us to hide this. It was never meant for us to boast and brag, men, or hide how we are to share who we are with our children.

See, I’ve learned that men will take God’s credit and faith and make it their own strength. He says that established men tell the story of God.

How many times do you tell your children that it wasn’t you who made it—it was God who made it for us?

How many times do you actually share the story within a sense that when I struggled, it wasn’t that I pulled my own bootstraps up? When we made it, it wasn’t because I was so great and so smart and so strong and so crookedly learned. It was because I got on my knees and prayed to God when I did not have the answer.

See, we got kids walking around here thinking, “Man, my dad made a way. He just made it happen,” not knowing it was the God in you that made it happen.

So now they live in a fantasy world thinking, “If my daddy made it, why can’t I?”

Do you guys tell them what your secret ingredient is?

I’m sorry, Papa—it ain’t spinach. It’s the Son. But it’s not the issue in the Son that gives me my power.

See, when we stop trying to be all that and a bag of chips, and say that I’m just the bag—and God is what’s in me—He is the chip that’s in my bag. He is what makes me who I am. And too often we leave out that most important thing.

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PART 3 — MEN MUST TELL THE RIGHT STORY

If it wasn’t that my dad had it all together… They said if we don’t tell the right story, then the world will tell the story. And you don’t want the world telling the story, because the world is jacked up from the floor up. You don’t want that joker telling your joker about something. You don’t want to lay the chance that somebody else is teaching your child.

This is where we miss it. When they ask, “Does God answer prayer?”

Yes — that should already be revealed in your house.

It should not be a question of how we made it. It’s because God made it. And whatever your “made it” is — it was better than what it was before it was made.

Yeah, you may not be balling like the ballers, but you ain’t sleeping on the streets like the sleepers on the streets. You ain’t got all that money in the bank, but you got enough in there to put gas in your car and go to McDonald’s every once in a while.

You know kids stop asking to go to McDonald’s — they wanna go to Outback, Applebee’s, and other places. Now you say, “We gonna get this Happy Meal and be happy.” McDonald’s got the sale — nine dollars for what is a box of fries and twenty McNuggets. That’s good enough for me and my boys.

But the picture has to be painted.

PART 4 — WHAT MAKES A LEGACY

If it’s my legacy, and what makes a legacy is what is being taught to the next generation. Not that they were perfect. Not that they had everything together.

My grandfather — he didn’t have it all together, but he knew the Lord in all his fallacies. He knew the Lord in all his hangups and mess. He wasn’t one of the most educated persons, but he knew the Lord. He still lived according to the world, but he knew the Lord enough to at least tell his children about the Lord.

And then his children had enough sense to tell the story about who God is.

And that’s the whole point — are we missing something by not telling our children about the Lord? Or are we more focused on what career path you gonna take? Are we more focused on getting all you can in this world, making your own way, having your own supplies, having your own?

“If you get your own money, you’ll be alright.”

Kids will get their own money and be crazy. They don’t know.

We gotta tell the story that without God, none of that stuff works. Without God, none of that stuff really answers the real question:

Who’s with me when I’m by myself?

How do I make it through this when everything seems to be good, but I’m missing something?

Why can’t I get that feeling right?

Why can’t I do this?

Because who God is completes the story.

But if the story never gets told — that’s what we gotta be careful with. Sometimes the story is not being told in their house. Sometimes that story — the book got burned up.

But when they come to your house —

“As for me and my house…”

Can I get a story at your house?

PART 5 — THE STORY THAT SAVES GENERATIONS

See, I know this guy who is a successor pastor down in Florida. In his house, there was never Scripture read. There was never praying — but a whole lot of cussing and drinking going on in his house.

But his friends across the street always went to church. He was curious why that happened, but he didn’t get the story told — not from across the street. He got the story in college, because somebody else told their child the story.

He starts to understand the story now. He leads a large church down in Florida because someb