Now Stand Up (Compilation) — Compilations

This is what the devil will do to you if he gets a hold of your life. He will suspend you from a pole as it is and prove you, make an open shame of you, show that you are powerless. You can't stop. He'll get you convinced and convicted as it is that he is the absolute supreme ruler of your life.

You have no power over your sin. He will tear off your skin. He will take away all your self-worth, take away all of your defense. He'll take away any feeling that you have of being a lovely or even worthy to be accepted by God.

He cut off their noses, ears, lips and eyes and take away all natural senses. Your spiritual senses will be gone. You won't be able to see or hear or taste or feel anymore. He burns the young alive. You see a generation now that is so given to lust and passion and we see our young generation just burned with this passion that is infused to the devil himself, this immoral passion that is godless and leads them nowhere but to despair and desires for suicide and destruction and he bores through their jaws with ropes and ties them like dogs to cages outside the city gates and that's exactly what the devil does to those he gets his hands on.

He finds a cage for you and ties you to it and says here, let it be just a daily reminder of your powerlessness to ever escape my grip and he ties them to pornography and he ties them to a lying tongue.

He ties them to pride and fear and hate. He ties them to these cages and begins to bore away and eat away at their minds. This is the type of what the devil does to anyone he gets his hands on and the Lord saw this.

God Declares War on the Enemy

The Lord said, behold, I am against thee. For now, I'll break his yoke from off thee and I will burst thy bonds and he says, I am against thee. He says, behold me, I'm against you and he basically said, lift up your heads and look at me, behold me, take a look at me.

He says, I'm against you. You've gone far enough. You've hurt my people long enough. You've destroyed long enough. Yes, they've sinned against me and many are deserving of the punishment that has come upon them.

But God says, I will never leave my glory in the enemy's hand. I will never let darkness swallow my heritage. Look at me, look at me. I'm against you. Behold me. He said, I'm going to burst your bonds and sunder.

I'm going to break your stronghold. Your kingdom stopped here. It grows no more. God said, I'm going to stop the advance of your kingdom. You are not going to encroach on my people anymore. I make a decree.

I make a declaration that this day your rotten seed dies in the ground. It no longer grows. It no longer is going to have increase in those that are mine. He goes on, he says, I will cut off the graven image and the molten image and I will make thy grave for thou art vile.

He says, your image and the reflection of your violence upon my people will vanish and I'm going to put you in a grave. Hallelujah. Praise be to God. That's exactly what Almighty God did on Calvary. He took the violence of sin.

He took the violence of the work of the devil and he poured it out on his son and put it in a grave and declared it dead. And three days later, by the power of God, he raised up Christ in newness of life.

Christ’s Resurrection Ends the Reign of Death

He said, devil, your reign of death is over. Your reign of terror is finished. Your destructive rotten seed comes to an end. I'm going to have a people and these people are going to know my power, my glory, my ashes.

And I'm going to... And he's speaking to Satan, to all of his powers. He says, yes, for a season you devoured, for a season you destroyed, for a season you made people afraid, for a season you tore them in pieces, for a season you stored them up as if they were meat for your vile kingdom forever.

But he says, I'm against you and I'm going to terrify you and take away your strength. He says, I'm going to cut them off from you because I'm going to make a covenant with the Father. They're going to enter into that covenant by faith and you're going to have no more access to them.

You're going to have no more authority over them. You will have no more power over them. He says, and there will be no... The voice of your messengers shall no more be heard. There'll be no more reports of victory in hell against those who are mine.

No more. No more. No more. No more devil saying we triumphed over him or we triumphed over her or we stole their family. We took their kids and ground them up to powder. There'll be no more evil reports.

Entering God’s Covenant by Faith

I'm going to make a covenant. And those who come into that covenant by faith will be no more a prey to the works of darkness on the earth. Enough. You've had enough encroachment in the houses of my people.

You've tried to swallow up my heritage long enough. I am going to raise up. I'm going to come into covenant with God and with the people who are going to enter it by faith. They're going to become a strong people.

They're going to do exploits for God. There's going to be spiritual authority in these people. They're going to begin to take back what you have stole from them. Everything the moth and kangaroo has eaten, they're going to begin to rise up and take it back.

The Messenger Who Brings Good Tidings

There'll be no more reports of victory in hell against those who are mine. He says, Behold, upon the mountains, the feet of him that bringeth good tidings and that publishes peace. A messenger is coming.

A messenger. He says, Now, don't be worried. Yes, your enemies are on every side. And yes, you seem to be outside of the goodness of God's promises. But I'm sending a messenger to you. And this fellow is already on the mountains.

He's already climbing hard places. He's made a determination in his heart. I'm getting there and I'm bringing the good news of God to these people. I'm not going to let any mountain stop me. And if a mountain rises in my way, by God's grace, I'm just going to say, Get out of my way and be cast into the sea.

I'm going. I'm going where people are that need this word of God. I'm going to those who are outside of the gate. I'm going to those who are lame and impotent and begging for arms and hoping just for crumbs from the Lord's table when He's prepared a feast for anyone who wants to come to Him.

I'm going to them. I'm going and I'm bringing them a word of peace. Behold, you who are hungry, there's a messenger on the way to you. Somebody, I found somebody and he's got good news and he's heading up over the mountains and he's just he's got a message.

God Defends His People

Hey, the enemy has been defeated. They're all dead corpses. The powers that they once had are gone. They can't touch our homes. They can't touch our children because God is for us. God has risen up. He has raised up his head.

He has confronted the enemy himself and said, Look at me. Look at me, devil in the face. You are not going to touch that which is mine. You are not having those that call out to me. You have messed with my children long enough.

You have messed with my people long enough. You are not going to have the homes of the people of God. And Peter and John said to the slave man, Look at us. The same spirit is in them. There's no cowering.

There's no, let's all close our eyes and just say some little prayer and hope that God does something. No, they're standing and saying, Look at us. The same spirit is now multiplied. The rose Christ from the dead is now in both of them.

They said, Look at us. Look on both of us. And there's something that rises up in the heart of those who know Christ. When we see the devil on a society, on a people, on a country, on a family, on a home, there's something in us that just says, Enough.

The Authority of Jesus Christ

Enough of this. Devil, you've reigned here long enough. You've captivated this people long enough. I have come to declare that you are defeated. You have no authority here anymore. You have no authority.

They're looking at this man and deep inside saying the devil's reign of poverty, shame and confusion and powerlessness is over. You've sat outside the temple long enough. I'm going to introduce you to the living God.

They said silver and gold is not what you need. It's not what we have. It's not our strength. It's not what we trust in. It's not giving us the ministry we have. This is what we have in the name of Jesus Christ.

You don't have to be beaten down any longer. You don't have to be tied to a cage. You don't have to walk around like a skinned animal. You don't have to be in the name of Jesus. Still here today, you've come looking for a word from God.

Face. You've tied me to your cage long enough. No more stealing my children out from under my roof. Stand up. I think it's time today for many to say, it's enough of the powerlessness in my own life. You see, the standing up against the devil has to start in ourselves.

Rejecting Compromise and Spiritual Captivity

Before it's going to be exportable anywhere else. There has to come a time where we say, Christ, you are my all in all. I understand that from the temple as it is, but God show it to me now. I'm gripped by so many things that I don't seem to be able to fully lay hold of the fact that you really are everything.

Show me why. Show me how. Guide me into this understanding. Cause me to stand up to the devil and say enough. Enough of this powerlessness. Enough of this compromise in my life. Enough of half in the kingdom of God and half of me in the world.

It's a horrid place to be. So mixed that my life sends a confusing message to the people who need God. Enough of the captivity. I know there are people here today that spiritually speaking, you have a rope board through your jaw and you are tied to a cage.

You know what I'm talking about. You can't get out. And the devil walks by you every day and you bow your head in humble submission. But you need to shock him today. You need to get up. And as he comes walking into his evil city, finally, somebody stands.

You may still have a rope through your jaw and you may still look like a captive. But you stare him in the eye and say enough. I've heard something today. I've heard that you've been defeated. I've heard that the decree's been signed.

Standing on God’s Promises

I've heard that the list of things that kept me here has been blotted out. I've heard that I'm the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. I've heard that I'm sealed in the Father's hand and nobody can take me out of the Father's hand.

I've heard that no weapon formed against me can prosper. I've heard that every tongue that rises against me in judgment that I can condemn. Because this is the right, the heritage of the servants of the Lord.

I've heard that I've been given power to tread on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy. And nothing shall by any means hurt me. I've heard these things. And so I stand up to you and say enough.

Freedom from Shame and the Past

Enough. Enough tormenting my mind. Enough causing me to be chained to the iniquity of sin. Enough of these things in my life. Enough of bearing the shame of my youth. Enough of grinding my face in my past.

Because the Bible says that the list of all the things that I had been done has been blotted out by blood that was shed 2 ,000 years ago for me on a cross called Calvary. Enough of the shame of my past.

I am fully accepted with God. I'm accepted with God in Christ Jesus as if I had never committed a single sin in my life. The Word of God says that I am as righteous as God is in Christ Jesus. I'm the very righteousness of God.

Enough grinding my face in my past. It's time, beloved. It's time. You see, so many people are themselves in captivity. That's why our prayer meetings are so powerless sometimes. There has to come a time when we say enough.

There has to come a time when the people of God finally stand up and say we're not staying here anymore. I refuse to be counted among those who pray without power.