Hey, everybody. Welcome to Cooper stuff, sword and shield. Sword and shield is not going

to be politics. Not going to be his cultural driven. It's not going to be critiquing things.

It is going to be simply this a short word of encouragement for you to live your faith.

He's going to be based on a scripture. Today's scripture is based on this. Second Kings chapter

6 verses 15 through 17. Are you ready? Are you listening to the word of God? When the servant

of the man of God rose early in the morning, the man of God he's talking about here is

Alisha, the prophet of God. When the servant of the man of God, Alisha rose early in the

morning and went out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was all around the city.

And the servant said, Alas, my master, what shall we do? He said, and then he said, Alisha

said, do not be afraid for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.

Verse 17, then Alisha prayed and said, Oh, Lord, please open his eyes that he may see.

So the Lord opened the eyes of the young man and he saw and behold the mountain was full

of horses and chariots of fire all around Alisha. Today's episode is this, use spiritual

eyes. Let me ask you a question. Let's just be honest. How often are you like Alisha?

And how often are you like the servant of Alisha? I'm going to be dead honest with you

today. Normally, I'm like the servant. I wake up and I look out and I tell you what,

the army of darkness has come in against me. I'll tell you what, I look at, oh my gosh,

the army's here. What are we going to do? I'm not the only one looking at the world

and saying that the level of satanic, demonic oppression in our country, it cannot be exaggerated.

It cannot be exaggerated. I can't help but to think that the devil and the demons are

super duper excited because they have come out for war. They have come out for victory.

The church is trying, I think we're trying for neutrality at best. We are not coming out

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