Hey everyone, welcome to a new episode of Midweek Rise Up. Today's message comes from Erica's teaching this week at Pastor James Cadiz Church, Calvary Chapel Signal Hill, where she spoke at their women's summer in the Psalms conference. Erica shared from the heart on Psalm 144 Psalm of Battle, but also prayer for peace and prosperity. She talks about our generation battling

the spiritual warfare at hand and how the generations after us will rise like trees and stand

like pillars in a palace built not with human hands, but by the Lord himself. We hope you enjoy this

episode. God bless you and go rise up. Welcome to all of you. We're glad that you're here.

You know my wife, okay? She asked me to do the intro and I'm very happy to do it. The intro comes

with kind of a funny story and I don't ever mind saying this. Charlie, when he first came to this

church to speak many years ago, he came into my office and he said,

hey, I'm going to bring my girlfriend with me. I said, oh, great. I'd love to meet her. This would be great.

So Erica comes in, and of course, Erica's, you know, like my wife, beautiful. and she comes in and doesn't really say anything

and then she starts talking to me and I remember this like it was yesterday she talks to me for

probably all of about four minutes maybe four minutes and I turn around to Charlie and I literally

use these words.

I say, you're stupid if you don't marry her. That's what I told him. And Charlie's looking to me like,

what the heck, man? You're just, you're saying this out of the blue. I said, marry her, bro. Just marry her.

So sure enough, he made a great decision. And I do remember telling Erica that the Lord was going to use her greatly

and that I knew it, that the Lord would just use her in a significant way and nowhere did we ever

think that God would do things at the level that he's done things. You know, it's remarkable because

when you think about even the influence that Charlie has had,

a lot of people will say that the election would not have taken place the way it did if it wasn't for Charlie.

As a matter of fact, a lot of people don't know this, but at one point on TikTok alone,

Charlie was the number one viewed person next to President Trump. Billions of views, folks, not millions, billions.

And I remember being on college campus with him on multiple occasions and watching how he

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