Ok now that Satan just smacked you right where it hurts.What are you going to do about it. It is time to Raise our standards and stop letting the enemy have its way with us and or our children.. Exodus 17:15 tells us that Moses built an alter, and called it Jehovah-nissi or The Lord is MY Banner. Which means: "A banner is the polelike standard beneath which armies or communities rallied. When the banner is lifted up, it called the people together for battle, for meetings, and or for instructions. this phrase also could have been the battle cry. And Moses erecting the alter was his reccognition of the presence of God with them. This was also Moses's way of honoring God as the giver of the victory over the Amalekites". Ok it is time for us to Raise our Banner as a Call for Battle. Iwo Jima was the site of one of the bloodiest battles of World War II. Many Marines lost their lives while pulling the enemy forces out from the caves and tunnels where they were hiding. A war is also raging on the fertile soil of our hearts, and too many lives have already been lost. We will NEVER win our families-let alone the others we love-to Christ, until We Raise the Standard in our own lives. God is calling us to the front lines to raise the standards of service, holiness, prayer, thanksgiving, praise and worship far above the status quo of church as usual. Are you tired of church as usual? Determine then to go into the dens of adversity,defeat and strife,and drag the enemy out of your life. Our Youth and our own children cannot live......your marriage cannot survive unless Satan is bannished from your life First. Then and only then can we storm the dens of hell and PLANT THE BANNER OF JEHOVAH NISSI, WHICH IS OUR BANNER OF COMPLETED VICTORY. May God Bless and Keep you in His Open Arms, Pastor John and Michelle Wood "Open Arms Ministry" | 
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