Keion Henderson - Order Vs Oil Sermon

Ephesians chapter 6, verse 12, and 1 John-not the Gospel, but 1 John chapter 4, verse 4. So you know this one already. Let 's read it together. One, two, three, four-okay? You all know that one, right? Let 's go to 1 John chapter 4, verse 4: «Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them.» Wow! So Paul says in Ephesians that there’s this wrestling match going on out here, right? Principalities, wickedness, powers, rulers in high places- that’s going on out here. But in here, «greater is He that is in me.» I’m wondering, are you succumbing to what’s outside of you or are you benefiting from what’s inside of you? I want to talk about order versus oil. I want to discuss order versus oil. Give somebody a high five on your way down to your seat and tell them «order versus oil.»

Order- like a court order-versus oil. Most of the attacks that the enemy brings against you, your children, or your family members, I can almost guarantee with 100% accuracy, will be launched at your mind. He will attack you in your mind. If he can attack you in your mind, he can give you a little health scare, and you’ll kill yourself worrying. If he can attack you in your mind, you miss one paycheck, and you think the whole world is over. If he attacks you in your mind, you and your spouse could have one argument, and you might file for divorce. It’s because, as a man thinketh, so is he. The mind, ladies and gentlemen, is the central control unit for your entire body. Everything you do starts with a thought. That 's how quick thoughts are: if you lift your hand like this, the thought is already transmitted. You have to think it before you do it. But the speed at which it happens is so quick that you don’t even realize you’ve thought about it; it just happens. We call it reflex, we call it reaction. But the devil attacks you in your mind because your mind is the central nervous system, the central control unit, the central locale where everything that happens in your life originates. Don 't miss that-every struggle you have starts in your mind.

Every emotion you experience starts in your mind. Every feeling that you ever feel starts in your mind. Every pain that you will experience starts in your mind. I heard it said this way: worrying is so detrimental because when you worry about something that hasn’t happened, you’ve actually gone through it twice. You see, the devil knows that worrying causes you to experience something that hasn’t happened yet two times -once in your worry and then again when it actually happens. So what the devil does is put a lot on your mind to keep you worried, causing you to experience things you haven’t faced. There are many of you in this room right now who have bad feelings and negative experiences regarding things you’ve never experienced. You have a poor perspective about something you’ve never gone through because you witnessed someone else go through it or you heard about someone else 's experience. Since you saw that, and some people worry so much, you start saying things like, «Oh, I hope that doesn 't happen to me. I hope I don’t get that disease. I hope that doesn’t occur in my family. I hope my children don’t grow up like that. I hope, I hope, I hope.» Many of you are raising your children out of bad hopes, trying to prevent them from making the same mistakes that your sister’s child did or trying to shield them from the actions of children in the neighborhood.

Here you are, worried about something that has never happened. Let me tell you that the devil knows that if he keeps you worrying, he can also keep you from working. It 's very difficult to work and worry at the same time. It’s very challenging to move forward and be in a position that’s advantageous to your destiny while you’re worrying. I think you’ve heard me say this before: worrying is equivalent to sitting in a rocking chair, hoping to make progress. Worrying is like sitting in a rocking chair; it gives you something to do, but you don’t get anywhere. You spend all that energy going back and forth making no progress. Have you ever been in a rocking chair? It’s fun and exhilarating, but after you expend all that energy, when you’re done with all that movement, you are exactly where you started. That’s what worrying does. It’s the vacillation between what can be and what might be, what is and what isn 't, what could be and what should be. You 're going back and forth between all that when you could just put it in God’s hands. That 's what the Bible is really saying when it says, «They that wait on the Lord» — it’s actually saying that when you don’t worry, He shall renew your strength. When you stop worrying, you’ll see God come in and clean it up, fix it up, and take care of it all. Your worrying is getting in the way of God’s work because you’re supposed to be praying and fasting, not worrying. So you’re using all of your spiritual energy.