BISHOP SWILLEY:  Dear Heavenly Father, Lord God Almighty, in Jesus' name we come thanking you this morning for our life and health and strength.  Lord, we thank you for healing our bodies, even when we didn't know we were sick.  We thank you for giving us a mind to come and worship and praise your holy name this day.  Lord, we ask you to strengthen us and unite us in the spirit of love between one another and the power of the Holy Ghost come in and be with us and rest upon our soul.  Lord, drive out every sickness and disease and, Lord, help us to believe every word that proceeds out of your mouth, that we may become a doer of it in Jesus' name. 

Lord, rebuke the unbelieving spirit and doubt and fear, take it away from our heart, and help us to go forth that we may trust in your Word and rely upon thee because thou are God and your Word is true and faithful.  Lord, help us and heal us of our backsliding and give us a mind to rise and call on your name.  We ask you in the name of Jesus today, heal, my God!  We need healing!  Lord, we need healing.  In the name of Jesus, our soul needs healing.  Lord, our mind needs healing.  Our body needs healing.  We ask you, renew in us the righteous and Holy Spirit.  Take away the stony heart and give us a heart of flesh.  Give us a mind, Dear Heavenly Father, to seek you and call on your name, and, Lord Almighty, draw us closer to you.  Great God Almighty, draw us closer that we grow deeper and higher in you, that you may get the glory out of our lives, and we thank you for it, and this we ask in Jesus' name.  Amen and again, amen.

SCRIPTURE READING:  PSALM 15

A Psalm of David.  LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle?  Who shall dwell in thy holy hill?  He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.  He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbor, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbor.  In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoreth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt and changeth not.  He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent.  He that doeth these things shall never be moved.

BISHOP SWILLEY:  We will go into our subject of the message and that will be Second Corinthians, Chapter 10, verses 3 and 4.  We will also go to Ephesians Chapter 6.

"For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:  for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds." 

Ephesians, 6:12

"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."

The last message I preached was about, "I can't do anything until you come out of the city."  God said, I can't do anything until you come out of the city.  God can't do anything until we make up our heart and mind to change, and if we are not ready to change, then there will be nothing done.  See, sometimes we want to deal with God, but we want to also maintain our own ways, and that don't work.  God is looking for a change. 

We don't war and fight against the flesh, and the weapon of our warfare is not carnal.  We don't use material weapons to fight back with the devil.  Our weapon is prayer and the next weapon we use is patience.  A lot of time we don't realize that we are losing our patience, and that's where we yield to the enemy, but when you have patience, after you have prayed, after you have fasted, asking God for the things that you are desiring from the Lord, then patiently wait for it.

We are not fighting against flesh and blood, but we do see the after effect of the enemy dealing with flesh and blood when we see our loved ones sick, our loved ones financially in pain, burdened down, financial burdens and the things that are attacking our loved ones, we see that in the flesh, but we don't fight with the material weapon with the devil.  Our weapon is a prayer.  Our weapon is a faith that God will answer in some given time, and the enemy is taking, as I said last time, our children and causing many excruciating pains in their lives because they didn't know ‑‑ even though they know but they still didn't know.  And even we ourselves that have God in our lives, we know and then don't know and, therefore, we are caught sometimes in a snare, but the snare will not stay if we will be attentive to God in prayer, and that is one of our greatest weapons that we will use against the enemy.