Today we’re talking about something we all need more than we realize: rehearsing our victories. Life throws plenty of challenges our way, and it’s easy to get caught up in what’s going wrong. But when we take time to remember and speak out the wins—the moments when God came through for us—it changes everything.

Looking back on what God has already done strengthens our faith for what we’re facing right now. It reminds us that if He did it before, He’ll do it again. Sharing those stories doesn’t just lift us up, it encourages the people around us too.

So today, we’re diving into why recalling our victories matters, how Scripture supports this practice, and how it can totally shift your perspective, especially when times feel tough.

Takeaways

• Rehearsing your victories helps keep your heart anchored in God’s goodness—even when life gets messy.
• When you’re discouraged, remembering how God showed up in the past can be the boost you need to keep going.
• Your testimony isn’t just for you—sharing it can spark hope and faith in someone else’s situation.
• Focusing on what God has done pulls your attention away from negativity and toward His blessings and faithfulness.

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Today I'm going to be talking about rehearsing our victories.

You know, this is such a crucial thing.

I can't, I can't tell you the amount of times in our life Ashley and I have been through just very difficult things.

And it's in those moments we had a choice to spiral down into, into, you know, just every one of our negative emotions or to climb back up again.

And one of the things that's really helped us during those difficult moments, during those challenges that seem like they're never going to stop, is knowing that the Lord is good and he's faithful and he brought us through before and he'll bring us through again.

And rehearsing our victories is a very powerful thing that, that brings our soul into focus where it needs to be.

This is just crucial.

I'm excited for this teaching today.

Before we get into this, let's take a moment and pray.

Father God, I thank you that you give us ears to hear your word today.

That you give us this opportunity through technology to be able to join together as a community of like minded believers.

Thank you Lord that you give us the Word, you give us the ability to hear the Word and you give us the, the mind to understand it and the heart to receive everything you have for us today.

In Jesus name, Amen.

Amen and amen.

Well, as promised, we're going to, we're going to talk about rehearsing our victories.

Now there's a key scripture I want us to look at in Acts, chapter 14.

So if you've got your Bibles, you're going to need them for this, for this teaching.

Okay?

In Acts, chapter 14, verse 27, I'm going to read this out.

These are, these are the disciples here and they've been out ministering.

And in verse 27 it says when they had arrived and they had assembled the church, they reported what God had done through them and how he had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.

And they stayed there a long time with the disciples.

Now that Word reported, they came back from, from ministry and they reported to everyone else all of the testimonies, all of the amazing things that the Lord had done, some of the trials the things that overcome the challenges.

But the testimonies, they reported them.

This word reported in some translations is actually rehearsed.

They rehearsed it.

And this isn't, you know, this is the word.

Sometimes when we think about rehearsing things, you know, we.

We think about getting ready for a performance, learning our lines, getting ready to do some sort of show production.

This isn't what this word means at all.

This word, to rehearse, it means to declare.

It doesn't mean to show something, but it means to declare, to speak, to announce, to show again.

And it's mentioned actually 14 times in the New Testament.

So wherever you see, report or declare or announce or speak or show, this is talking about bringing something back to somebody's remembrance, to rehearsing something, to speaking out, to declaring something again.

You know, this is the same word that Jesus says, those things that, you know, the Lord has declared to me, I'm going to declare to you.

It's that everything Jesus was saying, everything that I got from the Father, I'm going to give it to you.

This is the same word used 14 times in the New Testament.

It's talking about rehearsing, rehearsing all that God had done with him.

You know, why, why is it so important to rehearse things?

And when we rehearse things, we look in a.

In a scriptural sense, we are remembering the goodness and the faithfulness of God.

And there is not a more powerful time that we can rehearse what the goodness and the faithfulness of God than when we're in the darkest, deepest moments of despair.

You know, it's.

It's one of those just powerful things that helps us to remember the goodness of God, to keep our mind focused on what is true and right and good and lovely of good virtue, of good report.

You know, so often in our society we are very accustomed to rehearsing, to replaying everything that's ever gone wrong.

You know, the word rehearse, if you, if you write it out, you know, re, and you just literally spell out that word, rehearse.

R E H E A R S E D. It means to rehear right, to hear.

Look at that.

Look at that word.

To rehear.

To hear it again.

Rehearse it.

To rehear it.

We need to rehearse the victories that God has for us, the promises that God has for us.

You know, when I was.

Before I moved to America, I was a nurse, and I spent a lot of time either working with patients or being a patient because I was very sick.

I've got lots of healing testimonies.

You can, you can find out about those on our website.

But you know, one of the things that you have to do when you go in to see the doctor or the nurse practitioner, you know, the X ray tech or whoever is you're going to see, you know, you rehearse what has happened to you.

They say it's called taking a patient's history.

And they go through that history and they'll do, you know, medical professionals will write it all down and then they'll get, then you know, if you've seen that person before, maybe you're seeing a new doctor, they'll get your notes out and they'll look at the patient history and they have a documentation and they'll get to rehear it.

And you know, that's, that's important for what they're doing because you know, the medical profession, all they're doing is looking for signs of, of death.

They're looking for signs of decay, they're looking for signs of disease.

They're looking to rehearse, to rehear, to repeat, to re.

Announce evidence of things that are wrong with your body.

And if nothing, if they can't find anything, there'll be no evidence of disease found.

They'll never say, oh man, you know what?

That person is healed, that person's been delivered.

No, because that's not their job.

Their job is to look for things that are wrong.

They're not looking for things that are right.

The whole medical profession is looking for things that are wrong so that they can apply a treatment to fix it.

You know, this is very different when we apply the word of God to our lives.

This is very different because we're not looking for things that are wrong.

There's plenty of things wrong.

You know, if you take an old car into the mechanics, they're going to find something that's wrong, right?

If you take an old body into the doctors, they're probably going to find some things that are wrong.

But that's not the path to victory.

The path to victory doesn't, is not found by looking at everything that is wrong and rehearsing it.

You know, our patient history needs to be.

I was healed of the Lord.

He sent his blood and healed me and delivered me from all of my destructions.

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

I have strength, I have longevity.

I have an abundant life.

I shall declare I shall not live, but shall not die, but live and declare the goodness of God in the land of the Living.

These are things as believers that we can rehearse and they're very, very powerful.

And one thing that the enemy loves to do is get us rehearsing our past failures.

He'll get us looking at everything that is wrong in our life.

You know, one of my favorite scriptures is Philemon 1, verse 6.

And it says that our faith becomes effective by the acknowledgment of every good thing that's in us, in Christ Jesus, every good thing.

Our faith starts to come alive.

And we don't have a shortage of faith.

We have the measure of faith, the Jesus measure of faith.

It says in Romans 12, verse 3, where you have the measure, the same measure that measured Jesus.

We have that kind of measure.

We had dead raising measure of faith on the inside of us, right?

That same power that lives in that rose Jesus from the dead lives in us and quickens our mortal bodies.

It says in Romans 8:11, man, we are so full of faith.

If we've received Jesus, we are full of faith.

Faith.

We do not have a faith problem.

But sometimes our faith doesn't get activated because we're not acknowledging every good thing that Christ has put in us.

And so as we start to do that, you know, it takes more.

It takes faith to look for the good.

It doesn't take any faith whatsoever to look for the bad.

You know, unbelief is faith in the wrong things.

It's faith in the, in everything that is negative.

You know, it's easy to join in with everybody else.

It's easy to go along with gossip, isn't it?

It's easy to repeat something the negative that you've just heard.

But have you, have you noticed how bad news always travels faster than good news?

Because people are so accustomed in our world to rehearsing failure.

In fact, we have a whole group of people that really enjoy watching Sick as it is.

Other people fail because they're so used to it.

In some ways it makes those people feel better about themselves when they focus on other people's failure.

You know, that's, that's just a symptom of a sick society.

But that's not a path to victory.

If we want to see breakthrough, learning to rehearse our victories is very scriptural and it's really, really powerful.

So it's about remembering God's faithfulness in past seasons to his past generations.

One of the things in that if you look through the Old Testament, they became very good at rehears their victories and they actually did this through storytelling.

There wasn't so much written down things.

There's a lot of things that passed on just from stories from a generation to generation.

A lot of family time, a lot of conversation that happened, where victories and battles and histories were passed down through those generations.

And it was to stir up and keep alive the faithfulness of God from generation to generation.

I feel like there's a part of our society today that's kind of lost that dynamic.

So if we're not intentional with our kids, we're going to lose it.

We're going to.

We're going to forget things.

That's why the scripture says write things down, make it plain that others might read it and run with it.

Right.

They're not lost.

We can stir up faith for current challenges.

When we look back at how God has brought us through before, when we look back and see God's faithfulness, it gives us encouragement to know.

God sustained me then, God's going to sustain me now.

God delivered me then, he's delivering me now.

God provided for me then.

He's.

He's providing for me now.

You know, God doesn't change.

We know he's faithful to all generations.

And it's also encouraging for other people to hear.

When we rehearse our victories, it brings encouragement.

Something about hearing somebody's testimony is so powerful.

We're a ministry that's really big on testimonies.

When we pray for the sick, when we have our live events, we always have healing, prayer and prayer testimony lines.

And, you know, if you go back on our social media reels, you'll find loads and loads of people testifying of the goodness of God.

You know, we basically offer them a microphone and we say, what did God just do for you?

And in their own words, they'll be sharing.

Well, before us, I had prayer.

You know, I had pain here, I had blindness here, I had a lump here.

I. I wasn't able to.

I.

Paralysis here.

And now, you know, I can see, I can hear, I can move, I can feel the pain's gone.

In their own words, something very powerful happens when people testify to the goodness of God.

And I think this is why there is a big challenge and a big resistance from the enemy to keep believers quiet.

You know, the enemy knows that the power is in your voice.

There's so much power in your voice.

I'm thinking, you know, of Romans 12, 11.

It says they overcame him by the blood of the lamb and the word of their testimony.

You know, the enemy does not want you to rehearse your victories because while you're rehearsing your victories, you're not thinking about your past failure.

And if you're not thinking about your past failures and defeat, he can't keep you trapped in the past.

He, you know, he can't stop you from accessing your future.

The only thing the enemy can do is keep you trapped in your past, because that's the only thing he knows about you.

He doesn't know your future.

He tries to get you to project your future, saying, oh, you know, what happened to so and so?

And they tried to believe God for something.

They died.

Didn't work for them, did it?

He'll try to get you always focused on your past, whereas the word of God on faith will always have you focused on your future.

So, so important, you know, forgetting past victories can lead to fear and discouragement.

This is, this isn't, this is an important point here.

Let me show you this scripture.

I'm going to go over to Psalms 78, verse 11.

It says, and they forgot his works and the wonders and that he had shown them.

You know, this is talking actually about, if you back up a couple of verses, the people of Ephraim, being armed with bows, turned back in the day of battle because they did not keep the covenant of God and refused to work walk in his law.

Therefore, they forgot his works and the wonders that he had shown them.

You know, when crisis happened, when a challenge happened, when these people were in the thick of battle, and you know, the fear got to them because it says they, they didn't keep the word of the Lord.

They didn't keep God's promises before their eyes.

They didn't keep the promises of God before their eyes.

So their eyes were drawn to the thick of the battle.

Man.

That's a huge point right there in the middle of the battle.

More than anything, if our focus is not on the battle itself, but on the victory, we'll be able to get through to the other side.

He says they refused.

That's an intentional move.

They refused to walk in his law.

They refused to keep it before them.

They refused to follow after the promises of God.

And because of those intentional mistakes, it says they forgot about his works.

They forgot the things that he had already done, the victories that he'd already secured for them.

They, they forgot about the good things.

They forgot that they would get a word from God.

They forgot that they were well able to overcome.

And because they forgot the one, all of the wonders that, that he had already showed them, you know, they didn't prosper.

Man.

This is really powerful.

So there's something in this that when we, when we keep our mind focused on the victories, the faithfulness, the goodness that the good things, the promises of God, when we keep focused on the word that God has, has for our future, it draws us into the future, it draws us past the battle, it draws us to the finish line.

You know, when I was a kid, I did athletics at school and they used to put me in, I was always really short.

That's not a new thing.

But they used to put me in for the hurdles and for the high jump, things that were.

And the long jump.

And I'm like, I've got the shortest legs of anyone.

But there's something about me.

I was really springy, you know.

One of my nicknames when I was a teenager was Tigger, you know, from Winnie the Pooh, because I was always like really bouncy.

And I might be small, but I could just, I could bounce, I could bounce real high, high.

So I remember one particular time I was running the hurdles race and it was 100 meters.

So I don't know how much 100 meters is.

Well, a meter is about, about a yard, which I can't even.

It's about three feet, right?

One meter is about three feet.

So like 300ft, I guess you could say.

So it's a sprint.

This race is a sprint.

And they have hurdles and if you've ever seen like full size hurdles, the kind that you maybe see on TV on, on a high school athletic track, they're not small.

They're, you know, they're.

I mean, there's several.

I don't know how high a high hurdle is, but it could be, I'm thinking three, three feet high, even, even higher than that.

And so when I was in high school, I was even, even shorter.

And I remember looking at the size of these hurdles, thinking, I don't know how I'm ever going to get over these.

Well, you know, they start you off on the ground, on the baby herders, and then they, when they get you sprinting and running over those hurdles, then they raise them up and raise them until they're full height so you don't have to do it all at once.

But I remember running and there's a technique for jumping the hurdle.

But the problem is sometimes you get so caught up in the moment, you get so caught up in the technique, you get so caught up in the middle of the battle that your focus actually stops being from where you're going and it starts being on this moment right Here, right now, it starts you to get your eyes pointing down rather than looking up.

And you know what?

You cannot run a race if you're not looking forward.

If you're looking down, you're going to lose every time.

You can't run a race by looking at where your feet are.

You have to run a race by looking at where you're going.

So often when we're in the middle of a challenge, we're focused only on the day to day, only on this immediate moment.

And in if we're focused only on this immediate moment, that is the arena where the enemy wins.

You know, the enemy can never win a battle in the arena of faith.

He has to take you outside the ring.

This is so important.

Don't be drug into the wrong environment by keeping your eyes off the finish line.

And so as I started to focus on the hurdles, you know what?

I hit the hurdles of my knees every time, and my knees were getting swollen, they were getting painful.

I didn't want to run anymore.

And.

But yet, you know, I had to keep running because we had a team and we had to, you know, we were competing together.

And I knew that I couldn't.

I couldn't afford to.

To fail in that moment.

I can't just give up.

I had people that were depending on me.

I couldn't just quit.

Quitting was not an option.

And I determined in my heart quitting was not an option.

Therefore, I was going to run with my knees were swollen or not.

But every time I tried to run at that hurdle, you know, I was so intent on not hitting that hurdle with my bruised, swollen knees that the more I focused on the hurdle, the more I became inclined to hit them.

And I got slower and slower and slower because I kept hitting the hurdles.

And my coach took me aside and said to me, look, you're focusing on the hurdle.

You need to keep your eyes on the finish line.

When I made that small adjustment each time, I cleared the hurdle until I crossed the finish line.

Now, this is.

This was a life lesson for me because when challenges happened, when the doctor's report came in and said, you know what?

Your daughter's gonna die.

You're not gonna make it.

When the doctors came into me, 18 years old, and says, we don't know if you're ever going to walk again, you might be in this wheelchair for the rest of your life, there was something on the inside of me that says, no, I don't think so, because that is not the future that God has for me.

You see, when when he gave us, when we had the report, the medical report for our daughter at 3 years old that she was basically sent home from the hospital die.

There was something on the inside of us as parents that said, no, we've already seen Hannah.

I'd already seen Hannah walking into the school on her first day of school in a vision.

I'd already seen my husband walking her down the aisle on her wedding day.

We had a vision of Hannah.

Well, so when the vision came from the doctor, you know, of something of basically getting ready to bury her in a little coffin in the ground, that wasn't going to happen because I already had a victory in my, in my future.

And we started to look back and we started to think about all the times that God had been faithful, all the miracles that he'd already performed, all the things he'd already saved Hannah from.

We started to perform.

We started to rehearse those victories over and over and over again until that victory of, of.

Of.

Of the future, that future vision, victory became more real to us than the sick, dying child that we held in our arms.

You know, it did something.

We remembered the faithfulness of God.

And as we remember the faithfulness of God, our faith started to come alive.

And we started thinking, man, God's already done it.

He's already, he's already secured this healing.

This is, you know, this, this is a.

This is a done deal.

Whether it looks like it or not, this is a done deal.

Hannah's healed.

I remember holding girl thinking, there's no other way out of this other than healing.

There's no other possible outcome because death is not something that we can relate to.

I know I'm holding a dying child.

I know it doesn't look like it, but death doesn't have a sting anymore.

Only victory was something that we could see on the inside, you know, and it wasn't but a few days later that that victory was realized.

She received her miraculous healing and she's.

I mean, that was.

It's coming up for 20 years ago.

She didn't die, but she lived and she got married.

She's got two beautiful babies.

I have two grandchildren now today.

But it held it to for us.

It took for us to rehearse those victories.

You know, when the doctor came in and told me when I was 18 years old, I had so many seizures, I had brain damage, paralysis in a wheelchair, couldn't walk, all that kind of stuff.

Doctor came in and, you know, it wasn't, it wasn't hope for it, but there was something on the inside of me.

I had something inside of me that just said no.

It just says, no, I'm not going with that.

I'm not accepting that.

That's not something.

That's not a picture of victory, you know, living my life in a wheelchair.

That's not a picture of victory.

That's not a picture of victory.

Now, you know, it's better than.

It's better to live your life in a wheelchair than to not have a life at all.

I get that.

But you know what?

That wasn't a complete victory that I was believing God for.

There was something.

There was something bigger than that.

I had a mountain.

I had a literal mountain that I wanted to climb.

My youth group were going to go mountain climbing.

I was going to go with them.

I had a picture victory on the inside of me.

And because I had, I was able to rehearse those victories.

You know, I should write our scriptures, scripture of scripture of scripture and put them all around my room.

And this was what this is.

This was the visions and the.

And the victories and the things that God had already done for me.

I didn't realize at the time, but I was rehearsing, recounting, rehearing the faithfulness of God.

Super huge.

Because the enemy wants you to your dream to die.

But God's trying to give you vision.

So this is, this is hugely important.

You know, I'm thinking of the story in the scripture of David and Goliath.

In fact, let's just look at this really quickly.

I'm going to read the whole thing.

We've covered this before in previous live streams, but I want to look in 1st Samuel, 17, 1st Samuel.

And look in verse 37, it says, David said, the Lord who delivered me out of the poor and the light, and out of the poor of the lion and out of the poor of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine.

You know, he heard the same negative report that everybody else had from this evil Goliath.

Every day Goliath would come out and, you know, trash talk the army of Israel.

And it terrified them all because he was so huge.

When David came out, the little shepherd boy that was just bringing the cheese, he wasn't even, you know, a soldier.

You know, he had the same report as them, but he had an experience.

He had.

He remembered the faithfulness of God.

He remembered, hang on.

God has done good things for me before.

He's protected me before and he's going to protect me again.

And that gave him boldness even Though he heard the same report as everybody else.

But instead of rehearsing those terrifying words of the enemy, he rehearsed his past victories.

And he spoke out of his mouth.

Vision, you see, people of faith are people of vision.

People of victory are people of vision.

Victory and vision always goes together.

He started to speak vision.

He started to tell that that giant, listen, I'm coming after you.

This victory is going to be easy.

I'm going to come at you, I'm going to chop your head off with your own sword.

I didn't even know.

He didn't even have a sword himself.

And I'm going to feed it to the birds.

He had a vision.

It caused him to speak victory.

That vision of victory caused him to declare it.

The very word for rehearse.

One of the words for rehearse means to speak, to announce, to declare.

You know, super, super important.

More examples here.

This is Moses and Joshua in Exodus 17.

Look at this.

Exodus 17, 14.

Then the Lord said to Moses, write this as a memorial in a book and rehearse it to Joshua.

Well, what was he writing?

He was writing the victories of the Lord is write what's happened down in a memorial.

Make something permanent.

You know, a memorial is a permanent reminder, a permanent reminder.

Man, this is so important.

We need permanent reminders of the goodness of God.

You know, in the Old Testament, when they had a battle, when they crossed a river, they would stack up stones, like to make a memorial, a monument.

You know, we can begin to rehearse our victories and make monuments in our life of.

They're almost like mile markers of the goodness of God.

A mile marker shows you how far you've come or how far you're going to.

Is a point of reference, is a permanent position.

You know, this is important.

We know when we.

When we're going through something to.

To recognize that we've already had a measure of victory.

The fact that you're watching this, that you're breathing, that you're hearing, seeing, that you have some sort of senses about you, you know, that's.

Some of you are already a miracle.

Some of you need to write in the comments, I'm a miracle.

Because if you've overcome something, if you're here, if you've lived a day longer than the doctor said you were going to live, you're already a miracle.

You know, I minister to people all the time, and they come for prayer because they've got some major challenge in their life.

And then they tell me, I've been healed of all these things.

In the past, I'm like, praise the Lord, you're a miracle.

You know, I'm very intentional about that.

Because what we do is we take the power out of the crisis of the moment and we get people's for a moment focused on acknowledging everything that's good that makes their faith come effective.

Remember, Philemon 1:6 says, Our faith becomes effective by the acknowledgment of every good thing that's in us, in Christ Jesus.

Yes, that's right.

You're a miracle.

And Marie Anita Ralph Beverly Edmore, Varina Mayor, right now, Amber, you're a miracle.

You know, we need to be thankful, rehearse the victories.

And when the enemy comes, oh, you know what?

You've still got some of that pain.

It's not all the way gone, is that you've got something to throw back in his face and say, beat it, loser.

I'm a miracle.

Beat it.

Stop.

You pain of the devil is a punk, man.

When we've got the victory of God in our.

In our hearts, when we start to let it out of our mouth and we start to rehearse, it's the devil's worst nightmare.

He doesn't want you to rehearse your victory.

But you know, it's like having punk protection.

You know, if somebody came against you and you said, let me just tell you what Jesus has done for me today.

You might be coming at me, you uncircumcised Philistine.

But let me just tell you what the Lord has already delivered me from the paw of the lion and the poor of the base.

You're going to be like nothing.

You're going to be like one of those past things that I've already been delivered from.

You know, the enemy does not like boldness.

He does not want you to speak.

The miracles, the victories, the promises of God.

You're a miracle, man, Anastasia.

George says I'm a miracle.

I nearly died twice when I was a baby.

I was delivered and protected.

That's right.

So if the enemy comes at you or your family or your boys or whatever and say, hang on a minute, you're a loser.

And I've already.

I've beat it, punk.

Right?

Seriously, I mean, I'm already.

It's too.

It's too late for me.

I'm already victorious.

I'm already victorious.

I'm already a miracle.

Seriously.

I was a prodigal brought back by the grace of God.

Hallelujah.

God's already been good to me.

I've already tasted and I've seen The goodness of God.

And I'm not going to die, but live.

And I'm going to declare the goodness of God in the land of the living.

This is so powerful.

That's right, Kristen, you can turn around and you can compile that stage four cancer.

Way to go.

Because you are already a miracle.

You're already going on the inside of you.

So Moses said to Joshua, write this as a memorial.

What kind of memorial do you need to make to help you to remember?

Because sometimes, you know, when we're stuck in a funk, right, we need a little help.

You know, maybe write them out on the, you know, three, three by five on flashcards or something.

Write it down.

She's actually said write a memorial in a book here.

Write it down and rehearse it.

Rehear it.

To rehearse is to rehear it, to speak it, to announce it, to proclaim it.

Right?

Rehearse it for Joshua.

Let other people know the good things.

For I will utterly wipe out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.

God's saying, listen, if you can.

If you can rehearse these victories that you've had in the past, it'll secure your victories in the future.

Oh, come on.

I'm going to say that again.

If you can learn to rehearse the victories that you've had in the past, it'll secure your victories that you have in the future.

This is very, very important.

We're tapping into something, some supernatural power right here.

Batty says I had a ruptured appendix, gangrene, necrotic tissue, and, And a blood clot in hospital, and I was 25 years old.

But I'm elderly now.

I'm a miracle.

You see, the enemy tried to destroy you, but he didn't have the power to win.

You understand that?

He didn't have the power to win.

Hannah says one of the.

One of her boys died and came back after intense baby prayers.

You.

You guys are full of miracles.

So I beat a brain tumor two years ago.

I'm healthy, man.

You're already a miracle.

Write these down.

Write these down.

And anytime, you know, something good happens, you see an answer prayer, write it down.

Keep a journal of victories, of answered prayers, of things that the God is.

It doesn't have to be healing related.

It could.

It could be something you asked the Lord for and you saw, you know, just an answer to prayer in any way, a provision, something that was paid off, whatever it was.

Maybe you just, you know, you were brave about something because the Lord helped you to be bold.

In a circumstance where you'd be timid, they don't all have to be really big things.

Right.

These can be small things, but it's important because it helps us to create a memorial.

A memorial, Very important.

Right.

So.

And there's other examples here.

You know, I'm going to go into all of them.

Deborah's song in Judges 5:11, it says, @ the Wells, people would rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord, celebrating God's past deliverance.

And it built a culture of praise.

You know, when we start to rehearse our past victories, we can't help but say, thank you, Jesus.

It makes us praise when we start to get our minds focused on.

On everything.

God has done that for us and the goodness of God in our lives.

I love that song, by the way.

The goodness of God.

I.

Man, it moves me.

It's an old song now, the goodness of God.

But, you know, it says that his goodness is running after us.

It's chasing after us.

All my life you have been faithful.

All my life you've been so, so good.

I just love that song.

It ministers to me, but it makes me want to praise.

It makes me want to dance.

It makes me want to break out singing.

Right?

We get our praise on.

That's powerful in itself.

You know, we've talked about Paul and Barnabas.

They gathered the church.

But they gathered the church together.

And in the presence of the church, they rehearsed every good thing that God had done on their mission.

And they.

They shared in the victories, they shared the testimonies, and it brought unity and encouragement to the church.

This is hugely important.

When we get together as a church body.

What are we talking about?

Oh, are we having a pity party?

Oh, poor me.

You know, this is so sad, and this is so TR or always that sharing the goodness of God and testimonies, because that will build unity, that will release the supernatural power of God.

That'll build us up in our most Foley faith.

So what happens when we rehearse our victories?

Well, I'm gonna lay a couple of things out here.

There's a lot of benefits to this.

I can't tell you the amount of times, you know, I've heard people's testimonies, and it just encouraged me.

Sometimes I like to go over our own reels.

We have reels and different testimonies of Things that we've seen.

I just.

It blesses me to see other people testify.

And, you know, if.

If something happens when we have healing meetings and we have.

Sometimes we have, you know, premise down the front and there could be a long line for prayer.

And I used to feel bad.

You know, people are waiting.

You know, this.

Is there a way to speed this up?

And then I realized there's something actually really valuable about the waiting.

There's something really important about the waiting.

When people are waiting, they're listening, they're waiting for their turn for ministry, but at the same time, they're waiting for their turn for ministry.

They're hearing other people be ministered to.

They're hearing other people get their.

Get their miracles.

They're seeing other people move, get their movement back.

They're seeing miracles.

They're hearing miracles, they're hearing testimonies.

And I can't help but think of that story of Jairus.

You remember when Jairus was, you know, he went into.

To get Jesus the rule of the synagogue.

His daughter's at home dying, and why he's waiting for Jesus to come to his house to lay hands on his daughter.

You know, the way was interrupted with the woman with the issue of blood.

And.

And I just think Mangyrus, the whole time, he must be thinking, I'm running out of time.

Time is short.

Every second that goes by, my daughter is dying.

There could be anxiety when he started, anxiety and fear on the inside of him when he came to Jesus out of desperation.

He's the ruler of the synagogue.

He shouldn't be talking to Jesus.

He wasn't popular amongst Jews.

He had a lot on the line here.

And there was a time component here.

Maybe panic was setting in, you know, but the whole time he's there being delayed by this interruption of this woman with the issue of blood.

You know, something happened.

You see, he hears Jesus talking to this woman.

She's been sick for 12 years.

She's been sick for 12 years with this bleeding condition.

And I bet Jairus is sitting there thinking, well, my daughter's 12 years old, so he's probably doing the math.

And he said, he's a smart man.

You know, about the same time my daughter was born, this woman got sick, you know, and as he's sitting there hearing this, you know, this woman gets healed.

She'd been sick for the same amount of time as his daughter had been alive.

And he sees this amazing miracle right there in front of his.

In the waiting.

In the waiting.

He was watching.

He was watching this woman rehearse her victory, and that there was a very victory he needed to hear.

Because the very next thing that came to his hearing was a report that says, don't trouble the teacher.

Your daughter is dead.

But it was too late.

He'd already seen a victory.

He'd already seen a woman rehearse a victory.

He'd already seen the power of a testimony.

So now he has a conflict in his heart.

Am I going to listen to the reports that my daughter is dead, or am I going to remember the victory?

No, I'm going to rehearse the victory right there in that moment.

Jesus comes right in the middle, says, do not fear, only believe.

Do not fear, only believe.

Only rehearse the victory.

Don't go by the doctor's reports.

Don't go by the negative things that have just happened.

Rehearse the victories.

Keep them front and center.

The end of his story is Jesus went to his house and his daughter was raised from the dead.

But you know what?

He could have shipwrecked that in that moment.

He could have shipwrecked back in that moment.

But he needed to remember the victory.

He needed to remember the testimony.

Don't get shipwrecked in the moment, but from.

From receiving your miracle.

But rehearse your victories.

Hugely important.

You know, our faith grows when we hear testimonies.

But we overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony, we silence the enemy's lies with the words of our own testimony.

Your body needs to.

You speak the faithfulness of God.

He needs to hear your victories.

Right.

It also strength strengthens other people.

You know, when we rehearse victories, Psalm 43 says, Many shall see it and fear and put their trust in the Lord.

Meaning your testimony causes other people to hear and to see.

And, you know, sometimes they.

People come out of curiosity, but then they hear a testimony and then they know it was real.

It's kind of like the woman at the well.

Do you remember when Jesus ministered to the woman at the well and then she went back into the town and, you know, they knew that that woman was crazy.

They knew that she's had five husbands.

But something happened, you know, something happened where she shared her testimony.

They might have come out of curiosity, but then they heard the testimony and then they saw it for themselves.

Her testimony drew them in.

You know, it blesses us, it blesses other people.

So how do we rehearse our victories on a practical sense?

Well, Writing down.

Keep a journal of answered prayers and breakthroughs.

Speak them out loud.

Tell your family, your friends, your church, in your small groups, you know, maybe make a live stream yourself or make a little video and share it with people.

You know, there's going to be opportunities for you to share that goodness of God.

Speak it out loud.

And then praise.

Praise is really powerful.

This is another way that we rehearse our victories.

You know, turn it into praise.

You know, Deborah, she.

She turned.

She turned.

They turned their victories into words, songs they sung.

Their victories.

You can do that too.

You know, it's.

It's.

There's a scriptural precedent for that.

It's powerful.

Singing in tongues.

Super powerful, right?

Yep, that's right.

She turned that city upside down.

And then celebrate intentionally.

You know, sometimes we just need to have a praise party.

We just need to have a party.

You know, they had a memorial.

They created a memorial.

And at that verse in Exodus, Moses says.

Says, you know, create a memorial, a moment.

I'm a big.

I'm a big fan of celebrating significant things.

My life is a really.

A testimony to.

Of healings that happened that were a collection of uncelebrated miracles.

I saw a lot of miracles in my life, and because the environment that I was in didn't recognize those, they just kind of swept them under the carpet.

I didn't realize the power until I started talking about it.

I started to tell people some of the things that I've been through, and they're like, what.

What happened to you?

And, you know, I just started to realize, I guess it is a big deal.

I guess those things don't happen every day.

We started to celebrate, you know, so even maybe.

Maybe you've been through some things in our lot in your life that.

That didn't get celebrated.

It's not too late to celebrate.

You can go back and you can have a party and celebrate things that should have been celebrated then.

But you know what?

Better late than never.

Celebrate the goodness of God.

Maybe something good happened and it didn't get the recognition that it should have.

It didn't.

It didn't get the full celebration celebrated afresh.

It's all good.

I love that, you know, there's something so powerful about celebrating our victories.

Just like David rehearsed the lion and the bear victories before facing Goliath.

When we declare our past victories and to our next giant, when we remind our giant that's standing in front of us of the victories we've already had in the past, we're rehearsing that victory to ourselves and to the enemy.

Understand that it's scared.

It intimidates the enemy.

Your victory, your rehearsal of your victory out of your mouth intimidates your enemy.

Think about that.

When you let the goodness of God, the faithfulness of God, when you're rehearsing your victory out of your mout, when you're celebrating something that God has done for you, it doesn't matter how long ago it was, it is intimidating to the enemy.

I kind of like that.

I kind of like the thought of intimidating the enemy.

Right?

It's.

It's a powerful thing.

It activates something, you know, finally, you know, I'm thinking of Psalm 103.

Couldn't, couldn't finish without this scripture.

Psalm 103, verse 2.

David, who fought so many battles, says, bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all of his benefits.

He heals all of our diseases.

He redeems He.

He forgives all of our iniquities, you know, he delivers our life from destruction.

He.

He crowns us with loving kindness and tender mercy, satisfies our mouth with good things and renews our strength like the eagles.

Forget not those benefits.

If you're looking back or listening to this and thinking, well, I don't have any amazing testimonies to go back and rehearse.

Well, you can rehearse on the 103.

All of those things that David saw, they belong to you.

That his victories that he secured, they belong to you now.

The victories that we have in Christ, that maybe you can celebrate other people's victories.

Thank you, Lord, for healing Auntie Flo.

Man Bootleg, one of those.

It doesn't matter, you know, if we learn to celebrate other people's victories, it won't belong before those saints that their victories become our victories.

You know, we're not doing it for that reason, but there's a power that happens there.

It doesn't matter who God was faithful to, whether it was he was faithful to you or somebody else.

When we celebrate that, the same, the same measure of intimidation goes ahead of us to scare our enemy and to secure our victory.

You can bootleg the faithfulness of God in somebody else's life.

You can thank God for somebody else else's testimony.

It's releasing the same power.

Amen.

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