Jane Hamon: Contending is the New Normal - Stay Focused
Channel: King of Kings Worship Center
Date: 04/02/2021

Jane Hamon: Contending is the New Normal - Stay Focused
Jane speaks at Vision Church at Christian International on January 24, 2021. Quotes: "The new normal is battling and the new normal is staying focused. Contending is the new normal. God loves nations. Santiago Rodriguez, who used to be part of our ministry, went on a missions trip to Nepal. He went up to this high mountain in Nepal and went into this little chapel way up in the Nepalese mountains. At the very front of the chapel in Nepal, there were three flags. The pastor said, “We pray for these nations every time we gather. They were the Nepalese flag, the flag for Israel and the flag of the United States. In the mountains of Nepal. Why? Because we recognize that as America goes, so goes the world.”

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Pastor Tom has been preaching a message about fear, fatigue, and fatalism. This really keys into the fatalistic mentality that a lot of people have said, “Oh, well we've got a Democratic president now, what can we do? I guess we just have to hold on and just try to buckle down.” No! Are we going to just sit back for two years or four years? Are we just going to sit back and not contend? What do we believe God has said? We've got to rise to the battle. We've got to continue to fight the battle. 

God is saying, “Go into that ring and start taking out the devourer. Start taking out the destroyer, and don't give him any peace.” We've got to contend. Listen. Part of the word for this year came out of Pastor Greg's intersession time when he said we've got to dance the dance of the Mahanaim. It's a dance, between the angels that are in heaven, the armies that are in heaven and the army that's in the earth. That is a dance that we’ve got to learn to do together. 

When we were in prayer and Pastor Greg started praying about that, again, I was thinking, “You know, boxers learn to dance. Remember Mohammad Ali? “Float like a butterfly sting, like a bee.” Boxers learn to dance. They learn to move their feet. They learn how to anticipate the move of their opponent. I think that we're in a season right now where we got to shake off disappointed, disheartened or disillusioned or being discouraged.
 
God's already prophetically spoken, 'I'm bringing you into a contending season.' The Lord says the battle's not over. There's a contending that we've got to get into and an engagement that we've got to do. We don't fight as those that are in the world. 

2 Corinthians 10:3
“Though we live in this world we don't wage war as the world does.”
This is not about flesh and blood. This is not about fighting people. Church, let me just say this. Joe Biden is our president, like it or not. Whether you feel like it's legal or not. Whether you feel like whatever, whatever, whatever he is now in that position. We're going to pray for him, as we have for every president, since we've started this church. We're not going to fight this spiritual battle by battling flesh and blood. 

2 Corinthians 10:4 says, “the weapons that we fight with are not the weapons of this world, on the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.” There's a stronghold right now that we're contending with, and it has a strong hold on our nation. We're going to battle with the weapons of the Spirit. God is going to show us how to engage in the ground war. But we’ve got to first win air superiority. We first need to engage in that battle. It says we demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God. And we take captive every thought and we make it obedient to Christ. 

I preached a message years ago on this word focus F.O.C.U.S. And this is how I preached it. I preached that that word meant faith operating consistently until satisfied. I don't know about you, but I'm not satisfied. Don't lose your focus. If you're satisfied, I'm here to stir you up. Somebody once said, God came to comfort the afflicted and to afflict, the comfortable. 

The new normal is battling and the new normal is staying focused. God loves nations. Santiago Rodriguez, who used to be part of our ministry, went on a missions trip to Nepal. He went up to this high mountain in Nepal and went into this little chapel way up in the Nepalese mountains. At the very front of the chapel in Nepal, there were three flags. The pastor said, “We pray for these nations every time we gather. They were the Nepalese flag, the flag for Israel and the flag of the United States. In the mountains of Nepal. Why? Because as America goes, so goes the world.