Say, “I am STRONG in The LORD, and in the POWER of His MIGHT!”

Eagle Mountain International Church • June 13, 2024

I speak THE BLESSING of the LORD over you today! You are empowered to prosper. You are fruitful, increasing, multiplying, replenishing the earth and having dominion over it. You are BLESSED coming in, and BLESSED going out. You have a supernatural surplus of prosperity, and you are furnished in abundance for every good work. The Spirit of increase is on you and in you. You are increasing more and more every day, you and your children!


Thank you for your prayers and faithfulness to our EMIC family! Pastor Terri and I so appreciate you! Your supply of the spirit is very precious to us. We are believing that THE BLESSING is raining down upon you. Say with me: “I command my harvest to come to me. Harvesting angels, go out to the fields and gather it up. I take it now, in Jesus’ Name!”


Those are strong words! And I am declaring today that you are getting stronger and stronger every day. Ephesians 6:10 says, “Be strong in the LORD, and in the power of His might.” The Amplified Bible, Classic Edition tells us to “be strong in the LORD [be empowered through your union with Him]; draw your strength from Him [that strength which His boundless might provides].”


Every believer has the potential to walk in a greater place of supernatural strength to be able to overcome anything. The stronger we are spiritually, the easier it is to receive from God, resist the devil and help others.


Proverbs 18:14 (AMPC) tells us, “The strong spirit of a man sustains him in bodily pain or trouble, but a weak and broken spirit who can raise up or bear?”

A strong spirit will cause us to overcome physical attacks, financial problems, relational difficulties, emotional challenges—everything the devil throws our way. We can build a barrier, a force field and a wall of protection around us. When the storms come, we can stand like a rock, unshaken and unmovable.

Our spirits can become so rooted, grounded and established in the WORD that we can actually repel disease, stop care, resist sin, override doubt, dissolve offense and block pressure. We can build up our spiritual immune systems to such a degree that sickness can’t prevail against us, discouragement can’t sway us, fear can’t stop us, bad news can’t move us and adversity can’t affect us.


God’s WORD is very clear as to how we can strengthen our spirits. First Timothy 4:6 (New King James Version) says, “If you instruct the brethren in these things, you will be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished in the words of faith and of the good doctrine which you have carefully followed.”

God’s WORD is our nourishment. It is our primary source of strength. That’s why we must feed our spirits “faith food” every day to be strong. God’s WORD contains all the proper nutrients to build a strong spirit.


Here is the “Pastor George Translation” of Romans 10:17:
“Faith comes by eating, and eating by the WORD of God.”

Matthew 4:4 (AMPC) tells us, “Man shall not live and be upheld and sustained by bread alone, but by every WORD that comes forth from the mouth of God.”

We can actually draw strength from reading and applying God’s WORD:


• Psalm 119:28 (AMPC): “Raise me up and strengthen me according to [the promises of] Your WORD.”
• Jeremiah 15:16 (AMPC): “Your words were found, and I ate them; and Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart.”
• Acts 20:32: “The WORD of His grace will build you up and give you an inheritance.”


Take time to wait upon the LORD in His WORD. Let it feed and strengthen your heart. That way, no matter what you are facing, you are an overcomer!

Look at Isaiah 40:28–31 in the New King James Version. Let it come alive in you.



“Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, neither faints nor is weary. His understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the weak, and to those who have no might He increases strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall, but those who wait on the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.”

Now, say it one more time:
“I am strong in the LORD, and in the power of His might!”

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