WEBVTT 00:00:01.122 --> 00:00:06.253 Tonight particularly, I'll be talking about our uplifted design. 00:00:06.253 --> 00:00:32.173 Our uplifted design again, it is to introduce this theme for this month and I want you to know how important this particular topic is open design Because this one also gives our theme in January and February a landing. 00:00:32.173 --> 00:00:41.030 Tell your neighbor there is a landing, because in January our theme was about seeing. 00:00:41.030 --> 00:00:47.622 We were seeing uplifted, open vision we were seeing. 00:00:47.622 --> 00:00:58.054 In February we were talking about open door declarations, talking about authority. 00:00:58.054 --> 00:01:04.111 So we were talking about what we see and what we have been authorized to do. 00:01:04.111 --> 00:01:09.465 But much this one. 00:01:09.465 --> 00:01:16.875 When we talk about design, it gives us the reason to see and the reason to do. 00:01:16.875 --> 00:01:22.411 It's how you are designed that affects how you see and what you do. 00:01:22.411 --> 00:01:25.027 So your design is important. 00:01:25.027 --> 00:01:34.990 For example, an eagle is designed to do what? 00:01:34.990 --> 00:01:40.022 To fly. 00:01:40.022 --> 00:01:44.087 That is why it has been given wings. 00:01:44.087 --> 00:01:46.245 It was designed that way. 00:01:46.245 --> 00:01:51.847 An eagle also has one of the best visions. 00:01:51.847 --> 00:02:00.862 One time I talked to you and said that an eagle, the way the eyes are placed on the eagle's head. 00:02:00.862 --> 00:02:03.609 Thank God that your eyes are in front. 00:02:03.609 --> 00:02:15.935 Hello, because you are designed to look in front, to look forward, not to look behind. 00:02:15.935 --> 00:02:18.907 Forget former things. 00:02:18.907 --> 00:02:21.548 Don't dwell on the things you're supposed to look forward. 00:02:21.548 --> 00:02:28.432 An eagle has a very interesting vision because it can see, not 180 degrees. 00:02:28.432 --> 00:02:36.554 If you see this way and that way, without turning, hello, you are seeing 180 degrees. 00:02:36.554 --> 00:02:39.828 You can see this way and that way. 00:02:39.828 --> 00:02:43.747 You can see this person without really turning. 00:02:43.747 --> 00:02:50.008 If you could see back straight, you'd actually be seeing how many degrees? 00:02:50.008 --> 00:02:53.340 360. 00:02:53.340 --> 00:02:55.706 And for us to see 360, you have to turn around. 00:02:55.706 --> 00:03:05.830 And the eagle, the eyes, are placed in such a way that it can see at least 350 degrees. 00:03:05.830 --> 00:03:10.066 So it is designed that way. 00:03:10.066 --> 00:03:16.884 It is designed to fly, so it is designed to see. 00:03:16.884 --> 00:03:21.700 But also it is designed and given authority to do what To fly. 00:03:21.700 --> 00:03:38.425 And so don't try going on top of a building and jumping off thinking you can do what Fly, because uta, jua, au jui. 00:03:38.425 --> 00:03:42.723 You are not designed like that. 00:03:42.723 --> 00:03:50.450 So people are designed in different ways, but God designed us in a very special way. 00:03:50.450 --> 00:03:58.824 When you understand your design, then you understand what you need to see and what you need to do. 00:03:58.824 --> 00:04:00.842 This is very important. 00:04:02.919 --> 00:04:10.008 Now, today, our scripture is from Colossians, and I want to read Colossians, chapter 3, verse 1. 00:04:10.008 --> 00:04:22.591 I begin to explain and introduce this thing called open door design and especially today, talk about the uplifted design that we have been given. 00:04:22.591 --> 00:04:25.887 And I want to read this in chapter 3, colossians 3. 00:04:25.887 --> 00:04:29.125 I read from verse 1 to 4. 00:04:29.125 --> 00:04:33.240 It says this since then. 00:04:33.240 --> 00:04:39.052 Now, when it says since then, it means a lot has been said in Colossians, chapter 2. 00:04:39.052 --> 00:04:43.666 All right, so it was building a case, building a case. 00:04:43.666 --> 00:04:51.942 But now in chapter 3, it says since then you have been what Raised with Christ. 00:04:51.942 --> 00:05:05.007 Set your hearts on things above where Christ is Seated at the right hand of God. 00:05:05.007 --> 00:05:13.992 It says set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. 00:05:13.992 --> 00:05:23.190 Let me say this while I'm reading this verses we were not designed to set our minds on earthly things. 00:05:23.190 --> 00:05:26.125 You get that. 00:05:26.125 --> 00:05:28.127 That's not how we were designed in Christ. 00:05:29.160 --> 00:05:29.963 Let me read verse 3. 00:05:29.963 --> 00:05:43.053 For you did what you died, and your life is now not in the future, is now hidden with Christ in God. 00:05:43.053 --> 00:05:44.745 That's why you should be very excited. 00:05:44.745 --> 00:05:47.742 The devil cannot see you. 00:05:47.742 --> 00:05:51.742 You are hidden. 00:05:51.742 --> 00:05:57.168 So don't walk around saying, wow, this last week the devil has been after me. 00:05:57.168 --> 00:05:59.783 Why was he after you? 00:05:59.783 --> 00:06:01.062 He could not see you. 00:06:01.062 --> 00:06:04.723 You are hidden. 00:06:04.723 --> 00:06:05.927 He's hidden. 00:06:05.927 --> 00:06:07.827 He says go back to verse 3. 00:06:07.879 --> 00:06:08.622 I like that verse. 00:06:08.622 --> 00:06:15.850 For you died and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. 00:06:15.850 --> 00:06:17.649 That's amazing for me. 00:06:17.649 --> 00:06:25.949 It's amazing for me, blows my mind and I've tried to illustrate that several times. 00:06:25.949 --> 00:06:32.440 For example, you see this card that is you, amen. 00:06:32.440 --> 00:06:39.541 You see this paper that's Christ. 00:06:39.541 --> 00:07:05.209 So you were hidden in Christ, hidden when Christ was hidden in God. 00:07:05.209 --> 00:07:12.903 How can the devil get to you? 00:07:12.903 --> 00:07:23.901 Tell your neighbor, I'm safe In Christ, in God. 00:07:23.901 --> 00:07:33.151 You see, that is why you should not allow the devil to lie to you. 00:07:33.151 --> 00:07:36.023 You're hidden. 00:07:36.023 --> 00:07:39.043 I'm saying you're hidden. 00:07:40.759 --> 00:07:42.766 So let me finish this verse, because this is a good verse. 00:07:42.766 --> 00:07:57.345 It says this when Christ, who is your life, now appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. 00:07:57.345 --> 00:08:00.286 Are we together? 00:08:00.286 --> 00:08:05.050 And then it says I'm not going to read the rest, but let me just read it at the beginning. 00:08:05.050 --> 00:08:14.374 So, with this understanding, put to death there for whatever belongs to your earthly nature. 00:08:14.374 --> 00:08:15.523 Now what are these? 00:08:15.523 --> 00:08:25.805 Sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. 00:08:25.805 --> 00:08:29.425 Because of this, the wrath of God is coming. 00:08:31.720 --> 00:08:33.225 You used to walk in these ways. 00:08:33.225 --> 00:08:35.283 That's your history. 00:08:35.283 --> 00:08:39.082 It is no longer your story. 00:08:39.082 --> 00:08:44.967 In Christ, you have a different story. 00:08:44.967 --> 00:08:48.811 You used to walk in these ways in the life you once lived. 00:08:48.811 --> 00:08:51.986 It's talking about you like past tense. 00:08:51.986 --> 00:08:55.562 You used to look at the next one. 00:08:55.562 --> 00:09:10.754 But now tell your neighbor now you must also read yourself of all such things as this anger, rage, malice, slander, filthy language from your lips. 00:09:12.342 --> 00:09:14.610 It goes on to say this do not lie to each other. 00:09:14.610 --> 00:09:23.398 That is your past life, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have now put on. 00:09:23.398 --> 00:09:25.124 You are putting off to put on. 00:09:25.124 --> 00:09:27.201 Hello. 00:09:27.201 --> 00:09:33.832 Have you ever tried putting on in the morning your pajamas? 00:09:33.832 --> 00:09:39.727 Then, instead of putting your pajamas off, you put on the clothes you're going to wear on top of your pajamas. 00:09:43.524 --> 00:09:50.221 Hello, you put off your pajamas to put on the clothes you're going to wear that day, he says. 00:09:50.221 --> 00:10:00.203 But now you have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its creator. 00:10:00.203 --> 00:10:12.328 Here there is no gentile or Jew, circumcised or unsuccumbed, barbarian, schittian, slave or free, but Christ is all and is in all. 00:10:12.328 --> 00:10:22.173 Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy, this is now your new life. 00:10:22.173 --> 00:10:29.322 So tell your neighbor I am chosen, I am holy, I am dearly loved. 00:10:29.322 --> 00:10:36.383 Even though you don't think so, I'm still reading. 00:10:36.383 --> 00:10:48.302 I'm clothing myself with compassion, with kindness, with humility, with gentleness, with patience. 00:10:48.302 --> 00:11:03.360 I am bearing with everyone else and I'm forgiving others, even as I have been forgive one another. 00:11:03.360 --> 00:11:07.030 If any of you has any grievance now, I'm not going to have any grievance with anyone. 00:11:07.030 --> 00:11:09.186 So if I took your money, sorry, I'm going to return it. 00:11:09.186 --> 00:11:15.225 Thank you, jesus, but that's not what I was going to talk about. 00:11:15.225 --> 00:11:19.827 I'm just giving you that you have a different design. 00:11:23.240 --> 00:11:24.283 You have heard me share this story. 00:11:24.283 --> 00:11:33.850 About one time a boy walked to a mountain and he found an eagle's eggs and he took one of the eagle's eggs and took it home. 00:11:33.850 --> 00:11:39.488 And this boy had a hen that was sitting on eggs. 00:11:39.488 --> 00:11:45.028 So he took this eagle's egg, put it with the other eggs and the hen did not see the difference. 00:11:45.028 --> 00:11:57.225 The hen just laid on the other eggs and incubated the eggs and then one day the eggs hatched, but of course most of the eggs were chicken eggs. 00:11:57.225 --> 00:11:57.986 So what came out? 00:11:57.986 --> 00:12:08.028 They are called what Chicks, but in this particular egg, what came out? 00:12:08.028 --> 00:12:18.373 Eagle's eggs, misha's eggs. 00:12:18.440 --> 00:12:41.312 So Mama hen started taking care of the chicks and the eagle's eggs and for quite some time this eagle's eggs, because it was seeing what the other chicks are doing, started doing exactly what the other chicks are doing, because they would eat things from the ground Okay, whether they were worms or grains and the eagle's eggs started eating those things. 00:12:41.312 --> 00:12:44.466 And wherever mother hen went, the eagle's eggs went. 00:12:44.466 --> 00:12:49.988 When the hawks came, remember what would happen? 00:12:49.988 --> 00:12:58.734 Mama hen would make sound and all the chicks would run under her, including the eagle's eggs. 00:12:58.734 --> 00:13:13.092 But after some time this eagle's eggs started growing bigger than the chicks and sometimes it was difficult when Mama hen would cluck, cluck, cluck and all these chicks would run. 00:13:13.092 --> 00:13:19.508 The eagle's eggs could not fit, hello, under Mama hen. 00:13:20.679 --> 00:13:25.370 But then the siblings, these other chicks, really started talking against this other eagle. 00:13:25.370 --> 00:13:29.698 They're saying our brother is weird. 00:13:29.698 --> 00:13:33.730 Our brother, the beak, is growing faster and it is growing sharper. 00:13:33.730 --> 00:13:35.744 Our brother has claws. 00:13:35.744 --> 00:13:39.620 He's looking weird, he's abnormal, he's not like us. 00:13:39.620 --> 00:13:57.785 But the eagle is thinking it is a chicken Working with chicks under Mama hen, eating things from the ground for quite some time and it grew bigger and then one day it started doing some weird things. 00:13:57.785 --> 00:14:10.985 So the chicks, the other chicks that were growing, they would see their brother one time running around with claws, because now it cannot, because the claws are much longer, and they're wondering what is wrong with our brother. 00:14:10.985 --> 00:14:15.306 Let me tell you this, in Christ. 00:14:15.306 --> 00:14:23.192 Those who don't know Christ will think you're weird, hello. 00:14:23.192 --> 00:14:29.094 They will listen to you and wonder what you're doing, because they don't understand you, though you're among them. 00:14:29.094 --> 00:14:34.442 You're different, but sometimes we want to know us who are different. 00:14:34.442 --> 00:14:38.701 We want to function like the other ones that we think are us. 00:14:41.514 --> 00:14:48.304 Then one day, this eglet growing quite a bit the feathers are growing quite a bit. 00:14:48.304 --> 00:15:09.918 One day it had a sound in the sky, a whistle, and one day the eglet looked up for the first time and you see, an eagle can look into the sun straight because the eyes are made in such a way that it can deflect the light. 00:15:09.918 --> 00:15:22.701 This chick said Nekubaya, our brother, is looking into the sun, the sky. 00:15:22.701 --> 00:15:23.893 His eyes are going. 00:15:23.893 --> 00:15:37.662 Let me tell you this For us, we were created to look at the Son of God, to look straight into his eyes and let the Son of God lift us up. 00:15:38.029 --> 00:15:42.120 But something started entering into this, something that had this eglet had never felt. 00:15:42.120 --> 00:15:42.910 It began. 00:15:42.910 --> 00:15:46.057 It began to because it had this sound and looked up. 00:15:46.057 --> 00:15:58.173 And then it saw, because of the vision, saw an eagle in the sky and something entered into the eglet's eye saying I can be there, I can fly. 00:15:58.173 --> 00:16:08.975 That thought had never entered into the chick's lives, never, because they had no design like that. 00:16:10.509 --> 00:16:13.879 And so one time they saw this eagle now running around, you know it would go. 00:16:13.879 --> 00:16:20.841 And then it would spread the wings, tell your neighbor. 00:16:20.841 --> 00:16:29.423 And one day it was going. 00:16:29.423 --> 00:16:44.432 Suddenly it just went up and the brothers and the sisters look at that eagle flying from her first time they said the best fanaticism, he may be. 00:16:44.432 --> 00:16:46.571 A brother we shall. 00:16:46.571 --> 00:16:53.200 You know, some people will look at you and find suddenly you're doing things they've never done. 00:16:53.200 --> 00:16:56.578 You're flying and going up above things they've never gone above. 00:16:56.578 --> 00:16:59.215 And they say come, we shall, we are. 00:16:59.215 --> 00:17:03.991 And this is what they say whatever goes up comes down. 00:17:03.991 --> 00:17:10.339 But every day this eagle started flying, started trying. 00:17:10.339 --> 00:17:14.517 One day it went be on, be on, be on, be on, be on, be on, be on, be on. 00:17:14.517 --> 00:17:18.847 And then one time it went be on, be on, be on, be on, be on, be on, be on. 00:17:18.847 --> 00:17:20.535 And it went quite a distance. 00:17:20.535 --> 00:17:23.636 And this other eagle is calling it up. 00:17:23.798 --> 00:17:26.035 Let me tell you this God is calling us up. 00:17:26.035 --> 00:17:29.347 This year. 00:17:29.347 --> 00:17:32.355 We are saying God is saying come up here. 00:17:32.355 --> 00:17:41.500 That's why the Bible says they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. 00:17:41.500 --> 00:17:47.259 They shall mount up with wings like eagles. 00:17:47.259 --> 00:17:51.939 They shall run and not be wary. 00:17:51.939 --> 00:17:56.097 They shall walk and not faint. 00:17:56.097 --> 00:18:01.160 My sister, my brother, you are designed for the sky. 00:18:01.160 --> 00:18:04.436 You are designed for the heavenly places. 00:18:04.436 --> 00:18:08.337 You are designed to sit with Christ in the heavenly places. 00:18:08.337 --> 00:18:15.038 Let me tell you this one day, this eagle went me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me. 00:18:15.038 --> 00:18:17.855 Then it went whaa, whaa, whaa, whaa whaa. 00:18:22.490 --> 00:18:23.432 It never came back. 00:18:23.432 --> 00:18:28.357 It found its place in the heavens. 00:18:28.357 --> 00:18:33.637 I pray that you'll find yourself in the heavens. 00:18:33.637 --> 00:18:37.013 The Bible says, and I've read it to you. 00:18:37.013 --> 00:18:41.211 So let me go back to that verse Look at your neighbor. 00:18:41.211 --> 00:18:44.233 Tell your neighbor I've just realized you look like an eagle. 00:18:44.233 --> 00:18:48.852 So tell your neighbor I'm not a chicken. 00:18:48.852 --> 00:18:55.071 Tell your neighbor, I'm an eagle, hallelujah. 00:18:55.071 --> 00:18:58.173 Tell your neighbor I have relocated. 00:18:58.173 --> 00:19:04.118 I have a new location in the heavenly places. 00:19:04.118 --> 00:19:13.676 So when I read this verse now, it will make sense, because many of us were born and just left to be nurtured by the things of this world. 00:19:13.676 --> 00:19:17.273 So we look like the world, talk like the world, walk like the world. 00:19:17.273 --> 00:19:19.536 We do not know we are not of this world. 00:19:19.536 --> 00:19:22.797 So look at this verse one more time. 00:19:22.869 --> 00:19:25.960 Colossians, chapter 3, verse 1. 00:19:25.960 --> 00:19:27.394 It will make sense for you now. 00:19:27.394 --> 00:19:34.478 It says this, if you can bring that verse to me Since then you have been raised with Christ. 00:19:34.478 --> 00:19:47.538 Set your hearts on things above, where Christ, the chief eagle, is seated at the right hand of God. 00:19:47.538 --> 00:19:57.721 Then set your minds on things above, not on earthly things, why you died and your life is now hidden with Christ and God. 00:19:57.721 --> 00:19:59.576 Now let me read this in the amplified version. 00:19:59.576 --> 00:20:02.473 Let me increase the sound. 00:20:02.473 --> 00:20:04.973 Amen, let's amplify it. 00:20:04.973 --> 00:20:06.736 So let me read it in the amplified version. 00:20:06.736 --> 00:20:12.656 It says this amplified Therefore, if you have been raised with Christ to what? 00:20:12.656 --> 00:20:26.415 To a new life, sharing in his resurrection from the dead, keep seeking the things that are where above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. 00:20:26.415 --> 00:20:50.401 Set your mind and keep focusing habitually In other words, make it a habit On the things above, the heavenly things, not on things that are on earth, which have only temporal value, for you died to this world and your new real life is hidden with Christ in God. 00:20:50.401 --> 00:20:56.654 Where Christ, who is our life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. 00:20:56.654 --> 00:21:02.134 Receive that I'm saying, receive that. 00:21:02.134 --> 00:21:11.715 So we are talking about the uplifted design, our uplifted design. 00:21:11.715 --> 00:21:13.656 We have been designed differently. 00:21:13.656 --> 00:21:16.617 So three things that will summarize my thoughts tonight. 00:21:16.617 --> 00:21:22.420 Number one in this status, you are designed to think. 00:21:22.420 --> 00:21:26.457 Number two, you are designed to walk. 00:21:26.457 --> 00:21:30.377 And number three you are designed to worship. 00:21:30.377 --> 00:21:36.279 Design to think, designed to walk, designed to worship. 00:21:36.279 --> 00:21:46.914 Tell your neighbor I am designed to think, I am designed to walk, I am designed to worship. 00:21:46.914 --> 00:21:53.498 We're going to look at the life of David as we put him in these scriptures today. 00:21:53.498 --> 00:21:55.333 So let me start with number one. 00:21:55.333 --> 00:22:06.851 Designed to think, and we are designed to think God's uplifted thoughts, hallelujah. 00:22:11.950 --> 00:22:16.054 Do you remember the phones that we used to have that did not have a camera inside? 00:22:16.054 --> 00:22:27.640 There was one time our phones did not have cameras, in other words, the phone was not designed to take pictures. 00:22:27.640 --> 00:22:33.692 Now imagine using that phone and you find a friend of yours who has a smartphone. 00:22:33.692 --> 00:22:43.051 You have another phone, so you can see it, nya kitambo, not so to look what it was, it's a MIA, ah, motorola. 00:22:43.051 --> 00:22:48.471 So can you imagine? 00:22:48.471 --> 00:22:49.796 This person has this phone. 00:22:49.796 --> 00:22:53.757 It is a smartphone, it has a camera, it has all kinds of apps inside it. 00:22:53.757 --> 00:22:55.233 Yours doesn't have. 00:22:55.233 --> 00:23:01.295 And then you begin to say I'm going to take pictures with my phone, even though it doesn't have a camera. 00:23:01.295 --> 00:23:05.153 Will that happen? 00:23:05.153 --> 00:23:12.740 Because that particular phone is not designed to do that? 00:23:14.150 --> 00:23:24.576 But let me tell you this when you got saved, when you came into Christ, god designed you, and then he put many apps inside you. 00:23:24.576 --> 00:23:32.238 Hello, he put so many apps inside you. 00:23:32.238 --> 00:23:42.112 That's why you're a smart believer, amen. 00:23:42.112 --> 00:23:50.635 You're a smart believer, but let me tell you this Think about your smartphone, think about the kind of apps that are in there. 00:23:50.635 --> 00:23:53.935 Many times we don't use all of them. 00:23:53.935 --> 00:24:02.654 True, there are some things that God put inside you that, from the time you got saved, though, they are there. 00:24:02.654 --> 00:24:07.384 You have never used them, but they are there. 00:24:07.384 --> 00:24:11.913 So God is not trying to put new apps inside you. 00:24:11.913 --> 00:24:26.054 When the Holy Spirit came, he came fully loaded, loaded with wisdom, with understanding, with knowledge, with power, with anointing. 00:24:26.054 --> 00:24:31.916 All those apps were put inside you, loaded inside you, but you know you have not used them. 00:24:31.916 --> 00:24:34.650 But some of you have all those apps, but you don't know you have them. 00:24:34.650 --> 00:24:42.790 That is why the Bible says increase your knowledge of the design that you have. 00:24:42.790 --> 00:24:45.299 You have an amazing design. 00:24:45.299 --> 00:24:47.491 That's why the Bible is important. 00:24:47.491 --> 00:24:51.001 That's why we need to think like who, like God. 00:24:51.001 --> 00:24:55.691 It says you are designed to think God's uplifted thoughts. 00:24:55.691 --> 00:24:57.294 Because you can. 00:24:57.294 --> 00:24:59.123 You can. 00:25:00.184 --> 00:25:01.627 Let me read these verses in Isaiah. 00:25:01.627 --> 00:25:04.713 Isaiah, chapter 55. 00:25:04.713 --> 00:25:05.702 These are verses you know. 00:25:05.702 --> 00:25:06.667 Are you learning something? 00:25:06.667 --> 00:25:08.637 These are verses you know. 00:25:08.698 --> 00:25:11.665 This month is a month of finding out your design. 00:25:11.665 --> 00:25:18.230 It says, for my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways, my ways, declare the Lord. 00:25:18.230 --> 00:25:25.846 And then he says as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. 00:25:25.846 --> 00:25:47.737 And then God, he says as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return to the earth without watering it and making it bird and flourish so that it yields seed for the soul and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth. 00:25:47.737 --> 00:25:53.673 It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it. 00:25:53.673 --> 00:25:57.144 How does God's thoughts become your thoughts? 00:25:57.144 --> 00:26:00.039 By you thinking on those thoughts. 00:26:00.039 --> 00:26:04.355 So let me read these verses in Philippians 4-8. 00:26:04.355 --> 00:26:06.961 So look at your neighbor and tell your neighbor. 00:26:06.961 --> 00:26:14.922 I must think like God this month, because I can Now look at these verses. 00:26:14.922 --> 00:26:19.042 Finally, brethren, now let's read this one, this one we have to read together, one to go. 00:26:19.042 --> 00:26:43.762 Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable, if anything is excellent or praiseworthy, think about such things, because you can. 00:26:46.648 --> 00:26:53.382 David went to battle, but as he was going there, he was not going to fight anyone. 00:26:53.382 --> 00:26:56.428 Why did David go to the battlefield? 00:26:56.428 --> 00:27:00.635 He was sent by who? 00:27:00.635 --> 00:27:02.921 By his father? 00:27:02.921 --> 00:27:03.623 To do what? 00:27:03.623 --> 00:27:08.915 To take food to the brothers. 00:27:08.915 --> 00:27:13.365 So he was not going to fight anybody, he was not prepared to fight anyone. 00:27:13.365 --> 00:27:15.611 He was just a delivery boy. 00:27:15.611 --> 00:27:17.261 Hallelujah. 00:27:17.261 --> 00:27:24.893 He was a global boy, hallelujah, he was just delivering. 00:27:24.893 --> 00:27:30.019 Now let me read these verses, because it is interesting what happened. 00:27:30.019 --> 00:27:36.199 Because David had learned to think very differently when he was with the ship. 00:27:36.199 --> 00:27:37.823 He thought so differently. 00:27:37.823 --> 00:27:42.252 No wonder God said he's a person after God's own heart. 00:27:43.222 --> 00:27:46.294 So let me read this story in 1 Samuel, chapter 17. 00:27:46.294 --> 00:27:50.144 We are reading around verse 26. 00:27:50.144 --> 00:27:54.151 So he has arrived when these guys are being threatened by Goliath. 00:27:54.151 --> 00:27:56.221 So he says this. 00:27:56.221 --> 00:28:00.415 So they're being threatened. 00:28:00.415 --> 00:28:01.599 Then he's asking what is happening? 00:28:01.599 --> 00:28:02.741 Now listen to this conversation. 00:28:02.863 --> 00:28:13.622 David asked the man standing near him what will be done for the man who kills the Philistine and removes this disgrace from Israel. 00:28:13.622 --> 00:28:15.144 Do you see how he's thinking? 00:28:15.144 --> 00:28:19.421 The brothers and the army are scared to death. 00:28:19.421 --> 00:28:21.746 They are not thinking straight. 00:28:21.746 --> 00:28:26.020 But David is saying, by the way, who is this guy? 00:28:26.020 --> 00:28:26.742 Me, I'll kill him. 00:28:26.742 --> 00:28:30.251 But what is it in for me? 00:28:30.251 --> 00:28:33.359 I know what am I going to get. 00:28:33.359 --> 00:28:35.226 But he's saying go back. 00:28:35.226 --> 00:28:36.229 Go back to that verse. 00:28:36.229 --> 00:28:41.988 David asked the man standing near him what will be done for the man who kills this Philistine. 00:28:41.988 --> 00:28:44.326 Because he had already decided, this guy can be killed. 00:28:44.326 --> 00:28:48.220 The brother said no, this guy will kill us. 00:28:48.220 --> 00:28:52.409 Let me tell you this the devil has lost his game. 00:28:52.409 --> 00:28:56.924 The devil is not going to destroy you, he is the one who is destroying. 00:28:56.924 --> 00:28:59.412 That's how he was thinking. 00:29:00.304 --> 00:29:06.476 David asked the man standing near him what will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and removes this disgrace from Israel. 00:29:06.476 --> 00:29:09.489 Who is this unsurcumstitied Philistine? 00:29:09.489 --> 00:29:10.954 Do you know why he said that? 00:29:10.954 --> 00:29:15.713 He said that because those who are circumcised have a covenant with God. 00:29:15.713 --> 00:29:23.050 Those who are not circumcised do not have a covenant with God, so they are disadvantaged. 00:29:23.050 --> 00:29:27.386 Let me tell you this your enemies are disadvantaged. 00:29:27.386 --> 00:29:30.242 You're the one who has an advantage. 00:29:30.242 --> 00:29:31.085 Think like that. 00:29:31.085 --> 00:29:36.780 The Bible says if God is for us, who can be against us? 00:29:36.780 --> 00:29:38.726 That's how he was thinking. 00:29:38.726 --> 00:29:39.807 Now look at the next statement. 00:29:39.807 --> 00:29:46.130 Who is this Unsurcumstitied Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God? 00:29:46.130 --> 00:29:50.929 So he knew Golath is not fighting against the army, he's fighting against who? 00:29:50.929 --> 00:29:52.961 Against the living God? 00:29:52.961 --> 00:29:54.624 He says he cannot win with God. 00:29:54.624 --> 00:29:56.607 He cannot win, my friend. 00:29:56.607 --> 00:30:01.923 He's finished. 00:30:01.923 --> 00:30:03.828 Look at the next verse. 00:30:03.828 --> 00:30:11.011 So they repeated to him what they had been saying and told him this is what will be done for the man who kills him. 00:30:11.011 --> 00:30:11.760 Now, look at this. 00:30:11.760 --> 00:30:13.125 This is now David's. 00:30:13.125 --> 00:30:19.105 Now, this is not David's spiritual part, this is David's other part. 00:30:21.108 --> 00:30:34.333 When Eliab and I'm coming to that when Eliab, david's oldest brother, had him speaking with the man, he burned with anger to him and asked why have you come down here and with whom did you leave those few sheep? 00:30:34.333 --> 00:30:45.217 I'm Chokoza, hello, few sheep in the wilderness. 00:30:45.217 --> 00:30:49.228 I know how conceited you are and how wicked your heart is. 00:30:49.228 --> 00:30:51.676 You came down only to watch the battle. 00:30:51.676 --> 00:30:54.403 What he was actually saying is this you came to watch us lose. 00:30:54.403 --> 00:30:59.761 It's like watching us and all playing Liverpool. 00:30:59.761 --> 00:31:01.424 It's sometimes dangerous. 00:31:06.396 --> 00:31:08.101 So David says now, what have I done? 00:31:08.101 --> 00:31:10.125 Said David, can't I even speak. 00:31:10.125 --> 00:31:16.190 He then turned away to someone else and brought up the same matter, and the man answered him as before. 00:31:16.190 --> 00:31:19.119 He then turned. 00:31:19.119 --> 00:31:22.971 What David said was over hard and reported to Saul, and Saul sent for him. 00:31:22.971 --> 00:31:26.133 David said to Saul now listen to how he's thinking and speaking. 00:31:26.133 --> 00:31:29.303 Let no one lose heart on account of this. 00:31:30.125 --> 00:31:34.556 Philistine, your servant will go and fight him. 00:31:34.556 --> 00:31:38.566 Saul replied you are not able. 00:31:38.566 --> 00:31:39.387 Let me tell you this. 00:31:39.387 --> 00:31:42.663 The kind of thoughts you're going to fight against are many. 00:31:42.663 --> 00:31:44.871 You say one thing. 00:31:44.871 --> 00:31:47.057 They say another thing. 00:31:47.057 --> 00:31:51.846 But let me tell you this you are not a chicken, you are an eagle. 00:31:51.846 --> 00:31:54.330 You are an eagle. 00:31:54.330 --> 00:31:58.847 You think differently, you speak differently. 00:31:58.847 --> 00:32:06.332 And God is saying hey, think differently, because the world completely thinks the opposite of you. 00:32:06.332 --> 00:32:09.824 Saul replied now, this is the king speaking. 00:32:09.824 --> 00:32:13.279 You're not able to go out against this Philistine and fight him. 00:32:13.279 --> 00:32:21.034 You are only a young man and Golanth has been a warrior from his youth. 00:32:21.034 --> 00:32:22.763 No wonder Saul was scared of him. 00:32:22.763 --> 00:32:29.664 But David said to Saul your servant has been keeping his father's ship. 00:32:29.664 --> 00:32:37.651 When a lion or a bear came and carried off a ship from the flock, I went after it, struck it and rescued the ship from its mouth. 00:32:37.651 --> 00:32:41.631 When it turned on me, I seared it by hair, struck it and killed it. 00:32:41.631 --> 00:32:45.262 Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear. 00:32:45.262 --> 00:32:53.189 This unsurcamsorced Philistine will be like one of them because he has defied the armies of the living God. 00:32:54.612 --> 00:32:56.763 This guy was thinking on a different plate. 00:32:56.763 --> 00:32:59.034 I am talking to somebody right now. 00:32:59.034 --> 00:33:07.234 I'm saying change your thoughts, think on things above and not on things below. 00:33:07.234 --> 00:33:09.923 Think the thoughts off God. 00:33:09.923 --> 00:33:14.112 If God says you can do all things in Christ, you can. 00:33:14.112 --> 00:33:22.275 You can If God says you're seated above and not below, you are Hallelujah. 00:33:22.275 --> 00:33:25.483 If God says you're the head, another tail. 00:33:25.483 --> 00:33:28.934 You are the head and not the tail. 00:33:28.934 --> 00:33:32.523 When God says you're above, only then you're not below. 00:33:33.807 --> 00:33:52.944 So agree with God, rather than agreeing with people, and sometimes choose to disagree with yourself, disagree with some of those thoughts that rush into your brain and agree with God and say God, I don't understand this situation. 00:33:52.944 --> 00:34:01.490 I don't know how things will work out, but if you have said it this way, I believe you and I'm telling you, something will begin to shift. 00:34:01.490 --> 00:34:05.790 You'll stop eating the things that chicks eat. 00:34:05.790 --> 00:34:09.864 You'll stop looking down, you'll start looking up. 00:34:09.864 --> 00:34:14.295 You'll stop saying cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck. 00:34:14.295 --> 00:34:20.206 You start whistling the songs of heaven, hallelujah. 00:34:21.369 --> 00:34:22.893 So look at your neighbor one more time. 00:34:22.893 --> 00:34:26.126 Just find out are they chickens or are they eagles? 00:34:26.126 --> 00:34:34.860 What did you find out? 00:34:34.860 --> 00:34:38.969 Oh, there, we are full of eagles in this house. 00:34:38.969 --> 00:34:40.960 No wonder. 00:34:40.960 --> 00:34:49.853 We shall wait upon the Lord and as we wait upon the Lord, we shall mount up with wings Like who Eagles. 00:34:49.853 --> 00:34:52.467 We shall run and not be weary. 00:34:52.467 --> 00:34:55.807 We shall walk and not faint. 00:34:55.807 --> 00:35:00.489 Tell your neighbor you're a winner, in Jesus' name. 00:35:00.489 --> 00:35:06.981 Tell your neighbor it doesn't matter what you lost today, you're still a winner. 00:35:06.981 --> 00:35:15.331 And, in fact, if the devil stole anything from you, he's going to repay it seven times. 00:35:15.331 --> 00:35:20.784 You are a winner in Jesus' name. 00:35:20.784 --> 00:35:31.427 So this uplifted design means that you think. 00:35:31.427 --> 00:35:31.989 Like who? 00:35:31.989 --> 00:35:35.347 Like God, you are designed to think. 00:35:35.347 --> 00:35:37.427 Now, that's a very important statement. 00:35:37.427 --> 00:36:04.751 You are designed to think, so think, be thinking, tell your neighbor, think intentionally Because, by the way, did you know that 2% of people in this world think and then 3% think they are thinking, and the rest of the 95% would rather die than think? 00:36:04.751 --> 00:36:07.362 Which percentage are you in? 00:36:07.362 --> 00:36:11.840 Which one? 00:36:11.840 --> 00:36:15.451 2%, hallelujah. 00:36:15.451 --> 00:36:19.780 We are designed to do what Think. 00:36:19.780 --> 00:36:22.503 Think on what God's thoughts. 00:36:22.503 --> 00:36:27.304 That is why it is important for you Every day when you take up a newspaper. 00:36:27.324 --> 00:36:32.302 There are people who, immediately they open the newspaper, they go to find out who died. 00:36:32.302 --> 00:36:37.405 They don't read the headlines, they forget that. 00:36:37.405 --> 00:36:42.068 They don't go back to watch the sports, they go to find out how many people died. 00:36:42.068 --> 00:36:44.965 That's a bad place to start your day. 00:36:44.965 --> 00:36:47.440 There are other people. 00:36:47.440 --> 00:36:50.067 They go immediately to look for their stars. 00:36:50.067 --> 00:37:02.427 If you are born in December, you look for Sagittarius and the star tells you what is going to happen in that particular day. 00:37:02.427 --> 00:37:06.644 Leo, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep. 00:37:06.644 --> 00:37:09.086 My friend, don't look for those stars. 00:37:09.086 --> 00:37:13.788 They are called horoscopes, but in heaven they are called horoscopes. 00:37:13.788 --> 00:37:19.244 Don't live your life by the stars. 00:37:19.244 --> 00:37:23.826 Live your life by the word of God. 00:37:23.826 --> 00:37:30.351 Let God's word tell you what to do, when to do it, how to do it, in Jesus name. 00:37:30.351 --> 00:37:36.751 So one more time, tell your neighbor I am designed to think God's thoughts. 00:37:36.751 --> 00:37:40.559 I am designed to think God's thoughts. 00:37:40.559 --> 00:37:43.447 So I stayed there quite a bit, but let me go to the second part. 00:37:43.447 --> 00:37:45.032 You are designed to walk. 00:37:45.032 --> 00:37:46.965