WEBVTT 00:00:17.588 --> 00:00:23.045 just be pleased with our praise on today, god. 00:00:23.045 --> 00:00:26.011 We come in just trying to be as real as we can. 00:00:26.011 --> 00:00:34.765 Just be pleased with our praise on today we offer up a sacrifice of praise. 00:00:34.765 --> 00:01:04.688 So, lord, just be pleased with our praise, because we understand our praise is what connects us to you, our praise is what invites you into the room, and I pray that every song that was sang today and every prayer that was prayed was covered in grace so that it will be pleasing unto you, because the spirit says sometimes we don't even know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit intercedes on our behalf. 00:01:04.688 --> 00:01:10.359 So, god, I ask that the Spirit will intercede not only in our prayers but in our praise. 00:01:10.359 --> 00:01:16.733 I ask that the Spirit will intercede not only in our prayer and in our praise, but in our preaching. 00:01:16.733 --> 00:01:23.555 I pray that the Spirit will intercede in our prayer and in our praise, and in our preaching and in our prophetic utterances. 00:01:23.555 --> 00:01:28.421 Lord, have your way, intersect right now, because we can't do it good enough on our own. 00:01:28.421 --> 00:01:35.704 But if you take it over, if you do it, god, what's about to happen? 00:01:35.704 --> 00:01:43.507 In the next few minutes, god, it's going to be different, because we say that in faith and expectation. 00:01:43.507 --> 00:01:49.430 We give your name the glory, we give your name the honor, we give your name all the praise. 00:01:49.430 --> 00:02:02.588 It's in the power for that, with Jesus, we pray that the people of God say amen, amen, amen To God, be the glory To God, be the glory To God, be the glory to God, be the glory, amen. 00:02:02.588 --> 00:02:06.013 Listen, family, as we love to do one more time. 00:02:06.013 --> 00:02:10.600 Uh, let's just turn and just show some love to everybody in the room for all of our first time guests. 00:02:10.600 --> 00:02:13.085 We welcome you, let's celebrate them, let's honor them. 00:02:13.085 --> 00:02:16.734 We praise God that you are here today. 00:02:16.734 --> 00:02:19.606 You're not here by happenstance or coincidence. 00:02:19.606 --> 00:02:33.158 You're here because of an appointment with the Most High and I pray that the Lord will send you back and that in Psalm, that God will send and you'll be a part of what the Master is doing on this side of Zion. 00:02:33.158 --> 00:02:34.760 So we're excited about that. 00:02:34.760 --> 00:02:36.503 Listen, family, as we stand to our feet. 00:02:36.503 --> 00:02:39.786 We love to stand and read the word of God together. 00:02:39.786 --> 00:02:40.967 It helps us to remember it. 00:02:42.248 --> 00:03:05.673 I want you all to understand that last week we had a sermon called they Not Like Us, and if you have not been sleeping under a rock, you've probably heard somebody around you dance and talk about they not like us, somebody around you dance and talk about they not like us, and but we were talking about it from a different lens. 00:03:05.673 --> 00:03:19.263 But I certainly was inspired by that and we started in the story about a young man by the name of David who had been anointed to be king, and he helped us to understand what was different about us and for us to get to our new. 00:03:19.263 --> 00:03:21.627 Next, we talked about the fact that we had to be humble. 00:03:21.627 --> 00:03:23.371 David was a humble man we talked about. 00:03:23.371 --> 00:03:24.834 He was observant in his season. 00:03:24.834 --> 00:03:26.324 I need you to observe. 00:03:26.324 --> 00:03:29.091 That's why I made that announcement about social media and stuff. 00:03:29.091 --> 00:03:30.522 Let's watch, be discerning. 00:03:30.522 --> 00:03:31.605 We're discerning people. 00:03:31.605 --> 00:03:33.349 We watch before we move. 00:03:33.349 --> 00:03:36.924 David was very discerning, but then he was brave. 00:03:36.924 --> 00:03:44.146 He was brave because he was willing to fight a fight that no one else was willing to fight, and I wanted to remind you to be brave. 00:03:44.146 --> 00:03:49.247 Matter of fact, just turn to somebody and say be brave, be brave, be brave, and I love. 00:03:49.247 --> 00:03:58.762 The thing I really enjoyed, and we spent a lot of time on it, was that he made adjustments quickly, meaning that when he put on Saul's armor and it didn't fit him, he took it off. 00:03:58.762 --> 00:04:09.329 And my question for those who were not here was this what armor are you carrying that you need to lay down, not tomorrow, but today, because it's keeping you from getting to your new next. 00:04:09.329 --> 00:04:13.491 And so today we're excited to continue in David's journey. 00:04:14.480 --> 00:04:18.091 First, samuel, the 17th chapter, verse 32 through 40. 00:04:18.091 --> 00:04:21.926 Y'all ready let's read the word of God together? 00:04:21.926 --> 00:04:23.670 Ready, set, read. 00:04:23.670 --> 00:04:26.163 Oh, we ain't there. 00:04:26.163 --> 00:04:29.488 We go, don't worry about this Philistine. 00:04:29.488 --> 00:04:32.574 David told Saul, I'll go fight him. 00:04:32.574 --> 00:04:35.444 Don't be ridiculous. 00:04:35.444 --> 00:04:40.653 Saul replied there's no way you can fight this philistine and possibly win. 00:04:40.653 --> 00:04:45.170 You're only a boy and he's been a man of war since his youth. 00:04:45.170 --> 00:04:48.850 But david persisted. 00:04:48.850 --> 00:04:52.519 I've been taking care of my father's sheep and goats, he said. 00:04:52.519 --> 00:05:02.754 When a lion or bear comes to steal a lamb from the flock, I go after it with a club and rescue the lamb from its mouth. 00:05:02.754 --> 00:05:07.872 If the animal turns on me, I catch it by the jaw and club it to death. 00:05:07.872 --> 00:05:20.031 I have done this to both lions and bears, and I'll do it to this pagan Philistine too, for he has defied the armies of the living God. 00:05:20.031 --> 00:05:26.280 For he has defied the armies of the living God, the Lord, who rescued me from the claws of the lion and the bear, will rescue me from this Philistine. 00:05:26.280 --> 00:05:30.343 Saul finally consented All right, go ahead. 00:05:30.343 --> 00:05:33.271 He said, and may the Lord be with you. 00:05:34.800 --> 00:05:39.312 Then Saul gave David his own armor a bronze helmet and a coat of mail. 00:05:39.312 --> 00:05:48.293 David put it on, strapped the sword over it and took a step or two to see what it was like, for he had never worn such things before. 00:05:48.293 --> 00:05:51.524 I can't go in these, he protested to Saul. 00:05:51.524 --> 00:05:53.168 I'm not used to them. 00:05:53.168 --> 00:05:55.694 So David took them off again. 00:05:55.694 --> 00:06:02.877 He picked up five smooth stones from a stream and put them into his shepherd's bag. 00:06:02.877 --> 00:06:17.627 Then, armed only with his shepherd's staff and sling, he started across the valley to fight the philistine and I would just like to use as a sermon topic today, as the holy ghost would allow we fight different. 00:06:17.648 --> 00:06:19.372 Can you turn to somebody else and say that to him? 00:06:19.372 --> 00:06:20.394 Say we fight different. 00:06:20.394 --> 00:06:22.179 Can you turn to somebody else and say that to them? 00:06:22.179 --> 00:06:22.780 Say we fight different. 00:06:22.780 --> 00:06:25.204 I don't believe y'all yet. 00:06:25.204 --> 00:06:26.387 Come on now, I need to hear it. 00:06:26.387 --> 00:06:26.709 Come on. 00:06:26.709 --> 00:06:28.012 Come on, say it out loud. 00:06:28.012 --> 00:06:31.244 Say we fight different. 00:06:31.244 --> 00:06:38.035 Amen, hallelujah, you may be seated in the presence of our Lord Family. 00:06:38.035 --> 00:06:42.372 We continue to understand the journey and conflict of spiritual warfare. 00:06:42.372 --> 00:06:52.764 I have been repeating this to you on an ongoing and consistent basis, because it's where we are and it is real. 00:06:53.425 --> 00:07:10.886 Ephesians 6, verse 12 from the King James Version reads as follows 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. 00:07:10.886 --> 00:07:13.011 Somebody say we fight different. 00:07:13.011 --> 00:07:25.165 If I am going to fight at a higher altitude, perhaps logic would suggest that I need to find an airplane, perhaps logic would suggest that I need to go to a rooftop. 00:07:25.165 --> 00:07:31.329 But I want to argue with you, since we have to take this fight to a higher realm because we fight different. 00:07:31.329 --> 00:07:34.266 Where everybody else is trying to go high, guess what fam we got to do? 00:07:34.266 --> 00:07:35.653 We got to go low. 00:07:35.653 --> 00:07:37.199 What does that look like for the believer? 00:07:37.199 --> 00:07:40.588 That means I'm getting down on bended knees. 00:07:40.750 --> 00:07:56.899 In this season of everything that we're seeing politically, everything that we're seeing in the world, everything we're seeing in the Middle East, everything that you're seeing in your house, how many times have you taken a moment to stop what you were doing and get down on a bended knee? 00:07:56.899 --> 00:08:02.572 How many times did you go into intentional spiritual warfare by praying? 00:08:02.572 --> 00:08:16.225 When you seen an attack come to your family, did you pray about it for real, like how many of us went into prayer when we saw what we saw on the news just a couple of weeks ago, or did we start talking about it just like everybody else? 00:08:16.225 --> 00:08:21.560 I'm trying to get y'all to the place, in the spirit, where we stop doing what everybody else is going to do. 00:08:21.560 --> 00:08:24.988 They talk, we pray because we fight different. 00:08:24.988 --> 00:08:38.749 We understand that me just going back and forth with you is not going to change anything anyhow, and the only thing that's going to make a shift is when the people of God go into intercession in prayer because we fight different. 00:08:38.749 --> 00:08:43.576 I want to remind you that there is power in our prayers. 00:08:43.576 --> 00:08:51.881 The word of God reminds us over and over again to ask and it shall be given, to seek and ye shall find. 00:08:51.881 --> 00:09:01.385 God is saying in this season, for those that are committed to prayer, I am going to bless you and I'm going to bless you real good For those that are committed to prayer. 00:09:01.385 --> 00:09:07.635 I'm going to keep you, regardless of what we see happen in this country and in this world. 00:09:07.635 --> 00:09:12.064 I don't want you to be afraid of anything that you see, but the word of God is true. 00:09:12.064 --> 00:09:16.005 It's getting late in the evening, y'all, and the sun is going down. 00:09:16.005 --> 00:09:28.086 In a nutshell, we're seeing things in the spiritual realm that suggest that our Lord and Savior is soon to return, and the only way that you're going to make it, and the only way that you're going to press through, is your ability to pray. 00:09:29.028 --> 00:09:30.231 Somebody say we fight different. 00:09:30.231 --> 00:09:39.128 I want you to understand that part of the things that we have to be prepared for is times of economic turn up and economic turn down. 00:09:39.128 --> 00:09:44.930 We call an economic turn down in our country a recession or, even worse, a depression. 00:09:44.930 --> 00:09:50.212 And, as a matter of fact, in the natural, what we're trying to do is to make sure that you're prepared financially. 00:09:50.212 --> 00:09:53.604 As a matter of fact, our directors of ministry are connecting. 00:09:53.604 --> 00:10:01.928 There's a man of God sitting right there and some others, and we're vetting him to make sure that he is ready to be able to share some financial resources with you. 00:10:01.928 --> 00:10:04.893 Because, in the natural, we want to make sure that you're prepared. 00:10:04.893 --> 00:10:05.334 You know why? 00:10:05.334 --> 00:10:07.686 Because we don't be afraid of anything. 00:10:07.686 --> 00:10:10.194 We are ready for everything. 00:10:10.194 --> 00:10:21.050 So, as we start to offer financial classes, as we start to offer financial opportunity, as we talk to you about saving it, this ain't the season for the gated boots and the Gucci suit. 00:10:21.050 --> 00:10:32.373 No, this is the season to stock up, and to store up Not because we are afraid of anything, but because we are wise and we are preparing for whatever is going to come. 00:10:32.373 --> 00:10:37.029 But there's something else about finances that makes us fight different than anybody else. 00:10:37.029 --> 00:10:37.531 Watch this. 00:10:37.599 --> 00:10:44.371 The Word of God gives us clear instruction that the world would have us not to listen to and believe it or not. 00:10:44.371 --> 00:10:55.715 One of the things that God has commanded believers to do that's different than anybody else to be prepared financially is to be good stewards over our time, our talent and our treasures. 00:10:55.715 --> 00:11:11.092 That's why, when you partner here, one of the things we teach you about is stewardship, but not just the giving of tithes, but we teach about it from a holistic perspective, because if you are a steward over your life, whatever comes your way, you're going to be prepared. 00:11:11.092 --> 00:11:19.514 But I got to make sure that you understand that if you're looking for overflow, god has given us a path for overflow which fights differently. 00:11:19.514 --> 00:11:24.506 The world fights how they fight as it relates to the stock market, and we participate in that. 00:11:24.506 --> 00:11:29.847 But God has given us a formula in 2 Corinthians 9, starting at verse 16. 00:11:29.847 --> 00:11:39.729 He says this remember, a farmer who plants only a few seeds will get a small crop, but one who plants generously will get a generous crop. 00:11:39.769 --> 00:11:41.292 Somebody say we fight different. 00:11:41.292 --> 00:11:42.801 We fight different. 00:11:42.801 --> 00:11:52.433 You must each decide in your own heart how much to give, and don't give reluctantly or in response to pressure, for God loves a person who gives cheerfully. 00:11:52.433 --> 00:11:54.842 God, if I give cheerfully, what are you going to do? 00:11:54.842 --> 00:11:56.869 Look at verse 8, and God will. 00:11:56.869 --> 00:12:01.474 Somebody say God will, god will generously provide all you need. 00:12:01.474 --> 00:12:02.340 That's different, isn't it? 00:12:02.340 --> 00:12:13.161 I know the enemy doesn't want you to understand that concept of giving in order for God to bless you, but God himself declares that when we give generously, he provides everything that we need. 00:12:13.161 --> 00:12:18.140 He said, and then you will always have everything that you need and plenty left over. 00:12:18.140 --> 00:12:19.785 Somebody shout overflow. 00:12:19.865 --> 00:12:25.949 I speak overflow to anybody that can receive the word of God, which declares that when I'm a steward Y'all. 00:12:25.949 --> 00:12:26.931 Let me tell you something. 00:12:26.931 --> 00:12:35.226 One of the reasons that I'm excited to be able to put some money up towards some women to be able to participate in the women's conference, is real talk. 00:12:35.226 --> 00:12:39.803 Every time I have blessed somebody else, god has turned around and blessed me. 00:12:39.803 --> 00:12:45.353 That means if I'm from the best five families, I expect God to bless me five-fold over. 00:12:45.353 --> 00:12:48.529 I need some witnesses in the house that believe the word of God. 00:12:48.529 --> 00:13:00.511 And so God says that when you give, you will be enriched in every way, that you can always be generous, and when we take your gifts to those in need, they will thank God. 00:13:00.940 --> 00:13:07.888 I look forward to being able to write checks in this season to people and then they say to God be the glory. 00:13:07.888 --> 00:13:09.011 That's some of y'all prayer. 00:13:09.011 --> 00:13:11.087 God, you say you have been praying a long time. 00:13:11.087 --> 00:13:27.004 Lord, when you bless me, I promise you God, I declare God, I'm going to bless my neighbor, I'm going to take care of my mama, I'm going to take care of those that's connected to me. 00:13:27.004 --> 00:13:30.597 And I believe the Lord is saying in this season if you are a faithful steward, you're going to have more than enough so that you can be a blessing to everybody around you. 00:13:30.617 --> 00:13:32.280 I know it's different, but it's the word of God. 00:13:32.280 --> 00:13:37.147 That's why I'm reading it to you, because we fight different. 00:13:37.147 --> 00:13:46.026 When I want to be blessed financially, what I do is I sow, because we fight differently. 00:13:46.026 --> 00:13:47.490 But here it is. 00:13:47.490 --> 00:13:58.468 Not only do we fight differently as it relates to spiritual warfare and our prayers, and as it relates to our stewardship, we fight differently as it relates to how we treat one another. 00:13:58.468 --> 00:14:00.681 Uh-oh, I'm about to mess with them. 00:14:00.681 --> 00:14:01.603 I'm about to mess with them. 00:14:01.603 --> 00:14:03.046 I'm about to mess with them. 00:14:03.046 --> 00:14:03.527 Here it is. 00:14:03.527 --> 00:14:05.131 Ushers, hold the doors. 00:14:05.131 --> 00:14:06.073 They won't like this part. 00:14:07.419 --> 00:14:10.068 Matthew 5, starting at verse 38. 00:14:10.068 --> 00:14:19.965 You have heard the law that says that punishment must match the injury An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. 00:14:19.965 --> 00:14:22.771 But I say do not resist an evil person. 00:14:22.771 --> 00:14:31.706 Here it is If someone slaps you on the right cheek, off of the other cheek also. 00:14:31.706 --> 00:14:32.390 Somebody say we fight different. 00:14:32.390 --> 00:14:32.932 Now, joe ain't gonna lie. 00:14:32.952 --> 00:14:34.338 I struggled with this one in Sunday school. 00:14:34.338 --> 00:14:38.579 I vividly remember her name was Sharon Vincent and I was sitting upstairs and we was going through. 00:14:38.579 --> 00:14:39.802 Anybody was raised like. 00:14:39.802 --> 00:14:52.321 I had to had a new international Sunday school book and I remember this lesson and I was having a problem with this little boy at school and I was looking for a way to solve my problems with a left and a right and he and she had the nerves to read this scripture talking about little Johnny. 00:14:52.321 --> 00:14:53.728 To smack you on the other side. 00:14:53.728 --> 00:14:54.833 Turn to him the other. 00:14:54.853 --> 00:14:56.059 Somebody say we fight different. 00:14:56.059 --> 00:14:58.223 Uh, here, here it is. 00:14:58.223 --> 00:15:06.607 Uh, the world would look at you crazy when it relates to concepts such as this, because this is not how the world fights. 00:15:06.607 --> 00:15:17.524 The Lord is not calling us to be a punk, but the Lord is recalling us to manage our conflicts a little bit different than the world has. 00:15:17.524 --> 00:15:34.723 I want to say this how I really feel it but I don't want to disrespect the most high and I don't want to disrespect this sacred desk and we just we got a code of ethics in our clergy that we don't use profane language and we're going to behave and do all of those things because we're held to a higher standard. 00:15:35.224 --> 00:15:43.371 So I won't say what's in my mind, but I'm going to say it in a way that it could connect to you, because I don't need to talk to the Sunday morning version of you. 00:15:43.371 --> 00:15:45.747 I need to talk to the Monday morning version of you. 00:15:45.747 --> 00:15:48.207 You didn't figure out how to behave on Sunday. 00:15:48.207 --> 00:15:50.287 It's Monday, where we got the problem. 00:15:50.287 --> 00:15:52.365 So can I talk to the Monday version of you? 00:15:52.365 --> 00:15:59.328 Now, maybe I ain't talking to everybody, but I'm talking to some of you, some of you in the crowd. 00:15:59.328 --> 00:16:02.894 If it's blank me, then it's blank you. 00:16:02.894 --> 00:16:09.301 Y'all know what I'm talking about. 00:16:09.301 --> 00:16:09.762 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:16:09.762 --> 00:16:13.693 If you pull up on me, then I'm gonna pull up on you, but I'm trying to remind you that we can't fight that way no more. 00:16:13.693 --> 00:16:16.602 I want to remind you that I know you about that life. 00:16:16.602 --> 00:16:18.747 I know you Tupac's second cousin. 00:16:18.747 --> 00:16:20.852 I get it, I understand all of that. 00:16:20.852 --> 00:16:25.208 But I'm trying to remind you in this season we fight different. 00:16:26.130 --> 00:16:30.794 The Bible goes on to say if you are sued in court and your shirt is taken from you, give your coat too. 00:16:30.794 --> 00:16:34.910 If a soldier demands that you carry his gift for a mile, carry it two miles. 00:16:34.910 --> 00:16:38.722 Give to those who ask and don't turn away from those who want to borrow. 00:16:38.722 --> 00:16:40.004 Then he makes it even harder. 00:16:40.004 --> 00:16:44.211 He has said you have heard the law say love your neighbor and hate your enemies. 00:16:44.211 --> 00:16:47.643 But I say this is the master talking and the sermon on the mount. 00:16:47.643 --> 00:16:49.027 This is Jesus talking. 00:16:49.027 --> 00:16:54.505 He says but I say love your enemies, pray for those who persecute you. 00:16:54.505 --> 00:16:56.590 Can I stop right there at verse 44? 00:16:56.590 --> 00:17:02.142 When was the last time you prayed for that person that you know has been praying on you? 00:17:02.142 --> 00:17:12.750 Let me say it, let me spell it for you when the last time you prayed P-R-A-Y-E-D for the person that is praying P-R-E-Y-I-N-G on you? 00:17:12.750 --> 00:17:13.571 We fight different. 00:17:13.571 --> 00:17:15.280 Somebody said we fight different. 00:17:15.280 --> 00:17:28.015 We talk about them, we post sideways comments on social media, but when was the last time you wrote their name down and went into prayer about an individual that you know hates your very existence? 00:17:28.015 --> 00:17:30.646 Somebody said we fight different. 00:17:31.441 --> 00:17:38.733 The Word of God declares that we have to pray for our enemies and love those that persecute us. 00:17:38.733 --> 00:17:49.409 And he said in that way you'll be acting as true children of your father in heaven, for he gives his sunlight to both the evil and the good and he sends the rain on the just and the unjust of life. 00:17:49.409 --> 00:17:54.192 And if you love only those who love you, what reward is there for that? 00:17:54.192 --> 00:18:00.570 I hear somebody saying I want a reward, I want to be blessed in the city and I want to be blessed in the field. 00:18:00.570 --> 00:18:02.546 And I want to remind blessed in the city and I want to be blessed in the field. 00:18:02.546 --> 00:18:07.062 And I want to remind you it's going to come in your ability to pray for those that persecute you and love those that hate you. 00:18:07.062 --> 00:18:13.043 Because the Bible says if you only are kind to your friends, how are you different from anyone else? 00:18:13.043 --> 00:18:13.664 That's the Bible. 00:18:13.664 --> 00:18:18.205 If you are only kind to your friends, how are you different from anyone else. 00:18:18.205 --> 00:18:29.502 Even pagansans do that, but you are to be perfect, even as your father in heaven is imperfect, which suggests that we do what family we fight different. 00:18:30.924 --> 00:18:48.471 There is something I need to say to you all that I believe is a what we refer to as a prophetic utterance, meaning that we believe for those of us that believe in those gifts that God has given us something that's for the people, and it's a foretelling. 00:18:48.471 --> 00:18:55.781 It's futuristic and I believe this is one sentence that I believe from God is very prophetic and I need you to receive this. 00:18:55.781 --> 00:18:59.047 If you don't remember anything else, here it is, and I tried to write it down. 00:18:59.047 --> 00:19:01.169 That's why I'm sticking close to my notes today. 00:19:01.169 --> 00:19:16.201 If you fight this battle meaning whatever battle, you're dealing with everybody in the room, everybody in the room If you fight this battle like everyone else, you will lose. 00:19:16.201 --> 00:19:19.307 That's the word that the Lord gave me. 00:19:19.307 --> 00:19:27.755 I'm sorry, it was not a lottery ticket number, but he said if you fight this battle, you know what the this is. 00:19:27.755 --> 00:19:30.806 Everybody know what their battle is, but the Lord is saying real clearly. 00:19:30.806 --> 00:19:31.406 I believe this. 00:19:31.406 --> 00:19:35.385 If you believe me as a man of God, I'm telling you that the Lord is saying in this season. 00:19:35.385 --> 00:19:40.124 If you fight this battle like everyone else, you will lose. 00:19:40.124 --> 00:19:43.330 But the Lord is saying that we fight different. 00:19:43.330 --> 00:19:52.020 All right, somebody said we fight different. 00:19:52.020 --> 00:19:53.602 David is an example of what it looks like to fight different. 00:19:53.623 --> 00:20:02.154 David is an is the man of God that we talk about today, who was anointed by Samuel to become the next king of Israel after Saul lost his place. 00:20:02.154 --> 00:20:10.913 David is working as a teenage boy, the youngest of his seven other siblings, and he's in a field when there's a fight going on. 00:20:10.913 --> 00:20:14.246 Because he was not a soldier, he was not perhaps of battle age. 00:20:14.246 --> 00:20:20.441 He was working with the lambs and working and doing a job that seemed to be lesser than His brothers were off at war. 00:20:20.441 --> 00:20:21.192 When his dad gave him the task of and working and doing a job that seemed to be lesser than His brothers were off at war. 00:20:21.192 --> 00:20:27.967 When his dad gave him the task of taking sandwiches and cheese to his brother on the field, it was almost like a servant's job. 00:20:27.967 --> 00:20:34.791 I want to remind everybody that some of the people that are about to be elevated, you have been doing servant's work, but I want you to know the Lord sees you. 00:20:34.791 --> 00:20:36.561 The Lord sees you right where you are. 00:20:36.561 --> 00:20:43.413 He sees your humility, he sees your heart and I want you to remind you to keep serving, because elevation is about to hit your house. 00:20:43.492 --> 00:20:56.065 David goes to where his brothers are in warfare and he observes what's going on and after seeing that everybody else is afraid to go into this fight, what was the fight? 00:20:56.065 --> 00:21:00.585 Well, the Philistines and Israelites are at a standoff, the Israelites on one side of a hill and the Philistines on the other. 00:21:00.585 --> 00:21:03.407 The Philistines and Israelites are at a standoff, the Israelites on one side of a hill and the Philistines on the other. 00:21:03.407 --> 00:21:08.485 The Philistines have sent their champion, a giant by the name of Goliath, who stands over nine feet tall. 00:21:08.485 --> 00:21:11.371 He has on an arm a helmet of gold. 00:21:11.371 --> 00:21:15.905 He has on a gold mail, or a body armor, if you will. 00:21:15.905 --> 00:21:22.383 He has a spear, he has a javelin and the bible also says he has a armor bearer who is carrying his shield. 00:21:22.383 --> 00:21:28.001 And for 40 days he terrorized the children of israel, saying send your best man down into the valley. 00:21:28.001 --> 00:21:30.588 We talked about that last week, but I get it. 00:21:30.588 --> 00:21:34.830 Everybody don't come to church every sunday, so I needed to bring you right here where we are. 00:21:34.830 --> 00:21:43.509 So now they are down in the valley and david is seeing that everybody is afraid to go fight Dave the Goliath, but David was not afraid. 00:21:43.610 --> 00:21:53.183 I want to talk to somebody in the room and say that's why you have to do it, because you have to have the spirit of David and not be afraid to do what God has called you to do. 00:21:53.183 --> 00:22:02.422 You got to have the spirit of David, to be willing to get down into the to the valley and risk it all because you trust that God is going to be on your side. 00:22:02.422 --> 00:22:13.181 As a matter of fact, david teaches us how to fight because he says the first thing that you have to understand about fighting different is this your strongest weapon is your faith in God. 00:22:13.181 --> 00:22:17.134 Somebody say my strongest weapon is my faith in God. 00:22:17.134 --> 00:22:26.734 I don't want us to take that lightly, because we talk about faith every time, but I'm trying to take this from a place of what we say in comparison to how we live. 00:22:26.734 --> 00:22:29.762 Your strongest weapon is your faith in God. 00:22:29.822 --> 00:22:32.729 Let's look at the text verse 32 through 37. 00:22:32.729 --> 00:22:36.762 Verse 32, here it is that David has said I'll go. 00:22:36.762 --> 00:22:39.927 David says this Don't worry about this, philistine. 00:22:39.927 --> 00:22:43.914 David told Saul I'll go fight him. 00:22:43.914 --> 00:22:51.953 Do I have anybody in the room right now that's bold enough to say out loud I'll go. 00:22:51.953 --> 00:22:56.146 Yeah, yeah, that's what it looks like You're thinking about. 00:22:56.146 --> 00:23:01.548 Whatever it is that you got to deal with right now, and if you're bold enough and you believe by faith, the Lord is with you. 00:23:01.548 --> 00:23:03.131 I need you to say out of your mouth I'll go. 00:23:03.131 --> 00:23:06.385 I'll go and I'll talk to the people I need to talk to. 00:23:06.385 --> 00:23:06.787 I'll go. 00:23:06.787 --> 00:23:09.461 I'll go and I'll do what God has called me to do. 00:23:09.461 --> 00:23:10.201 I'll go. 00:23:10.201 --> 00:23:14.185 I'll go and I have to put my ego aside, I'll go. 00:23:14.185 --> 00:23:16.107 I'll go and I'll forgive. 00:23:16.107 --> 00:23:19.351 When I have to forgive, I'll go, I'll go. 00:23:19.351 --> 00:23:23.175 If I have to go all by myself, I will go. 00:23:23.175 --> 00:23:27.187 I need a room of people that don't mind saying I'll go, I'll go. 00:23:27.187 --> 00:23:29.452 So he says I will go fight him. 00:23:29.941 --> 00:23:36.273 But what happens is that even when you operate with a David spirit, there's always someone around you with a Saul spirit. 00:23:36.273 --> 00:23:37.801 Look at verse 33. 00:23:37.801 --> 00:23:43.690 Saul spoke up and said there is no way you can fight this Philistine and possibly win. 00:23:43.690 --> 00:23:47.775 You're only a boy and he has been a man of war since his youth. 00:23:47.775 --> 00:23:58.893 Now Saul is coming into your season and into your life right now to remind you of what you are not, and anytime somebody is reminding you of who you are not. 00:23:58.893 --> 00:24:02.356 They are not operating with the spirit of the Most High God. 00:24:02.356 --> 00:24:10.592 They are operating with another spirit and I want to tell you that when you operate in faith, you have to be careful of who you listen to and what they say. 00:24:10.740 --> 00:24:18.354 Because you can't project your fears on me in this year, because I have too much that I am required to do. 00:24:18.354 --> 00:24:19.326 I've already told God I'm going to go. 00:24:19.326 --> 00:24:20.010 I'm not going to write a check. 00:24:20.010 --> 00:24:20.836 I've already told God I'm gonna go. 00:24:20.836 --> 00:24:22.182 I'm not gonna write a check. 00:24:22.182 --> 00:24:23.925 I can't cash to the most high God. 00:24:23.925 --> 00:24:29.951 I already told God I'm going and I don't need to hear from you, saul, talking about what I can't do. 00:24:29.951 --> 00:24:33.783 I don't need to hear from you, saul, talking about I don't have enough resources. 00:24:33.783 --> 00:24:37.140 I don't need to hear from you, saul, saying I don't have enough backing. 00:24:37.140 --> 00:24:38.547 I don't need to hear from you, saul, saying I don't have enough backing. 00:24:38.547 --> 00:24:41.941 I don't need to hear from you, saul, saying I don't have enough education. 00:24:42.201 --> 00:24:49.663 All God was waiting on was my yes, and I have faith enough that he's going to connect every dot concerning me. 00:24:49.663 --> 00:25:01.829 I wish I had some people in here that don't mind giving God your yes, even when you don't have the money, even when you don't have the hookup, even when you don't have the support, you are willing to give God your yes. 00:25:01.829 --> 00:25:10.634 So we come against the soul spirit that often tries to remind us that we're not enough. 00:25:10.634 --> 00:25:12.426 But somebody say you're more than enough. 00:25:12.426 --> 00:25:14.866 Say you're more than enough. 00:25:14.866 --> 00:25:16.306 I need y'all to help me today. 00:25:16.306 --> 00:25:20.544 Social media, everybody on social media, listen to the pastor and say you're more than enough. 00:25:22.366 --> 00:25:26.392 David, verse 34, persisted. 00:25:26.392 --> 00:25:30.740 He said I've been taking care of my father's sheep and goats. 00:25:30.740 --> 00:25:44.483 When a lion or a bear comes to steal a lamb from the flock, I go after it with a club and rescue the lamb from his mouth, and if the animal turns on me, I catch it by the jaw and club it to death. 00:25:44.483 --> 00:25:54.929 I have done this to both lions and bears, and I'll do it to this pagan, philistine too, for he has defied the armies of the living God. 00:25:54.929 --> 00:26:01.788 David has faith in his God because he had a track record with God. 00:26:02.450 --> 00:26:18.293 Last week we talked about the fact of how David gave his resume to Saul, and I want to remind you again this week that, in a nutshell, if the Lord, god Almighty, has done it before, make no mistake about it, men and women of God. 00:26:18.293 --> 00:26:23.520 Make no mistake about it. 00:26:23.520 --> 00:26:24.823 Men and women of God, he's about to do it again. 00:26:24.823 --> 00:26:30.563 If the Lord, god Almighty, has taken you through sickness in your body before, make no mistake about it, by faith, he's about to do it again. 00:26:30.563 --> 00:26:37.208 If God has taken you through heartache and disappointment and pain in your family before, make no mistake about it. 00:26:37.208 --> 00:26:40.919 I believe, by faith, that God is about to do it again. 00:26:40.919 --> 00:26:49.206 If you have ever dealt with mental health issues and you are still standing, I believe that the shift is about to hit your mind. 00:26:49.206 --> 00:26:53.725 Because we serve a God that has done it before, he can do it again. 00:26:53.799 --> 00:26:57.250 I wish I had some folk in here that didn't mind having a flashback. 00:26:57.250 --> 00:27:04.346 Do I have anybody that don't mind having a flashback to that one time where God rescued your life? 00:27:04.346 --> 00:27:11.329 As a matter of fact, that's what David will go on to say in verse 37, that we serve the God of a rescue. 00:27:11.329 --> 00:27:21.192 Verse 37, he says the Lord, who rescued me from the claws of the lion and the bear, will rescue me from this Philistine. 00:27:21.192 --> 00:27:26.548 That ought to be some good news to somebody in here that's facing a giant that is overwhelming. 00:27:26.548 --> 00:27:33.610 That's facing a giant that is stronger Many people don't talk about the fact that this was a two-on-one battle. 00:27:33.871 --> 00:27:40.773 We missed the fact that David was not only fighting a nine-foot giant that was more experienced in warfare than he was. 00:27:40.773 --> 00:27:44.951 We missed the fact that the text says that David had an armor bearer. 00:27:44.951 --> 00:27:46.906 That means it was two on one. 00:27:46.906 --> 00:27:55.451 Some people have been looking at your giant and they think they know what you're facing, but they don't even know that the giant that you're facing came with an armor bearer. 00:27:55.451 --> 00:27:57.186 You got two on one hearts. 00:27:57.186 --> 00:27:59.166 Everything is stacked up against you. 00:27:59.166 --> 00:27:59.941 You got two on one hearts. 00:27:59.941 --> 00:28:00.506 You surrounded by the enemy, you got two on one hearts. 00:28:00.506 --> 00:28:01.010 Everything is stacked up against you. 00:28:01.010 --> 00:28:01.175 You got two on one hearts. 00:28:01.175 --> 00:28:03.008 You surrounded by the enemy. 00:28:03.008 --> 00:28:04.705 You got two on one hearts. 00:28:05.120 --> 00:28:06.365 It ain't looking good for you. 00:28:06.365 --> 00:28:11.251 But I want you to know prophetically that's why the Lord, god Almighty, brought you here. 00:28:11.251 --> 00:28:13.206 He knew it wasn't looking good for you. 00:28:13.206 --> 00:28:15.387 He know you have doubts in your faith. 00:28:15.387 --> 00:28:17.460 He know you're questioning your commitment. 00:28:17.460 --> 00:28:24.028 He knows that you're wondering if he has heard your cry, but I'm here to tell you that the answer is yes. 00:28:24.028 --> 00:28:26.027 God has heard your yes. 00:28:26.027 --> 00:28:27.725 The answer is yes. 00:28:27.725 --> 00:28:29.646 God has heard your cry. 00:28:29.646 --> 00:28:31.165 The answer is yes. 00:28:31.165 --> 00:28:33.005 It will get better for you. 00:28:33.046 --> 00:28:37.225 Man of God, the answer is yes, it's about to be a transformation. 00:28:37.225 --> 00:28:48.427 Woman of God, the answer is that he is the God of the rescue, and if he has rescued us before I got good news he's about to rescue us again. 00:28:48.427 --> 00:28:50.727 Do I have any witnesses in the house? 00:28:50.727 --> 00:28:56.192 Because we might be surrounded by some new saints that don't understand the power of a rescue. 00:28:56.192 --> 00:29:03.846 Maybe you've never been rescued before, but I was about to lose my mind one time and God rescued my life. 00:29:03.846 --> 00:29:08.017 My heart was broken one time and God mended my heart. 00:29:08.017 --> 00:29:19.568 I need some people that know God for real as the God of the rescue to testify for the other folk so that they can be encouraged to know that a rescue is on the way. 00:29:19.568 --> 00:29:21.373 Good God, almighty. 00:29:21.373 --> 00:29:26.567 The Lord is saying that rescue is coming because he understands what you have been facing. 00:29:27.128 --> 00:29:41.384 But hear this family Be careful not to miss the boat of your deliverance because of the size of the boat. 00:29:41.384 --> 00:29:50.096 David was a little fella, he was a teenager. 00:29:50.096 --> 00:29:58.470 Israel was on the verge of missing out on their breakthrough and their blessing because they were looking at the outward part but they didn't understand. 00:29:58.470 --> 00:30:03.379 David had a lord of a lion and I hear the lord saying I've sent rescue your way. 00:30:03.379 --> 00:30:10.004 You missed the last boat because you you discredited it, because it was a small thing you needed to do. 00:30:10.988 --> 00:30:16.150 Some of y'all were just coming to come into bible study one more time away from your breakthrough, but you thought that was too small. 00:30:16.150 --> 00:30:18.356 Some of y'all were one praise away from your breakthrough, but you thought that was too small. 00:30:18.356 --> 00:30:22.889 Some of y'all were one praise away from your breakthrough, but you thought that the choir was singing too long. 00:30:22.889 --> 00:30:28.775 I'm here to tell you that while you've been looking for this grandiose thing, god is always in the minutia. 00:30:28.775 --> 00:30:36.157 Y'all remember when Elijah was in the cave and he was looking for a breakthrough, when Jezebel had threatened his life, god had to give him an example. 00:30:36.157 --> 00:30:39.691 The fire came by, but God wasn't in the fire. 00:30:39.691 --> 00:30:43.540 The wind came, the earthquake came, but he wasn't in the earthquake. 00:30:43.540 --> 00:30:49.602 But y'all know what Elijah found the Lord, in a still small voice. 00:30:49.602 --> 00:30:57.300 That's why I'm trying to get y'all to be quiet, so you can start listening, because in that still small voice he's about to send you your rescue. 00:30:57.300 --> 00:31:00.628 So you can start listening, because in that still small voice he's about to send you your rescue. 00:31:01.129 --> 00:31:03.232 I need some people who can receive that? 00:31:03.232 --> 00:31:04.975 If you could receive, what it would be like. 00:31:04.975 --> 00:31:11.065 There was an individual, literally, that had fell off a cruise ship and he was out there for over 28 hours. 00:31:11.065 --> 00:31:13.111 This gentleman you can look it up on Google. 00:31:13.111 --> 00:31:14.252 Maybe it was two years ago or last year, I'm not sure. 00:31:14.252 --> 00:31:15.894 Or maybe it was two years ago or last year, I'm not sure. 00:31:15.894 --> 00:31:26.445 But can you imagine what it was like for him being in shark-infested waters, going through day and night, wind after wind, wave after wave, going through hunger and sickness and losing it? 00:31:26.445 --> 00:31:33.144 And suddenly, out of nowhere, here came his rescue. 00:31:33.144 --> 00:31:36.750 It said it was like a light in the middle of the darkness, because it was a dark horizon. 00:31:36.750 --> 00:31:39.735 He saw just enough light to hold on a little while longer. 00:31:39.735 --> 00:31:41.323 That's all Pastor Walt tried to do. 00:31:41.323 --> 00:31:48.446 I'm trying to show you just a little bit of light to help you to hold on a little while longer, because rescue is on the way. 00:31:48.446 --> 00:31:50.231 Anybody can receive that in the house. 00:31:50.231 --> 00:31:51.556 That God has heard your prayers. 00:31:51.556 --> 00:31:58.561 He's heard your silent prayers, god of our weary years, god of our silent tears, god who has helped us along the way. 00:31:58.690 --> 00:32:06.618 I hear the Lord saying I'm about to help some people, but he said tell them Pastor Walt, don't miss the boat this time, because it may go this time because we fight different. 00:32:06.618 --> 00:32:10.681 Your rescue going to look different than any other rescue you've ever had before. 00:32:10.681 --> 00:32:14.441 Your elevation is going to look different than any other elevation you had before. 00:32:14.441 --> 00:32:16.094 Stop looking for God to do it the same way. 00:32:16.094 --> 00:32:21.318 Behold, look, I do a new thing, and sometimes we miss it because it's new. 00:32:21.318 --> 00:32:29.596 That's why we got to be in tune to the Spirit, because it's about to happen for your family, it's about to happen for your business, it's about to happen for your heart, your ministry, your mind, your body and soul. 00:32:29.596 --> 00:32:35.933 But we got to be ready that God is the God of the rescue. 00:32:35.933 --> 00:32:38.980 Your strongest weapon is your faith in God. 00:32:38.980 --> 00:32:42.212 So we have to believe that God will rescue us. 00:32:43.096 --> 00:32:44.900 Saul says something quite interesting. 00:32:44.900 --> 00:32:48.445 He says Saul, verse 37,. 00:32:48.445 --> 00:32:49.731 Saul finally consented. 00:32:49.731 --> 00:32:52.880 All right, go ahead. 00:32:52.880 --> 00:32:59.019 He said, and may the Lord be with you. 00:32:59.019 --> 00:33:11.157 The language the Lord is capitalized in the text because he's not talking about a Lord, he's talking about the Lord. 00:33:11.157 --> 00:33:14.259 He's talking about Jesus. 00:33:14.259 --> 00:33:37.380 He's talking about the concept that there are too many of us that call him Lord, but we don't allow him to be Lord in our life when you allow Jesus to be Lord in your life, you submit yourself to his authority over your life, you come to the conclusion that I may not agree with what God would have me to do, but I trust you more than I trust myself, because you are Lord. 00:33:37.380 --> 00:33:42.599 When God is Lord in your life, he leads you beside the still waters. 00:33:42.599 --> 00:33:48.172 When God is Lord of your life, he restores your soul. 00:33:48.172 --> 00:33:56.444 When God is Lord of your life, though you walk through the valley, you'll fear no evil. 00:33:56.444 --> 00:33:57.051 You know why? 00:33:57.051 --> 00:33:59.460 Because when he is Lord, he is with you. 00:33:59.460 --> 00:34:04.961 And so what David is saying to Saul is that the Lord is with me. 00:34:04.961 --> 00:34:12.262 Somebody say the Lord is with me, and because he made this testimony to Saul, saul's spirit had to shift. 00:34:12.262 --> 00:34:17.677 Then he said all right, go ahead and may the Lord be with you. 00:34:18.278 --> 00:34:30.617 I wish Chosen City Church would help me to preach right there, because we have to be the type of people to understand that there's an assignment not only on my life, but there's assignment on my neighbor's life. 00:34:30.617 --> 00:34:31.900 Come here, elder Jamal. 00:34:31.900 --> 00:34:40.523 It's one thing for me to pray for myself and it's another for me to pray for those that are connected with me. 00:34:40.523 --> 00:34:43.058 Man of God, I'm going to tell you something, Me and this man of God. 00:34:43.058 --> 00:34:47.846 We've been together a long time and I pray that we're going to be together an even longer time. 00:34:47.846 --> 00:34:54.083 I've been with this brother since he was a college student at UNC, charlotte, and God has been doing a great work in his life. 00:34:54.083 --> 00:34:55.833