Overcoming Your Giants

1 Samuel 16-17

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Hello, everyone, and welcome back to Soldier for Christ Podcast. All right, I'm Chapman Boyles, and today I'm gonna um I'm gonna do something kind of special today. This is episode number 23, and you know, 23 being one of my favorite numbers, I'm going to do a special um special episode today where I'm gonna talk about uh one of my favorite characters in the Old Testament, uh David, okay, shepherd boy David. We're gonna talk about him today. And in particular, the the reason I wanted to uh bring up David today is I'm gonna talk about how to defeat giants in your life, all right? Because giants come in all shapes, sizes, and forms. And the reason I'm deviating is that uh, you know, as a chap and I do a lot of counseling, um, and I see a lot of soldiers come to me with a lot of problems that look so overwhelming and hard and and just so giant size, let's just say that, that they feel it's the odds against them or whatever the problem is against them is so incredibly terrible that there's no way they can ever defeat what is actually facing them, right? So today's message is meant to be an encouraging word to inspire you and increase your faith that you can face your giants and defeat him. Because you have to understand when you're walking with Jesus that there is times in your life where he will, now he will, I mean, truly just intentionally put a giant in your path, okay? What I mean by that is he puts difficult circumstances and people and situation and so forth in your path. And you may ask, well, why would God ever do that? Well, the reason that God does that is he wants to know first how you're going to respond to those kind of things. Because life is a test of your faith. It really is. It comes down to whether you believe God or not and whether you obey God or not. Simple as that. Um, so I don't want you, you know, I going this message, I don't want you to think of giants necessarily as a terrible thing, although they may feel and look very bad and terrible. I want you to see that there is a reason for the pain or the giant or the incredibly hard, difficult situation in your life. And they could be, I mean, they could be financial, they can be health, they can be people, they can be career, whatever it is. Um, it can it can be drama in the family, it can be divorce, it can be recovery. Um, there are so many different things that life throws at us, okay? Persecution and so forth. You know, people listen to this podcast all over the world are going through a lot of that right now. And I want to really encourage you to keep your faith strong. Love the Lord because there is what I call, as a Christian, the point of inflection, a point where God not only will he bless you and give you his favor, but he will actually elevate you into the place that he wants you to be, right? So, and if you understand about David, which I love talking about David, he went from absolute obscurity, a man, a boy that was not even liked by his own father or his brothers very much. We don't even know about his mother really at all, uh, to the greatest king of Israel and one of the greatest kings of all world history, okay? Did not happen overnight. When God has a plan for you, no devil in hell can thwart that plan. You've got to understand that. David actually was anointed by the prophet, the prophet Samuel. The reason that he was anointed, very important that you know that, is that God, that basically means that God had predestined, he had a plan for David before the plan unfolded. Okay. Now, the same thing with you. God has planned, he has prepared all the things in advance for those that love him, okay? He works all the things in advance, all the pain, all the things in advance for those that love him. So you need to know that when God has a plan for you, nobody, nobody, no devil, nothing. Nothing can stop his ultimate plan. Um, but you have to do God's plan his way. Okay. So I'm gonna I'm gonna open up today in the book of the Old Testament of the book of 1 Samuel chapter 17. We're gonna dive into this text here. Let me pray for us real quick. Wherever you are, I don't if you don't if you might don't mind, please pray with me and we're gonna go into it. Thank you, Lord, for a wonderful day. Thank you for waking us and blessing us and giving us life and health. Lord, give us incredible faith to trust you, especially facing the giants of our times and the end times and the with the day we're living in. Give us, Lord, the kind of love to forgive, the kind of love to overcome. Give us the kind of wisdom and the strength and the courage we need to do your work and your will in this day and age that you have prepared us to do. We give you all the honor and glory and praise in Jesus' name. Amen. Okay, so 1 Samuel 17. I'll start with um, this is chapter 17. I'll start with verse 12. Let me give you a little bit of background about uh our boy David. Okay, now David was an interesting, amazing warrior poet. That's probably the best way to describe him. David was a man who loved music, as I do, as a lot of people absolutely love music. He loved to sing. Um, it didn't matter if he was by himself or if it was put around people. He loved to both play instruments and to sing. And he sang uh literally all the time. Uh he would sing in the field, he would sing with his animals, his herds of sheep, he would sing whether he was happy, his he was sad, whether life was good or life was bad or whatever. He he and I would say that singing was his his, I mean, probably his greatest talent, right? His great one of his greatest strengths as well. Um God loves, by the way, he loves a man or a woman that is earnestly seeking him. And David sought the Lord often through song. David was known as a man after God's own heart because he continuously worshipped God, praised God through song in his writings. Most of the psalms of the Old Testament as well were written by David. And I read them literally every day. Um, but they're also very important to read as well because they will always encourage you. David was also a great warrior before God. Okay, he had a man of absolute courage, absolute bravery, absolutely in the face of incredible odds against him. Um he trusted God to deliver him time and time again, and God always did. He never lost anything, never lost a battle, okay? Uh he and until his own unfortunate civil war and his time, later in his time. Um but David had incredible courage, incredible strength. Okay, he was very strong, fit, very strong physically, but very strong spiritually, very, very strong in his faith, trusted God with his life, uh his future, his family, no matter again the circumstances. So the reason that the Bible has so much on David is that he true he shows us a lot about how to have a right relationship with the Lord. Now, David, of course, was not a perfect man. It's very important to know that David had flaws. Okay, probably the greatest of his flaws were uh his sexual problems. Okay, he did like women, uh, he had a problem with his eyes. Uh, and that was in in later in his life, probably in his mid-40s and up to his 50s, uh, he struggled a bit with his pride and his lust. Okay. And we have to be careful just because we've walked with God for a long time, does not mean the devil will not try to intentionally trip us up and tempt us and sometimes in ways we did not expect to see that coming. Okay, so David got really good at fighting enemies and giants on the battlefield, but sometimes the enemy will throw in a curveball that we never expected. We have to remain vigilant, very vigilant, because he will tempt us in ways sometimes that we do not expect. Okay, but I want to talk today about this giant in David's life, and probably the giant as well in our lives that we go through. So let me go into this. Let me pull this up. Now, this is when David was a very young boy. He was probably, historians would have guessed, about 17 to 19, maybe about 20, 70, we'll say 17 to 20 years old, very young guy, okay, really young guy, uh ostracized by his dad. Again, David did the only job back in the day was to be a shepherd of anything. Um, this David's uh father, Jesse, uh, was a man of from Bethlehem, was a man of some property, we know that, and some some herds and so forth. Um he had lots of strong uh sons, and uh three of which were actually already in the army, uh Elab, Abedab, and Shema. Uh and David was known as kind of the runt, I guess, the family. Uh, although he was anointed in front of us all his all of his brothers, uh he was always left in the field and always sort of the black sheep, really, of the family. So um, but here is the story, and and it's interesting because there is just really one event in David's life that escalates him into everything else that he has that God's going to prepare for him. So here's what happens. It says here 12. Now David was a son of a man named Jesse, the Ephraite, from Bethlehem in the land of Judah. And Jesse was an old man at that time, and he had eight sons, and Jesse's three oldest sons, Elab, Abinadab, and Shema, had already joined Saul's army to fight the Philistines. David was the youngest son. David's three oldest brothers stayed in the in the army with Saul. But David went back and forth so he could help his father with the sheep at Bethlehem. For forty days, every morning and evening, the Philistine champion strutted in front of the Israelite army. Now, who is this Israel champion? We we learned before that this Israel, I'm sorry, this Philistine champion. This Philistine champion was a huge giant by the name of Goliath. You've probably heard of David and Goliath. Now, this is interesting to me because Goliath was apparently such a monstrous human being that the entire army, the entire Israeli army, okay, which was winning a lot of victories and winning a lot of battle battles under a very poor king of the time named King Saul, um, this entire army was terrified. Not not a single soldier, not a single hard, strong infantry soldier. Not one, not one special forces, not one ranger, not one, not a single soldier was daring to challenge this giant. Now, back in the day, there were oftentimes what I would call, it was called like a throwdown, right? A particular thing where to prevent an entire army from being just decimated on a battlefield, armies would take their champions, the best they had, the best soldier they had, the strongest whatever soldier they had, and they would place their champions to fight each other. And whoever's champion sh champion won, that army would capitulate, would surrender to the other one, right? That was how sometimes how business was done. So Goliath was taunting, screaming at the Jewish army, telling them they all were garbage and they sucked and they were terrible for 40 days. And he said, if anyone can come and challenge me, he said, We'll all bow down to you, we'll all surrender to you. But again, not a s- I mean, this is amazing to me, not a single one had the courage, the faith. Not a one wanted to dare put his toe out to challenge this particular giant. Except David. Now we're going to talk about this. This is what's interesting. It says, 17 here. Now one day Jesse said to David, take this basket of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread, and carry them quickly to your brothers, and give them these ten cuts of cheese to their captain, and see how your brothers are getting along, and bring back a report on how they are doing. David's brothers were with Saul and the Israeli army at the Valley of Ela, fighting against the Philistines. So I want you to notice here that is this day in David's life, it is just an any, it's just an any ordinary day. This is just a boring day where his father gave him very simple instructions to go and give some food to his brothers, give see how they're doing, how they're how the army's doing, how their captain's doing, give me a report, and so forth. So, and that's life, right? You know, we don't expect things to happen sometimes in life. We sometimes we get so caught up in just the mundane and just the typical, and you know, we wake up, get our coffee, and get off to work, and then we just expect life to kind of go on as it always does. But then suddenly there's a dramatic shift, there's a war, there's a feud, there's a problem, there's a sickness, there's a drama, there is some, there's an accident, there's something that happens that God intended, He disrupts the ordinary. Okay, so I want you to see this is just an ordinary day for David, but it becomes extraordinary because of the events that are about to unfold. So it says here, 2020. So David left the sheep with another shepherd and set out early in the next morning with the gifts as Jesse had directed. And he arrived at the camp just as the Israeli army was leaving for the battlefield with shouts and battle cries. As soon as the Israeli and Philistine forces stood facing each other, army against army, David left his things with the keeper of the supplies and hurried out to the ranks to greet his brothers. As he was talking with them, Goliath the Philistine, the champion from Gath, came out of the Philistine ranks, and David heard him shout his usual taunt at the army of Israel. Now it's interesting because it says here too that David did everything exactly like his father said. He got up super early, probably right about the time I do, about 0-5 every morning, and got to the camp. He met with the keeper of the supplies, he went out to the battlefield, he met his brothers, he was getting the report. He so he followed the instructions, even though they were mundane and boring, he followed it to a T, to a letter right there. That's very important. You have to be good at the boring things in life, obedient to the meager things before God entrust you with the much bigger things. David got good at just doing the small things first. So small, by the way, this is very important. So small obedience, small faith, small right amount of you know, just walking with the small steps of righteousness lead to the big steps. People want to go into the big steps first, but you can't do that. You have to take the small steps first, right? Everything, every long journey starts with the first step. Okay. You don't start running marathons just because you decide you want to run. You don't start right away. You you have to train. You don't start lifting extremely heavy weights until you lift the small weights first. You don't learn, you don't become, you don't get a PhD overnight. You have to go through everything, you have to go through the whole process. You you don't become a mega pastor, you don't, you know, whatever, you you you don't jump the line, so to speak. God has to prepare you in the mundane first until you are ready to go to the next level, the next chapter. David got very good at taking care of sheep, fighting off bears and lions and predators. He got very good at obeying his father. He got very good about getting up early. He got very good about doing the little things very, very well. And then he hears, he doesn't see, at first he hears this giant doing his usual trash talking until the entire army of Israel. And this is how David responds. 24, he says, as soon as the Israelite army saw him, and began, they began to run away in fright, actually, literally run away, seeing the giant, hearing him talk. Have you seen the giant? The men asked. He comes out each day to defy Israel. The king has offered a huge reward to anyone who kills him. He will give that man one of his daughters for a wife, and the man's entire family will be exempt from paying taxes. So that's a good deal. And David asked the soldiers standing by, What will a man get for killing this Philistine and ending this defiance of Israel? Who is this pagan Philistine, anyway, that he is allowed to defy the armies of the living God? And these men gave David the same reply. They said, Yes, there is a reward for killing him. But David's eldest brother Elab heard David talking to the men, and he was angry. He said, What are you doing here anyway? What about those few sheep you're supposed to be taken care of? I know your pride and deceit, you just want to see the battle. What have I done now? David replied. I was only asking a question. And he walked over to the some others and asked the same thing and received the same answer. Then David's question was reported to King Saul, and the king sent for him. Now it's interesting here because David, instead of getting freaked out, he gets pumped up. Okay. Now he he hears the giant and he hears the news that this there is a there is a prize to be won. There is, you know, the king is willing. This is this is such a big deal. The king is willing to make you part of his family, to give you one of his daughters as a wife, to being exempt from taxes, to yeah, and that's not the reason that David was even thinking about killing him, but there was a reward just for the just for challenging the giant and killing him. And David's eldest brother, I want you to notice something very interesting. He got angry with David for even talking about the giant, and he said, You need to go back home. Take care of those sheep. You're not supposed to be here. You just want to see the battle, you just want to laugh, you just want to see what's going on. You're not supposed to be here anyway, little boy. Run back home. Now it's interesting because oftentimes in our lives, the real giants that we face are not necessarily external ones, they're internal ones. They're sometimes can be our own family members that say, You're not good enough. You shouldn't be here. You're not smart enough, you're not going to be successful, you know, this is too big, too hard. You might as well just go back home. You might as well just quit now because you're not good enough. Okay. The enemy likes to say that too. He likes to so what oftentimes discourages us the most is that sometimes the friends and family that should support us oftentimes do not. Okay. And it's sometimes harder, I think it's always harder to hear the ones, those loved ones in your life that you go to that should support, but do not. But you cannot listen. You cannot listen to the voice of discouragement and the voice of lies in your life. You have to learn to listen to the Holy Spirit and God's voice, the voice of Christ, when He tells you, go forth and conquer. Go forth, be brave and courageous. Trust me, just obey me, just show up, just go to war, and I will provide. Okay, because David's about to see that the Lord is his strength, not his, not, not shields, not spears, not weapons. The Lord Himself is going to fight. Okay, fight. He's gonna use David and fight the giant here. Okay. When you learn that the Lord is the one who wins battles in your life, and you learn that, and you really learn that you can trust the Lord with all of your problems and circumstances and all your giants, your giants will fall. Okay, I'll say that again. You when you learn that God is able to destroy and crush your giants in your life, your giants will fall. But you have to show up. You have to show up to battle, you have to have the courage to fight. Okay. Now it goes on here, and this is very important. I love this prescription right here. It says 32. Don't worry. Now, as David says here, don't worry about this Philistine. David told King Saul, I will go and fight him. So David now is standing right before the king. The king is so impressed that anybody would even dare, dare, to even go in front of the giant. And David says, I've got this. He's not even in the army. He's not a soldier. He's just a boy. He has no combat experience. He's never been to basic. He's never been to, you know, he's never been to no training with the sword, no training with the spear, nothing. He has he is just a boy. And he's telling the king, I will go fight him. The king says, Don't be ridiculous, replied King Saul. There's no way you can fight the Philistine and possibly when you're only a boy, and he's been a man of war since his youth. David persisted. He said, I have been taking care of my father's sheep and goats. He said, When a lion or bear comes to steal a lamb from the flock, I go after with the club and rescue the lamb from its mouth. If the animal turns on me, I catch by the jaw and club it to death. I have done this to both lions and bears, and I will do this to the pagan Philistine too. For he has defied the armies of the living God. The Lord will rescue me from the claws of the lion and the bear, and he will rescue me from this Philistine. So I want you to see here that David has telling Saul that look, God prepared me in the small stuff. He prepared me with bears and lions. I know, David said, how to rescue my sheep and my flock. In fact, I know how to even save the lamb when it was in the mouth. And that's a very amazing thing. He was able to destroy the enemy and save the lamb. That's very important you know that as a leader, you cannot kill both the bear and the lamb. You have to learn to rescue what is good and destroy what is evil. Well, Saul finally consented and said, All right, go ahead, he said, and may the Lord be with you. And Saul gave David his own armor, a bronze helmet, a coat of mail, and David put it on. He strapped the sword over and took a step or two to see what it was like, but he had never worn such things before. I can't go in these, he protested. Saul, I'm not used to them. So David took them off again, and he picked up five smooth stones from a stream and put them into his shepherd's bag. Then he was armed with only a shepherd's staff and a sling, and he started across the valley to fight the Philistine. What I love about that is five on the Bible is always a number of grace. So he picked up God's grace. That's what he took. He took five smooth stones. He took a sling and a walking stick. Really formidable weapons, right there, huh? So he has he has armed himself with the weapons that he knows how to use. Your Bible is your greatest weapon. Let me just say that, okay? Your faith, your scriptures, which is the truth, which is the word of God, your courage, your wisdom, your love, your hope, those are the weapons that God has armed you with to fight your giants. And God will give you his grace, his favor, his mercy, his power from the Holy Spirit. That is how you win. Not with weapons and bombs and tanks. One nation goes up and down just on his decisions, not on man's strength. Very important you know that. Whole nations rise and fall because God decides when they do. David is armed with God's strength, not with weapons, not with man's weapons, with God's strength, okay? Because he understands that God is the one who delivers him. God is the one who gives him the strength. That's why he's not afraid. That's why he's armed with what he's armed with. 41. Goliath walked out towards David with his shield bare in front of him, sneering in contempt at the ruddy-faced boy. That means red-faced. Am I a dog? He roared to David. Have you come at me with a stick? And he cursed David by the names of his gods. Come over here and I will give you your flesh to the birds and the wild animals, Goliath yelled. David replied to the Philistine, You come to me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come to you today in the name of the Lord of heaven's armies, the God of the armies of Israel which you have defied. Today the Lord will conquer you. Notice he says here, Today the Lord will conquer you, and I will kill you and cut off your head. And I will give the dead bodies of your men to the birds and the wild animals, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel, and everyone assembled here will know the Lord rescues his people, not with a spear or sword. This is the Lord's battle, and he will give you over to us. So David is looking right at Goliath, he's saying that this battle is already over before it started. He says, The Lord's already conquered you. The battle is already over. He says, I'm just going to be the instrument to kill you and cut off your head, and your whole army is already gone as well. So look at this. Now, this is exactly the attitude you have to have facing a giant. When you're looking at sickness, when you're looking at debt, when you're looking at depression, when you're looking at this hostile person in your life, we'll just say that. Look at them in a way where you're saying that God's got this, this is defeated, the Lord is bigger than this, the victory belongs to him, and he will defeat the giant in my life. You have to make that your attitude, okay? You use God's love, you use his strength, you use his faith, the faith he's given you to fight these giants. That's how this is so important. That's how you win. That's how you win. If you go with anything in your life, with fear, with doubt, with insecurity, and you don't believe that God is going to give you a victory, if you don't believe that God is gonna it for us, if if you don't believe God, period, without faith, it is impossible to please God. Okay, you can't cannot operate in your life. If you have just the faith of a mustard seed, just that much, God can use that and he can bless you, and he and you can win victory. Your faith will grow. If you can just give God a bit of your faith and just trust him, and and and I don't care what your circumstance is, if you can just trust him, your giants will fall. That is, you you've got to get that. You have to be the one to go and to throw the rock. You've got to be the one to step into battle. You gotta be the one to put your neck out, you've got to be the one to show the courage, you gotta be the one to stand up and say the truth. You gotta be the one that decides to forgive, you gotta be the one to extend your love and the grace that God has given you. You have to be, you have to, so I have to you have to show up and do what God has asked you to do. Just like David here. You can't run away like everybody else in the army. You gotta show up and let God give you the victory. It says 48. And as Goliath moved closer to attack, David quickly ran out to meet him, reaching into a shepherd's bag and taking out a stone, and he hurled it with a sling, and hit the Philistine in the forehead. The stone sank in, and Goliath stumbled and fell face down to the ground. And so David triumphed over the Philistine with only a sling of a stone, for he had no sword at all. And then David ran over and he pulled off, pulled Goliath's Goliath's sword from its sheath, and he used it to kill him and cut off his head. So what we see here is quite amazing that David took the stone, he put it in his sling. This sling was a long leather strap, basically, and he whipped it around his head so fast, and his his aim was so precise. In fact, God really aimed for him. He sent the stone standing exactly where he wanted it to go, right between the eyes, right in the forehead. And it absolutely, I mean, any stone like that is like a bullet going right to the head, and it knocked him out. The Goliath fell right down to the ground real quick. And David used his own, the Goliath's own sword to kill him. It's very interesting to me that the weapons of the enemy ultimately are going to come back and destroy them. It's what I would like to call poetic justice in life. That hatred, you see, what what you reap what you sow. If if people use hatred and bitterness and lies and deceit and anger and so forth, they're gonna, you know, they get that back. We'll just say that. Okay. So if you have someone and you have something in your life that is screaming hatred and lies and anger and bitterness and rage against you, they're gonna get that back. You respond with that with the grace and the love of God, but ultimately the weapons that were forged against you are going to actually come back and destroy the enemies that have come against you in your life. David used the sword of the giant to cut off his head, his own sword. And he kept that sword. I want you to remember this. When you do kill the giants and God gives you the victory, don't forget. Don't forget what God has done for you. It's so easy that when we get through one giant, and well, there'll be more that come in our life as well, they're different kinds. Um, we easily forget what God has done for us. We easily forget his blessings and his mercy. David kept the sword because he wanted to always remember that day and that victory right there. That is good success. Now, what's interesting here, let me let me just transition just for a second before I finish here. The moment that David defeated this giant was the moment his life was changed forever. This was the moment he became a great man in the army. This was the moment that he was respected. This was the moment that he he became renowned across the entire. I mean, it's interesting across the entire world. Even today, if I tell my I tell stories about this, I tell this story to my soldiers today, everybody knows who I'm talking about. Everybody knows this story. This story is so well known in the Bible because it is so famous for a man of such outstanding courage and faith. This can be you. This should be you. This is you should you decide to act with faith and courage and trust the Lord. Now, whatever the giant is that you're looking at in your life right now, I want you to say it publicly to yourself every day that this will fall. Greater who is he that is he who is in me than he that is in the world. The enemy has no power over me. I will defeat. Now, if you are addicted to something, you're addicted to pornography, you're addicted to alcohol, you're addicted to hatred, you're addicted to bitterness, you're addicted to what it is, lies, you're addicted to pride, idolatry, whatever it is, I want you to say to yourself every day, this will fall. I love the Lord, I choose Jesus, I will destroy this giant in the name of Christ. This too will fall. And everything that I'm going through is going to only make me stronger, and I will not forget God's benefits when I defeat this giant. Okay, cancer will fall, financial stress will fall. Um the word God, you know, God will not only will they fall, God will turn everything that has ever afflicted you for good, actually. If you show up to the battle, if you take the first step, if you decide to show up and throw the rock at the giant and watch God work in your life. Okay. Encouragement to you today is if you have been fighting a long time against whatever giant, strengthen your faith. Strengthen your faith. Go to war knowing God is gonna give you the great victory today. Okay, don't run away. You can't be one foot in, one foot out. David didn't decide to go to fight and then walk away. He didn't decide that, you know, maybe I'll fight him tomorrow. He didn't decide that, you know, maybe this is too hard, and maybe I need to consider this, maybe I need to sit down, maybe no, he said, I'm gonna fight him today. Even when this brother and the king tried to stop him, he said, No, I'm gonna fight this giant today. There's nothing that's going to stop me. That is the attitude. That is the faith. That is what made David a great man of God. Okay, his life, in fact, I would say Goliath was the best thing that ever happened to David because Goliath made David the man he was. Sometimes your giants are the best things that happen to you because your giants will make you the man or the woman that God desperately wants you to be today. Let me let me pray as we close today. And I want to pray that you have the faith of David today. You can face the giants that God has given you. Okay? And there'll be many coming, um, especially in the end times as the world gets harder and darker. Um, but you will be victorious if you continue to trust in the Lord. Let me pray. Thank you, Lord, again for this scripture. Thank you for your holy word. Give us, Lord, this faith that you gave David. Lord, help us to walk by not by our emotions and not by fear and insecurity, not by addiction, not by bitterness, not by hatred, but by love and your grace, Lord. Give us this favor and this strength that whatever the giant is in our life right now, Lord, I pray that everyone here listening to this will go to the battle, will throw the stone, will speak against the giant, and will know that you have already given us the great victory in our life, Lord. Every chain, every addiction, every pain, every disease, everything I bind right now, Lord, in your name, Jesus, everything, Lord, is possible through you, Christ. Help us, Lord, to believe. Help us to overcome our unbelief. Help us to stay strong. Help us to be people of courage in this time that we live. We give you all the honor and glory and praise, and we pray this in your holy name. And Jesus, let me pray. Amen. Thank you all. I will talk to you all next time, and God bless you.