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577 | Who is Fighting Your Battles? · The Woman at the Well Ministries Podcast

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  She's a happy girl. Hello, friends, and welcome back to another podcast of Woman.
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  At the Well Ministries, where we believe that all of us have to come to Jesus
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  like the woman at the well in John chapter 4.
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  Our highest priority is making God real in your life.
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  Whether you are listening in our app, in your favorite podcasting app,
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  or on our website at watwm.org,
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  we invite you to sit down with us as we look to the scriptures to learn more
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  about God and to strengthen your daily walk with Jesus Christ.
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  Scripture tells us that in this world, we will have trouble.
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  And no doubt each of you know that to be true, but God says that our battles
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  are not ours to fight. They're His.
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  Join us in this podcast of Woman at the Well Ministries as Kim takes us on a
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  journey through the Scriptures, revealing what it means to trust in God enough
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  to allow Him to fight your battles.
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  Hello, and thank you for joining us in this podcast of Woman at the Well Ministries. Let's pray.
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  Our kind and most gracious to Heavenly Father, Lord, we come to you with thankful hearts.
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  Thankful hearts that you're a God that hears and answers prayer,
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  that you're a God that cares, and you're a God that knows and understands.
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  And Lord, as we begin to read your scriptures, we ask, Lord,
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  that you would help us, that you would help us to know exactly who you are,
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  to know exactly what it is that you would have us to do.
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  And Lord, that we would trust in you completely and fully.
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  Lord, we ask that you would watch over us, protect us, lead and guide us,
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  we pray in Jesus' name. Amen.
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  There's a familiar account in the Bible about David and Goliath.
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  It's found in 1 Samuel chapter 17. and David has been tasked to take food to
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  his older brothers that are in the army.
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  And the problem is, is that when he gets there, David is so charged with the
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  Lord that his plans are different than everyone else's.
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  And the ticket is
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  is that david's plans have been orchestrated
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  and they have been given to him
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  by god and they all
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  stem from the fact that david is appalled that goliath would say such treacherous
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  things about his god so we find david being asked by his dad to go take this food to his brothers.
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  And while he's talking to his brothers
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  and he's bringing the food to his brothers, David realizes that...
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  Everyone there is afraid to fight Goliath. And Goliath is taunting them.
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  But David, he's so enraged by the fact that Goliath would say such horrible
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  things about his God that he has to defend his God.
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  I wonder, do we defend God that way?
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  Do we care when people take his name in vain?
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  Do we listen and just pray about it and hope that they'll stop?
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  When people are blaspheming the Lord and ridiculing the Christian walk,
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  Do we stay silent and quiet?
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  I know that we're told in Romans that we're to live peacefully with all men as much as possible.
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  But David wasn't going to stand for anyone to talk bad about his God.
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  And I have to believe that most of us would not allow people to say bad things
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  about the people we love.
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  Untruths. We would not let go spoken without rebuttal.
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  Harsh words and hateful accusations. we would stop people in their tracks because
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  we don't let people say those kind of things about the people we love.
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  And I'm afraid that many of us
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  have forgotten that Jesus is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
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  I think many of us have forgotten that he's as real as the hand you hold when
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  you hold your best friend.
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  I believe that he is forgotten in most of our thoughts.
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  But not for David.
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  David had a rebuttal, and he said, Let no man's heart fail because of him. That's the Philistine.
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  Thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine. In 1 Samuel 17, verse 31.
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  And Saul says to David, Thou art not able to go against this Philistine to fight
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  with him, for thou art but a youth, and he's a man of war from his youth.
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  So Saul is looking at things in a very logical way.
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  You're a kid, you have no experience. This is the big bad giant.
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  All of these experienced warriors are afraid of him. You can't do this.
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  So then David begins to recount what he's done in his life through the power of the Lord.
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  And so we pick up 1 Samuel 17 at verse 34.
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  And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's sheep,
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  and there came a lion and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock.
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  And I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth.
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  And when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him.
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  Thy servants slew both the lion and the bear, and this uncircumcised Philistine
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  shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God.
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  David said, Moreover, the Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the lion
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  and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine.
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  David wasn't fighting his own battle, and David wasn't going into the battle in his own strength.
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  No, David was completely relying upon God to do for him what he'd always done, deliver him.
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  David had taken account in his heart and in his mind the things that the Lord
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  had already done for him.
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  David had a heart for God.
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  And David would pay attention to the things that God had done for him and through him.
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  So when it came time to fight this Philistine, David had full confidence because
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  he had already made note of what God was, has, and will do for him.
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  He had already determined where his victory lie.
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  He understood that his strength, his power, and his victory came from the Lord.
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  And thus, when Saul is talking to him and asking him to go away because you
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  can't do this, David answers,
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  Pretty much you're right. I can't. But the God in me can and will and has done so.
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  He talks about being delivered by the Lord from the paw of the lion.
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  And then David does what he always does. He goes in the name of the Lord.
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  So Saul says unto David, go and the Lord be with thee. David was sure of that
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  because that's why David was going.
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  And Saul armed David with his armor, and he put on a helmet of brass upon his
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  head. Also, he armed him with a coat of maul.
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  And David girded his sword upon his armor, and he assayed to go, for he had not proved it.
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  And David said unto Saul, I cannot go with these, for I have not proved them.
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  And David put them off of him.
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  So Saul is giving David everything the world has to make him equipped to do
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  this job that is in front of him, which is defeat Goliath.
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  But David says, no, I can't wear these.
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  I have no confidence in these. They've never helped me before,
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  and I can't wear them. They don't fit me.
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  David was unwilling to take the best strategies of the world.
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  He was unwilling to succumb to the things of the world that logically seemed would be helpful.
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  No, instead, he was going back to what had proved to be correct all of his life,
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  and that was that the Lord would deliver him. He was going to follow as the Lord told him to do so.
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  So instead of putting on the things of the world, he took them off.
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  I wonder how different our lives would be if our heart was after God like David's.
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  Now, David slipped and fell, and he did a bunch of stuff. But when it come down
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  to it, David was a man after God's own heart.
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  And he understood who God was. And in this occasion, when he could choose the world, David does not.
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  When he could go along to get along, David does not.
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  When he could choose safety, David chose the assignment given him.
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  When David could follow the logical way, David abandoned logic for faith.
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  Faith that had been tried.
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  Faith that was true.
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  Faith that fit him. Now, David chose not to wear the armor because it didn't fit him.
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  David was different. He wasn't older like the other guys. He probably wasn't
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  fully developed. He was a ruddy little guy.
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  He was probably scrawny. He was young.
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  That armor was meant for someone that looked different.
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  My friends, the things of the world are for people who look different.
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  Not necessarily from the naked visible eye, but from the way their heart and
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  their soul and their lives are formed.
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  The things of the world don't fit well to the one walking in the center of God's will.
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  The things of the world have been taken away. Old things have passed away.
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  Behold, all things have become new. They are new creatures in Christ Jesus.
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  The things of the world, they don't fit.
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  They look awkward on the child of God because the child of God,
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  while they have their foot in the world is certainly convicted because they
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  don't belong there. It doesn't work for them.
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  They're not supposed to have it on.
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  Therefore, it doesn't fit. Woe unto you who the things of the world fit nicely.
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  Oh, to be friend of the world is to be an enemy of God. James is clear on that.
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  So David, he looks at Saul, and look, Saul's a man of authority.
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  He's in charge, and he's telling him this is what you should do.
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  Some of us allow people in our lives to speak into our lives that have no right to.
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  They might have a position. They might have influence in the world.
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  They may have all the things that seemingly look like they can talk to you,
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  but they weren't sent to you by God. They're not speaking God's word.
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  They don't have your best intent at heart, and they're not who you're to listen to.
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  Saul was the man in charge according to the rules of the land,
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  but God is always in charge because all things are under his feet.
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  Nothing is above him. He has dominion over all things, and we are to submit
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  ourselves unto him under the mighty hand of God that he would exalt us in due
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  time. Be careful who you let speak into your life.
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  All things that glitter and shine aren't gold.
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  Try them and know they're true. This is what David's saying to Saul.
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  And he's doing it respectfully, but he's doing it authoritatively. I'm not wearing this.
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  It doesn't fit.
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  If the things of the world fit, you better do some real soul searching.
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  Because we are to be zealous of good works. We are to be peculiar people.
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  We are to be separated from the world.
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  We are to come out from among the world.
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  We are to go to where they are and bring them to where we are.
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  We are not to hang out where they are.
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  I take offense when you take my Jesus in places he doesn't want to go,
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  in places he shouldn't be.
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  Ambassadors of the Most High God, we've got to protect the God in us.
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  So David understands from the get-go who it is that's fighting his battles.
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  I believe he understands that God never lost a battle and he wasn't going to
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  start with his. And I submit that same truth to you today.
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  So when he's in front of authority, he has the same confidence and faith that
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  he has when he's alone, because you're not going to have the faith and confidence
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  in God in public if you haven't done the work in private.
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  If you haven't spent time alone with Jesus Christ in his word,
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  developing a personal relationship with him, don't think it's going to suddenly
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  magically appear in your heart and your mind when you are in public,
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  when you are under duress, when you are stressed.
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  Oh no. But the one who has a personal walk with Jesus Christ,
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  the one who listens to his word,
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  who loves him and his commandments are not grievous to him, that is the one
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  who in the midst of stress will
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  be calm because he knows that the one who controls the winds and the waves.
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  Who has control of all things is the one who walks with him.
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  David was all about protecting God's reputation.
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  He was all about being God's man to do God's work through the power God would bestow upon him.
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  And so he was faithful and he was confident. And he says to Saul,
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  I'm going to do this, but we're going to do it without the things of the world.
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  We're going to do it without the things that you think are going to bring the victory.
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  Jesus often works in ways that are mysterious to us because his ways are higher
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  than our ways and his thoughts are higher than our thoughts,
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  but he also does things to demonstrate clearly where the victory comes from.
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  And david being a little boy on his own in no way was going to be able to do that victory,
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  but jesus had delivered him before and he was convinced that he would deliver
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  him again so he rejects logic and he rejects the things of the world and he
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  sticks to what he knows is true True.
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  What he says in 1 Samuel 17, verse 47, is pretty impressive.
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  He says, And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with sword
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  and spear, for the battle is the Lord's, and he will give you into our hands.
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  That's what he looks square in the face of Goliath and says,
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  those who are walking hand in hand with Jesus, whose faith is completely focused
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  and embedded and rooted and grounded in the word of God,
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  in Jesus himself, who's walking with the Trinity,
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  with authority and power that is given to them because of their walk,
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  because of their belief, because of the incredible strength of their faith.
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  Those people will look the devil straight in the eye, and they'll take him down without any sweat,
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  without any hesitation, because they are fully convinced they have tried and
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  proved, and they fully know that greater is he that is in them than he that is in the world.
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  As you look in verse 40 of 1 Samuel chapter 17, we see that here's what David chooses.
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  He chooses his staff in one hand and five smooth stones out of the brook.
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  He puts them in his little shepherd's bag, even in a scrip, and his sling was
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  in his hand, and he drew near to the Philistine.
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  He wasn't hesitant.
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  When God calls you, you need to go head first, faith-filled,
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  into the battle that God is fighting.
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  David has a staff, a slingshot, and a few stones. Five.
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  He goes towards the Philistine. Now, when the giant looks at David,
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  he's completely disgusted.
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  In fact, he probably feels like David is mocking him.
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  Like, who are you to fight me?
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  See, David says to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword and with a
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  spear and with a shield, but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts.
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  The God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
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  This day will the Lord deliver thee unto my hand,
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  and I will smite thee and take thine head from thee, and I will give the carcasses
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  of the host of the Philistines this day and to the fowls of the air and to the
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  wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.
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  And all the assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with sword and spear,
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  for the battle is the Lord's and he will give you into our hands.
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  I want you to look at what David says.
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  David reveals some incredibly important truths that are a result of every life
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  that is fully sold out and completely committed to God.
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  The first thing is, is you'll go head into the assignment God has given you.
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  You'll go head in to the battle because you're going with faith, and it's not you.
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  You're surrounded, covered, completely protected by Jesus Christ,
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  and you are following, just like he said to deny yourself and take up your cross and follow him.
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  It isn't your battle. It is the Lord's.
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  And he fully gives God the credit before the results even take place.
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  That's the demonstration of unwavering, powerful, strength-filled faith.
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  That, my friend, is Proverbs 3, 5-7 demonstrated.
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  Proverbs 3, 5-7 says, Trust in the Lord with all thine heart,
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  and lean not into thine own understanding.
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  In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
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  Be not wise in thine own eyes, fear the Lord, and depart from evil.
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  David wasn't being wise in his eyes. Had he been wise in his own eyes,
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  David would have taken the wisdom of the world, and he would have tried to protect
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  himself with everything he could see.
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  But David fought his battles with Jesus Christ.
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  He understood that the battles were with angels, and the battles were with devils,
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  and the devils were principalities of the world, and that it wasn't what he
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  could see that was fighting him.
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  It's what he couldn't see, and so he had to battle with what you couldn't see
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  because that's what destroys the devil.
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  You can't see a physical form of God in me, but you can watch his hand on my
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  life, and you can watch his work through my life, and you can watch him make
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  a way where there is no way.
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  You can watch him defeat what I could not defeat in my own right.
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  You can watch him give me blessings from on high.
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  You can watch him destroy my enemies.
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  You can watch him shut the mouths of lions against me.
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  You can watch him look at people who shut doors that he bulges wide open and
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  makes them look at me whenever he has done so you can watch him work.
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  Ways I never could. But David said the battle's not his.
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  It belongs to the Lord. David's just following. That's what he did every day.
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  The battles in your life, there are people out to get you, I'm sure,
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  especially if you're working for the Lord.
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  And they'll think that they have stopped you in your path.
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  They'll think that they have rerouted the course of your life because of a decision they can make.
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  And those same people will sit as God lifts you up, knowing that they have done
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  everything they could to keep it from happening.
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  And in front of all of them, God will exalt you and they will have to listen
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  and see and know that God's hands on your life.
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  That's what David was telling Saul.
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  That's what God did for David in front of Goliath. Goliath had mocked him.
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  Goliath actually was offended that they would put such a scrawny little thing up against him.
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  Prius had so discounted David that his presence in front of him infuriated him.
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  This battle that you're going in, the mouths that are gossiping against you,
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  the ones that are throwing torpedoes at you and snares in your path, they're powerless.
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  You'll step over the snares. The gossip will fall off.
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  Like Teslon, around you, and the doors that they've locked and padlocked and
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  slammed and are guarding will simply fall down, and you'll walk through them.
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  David did just that. God set up the victory, and he walked in it.
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  Now, you think he might be talking trash. You think he might be bragging.
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  But David is never bragging on himself.
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  David's bragging about God. He doesn't take credit that he's going to beat Goliath.
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  He doesn't take credit for his tremendous markmanship that he thinks he has
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  with a couple of stones and a slingshot.
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  He isn't bragging about his incredible body that is all built and muscular and six-packed.
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  No, what he's saying is, but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts,
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  the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
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  Look, I'm coming to you out of God.
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  This day will the Lord deliver thee into mine hand.
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  No point is he trying to get revenge at no point is he taking credit.
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  He's just saying facts. You're going down because my God, you know,
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  the one that you mocked, the one that you defied, the one that you told me what I could do.
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  My God. Well, he's making a way and you're in the way. And I will take you down.
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  That's what God said to David. And David said, you're in his way.
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  And he's going to take you down. And I'm going to deliver this victory so all the world can see.
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  You fight with a sword and a spear, but I come in the name of the Lord.
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  That battle you're facing, be careful.
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  Be careful. You can't gloat because the Lord is dismissing your nemesis.
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  You can't gloat and think you've done something and that you're special.
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  You just have to be obedient. But you can proclaim from the top of the mountain
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  that they thought you couldn't climb, that Jesus is Lord, and Jesus loves me, this I know,
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  because the Bible tells me so.
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  When David gets to the mountain of this victory, stands on the enemy.
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  Cuts the enemy's head off. He proclaims the victory was the Lord's.
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  And you know how we know that God did it and it wasn't him?
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  Because David's victory was always meant to display to all that God takes care of his own,
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  that faith prevails, and that God has a good plan for you.
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  To give you a hope and to prosper you.
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  You were more than a conqueror in Christ Jesus. And God is fully aware of your
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  frailties. He's fully aware of your limitations.
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  He's aware of your quirks and the little things in your life that the buttons that are easily...
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  He's aware of all of it. But his work in your life is to make things good for
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  you and to bring him glory.
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  So let's look at how he does it in David. David has proclaimed the Lord is going to deliver him.
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  David has done his part to let everyone around see that God is orchestrating
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  this and that he's obedient and following.
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  And it came to pass when the Philistine arose and came and drew nigh to meet
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  David, that David hasted and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine.
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  He's so confident in God that he's running towards what God has called him to do.
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  He's not running away like Jonah did.
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  He's not modifying like Abraham did in the early beginning.
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  No, he's running headfirst to meet the Philistine.
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  And David put his hand in his bag and took thence a stone and slain it and smote
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  the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead.
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  And then look, for David to hit the giant in the forehead, he had to be swinging
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  that slingshot from in front.
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  For the rock to hit Goliath in the forehead.
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  The force had to be coming from in front, pushing backward.
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  But in 1 Samuel 17, 49, it says,
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  And he slain it and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk
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  into his forehead, and then pay close attention, and he fell upon his face to the earth.
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  Will tell you that if he had been hit hard enough to knock him down from in
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  front, he would have had to have fallen backwards.
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  David, nor the stone, did not deliver death to Goliath.
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  But just as David had prophesied, just as David had proclaimed,
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  just as David knew through a faithful heart,
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  God delivered Goliath because Goliath did not fall backwards.
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  Goliath fell forward.
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  So something besides the stone, something besides the force that David could
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  manufacture with his weak little body delivered Goliath's.
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  David, who's fighting your battles? David is clear on who is fighting his.
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  Who are you putting your trust in? Who are you relying on?
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  Do you know that he will protect you? In Psalms 91, he says,
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  he shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust.
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  His truth shall be thy shield and thy buckler.
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  David was willing to do whatever God asked him to do because he knew that the
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  truth of Jesus and who he was, he knew that the power of God and his immutable ability to never lie,
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  that he said he would protect him.
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  He said that he was with him. He said he would lead them.
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  David understood because he was a man after God's own heart,
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  and he had a personal relationship with him, and he had a faith that would not
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  fail because his faith was in Jesus and God and the Holy Spirit.
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  David knew God, and we know Jesus through the New Testament,
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  and because we know Jesus, we can know God.
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  God loves you, and he is fighting your battle, but will you go headfirst following,
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  or are you going headfirst leading? There's a difference.
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  David went headfirst into the assignment God had given him, but he wasn't leading. He was following.
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  Some of us get ahead of God because we don't believe he's our shield and our
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  buckler. We don't even give him any chance to beat.
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  We step outside the shield. We step outside of his protection,
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  and we give the defeat to the devil. We throw up the white flag.
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  Did not take the logic of the world. David did not fit in to the world.
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  David was careful who he listened to and allowed to speak into his life.
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  And David trusted the Lord with all of his heart, soul, mind,
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  and body. And he loved them the same.
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  And he understood that he gave the victory.
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  In Psalms 144.10, it says, It is he that giveth salvation unto kings,
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  who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword.
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  It is him who will deliver you. He's no respecter of persons.
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  The question is, do you trust him as David trusted him in this account?
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  Do you love him as David loved him? Are you a person after God's own heart?
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  Are you willing to run face forward, following the Lord?
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  Or are you like Jonah and you run in the opposite direction?
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  Is the Bible something you hear on Sundays and perhaps Wednesdays?
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  Is this something you read and you nourish yourself with and you make sure that
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  you understand the promises of God and you get to know him and you spend time with him?
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  And you're making note of the way he shows up in your life. You're noting the God sightings.
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  You're taking to heart his protection, his love, his goodness, his grace, his mercy.
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  Because if you are, then like David, he's going to deliver you out of your problem.
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  And like the Apostle Paul, in 1 Corinthians 15, you can say,
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  but thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
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  The battle's not yours. It belongs to the Lord. Who's fighting your battle?
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  Are you leading or are you following? Remember, you are loved. Jesus loves you.
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  today's podcast and scripture references.
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  Remember that God loves you. You are loved.