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#GenCamp24: Giant Killers | Andy Yeoh · Generations Church

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Hey there, you're listening to the Generation's Church podcast. We pray that the
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word of God today will challenge, change and channel you into your God given
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destiny. Now let's get started. But Samuel seventeen, verse thirty three to
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fifty one. If I'm going to bring attention to the title, I'm just
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I don't know what to call it, just calling it giant kill us?
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How many want to kill some giants? What about giants we have in your
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life or in your way? We have got DNA. We can learn how
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to be giant killers first, Samuel seventeen, verse thirty two fifty one.
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Hope you don't mind us reading the word of God. Yeah, And Saul
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said to David, you are not able to go against this philistine, to
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fight with him. But you are a youth. You're young, you're small,
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you're tiny, you're inexperienced. And he Goliath a man of war from
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his youth. But David said to Saul, your servant used to keep his
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father's sheep. I don't know how sheep had got to do with giants,
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But I used to keep a father's sheep. And then when a lion or
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a bear came and took a lamb out of the flock. I went after
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it and struck it, and delivered the lamb from its mouth. And when
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he rose against me, I caught it by its beard and struck and killed
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it. Your servant has killed both lion and bear, and this uncircumcised philistine
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will be like one of them, seeing he has defied the armies of the
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living God. Moreover, David said, the Lord who delivered me from the
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paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, he will deliver
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me from the hand of this philistine. And Saul said to David, go
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and the Lord be with you. So saw clothed David with his armor,
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and he put a bronze head helm on his head, and he also clothed
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him with a coat of mail. David fastened his sword to his armor and
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tried to walk, for he had not tested them. And David said to
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Saul, I cannot work with these, for I have not tested them.
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So David took them off, and he took his staff in his hand,
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and he chose for himself five smooth stones from the brook, and put them
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in a shepherd's bag, in a pouch which he had, and his sling
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was in his hand, and he drew near to the Philistine. So the
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Philistine came and began drawing near to David, and the man who and the
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man who bought the shield went before him. And when the Philistine looked about
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and saw David, he disdained him, for he was only a youth,
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ruddy and good looking. So the Philistine said to David, am I a
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dog that you come to me with sticks? And the Philistine cursed David by
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his gods. And the Philizin said to David, come to me, and
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I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and the beasts of
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the field. Then David said to the Philistine, you'll come to me with
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a sword, and with a spear, and with a javelin. But I
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come to you in the name of the Lord of Hosts, the God of
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the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. This day the Lord will
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deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you and take your head
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from you. And this day I will give the caucasus of the camp of
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the Philistines to the birds of the air and the wild beasts of the earth,
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that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel,
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man violent man, this guy, then hold this Essembli shall know that the
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Lord does not save with sword and spear, For the battle is the Lord's,
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and he will give you into our hands. So it was when the
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Philisting arose and came and drew near to meet David, that David hastened and
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ran toward the army to meet the Philistine. Then David put his hand in
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his bag and took out a stone, and he slung it and struck the
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Flisting in his forehead, so that the stone sank into his forehead and he
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fell on his face to the earth. So David prevailed over the Philisting with
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a sling and a stone, and struck the Philisting and killed him. But
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there was no sword in the hand of David. Therefore David ran and stook
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over the Philists, stood over the Philistine, took his sword and drew it
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out of his sheath and killed him and cut off his head with it.
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And when the Philistines saw that the champion was dead, they fled amen who
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It's a very very famous story. David against Goliath is often used to bring
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inspiration or to kind of like lend inspiration to people who maybe facing impossible circumstances,
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facing things much bigger than themselves, and feel like they are not able
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to overcome, and this story itself and as an inspiration that though we may
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be small, or we may be weaker, though we may be uh,
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you know, less adequate, we can overcome. Yeah, he probably have
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heard this story before, but I really believe that there's more to this than
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just that. I believe within this story is pas and principles that teaches us
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how we ourselves can become giant killers, overcomers of our situations, and what
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kind of life God wants us to live. And it's four very simple points
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for very simple things, And I hope you don't just look at them as
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a simple points. Sometimes the simple is the harder it is to live by,
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because we tend to complicate things. There must be like nineteen steps to
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this, right, not not nineteen or twenty eight forty five steps that come
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on. There needs to be more, But sometimes it's a simple that God
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wants us to live by. Imen. So, how are we to become
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a giant killer? How are we to become someone that overcomes what comes our
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way? And how can we fulfill the purpose of our life. How are
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we going to fulfill that purpose? Number one very simple. No, who
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you are speaks of our identity. Now it sounds easy enough. Who are
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you? And some of us will have multpeople answers. I'm a doctor,
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I'm a drummer, I'm a singer, I'm a mother, I'm a father,
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I'm a husband, I'm a wife, I'm a whatever you think you
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are. But of course the textbook answer here is that you are who God
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says you are. That's who you really are, a man. So while
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the world thinks that David is a shepherd boy because that's what he did,
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that's how he's stressed. In right, look at his tools. He had
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a sling bag, not a sword. Yes, slings, there's some little
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pebbles. But God knew he's not a shepherd boy. He's a king.
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Amen. If we learned this morning, we've all got potential. Remember we
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shook someone's hands and said, if you knew whose hand you're shaking, you
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will treat me better. Because God doesn't see the durance seed. God sees
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the orchard in the Durance sea. So life is about discovering who we are.
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And some words could be forty five or sixty years old and still trying
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to learn who we are. That's okay, it's not wrong. Who we
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are could be evolving and developing as we age, as we experience life.
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But life is about discovering our identity who we are In Christ, somebody saymen,
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so we are called to be overcomers. We are called to be champions
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in godnomn biologically, technically, that's the definition. That's you. That's you.
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You are the one out of one hundred and fifty million who won the
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race. You know what I'm saying. By definition, you are a winner.
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If you're sitting here breathing, you are a winner. You want a
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race once upon a time, and you're here. And each of us have
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a specific call, Like Goliath was David's grying to kill. You know that
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right, couldn't have been anybody else because Goliath was David's giant to kill,
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and they are giants in life. That's meant for you to take men,
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for you to bring down, men, for you to overcome. So do
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you know who you are? Do you know who you are? That's the
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big question. Amen, turn to your neighbor and ask who are you?
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The Bible tells you that you are a chosen generation, a peculiar people,
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a special, unique person. God has a plan for your life. You're
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not an accident. God has a plan for your life. Your called to
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fulfill that calling. Some of you will be in the political world, some
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of you in the medical worlds or in the educational world. Whatever the world
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God has called you to, that's your call. There's a giant for you
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to bring down, somebody, say, man, And that's why if you
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look at this passage again, when Saul finally said okay, okay, okay,
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go fight, go fight the giant. But look at you you've got
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you don't have the right clothes, you don't have the right whatever. And
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Soul tried to put his coat on him, gave him his sword, giving
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his shield, and Dare is like, please don't. This is not me.
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This is not me. It's back to quality and come on, this
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is gonna be way better than ship skin. I mean, it's sword and
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sling. You know who's from a win, I mean the too logical mind.
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But it's just not him, just not him. The first time I
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ever got invited to speak Overseas New Zealand, I was a wreck. I
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was super nervous, all because I was afraid they couldn't understand my ex and
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I actually had to practice my new Zealander accent, which I of course terribly
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failed. But the best advice someone gave me was, hey, they invited
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and need to go and speak. If they wanted TD Jakes, they would
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have invited him. If they wanted Steven thirty, they were invited Stephen.
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They wanted nd O, so you and the York should go. They want
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to hear Ado, So I went there. I got the advice. I
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stood on stage, I'm like, forget new general accent, forget as forget
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hey mate. My first summon, I said, guys, are gonna teach
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you how to respond like a Malaysian. I said, if I put something
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good and you like it, you say awesome lah. You today remember that
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today. So if you follow my Facebook someone it was sometimes reply my Facebook
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post with awesome ah, because you will always fail trying to be somebody else.
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You always feel I really want to be past the team. Pastivity Low
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is really awesome, and the last few days I've just been thinking how can
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I be more like him? And I think in some ways I'm already like
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him, and I USEDO like to maccamaka hang out with people. I don't
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like Bleadmington but like sport. But I just keep hearing this voice, like
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you know, you can learn the good from him, but you are you
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trying to be like past the team, no matter how awesome he is.
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It is trying to put on Sol's coat on myself, and you will never
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fit, never fit. I'm not saying you cannot learn from other people.
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You can, you should. You don't know everything, but learning from someone
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is not the HI is trying to be that person. Amen. And so
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I'm gonna apply another scripture a different way. You know, if you try
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to be somebody else, you'll always at best. At best, you will
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just be a very good copy, still a copy. So the Bible says.
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So then, because you'll look warm, neither hot nor cold, I
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will varmit you out of my mouth. God doesn't want us to be like
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neither here nor there. That's what happens when we try to be like somebody
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else. We're neither here nor that, We are neither that person who are
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neither ourself. We end up being nobody. So God says, if you're
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gonna be you're gonna be hot, be hot all the way, you be
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cold, be cold all the way, but don't be look warm. You
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be hot or be cold, but never look warm. And could you apply
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that to the way you worship God, the way you pray. You should
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know me long now to know that. And I'm talking about everybody must be
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an extrovert. I was saying, even if you are introvert, the most
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quietest person in the world, you can still pray with all your heart,
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with all sincerity. Amen. So you either be you're gonna hear a Christian.
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You be all the way on fire for God, or you just go
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you want to sing, you go all the way up, but don't put
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one leg in one boat and the other leg in another boat, and then
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you get split. Because friends, what God has for you is for you.
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There is a call on your life. There's God's plan on your life,
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and only you can fulfill it. Like Goliath is David's giant to kill.
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You know, they almost anointed the wrong guy when God sends Samuel to
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anoint the king. Even prophets can get me wrong. Sometimes. I can't
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tell you how many people told Jay and I our first child will be a
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girl. Play hands girl, not this own girl. Nothing wrong with that.
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I won't give it a girl. It's just that, and I think
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you not. It's just that God already gave me your name, Sion,
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So I knew. I knew. Even prophets can get it wrong sometimes.
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So Samuel almost anointed the wrong guy. But the anointing was for David,
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not Ilio, not any of the other sons. It's for David. And
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this is an anointing that's for you. Amen. And men can plan to
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rob it, steal it, diverted, but God's more powerful. God's purpose
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is more powerful than men's plans. So Samuel almost anointed the wrong guy.
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But though the prophet doesn't know who the anointing does, the Holy Spirit does.
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Amen. The Holy Spirit knows who you are, So be you,
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be you. So this scripture again, you know, so tried to put
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his armor on it, and maybe it's very good and say, hey,
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you know, ah, this armor. I fought forty nine battles. I
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won each one, very good one. Don't worry you no erros think go
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through. It's very good. Why David. My encouragement to all of you
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is, don't rely on past anointing, past armor old armor, borrowed anointing
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somebody else's revelation. It won't fit. It might even kill you. So
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stay away from religion and meaningless tradition. I am all for tradition when you
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understand the meaning tradition without meaning is it's just tradition. But stay away from
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just things that just been because it's been trying, tested before by somebody else.
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And therefore you will work for you well if God says so, then
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yes, use what God has given you. Don't try to be somebody else,
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be you. That's the first point. I want to be a giant
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killer. You can't do it being somebody else. You're supposed to be David
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to bring down go life, not Ilia and any other person. Amen.
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And there's a call on your each of your life. You need to know.
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This doesn't matter if you're seventy today or seventeen, there's a call on
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your life. You're still breathing, right, m hmm. Therefore, the
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how your house is proof of the potency of your purpose. That means,
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if you've got a house, you're meant to be here. Your job's not
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done. Number two, Know whose you are? Number is, know who
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you are, your identity Number two, you know who you are? Who
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do you belong to? Any Can I be so bold to say you don't
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belong to your company? And now we ought to be good citizens, don't
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You don't belong to your country in that sense? I know you here your
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surname, but you don't belong to your family in context. Understand what I'm
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trying to say. We ultimately belong to God. We are created to worship,
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so we will worship you know that, right? Friends? You can
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say, Nola, I don't worship any God. Even atheists who don't believe
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God is worshiping something. They're worshiping the idea that there's no God. That's
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what they worship. And if that's not what they're worshiping, in they worshiping
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something. We are creatures of worship. And so if you don't understand who
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you belong to, you worship something else. Btsa black beinger, raginy gang,
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I don't know, junk ah ogay twice. Know who you are.
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Be a worshiper, because before you are a warrior, you are a worshiper.
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I know I'm telling you to be a warrior, win your battles and
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blah blah, blah. But before that, you have to be a worshipper,
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because that's what David was before he killed any giant. Oh, you
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wrote many psalms, he sang many songs, he played the heart before he's
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flung a stone. Worshipper. Don't forget that. No matter how big your
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platform gets, one day you're a worshipper. You belong to somebody. You're
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not your own. Your life is not yours. You don't dictate where your
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life was is to go. You have a God, You have an almighty
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God, a God that we serve, that we have a legionce to I
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mean, I'm serious. We are first a worshiper. And when you when
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you realize that, everything becomes worship and it changes everything. How you drive,
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how you text, how you work, how you treat people, that's
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worship because you are a worshiper, a man extra. In twenty two,
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when he had removed him, he raised up removes all, and God raised
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up for them David as king, to whom also he gave testimony and said,
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this is God's testimony of David. I have found David, the son
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of Jesse, a man after my own heart, who will do all my
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will. God's not impressed with the giants and killed. Go's not impressed with
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his administration skills, writning a nation, Go's not impressed about He wrote many
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songs, good songs. Go's not impressed with the songs. He's like,
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Now, what I'm impressed with is a man after my own heart, a
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man that whose heart is shaped after mine, A man whose heart is always
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chasing after mine. Amen, and min You David was a king. He
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wasn't a pastor, he wasn't an elder, he didn't work full time in
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the church. He had a nation to run, a cup place person and
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still wholeheartedly after God. So it's definitely possible. Amen. And I know
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we talk about being marketplace weakness and all that. Hey, just because you
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talk about it doesn't mean you're being it. You have to be it,
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have to be it, Amen. Number three, So number one know who
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you are, too simple, right? Number two know who you are.
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It's about worship. Number three is go to school. If you stop learning,
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you stop growing. I don't care if you're eighty eight years old today.
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You keep going to school, keep training, keep learning, keep growing.
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I mean Bible school now. And the more the more I know.
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The more I realize I don't know so little I know about God really seriously,
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and yes, sometimes can be a rabbit hole like this one connected that
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one trinity, but it's good look at David then saw Simon just to send
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messages to Jesse and said, send me your son, David, who is
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with the ship. What is verse? You know what happened before this verse?
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Like earlier Earlier he was annointed to be king. That means that there
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wasn't like home at the call. The prophet himself came to the house and
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said, I want to annoy you as king. You are going to be
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king of Israel. Hey, kids, kids are kings. Young. We
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will imagine someone told you what you will be in ten years time. You
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know what you would do? Stop studying, right, I already know what
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going with me. What I told my mother. That didn't work. I
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told my mother, but mom, I'm going to be a pastor. Knowing
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to waste time studying. I wanted away to skip SPM and not go study.
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I want to be a pastor, you know my colleagen Mommy, why
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I need to study? Didn't work. My mother was smart, She said,
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no, you go study. So that one day when you become pastor,
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people cannot say you stupid become pastor, cannot study become pastor? Oh
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okay, I took on the challenge. I studied, Yes, I did
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well. What come on? David knew who is going to become but it
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was not yet time. So what does he do? What does the woodpe
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king do? Full fee? My responsibility? If he was dishous, you
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know, wash dishes, if it was homework done homework, it just happens
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that he was taking care of sheep. So where does he go back to
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the sheep? And if the current king wanted to look for David, where
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does he go the backside of the hill where he was taking of sheep because
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there was his job. He was a teenager. Their teenagers study, do
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your exam. You may be the next prime minister. Where you study and
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some of you you are I don't know what level? Are you? Not
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in your company? Do your job? All that is preparation. Did David
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know all those boing times by the river king up stones, shooting at birds
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and squirrels were one day coming handy and one day you want to be a
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squirrel, one day will be a target. Ecademies did he know all that,
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don't what? Who is molding you? For David? It was the
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wild, the humbleness of taking care of sheep. You know what the brothers
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were doing. They were at in the in the war zone. They did
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the real man's job. They're in the front lines because they're older, stronger,
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more muscular. And David, Ah, who the h David? You
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go on, you go? There was David's job. Imagine you know you're
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a king, you know, but you have to go and make sure the
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sheep don't fall into the river. What's molding you? Friends? Can I
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say what seems to be normal or mundane to you could be what God is
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using to move you, mold you, set you up in place for what
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you're called to do. Nobody would have thought slinging stone is going to be
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used to bring on a giant. Only God knows. David did not know
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that he was going to be king of Israel. But there was a king
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inside of him. And there's a king inside of you, a man that's
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symbol, that's something God has created you to become, and that's inside of
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you. And God has called all of us clay. He's the porter,
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we are the clay. So the question is who's moding this clay, So
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be careful who you're allowing to touch you. You're being shaped. So for
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every Adam Grant page you read, I pray you better read the Bible at
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least two times more something like that, like, Okay, please don't take
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this as some kind of rule or law. I'm just saying, I hope
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you get what I'm saying. What shape you? Be careful who gets their
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hands on you. I want to say this next thing is this is pointble
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two B one number three B. Your trouble could be your training. If
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God is sovereign, if he allow something bad to happen in your life,
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he has a good reason. That's a simple premise. God is good.
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He allows bad things to happen for good reasons only, And so your trouble
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could be your training. For Sevenel seventeen thirty four to thirty seven. I
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won't read the whole thing. You know the context. He was begin saying,
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Hey, I was thinking of sheep, and then a lion came.
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I wiped the floor, a bear came, I wiped the bla all.
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And if you're not understanding, you'll be like God, why me? Why
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la? Why you send me the lion? Why you send me the bad?
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Why all this trouble? Why are all these problems? Why me?
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Because there's a giant waiting. So it's all about building up a testimony,
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building up a track record. Do you have a testimony worth telling us?
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David could stand in front of the king and say, I don't I'm not
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kill a giant before, but I've done lion and bear. I think good
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because those times he's not even bring attention to himself. So you know how
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I know God it is here or not? You know which which Hannah used
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left? And you know it wasn't about him. It's like, you know
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what better phrase? I did it because God gave me the strength to and
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the same goal that helped me do it is gonna help me do this one.
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His story is all about God in his story. I wonder that deal
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why because God was there? I managed to win that deal with Why?
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Because God was in it? You know I was. I managed to do
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this? Why because God was in it? A testimony? And every test
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that God allows in your life is to build up a testimony. Do we
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have a track record? And a track record a testimony is often built or
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created in the real world. David didn't create these testimonies in the temple,
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not even tab on. A girl's a you in the better ground, the
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real world, right where you are, in the workplace, marketplace, school,
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college, uni, family, whole. That's where it's being built.
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And David was both a testimony in the marketplace as well as at home.
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He was obedient, he was honoring so much so first Semuel sixteen, David
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was someone who honored and someone who obeyed. You don't have to go and
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look for his tests and trials. If you're following God, they will come
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looking for you. If I pray for patience, Lord, please may be
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patients. Suddenly everyone around you becomes annoying, and you wonder why. Oh
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yeah, I pray for patience. That's why. So God allows things to
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happen, because God doesn't waste any opportunities. Amen. Remember Joseph. First
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it was the pit, then party for his wife, then prison, then
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Pharaoh, and he became prime minister. All the trouble you've gone through in
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the past is not even just trouble, but training. Past trials are stepping
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stones to future triumphs. That is why Israel to build altars because there's like
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a memorial that's like, ah, I remember this one. This is when
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God asks Moses to strike, they will rock with a rod and water came
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out. Oh ah, I remember this one. This is when we cross
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the rates scene. Remember. So that's why I think I appreciated that youth
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can befall. We need to build altars in our life, alters. That's
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what all the cause are symbolic. Amen. So the lion and the bear
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how gooted David to stop him from his destiny. The lion would have killed
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the lamb and David, but God was on him. So there will be
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things that come into your life that will try to stop you. Troubles,
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problems, challenges, try to stop you or to short change you. But
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there's a king that's inside of you. That's what the enemy is after the
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destiny. So don't let the external overcome you. You overcome it by the
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power of God. The bigger the giant, the bigger the victory. The
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bigger they come, the harder they fall. Amen. For Samuel for the
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seventeen forty five to fourty seven, David said to the Philistine, you come
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to me with swords, spear, with javelin, I come to you in
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the name of the Lord Foes, the God of Army of Israel, whom
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you have defied this day. The Lord will deliver you into my hand,
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and I will strike you. Blah blah blah blah blah. He's really saying,
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you know what, You may be a giant, but you're still a
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man. God will overcome you. So whatever happens in your life, nothing
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is more powerful than God. Amen. Prec Never despise the power of little
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things. Never despise the power little things for seventeen Semuel, seventeen seventeen.
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Then Jesse said to his son David, take now for your brothers an effort
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of the strike grain and these ten loaves, and run to your brothers at
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the camp Verse twenty. So David rose early in the morning, left the
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ship with the keeper, and took the things and went as Jesse had commanded
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him. And he came to the camp as the army was going out to
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fight, to the fight and shouting for the bat though so basically he did
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this regularly. He was the guy that did the job nobody wants to do.
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Go bring some bread and some cheese to your brother who's in the front.
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Line, and if you read the whole story, he went there and
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there's all this commotion and he was this busy body, little brother, Hey,
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what happened? What happened? He was shouting, Ah, he really
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wanted to eat on the action. But he's just a guy that brought cheese
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and bread. Imagine, David said, I a fair uh blah. I'm
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supposed to be thinking, you know what, bread, bread, cheese,
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cheese, all let somebody else do it. He saw what he did.
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He asked the import to take out a shift, and he went and delivered
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the break could have been the other way around. Now you do that,
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walk there, walk back, Walk there, walk back. This is your
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putting on sick covers, removing sick covers every Saturday. You get what I'm
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saying. This is you're putting up your banner a j hand right there.
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The banner is right behind you. I'm telling you. This is your typing
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the lyrics. This is all these little things that seems mundane. Man.
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This is your show up in church every Saturday anyway. Because the Saturday you
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said today i'll sleep in, that could be the day. God squeaks.
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No, I'm telling don't think things for granted these small, small things.
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Don't despise the little things. That's why I don't know. Okay, I
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don't know how long I do this, But I don't just turn down and
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speaking against one just because of a small group one thousand students not listening to
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you, all talking among himself. I'll go because you just never know.
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Because I'm old enough to have people come to me. You remember me or
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not? Sorry, I don't. Yeah, you won because uh, the
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last time you preached, I was sorely tell about what you preached? I
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don't remember. Yeah, but you helped me. I got saved that day.
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And when I finally remember, oh, dere wana, that wana the
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one way I struggle, and I felt like nobody's listening. The one you
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gotta say, yeah, pastor why I listened? What? So? Never
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despise the little things, the practices. Every musician knows this. You know
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how you do well here on stage? You did well at home? David
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brought cheesus and bread, and because he faithfully did it. You know all
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the other days, nothing happened. Sometimes you come on Saturday's nothing happened.
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I don't feel God. I don't receive anything personally preaching again. Oh my
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gosh, can you you somebody else you'd be like this. Never despise the
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little things, Amen, I don't care how big we grow, how don't
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forget the small things, coming on time, rolling the cables, little things.
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Don't despise it. Little things open doors to great things. If you
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can be faithful over little things, this is biblical, you will go or
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make you rule it over great things. If you can do little things as
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if they were great things, that's a sure sign that God is setting you
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up to do great things. Great people are people who do little things with
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greatness. The greatest miracles are made of little things. The little pot of
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oil, the little stick a part of the red sea, the little donkey
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jo bone that kill ten thousand Philistines, the little ones in the midst of
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doing a little thing, David delivering cheese and bread. David encountered the giant,
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and God set him up to bring that giant down. Amen. Last
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point number four, Number three was to go to school. Number four go
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to God and encounter. So if you can't remember one words identity, worship,
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training, encounter, know who you are, you know whose you are,
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Go to school, go to God, Encounter. Amen, I pray
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generations will never forget how to always encounter God. Last night I was praying
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with somebody and you know we I realized something and it was a word for
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him. By then he became a word for me to. In the past
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one year, I've gone to the Bible School and I'm intellectually challenged. I've
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grown a lot in the world of God, and I feel like I know
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a lot more now, although the more and more the more I know,
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the more I don't know and all the things. But I don't know if
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you notice. But for many months, I didn't give a salvation call.
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For a few months, I didn't even pray in tongues because I mean processing
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inside of my head like hey, you know how it's free wheel or no
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free wheel tongues or no tongues, and and I feel like I've became off
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balance. And no matter no matter how theological or how whatever it is,
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the power of God is still real and God still moves. So we're not
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all about experiences only or if you experience God and then must be true.
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No, the word is important. The word is important. I'm trying to
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leave intention in tension. If you get what I'm saying, those of you
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who hike up or cycle, you know that the tension is important. Is
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the tension that keeps your bike straight. Without the tension, you fall without
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you know that gravitation, gravitational pool. So it's okay to leave intentions.
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Sometimes you're like, ah, to damn free will. I'm not sure.
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I just feel like we cannot forget that the power of God, the presence
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of God and all that is just as real as the word of God,
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the knowledge, the theology is important. So we must make room for God's
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power to show up. And that happens when we make room. That happens
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when we go to God and encounter God. And that's happened when we say,
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God, do whatever you want to. David was anointed with oil.
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Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him. And this picture actually means
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not just that, not like in our auto collar we take some olive oil
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expressions and we take one dab and then this is like and then the oil
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flows all over. It's a picture of like, hey, don't just settle
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with one little touch. Don't settle with like, yeah, last camera was
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touched by God already, La, don't you set Yeah? I got testimony.
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It happened fifteen years ago. Don't just settle. God is saying,
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hey, there's more. Where it came from it all, Amen. It
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all an encounter. So that when you have victories and when you when you
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have over coming, when you have breakthroughs, you give glory to God because
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you know where it came from. Amen. David brought down the giant because
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he spent an awful lot of time writing psalms, processing his feelings and thoughts.
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David sounds schryzophenic, sometimes half the sound scoring God, the other half
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repenting. But that's that's life. So he was someone who had If he
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had a complain, he went to God. If he had a praise or
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compliment, he went to God. If you had a question, he went
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to God. If you had a doubt, he went to God. He
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has something to share, he went to God and counter God. Amen.
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So I feel like generation shouldn't just be like we want to be strong in
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the word. It's good because it is the word that actually gives us contexts.
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They will notice laughing is God or not? They will know, oh,
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this means God on It gives us that meaning and context. Yes,
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so strong, but Hey, let's not neglect an encounter, giving space to
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God to speak, doing God space to move in our lives. Amen.
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