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Hi everyone.
My name is Danielle Robak.
You can learn more about me@daniellerobak.org.
Thank you for listening in.
My intention is for this time to leave you more in love with Jesus and a deeper clarity in your identity in Christ.
Let's get started. 7 00:00:17,429.333333333 --> 00:00:20,459.333333333 So, many of you know, and some of that you don't. 8 00:00:20,459.333333333 --> 00:00:21,749.333333333 That I used to be a horse trainer. 9 00:00:22,604.333333333 --> 00:00:27,664.333333333 And, all of my life, my dream was horses and I got my first horse when I was five. 10 00:00:28,264.333333333 --> 00:00:42,504.333333333 And then as I became an adult, my dream was to own a farm and to teach lessons and to teach people how to ride and how to take care of horses and so many times in dreams, the Lord speaks to me in. 11 00:00:42,924.333333333 --> 00:00:52,644.333333333 Horses, I'll have a horse dream, something related to horses because he's so gracious that he speaks to us in the way that we can understand. 12 00:00:53,784.333333333 --> 00:00:56,864.333333333 And I've been having many horse dreams here lately. 13 00:00:57,214.333333333 --> 00:00:59,284.333333333 And I have had several horses in my life. 14 00:00:59,314.333333333 --> 00:01:04,154.333333333 I have trained many from a baby, never being saddled right on up to being a show horse. 15 00:01:04,544.333333333 --> 00:01:09,164.333333333 And this one particular one that I had, his name was Jimmy. 16 00:01:10,214.333333333 --> 00:01:12,314.333333333 And I would say that Jimmy. 17 00:01:13,244.333333333 --> 00:01:17,624.333333333 Was one of the nicest quality horses that I owned. 18 00:01:18,474.333333333 --> 00:01:25,754.333333333 But when I purchased him, he had already been started trained and he had been trained under intimidation. 19 00:01:26,429.333333333 --> 00:01:36,749.333333333 He had been trained to obey without or understanding, and so he would go along really well and then all of a sudden he would just try to flee because of fear. 20 00:01:37,109.333333333 --> 00:01:41,849.33333333 So he would be going in a perfect gate and then just out of nowhere. 21 00:01:42,434.33333333 --> 00:01:46,994.33333333 He would bolt and bite the bit and try to run off. 22 00:01:47,174.33333333 --> 00:01:52,364.33333333 And so I took a whole entire year where I took him off the show circuit. 23 00:01:52,364.33333333 --> 00:01:53,874.33333333 He was my daughter's horse, Chelsea. 24 00:01:54,354.33333333 --> 00:01:58,164.33333333 And I let nobody else ride him and I retrained him. 25 00:01:59,154.33333333 --> 00:02:16,434.33333333 And I built trust with him and I did things to desensitize him and to make the trust between him and I through my body language and through the way that I worked him in the consistency to build his trust so that he could overcome. 26 00:02:16,764.33333333 --> 00:02:28,734.33333333 This fear so that he would stop running because when he ran, it would get him, it would get him in trouble, it would get him hurt, it would cause anxiety in his life, and it would cause other people to be fearful too. 27 00:02:28,734.33333333 --> 00:02:29,694.33333333 Jimmy came through that. 28 00:02:29,694.33333333 --> 00:02:32,274.33333333 He ended up being an incredible, one of the best show horses. 29 00:02:32,274.33333333 --> 00:02:33,384.33333333 We got past all that. 30 00:02:33,909.33333333 --> 00:02:40,309.33333333 He got over his fear and Chelsea was able to continue showing him very successful and had a great time with him. 31 00:02:40,609.33333333 --> 00:02:55,669.33333333 But in this particular dream, he was in a pasture, a very safe pasture, had beautiful wood fencing, and and in this dream he, he, instead of staying in this pastured era, he broke free. 32 00:02:56,119.33333333 --> 00:03:00,889.33333333 And when he broke free, he ran and he got caught up in barbed wire. 33 00:03:01,159.33333333 --> 00:03:08,29.33333333 So anybody who knows barbed wire, and this is a dream, when it gets tangled in you, it will, it rips you apart. 34 00:03:08,114.33333333 --> 00:03:13,129.33333333 It, it makes you very, um, it, it will completely tear a muscle. 35 00:03:13,129.33333333 --> 00:03:15,289.33333333 It could, you know, do severe damage. 36 00:03:15,379.33333333 --> 00:03:29,454.33333333 And in this dream, Jimmy had all of these cuts all over his neck, his face, his, his chest, his legs, because he ran out of the safe pasture that was provided for him. 37 00:03:31,399.33333333 --> 00:03:38,594.33333333 And after I had that dream, the Lord began to speak to me about how he puts us in safe pastures. 38 00:03:40,69.33333333 --> 00:03:54,489.33333333 How he makes boundary lines that are pleasant, that keep us in safety and that he is the good shepherd and he talks about us being within green pastures with, within being in safe places. 39 00:03:54,489.33333333 --> 00:04:01,929.33333333 In Psalm 23, David talks about it and he talks about this as being a good shepherd in John 10, and, um, throughout all of chapter 10. 40 00:04:02,714.33333333 --> 00:04:06,774.33333333 Because when you have a dream, you don't always have interpretation. 41 00:04:06,834.33333333 --> 00:04:07,554.33333333 Interpretation. 42 00:04:07,554.33333333 --> 00:04:24,924.33333333 Right away you might get a little glimpse and then as you grow an understanding of who you are in your identity or pressing into the Lord, he might give you another glimpse of it, and a dream from him is one that will continue to be life to you. 43 00:04:25,454.33333333 --> 00:04:30,644.33333333 It will continue to speak to you for all the days of your life sometimes. 44 00:04:30,644.33333333 --> 00:04:32,414.33333333 And so that's like the living word of God. 45 00:04:32,414.33333333 --> 00:04:34,34.33333333 It's living, it's active. 46 00:04:34,34.33333333 --> 00:04:35,414.33333333 It's a double-edged sword. 47 00:04:35,624.33333333 --> 00:04:44,504.33333333 It penetrates to our hearts, and that's why the Lord says he instructs us to read His word, because it will keep you in safe places. 48 00:04:44,654.33333333 --> 00:04:52,454.33333333 It will keep you from being deceived and pulled into the ways of the enemy because through the word that is living and active. 49 00:04:52,784.33333333 --> 00:04:59,474.33333333 It cuts through the heart and gets right to the place that it needs to go into your heart. 50 00:04:59,474.33333333 --> 00:05:03,584.33333333 And so being a good shepherd, as Jesus says that he is. 51 00:05:03,644.33333333 --> 00:05:05,774.33333333 It is not to keep you restrained. 52 00:05:05,774.33333333 --> 00:05:09,434.33333333 It's not to be control over you, it's to keep you in a. 53 00:05:09,954.33333333 --> 00:05:30,354.33333333 Place so that as you feed, as you grow, as you live your life, as you are in relationships, in school, in ministry, in workforce, in church, in a family, in marriage, as a mother, as a daughter, as a sister, whatever it might be, that you are kept in safe places. 54 00:05:30,564.33333333 --> 00:05:36,324.33333333 And when we decide to step out of the boundaries that he has given us. 55 00:05:37,484.33333333 --> 00:05:42,464.33333333 We have then stepped into our own will and we are open game. 56 00:05:43,544.33333333 --> 00:05:46,934.33333333 So that's why there are so many things to deceive us. 57 00:05:46,994.33333333 --> 00:05:48,164.33333333 There are so many things. 58 00:05:48,164.33333333 --> 00:05:55,964.33333333 There are TV shows, there are movies, there are people's voices, there are books, there are crystals, there are, you know, Toro cards. 59 00:05:56,324.33333333 --> 00:06:05,24.33333333 There are, there are things that are in the demonic that are to pull us out of the safe ways because what it does is it opens up a door. 60 00:06:06,119.33333333 --> 00:06:14,309.33333333 To the devil, it opens up a door to the enemy and you might not recognize it at first. 61 00:06:14,369.33333333 --> 00:06:15,239.33333333 You might not. 62 00:06:15,239.33333333 --> 00:06:16,559.33333333 You might say, this is great. 63 00:06:16,679.33333333 --> 00:06:17,489.33333333 I feel great. 64 00:06:17,489.33333333 --> 00:06:18,539.33333333 This is so fun. 65 00:06:18,539.33333333 --> 00:06:24,29.33333333 I'm doing wonderful until, because the enemy is sneaky. 66 00:06:24,479.33333333 --> 00:06:31,259.33333333 And he tries to get you in a snare and the word says that he looks to snare you in. 67 00:06:31,259.33333333 --> 00:06:37,199.33333333 I believe it's in Timothy and that is what reminds me of those barbs, the barbed wire. 68 00:06:37,439.33333333 --> 00:06:40,739.33333333 It's a snare to beat and cut you up. 69 00:06:40,739.33333333 --> 00:06:46,589.33333333 It's a snare to get into you so that you're pulled little by little into the enemy's ways. 70 00:06:48,104.33333333 --> 00:07:04,674.33333333 So that you're clouded in your judgment, you're clouded in your eyesight, you're clouded in the filter of what you are hearing, and he does it little by little to control you, to empower himself in me and in you. 71 00:07:05,94.33333333 --> 00:07:08,124.33333333 And so Jesus talks to us about being the good shepherd. 72 00:07:08,214.33333333 --> 00:07:15,114.33333333 He talks to us about how he takes us, and he puts us in these places to keep us safe. 73 00:07:15,114.33333333 --> 00:07:15,714.33333333 And so. 74 00:07:16,449.33333333 --> 00:07:25,329.33333333 I'm gonna read John 10, which is one of my absolute favorites, chapters in the Word of God. 75 00:07:25,959.33333333 --> 00:07:31,389.33333333 And um, it says, it says, Jesus is the good shepherd. 76 00:07:32,169.33333333 --> 00:07:34,599.33333333 Jesus shepherds the people. 77 00:07:35,169.33333333 --> 00:07:45,309.33333333 John 10, he says, most assuredly I say to you, he who does not enter the sheet fold by the door, but climbs up some other way. 78 00:07:45,639.33333333 --> 00:07:47,949.33333333 The same is a thief and a robber. 79 00:07:48,129.33333333 --> 00:07:49,359.33333333 So the sheep folds. 80 00:07:49,869.33333333 --> 00:07:54,189.33333333 Back in the day, the shepherds tended the sheep, and so the sheep fold. 81 00:07:54,189.33333333 --> 00:07:55,179.33333333 Just put yourself in there. 82 00:07:55,179.33333333 --> 00:07:55,989.33333333 You are a sheep. 83 00:07:56,679.33333333 --> 00:07:57,609.33333333 I am a sheep. 84 00:07:58,89.33333333 --> 00:08:02,829.33333333 Put yourself in the sheep fold any other way than through the door of Jesus. 85 00:08:02,829.33333333 --> 00:08:06,939.33333333 Christ is a thief into your life, and it comes to rob. 86 00:08:06,939.33333333 --> 00:08:07,839.33333333 Steal and destroy. 87 00:08:07,959.33333333 --> 00:08:08,559.33333333 That's all. 88 00:08:09,174.33333333 --> 00:08:12,54.33333333 That is the devil's job, and he is a very good at it. 89 00:08:12,54.33333333 --> 00:08:14,634.33333333 And he will do whatever he can to do that. 90 00:08:14,634.33333333 --> 00:08:26,424.33333333 And that's why the identity in Christ, knowing who we are, and the word and the truth is so incredibly important to keep you and I safe because that's what the Good Shepherd does. 91 00:08:26,484.33333333 --> 00:08:30,834.33333333 He keeps us safe, he keeps us protected, and so. 92 00:08:31,509.33333333 --> 00:08:42,639.33333333 But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep To him, the doorkeeper opens and the sheep hear his voice. 93 00:08:42,639.33333333 --> 00:08:46,899.33333333 He calls his own sheep by name and he leads them out. 94 00:08:47,49.33333333 --> 00:08:51,99.33333333 And when he brings out his his own sheep, he goes before them. 95 00:08:51,309.33333333 --> 00:08:52,899.33333333 And the sheep follow him. 96 00:08:52,899.33333333 --> 00:08:58,269.33333333 For they know his voice, yet they will by no means follow a stranger. 97 00:08:58,899.33333333 --> 00:09:00,99.33333333 But will flee from him. 98 00:09:00,99.33333333 --> 00:09:03,969.33333333 Who is the stranger? The stranger is the enemy. 99 00:09:04,599.33333333 --> 00:09:06,939.33333333 There are, there's two. 100 00:09:07,299.33333333 --> 00:09:08,499.33333333 There's two kingdoms. 101 00:09:08,499.33333333 --> 00:09:12,9.33333333 There's the kingdom of God and there's the kingdom of the enemy. 102 00:09:13,339.33333333 --> 00:09:16,159.33333333 Ephesians says, we don't fight against flesh and blood. 103 00:09:16,849.33333333 --> 00:09:18,799.33333333 We're not fighting against a person. 104 00:09:18,829.33333333 --> 00:09:24,49.33333333 We're fighting against a spiritual battle to gain the territory that Jesus has given us. 105 00:09:24,964.33333333 --> 00:09:37,84.33333333 And we're in a battle, whether you realize it or not, but Jesus in his equipping of who we are and our identity, gives us the power and the authority to stand against the enemy. 106 00:09:38,524.33333333 --> 00:09:47,824.33333333 That's why the enemy wants you to crumble and to get under the weight of all the things of who he is, so that you don't know who you are and you cannot stand. 107 00:09:49,414.33333333 --> 00:09:53,594.33333333 So he can snare you in like a barb wire would wrap you. 108 00:09:54,394.33333333 --> 00:09:57,574.33333333 And cut you up and bring and bring harm to you. 109 00:09:58,54.33333333 --> 00:09:59,704.33333333 So they will no means foul them. 110 00:09:59,704.33333333 --> 00:10:04,984.33333333 Well, how do we know the voice of the sheep or the shepherd? We know our shepherd. 111 00:10:05,464.33333333 --> 00:10:09,304.33333333 How do we know that? Well, the pro, we talked last week about the promises of God. 112 00:10:09,304.33333333 --> 00:10:11,644.33333333 Every one of them are his voice. 113 00:10:11,974.33333333 --> 00:10:20,104.33333333 Every one of them are the one are is what? Is what gets us in tune to his voice and how do we do that? We spend time with him. 114 00:10:21,109.33333333 --> 00:10:31,849.33333333 We spend time in the word because he wants you to have the best, most fulfilled, joy-filled, incredible adventurous life that you could ever imagine. 115 00:10:32,119.33333333 --> 00:10:36,599.33333333 If anybody tells you that the walk with Christ is boring, they have not walked with him. 116 00:10:39,379.33333333 --> 00:10:43,579.33333333 Because every day he gives you fresh manna every day. 117 00:10:43,579.33333333 --> 00:10:49,339.33333333 He gives you understanding and revelation and leads you on the path to righteousness every single day. 118 00:10:49,399.33333333 --> 00:11:00,859.33333333 He's, he's helping your heart to understand greater who he is, and that is, that is an adventure that you were created to live here on earth because his spirit is inside of you. 119 00:11:00,859.33333333 --> 00:11:04,854.33333333 His DNA dwells in you, and he created you to be in his image. 120 00:11:06,34.33333333 --> 00:11:08,824.33333333 And so inside of you and me, think about this. 121 00:11:08,824.33333333 --> 00:11:12,964.33333333 I think about when I was a little girl and I didn't know who Jesus was. 122 00:11:12,964.33333333 --> 00:11:16,54.33333333 I had never heard anything about Jesus in my life. 123 00:11:16,654.33333333 --> 00:11:18,184.33333333 I heard God was love. 124 00:11:18,874.33333333 --> 00:11:25,834.33333333 My father was Jewish, my mother was Protestant, and there was nothing talked about anything other than my grandmother telling me God is love. 125 00:11:26,74.33333333 --> 00:11:30,479.33333333 However, inside of my hearts I would talk to God. 126 00:11:31,574.33333333 --> 00:11:32,714.33333333 Inside of my heart. 127 00:11:32,714.33333333 --> 00:11:37,184.33333333 When I would go to sleep, I would say, please tell Grandpa who was in, I believed to be in heaven. 128 00:11:37,454.33333333 --> 00:11:44,204.33333333 Please tell him that I love him, and I'd have this communication with him in this little tiny body. 129 00:11:44,294.33333333 --> 00:11:48,134.33333333 And then as I grew old enough to ride my bike and we lived in a little one. 130 00:11:48,579.33333333 --> 00:12:08,229.33333333 Light town that had one church, I would ride my bike to the church because inside of me there was this, this groaning or this desire to know more like, where did I come from? Who am I, what is this inside of me? Because it wasn't because anybody had spoke that to me. 131 00:12:08,559.33333333 --> 00:12:11,739.33333333 It's because he created you and me. 132 00:12:12,594.33333333 --> 00:12:15,924.33333333 And so this desire can only be fulfilled by him. 133 00:12:15,924.33333333 --> 00:12:17,844.33333333 There's nobody else that can fulfill it. 134 00:12:18,84.33333333 --> 00:12:19,284.33333333 There's no man. 135 00:12:19,554.33333333 --> 00:12:23,424.33333333 There's no woman, there's no mother, there's no father. 136 00:12:23,874.33333333 --> 00:12:26,334.33333333 There's no work, there's no money. 137 00:12:26,724.33333333 --> 00:12:28,404.33333333 Nothing else can fill that. 138 00:12:28,404.33333333 --> 00:12:37,729.33333333 You make it temporary feeling of, oh, I feel good, but it will not last because he wants to build in you who he is. 139 00:12:38,784.33333333 --> 00:12:49,204.33333333 And so everything looking back that I have been through, which I have been through much, I can look back now and see how you've heard this. 140 00:12:49,204.33333333 --> 00:12:50,104.33333333 I'm sure you've heard this. 141 00:12:50,104.33333333 --> 00:12:51,844.33333333 Nothing is wasted in the Lord. 142 00:12:52,414.33333333 --> 00:13:00,604.33333333 Right? It almost is, is like this, this phrase that's just glossed over that is, you know, well, he, nothing wa nothing wasted. 143 00:13:00,604.33333333 --> 00:13:21,469.33333333 But the truth is, is when you can look back? And you can see how through the moments and through the time, how he was with you and how he held you up and how maybe he kept you when you thought life needed life was not worth living anymore, and then you made it through another day. 144 00:13:21,499.33333333 --> 00:13:25,609.33333333 Well, how did that happen? He did it. 145 00:13:26,569.33333333 --> 00:13:31,129.33333333 So even though I did not know him, and those times of desperation. 146 00:13:31,804.33333333 --> 00:13:44,44.33333333 When I was calling out for help of some sort, help through a letter, help through a poem, help through a crying of my heart, help through acting out, help through, you know, yelling at a teacher, help me. 147 00:13:45,754.33333333 --> 00:14:01,9.33333333 The Lord was there and I can look back now on all the difficulties, all the troubles, all the desperation, and see how he held my hand, and he kept me here. 148 00:14:01,624.33333333 --> 00:14:05,584.33333333 He did not let me give my life over to the enemy. 149 00:14:06,784.33333333 --> 00:14:10,264.33333333 Why? Because he has a destiny and a purpose. 150 00:14:12,374.33333333 --> 00:14:20,529.33333333 Because he has a desire for you to be here and for you to live out the life that he has called for you to live. 151 00:14:21,554.33333333 --> 00:14:25,424.33333333 So that he can shepherd you and he can nurture you and he can take care of you. 152 00:14:25,784.33333333 --> 00:14:28,604.33333333 And times, times can be very difficult. 153 00:14:28,604.33333333 --> 00:14:31,64.33333333 Emotions are very fickle. 154 00:14:31,114.33333333 --> 00:14:40,564.33333333 The emotions of our heart, if they are not filtered through the spirit of God, if they're not filtered through the Holy Spirit. 155 00:14:41,104.33333333 --> 00:14:47,494.33333333 Then they're going to be emotions that dictate and control you, and they're not gonna lead you into a place of peace. 156 00:14:47,674.33333333 --> 00:14:48,694.33333333 They never will. 157 00:14:48,754.33333333 --> 00:14:56,434.33333333 They never can because they're carnal and he tells us, I'm a spirit, you're a spirit, I'm a spirit being. 158 00:14:56,434.33333333 --> 00:15:03,394.33333333 And that we, that those that live by the spirit of God, peace and life. 159 00:15:03,964.33333333 --> 00:15:09,634.33333333 Those that connect with the spirit of the enemy or the, the ways of the carnality, the enemy, the flesh. 160 00:15:10,114.33333333 --> 00:15:24,644.33333333 The old man before you were saved are always going to lead to death, death to who you are, which is hopelessness, discouragement, failure, rejection, abandonment. 161 00:15:25,244.33333333 --> 00:15:29,654.33333333 That is what, those are the ways that the enemy wants us to focus and fix our ways on. 162 00:15:29,864.33333333 --> 00:15:30,584.33333333 But God says. 163 00:15:31,889.33333333 --> 00:15:33,509.33333333 Focus on the good reports. 164 00:15:33,509.33333333 --> 00:15:40,109.33333333 How many of us have said, I know in the last two weeks, I said I choose to focus on the good report of you, Jesus. 165 00:15:40,499.33333333 --> 00:15:43,769.33333333 I choose to not focus on what I'm seeing and what I'm hearing. 166 00:15:44,279.33333333 --> 00:15:49,679.33333333 I choose to focus that you are the redeemer, you are the restorer, and you will fulfill your promises. 167 00:15:49,889.33333333 --> 00:15:54,569.33333333 I focus to set my heart on that because if I focus on anything else. 168 00:15:56,789.33333333 --> 00:16:10,989.33333333 I'm giving my territory, I'm giving my ground that I have came through over to the enemy because I've already came through that when I gave my life to Jesus, how when he died on the cross, I gave my life to him. 169 00:16:11,19.33333333 --> 00:16:18,369.33333333 And so in that, now we're on the process of living a life and how to stay abiding in him. 170 00:16:19,899.33333333 --> 00:16:24,339.33333333 So everything that he allows for us to go through and walk through is because he trusts you. 171 00:16:25,839.33333333 --> 00:16:30,579.33333333 Well, that sounds crazy, but it's true. 172 00:16:31,359.33333333 --> 00:16:40,689.3333333 He trusts that the him and you is big enough to accomplish the things that he started. 173 00:16:40,749.3333333 --> 00:16:44,89.3333333 He trusts that when he allows you to walk through what you do. 174 00:16:44,754.3333333 --> 00:16:56,334.3333333 Your character is going to be fortified and, and solidified in, be in him because you are going to lean into him for help and for understanding. 175 00:16:57,834.3333333 --> 00:17:02,544.3333333 David, you know, there was, there was how many brothers? Seven or eight brothers. 176 00:17:02,544.3333333 --> 00:17:10,674.3333333 There's two different, there's there's many brothers and Samuel came to anoint the next king. 177 00:17:11,634.3333333 --> 00:17:18,114.3333333 And in First Samuel, it goes through all the different brothers, and he is like, Nope, nope. 178 00:17:18,144.3333333 --> 00:17:29,4.3333333 Aren't there any others? He came with his oil in his horn filled, ready to anoint and just said, well, there's one more. 179 00:17:29,814.3333333 --> 00:17:34,764.3333333 He's, I believe the youngest, and he's out in the field tending the sheep. 180 00:17:35,664.3333333 --> 00:17:36,204.3333333 Go get him. 181 00:17:38,4.3333333 --> 00:17:40,524.3333333 He goes and gets him and immediately. 182 00:17:41,754.3333333 --> 00:17:44,784.3333333 It says that he was, you know, strong in stature. 183 00:17:44,784.3333333 --> 00:17:51,684.3333333 He was handsome in looks, but it talks about how, you know, and he was the youngest. 184 00:17:51,684.3333333 --> 00:17:52,854.3333333 He was out the shepherds. 185 00:17:53,424.3333333 --> 00:18:00,384.3333333 And then it, it, it talks about how, and I love this because this is a reminder to all of of us. 186 00:18:01,249.3333333 --> 00:18:04,914.3333333 He says, God doesn't look at the outward appearance of man. 187 00:18:06,384.3333333 --> 00:18:11,784.3333333 God looks at your heart, and here's the most amazing thing, is he knows what he put in your heart. 188 00:18:13,284.3333333 --> 00:18:17,214.3333333 He knows how he created you to be and who you he created you to be. 189 00:18:17,364.3333333 --> 00:18:22,914.3333333 He knows the call and the destiny that he put in your life before you ever were born. 190 00:18:24,699.3333333 --> 00:18:30,414.3333333 So no matter what is going on in the hearts, he knows who he created you to be. 191 00:18:31,614.3333333 --> 00:18:34,224.3333333 And so he, he says he's the one. 192 00:18:35,454.3333333 --> 00:18:37,374.3333333 And he anoints him to be king. 193 00:18:38,724.3333333 --> 00:18:43,824.3333333 And then it says, from the time that David was anointed and he send back out to the sheep, go tend to those sheep. 194 00:18:44,364.3333333 --> 00:18:48,504.3333333 Why? Because David is an example in a representation of Jesus. 195 00:18:49,164.3333333 --> 00:18:54,54.3333333 David has talked about as, as much as, as Jesus has talked about. 196 00:18:54,204.3333333 --> 00:18:57,984.3333333 Someone says that, I heard that they said that David was a man of few words. 197 00:18:57,984.3333333 --> 00:19:02,364.3333333 Well, the whole Psalms is written about David crying out his heart. 198 00:19:02,934.3333333 --> 00:19:05,934.3333333 In praise and worship and desperation. 199 00:19:06,804.3333333 --> 00:19:12,234.3333333 Like David, just when you read it, there's something through David's life that we can all identify. 200 00:19:12,624.3333333 --> 00:19:14,64.3333333 We can pick out a psalm. 201 00:19:14,394.3333333 --> 00:19:16,374.3333333 We're gonna be like, that's my Psalm for today. 202 00:19:16,554.3333333 --> 00:19:18,534.3333333 That's him talking to me today. 203 00:19:18,654.3333333 --> 00:19:19,374.3333333 Oh, yes. 204 00:19:19,374.3333333 --> 00:19:22,224.3333333 I'm praising you, God, for your marvelous and wonderful, wonderful works. 205 00:19:22,224.3333333 --> 00:19:27,174.3333333 Oh God, rescue me outta the pits, like throughout David's life. 206 00:19:27,879.3333333 --> 00:19:32,619.3333333 We see how all of us can be put into that place. 207 00:19:32,619.3333333 --> 00:19:34,629.3333333 And David was a shepherd. 208 00:19:35,289.3333333 --> 00:19:38,19.3333333 What did he do? He was out there and he was tending the sheep. 209 00:19:39,639.3333333 --> 00:19:52,929.3333333 The sheep, keeping them from getting the things into their ears, putting their heads, anointed their heads with oil, so the bugs didn't go into their ears and get into their brains because you know what happened then? The sheep through the torment. 210 00:19:53,229.3333333 --> 00:19:55,599.3333333 Think about the parallel, the torment. 211 00:19:56,229.3333333 --> 00:20:01,539.3333333 Would bang their heads against a rock and kill themselves. 212 00:20:03,279.3333333 --> 00:20:09,729.3333333 So, so he talks about, in Psalm 23, I will anoint your head with oil. 213 00:20:10,479.3333333 --> 00:20:20,829.3333333 Why? Because the enemy tries to get into your brain, into your mind, and torment you. 214 00:20:21,684.3333333 --> 00:20:29,814.3333333 To the point where you think you cannot go on another day, but the devil is a liar. 215 00:20:29,964.3333333 --> 00:20:38,964.3333333 Jesus came to be the final atonement to go to that cross and be nailed so that we don't have to live our life in torment anymore. 216 00:20:39,144.3333333 --> 00:20:42,774.3333333 David, the presence of God had to come upon him Now. 217 00:20:43,419.3333333 --> 00:20:44,829.3333333 Holy Spirit's in us. 218 00:20:45,159.3333333 --> 00:20:47,799.3333333 If you are a believer in Christ, he dwells in us. 219 00:20:47,799.3333333 --> 00:20:52,89.3333333 So we don't have to wait for the presence of God to fall on us. 220 00:20:52,209.3333333 --> 00:20:57,579.3333333 We now can access the living God in us at any time, at any moment, in any place. 221 00:20:57,699.3333333 --> 00:21:03,429.3333333 We are the dwelling place of God where he is purely and holy in us. 222 00:21:03,759.3333333 --> 00:21:08,289.3333333 Whether you are or aren't, it does not change who he is. 223 00:21:09,489.3333333 --> 00:21:14,139.3333333 If it did, then, then, then we would be, we would be the ones controlling things. 224 00:21:14,139.3333333 --> 00:21:15,459.3333333 And he is a sovereign god. 225 00:21:15,519.3333333 --> 00:21:21,579.3333333 He is sovereign, so he talks about anointing the head. 226 00:21:21,579.3333333 --> 00:21:24,279.3333333 He's out in the field taking care of the sheep. 227 00:21:24,309.3333333 --> 00:21:27,249.3333333 This is what Jesus wants to do with you and me. 228 00:21:27,729.3333333 --> 00:21:29,229.3333333 He wants to take care of us. 229 00:21:29,499.3333333 --> 00:21:31,659.3333333 He wants to put us in green pasture. 230 00:21:31,749.3333333 --> 00:21:36,459.3333333 He wants to take us away from where the weeds are growing and there's fungus in the ground. 231 00:21:36,579.3333333 --> 00:21:52,209.3333333 He wants to take us to a clear drink, not where there is a drink, where there is water that is full of toxins, that is damaged, that will make you sick like the Good Shepherd David out in the field. 232 00:21:52,269.3333333 --> 00:21:53,199.3333333 Just him and God. 233 00:21:54,459.3333333 --> 00:21:59,379.3333333 When there's a wilderness, don't look at a wilderness as a bad place to be. 234 00:22:01,239.3333333 --> 00:22:02,409.3333333 Don't call. 235 00:22:02,409.3333333 --> 00:22:04,419.3333333 Try to claw yourself out of the wilderness. 236 00:22:04,419.3333333 --> 00:22:12,789.3333333 When God wants to teach you who you are in the wilderness, he wants to speak tenderly to you in the wilderness as he talks about in Song, song of Songs. 237 00:22:13,809.3333333 --> 00:22:21,9.3333333 And in that place, he's gonna teach you how to take out the lion, how to take out the bear. 238 00:22:22,584.3333333 --> 00:22:48,704.3333333 And then he's gonna send you forth to take the Goliath, the snake, the giants in your life, because you and I being trained for the war, that is to live in this earth, on this ground, and the secret place with God, not in trepidation, not in fear and fret. 239 00:22:49,874.3333333 --> 00:23:08,364.3333333 But in a pillar of who you are in Christ and one that stands firm and found, and the foundation of the rock of Jesus so that when you're sent forth, you know, David was sent forth to go take food to his brothers who fought in the Israel army. 240 00:23:09,414.3333333 --> 00:23:16,914.3333333 He was still with the sheep and he was, he brought food out to his, his brothers to eat. 241 00:23:17,994.3333333 --> 00:23:36,204.3333333 And in that time he heard the Philistines, you know, the Philistines were at one side, the Israelites were at the other side, and there was a taunting from Goliath, the Philistine against the others. 242 00:23:36,654.3333333 --> 00:23:38,904.3333333 And David, when he came just to bring food. 243 00:23:40,344.3333333 --> 00:23:42,684.3333333 I mean, think about this, how you can be put in the right place. 244 00:23:43,974.3333333 --> 00:23:47,694.3333333 At just a moment because God was with him all throughout Samuel. 245 00:23:47,814.3333333 --> 00:23:48,714.3333333 God was with him. 246 00:23:48,864.3333333 --> 00:23:49,794.3333333 God was with him. 247 00:23:49,884.3333333 --> 00:23:50,874.3333333 God was with him. 248 00:23:52,344.3333333 --> 00:23:54,54.3333333 So he goes out to take food. 249 00:23:55,224.3333333 --> 00:24:11,544.3333333 He hears this Philistine mocking his God, and he says, who is this Philistine? And he says to Saul, let me, let me go against him. 250 00:24:12,894.3333333 --> 00:24:13,854.3333333 You're just a boy. 251 00:24:14,364.3333333 --> 00:24:15,474.3333333 Oh, you can't do that. 252 00:24:15,474.3333333 --> 00:24:16,344.3333333 You're a shepherd. 253 00:24:17,664.3333333 --> 00:24:18,504.3333333 It didn't matter. 254 00:24:19,134.3333333 --> 00:24:20,964.3333333 So then he tries to put his armor on him. 255 00:24:21,54.3333333 --> 00:24:23,214.3333333 David puts it on and says, this stuff doesn't fit. 256 00:24:23,214.3333333 --> 00:24:24,564.3333333 I can't fight with this. 257 00:24:24,954.3333333 --> 00:24:26,64.3333333 Takes it off. 258 00:24:28,404.3333333 --> 00:24:29,304.3333333 And he picks up. 259 00:24:29,304.3333333 --> 00:24:33,294.3333333 He's a skilled master with the slingshot. 260 00:24:33,894.3333333 --> 00:24:38,184.3333333 It says they could split a hair and he picks up the slingshot. 261 00:24:39,819.3333333 --> 00:24:43,269.3333333 And he hits Goliath in the right in the head and he dies. 262 00:24:43,299.3333333 --> 00:25:03,909.3333333 And what I love most about this story is not only the preparation for what God will put you forth to do because he is preparing you, is that David goes over to Goliath, cuts his head off with his own sword and takes it back to show. 263 00:25:05,109.3333333 --> 00:25:05,919.3333333 What he's done. 264 00:25:05,919.3333333 --> 00:25:07,209.3333333 He stands on his neck. 265 00:25:07,209.3333333 --> 00:25:08,109.3333333 He cuts off this head. 266 00:25:08,289.3333333 --> 00:25:09,219.3333333 Think about this. 267 00:25:09,339.3333333 --> 00:25:17,109.3333333 Why does God tell us these stories to encourage you and me that we are the Davids, we are the ones that have been called for. 268 00:25:17,109.3333333 --> 00:25:33,309.3333333 To take the territory, to take the giant out and to refuse to be in fear about what anybody says, how and why? Well, you will when you know who your God is. 269 00:25:35,124.3333333 --> 00:25:35,634.3333333 You won't. 270 00:25:35,634.3333333 --> 00:25:37,74.3333333 If you just know about your God. 271 00:25:38,754.3333333 --> 00:25:39,714.3333333 It's the truth. 272 00:25:39,714.3333333 --> 00:25:40,914.3333333 It's knowing the truth. 273 00:25:40,914.3333333 --> 00:25:42,714.3333333 Who is truth? He's a person. 274 00:25:43,374.3333333 --> 00:25:45,474.3333333 It's not just knowing about the truth. 275 00:25:45,504.3333333 --> 00:25:47,214.3333333 The stories of David and Goliath. 276 00:25:47,214.3333333 --> 00:25:49,764.3333333 It's knowing him who is truth. 277 00:25:50,334.3333333 --> 00:26:02,754.3333333 That sets you free to fulfill everything that God has called you to fulfill, to take out the giant, to take the territory or the region to take your home. 278 00:26:04,974.3333333 --> 00:26:08,664.3333333 For the glory of God, for the goodness of God. 279 00:26:10,914.3333333 --> 00:26:12,774.3333333 That then saved a nation. 280 00:26:14,484.3333333 --> 00:26:18,444.3333333 I'll say this, till the day I die, God calls one in the family. 281 00:26:19,644.3333333 --> 00:26:32,334.3333333 He stirs up their hearts through the Holy Spirit, the power of the Holy Spirit to want more, to refuse to settle for complacent Christianity. 282 00:26:33,639.3333333 --> 00:26:46,929.3333333 Who refuses to be okay with just knowing of the word instead of knowing him, and that one gets set on fire and. 283 00:26:47,488.3333333 --> 00:26:56,758.3333333 Passion for the Lord and they begin to live their life out in a lifestyle that brings honor and glory to Jesus. 284 00:26:56,938.3333333 --> 00:27:03,448.3333333 That reveals the hope of him being alive and present that transforms our hearts. 285 00:27:03,898.3333333 --> 00:27:15,958.3333333 That was hold cold and hard because they are until we have him in there and he brings this heart forth to now be the, the a creation of him created. 286 00:27:16,18.3333333 --> 00:27:22,198.3333333 It that loves and honors and lives their life with him being first. 287 00:27:23,758.3333333 --> 00:27:36,268.3333333 So why does the enemy come so hard? Because if he can stop you, he may be able to stop a whole family, a whole region, a territory. 288 00:27:39,278.3333333 --> 00:27:41,918.3333333 I'm boasting in the Lord of what he's done in my family. 289 00:27:43,253.3333333 --> 00:27:46,313.3333333 Would we have lived a good life? Yes, I believe so. 290 00:27:47,813.3333333 --> 00:27:53,513.3333333 Would we have lived the best abundant life? No, because there's only one way to do that. 291 00:27:53,603.3333333 --> 00:27:54,563.3333333 There's only one way. 292 00:27:55,253.3333333 --> 00:27:56,303.3333333 And he is the door. 293 00:27:57,113.3333333 --> 00:27:58,433.3333333 He is the doorkeeper. 294 00:27:58,493.3333333 --> 00:28:01,583.3333333 And we can only come through one way for that life. 295 00:28:01,673.3333333 --> 00:28:02,483.3333333 Only one. 296 00:28:02,603.3333333 --> 00:28:08,418.3333333 And it's through the door of his heart, and that's the first miracle that you will experience. 297 00:28:09,713.3333333 --> 00:28:12,983.3333333 Because when you give your life to the Lord, you didn't do it alone. 298 00:28:13,823.3333333 --> 00:28:26,543.3333333 The Holy Spirit in you is the one who drew you to him by just a little mustard seed of faith thinking, well, maybe there's more. 299 00:28:26,543.3333333 --> 00:28:27,113.3333333 Maybe. 300 00:28:27,383.3333333 --> 00:28:29,123.3333333 Maybe I just don't wanna go to hell. 301 00:28:30,803.3333333 --> 00:28:31,553.3333333 That's why I did. 302 00:28:31,553.3333333 --> 00:28:33,893.3333333 It didn't matter. 303 00:28:33,953.3333333 --> 00:28:34,823.3333333 That's all he needed. 304 00:28:35,723.3333333 --> 00:28:37,463.3333333 I wanna live in heaven. 305 00:28:38,63.3333333 --> 00:28:38,933.3333333 Eternal life. 306 00:28:38,933.3333333 --> 00:28:39,593.3333333 Yeah. 307 00:28:40,13.3333333 --> 00:28:43,313.3333333 If I can go on living instead of being the ground somewhere. 308 00:28:43,343.3333333 --> 00:28:43,913.3333333 Yeah. 309 00:28:44,753.3333333 --> 00:28:49,463.3333333 If I can be with my loved ones and live a life forever and ever, of course. 310 00:28:49,463.3333333 --> 00:28:50,993.3333333 Why wouldn't I wanna do that? Yes. 311 00:28:50,993.3333333 --> 00:28:51,833.3333333 Sign me up. 312 00:28:54,83.3333333 --> 00:29:01,103.3333333 And then he has taken my little ordinary life with my Yes. 313 00:29:01,523.3333333 --> 00:29:03,23.3333333 With your Yes. 314 00:29:03,293.3333333 --> 00:29:05,573.3333333 And he's making your life extraordinary. 315 00:29:06,248.3333333 --> 00:29:18,898.3333333 Extra ordinary, and so I thank you Lord, that Holy Spirit, you are the one apart from you. 316 00:29:18,898.3333333 --> 00:29:20,848.3333333 We can nothing. 317 00:29:20,848.3333333 --> 00:29:22,708.3333333 I trust you. 318 00:29:23,8.3333333 --> 00:29:23,878.3333333 Holy Spirit. 319 00:29:26,23.3333333 --> 00:29:33,163.3333333 To touch hearts, to break down walls, to release hope. 320 00:29:33,193.3333333 --> 00:29:38,743.3333333 Even a glimmer of hope that maybe things can be different. 321 00:29:40,243.3333333 --> 00:29:44,713.3333333 Maybe Jesus really can do something in my life. 322 00:29:45,138.3333333 --> 00:29:51,133.3333333 I thank you, Lord for renewing. 323 00:29:51,673.3333333 --> 00:30:10,993.3333333 Minds and the reminder to us who have heard this and those who have not, that you are the good shepherd Lord, that you, you have green pastures, you have rest for us to, to rest with you. 324 00:30:12,763.3333333 --> 00:30:15,463.3333333 You have freedom in the minds. 325 00:30:16,798.3333333 --> 00:30:19,258.3333333 Because of the focus on you. 326 00:30:19,258.3333333 --> 00:30:31,768.3333333 Lord, for every mind here right now in Jesus' name, I ask you Holy Spirit, to do a miracle in the minds that you would bring forth your truth. 327 00:30:32,278.3333333 --> 00:30:45,538.3333333 That all lies in deceit would cut off right now in the name of Jesus, and that the minds would be renewed to the promises of who you are and the mind of Christ, which you promise for us each to have. 328 00:30:46,738.3333333 --> 00:30:53,38.3333333 Lord, we cannot renew a mind on our own, but through the power of you, holy Spirit, you can. 329 00:30:53,488.3333333 --> 00:30:56,578.3333333 So we lean into you, we trust you. 330 00:30:57,748.3333333 --> 00:31:03,58.3333333 We say yes, renew our minds, and amen. 331 00:31:03,58.3333333 --> 00:31:03,928.3333333 We agree. 332 00:31:05,668.3333333 --> 00:31:09,178.3333333 Lord, I thank you that you are the miracle worker. 333 00:31:11,938.3333333 --> 00:31:15,28.3333333 That you bring forth change. 334 00:31:16,18.3333333 --> 00:31:21,148.3333333 When we think change is impossible, you move in a moment. 335 00:31:21,778.3333333 --> 00:31:24,898.3333333 So we stand on your word and your promises. 336 00:31:25,48.3333333 --> 00:31:27,538.3333333 I thank you that you created every heart. 337 00:31:27,658.3333333 --> 00:31:34,598.3333333 Lord, I thank you for reconciliation to you restoration of all things back to you. 338 00:31:35,543.3333333 --> 00:31:40,913.3333333 The righteousness of you Christ dwelling in and through each and every one. 339 00:31:40,913.3333333 --> 00:31:43,853.3333333 Lord, we stand in the gap for our families. 340 00:31:44,243.3333333 --> 00:31:51,263.3333333 We thank you for restoring souls and bringing your healing that only you can do. 341 00:31:52,733.3333333 --> 00:31:56,513.3333333 Lord, we bless you and we honor you, and we glorify you. 342 00:31:56,513.3333333 --> 00:31:59,723.3333333 We thank you for the greatness of you inside of each of us. 343 00:31:59,723.3333333 --> 00:32:03,953.3333333 Greater is in us than he who is of this world. 344 00:32:05,783.3333333 --> 00:32:09,623.3333333 Lord, I ask you to fill each person with peace. 345 00:32:10,673.3333333 --> 00:32:18,713.3333333 The peace that passes all our own understanding the peace that was left, and a person of you as a gift, and I bind torment. 346 00:32:20,768.3333333 --> 00:32:27,368.3333333 Of destruction in any mind, and I speak forth the promises of you. 347 00:32:28,718.3333333 --> 00:32:38,408.3333333 Jeremiah 29 11, a future and a hope Ephesians three 20 more than we could ever think or imagine you have in store for us. 348 00:32:38,408.3333333 --> 00:32:39,458.3333333 Abundant life. 349 00:32:39,458.3333333 --> 00:32:40,628.3333333 John 10 10. 350 00:32:43,598.3333333 --> 00:32:54,718.3333333 I thank you for covering each with your blood we thank you for this time and for every ear to be hearing your word of love. 351 00:32:55,888.3333333 --> 00:33:06,433.3333333 Love as a good, good father who shepherds his people in Jesus' name, amen.
Hi everyone.
My name is Danielle Robak.
You can learn more about me@daniellerobak.org.
Thank you for listening in.
My intention is for this time to leave you more in love with Jesus and a deeper clarity in your identity in Christ.
Let's get started. 7 00:00:17,429.333333333 --> 00:00:20,459.333333333 So, many of you know, and some of that you don't. 8 00:00:20,459.333333333 --> 00:00:21,749.333333333 That I used to be a horse trainer. 9 00:00:22,604.333333333 --> 00:00:27,664.333333333 And, all of my life, my dream was horses and I got my first horse when I was five. 10 00:00:28,264.333333333 --> 00:00:42,504.333333333 And then as I became an adult, my dream was to own a farm and to teach lessons and to teach people how to ride and how to take care of horses and so many times in dreams, the Lord speaks to me in. 11 00:00:42,924.333333333 --> 00:00:52,644.333333333 Horses, I'll have a horse dream, something related to horses because he's so gracious that he speaks to us in the way that we can understand. 12 00:00:53,784.333333333 --> 00:00:56,864.333333333 And I've been having many horse dreams here lately. 13 00:00:57,214.333333333 --> 00:00:59,284.333333333 And I have had several horses in my life. 14 00:00:59,314.333333333 --> 00:01:04,154.333333333 I have trained many from a baby, never being saddled right on up to being a show horse. 15 00:01:04,544.333333333 --> 00:01:09,164.333333333 And this one particular one that I had, his name was Jimmy. 16 00:01:10,214.333333333 --> 00:01:12,314.333333333 And I would say that Jimmy. 17 00:01:13,244.333333333 --> 00:01:17,624.333333333 Was one of the nicest quality horses that I owned. 18 00:01:18,474.333333333 --> 00:01:25,754.333333333 But when I purchased him, he had already been started trained and he had been trained under intimidation. 19 00:01:26,429.333333333 --> 00:01:36,749.333333333 He had been trained to obey without or understanding, and so he would go along really well and then all of a sudden he would just try to flee because of fear. 20 00:01:37,109.333333333 --> 00:01:41,849.33333333 So he would be going in a perfect gate and then just out of nowhere. 21 00:01:42,434.33333333 --> 00:01:46,994.33333333 He would bolt and bite the bit and try to run off. 22 00:01:47,174.33333333 --> 00:01:52,364.33333333 And so I took a whole entire year where I took him off the show circuit. 23 00:01:52,364.33333333 --> 00:01:53,874.33333333 He was my daughter's horse, Chelsea. 24 00:01:54,354.33333333 --> 00:01:58,164.33333333 And I let nobody else ride him and I retrained him. 25 00:01:59,154.33333333 --> 00:02:16,434.33333333 And I built trust with him and I did things to desensitize him and to make the trust between him and I through my body language and through the way that I worked him in the consistency to build his trust so that he could overcome. 26 00:02:16,764.33333333 --> 00:02:28,734.33333333 This fear so that he would stop running because when he ran, it would get him, it would get him in trouble, it would get him hurt, it would cause anxiety in his life, and it would cause other people to be fearful too. 27 00:02:28,734.33333333 --> 00:02:29,694.33333333 Jimmy came through that. 28 00:02:29,694.33333333 --> 00:02:32,274.33333333 He ended up being an incredible, one of the best show horses. 29 00:02:32,274.33333333 --> 00:02:33,384.33333333 We got past all that. 30 00:02:33,909.33333333 --> 00:02:40,309.33333333 He got over his fear and Chelsea was able to continue showing him very successful and had a great time with him. 31 00:02:40,609.33333333 --> 00:02:55,669.33333333 But in this particular dream, he was in a pasture, a very safe pasture, had beautiful wood fencing, and and in this dream he, he, instead of staying in this pastured era, he broke free. 32 00:02:56,119.33333333 --> 00:03:00,889.33333333 And when he broke free, he ran and he got caught up in barbed wire. 33 00:03:01,159.33333333 --> 00:03:08,29.33333333 So anybody who knows barbed wire, and this is a dream, when it gets tangled in you, it will, it rips you apart. 34 00:03:08,114.33333333 --> 00:03:13,129.33333333 It, it makes you very, um, it, it will completely tear a muscle. 35 00:03:13,129.33333333 --> 00:03:15,289.33333333 It could, you know, do severe damage. 36 00:03:15,379.33333333 --> 00:03:29,454.33333333 And in this dream, Jimmy had all of these cuts all over his neck, his face, his, his chest, his legs, because he ran out of the safe pasture that was provided for him. 37 00:03:31,399.33333333 --> 00:03:38,594.33333333 And after I had that dream, the Lord began to speak to me about how he puts us in safe pastures. 38 00:03:40,69.33333333 --> 00:03:54,489.33333333 How he makes boundary lines that are pleasant, that keep us in safety and that he is the good shepherd and he talks about us being within green pastures with, within being in safe places. 39 00:03:54,489.33333333 --> 00:04:01,929.33333333 In Psalm 23, David talks about it and he talks about this as being a good shepherd in John 10, and, um, throughout all of chapter 10. 40 00:04:02,714.33333333 --> 00:04:06,774.33333333 Because when you have a dream, you don't always have interpretation. 41 00:04:06,834.33333333 --> 00:04:07,554.33333333 Interpretation. 42 00:04:07,554.33333333 --> 00:04:24,924.33333333 Right away you might get a little glimpse and then as you grow an understanding of who you are in your identity or pressing into the Lord, he might give you another glimpse of it, and a dream from him is one that will continue to be life to you. 43 00:04:25,454.33333333 --> 00:04:30,644.33333333 It will continue to speak to you for all the days of your life sometimes. 44 00:04:30,644.33333333 --> 00:04:32,414.33333333 And so that's like the living word of God. 45 00:04:32,414.33333333 --> 00:04:34,34.33333333 It's living, it's active. 46 00:04:34,34.33333333 --> 00:04:35,414.33333333 It's a double-edged sword. 47 00:04:35,624.33333333 --> 00:04:44,504.33333333 It penetrates to our hearts, and that's why the Lord says he instructs us to read His word, because it will keep you in safe places. 48 00:04:44,654.33333333 --> 00:04:52,454.33333333 It will keep you from being deceived and pulled into the ways of the enemy because through the word that is living and active. 49 00:04:52,784.33333333 --> 00:04:59,474.33333333 It cuts through the heart and gets right to the place that it needs to go into your heart. 50 00:04:59,474.33333333 --> 00:05:03,584.33333333 And so being a good shepherd, as Jesus says that he is. 51 00:05:03,644.33333333 --> 00:05:05,774.33333333 It is not to keep you restrained. 52 00:05:05,774.33333333 --> 00:05:09,434.33333333 It's not to be control over you, it's to keep you in a. 53 00:05:09,954.33333333 --> 00:05:30,354.33333333 Place so that as you feed, as you grow, as you live your life, as you are in relationships, in school, in ministry, in workforce, in church, in a family, in marriage, as a mother, as a daughter, as a sister, whatever it might be, that you are kept in safe places. 54 00:05:30,564.33333333 --> 00:05:36,324.33333333 And when we decide to step out of the boundaries that he has given us. 55 00:05:37,484.33333333 --> 00:05:42,464.33333333 We have then stepped into our own will and we are open game. 56 00:05:43,544.33333333 --> 00:05:46,934.33333333 So that's why there are so many things to deceive us. 57 00:05:46,994.33333333 --> 00:05:48,164.33333333 There are so many things. 58 00:05:48,164.33333333 --> 00:05:55,964.33333333 There are TV shows, there are movies, there are people's voices, there are books, there are crystals, there are, you know, Toro cards. 59 00:05:56,324.33333333 --> 00:06:05,24.33333333 There are, there are things that are in the demonic that are to pull us out of the safe ways because what it does is it opens up a door. 60 00:06:06,119.33333333 --> 00:06:14,309.33333333 To the devil, it opens up a door to the enemy and you might not recognize it at first. 61 00:06:14,369.33333333 --> 00:06:15,239.33333333 You might not. 62 00:06:15,239.33333333 --> 00:06:16,559.33333333 You might say, this is great. 63 00:06:16,679.33333333 --> 00:06:17,489.33333333 I feel great. 64 00:06:17,489.33333333 --> 00:06:18,539.33333333 This is so fun. 65 00:06:18,539.33333333 --> 00:06:24,29.33333333 I'm doing wonderful until, because the enemy is sneaky. 66 00:06:24,479.33333333 --> 00:06:31,259.33333333 And he tries to get you in a snare and the word says that he looks to snare you in. 67 00:06:31,259.33333333 --> 00:06:37,199.33333333 I believe it's in Timothy and that is what reminds me of those barbs, the barbed wire. 68 00:06:37,439.33333333 --> 00:06:40,739.33333333 It's a snare to beat and cut you up. 69 00:06:40,739.33333333 --> 00:06:46,589.33333333 It's a snare to get into you so that you're pulled little by little into the enemy's ways. 70 00:06:48,104.33333333 --> 00:07:04,674.33333333 So that you're clouded in your judgment, you're clouded in your eyesight, you're clouded in the filter of what you are hearing, and he does it little by little to control you, to empower himself in me and in you. 71 00:07:05,94.33333333 --> 00:07:08,124.33333333 And so Jesus talks to us about being the good shepherd. 72 00:07:08,214.33333333 --> 00:07:15,114.33333333 He talks to us about how he takes us, and he puts us in these places to keep us safe. 73 00:07:15,114.33333333 --> 00:07:15,714.33333333 And so. 74 00:07:16,449.33333333 --> 00:07:25,329.33333333 I'm gonna read John 10, which is one of my absolute favorites, chapters in the Word of God. 75 00:07:25,959.33333333 --> 00:07:31,389.33333333 And um, it says, it says, Jesus is the good shepherd. 76 00:07:32,169.33333333 --> 00:07:34,599.33333333 Jesus shepherds the people. 77 00:07:35,169.33333333 --> 00:07:45,309.33333333 John 10, he says, most assuredly I say to you, he who does not enter the sheet fold by the door, but climbs up some other way. 78 00:07:45,639.33333333 --> 00:07:47,949.33333333 The same is a thief and a robber. 79 00:07:48,129.33333333 --> 00:07:49,359.33333333 So the sheep folds. 80 00:07:49,869.33333333 --> 00:07:54,189.33333333 Back in the day, the shepherds tended the sheep, and so the sheep fold. 81 00:07:54,189.33333333 --> 00:07:55,179.33333333 Just put yourself in there. 82 00:07:55,179.33333333 --> 00:07:55,989.33333333 You are a sheep. 83 00:07:56,679.33333333 --> 00:07:57,609.33333333 I am a sheep. 84 00:07:58,89.33333333 --> 00:08:02,829.33333333 Put yourself in the sheep fold any other way than through the door of Jesus. 85 00:08:02,829.33333333 --> 00:08:06,939.33333333 Christ is a thief into your life, and it comes to rob. 86 00:08:06,939.33333333 --> 00:08:07,839.33333333 Steal and destroy. 87 00:08:07,959.33333333 --> 00:08:08,559.33333333 That's all. 88 00:08:09,174.33333333 --> 00:08:12,54.33333333 That is the devil's job, and he is a very good at it. 89 00:08:12,54.33333333 --> 00:08:14,634.33333333 And he will do whatever he can to do that. 90 00:08:14,634.33333333 --> 00:08:26,424.33333333 And that's why the identity in Christ, knowing who we are, and the word and the truth is so incredibly important to keep you and I safe because that's what the Good Shepherd does. 91 00:08:26,484.33333333 --> 00:08:30,834.33333333 He keeps us safe, he keeps us protected, and so. 92 00:08:31,509.33333333 --> 00:08:42,639.33333333 But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep To him, the doorkeeper opens and the sheep hear his voice. 93 00:08:42,639.33333333 --> 00:08:46,899.33333333 He calls his own sheep by name and he leads them out. 94 00:08:47,49.33333333 --> 00:08:51,99.33333333 And when he brings out his his own sheep, he goes before them. 95 00:08:51,309.33333333 --> 00:08:52,899.33333333 And the sheep follow him. 96 00:08:52,899.33333333 --> 00:08:58,269.33333333 For they know his voice, yet they will by no means follow a stranger. 97 00:08:58,899.33333333 --> 00:09:00,99.33333333 But will flee from him. 98 00:09:00,99.33333333 --> 00:09:03,969.33333333 Who is the stranger? The stranger is the enemy. 99 00:09:04,599.33333333 --> 00:09:06,939.33333333 There are, there's two. 100 00:09:07,299.33333333 --> 00:09:08,499.33333333 There's two kingdoms. 101 00:09:08,499.33333333 --> 00:09:12,9.33333333 There's the kingdom of God and there's the kingdom of the enemy. 102 00:09:13,339.33333333 --> 00:09:16,159.33333333 Ephesians says, we don't fight against flesh and blood. 103 00:09:16,849.33333333 --> 00:09:18,799.33333333 We're not fighting against a person. 104 00:09:18,829.33333333 --> 00:09:24,49.33333333 We're fighting against a spiritual battle to gain the territory that Jesus has given us. 105 00:09:24,964.33333333 --> 00:09:37,84.33333333 And we're in a battle, whether you realize it or not, but Jesus in his equipping of who we are and our identity, gives us the power and the authority to stand against the enemy. 106 00:09:38,524.33333333 --> 00:09:47,824.33333333 That's why the enemy wants you to crumble and to get under the weight of all the things of who he is, so that you don't know who you are and you cannot stand. 107 00:09:49,414.33333333 --> 00:09:53,594.33333333 So he can snare you in like a barb wire would wrap you. 108 00:09:54,394.33333333 --> 00:09:57,574.33333333 And cut you up and bring and bring harm to you. 109 00:09:58,54.33333333 --> 00:09:59,704.33333333 So they will no means foul them. 110 00:09:59,704.33333333 --> 00:10:04,984.33333333 Well, how do we know the voice of the sheep or the shepherd? We know our shepherd. 111 00:10:05,464.33333333 --> 00:10:09,304.33333333 How do we know that? Well, the pro, we talked last week about the promises of God. 112 00:10:09,304.33333333 --> 00:10:11,644.33333333 Every one of them are his voice. 113 00:10:11,974.33333333 --> 00:10:20,104.33333333 Every one of them are the one are is what? Is what gets us in tune to his voice and how do we do that? We spend time with him. 114 00:10:21,109.33333333 --> 00:10:31,849.33333333 We spend time in the word because he wants you to have the best, most fulfilled, joy-filled, incredible adventurous life that you could ever imagine. 115 00:10:32,119.33333333 --> 00:10:36,599.33333333 If anybody tells you that the walk with Christ is boring, they have not walked with him. 116 00:10:39,379.33333333 --> 00:10:43,579.33333333 Because every day he gives you fresh manna every day. 117 00:10:43,579.33333333 --> 00:10:49,339.33333333 He gives you understanding and revelation and leads you on the path to righteousness every single day. 118 00:10:49,399.33333333 --> 00:11:00,859.33333333 He's, he's helping your heart to understand greater who he is, and that is, that is an adventure that you were created to live here on earth because his spirit is inside of you. 119 00:11:00,859.33333333 --> 00:11:04,854.33333333 His DNA dwells in you, and he created you to be in his image. 120 00:11:06,34.33333333 --> 00:11:08,824.33333333 And so inside of you and me, think about this. 121 00:11:08,824.33333333 --> 00:11:12,964.33333333 I think about when I was a little girl and I didn't know who Jesus was. 122 00:11:12,964.33333333 --> 00:11:16,54.33333333 I had never heard anything about Jesus in my life. 123 00:11:16,654.33333333 --> 00:11:18,184.33333333 I heard God was love. 124 00:11:18,874.33333333 --> 00:11:25,834.33333333 My father was Jewish, my mother was Protestant, and there was nothing talked about anything other than my grandmother telling me God is love. 125 00:11:26,74.33333333 --> 00:11:30,479.33333333 However, inside of my hearts I would talk to God. 126 00:11:31,574.33333333 --> 00:11:32,714.33333333 Inside of my heart. 127 00:11:32,714.33333333 --> 00:11:37,184.33333333 When I would go to sleep, I would say, please tell Grandpa who was in, I believed to be in heaven. 128 00:11:37,454.33333333 --> 00:11:44,204.33333333 Please tell him that I love him, and I'd have this communication with him in this little tiny body. 129 00:11:44,294.33333333 --> 00:11:48,134.33333333 And then as I grew old enough to ride my bike and we lived in a little one. 130 00:11:48,579.33333333 --> 00:12:08,229.33333333 Light town that had one church, I would ride my bike to the church because inside of me there was this, this groaning or this desire to know more like, where did I come from? Who am I, what is this inside of me? Because it wasn't because anybody had spoke that to me. 131 00:12:08,559.33333333 --> 00:12:11,739.33333333 It's because he created you and me. 132 00:12:12,594.33333333 --> 00:12:15,924.33333333 And so this desire can only be fulfilled by him. 133 00:12:15,924.33333333 --> 00:12:17,844.33333333 There's nobody else that can fulfill it. 134 00:12:18,84.33333333 --> 00:12:19,284.33333333 There's no man. 135 00:12:19,554.33333333 --> 00:12:23,424.33333333 There's no woman, there's no mother, there's no father. 136 00:12:23,874.33333333 --> 00:12:26,334.33333333 There's no work, there's no money. 137 00:12:26,724.33333333 --> 00:12:28,404.33333333 Nothing else can fill that. 138 00:12:28,404.33333333 --> 00:12:37,729.33333333 You make it temporary feeling of, oh, I feel good, but it will not last because he wants to build in you who he is. 139 00:12:38,784.33333333 --> 00:12:49,204.33333333 And so everything looking back that I have been through, which I have been through much, I can look back now and see how you've heard this. 140 00:12:49,204.33333333 --> 00:12:50,104.33333333 I'm sure you've heard this. 141 00:12:50,104.33333333 --> 00:12:51,844.33333333 Nothing is wasted in the Lord. 142 00:12:52,414.33333333 --> 00:13:00,604.33333333 Right? It almost is, is like this, this phrase that's just glossed over that is, you know, well, he, nothing wa nothing wasted. 143 00:13:00,604.33333333 --> 00:13:21,469.33333333 But the truth is, is when you can look back? And you can see how through the moments and through the time, how he was with you and how he held you up and how maybe he kept you when you thought life needed life was not worth living anymore, and then you made it through another day. 144 00:13:21,499.33333333 --> 00:13:25,609.33333333 Well, how did that happen? He did it. 145 00:13:26,569.33333333 --> 00:13:31,129.33333333 So even though I did not know him, and those times of desperation. 146 00:13:31,804.33333333 --> 00:13:44,44.33333333 When I was calling out for help of some sort, help through a letter, help through a poem, help through a crying of my heart, help through acting out, help through, you know, yelling at a teacher, help me. 147 00:13:45,754.33333333 --> 00:14:01,9.33333333 The Lord was there and I can look back now on all the difficulties, all the troubles, all the desperation, and see how he held my hand, and he kept me here. 148 00:14:01,624.33333333 --> 00:14:05,584.33333333 He did not let me give my life over to the enemy. 149 00:14:06,784.33333333 --> 00:14:10,264.33333333 Why? Because he has a destiny and a purpose. 150 00:14:12,374.33333333 --> 00:14:20,529.33333333 Because he has a desire for you to be here and for you to live out the life that he has called for you to live. 151 00:14:21,554.33333333 --> 00:14:25,424.33333333 So that he can shepherd you and he can nurture you and he can take care of you. 152 00:14:25,784.33333333 --> 00:14:28,604.33333333 And times, times can be very difficult. 153 00:14:28,604.33333333 --> 00:14:31,64.33333333 Emotions are very fickle. 154 00:14:31,114.33333333 --> 00:14:40,564.33333333 The emotions of our heart, if they are not filtered through the spirit of God, if they're not filtered through the Holy Spirit. 155 00:14:41,104.33333333 --> 00:14:47,494.33333333 Then they're going to be emotions that dictate and control you, and they're not gonna lead you into a place of peace. 156 00:14:47,674.33333333 --> 00:14:48,694.33333333 They never will. 157 00:14:48,754.33333333 --> 00:14:56,434.33333333 They never can because they're carnal and he tells us, I'm a spirit, you're a spirit, I'm a spirit being. 158 00:14:56,434.33333333 --> 00:15:03,394.33333333 And that we, that those that live by the spirit of God, peace and life. 159 00:15:03,964.33333333 --> 00:15:09,634.33333333 Those that connect with the spirit of the enemy or the, the ways of the carnality, the enemy, the flesh. 160 00:15:10,114.33333333 --> 00:15:24,644.33333333 The old man before you were saved are always going to lead to death, death to who you are, which is hopelessness, discouragement, failure, rejection, abandonment. 161 00:15:25,244.33333333 --> 00:15:29,654.33333333 That is what, those are the ways that the enemy wants us to focus and fix our ways on. 162 00:15:29,864.33333333 --> 00:15:30,584.33333333 But God says. 163 00:15:31,889.33333333 --> 00:15:33,509.33333333 Focus on the good reports. 164 00:15:33,509.33333333 --> 00:15:40,109.33333333 How many of us have said, I know in the last two weeks, I said I choose to focus on the good report of you, Jesus. 165 00:15:40,499.33333333 --> 00:15:43,769.33333333 I choose to not focus on what I'm seeing and what I'm hearing. 166 00:15:44,279.33333333 --> 00:15:49,679.33333333 I choose to focus that you are the redeemer, you are the restorer, and you will fulfill your promises. 167 00:15:49,889.33333333 --> 00:15:54,569.33333333 I focus to set my heart on that because if I focus on anything else. 168 00:15:56,789.33333333 --> 00:16:10,989.33333333 I'm giving my territory, I'm giving my ground that I have came through over to the enemy because I've already came through that when I gave my life to Jesus, how when he died on the cross, I gave my life to him. 169 00:16:11,19.33333333 --> 00:16:18,369.33333333 And so in that, now we're on the process of living a life and how to stay abiding in him. 170 00:16:19,899.33333333 --> 00:16:24,339.33333333 So everything that he allows for us to go through and walk through is because he trusts you. 171 00:16:25,839.33333333 --> 00:16:30,579.33333333 Well, that sounds crazy, but it's true. 172 00:16:31,359.33333333 --> 00:16:40,689.3333333 He trusts that the him and you is big enough to accomplish the things that he started. 173 00:16:40,749.3333333 --> 00:16:44,89.3333333 He trusts that when he allows you to walk through what you do. 174 00:16:44,754.3333333 --> 00:16:56,334.3333333 Your character is going to be fortified and, and solidified in, be in him because you are going to lean into him for help and for understanding. 175 00:16:57,834.3333333 --> 00:17:02,544.3333333 David, you know, there was, there was how many brothers? Seven or eight brothers. 176 00:17:02,544.3333333 --> 00:17:10,674.3333333 There's two different, there's there's many brothers and Samuel came to anoint the next king. 177 00:17:11,634.3333333 --> 00:17:18,114.3333333 And in First Samuel, it goes through all the different brothers, and he is like, Nope, nope. 178 00:17:18,144.3333333 --> 00:17:29,4.3333333 Aren't there any others? He came with his oil in his horn filled, ready to anoint and just said, well, there's one more. 179 00:17:29,814.3333333 --> 00:17:34,764.3333333 He's, I believe the youngest, and he's out in the field tending the sheep. 180 00:17:35,664.3333333 --> 00:17:36,204.3333333 Go get him. 181 00:17:38,4.3333333 --> 00:17:40,524.3333333 He goes and gets him and immediately. 182 00:17:41,754.3333333 --> 00:17:44,784.3333333 It says that he was, you know, strong in stature. 183 00:17:44,784.3333333 --> 00:17:51,684.3333333 He was handsome in looks, but it talks about how, you know, and he was the youngest. 184 00:17:51,684.3333333 --> 00:17:52,854.3333333 He was out the shepherds. 185 00:17:53,424.3333333 --> 00:18:00,384.3333333 And then it, it, it talks about how, and I love this because this is a reminder to all of of us. 186 00:18:01,249.3333333 --> 00:18:04,914.3333333 He says, God doesn't look at the outward appearance of man. 187 00:18:06,384.3333333 --> 00:18:11,784.3333333 God looks at your heart, and here's the most amazing thing, is he knows what he put in your heart. 188 00:18:13,284.3333333 --> 00:18:17,214.3333333 He knows how he created you to be and who you he created you to be. 189 00:18:17,364.3333333 --> 00:18:22,914.3333333 He knows the call and the destiny that he put in your life before you ever were born. 190 00:18:24,699.3333333 --> 00:18:30,414.3333333 So no matter what is going on in the hearts, he knows who he created you to be. 191 00:18:31,614.3333333 --> 00:18:34,224.3333333 And so he, he says he's the one. 192 00:18:35,454.3333333 --> 00:18:37,374.3333333 And he anoints him to be king. 193 00:18:38,724.3333333 --> 00:18:43,824.3333333 And then it says, from the time that David was anointed and he send back out to the sheep, go tend to those sheep. 194 00:18:44,364.3333333 --> 00:18:48,504.3333333 Why? Because David is an example in a representation of Jesus. 195 00:18:49,164.3333333 --> 00:18:54,54.3333333 David has talked about as, as much as, as Jesus has talked about. 196 00:18:54,204.3333333 --> 00:18:57,984.3333333 Someone says that, I heard that they said that David was a man of few words. 197 00:18:57,984.3333333 --> 00:19:02,364.3333333 Well, the whole Psalms is written about David crying out his heart. 198 00:19:02,934.3333333 --> 00:19:05,934.3333333 In praise and worship and desperation. 199 00:19:06,804.3333333 --> 00:19:12,234.3333333 Like David, just when you read it, there's something through David's life that we can all identify. 200 00:19:12,624.3333333 --> 00:19:14,64.3333333 We can pick out a psalm. 201 00:19:14,394.3333333 --> 00:19:16,374.3333333 We're gonna be like, that's my Psalm for today. 202 00:19:16,554.3333333 --> 00:19:18,534.3333333 That's him talking to me today. 203 00:19:18,654.3333333 --> 00:19:19,374.3333333 Oh, yes. 204 00:19:19,374.3333333 --> 00:19:22,224.3333333 I'm praising you, God, for your marvelous and wonderful, wonderful works. 205 00:19:22,224.3333333 --> 00:19:27,174.3333333 Oh God, rescue me outta the pits, like throughout David's life. 206 00:19:27,879.3333333 --> 00:19:32,619.3333333 We see how all of us can be put into that place. 207 00:19:32,619.3333333 --> 00:19:34,629.3333333 And David was a shepherd. 208 00:19:35,289.3333333 --> 00:19:38,19.3333333 What did he do? He was out there and he was tending the sheep. 209 00:19:39,639.3333333 --> 00:19:52,929.3333333 The sheep, keeping them from getting the things into their ears, putting their heads, anointed their heads with oil, so the bugs didn't go into their ears and get into their brains because you know what happened then? The sheep through the torment. 210 00:19:53,229.3333333 --> 00:19:55,599.3333333 Think about the parallel, the torment. 211 00:19:56,229.3333333 --> 00:20:01,539.3333333 Would bang their heads against a rock and kill themselves. 212 00:20:03,279.3333333 --> 00:20:09,729.3333333 So, so he talks about, in Psalm 23, I will anoint your head with oil. 213 00:20:10,479.3333333 --> 00:20:20,829.3333333 Why? Because the enemy tries to get into your brain, into your mind, and torment you. 214 00:20:21,684.3333333 --> 00:20:29,814.3333333 To the point where you think you cannot go on another day, but the devil is a liar. 215 00:20:29,964.3333333 --> 00:20:38,964.3333333 Jesus came to be the final atonement to go to that cross and be nailed so that we don't have to live our life in torment anymore. 216 00:20:39,144.3333333 --> 00:20:42,774.3333333 David, the presence of God had to come upon him Now. 217 00:20:43,419.3333333 --> 00:20:44,829.3333333 Holy Spirit's in us. 218 00:20:45,159.3333333 --> 00:20:47,799.3333333 If you are a believer in Christ, he dwells in us. 219 00:20:47,799.3333333 --> 00:20:52,89.3333333 So we don't have to wait for the presence of God to fall on us. 220 00:20:52,209.3333333 --> 00:20:57,579.3333333 We now can access the living God in us at any time, at any moment, in any place. 221 00:20:57,699.3333333 --> 00:21:03,429.3333333 We are the dwelling place of God where he is purely and holy in us. 222 00:21:03,759.3333333 --> 00:21:08,289.3333333 Whether you are or aren't, it does not change who he is. 223 00:21:09,489.3333333 --> 00:21:14,139.3333333 If it did, then, then, then we would be, we would be the ones controlling things. 224 00:21:14,139.3333333 --> 00:21:15,459.3333333 And he is a sovereign god. 225 00:21:15,519.3333333 --> 00:21:21,579.3333333 He is sovereign, so he talks about anointing the head. 226 00:21:21,579.3333333 --> 00:21:24,279.3333333 He's out in the field taking care of the sheep. 227 00:21:24,309.3333333 --> 00:21:27,249.3333333 This is what Jesus wants to do with you and me. 228 00:21:27,729.3333333 --> 00:21:29,229.3333333 He wants to take care of us. 229 00:21:29,499.3333333 --> 00:21:31,659.3333333 He wants to put us in green pasture. 230 00:21:31,749.3333333 --> 00:21:36,459.3333333 He wants to take us away from where the weeds are growing and there's fungus in the ground. 231 00:21:36,579.3333333 --> 00:21:52,209.3333333 He wants to take us to a clear drink, not where there is a drink, where there is water that is full of toxins, that is damaged, that will make you sick like the Good Shepherd David out in the field. 232 00:21:52,269.3333333 --> 00:21:53,199.3333333 Just him and God. 233 00:21:54,459.3333333 --> 00:21:59,379.3333333 When there's a wilderness, don't look at a wilderness as a bad place to be. 234 00:22:01,239.3333333 --> 00:22:02,409.3333333 Don't call. 235 00:22:02,409.3333333 --> 00:22:04,419.3333333 Try to claw yourself out of the wilderness. 236 00:22:04,419.3333333 --> 00:22:12,789.3333333 When God wants to teach you who you are in the wilderness, he wants to speak tenderly to you in the wilderness as he talks about in Song, song of Songs. 237 00:22:13,809.3333333 --> 00:22:21,9.3333333 And in that place, he's gonna teach you how to take out the lion, how to take out the bear. 238 00:22:22,584.3333333 --> 00:22:48,704.3333333 And then he's gonna send you forth to take the Goliath, the snake, the giants in your life, because you and I being trained for the war, that is to live in this earth, on this ground, and the secret place with God, not in trepidation, not in fear and fret. 239 00:22:49,874.3333333 --> 00:23:08,364.3333333 But in a pillar of who you are in Christ and one that stands firm and found, and the foundation of the rock of Jesus so that when you're sent forth, you know, David was sent forth to go take food to his brothers who fought in the Israel army. 240 00:23:09,414.3333333 --> 00:23:16,914.3333333 He was still with the sheep and he was, he brought food out to his, his brothers to eat. 241 00:23:17,994.3333333 --> 00:23:36,204.3333333 And in that time he heard the Philistines, you know, the Philistines were at one side, the Israelites were at the other side, and there was a taunting from Goliath, the Philistine against the others. 242 00:23:36,654.3333333 --> 00:23:38,904.3333333 And David, when he came just to bring food. 243 00:23:40,344.3333333 --> 00:23:42,684.3333333 I mean, think about this, how you can be put in the right place. 244 00:23:43,974.3333333 --> 00:23:47,694.3333333 At just a moment because God was with him all throughout Samuel. 245 00:23:47,814.3333333 --> 00:23:48,714.3333333 God was with him. 246 00:23:48,864.3333333 --> 00:23:49,794.3333333 God was with him. 247 00:23:49,884.3333333 --> 00:23:50,874.3333333 God was with him. 248 00:23:52,344.3333333 --> 00:23:54,54.3333333 So he goes out to take food. 249 00:23:55,224.3333333 --> 00:24:11,544.3333333 He hears this Philistine mocking his God, and he says, who is this Philistine? And he says to Saul, let me, let me go against him. 250 00:24:12,894.3333333 --> 00:24:13,854.3333333 You're just a boy. 251 00:24:14,364.3333333 --> 00:24:15,474.3333333 Oh, you can't do that. 252 00:24:15,474.3333333 --> 00:24:16,344.3333333 You're a shepherd. 253 00:24:17,664.3333333 --> 00:24:18,504.3333333 It didn't matter. 254 00:24:19,134.3333333 --> 00:24:20,964.3333333 So then he tries to put his armor on him. 255 00:24:21,54.3333333 --> 00:24:23,214.3333333 David puts it on and says, this stuff doesn't fit. 256 00:24:23,214.3333333 --> 00:24:24,564.3333333 I can't fight with this. 257 00:24:24,954.3333333 --> 00:24:26,64.3333333 Takes it off. 258 00:24:28,404.3333333 --> 00:24:29,304.3333333 And he picks up. 259 00:24:29,304.3333333 --> 00:24:33,294.3333333 He's a skilled master with the slingshot. 260 00:24:33,894.3333333 --> 00:24:38,184.3333333 It says they could split a hair and he picks up the slingshot. 261 00:24:39,819.3333333 --> 00:24:43,269.3333333 And he hits Goliath in the right in the head and he dies. 262 00:24:43,299.3333333 --> 00:25:03,909.3333333 And what I love most about this story is not only the preparation for what God will put you forth to do because he is preparing you, is that David goes over to Goliath, cuts his head off with his own sword and takes it back to show. 263 00:25:05,109.3333333 --> 00:25:05,919.3333333 What he's done. 264 00:25:05,919.3333333 --> 00:25:07,209.3333333 He stands on his neck. 265 00:25:07,209.3333333 --> 00:25:08,109.3333333 He cuts off this head. 266 00:25:08,289.3333333 --> 00:25:09,219.3333333 Think about this. 267 00:25:09,339.3333333 --> 00:25:17,109.3333333 Why does God tell us these stories to encourage you and me that we are the Davids, we are the ones that have been called for. 268 00:25:17,109.3333333 --> 00:25:33,309.3333333 To take the territory, to take the giant out and to refuse to be in fear about what anybody says, how and why? Well, you will when you know who your God is. 269 00:25:35,124.3333333 --> 00:25:35,634.3333333 You won't. 270 00:25:35,634.3333333 --> 00:25:37,74.3333333 If you just know about your God. 271 00:25:38,754.3333333 --> 00:25:39,714.3333333 It's the truth. 272 00:25:39,714.3333333 --> 00:25:40,914.3333333 It's knowing the truth. 273 00:25:40,914.3333333 --> 00:25:42,714.3333333 Who is truth? He's a person. 274 00:25:43,374.3333333 --> 00:25:45,474.3333333 It's not just knowing about the truth. 275 00:25:45,504.3333333 --> 00:25:47,214.3333333 The stories of David and Goliath. 276 00:25:47,214.3333333 --> 00:25:49,764.3333333 It's knowing him who is truth. 277 00:25:50,334.3333333 --> 00:26:02,754.3333333 That sets you free to fulfill everything that God has called you to fulfill, to take out the giant, to take the territory or the region to take your home. 278 00:26:04,974.3333333 --> 00:26:08,664.3333333 For the glory of God, for the goodness of God. 279 00:26:10,914.3333333 --> 00:26:12,774.3333333 That then saved a nation. 280 00:26:14,484.3333333 --> 00:26:18,444.3333333 I'll say this, till the day I die, God calls one in the family. 281 00:26:19,644.3333333 --> 00:26:32,334.3333333 He stirs up their hearts through the Holy Spirit, the power of the Holy Spirit to want more, to refuse to settle for complacent Christianity. 282 00:26:33,639.3333333 --> 00:26:46,929.3333333 Who refuses to be okay with just knowing of the word instead of knowing him, and that one gets set on fire and. 283 00:26:47,488.3333333 --> 00:26:56,758.3333333 Passion for the Lord and they begin to live their life out in a lifestyle that brings honor and glory to Jesus. 284 00:26:56,938.3333333 --> 00:27:03,448.3333333 That reveals the hope of him being alive and present that transforms our hearts. 285 00:27:03,898.3333333 --> 00:27:15,958.3333333 That was hold cold and hard because they are until we have him in there and he brings this heart forth to now be the, the a creation of him created. 286 00:27:16,18.3333333 --> 00:27:22,198.3333333 It that loves and honors and lives their life with him being first. 287 00:27:23,758.3333333 --> 00:27:36,268.3333333 So why does the enemy come so hard? Because if he can stop you, he may be able to stop a whole family, a whole region, a territory. 288 00:27:39,278.3333333 --> 00:27:41,918.3333333 I'm boasting in the Lord of what he's done in my family. 289 00:27:43,253.3333333 --> 00:27:46,313.3333333 Would we have lived a good life? Yes, I believe so. 290 00:27:47,813.3333333 --> 00:27:53,513.3333333 Would we have lived the best abundant life? No, because there's only one way to do that. 291 00:27:53,603.3333333 --> 00:27:54,563.3333333 There's only one way. 292 00:27:55,253.3333333 --> 00:27:56,303.3333333 And he is the door. 293 00:27:57,113.3333333 --> 00:27:58,433.3333333 He is the doorkeeper. 294 00:27:58,493.3333333 --> 00:28:01,583.3333333 And we can only come through one way for that life. 295 00:28:01,673.3333333 --> 00:28:02,483.3333333 Only one. 296 00:28:02,603.3333333 --> 00:28:08,418.3333333 And it's through the door of his heart, and that's the first miracle that you will experience. 297 00:28:09,713.3333333 --> 00:28:12,983.3333333 Because when you give your life to the Lord, you didn't do it alone. 298 00:28:13,823.3333333 --> 00:28:26,543.3333333 The Holy Spirit in you is the one who drew you to him by just a little mustard seed of faith thinking, well, maybe there's more. 299 00:28:26,543.3333333 --> 00:28:27,113.3333333 Maybe. 300 00:28:27,383.3333333 --> 00:28:29,123.3333333 Maybe I just don't wanna go to hell. 301 00:28:30,803.3333333 --> 00:28:31,553.3333333 That's why I did. 302 00:28:31,553.3333333 --> 00:28:33,893.3333333 It didn't matter. 303 00:28:33,953.3333333 --> 00:28:34,823.3333333 That's all he needed. 304 00:28:35,723.3333333 --> 00:28:37,463.3333333 I wanna live in heaven. 305 00:28:38,63.3333333 --> 00:28:38,933.3333333 Eternal life. 306 00:28:38,933.3333333 --> 00:28:39,593.3333333 Yeah. 307 00:28:40,13.3333333 --> 00:28:43,313.3333333 If I can go on living instead of being the ground somewhere. 308 00:28:43,343.3333333 --> 00:28:43,913.3333333 Yeah. 309 00:28:44,753.3333333 --> 00:28:49,463.3333333 If I can be with my loved ones and live a life forever and ever, of course. 310 00:28:49,463.3333333 --> 00:28:50,993.3333333 Why wouldn't I wanna do that? Yes. 311 00:28:50,993.3333333 --> 00:28:51,833.3333333 Sign me up. 312 00:28:54,83.3333333 --> 00:29:01,103.3333333 And then he has taken my little ordinary life with my Yes. 313 00:29:01,523.3333333 --> 00:29:03,23.3333333 With your Yes. 314 00:29:03,293.3333333 --> 00:29:05,573.3333333 And he's making your life extraordinary. 315 00:29:06,248.3333333 --> 00:29:18,898.3333333 Extra ordinary, and so I thank you Lord, that Holy Spirit, you are the one apart from you. 316 00:29:18,898.3333333 --> 00:29:20,848.3333333 We can nothing. 317 00:29:20,848.3333333 --> 00:29:22,708.3333333 I trust you. 318 00:29:23,8.3333333 --> 00:29:23,878.3333333 Holy Spirit. 319 00:29:26,23.3333333 --> 00:29:33,163.3333333 To touch hearts, to break down walls, to release hope. 320 00:29:33,193.3333333 --> 00:29:38,743.3333333 Even a glimmer of hope that maybe things can be different. 321 00:29:40,243.3333333 --> 00:29:44,713.3333333 Maybe Jesus really can do something in my life. 322 00:29:45,138.3333333 --> 00:29:51,133.3333333 I thank you, Lord for renewing. 323 00:29:51,673.3333333 --> 00:30:10,993.3333333 Minds and the reminder to us who have heard this and those who have not, that you are the good shepherd Lord, that you, you have green pastures, you have rest for us to, to rest with you. 324 00:30:12,763.3333333 --> 00:30:15,463.3333333 You have freedom in the minds. 325 00:30:16,798.3333333 --> 00:30:19,258.3333333 Because of the focus on you. 326 00:30:19,258.3333333 --> 00:30:31,768.3333333 Lord, for every mind here right now in Jesus' name, I ask you Holy Spirit, to do a miracle in the minds that you would bring forth your truth. 327 00:30:32,278.3333333 --> 00:30:45,538.3333333 That all lies in deceit would cut off right now in the name of Jesus, and that the minds would be renewed to the promises of who you are and the mind of Christ, which you promise for us each to have. 328 00:30:46,738.3333333 --> 00:30:53,38.3333333 Lord, we cannot renew a mind on our own, but through the power of you, holy Spirit, you can. 329 00:30:53,488.3333333 --> 00:30:56,578.3333333 So we lean into you, we trust you. 330 00:30:57,748.3333333 --> 00:31:03,58.3333333 We say yes, renew our minds, and amen. 331 00:31:03,58.3333333 --> 00:31:03,928.3333333 We agree. 332 00:31:05,668.3333333 --> 00:31:09,178.3333333 Lord, I thank you that you are the miracle worker. 333 00:31:11,938.3333333 --> 00:31:15,28.3333333 That you bring forth change. 334 00:31:16,18.3333333 --> 00:31:21,148.3333333 When we think change is impossible, you move in a moment. 335 00:31:21,778.3333333 --> 00:31:24,898.3333333 So we stand on your word and your promises. 336 00:31:25,48.3333333 --> 00:31:27,538.3333333 I thank you that you created every heart. 337 00:31:27,658.3333333 --> 00:31:34,598.3333333 Lord, I thank you for reconciliation to you restoration of all things back to you. 338 00:31:35,543.3333333 --> 00:31:40,913.3333333 The righteousness of you Christ dwelling in and through each and every one. 339 00:31:40,913.3333333 --> 00:31:43,853.3333333 Lord, we stand in the gap for our families. 340 00:31:44,243.3333333 --> 00:31:51,263.3333333 We thank you for restoring souls and bringing your healing that only you can do. 341 00:31:52,733.3333333 --> 00:31:56,513.3333333 Lord, we bless you and we honor you, and we glorify you. 342 00:31:56,513.3333333 --> 00:31:59,723.3333333 We thank you for the greatness of you inside of each of us. 343 00:31:59,723.3333333 --> 00:32:03,953.3333333 Greater is in us than he who is of this world. 344 00:32:05,783.3333333 --> 00:32:09,623.3333333 Lord, I ask you to fill each person with peace. 345 00:32:10,673.3333333 --> 00:32:18,713.3333333 The peace that passes all our own understanding the peace that was left, and a person of you as a gift, and I bind torment. 346 00:32:20,768.3333333 --> 00:32:27,368.3333333 Of destruction in any mind, and I speak forth the promises of you. 347 00:32:28,718.3333333 --> 00:32:38,408.3333333 Jeremiah 29 11, a future and a hope Ephesians three 20 more than we could ever think or imagine you have in store for us. 348 00:32:38,408.3333333 --> 00:32:39,458.3333333 Abundant life. 349 00:32:39,458.3333333 --> 00:32:40,628.3333333 John 10 10. 350 00:32:43,598.3333333 --> 00:32:54,718.3333333 I thank you for covering each with your blood we thank you for this time and for every ear to be hearing your word of love. 351 00:32:55,888.3333333 --> 00:33:06,433.3333333 Love as a good, good father who shepherds his people in Jesus' name, amen.
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