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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ministers, the Saints of God, all those that are watching
and those that are listening, and those that are here
with us in the sanctuary that are visiting with us
on this morning, thanking praise God for another day that
was not promise. I thank Him for yet being saved
and sanctified and filled with this Holy Ghost on this morning. Truly,
God is an awesome God. He is worthy of the
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praise on this morning because it could have been another way.
But He touched us this morning and he woke us up,
and because of that, we ought to tell him thank
you on this morning. And I know some of us
probably already told him thank you when you woke up
this morning. But it's nothing wrong with just letting him
know throughout the day how much we appreciate his goodness
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and his mercy and his protection as we go throughout
the day, because we serve a God that he's always
there and he's everywhere. He's an I'm not present God,
He's everywhere at all times. So we just thank God
for that on this morning. And we're going to go
into the Word of God on today. Our theme for
this weekend isn't Faint, and I'd like to think with
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all the testimonies that we heard on this morning that
we were encouraged to hold on, encouraged not to give up,
but even encouraged not to faint, because the God that
we're serving is able to do exceedingly, abundantly above all
that we could possibly think or ask. But he shows
up and he performs the things that we ask, and
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we thank him for that on this morning.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
So we're going to go to the Word of God.
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And if you have your Bibles, if you would turn
the turn to the first to the book of First Samuel,
and we'll be going to chapter thirty. And when you
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have it, say amen, Amen, we're going to be reading
Versus one through seven. I think I told them six,
but let's read one through seven.
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Amen.
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And it came to pass when David and his men
will come to Ziglag on the third day, that the
Amalekites had invaded the south and Ziglag and smiting Ziglag
and burned it with fire, and had taken the women
captives that were their inn. They slew not any either
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great or small, but carried them away and went on
their way. So David and his men came to the city,
and behold, it was burned with fire, and their wives,
and their sons and their daughters were taken captives. Then
David and the people that were with him lifted up
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their voice and wept until they had no more power
to weep. And David's two wives were taken captives, hen
On now the Jezraelitists, and Abigail, the wife of Nabel
the Carmelites. And David was greatly distressed, for the people
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spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the
people was greed, every man for his sons and for
his daughters. But David encouraged himself in the Lord, his God.
And David said to Abiathar, the priest, a Hemelect's son,
I pray thee bring me hither the Ephod. And Abiathar
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brought thither the Ephod to David, go ahead and reverse
eight for me. And David inquired at the Lord, saying,
shall I pursue after this troop?
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Shall I overtake them?
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And he answered him, pursue, for thou shalt surely overtake them,
and without fail recover.
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All a man.
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May God had a blessing to the readers that hears
most of all the doers of His word on this
morning again our theme is done faint, and I looked
up faint and faint basically means weak and dizzy, close
to losing consciousness consciousness. And also another definition that the
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Lord just gave me this morning is mental exhaustion that
can lead to discouragement of one's spirit. So it's more
than just a physical thing, but it can be a
mental thing that can lead to discouragement in one spirit
or in our spirit. So in this particular passage this morning,
we know that it's talking about David and what happened
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in Ziglag, But I'm just gonna give us a little
bit of what happened before this happened in Ziglag.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
A while this was happening David.
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It says that the Ammaclites had invaded the South and
zig Lag. They were invading the South and Ziglag. David
and his men were in the north and they were
trying to go in with the Philistines. They He had
already became just lived in a country where they served
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out of God's but he was trying to be enforces
with the Philistine armies in the north at the time.
So when he was gone, this is what happened. I'm
not going to go through the whole story, but if
you read first Samuel, read the whole book, not just
some of it, but read the whole book. But this
is what happened. So in Samuel chapter twenty seven, that's
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when David began to That's when he actually came up on.
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Help me Lord.
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That's when David when he had his last encounter with Saul.
And in this encounter, he was so close to him
that he could have took him out, but he respected
that Saul was God's anointed, so he didn't do that.
Even one of his means was like, he's right here,
but he said, I'm not going to I can't take
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out God's anointed.
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He said, I can't. I can't do that.
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So what he did was he took his spear and
he took the cruise of water that was in the bolster,
which is a head rest. So he took something that
was right there next to Saul, right there, letting him
know I had the power to take you out, but
I didn't do that because you are God's anointed and
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I want you to remember.
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He didn't do that, but he began to talk.
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He distanced itself far away, and he began to call out.
He began to call out to Saul's man and ask him,
you know, basically saying why did you supposed.
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To be watching him? And this and that.
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But in that after that conversation, I'm paraphrasing a lot,
because it's a whole lot in that. So after that conversation,
in chapter twenty seven, David began to get discouraged in
his heart, and he says, David said, in his heart,
now I shall perish someday by the hand of Saul.
There is nothing better for me than I should speedily
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escape into the land of the Philistines and escape over there.
So David was discouraged. And when he was when he
became discouraged, he left the promise. He left the people
of God, and he made a decision to go and
worship with the go and live with the Idols.
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Basically they were the enemies, that's who they were.
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But he made a decision in his discouragement to go
and live there because he felt like, if I go there,
Saul is not gonna worry about me anymore because I'm
not over I'm not I'm not in that land.
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I'm in this land.
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So he made a decision in discouragement to do something
that he shouldn't have did. But God's grace, it goes
with us beyond what we think we deserve sometimes. And
David was called he was annoying the king, so God
was still with him. And my topic this morning that
we're going to be talking about is coming from verse six.
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It says, and David was greatly distressed for the people
spake of stoning him, because the soul of the people
was grieved every man for his son and for his daughters.
But David encouraged himself in the Lord his God. And
my thought this morning is courage to keep standing. And
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just David was discouraged because of that, because of Saul,
but not only that. When he went to go join
with the Philistines, they wouldn't let him join, so they
send him back to zig glad that he had obtained.
But in this before he got there, David was doing
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some stuff. Notice I said, and he when he got discouraged,
he made.
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Decisions became he became what did they say, a.
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Thug because he started, uh, he started doing things. He
started basically robbing, He started taking things from people. He
started killing the He didn't leave anybody. He was killing everybody.
He was killing the husband, the wife. He didn't leave
anyone alive. But the grace of God, that's what I
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want us to understand. The grace of God that was
on him allowed them to come in and dis basically
destroyed zig Lad, But they didn't destroy the people.
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They took the people with them. So this is God's
grace in him.
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But my top, my thought this morning is courage to
keep standing. So David did what he did, and he
basically made the decision to do what he did, but
God was still with him. So courage to keep standing.
And when he decided, when he got greatly distressed, because
you gotta remember, six hundred million came back and they
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didn't have their wives, and they didn't have their children,
and everybody was distressed, and they thought they.
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Was thinking of stoning him in that moment.
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Now all these men are coming against David, who they
went and fought with. But David, something happened to cause
him to remember the God. He said, David, encourage himself
in God, so courage to keep standing. And he says,
David said, to Aberthar, bring the priest the Ammaik's son.
I pray thee bring me hither the Ephod, and Alberthar
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brought him. Brought thither the Ephod, and David in quiet
of the Lord, saying, shall I pursue after this truth?
Shall I overtake them? And he answered him, pursue, and
thou shalt overtake them, and without fail you shall recover all.
But don't faint, don't lose hope, don't give up. Courage
to keep standing in the midst of adversity. And see David,
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he had to go and grace out there. But see God,
he did something that got David's attention.
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He got his attention. He let him know.
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I could have took all of it. I could have
killed your wife. I could have took your children. I
could have took everything.
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But what did he do?
Speaker 1 (11:14):
He basically destroyed where David lived at, burned it to
the ground, but left the people alive.
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And he gave David.
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Not only did he leave him alive, but he set
David up. When David, he encouraged yourself in the Lord,
What am I saying? Courage to keep standing when you
are when your back is against the wall, when your
back is against the wall, and just like the song
that they sung, I get joy when I think about
what He's done for me. And joy is something that
is activated when we're in our low moments. See, joy
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is still moving, It's still it's still going because see
the joy of the Lord is all the strength when
we don't have in the strength.
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That's why it's yet activated.
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Even though you may not be feeling happy, that joy
is yet moving. So courage to keep standing in the
midst of adversity. And David had some things going on
here because see he was the chosen one, he was
annointed to be king. So God had to do what
he had to do to get it where he needed
to come back to himself because in that discouragement where
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he made the decisions to do things that he shouldn't
have done, he began to add to the things. He
began to get worse and worse. For God, it's like
he just grabbed him. He rained them in real quick.
But he did it by destroying the city Ziglag, where
he wasn't supposed to be anyway. He destroyed it, but
he didn't destroy his family. And in the midst of that,
David found himself in crying of the Lord and encouraging himself.
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In the Lord, he found himself. He found courage to
keep standing even though he had done wrong.
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God's grace was steal that with him.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
And today we think about the situations that we face.
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In our lives.
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We gotta know that God is our refuge, and he's
our strict and he's a very present help in the
time of need, even when you don't feel like it.
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He's a very present help in a time of need.
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Courage to keep standing, Courage to hold on, Courage to
stay focused.
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No matter what it looks like.
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Sometimes it's dark and you may hear me saying that
a lot. I can say that because I have walked
through some storms in my life. But in the midst
of the storms, I am encouraged because I know that
God is going to come and see about me. I
know that God is a limp to my feet and
here is the light to my pasthway. So even though
I'm walking in what I'm walking in, I'm still trusting
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and believing in God. I still have the courage to
keep standing because He never failed me.
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He never left me. He said, I will be with
you always until the end of the earth.
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All we gotta do is provide the willingness to be
where he need us to be.
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All we gotta do is give him something to work with.
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All we gotta do is provides the faith that's needed
to activate him.
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That's all we gotta do.
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No one said that we were gonna walk through a
bed of roses every day.
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Nobody said, no way.
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In the word of God's are the same, We're gonna
walk and it's gonna be sunshining in our life every day.
But it does say that the God that we serve
is the same yesterday, today, and forever. More so, that
lets me know that if he did it for my sister,
and if I'm in need of what he did for her,
he's the same God, so I know.
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That he'll do it for me.
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Courage shall keep standing when you don't understand what's going on.
Courage should keep standing when everybody say that you should
do this and you should do that. But I'm a
right reminding of a man by the name of job.
Even after he he says though he slay me, yet
will I trust him? And I'm remind the glory to
God that they said it. Even if he don't do it,
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I know that he's still able. But I'm reminding us
some words that I said almost four years ago. I say, God,
if you don't do it, I know that you're able
and I will still trust you. But courage should keep sending.
It's not something that you get because you just show up.
But it's something that you get when you put some
time in, when you put some prayer in. Will you
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put some fasting, when you put some consecration in. You
not just gonna half hazldly come up on this, this courage,
But it takes something.
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It's gonna take something. It takes going through something.
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It takes believe in God when you don't see the
way out.
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It takets believe in God when the money is not
coming in.
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It takes believe in God when people are not doing
what you think they should be doing. But that's what courage,
to saying comes in that glory to God.
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I'm not trusting in.
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Man, but I'm believe it in my God because my
God can make men, He can turn the heart of
a man to do what I need him to do
to give me what I need.
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Glory to God.
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So I'm not going to flake on you God. I'm
not gonna give you less praise God because I'm not
seeing what I wanna see.
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But I'm gonna magnify you, God.
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Because i know that if I seek You first and
your righteousness, you gonna add everything unto me.
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I'm not gonna be worried.
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About this and that, God, because you told me that
if I live for you, I can ask get a
thing Glory to God, and I believe in you that
whatever I ask, as long as it's within your will
and a purpose for my life, You're going to give
it to me. But courage should keep standing in the
midst of a world where everything is going on, But.
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Somebody gotta take a stand.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Somebody gotta be not be ashamed to hold holiness. Somebody
gotta not be ashamed to tell the world that.
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God is here.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Somebody has not to be ashamed to tell the worth
that Jesus is real. Somebody gotta not be ashamed to
tell the world that.
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Holiness is still a right.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Somebody, Somebody, somebody, Glory to God, Hallelujah, has to have courage.
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Should keep standing even though people around.
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You are taken down, even though people around you are compromising.
Somebody gotta have courage to keep standing and lil life
and be the light and be that salt of the earth,
not salt without savor, but salt with savor, because see
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that can be salt, but there's no savor in it,
so it's not doing what it needs to do.
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But be that salt that has the savor and that
light that's not.
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Sitting down low, but that's sitting up on the hill
where somebody can see you. That light of God is
in direction of light of hope. Somebody gotta keep standing.
Somebody gotta have courage to keep standing. When they say
that it don't take all of that, somebody gotta have
courage to say, yes, it takes all of that, and
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it takes some more, because see, my walk is now
your walk. And I don't know what your devil is,
but see sometimes I gotta give up something.
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That you don't have to give up.
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But it's all about where you're going and who He
has created you to be. About what you think you are,
but it's about who He has created you to be
in this walk of life. To whom much is given,
much is required. We heard that for many years and
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it's still the same. It's still the same, but somebody
gotta have a courage to stand and not be ashamed.
Somebody gotta be that person. I'm that person. I'm different, and.
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I don't mind. I don't mind being different.
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I don't mind telling somebody about Jesus because I know
what he can do.
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I know what he has done.
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I know who he is for myself, not for somebody
else's testimony, but by own testimony of deliverance, my own
testimony of healing, my own testimony of a God that
will put you back together again is once you've been broken.
I know him to be that God. I know him
to be the God that to do things that are
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impossible with men. I know him to be that God.
I know him to be that God. But somebody got
a has to have the courage to keep standing. David
came to himself and he began to talk to his God.
And what am I saying in that sometimes in this
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walk of life, we're going.
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To get off, but God, but God.
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And if you have gotten off in this walk of life,
you and God is tugging you, that's an opportunity for
you to get back on. But you have to take
advantage of that moment. I heard a preacher say, I
think it was a pastor said a while back about opportunity.
The key to her was all the hair was in
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the front, but in the back she was bald.
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So once it passed by, the opportunity was gone.
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But this morning you may be that person that you
walked away, and God is talking to you saying, this
is your.
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Opportunity to come back.
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Courage to keep standing, Courage to walk away from the
things of the world.
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Courage, Courage to make a.
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Difference in your life so someone else can come into
the kingdom. Courage to walk away from the bottle, not coach,
but the alcohol. Courage to walk away from the weed,
the marijuana, the Mary Jane. Courage to walk away from
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cush Courage to walk away from the pills. Courage to
walk away from sex, to plan to please you, courage
to walk away from those things. Courage to walk away
from hanging out on the corner and doing nothing. But
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you do it because you feel like you fit in.
But if we notice, and we read in the story
of David, when he went to go join with the Philipsines,
the Philisine leader said no, no, no, we don't trust him,
because he knew that.
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He wasn't one of them. And sometimes we.
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Get ourselves in places where we don't even fit in.
We we actually stick out when we trying to blend in.
But no matter what we do, we don't fit in.
But somebody has the cur has to have the courage
to keep standing for God and not compromise with the
things of the world. That's because you do that, That
doesn't mean I have to do that. Just because you
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you chose to put that on, that doesn't mean I
have to put that on. And I'm not preaching about
a clothes this morning, but I'm just saying, you gotta
be You gotta have the courage to keep standing. You
gotta have the courage and say I am me, I'm saved,
I'm sanctified, and I'm holy.
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And I'm gonna live holy. You gotta have the courage
to do that.
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I went to an event this week on Friday, volunteering
for some things, and they said, you know, you gotta
dress comfortable, this and that cool. I can dress comfortable
and I can pick up boxes. I went right in
there with my skirt on. I did, and everybody else
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had on their jeans. I saw a few people looking
at me because we all work at the same place.
But they've just seen me on email. They never saw
me in person, and they were looking at me. I'm like,
I walked up to them, I'm introducing myself, telling them
who I am, what location I'm at, And then they
looked at me, and then I said, while I work.
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Was such and such.
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They say, oh, but you have to have courage to
keep standing no matter what, because that's what That's what God.
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Needs in this hour.
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He needs somebody that has the courage to keep standing.
He needs somebody that's got enough in them to say,
you know what, I got off.
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I got off right here.
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But God, I thank you for the opportunity to get
back home. I appreciate you for the opportunity. I thank
you for the for the chastisement and letting me see
where I am so I can get back on because
I don't want to be caught with.
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My work undone.
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But it takes courage to do those things when people
are telling you, oh, come on over here, we got
this going on, we got that going on. But do
you not understand when you get all that going on,
you gotta keep that going.
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On because that is what got them. It was not
the gospel.
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It was not the death, beryling resurrection of Jesus Christ,
but it was pure entertainment that got them. So we
gonna come up in here and we're gonna stump, and
we're gonna do all this. If you do that to
get them, you gotta do that to keep them. But
the gospel doesn't need any help, because see when God
tells God so loved the world that he gave his
only begotten son, that whosoever believed in him should not perish,
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but have everless in life. While we were yet sinners,
Christ died, So he don't need any help trying to
get somebody in.
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All he need us to do is to be a witness.
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All he need us to do is let our lights
shine and have the courage to keep sinning.
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That's all he need us to do.
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That somebody may know that there is help for them,
that there's deliverance for them, that there is a way out,
that they don't have to live in sin, they don't
have to keep doing the things that they were doing.
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Yes, David became a thug, but.
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Day you found this way back. Hallelujah. He found his
way back to God. He says, he encouraged himself in the.
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Lord his God. So, yes, you don't have to live
the way you're living.
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God said, I sent my son Jesus just for you,
just for you. But courage to keep standing, courage to
hold on. And I know that as saints of God,
we're going through. But as the brother said, we got God.
We got God on our side. And that's what makes
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the difference. Because if I didn't have God in my
life and the things that I went through, the first thing,
I'm pretty sure I would have been in prison.
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I'm pretty sure.
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I would have been in prison because of the situation
that I was going through at that time. And I
may not have been in prison, I don't know it.
They may have said, well, it was self defense. However,
I would have been in a place where my mind
wasn't right, and there are some people you're in a
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place where your mind is just not right. But God
is a God that's able to regulate your mind. God
is a God that's able to sit you in peace,
and you're able to walk in peace, and you're able
to lay down in peace, and you can get up
in peace, you can go through.
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Your day in peace. He's that God.
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But He needs some people that has the courage to
keep standing and don't faint, don't give up, don't give up.
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Don't give up.
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Courage is not the absence of fear, but it is
the ability to trust God in the midst of fear.
It's not that I'm not afraid, but it's who I
trust in. That's what courage is. It gives you that
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ability to keep moving. Because when you have the courage
and you keep moving because you're moving in your faith
in God, people can't understand why you're doing that because
they know, oh, your situation. But it's because of my
faith and my God. That's what it is.
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So courage to keep standing and everything we need.
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God has given us that to stand, to be that light,
to be that God as He's given us all that
we need to make it.
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We don't have to fail.
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We may get discouraged, just as David did, but we
don't have to fail because we serve a God that
is unfailing. We don't have to fail. He made it
possible that we didn't have to fail. David didn't have
what we have. He made it possible that we could
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have the Holy Ghost to come and live on the
inside of us, so we're one up or more than
one up. If we have the spirit of God dwelling
on the inside of us, we don't have to feel
so courage to keep standing. There was a song that
came to my mind. And everybody knows that I'm not
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a singer. Yeah, the lyrics of the song says this,
sometimes discouraged but not defeated, cast down but not destroyed.
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There are times.
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That I don't understand, but I believe it's turning around
for me. I've had struggles and disappointments.
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There were times.
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Where I felt so alone. Some of my friends they
let me down. But I still believe it's turning around
for me. Around for me, Around for me is turning
around for me. Is turning around for me because I
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can see the breaking of day. God is making a way.
A change is coming for me. If I stand strong
and believe, there's no doubt. I know he's working it out.
Holly Lujah is turning around for me. It won't always
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be like this, Holly Lujah. He will perfect that concerning me,
and sooner or later it will turn in my favor
glory to God. Sooner or later it will turn in
my favor. It's turning around for me.
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It won't always be like this. Glory to God.
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The Lord is perfecting that concerning me, Holly Loujah.
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Sooner or later it turned in my favor. Glory to God.
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Sooner or later, it's turning in my favor. It's turning
around for me. Glory to God. You have to tell yourself,
no matter where you are in this moment, in this
time in your life, you have to tell yourself it
won't always be like this. You have to tell yourself
it won't always be like this. You have to tell
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yourself it won't always be like this. You have to
tell yourself because it's turning around for me and it's
working in my favor. So you gotta tell yourself it
won't always be like this. And you gotta tell the
enemy when he tries to take your situation and throw
it in your face and Marma make you sit in
and you gotta tell him, look, devil, it won't always.
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Be like this.
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It won't always be like this. It's going to work
in my favor. Why because God is turning it around
for me.
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Glory to God. It won't always be like this.
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Because He will perfect that that's concerning me.
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Glory to God. You gotta speak with confidence.
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You gotta speak with confidence in this scene to let
the devil know and let yourself know that I'm not
going to turn my back. Oh my God, I'm not
gonna settle for less than what I've already done. I'm
not gonna settle for giving in and give it up
because God is greater. I'm not gonna settle this, taking
this little mediocre, this little small, my new thing. I'm
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not gonna settle. But I'm gonna allow God to work
it out of me. I believe that he's moving in
my favor. I believe that he's working on my behalf.
I may not see it right now, but I believe
that he's working on my.
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Behalf right now.
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So I'm taking courage and I'm going to sind for God,
and I'm not going to faign on this morning, because
why it's turning.
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Around for me. Glory to God. Everyone resting on.
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Your feet this morning, hollylujah, thank you, thank you, hallelujah,
Thank you Lord. There's a lot going on, but we
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gotta remember and we gotta remain strong in God.
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We gotta remain strong in God.
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Because he needs faithfulness. He needs faithfulness from those that
are proclaiming that they know him. He needs us to
remain faithful in the midst of adversity. And for those
that are going through something that you're not going through,
we need to be strong for them. We need to
hold them up. We need to hold them up. We
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need to keep them lifted up before God. As we
see people starting to we see them starting to digress,
we need to pray even more. We need to call
their name out even more before God, keep them lifted
up before Him, that they won't get caught in the stair,
that they won't get caught up in the stair of
the enemy, that that circumstance won't take them out. Because
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the enemy, I tell you, he looks for opportunities. As
my sister say, he is a crackhead, and he looks
for cracks.
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He looks for him.
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But we that are strown, we need to be bearing
the infirmities of the week and not pressing them down.
But we need to be lifting them up on this morning,
because that could easily be one of us. Not to
say we're not going through where my sister is going through,
something that I see.
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It weighing or down.
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So Lord, I'm lifting up before you this morning, God,
that you will keep her there as you go through,
as she goes through this process. God, it won't take
her out. It won't take her out. God, it won't
take her out. Hallylujah, won't take her out. Glory to God.
If there's someone in the sanctuary this morning that you
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want prayer this morning, you want to be saved, you
want to deliver us this morning, you can come and
we'll pray with you. God is in the saving business.
He hasn't stopped saving, he hasn't stopped feeling. He's still there.
The Holy Ghost is still active. Or maybe you need
something from God this morning. You're going through and you
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just want to touch and agree. You just want you
want God to strengthen you while he does what he does.
You can come this morning, Glory to God, and we'll
pray with you. Thank you, Jesus, hallelujah.
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It's turning around for men.
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See I can it's turning around.
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Yes, or another man that you should know, nor the
son of man.
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That it shall be there, nor it's turning around. My
situation is getting good around the sun. It's starting around
from it. It's a sati filter. That's all looking that
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it's sturting. It's turning around God sixes, it's if somebody's
had a lot the tail.
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That's don't say saying.
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It's turning, it's turning around, up saying it's turning abo me.
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Turning the ms.
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It won't wait be like this.
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Well perfect that concerning so turning up bag?
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Can we just say that's.
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He's a snow lace.
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You can see right now understanding right now I'm going
to get money.
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Aga the Yeah, did.
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Up?
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Ain't God? Then you wake up there? My eighteen six
is bless the Lord.
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Hallelujah, Thank you Father, hollelujah, Glory to God.
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Hens lifted up, glory to God, and worship the Lord holly,
their faces to the ground.
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When we receive a word from the Lord, our answers
should be amen, Let the church say Amen.
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Let the church.
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Shame, Church, shame God, shame.
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Around from me.
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Holleylujah, Thank you Jesus. Hand lifted up by the God,
we thank you. We thank you this morning God for
your goodness.
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God.
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We thank you Lord for your mercy.
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God.
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We thank you Lord for your word.
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God.
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We did say, thank you Lord, Hallylujah for the feed
of these that are here God, those that were watching
and listen, God, Lord, you see.
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Each and every one of us where we are on
this morning.
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God, asking you, Lord, God, to meet each and every
one of us where we are on today.
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Lord. Lord, you see the hearts and you see the thoughts.
Soppar our God, Lord, you know the very intentions this morning.
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God, I'm asking you, Lord in the Mighty name of Jesus, Lord,
to touch everyone.
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God where they are on today. God, Lord, asking you
Lord to restore to rejewling. They God in the Mighty
Name of Jesus.
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Encourage those that are disencouraged on today God, those that
are hurting God, those that are suffering. God, I'm asking
you Lord to give them peace on today, God in
the Mighty Name of Jesus. Lord, those that needs saving. God,
I'm asking you Lord this morning. Don't let them have
any peace, Lord, but concern them very rest God.
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And they wake up.
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Lord, speak to the Lord and say go and come, Lord,
let your word begin to speak to them. God in
the Mighty Name of Jesus. Lord, and let let them
answer the call today God in the name of Jesus. Lord,
I'm asking you this morning, God to go into the
hospital ruse. Lord, touch those that are see God, those
that are feeble God, those God that feel like they
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have no hope, God, give them hope of today.
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God in the money name of Jesus.
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I'm asking you Lord today to regulate minds today. Lord,
many are deserved in their mind God. The enemies captivated
their minds and their throwst God. When I'm asking you
this morning to deliver today. God in the Mighty Name
of Jesus, I'm asking you Lord to touch right now.
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God in the mighty way. God, move up on the
hearts God of the.
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Young people today, Lord send a mighty conviction Lord on
their heart today. Lord that was raising the word of God.
Raise under the word of God. Lord send y'all arresting
Angel today. Lord to make an a resk God in
the Mighty.
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Name of Jesus.
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Lord, We're not telling you how to do it. God,
We just want you to do it. God in the
Mighty Name of Jesus, And we take your board all
this morning. God, we give your glory God, and we
give you praise.
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On today.
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Lord.
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Lord, we know that you have everything under control. But
I'm asking you, Lord, to encourage Lord your people today. Lord,
that we will have the courage to keep standing Lord,
and then we won't fak God in the midst of
our position, God in nobody, name of Jesus, that you
will be glorified and magnified through our lives.
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In your son Jesus name, we pray, Amen and Amen.
Ministers, the Saints of God, all those that are watching
and those that are listening, and those that are here
with us in the sanctuary that are visiting with us
on this morning, thanking praise God for another day that
was not promise. I thank Him for yet being saved
and sanctified and filled with this Holy Ghost on this morning. Truly,
God is an awesome God. He is worthy of the
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praise on this morning because it could have been another way.
But He touched us this morning and he woke us up,
and because of that, we ought to tell him thank
you on this morning. And I know some of us
probably already told him thank you when you woke up
this morning. But it's nothing wrong with just letting him
know throughout the day how much we appreciate his goodness
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and his mercy and his protection as we go throughout
the day, because we serve a God that he's always
there and he's everywhere. He's an I'm not present God,
He's everywhere at all times. So we just thank God
for that on this morning. And we're going to go
into the Word of God on today. Our theme for
this weekend isn't Faint, and I'd like to think with
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all the testimonies that we heard on this morning that
we were encouraged to hold on, encouraged not to give up,
but even encouraged not to faint, because the God that
we're serving is able to do exceedingly, abundantly above all
that we could possibly think or ask. But he shows
up and he performs the things that we ask, and
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we thank him for that on this morning.
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So we're going to go to the Word of God.
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And if you have your Bibles, if you would turn
the turn to the first to the book of First Samuel,
and we'll be going to chapter thirty. And when you
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have it, say amen, Amen, we're going to be reading
Versus one through seven. I think I told them six,
but let's read one through seven.
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Amen.
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And it came to pass when David and his men
will come to Ziglag on the third day, that the
Amalekites had invaded the south and Ziglag and smiting Ziglag
and burned it with fire, and had taken the women
captives that were their inn. They slew not any either
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great or small, but carried them away and went on
their way. So David and his men came to the city,
and behold, it was burned with fire, and their wives,
and their sons and their daughters were taken captives. Then
David and the people that were with him lifted up
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their voice and wept until they had no more power
to weep. And David's two wives were taken captives, hen
On now the Jezraelitists, and Abigail, the wife of Nabel
the Carmelites. And David was greatly distressed, for the people
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spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the
people was greed, every man for his sons and for
his daughters. But David encouraged himself in the Lord, his God.
And David said to Abiathar, the priest, a Hemelect's son,
I pray thee bring me hither the Ephod. And Abiathar
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brought thither the Ephod to David, go ahead and reverse
eight for me. And David inquired at the Lord, saying,
shall I pursue after this troop?
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Shall I overtake them?
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And he answered him, pursue, for thou shalt surely overtake them,
and without fail recover.
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All a man.
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May God had a blessing to the readers that hears
most of all the doers of His word on this
morning again our theme is done faint, and I looked
up faint and faint basically means weak and dizzy, close
to losing consciousness consciousness. And also another definition that the
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Lord just gave me this morning is mental exhaustion that
can lead to discouragement of one's spirit. So it's more
than just a physical thing, but it can be a
mental thing that can lead to discouragement in one spirit
or in our spirit. So in this particular passage this morning,
we know that it's talking about David and what happened
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in Ziglag, But I'm just gonna give us a little
bit of what happened before this happened in Ziglag.
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A while this was happening David.
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It says that the Ammaclites had invaded the South and
zig Lag. They were invading the South and Ziglag. David
and his men were in the north and they were
trying to go in with the Philistines. They He had
already became just lived in a country where they served
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out of God's but he was trying to be enforces
with the Philistine armies in the north at the time.
So when he was gone, this is what happened. I'm
not going to go through the whole story, but if
you read first Samuel, read the whole book, not just
some of it, but read the whole book. But this
is what happened. So in Samuel chapter twenty seven, that's
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when David began to That's when he actually came up on.
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Help me Lord.
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That's when David when he had his last encounter with Saul.
And in this encounter, he was so close to him
that he could have took him out, but he respected
that Saul was God's anointed, so he didn't do that.
Even one of his means was like, he's right here,
but he said, I'm not going to I can't take
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out God's anointed.
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He said, I can't. I can't do that.
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So what he did was he took his spear and
he took the cruise of water that was in the bolster,
which is a head rest. So he took something that
was right there next to Saul, right there, letting him
know I had the power to take you out, but
I didn't do that because you are God's anointed and
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I want you to remember.
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He didn't do that, but he began to talk.
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He distanced itself far away, and he began to call out.
He began to call out to Saul's man and ask him,
you know, basically saying why did you supposed.
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To be watching him? And this and that.
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But in that after that conversation, I'm paraphrasing a lot,
because it's a whole lot in that. So after that conversation,
in chapter twenty seven, David began to get discouraged in
his heart, and he says, David said, in his heart,
now I shall perish someday by the hand of Saul.
There is nothing better for me than I should speedily
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escape into the land of the Philistines and escape over there.
So David was discouraged. And when he was when he
became discouraged, he left the promise. He left the people
of God, and he made a decision to go and
worship with the go and live with the Idols.
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Basically they were the enemies, that's who they were.
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But he made a decision in his discouragement to go
and live there because he felt like, if I go there,
Saul is not gonna worry about me anymore because I'm
not over I'm not I'm not in that land.
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I'm in this land.
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So he made a decision in discouragement to do something
that he shouldn't have did. But God's grace, it goes
with us beyond what we think we deserve sometimes. And
David was called he was annoying the king, so God
was still with him. And my topic this morning that
we're going to be talking about is coming from verse six.
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It says, and David was greatly distressed for the people
spake of stoning him, because the soul of the people
was grieved every man for his son and for his daughters.
But David encouraged himself in the Lord his God. And
my thought this morning is courage to keep standing. And
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just David was discouraged because of that, because of Saul,
but not only that. When he went to go join
with the Philistines, they wouldn't let him join, so they
send him back to zig glad that he had obtained.
But in this before he got there, David was doing
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some stuff. Notice I said, and he when he got discouraged,
he made.
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Decisions became he became what did they say, a.
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Thug because he started, uh, he started doing things. He
started basically robbing, He started taking things from people. He
started killing the He didn't leave anybody. He was killing everybody.
He was killing the husband, the wife. He didn't leave
anyone alive. But the grace of God, that's what I
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want us to understand. The grace of God that was
on him allowed them to come in and dis basically
destroyed zig Lad, But they didn't destroy the people.
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They took the people with them. So this is God's
grace in him.
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But my top, my thought this morning is courage to
keep standing. So David did what he did, and he
basically made the decision to do what he did, but
God was still with him. So courage to keep standing.
And when he decided, when he got greatly distressed, because
you gotta remember, six hundred million came back and they
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didn't have their wives, and they didn't have their children,
and everybody was distressed, and they thought they.
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Was thinking of stoning him in that moment.
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Now all these men are coming against David, who they
went and fought with. But David, something happened to cause
him to remember the God. He said, David, encourage himself
in God, so courage to keep standing. And he says,
David said, to Aberthar, bring the priest the Ammaik's son.
I pray thee bring me hither the Ephod, and Alberthar
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brought him. Brought thither the Ephod, and David in quiet
of the Lord, saying, shall I pursue after this truth?
Shall I overtake them? And he answered him, pursue, and
thou shalt overtake them, and without fail you shall recover all.
But don't faint, don't lose hope, don't give up. Courage
to keep standing in the midst of adversity. And see David,
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he had to go and grace out there. But see God,
he did something that got David's attention.
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He got his attention. He let him know.
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I could have took all of it. I could have
killed your wife. I could have took your children. I
could have took everything.
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But what did he do?
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He basically destroyed where David lived at, burned it to
the ground, but left the people alive.
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And he gave David.
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Not only did he leave him alive, but he set
David up. When David, he encouraged yourself in the Lord,
What am I saying? Courage to keep standing when you
are when your back is against the wall, when your
back is against the wall, and just like the song
that they sung, I get joy when I think about
what He's done for me. And joy is something that
is activated when we're in our low moments. See, joy
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is still moving, It's still it's still going because see
the joy of the Lord is all the strength when
we don't have in the strength.
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That's why it's yet activated.
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Even though you may not be feeling happy, that joy
is yet moving. So courage to keep standing in the
midst of adversity. And David had some things going on
here because see he was the chosen one, he was
annointed to be king. So God had to do what
he had to do to get it where he needed
to come back to himself because in that discouragement where
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he made the decisions to do things that he shouldn't
have done, he began to add to the things. He
began to get worse and worse. For God, it's like
he just grabbed him. He rained them in real quick.
But he did it by destroying the city Ziglag, where
he wasn't supposed to be anyway. He destroyed it, but
he didn't destroy his family. And in the midst of that,
David found himself in crying of the Lord and encouraging himself.
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In the Lord, he found himself. He found courage to
keep standing even though he had done wrong.
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God's grace was steal that with him.
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And today we think about the situations that we face.
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In our lives.
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We gotta know that God is our refuge, and he's
our strict and he's a very present help in the
time of need, even when you don't feel like it.
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He's a very present help in a time of need.
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Courage to keep standing, Courage to hold on, Courage to
stay focused.
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No matter what it looks like.
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Sometimes it's dark and you may hear me saying that
a lot. I can say that because I have walked
through some storms in my life. But in the midst
of the storms, I am encouraged because I know that
God is going to come and see about me. I
know that God is a limp to my feet and
here is the light to my pasthway. So even though
I'm walking in what I'm walking in, I'm still trusting
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and believing in God. I still have the courage to
keep standing because He never failed me.
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He never left me. He said, I will be with
you always until the end of the earth.
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All we gotta do is provide the willingness to be
where he need us to be.
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All we gotta do is give him something to work with.
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All we gotta do is provides the faith that's needed
to activate him.
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That's all we gotta do.
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No one said that we were gonna walk through a
bed of roses every day.
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Nobody said, no way.
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In the word of God's are the same, We're gonna
walk and it's gonna be sunshining in our life every day.
But it does say that the God that we serve
is the same yesterday, today, and forever. More so, that
lets me know that if he did it for my sister,
and if I'm in need of what he did for her,
he's the same God, so I know.
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That he'll do it for me.
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Courage shall keep standing when you don't understand what's going on.
Courage should keep standing when everybody say that you should
do this and you should do that. But I'm a
right reminding of a man by the name of job.
Even after he he says though he slay me, yet
will I trust him? And I'm remind the glory to
God that they said it. Even if he don't do it,
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I know that he's still able. But I'm reminding us
some words that I said almost four years ago. I say, God,
if you don't do it, I know that you're able
and I will still trust you. But courage should keep sending.
It's not something that you get because you just show up.
But it's something that you get when you put some
time in, when you put some prayer in. Will you
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put some fasting, when you put some consecration in. You
not just gonna half hazldly come up on this, this courage,
But it takes something.
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It's gonna take something. It takes going through something.
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It takes believe in God when you don't see the
way out.
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It takets believe in God when the money is not
coming in.
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It takes believe in God when people are not doing
what you think they should be doing. But that's what courage,
to saying comes in that glory to God.
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I'm not trusting in.
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Man, but I'm believe it in my God because my
God can make men, He can turn the heart of
a man to do what I need him to do
to give me what I need.
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Glory to God.
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So I'm not going to flake on you God. I'm
not gonna give you less praise God because I'm not
seeing what I wanna see.
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But I'm gonna magnify you, God.
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Because i know that if I seek You first and
your righteousness, you gonna add everything unto me.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
I'm not gonna be worried.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
About this and that, God, because you told me that
if I live for you, I can ask get a
thing Glory to God, and I believe in you that
whatever I ask, as long as it's within your will
and a purpose for my life, You're going to give
it to me. But courage should keep standing in the
midst of a world where everything is going on, But.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Somebody gotta take a stand.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Somebody gotta be not be ashamed to hold holiness. Somebody
gotta not be ashamed to tell the world that.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
God is here.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Somebody has not to be ashamed to tell the worth
that Jesus is real. Somebody gotta not be ashamed to
tell the world that.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Holiness is still a right.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Somebody, Somebody, somebody, Glory to God, Hallelujah, has to have courage.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Should keep standing even though people around.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
You are taken down, even though people around you are compromising.
Somebody gotta have courage to keep standing and lil life
and be the light and be that salt of the earth,
not salt without savor, but salt with savor, because see
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that can be salt, but there's no savor in it,
so it's not doing what it needs to do.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
But be that salt that has the savor and that
light that's not.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Sitting down low, but that's sitting up on the hill
where somebody can see you. That light of God is
in direction of light of hope. Somebody gotta keep standing.
Somebody gotta have courage to keep standing. When they say
that it don't take all of that, somebody gotta have
courage to say, yes, it takes all of that, and
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it takes some more, because see, my walk is now
your walk. And I don't know what your devil is,
but see sometimes I gotta give up something.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
That you don't have to give up.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
But it's all about where you're going and who He
has created you to be. About what you think you are,
but it's about who He has created you to be
in this walk of life. To whom much is given,
much is required. We heard that for many years and
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it's still the same. It's still the same, but somebody
gotta have a courage to stand and not be ashamed.
Somebody gotta be that person. I'm that person. I'm different, and.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
I don't mind. I don't mind being different.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
I don't mind telling somebody about Jesus because I know
what he can do.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
I know what he has done.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
I know who he is for myself, not for somebody
else's testimony, but by own testimony of deliverance, my own
testimony of healing, my own testimony of a God that
will put you back together again is once you've been broken.
I know him to be that God. I know him
to be the God that to do things that are
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impossible with men. I know him to be that God.
I know him to be that God. But somebody got
a has to have the courage to keep standing. David
came to himself and he began to talk to his God.
And what am I saying in that sometimes in this
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walk of life, we're going.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
To get off, but God, but God.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
And if you have gotten off in this walk of life,
you and God is tugging you, that's an opportunity for
you to get back on. But you have to take
advantage of that moment. I heard a preacher say, I
think it was a pastor said a while back about opportunity.
The key to her was all the hair was in
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the front, but in the back she was bald.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
So once it passed by, the opportunity was gone.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
But this morning you may be that person that you
walked away, and God is talking to you saying, this
is your.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Opportunity to come back.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Courage to keep standing, Courage to walk away from the
things of the world.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Courage, Courage to make a.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Difference in your life so someone else can come into
the kingdom. Courage to walk away from the bottle, not coach,
but the alcohol. Courage to walk away from the weed,
the marijuana, the Mary Jane. Courage to walk away from
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cush Courage to walk away from the pills. Courage to
walk away from sex, to plan to please you, courage
to walk away from those things. Courage to walk away
from hanging out on the corner and doing nothing. But
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you do it because you feel like you fit in.
But if we notice, and we read in the story
of David, when he went to go join with the Philipsines,
the Philisine leader said no, no, no, we don't trust him,
because he knew that.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
He wasn't one of them. And sometimes we.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Get ourselves in places where we don't even fit in.
We we actually stick out when we trying to blend in.
But no matter what we do, we don't fit in.
But somebody has the cur has to have the courage
to keep standing for God and not compromise with the
things of the world. That's because you do that, That
doesn't mean I have to do that. Just because you
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you chose to put that on, that doesn't mean I
have to put that on. And I'm not preaching about
a clothes this morning, but I'm just saying, you gotta
be You gotta have the courage to keep standing. You
gotta have the courage and say I am me, I'm saved,
I'm sanctified, and I'm holy.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
And I'm gonna live holy. You gotta have the courage
to do that.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
I went to an event this week on Friday, volunteering
for some things, and they said, you know, you gotta
dress comfortable, this and that cool. I can dress comfortable
and I can pick up boxes. I went right in
there with my skirt on. I did, and everybody else
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had on their jeans. I saw a few people looking
at me because we all work at the same place.
But they've just seen me on email. They never saw
me in person, and they were looking at me. I'm like,
I walked up to them, I'm introducing myself, telling them
who I am, what location I'm at, And then they
looked at me, and then I said, while I work.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Was such and such.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
They say, oh, but you have to have courage to
keep standing no matter what, because that's what That's what God.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Needs in this hour.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
He needs somebody that has the courage to keep standing.
He needs somebody that's got enough in them to say,
you know what, I got off.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
I got off right here.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
But God, I thank you for the opportunity to get
back home. I appreciate you for the opportunity. I thank
you for the for the chastisement and letting me see
where I am so I can get back on because
I don't want to be caught with.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
My work undone.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
But it takes courage to do those things when people
are telling you, oh, come on over here, we got
this going on, we got that going on. But do
you not understand when you get all that going on,
you gotta keep that going.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
On because that is what got them. It was not
the gospel.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
It was not the death, beryling resurrection of Jesus Christ,
but it was pure entertainment that got them. So we
gonna come up in here and we're gonna stump, and
we're gonna do all this. If you do that to
get them, you gotta do that to keep them. But
the gospel doesn't need any help, because see when God
tells God so loved the world that he gave his
only begotten son, that whosoever believed in him should not perish,
(24:15):
but have everless in life. While we were yet sinners,
Christ died, So he don't need any help trying to
get somebody in.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
All he need us to do is to be a witness.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
All he need us to do is let our lights
shine and have the courage to keep sinning.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
That's all he need us to do.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
That somebody may know that there is help for them,
that there's deliverance for them, that there is a way out,
that they don't have to live in sin, they don't
have to keep doing the things that they were doing.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Yes, David became a thug, but.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Day you found this way back. Hallelujah. He found his
way back to God. He says, he encouraged himself in the.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Lord his God. So, yes, you don't have to live
the way you're living.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
God said, I sent my son Jesus just for you,
just for you. But courage to keep standing, courage to
hold on. And I know that as saints of God,
we're going through. But as the brother said, we got God.
We got God on our side. And that's what makes
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the difference. Because if I didn't have God in my
life and the things that I went through, the first thing,
I'm pretty sure I would have been in prison.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
I would have been in prison because of the situation
that I was going through at that time. And I
may not have been in prison, I don't know it.
They may have said, well, it was self defense. However,
I would have been in a place where my mind
wasn't right, and there are some people you're in a
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place where your mind is just not right. But God
is a God that's able to regulate your mind. God
is a God that's able to sit you in peace,
and you're able to walk in peace, and you're able
to lay down in peace, and you can get up
in peace, you can go through.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Your day in peace. He's that God.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
But He needs some people that has the courage to
keep standing and don't faint, don't give up, don't give up.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Don't give up.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Courage is not the absence of fear, but it is
the ability to trust God in the midst of fear.
It's not that I'm not afraid, but it's who I
trust in. That's what courage is. It gives you that
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ability to keep moving. Because when you have the courage
and you keep moving because you're moving in your faith
in God, people can't understand why you're doing that because
they know, oh, your situation. But it's because of my
faith and my God. That's what it is.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
So courage to keep standing and everything we need.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
God has given us that to stand, to be that light,
to be that God as He's given us all that
we need to make it.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
We don't have to fail.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
We may get discouraged, just as David did, but we
don't have to fail because we serve a God that
is unfailing. We don't have to fail. He made it
possible that we didn't have to fail. David didn't have
what we have. He made it possible that we could
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have the Holy Ghost to come and live on the
inside of us, so we're one up or more than
one up. If we have the spirit of God dwelling
on the inside of us, we don't have to feel
so courage to keep standing. There was a song that
came to my mind. And everybody knows that I'm not
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a singer. Yeah, the lyrics of the song says this,
sometimes discouraged but not defeated, cast down but not destroyed.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
There are times.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
That I don't understand, but I believe it's turning around
for me. I've had struggles and disappointments.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
There were times.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Where I felt so alone. Some of my friends they
let me down. But I still believe it's turning around
for me. Around for me, Around for me is turning
around for me. Is turning around for me because I
(29:26):
can see the breaking of day. God is making a way.
A change is coming for me. If I stand strong
and believe, there's no doubt. I know he's working it out.
Holly Lujah is turning around for me. It won't always
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be like this, Holly Lujah. He will perfect that concerning me,
and sooner or later it will turn in my favor
glory to God. Sooner or later it will turn in
my favor. It's turning around for me.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
It won't always be like this. Glory to God.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
The Lord is perfecting that concerning me, Holly Loujah.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Sooner or later it turned in my favor. Glory to God.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Sooner or later, it's turning in my favor. It's turning
around for me. Glory to God. You have to tell yourself,
no matter where you are in this moment, in this
time in your life, you have to tell yourself it
won't always be like this. You have to tell yourself
it won't always be like this. You have to tell
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yourself it won't always be like this. You have to
tell yourself because it's turning around for me and it's
working in my favor. So you gotta tell yourself it
won't always be like this. And you gotta tell the
enemy when he tries to take your situation and throw
it in your face and Marma make you sit in
and you gotta tell him, look, devil, it won't always.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Be like this.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
It won't always be like this. It's going to work
in my favor. Why because God is turning it around
for me.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Glory to God. It won't always be like this.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Because He will perfect that that's concerning me.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Glory to God. You gotta speak with confidence.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
You gotta speak with confidence in this scene to let
the devil know and let yourself know that I'm not
going to turn my back. Oh my God, I'm not
gonna settle for less than what I've already done. I'm
not gonna settle for giving in and give it up
because God is greater. I'm not gonna settle this, taking
this little mediocre, this little small, my new thing. I'm
(31:46):
not gonna settle. But I'm gonna allow God to work
it out of me. I believe that he's moving in
my favor. I believe that he's working on my behalf.
I may not see it right now, but I believe
that he's working on my.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Behalf right now.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
So I'm taking courage and I'm going to sind for God,
and I'm not going to faign on this morning, because
why it's turning.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Around for me. Glory to God. Everyone resting on.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Your feet this morning, hollylujah, thank you, thank you, hallelujah,
Thank you Lord. There's a lot going on, but we
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gotta remember and we gotta remain strong in God.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
We gotta remain strong in God.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Because he needs faithfulness. He needs faithfulness from those that
are proclaiming that they know him. He needs us to
remain faithful in the midst of adversity. And for those
that are going through something that you're not going through,
we need to be strong for them. We need to
hold them up. We need to hold them up. We
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need to keep them lifted up before God. As we
see people starting to we see them starting to digress,
we need to pray even more. We need to call
their name out even more before God, keep them lifted
up before Him, that they won't get caught in the stair,
that they won't get caught up in the stair of
the enemy, that that circumstance won't take them out. Because
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the enemy, I tell you, he looks for opportunities. As
my sister say, he is a crackhead, and he looks
for cracks.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
He looks for him.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
But we that are strown, we need to be bearing
the infirmities of the week and not pressing them down.
But we need to be lifting them up on this morning,
because that could easily be one of us. Not to
say we're not going through where my sister is going through,
something that I see.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
It weighing or down.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
So Lord, I'm lifting up before you this morning, God,
that you will keep her there as you go through,
as she goes through this process. God, it won't take
her out. It won't take her out. God, it won't
take her out. Hallylujah, won't take her out. Glory to God.
If there's someone in the sanctuary this morning that you
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want prayer this morning, you want to be saved, you
want to deliver us this morning, you can come and
we'll pray with you. God is in the saving business.
He hasn't stopped saving, he hasn't stopped feeling. He's still there.
The Holy Ghost is still active. Or maybe you need
something from God this morning. You're going through and you
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just want to touch and agree. You just want you
want God to strengthen you while he does what he does.
You can come this morning, Glory to God, and we'll
pray with you. Thank you, Jesus, hallelujah.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
It's turning around for men.
Speaker 5 (34:50):
See I can it's turning around.
Speaker 6 (35:04):
Yes, or another man that you should know, nor the
son of man.
Speaker 7 (35:19):
That it shall be there, nor it's turning around. My
situation is getting good around the sun. It's starting around
from it. It's a sati filter. That's all looking that
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it's sturting. It's turning around God sixes, it's if somebody's
had a lot the tail.
Speaker 8 (36:02):
That's don't say saying.
Speaker 7 (36:13):
It's turning, it's turning around, up saying it's turning abo me.
Speaker 8 (36:21):
Turning the ms.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
It won't wait be like this.
Speaker 4 (36:39):
Well perfect that concerning so turning up bag?
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Can we just say that's.
Speaker 9 (37:02):
He's a snow lace.
Speaker 10 (37:07):
You can see right now understanding right now I'm going
to get money.
Speaker 8 (37:33):
Aga the Yeah, did.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
Up?
Speaker 9 (38:18):
Ain't God? Then you wake up there? My eighteen six
is bless the Lord.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
Hallelujah, Thank you Father, hollelujah, Glory to God.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
Hens lifted up, glory to God, and worship the Lord holly,
their faces to the ground.
Speaker 4 (38:47):
When we receive a word from the Lord, our answers
should be amen, Let the church say Amen.
Speaker 8 (38:57):
Let the church.
Speaker 9 (39:01):
Shame, Church, shame God, shame.
Speaker 8 (39:43):
Around from me.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Holleylujah, Thank you Jesus. Hand lifted up by the God,
we thank you. We thank you this morning God for
your goodness.
Speaker 9 (39:55):
God.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
We thank you Lord for your mercy.
Speaker 9 (39:57):
God.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
We thank you Lord for your word.
Speaker 9 (39:59):
God.
Speaker 1 (39:59):
We did say, thank you Lord, Hallylujah for the feed
of these that are here God, those that were watching
and listen, God, Lord, you see.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
Each and every one of us where we are on
this morning.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
God, asking you, Lord, God, to meet each and every
one of us where we are on today.
Speaker 2 (40:13):
Lord. Lord, you see the hearts and you see the thoughts.
Soppar our God, Lord, you know the very intentions this morning.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
God, I'm asking you, Lord in the Mighty name of Jesus, Lord,
to touch everyone.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
God where they are on today. God, Lord, asking you
Lord to restore to rejewling. They God in the Mighty
Name of Jesus.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
Encourage those that are disencouraged on today God, those that
are hurting God, those that are suffering. God, I'm asking
you Lord to give them peace on today, God in
the Mighty Name of Jesus. Lord, those that needs saving. God,
I'm asking you Lord this morning. Don't let them have
any peace, Lord, but concern them very rest God.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
And they wake up.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
Lord, speak to the Lord and say go and come, Lord,
let your word begin to speak to them. God in
the Mighty Name of Jesus. Lord, and let let them
answer the call today God in the name of Jesus. Lord,
I'm asking you this morning, God to go into the
hospital ruse. Lord, touch those that are see God, those
that are feeble God, those God that feel like they
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have no hope, God, give them hope of today.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
God in the money name of Jesus.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
I'm asking you Lord today to regulate minds today. Lord,
many are deserved in their mind God. The enemies captivated
their minds and their throwst God. When I'm asking you
this morning to deliver today. God in the Mighty Name
of Jesus, I'm asking you Lord to touch right now.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
God in the mighty way. God, move up on the
hearts God of the.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
Young people today, Lord send a mighty conviction Lord on
their heart today. Lord that was raising the word of God.
Raise under the word of God. Lord send y'all arresting
Angel today. Lord to make an a resk God in
the Mighty.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
Name of Jesus.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
Lord, We're not telling you how to do it. God,
We just want you to do it. God in the
Mighty Name of Jesus, And we take your board all
this morning. God, we give your glory God, and we
give you praise.
Speaker 2 (42:05):
On today.
Speaker 8 (42:06):
Lord.
Speaker 1 (42:06):
Lord, we know that you have everything under control. But
I'm asking you, Lord, to encourage Lord your people today. Lord,
that we will have the courage to keep standing Lord,
and then we won't fak God in the midst of
our position, God in nobody, name of Jesus, that you
will be glorified and magnified through our lives.
Speaker 2 (42:24):
In your son Jesus name, we pray, Amen and Amen.
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