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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation

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Speaker 1: Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank

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Speaker 1: you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope

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Speaker 1: it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to

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Speaker 1: see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message.

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Speaker 1: How many are grateful to be in God's house today?

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Speaker 2: All right?

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Speaker 1: For all the early adopters who sat down, stand back up.

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Speaker 1: I hadn't read my scripture yet you jumped the gun,

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Speaker 1: did you? Oh? Man? I have a message today that

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Speaker 1: I believe is going to inspire your life and encourage

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Speaker 1: your faith for all of the things that God has

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Speaker 1: called you to do. If you receive it by faith,

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Speaker 1: say amen. We're going to read two scriptures, First Samuel

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Speaker 1: chapter twenty two, verses one through five and First Corinthians

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Speaker 1: Chapter nine, verses twenty four through twenty six. The Word

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Speaker 1: of the Lord from One Samuel twenty two one through

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Speaker 1: five and First Corinthians chapter nine, verses twenty four through

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Speaker 1: twenty six. The first one is about the Great King David,

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Speaker 1: and the second one is from the Great Apostle Paul.

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Speaker 1: David left Gath and escaped to the cave of Adullam.

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Speaker 1: When his brothers and his father's household heard about it, they.

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Speaker 1: There all those who were in distress, or in debt

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Speaker 1: or discontented gathered around him, and he became their commander.

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Speaker 1: About four hundred men were with him. From there, David

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Speaker 1: went to Mizpah in Moab and said to the King

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Speaker 1: and stay with you until I learn what God will

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Speaker 1: do for me. That is a very powerful way that

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Speaker 1: he says that until I learn what God will do

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Speaker 1: for me. So he left them with the King of Moab,

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Speaker 1: and they stayed with him as long as David was

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Speaker 1: in the stronghold. But the prophet Gad said to David,

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Speaker 1: do not stay in the stronghold, go into the land

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Speaker 1: of Judah. So David left and went to the forest

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Speaker 1: of Hareth. That's the first scripture. The second one, which

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Speaker 1: Corinthians chapter nine. The apostle Paul, writing to the church

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Speaker 1: at corinth gives a metaphor that I want us to

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Speaker 1: apply our minds to for a moment today. Do you

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Speaker 1: not know that in a race, all the runners run,

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Speaker 1: but only one gets the prize. Run in such a

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Speaker 1: way as to get the prize. Everyone who competes in

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Speaker 1: the Games goes into strict training. They do it to

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Speaker 1: get a crown that will not last.

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Speaker 1: Look at your neighbors, say, we do it to get

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Speaker 1: a crown that will last forever. Therefore, I do not

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Speaker 1: run like someone running aimlessly. I do not fight like

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Speaker 1: a boxer beating the air. Let's stop there. I do

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Speaker 1: not run like someone running aimlessly. I want you to

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Speaker 1: look at your neighbor like you're on the same Olympic

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Speaker 1: team and tell them, real quick, just give them an

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Speaker 1: Olympic look, real quick, look at them with some Olympic eyes.

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Speaker 1: Did he say Olympic eyes?

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Speaker 1: Look at him like a winner, Look them deep in

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Speaker 1: We run for a reason. I want to remind somebody

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Speaker 1: we run for a reason. God, only you know all

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Speaker 1: of the purposes that you have an eternity for this

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Speaker 1: moment in time. So I ask you, God of Heaven,

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Speaker 1: the oil of your anointing, so that we can flow

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Speaker 1: and move forward in everything you've called us to do.

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Speaker 1: We cannot afford in this season of our life to

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Speaker 1: run dry. So now, God, we asked that you would

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Speaker 1: pour into us, for we are poor without you. Your

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Speaker 1: acknowledge our need for you, and Father, we need you

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Speaker 1: this hour. Please come in a way that we didn't

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Speaker 1: ask for because we didn't know we needed it. Touch

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Speaker 1: the place in us that is too insecure to be

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Speaker 1: shown to others. But in your presence, there's no modesty

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Speaker 1: for you, our a maker, every hidden part, every secret thing,

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Speaker 1: you may be seated. All the runners in the house,

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Speaker 1: Lord comes with these amazing confirmations. You know. I put

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Speaker 1: And when I put it on the Olympics, they were

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Speaker 1: the title and the scripture we run for a Reason,

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Speaker 1: what so embarrassing? Are crying watching these people run? Now?

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Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't feel the tears come while she

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Speaker 1: it made me emotional, because when I saw as a

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Speaker 1: And I thought about my wife, Holly, And I'm just

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Speaker 1: When we first started doing ministry together, I had no

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Speaker 1: And we're sitting there and we're planning out our summer

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Speaker 1: And I'll never forget this. I put up for a

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Speaker 1: And I was trying to get everybody involved, you know,

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Speaker 1: And we're going back and forth, and I threw out

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Speaker 1: to win? Wouldn't that be a good theme from First

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Speaker 1: Corinthians Chapter nine, And well, one person didn't think that

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Speaker 1: lead us, and I said, you make a flyer, and

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Speaker 1: make a flyer. And she she she made a flyer,

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Speaker 1: said run to win. We went to Walmart. We covered

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Speaker 1: five hundred wind shields with run to Win propaganda, telling

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Speaker 1: And by the end of the week there were twenty

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Speaker 1: five kids in the room. And I preached like it

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Speaker 1: from a place of passion, not a place of performance.

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Speaker 1: And I'll preach if there's five of you, five thousand

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Speaker 1: common misconception about people that you see who go really

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Speaker 2: I'm anointed to preach today.

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Speaker 1: The only difference in what has changed is the number

436
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Speaker 1: of people that I'm doing it with and for. But

437
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Speaker 1: one thing I need you to know about your life

438
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Speaker 1: is that it's one thing to run for something that

439
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Speaker 1: you chose to run toward. I'm gonna start this business,

440
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna find a husband, I'm gonna get my life together.

441
00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:41,520
Speaker 1: I'm gonna lose twenty pounds. I'm gonna run a marathon.

442
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Speaker 1: The devil is a liar. The Lord didn't tell you

443
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Speaker 1: to do that. It's one thing to run after something

444
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Speaker 1: that you chose, but it's another thing to run when

445
00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:55,359
Speaker 1: you're being chased. And I don't necessarily just want to

446
00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:59,680
Speaker 1: preach to those today who are running towards something, because

447
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Speaker 1: that's wonderful if you're motivated and you're inspired, and you're like,

448
00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:07,040
Speaker 1: by fifty, I want to have this much money.

449
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Speaker 2: By forty, I'm gonna.

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Speaker 1: Have that much. So when I'm fifty, I can have

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Speaker 1: this much. That's fine if you figured that out. But

452
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Speaker 1: there is a sense in which you and I both

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Speaker 1: know that sometimes what's really moving you in your life

454
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Speaker 1: is not why you're running too. It's what you're running from.

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Speaker 1: And people see what you run to and they judge

456
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Speaker 1: you by that. People see what you run to, and

457
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Speaker 1: sometimes they admire you for that. But the significance of

458
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Speaker 1: the text and for Samuel twenty two, is that David

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Speaker 1: is a king and he's in a cave, and he's

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Speaker 1: not running from a giant. No, he's not running from

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Speaker 1: his assignment from God. No, he is running from the king,

462
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Speaker 1: and he is running from what he is going to be.

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Speaker 1: Not by his own choice. David did not sign up

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Speaker 1: for this event. Saul the King was supposed to hand

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Speaker 1: David the baton, and instead he is beating him over

466
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Speaker 1: the head with the baton that he is supposed to

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Speaker 1: be handing off. See, some of us run because we

468
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Speaker 1: weren't handed everything easily. Some of us run because what

469
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Speaker 1: we were handed was hazardous.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm preaching some of us run. We don't even

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Speaker 2: understand what compels us and drives us.

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Speaker 1: And you don't really understand this until you take some

473
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Speaker 1: time in life to reflect and say, why am I

474
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Speaker 1: so hard on myself? Why am I so so prone

475
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Speaker 1: to anger? Why do I always look for how things

476
00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:54,800
Speaker 1: are going to go wrong even when they're going right,

477
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Speaker 1: and you start discovering that some of the things that

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Speaker 1: you are broken by or because of the baton that

479
00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:03,480
Speaker 1: were not handed to you in the relay that never

480
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Speaker 1: was because you are running from something. It's hard to

481
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Speaker 1: run toward what I've never seen. It's hard to run

482
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Speaker 1: toward wholeness when I only saw my parents cuss each

483
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Speaker 1: other out. It's hard to run toward wholeness when I

484
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:21,760
Speaker 1: only saw people continue to self sabotage. It is hard

485
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Speaker 1: to run towards something that has never been exemplified before me.

486
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Speaker 1: So now I find myself watch this like David, running

487
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Speaker 1: from something that I ought to be able to run too.

488
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Speaker 1: Saul should have helped David, and he didn't. So David

489
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Speaker 1: is in a cave because of a king that did

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Speaker 1: not ever want his crown to begin with. And the

491
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Speaker 1: Lord sent me to speak to somebody today to tell you,

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Speaker 1: don't let the place you're in make you confused about

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Speaker 1: the person that you are. Uh huh. That oil that

494
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Speaker 1: was on David's head, it didn't just stop on his head,

495
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Speaker 1: it ran down because when they anointed you in the

496
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Speaker 1: Bible Times, the anointing was an announcement, and the Bible

497
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Speaker 1: says that Samuel had a flask filled with oil.

498
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Speaker 2: It wasn't a quarterfull, it wasn't half full. It was

499
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Speaker 2: a full horn of oil.

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Speaker 1: And it was dumped on David's head and it was

501
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Speaker 1: dumped on David's head to signify David's destiny. And as

502
00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:36,880
Speaker 1: the oil ran down his head, David didn't know what

503
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Speaker 1: it really meant at the time, but the oil was

504
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Speaker 1: trying to tell him something. The oil was trying to

505
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Speaker 1: tell him that every king will.

506
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Speaker 2: Have some caves.

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Speaker 1: Don't let the cave that you're in right now cause

508
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Speaker 1: you to forfeit or discontinue the thing that God has

509
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Speaker 1: put in you. Maybe this is why it meant so

510
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Speaker 1: much when I went to preach to the women in

511
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Speaker 1: the prison this week, because every day they are surrounded

512
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Speaker 1: by signals and signs that say my life is over.

513
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Speaker 1: And when we went in with our worship team and

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Speaker 1: our staff that go out there every month, not just

515
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Speaker 1: once a year, and we showed up to announce to

516
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Speaker 1: them that God knows your name, all of a sudden,

517
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Speaker 1: women who were stuck in a situation were lifted to

518
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Speaker 1: a place to remember that before the situation, God spoke

519
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Speaker 1: his word over your life. Uh huh, So this cage

520
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Speaker 1: situation in one Samuel twenty two is not David's fault.

521
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Speaker 1: He is not like Jonah who decided to run for God.

522
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Speaker 1: He is not like an Olympic athlete who wanted to

523
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Speaker 1: give their life to get a gold medal. He is

524
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Speaker 1: not like Elijah. Remember Elijah, not that one in the Bible,

525
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:17,120
Speaker 1: the one who ran from Jezebel. And you want to

526
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Speaker 1: be like, dude, what are you running from? You just

527
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Speaker 1: called down fire on eight hundred and fifty false prophets,

528
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Speaker 1: and excuse me, I'm not being sexist. But one woman,

529
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Speaker 1: one woman won anything after what you've seen should be

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Speaker 1: enough to make you stand firm. Maybe you need an illustration.

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Speaker 1: I think you need an illustration. Okay, all, in our

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Speaker 1: backyard we have deer. We also have a Boston Terrier.

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Speaker 1: I noticed that the dog is smaller than the deer.

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Speaker 1: I also noticed that the deer run from the dog. Now,

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Speaker 1: if you watch bow chase the deer, you can see

536
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Speaker 1: his arrogance. That is unjustified because this little dog, who

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Speaker 1: can't do anything, is chasing a big deer. And I

538
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Speaker 1: think of myself. This must be the most thrilling event

539
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Speaker 1: in the world for his brain to process that I

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Speaker 1: can make something this big run and I don't even

541
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Speaker 1: have to bark. All I just got to do is this.

542
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Speaker 1: But I saw a movie in my mind the other day.

543
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Speaker 1: I wondered, what if the deer turned back and ran

544
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Speaker 1: at Bow? What if the deer even hissed at Bo

545
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Speaker 1: all of a sudden. I don't think Bo would be

546
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Speaker 1: so bold, because he would realize this thing that is

547
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Speaker 1: bigger is being triggered by emotion that can't affect him

548
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Speaker 1: in the least, and so I can no longer manipulate

549
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Speaker 1: this thing that is bigger than me into running from me.

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Speaker 1: If the deer ever turned around, it would be the

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Speaker 1: worst day of Bow's life. If the deer ever found

552
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Speaker 1: out I'm bigger than you, BO wouldn't run up on

553
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Speaker 1: a deer. BO wouldn't go outside. I told you last week,

554
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Speaker 1: he's scared of a suitcase.

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Speaker 2: What do you think he's gonna do with a deer?

556
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Speaker 1: If you ever got the revelation that greater is he

557
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Speaker 1: I am? Yeah, yeah, yeah. The devil is hoping you

558
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Speaker 1: never find out you're bigger. The devil is hoping you'll

559
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Speaker 1: always flitch and fall back.

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Speaker 2: But I see.

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Speaker 1: Somebody turning around today. Come about, Wait a minute, why

562
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Speaker 1: am I running from you? I mean, if you're gonna run,

563
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Speaker 1: if you're gonna quit your family, at least have a

564
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Speaker 1: good reason.

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Speaker 2: Don't do it because they got on your nerves.

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Speaker 1: If you're gonna quit loving your wife, at least have

567
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Speaker 1: a good reason.

568
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Speaker 2: Don't do it because she didn't appreciate you.

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Speaker 1: That's not a good enough reason. Trouble isn't a good

570
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Speaker 1: enough reason for you to give up. Look, unto Jesus,

571
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Speaker 1: the author and finisher of our faith, who for the

572
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Speaker 1: joy set before him, endured the cross. Despising as shame,

573
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Speaker 1: Jesus said, I hate this, but I love that.

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Speaker 2: The joy set before him.

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Speaker 1: What I'm running toward, what I'm running from, It all

576
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Speaker 1: comes in concert in David's life. Now look at your

577
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Speaker 1: neighbor and tell them with confidence. Okay, tell them. If

578
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Speaker 1: God did it for David, I expect him to do

579
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Speaker 1: it for you.

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Speaker 2: Now, high five them and tell him run to wind.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait

582
00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:50,560
Speaker 1: wait wait wait. God didn't protect David, Yes he did.

583
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Speaker 1: He didn't protect him from being chased. He kept him

584
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Speaker 1: chosen although he was chased. Our expectation of God must

585
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Speaker 1: not be that there will never be anything chasing us.

586
00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:09,280
Speaker 1: Our expectation of God is that we are chosen while

587
00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:13,239
Speaker 1: we are chased. I'm not preaching to everybody today. Some

588
00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:17,239
Speaker 1: messages are for everybody. This one's for somebody who's got

589
00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:21,080
Speaker 1: something on your heels. Matter of fact, you got hell

590
00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:24,120
Speaker 1: on your heels and you are running from something and

591
00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:26,080
Speaker 1: you can't figure out why. And you're like, well, but

592
00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:29,200
Speaker 1: the Bible says, rest in the salvation of God. Yes,

593
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Speaker 1: rest in his salvation, but run toward his arms for

594
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Speaker 1: this season of your life, and let him be your strength.

595
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Speaker 1: You know this preacher from California, he pulled me aside

596
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Speaker 1: one time and he said, I can tell you struggle

597
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Speaker 1: with depression. I said, you act like that's a hieroglyphics revelation,

598
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Speaker 1: the Da Vinci Code. I tell my church all the

599
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Speaker 1: time that I deal with depression. He said, no, I

600
00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:02,239
Speaker 1: can tell oh, And I thought this was a nice

601
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Speaker 1: thing for him to say. So I could tell that

602
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:10,640
Speaker 1: you deal with it because you give people the tools

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00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:15,839
Speaker 1: to deal with it. And then he said something, And

604
00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:20,879
Speaker 1: you know how preachers talking alliterated outlines. He said, the

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00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:23,000
Speaker 1: tools that you use tell me a lot about the

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Speaker 1: trouble that you've been through. I said, that's a compliment.

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00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:31,960
Speaker 1: I said, I'm not depressed all the time. He said, no,

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Speaker 1: I just can tell. I can tell what you've been

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00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:41,160
Speaker 1: through by your tools. And maybe this is a helpful

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00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:43,560
Speaker 1: way for you to look at the situations in your life.

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00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:46,440
Speaker 1: You know, David, I gotta tell you a little bit

612
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:48,640
Speaker 1: more about David. Do you know that David prayed in

613
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Speaker 1: the cave. He's hiding from Saul, who's already thrown multiple

614
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Speaker 1: spears at him at his head, talk about experiences on

615
00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:10,360
Speaker 1: the job, training and and he's lost his best friend,

616
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Speaker 1: and so he's all alone and he prays in the cave.

617
00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:16,279
Speaker 1: Now look at this in Psalm one and forty two.

618
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Speaker 1: This is the prayer that David prayed in the cave.

619
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Speaker 1: And you're going to be surprised what David prayed in

620
00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:25,920
Speaker 1: that cave. But maybe it'll be a tool for you

621
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Speaker 1: to use when you're in the cave. Look at verse three.

622
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Speaker 1: He said, when my spirit grows faint within me, it

623
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Speaker 1: is you who watch over my way. In the path

624
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Speaker 1: where I walk, people have hidden a snare for me.

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Speaker 1: I'm reading this fast because there's one verse I want

626
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Speaker 1: to get to.

627
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Speaker 2: Look and see.

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Speaker 1: There is no one in my right hand. No one

629
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Speaker 1: is concerned for me. No one is concerned for me.

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Speaker 1: I have no refuge, No one cares for my life.

631
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Speaker 1: I cry to you, Lord, I say you are my refuge,

632
00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:52,760
Speaker 1: my portion in the land of the living.

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00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:55,080
Speaker 2: Listen to my cry.

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Speaker 1: I think he is feeling unheard. I think the key

635
00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:03,760
Speaker 1: is feeling unseen. You don't say listen to my cry

636
00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:06,279
Speaker 1: if you feel like the person is already involved in

637
00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:11,040
Speaker 1: the situation. Listen to my cry for I am in

638
00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:15,760
Speaker 1: desperate need. Oh David, I can tell you deal with depression.

639
00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:19,759
Speaker 1: You think so, I put it in the Bible. I

640
00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:23,560
Speaker 1: am in desperate need. The three people who need this

641
00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:26,160
Speaker 1: message you're going to really receive from this next part

642
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:28,640
Speaker 1: right now. The three people who have been running a

643
00:39:28,719 --> 00:39:31,680
Speaker 1: race and you are being chased by something and you

644
00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:33,960
Speaker 1: cannot see what you are running from, but you can

645
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:36,280
Speaker 1: feel it and you know it, and it has become

646
00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:38,680
Speaker 1: a template for the track that your life has taken

647
00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:42,320
Speaker 1: and the trajectory that you're on. Watch this, he said,

648
00:39:43,239 --> 00:39:47,759
Speaker 1: rescue me from those who pursue me, for they are

649
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:53,200
Speaker 1: too strong for me. Set me free from my prison,

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Speaker 1: that I may praise your name. Then the righteous will

651
00:39:57,560 --> 00:40:00,719
Speaker 1: gather about me because of your good to me. Now

652
00:40:00,719 --> 00:40:02,600
Speaker 1: when he said the righteous will gather about me when

653
00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:04,239
Speaker 1: you get me out of this, because somebody our prayer. God,

654
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:05,879
Speaker 1: when you get me out of this, Oh, it's gonna

655
00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:08,719
Speaker 1: be amazing. I'm gonna pay my tize. Lord. I'm gonna

656
00:40:08,719 --> 00:40:10,520
Speaker 1: give you fifty percent if you just get me out

657
00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:13,879
Speaker 1: of this. Fifty five do I hear of fifty six?

658
00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:17,480
Speaker 1: Do I here a fifty seven? Lord's like whatever, whatever,

659
00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:22,040
Speaker 1: whatever this listen is. He's praying the righteous will gather

660
00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:24,600
Speaker 1: about me. He's praying for support, he's praying for help.

661
00:40:24,640 --> 00:40:26,920
Speaker 1: He's praying for somebody to care. He's praying for somebody

662
00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:29,719
Speaker 1: to see. He's praying for somebody to hear. He's screaming

663
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:34,520
Speaker 1: em in the cave. There's echo, echo, and there's no

664
00:40:34,520 --> 00:40:39,279
Speaker 1: one talking back. But watch what happened in Samuel twenty two,

665
00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:45,719
Speaker 1: verse one. His father's household heard David was running, and

666
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:49,920
Speaker 1: they went down to him. There not only his family,

667
00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:52,399
Speaker 1: which we're gonna talk about in a second, but look

668
00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:56,759
Speaker 1: who else came all those who were in distress, or

669
00:40:56,800 --> 00:41:05,200
Speaker 1: in debt or discontented gathered around him. Okay, God, remember

670
00:41:05,239 --> 00:41:07,000
Speaker 1: how I was praying for you to send me people.

671
00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:11,520
Speaker 1: I take it back. I don't need anybody, Lord, just

672
00:41:11,680 --> 00:41:16,080
Speaker 1: me and you Lord. All my need is you, Lord.

673
00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:19,759
Speaker 1: And here come four hundred lined up. And what are they?

674
00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:24,080
Speaker 1: They are David's three D Army three D. You said,

675
00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:28,000
Speaker 1: where you get that from? They were in distress, they

676
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:34,799
Speaker 1: were in debt, and they were discontented. God might show

677
00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:39,000
Speaker 1: up at your door with three D this week. But

678
00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:41,840
Speaker 1: remember how we were saying, sometimes you pray for something

679
00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:45,760
Speaker 1: and then it comes and you don't want it because

680
00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:53,600
Speaker 1: it came in three D. It came in debt, distress, discontented.

681
00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:56,360
Speaker 1: It came in the form of a need. Why would

682
00:41:56,360 --> 00:42:00,160
Speaker 1: God answer a prayer with a need? Come on and

683
00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:02,200
Speaker 1: think with me, Think with me. I can't I can't

684
00:42:02,239 --> 00:42:04,000
Speaker 1: just say stuff that makes you want to shout.

685
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:06,520
Speaker 2: I got to help you. So you know that.

686
00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:10,239
Speaker 1: While he was praying in that cave these you know,

687
00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:15,160
Speaker 1: he prayed, God, then the Righteous will surround me, and

688
00:42:15,239 --> 00:42:22,760
Speaker 1: here comes in debt, in distress, discontented.

689
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:26,080
Speaker 2: David's like, let me try that again, then the.

690
00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:32,319
Speaker 1: Righteous thought, I said, ratchet, I said righteous, Sorry, Lord,

691
00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:41,120
Speaker 1: And now we have a decision to make church. The

692
00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:46,400
Speaker 1: question is why did these four hundred people show up at.

693
00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:50,080
Speaker 2: David's cave in the moment of greatest need.

694
00:42:49,960 --> 00:42:54,160
Speaker 1: In response to God's answer to the prayer? And I

695
00:42:54,200 --> 00:42:58,000
Speaker 1: will suggest to you that it's this because David was anointed,

696
00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:04,600
Speaker 1: because he was chosen, because he was anointed.

697
00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:07,399
Speaker 2: And for everybody who is in.

698
00:43:07,360 --> 00:43:11,400
Speaker 1: The cycle of self pity, of why is everybody always

699
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:16,840
Speaker 1: making withdrawals from me and not deposits because you're anointed?

700
00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:25,560
Speaker 1: Why doesn't anybody tell me good job because you're consistent.

701
00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:31,480
Speaker 1: They won't tell you good job when you do it consistently.

702
00:43:31,840 --> 00:43:34,360
Speaker 1: They'll tell you good job when they're surprised by it.

703
00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:36,520
Speaker 2: The moment they.

704
00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:40,560
Speaker 1: Stop being surprised, they stop saying something. Ask your kids,

705
00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:42,920
Speaker 1: who ate your peanut butter? And didn't say a word,

706
00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:46,120
Speaker 1: didn't even throw the jar away either, just left it

707
00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:49,840
Speaker 1: in there because they expect peanut butter in the pantry,

708
00:43:50,280 --> 00:43:53,640
Speaker 1: because they expect you to be on time, because they

709
00:43:53,719 --> 00:43:57,319
Speaker 1: expect you to be kind, and their expectation is the

710
00:43:57,360 --> 00:44:04,920
Speaker 1: greatest compliment. So don't cry about it. I told one preacher.

711
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:06,879
Speaker 1: One day, I said, you will know you're a good

712
00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:11,080
Speaker 1: preacher when people stop telling you good sermon, because they

713
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:13,759
Speaker 1: will become all of a sudden less concerned about you

714
00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:16,239
Speaker 1: and how you felt about it, and they will become

715
00:44:16,239 --> 00:44:18,239
Speaker 1: more concerned about them and what God spoke to them

716
00:44:18,239 --> 00:44:23,120
Speaker 1: through it. And I put this to you as a

717
00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:30,120
Speaker 1: personal challenge today. Are they running to you for a reason?

718
00:44:31,480 --> 00:44:35,719
Speaker 1: What did you think God annointed you for? What did

719
00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:37,439
Speaker 1: you think the oil was for?

720
00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:39,480
Speaker 2: What did you think.

721
00:44:39,360 --> 00:44:44,120
Speaker 1: God blessed you with that experience for? And you say, well,

722
00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:46,240
Speaker 1: they're using me? Uh uh?

723
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:49,520
Speaker 2: God is God?

724
00:44:49,680 --> 00:44:57,960
Speaker 1: Is the moment that the oil hit David's head?

725
00:44:58,000 --> 00:44:58,799
Speaker 2: He should have known?

726
00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:04,480
Speaker 1: Oh, because there is no crown where there are no caves.

727
00:45:05,719 --> 00:45:08,120
Speaker 1: So if God is going to do this thing for me,

728
00:45:08,560 --> 00:45:11,640
Speaker 1: there are going to be caves along the way. Oh

729
00:45:11,719 --> 00:45:13,840
Speaker 1: how I want to preach to everybody who has a

730
00:45:13,840 --> 00:45:17,000
Speaker 1: great dream. Oh how I want to preach to everybody

731
00:45:17,120 --> 00:45:20,320
Speaker 1: who wants to have a loving family or a righteous

732
00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:24,960
Speaker 1: life in Christ, that there will be caves along the way.

733
00:45:25,680 --> 00:45:29,040
Speaker 1: You will be confused along the way. Wait, I want

734
00:45:29,080 --> 00:45:32,799
Speaker 1: this and I'm reaching for that, and I feel this

735
00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:35,319
Speaker 1: and I'm doing that and I did that for them,

736
00:45:35,360 --> 00:45:37,560
Speaker 1: and they did that to me. Don't let the cave

737
00:45:37,680 --> 00:45:42,160
Speaker 1: confuse you. You're still anointed. Don't let their lack of

738
00:45:42,480 --> 00:45:44,280
Speaker 1: appreciation confuse you.

739
00:45:44,280 --> 00:45:47,960
Speaker 2: You're still anointed. Don't let the fact.

740
00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:50,399
Speaker 1: That they don't want to run with you anymore confuse you.

741
00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:53,280
Speaker 1: You're so anointed they don't want to go that direction anymore.

742
00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:53,920
Speaker 2: That's fine.

743
00:45:54,160 --> 00:46:00,319
Speaker 1: God to give you somebody else to run with, and

744
00:46:00,360 --> 00:46:06,120
Speaker 1: they might be three D, but you're just gonna have

745
00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:06,520
Speaker 1: to watch.

746
00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:07,960
Speaker 2: This is the heart of the message. Look at me.

747
00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:10,359
Speaker 1: This message is dedicated to my brother in law, who

748
00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:12,480
Speaker 1: just turned forty seven yesterday. I told him I'm gonna

749
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:14,719
Speaker 1: dedicate this message to him. Look at me, Jody, Do

750
00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:22,040
Speaker 1: it confused? Do it confused? David was used by God,

751
00:46:22,239 --> 00:46:24,520
Speaker 1: but in this moment of his life, he was very

752
00:46:24,560 --> 00:46:28,880
Speaker 1: confused about what God is doing. Can both be true? Absolutely?

753
00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:33,719
Speaker 1: I am very confused about what God is doing a

754
00:46:33,760 --> 00:46:36,319
Speaker 1: lot of the time that He is using me. Do

755
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:39,799
Speaker 1: you remember when Jesus knelt down and washed the disciple's feet.

756
00:46:40,440 --> 00:46:42,400
Speaker 2: He told them something very important.

757
00:46:42,440 --> 00:46:45,320
Speaker 1: He said, you do not understand what I do now,

758
00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:49,360
Speaker 1: but later you will. Sometimes you have to take a

759
00:46:49,440 --> 00:46:54,200
Speaker 1: lap and understand later. Sometimes you have to take a

760
00:46:54,320 --> 00:46:56,560
Speaker 1: lap and understand later.

761
00:46:57,080 --> 00:46:58,920
Speaker 2: Sometimes you have to take six.

762
00:46:58,760 --> 00:47:04,160
Speaker 1: Laps around the walls of Jericho and trust that something's

763
00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:08,440
Speaker 1: gonna happen when I blow this trumpet. Something's gonna happen

764
00:47:08,480 --> 00:47:14,000
Speaker 1: when I blow this trumpet. I come against the discouragement

765
00:47:14,120 --> 00:47:15,320
Speaker 1: in your spirit.

766
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:16,440
Speaker 2: That says, what's the point.

767
00:47:17,120 --> 00:47:20,320
Speaker 1: I come against the catalog in your mind that tells

768
00:47:20,360 --> 00:47:23,640
Speaker 1: you it was all in vain. I come against the

769
00:47:23,719 --> 00:47:26,400
Speaker 1: tears that you've cried because of who wasn't.

770
00:47:26,120 --> 00:47:27,120
Speaker 2: By your side.

771
00:47:27,640 --> 00:47:39,520
Speaker 1: Open your eyes. David is a king in a cave,

772
00:47:40,920 --> 00:47:46,440
Speaker 1: and so are you. So are you. He is running

773
00:47:46,960 --> 00:47:51,520
Speaker 1: from a king, and he's going to be a king.

774
00:47:52,160 --> 00:47:56,680
Speaker 1: But kings can be announced and anointed anywhere. That can

775
00:47:56,719 --> 00:48:03,960
Speaker 1: only be developed in caves. The thing in me that

776
00:48:04,120 --> 00:48:08,360
Speaker 1: needed to preach today needed to show up at age

777
00:48:08,440 --> 00:48:10,560
Speaker 1: eighteen and there were no kids.

778
00:48:11,640 --> 00:48:13,440
Speaker 2: It needed to be set.

779
00:48:13,160 --> 00:48:16,160
Speaker 1: Free from the need to do it because of approval.

780
00:48:17,200 --> 00:48:20,040
Speaker 1: I could not have delivered this word.

781
00:48:19,920 --> 00:48:22,239
Speaker 2: To you today without my caves.

782
00:48:23,040 --> 00:48:26,280
Speaker 1: And I am saying to you, my brother, my brother

783
00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:29,600
Speaker 1: in Christ, my sister in Christ, I don't know what

784
00:48:29,640 --> 00:48:32,680
Speaker 1: you're running from. I don't know if it's generational I

785
00:48:32,719 --> 00:48:34,759
Speaker 1: don't know if it's recent, I don't know if it's

786
00:48:34,760 --> 00:48:36,759
Speaker 1: been heightened. I don't know if it's other people. I

787
00:48:36,800 --> 00:48:38,960
Speaker 1: don't know if it's deep down inside of you. But

788
00:48:39,040 --> 00:48:45,799
Speaker 1: God said to tell you, don't waste this cave. Don't

789
00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:50,640
Speaker 1: waste this cave. Tell your neighbor, don't waste your cave.

790
00:48:52,280 --> 00:48:56,799
Speaker 1: Caves come with the territory. Everybody's running from something, everybody's

791
00:48:56,880 --> 00:48:59,759
Speaker 1: running after something. Paul said, I'm just not running a

792
00:49:00,200 --> 00:49:04,560
Speaker 1: less anymore, running around like a Christian with your head

793
00:49:04,560 --> 00:49:09,160
Speaker 1: cut off, not even thinking about it anymore, not even

794
00:49:09,200 --> 00:49:12,359
Speaker 1: strategizing it anymore. Look what David did in verse three.

795
00:49:12,600 --> 00:49:16,400
Speaker 1: The pressure was so overwhelming. He is already a fugitive.

796
00:49:16,680 --> 00:49:20,000
Speaker 1: He is already confused. He looks around and here's his

797
00:49:20,200 --> 00:49:23,840
Speaker 1: old dad and his old mom talking about, Hey, we

798
00:49:23,880 --> 00:49:26,040
Speaker 1: heard you were in the cave. We came to keep

799
00:49:26,080 --> 00:49:29,160
Speaker 1: you some company. Do you mean, Holly. This is the

800
00:49:29,200 --> 00:49:32,440
Speaker 1: same Jesse that didn't even bring David in from the

801
00:49:32,480 --> 00:49:34,640
Speaker 1: field when they were coming to get the king. But

802
00:49:34,760 --> 00:49:38,839
Speaker 1: now he needs him. And I'm gonna tell you something

803
00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:48,279
Speaker 1: very important about people. People see you, how they need you. Hmm.

804
00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:54,839
Speaker 1: That's why some people hate you and don't even know you.

805
00:49:57,560 --> 00:50:01,279
Speaker 1: They need you to be an enemy, because if they

806
00:50:01,280 --> 00:50:04,520
Speaker 1: make you an enemy, they don't have to take responsibility

807
00:50:06,600 --> 00:50:10,279
Speaker 1: and be honest with you. That's why some people think

808
00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:13,000
Speaker 1: too highly of you, because they need you to be

809
00:50:13,080 --> 00:50:18,360
Speaker 1: a savior, and the truth is you're neither. So in

810
00:50:18,440 --> 00:50:25,840
Speaker 1: the moment that the three D Army, the dysfunctional Army,

811
00:50:26,440 --> 00:50:31,520
Speaker 1: the three D Army of dysfunctional derelicts, arrives at David's

812
00:50:31,560 --> 00:50:35,719
Speaker 1: door with his mom and dad. He goes to Moab.

813
00:50:36,200 --> 00:50:39,479
Speaker 1: You remember anything about Moab? Remember a lady named Ruth,

814
00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:45,680
Speaker 1: David's great grandmother. He had moabike blood, but Moab wasn't

815
00:50:45,680 --> 00:50:47,640
Speaker 1: his home. But he had to leave his home for

816
00:50:47,640 --> 00:50:49,960
Speaker 1: a little while, and he took his parents to Moab,

817
00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:51,680
Speaker 1: and he went to the king of Moab, who wasn't

818
00:50:51,719 --> 00:50:54,000
Speaker 1: exactly his friend, and he said, in verse three for

819
00:50:54,160 --> 00:50:56,400
Speaker 1: Samuel twenty two, this most anointed verse I've read in

820
00:50:56,400 --> 00:50:58,320
Speaker 1: a long time in this church. He said, would you

821
00:50:58,440 --> 00:51:00,399
Speaker 1: let my father and mother come stay with you until

822
00:51:00,440 --> 00:51:04,480
Speaker 1: I learn what God will do for me. My senses

823
00:51:04,480 --> 00:51:06,879
Speaker 1: were heightened and my attention was riveted by the word

824
00:51:07,040 --> 00:51:14,560
Speaker 1: until until, Because when the oil hit my head, and

825
00:51:14,600 --> 00:51:17,000
Speaker 1: when it flowed in it and it ran all the

826
00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:22,120
Speaker 1: way down. It ran for a reason, but I'm not

827
00:51:22,160 --> 00:51:26,200
Speaker 1: sure what it is yet. I know God speaking to

828
00:51:26,200 --> 00:51:29,399
Speaker 1: me about some things. I know there are some things

829
00:51:29,400 --> 00:51:31,279
Speaker 1: that he's pruning off my life right now, but I

830
00:51:31,320 --> 00:51:37,480
Speaker 1: don't know yet. And I'm not even doubting God's capacity

831
00:51:37,560 --> 00:51:42,080
Speaker 1: at this moment. I'm just lacking clarity. Listen to that again.

832
00:51:42,760 --> 00:51:48,919
Speaker 1: You're not doubting his capacity. You're lacking clarity. And David said,

833
00:51:48,920 --> 00:51:52,160
Speaker 1: this is too much for me right now, he prayed God.

834
00:51:52,280 --> 00:51:54,040
Speaker 1: I had no one to support me, and I look

835
00:51:54,080 --> 00:51:56,640
Speaker 1: at me, Look at me. You can be surrounded and

836
00:51:56,680 --> 00:52:03,719
Speaker 1: still not supported. You can have fifty thousand friends on

837
00:52:03,760 --> 00:52:07,840
Speaker 1: your phone and no one to be intimate with. You

838
00:52:07,880 --> 00:52:10,160
Speaker 1: can live in the house with them, breathe the air

839
00:52:10,200 --> 00:52:13,000
Speaker 1: with them, share the food with them, and still not

840
00:52:13,040 --> 00:52:18,160
Speaker 1: feel like you're one of them. And now David is

841
00:52:18,360 --> 00:52:23,000
Speaker 1: charged with the task of receiving his own family.

842
00:52:24,160 --> 00:52:27,960
Speaker 2: He is running from a king, and he is becoming

843
00:52:28,000 --> 00:52:28,560
Speaker 2: a king.

844
00:52:29,320 --> 00:52:33,000
Speaker 1: And he is about to occupy an office that he

845
00:52:33,040 --> 00:52:37,440
Speaker 1: did not even run for. There was no process of

846
00:52:37,520 --> 00:52:41,319
Speaker 1: David putting himself forth as a candidate for king. I'm

847
00:52:41,320 --> 00:52:43,480
Speaker 1: here to preach to somebody today. You didn't ask for

848
00:52:43,520 --> 00:52:47,839
Speaker 1: this battle. You did not even ask for this. You

849
00:52:47,880 --> 00:52:50,800
Speaker 1: didn't even know what it was. You did not point

850
00:52:50,840 --> 00:52:53,480
Speaker 1: to that item on the menu. You did not say

851
00:52:53,520 --> 00:52:55,600
Speaker 1: I want to deal with this. You did not ask

852
00:52:55,640 --> 00:52:59,360
Speaker 1: to be raised that way, exposed to that thing, dealing

853
00:52:59,400 --> 00:53:02,000
Speaker 1: with that thing. You did not plant it. But now

854
00:53:02,040 --> 00:53:04,480
Speaker 1: you are having to deal with the weeds of it. Well,

855
00:53:04,560 --> 00:53:09,800
Speaker 1: what then, what then? What is the answer for those

856
00:53:09,840 --> 00:53:15,680
Speaker 1: of us who are living in the until Because the

857
00:53:15,719 --> 00:53:19,800
Speaker 1: truth of the matter is, David was anointed long before

858
00:53:19,840 --> 00:53:23,200
Speaker 1: the others knew it. I want to say about you

859
00:53:23,280 --> 00:53:25,600
Speaker 1: that what will be true of you in the future

860
00:53:26,560 --> 00:53:27,880
Speaker 1: is true of you right now.

861
00:53:29,520 --> 00:53:33,080
Speaker 2: You are a king even in this cave.

862
00:53:34,680 --> 00:53:38,400
Speaker 1: You are valuable, even though no one else sees it.

863
00:53:38,520 --> 00:53:41,080
Speaker 1: Right now. There are times when I'm preaching you just

864
00:53:41,120 --> 00:53:43,920
Speaker 1: have to believe me where the Holy Spirit is giving

865
00:53:43,960 --> 00:53:47,239
Speaker 1: me what to say. And it is for somebody, and

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Speaker 1: I do not know who that it is. But God

867
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Speaker 1: is calling you watch this, saying this cave that you

868
00:53:56,000 --> 00:54:00,680
Speaker 1: have been in is closed for business because I have

869
00:54:00,880 --> 00:54:04,600
Speaker 1: more for your future and I need you to move forward.

870
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Speaker 1: Even though you're confused. You imagine a faith of that

871
00:54:11,880 --> 00:54:16,600
Speaker 1: might to come out of a cave and to go

872
00:54:16,640 --> 00:54:19,080
Speaker 1: to Moab and say, can you take care of my parents?

873
00:54:19,320 --> 00:54:21,759
Speaker 1: I don't know what God's gonna do. I don't know

874
00:54:21,880 --> 00:54:24,000
Speaker 1: how this report is going to turn out. I don't

875
00:54:24,080 --> 00:54:26,239
Speaker 1: know if my kid's gonna come back. I thought they

876
00:54:26,239 --> 00:54:28,960
Speaker 1: were the last time, but that was just a false alarm,

877
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Speaker 1: and they're still not doing well.

878
00:54:30,920 --> 00:54:36,520
Speaker 2: I don't know, Bud. Will you keep what's important to

879
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Speaker 2: me even in my confusion?

880
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Speaker 1: And I just pictured somebody in here today that you've

881
00:54:45,080 --> 00:54:49,960
Speaker 1: been running with weights that God does not intend for

882
00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:54,040
Speaker 1: you to carry forward into your future. There are some

883
00:54:54,120 --> 00:54:57,640
Speaker 1: things that you need to drop for what God has

884
00:54:57,719 --> 00:55:02,640
Speaker 1: called you to do. Expectation of where you should have

885
00:55:02,680 --> 00:55:06,600
Speaker 1: been by now, the guilt that Christ paid for and

886
00:55:06,719 --> 00:55:10,000
Speaker 1: nailed to his cross. Would you put that behind you

887
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Speaker 1: so that you can run the race that is marked

888
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Speaker 1: out for you. And while you're at it, stop looking

889
00:55:18,320 --> 00:55:22,759
Speaker 1: around at other people's race. God has called you to

890
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Speaker 1: run at your pace for this season.

891
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Speaker 2: And I found out something about God, and I found out.

892
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Speaker 1: Something about the enemy, And it's this. When God puts

893
00:55:40,040 --> 00:55:46,080
Speaker 1: something significant in me, the enemy sends something significant after me.

894
00:55:50,480 --> 00:55:54,160
Speaker 1: You should have known the moment that the oil hit

895
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Speaker 1: your head that this was not going to be easy.

896
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Speaker 2: You should have known the moment that you.

897
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Speaker 1: Survived the car accident that there's a reason the devil

898
00:56:03,520 --> 00:56:07,080
Speaker 1: tried to end my life right there. There is something

899
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Speaker 1: ahead of me that is so great it makes the

900
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Speaker 1: devil afraid. And that is the reason I run, because

901
00:56:19,080 --> 00:56:23,719
Speaker 1: I figure if the enemy sent something against me in

902
00:56:23,800 --> 00:56:26,799
Speaker 1: this season to try to get me to abandon it,

903
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Speaker 1: there must be something ahead of me.

904
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Speaker 2: That's absolutely amazing.

905
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Speaker 1: That it's amazing what's ahead of you, broke, It's amazing

906
00:56:43,480 --> 00:56:48,680
Speaker 1: what's ahead of you. Man, your kids are gonna talk

907
00:56:48,680 --> 00:56:52,799
Speaker 1: about that. He did it with the weight of the

908
00:56:52,880 --> 00:57:04,160
Speaker 1: world on his shoulders. There's something amazing in you. Mom

909
00:57:04,280 --> 00:57:10,360
Speaker 1: carried all that and she still carried us. So the

910
00:57:10,400 --> 00:57:18,480
Speaker 1: Lord said, make me your stronghold. Make me your stronghold.

911
00:57:19,840 --> 00:57:26,560
Speaker 1: You'll need that cave when you're called your cover. And

912
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Speaker 1: the prophet told David, I know you're running, and I

913
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Speaker 1: know there's a reason, but look at verse five. Do

914
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Speaker 1: not stay in the stronghold. What is a stronghold church?

915
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Speaker 1: It is a place of temporary protection. It is meant

916
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Speaker 1: to be visited, but not lived. In some of the

917
00:57:48,640 --> 00:57:52,000
Speaker 1: ways that you developed to deal with your life. They

918
00:57:52,000 --> 00:57:55,640
Speaker 1: were temporary and they served a purpose. But they're over now.

919
00:57:57,000 --> 00:58:01,760
Speaker 2: They're over now. And the prophet named.

920
00:58:01,560 --> 00:58:06,240
Speaker 1: God told David something. He said, go to Judah. Why

921
00:58:06,440 --> 00:58:09,680
Speaker 1: Judah put the verse up? Please verse five? Go to

922
00:58:09,840 --> 00:58:15,240
Speaker 1: Judah because that was the place David was from, and

923
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Speaker 1: that was the place where he would be anointed, and

924
00:58:18,760 --> 00:58:21,760
Speaker 1: that was the place where he would be covered, and

925
00:58:21,800 --> 00:58:25,600
Speaker 1: that was the place he would be protected. So God says,

926
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Speaker 1: I will cover you in every place that I call

927
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Speaker 1: you to. Would you come out of the stronghold? Would

928
00:58:36,120 --> 00:58:38,320
Speaker 1: you come out of the stronghold just for a moment today.

929
00:58:39,680 --> 00:58:41,760
Speaker 1: I know the cave felt safe for a season, but

930
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Speaker 1: the cave is closed now. I know you kind of

931
00:58:45,200 --> 00:58:47,000
Speaker 1: had to be like that for a season to get

932
00:58:47,000 --> 00:58:48,760
Speaker 1: through it. And I know you were trying to prove something,

933
00:58:48,800 --> 00:58:50,880
Speaker 1: having sex with every different woman to try to prove

934
00:58:50,920 --> 00:58:53,320
Speaker 1: something that you never received in your childhood. But would

935
00:58:53,320 --> 00:58:54,880
Speaker 1: you come out of that now? It's time to grow up.

936
00:58:56,440 --> 00:58:58,280
Speaker 1: God's got something with your name on it to make

937
00:58:58,320 --> 00:59:00,400
Speaker 1: a difference in the earth, and it's not just about

938
00:59:00,440 --> 00:59:06,000
Speaker 1: you anymore. Come to Judah with me. Judah is the

939
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Speaker 1: tribe that David is from, and Judah is the name

940
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Speaker 1: that means praise. I found it significant that when David

941
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Speaker 1: left the cave, God called him to a place that

942
00:59:14,840 --> 00:59:18,680
Speaker 1: meant literally praise. I think it is a sign that

943
00:59:18,720 --> 00:59:21,760
Speaker 1: when we praise God in the place where we are,

944
00:59:23,080 --> 00:59:25,680
Speaker 1: I said, when we praise God in the place where

945
00:59:25,680 --> 00:59:31,800
Speaker 1: we are, yeah, that God begins to move, that the

946
00:59:31,840 --> 00:59:37,160
Speaker 1: oil begins to flow. And I don't run for nothing.

947
00:59:38,600 --> 00:59:43,240
Speaker 1: Everybody runs, but I'm running for something. I'm running with someone.

948
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Speaker 1: And the Lord told me that if I can't run anymore,

949
00:59:46,320 --> 00:59:51,080
Speaker 1: he'll lift me up on wings like eagles. So I

950
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Speaker 1: appreciate the cave, but I'm already covered. I appreciate the cave,

951
01:00:00,560 --> 01:00:04,280
Speaker 1: but I'm already covered. Father, in the name of Jesus,

952
01:00:05,120 --> 01:00:07,800
Speaker 1: I thank you for the blood that covers me today.

953
01:00:08,440 --> 01:00:10,440
Speaker 1: I thank you for the times in my life that

954
01:00:10,520 --> 01:00:13,880
Speaker 1: I've known it to be true that while I was

955
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Speaker 1: praying in a cave, you were sending people Hallelujah. You

956
01:00:20,200 --> 01:00:25,160
Speaker 1: were making plans, Thank you, Jesus, And you were fulfilling purpose,

957
01:00:26,320 --> 01:00:33,720
Speaker 1: sending people, making plans, fulfilling purpose. I declare your word

958
01:00:33,800 --> 01:00:37,440
Speaker 1: over this church. Jeremiah twenty nine to eleven says for

959
01:00:37,600 --> 01:00:41,800
Speaker 1: I know the plans I have for you that just

960
01:00:41,840 --> 01:00:44,040
Speaker 1: because we are not aware of them does not mean

961
01:00:44,040 --> 01:00:47,720
Speaker 1: they are not active. God. I come against everything that

962
01:00:47,880 --> 01:00:51,160
Speaker 1: shoved those kings in those caves. I come against everything

963
01:00:51,200 --> 01:00:55,320
Speaker 1: that has told this child of God, this individual, that

964
01:00:55,400 --> 01:00:58,720
Speaker 1: they will never be what you've called them. And right now,

965
01:00:58,760 --> 01:01:02,680
Speaker 1: in the name of Jesus, I thank you for your covering,

966
01:01:03,200 --> 01:01:10,040
Speaker 1: protecting presence over our families. Said, I allow, devil, in

967
01:01:10,080 --> 01:01:14,480
Speaker 1: the name of Jesus, you can't have my kids. They're covered.

968
01:01:15,160 --> 01:01:17,440
Speaker 2: Now start clapping like you know your kids are covered.

969
01:01:19,240 --> 01:01:24,640
Speaker 1: Oh, thank you Jesus. I am cover.

970
01:01:31,760 --> 01:01:33,160
Speaker 2: Try this devil.

971
01:01:34,280 --> 01:01:38,880
Speaker 3: You can't have my mind it's covered. Can't have my

972
01:01:39,000 --> 01:01:45,600
Speaker 3: heart it's covered. Can't have my vision is covered. And

973
01:01:45,720 --> 01:01:47,680
Speaker 3: I declare that.

974
01:01:47,800 --> 01:01:54,640
Speaker 1: In Christ, I am a new creation. I am a

975
01:01:54,920 --> 01:02:00,120
Speaker 1: child of God, and I'm running this race in the

976
01:02:00,120 --> 01:02:03,960
Speaker 1: strength of Jesus. Come on, give God a great prayer.

977
01:02:05,960 --> 01:02:16,560
Speaker 1: Hit back to Judah. Hit back to Judah. There's a strong, annoying.

978
01:02:16,600 --> 01:02:18,800
Speaker 1: Bow your head, close your eyes. Somebody needs to come

979
01:02:18,840 --> 01:02:21,320
Speaker 1: to Jesus right now. You need to run to Jesus

980
01:02:21,440 --> 01:02:24,760
Speaker 1: right now. He's already running to you. The Bible says

981
01:02:24,800 --> 01:02:27,040
Speaker 1: in the story of the Prodigal Son, the father ran

982
01:02:27,160 --> 01:02:31,080
Speaker 1: toward his son. God is running towards you, running with forgiveness,

983
01:02:31,280 --> 01:02:34,520
Speaker 1: running for your redemption, running to receive you with arms

984
01:02:34,520 --> 01:02:37,440
Speaker 1: open wide. All you gotta do is repent. All you

985
01:02:37,520 --> 01:02:39,960
Speaker 1: got to do is say God, I'm here. I'm sorry

986
01:02:40,000 --> 01:02:42,360
Speaker 1: that I ran from you. I was running from you

987
01:02:42,400 --> 01:02:44,840
Speaker 1: when I should have been running to you. There's somebody

988
01:02:44,880 --> 01:02:48,520
Speaker 1: here today. You need to receive Jesus. This is your chance.

989
01:02:48,880 --> 01:02:50,800
Speaker 1: I want to pray a prayer with you. If you

990
01:02:50,840 --> 01:02:53,560
Speaker 1: will pray this prayer from your heart. The Bible says

991
01:02:53,560 --> 01:02:56,560
Speaker 1: that God will hear you from heaven. He will forgive

992
01:02:56,640 --> 01:02:59,640
Speaker 1: your sin. He will give you his grace, and he

993
01:02:59,680 --> 01:03:02,760
Speaker 1: will make you new. You will be born again, You

994
01:03:02,880 --> 01:03:06,760
Speaker 1: will be saved. This is your moment. Repeat after me,

995
01:03:06,880 --> 01:03:11,600
Speaker 1: Heavenly Father. I am a sinner in need of a savior.

996
01:03:12,480 --> 01:03:16,840
Speaker 1: And I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of

997
01:03:16,880 --> 01:03:21,680
Speaker 1: God and the savior of the world. And today I

998
01:03:21,840 --> 01:03:26,080
Speaker 1: make Jesus the lord of my life. I believe he

999
01:03:26,160 --> 01:03:31,200
Speaker 1: died that I would be forgiven and rose again to

1000
01:03:31,240 --> 01:03:36,480
Speaker 1: give me life. I receive this new life. This is

1001
01:03:37,160 --> 01:03:39,920
Speaker 1: my new beginning on the counter of three shoots your

1002
01:03:39,920 --> 01:03:41,200
Speaker 1: hand up if you prayed that prayer.

1003
01:03:41,200 --> 01:03:44,080
Speaker 2: I want to celebrate you. What two? Three? Shoot it up,

1004
01:03:44,120 --> 01:03:46,040
Speaker 2: Shoot it up, shoot it up.

1005
01:03:46,880 --> 01:03:49,800
Speaker 1: I see it. God bless you.

1006
01:03:51,280 --> 01:03:56,959
Speaker 2: Incredible. Come on, we can do better than that. I said,

1007
01:03:57,040 --> 01:03:58,320
Speaker 2: we can do better than that.

1008
01:04:01,520 --> 01:04:06,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, high five. At least three people say I'm

1009
01:04:06,920 --> 01:04:13,480
Speaker 1: running for a reason. Campus pastors, you can have it, Valentine,

1010
01:04:13,560 --> 01:04:17,120
Speaker 1: look at me this week. You got something to run for,

1011
01:04:18,400 --> 01:04:21,520
Speaker 1: and you got someone to run with. You are not

1012
01:04:21,640 --> 01:04:25,800
Speaker 1: alone in this thing, you hear me. I know it

1013
01:04:25,840 --> 01:04:30,800
Speaker 1: feels lonely to be chosen. Sometimes you're not alone, You're chosen.

1014
01:04:32,400 --> 01:04:36,200
Speaker 1: The two feel the same. Sometime you're not alone, you're chosen.

1015
01:04:37,200 --> 01:04:42,120
Speaker 1: Tell somebody you're chosen. That's why you're running. That's why

1016
01:04:42,120 --> 01:04:46,880
Speaker 1: the devil's chasing you. You're chosen. But guess what, what

1017
01:04:46,960 --> 01:04:50,000
Speaker 1: I'm running toward is greater than what I'm running from.

1018
01:04:50,040 --> 01:04:55,479
Speaker 1: So I'll see you on the next slap and now,

1019
01:04:55,560 --> 01:04:59,160
Speaker 1: unto him, lift your hands. Who is able to do

1020
01:04:59,240 --> 01:05:01,880
Speaker 1: immeasurably more than you ask or imagine.

1021
01:05:02,120 --> 01:05:05,600
Speaker 2: To him, be glory through Christ Jesus in the church.

1022
01:05:06,160 --> 01:05:11,200
Speaker 2: Now and forever. I find somebody say, run your race.

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01:05:13,600 --> 01:05:16,160
Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us. Special thanks to those of

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01:05:16,200 --> 01:05:19,160
Speaker 1: you who give generously to this ministry. Is because of

1025
01:05:19,200 --> 01:05:22,160
Speaker 1: you that this ministry is possible. You can click the

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Speaker 1: link in the description to give now, or visit Elevationchurch

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Speaker 1: dot org slash podcast for more information and if you

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01:05:29,400 --> 01:05:32,640
Speaker 1: enjoyed the podcast, you can subscribe. You can share it

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Speaker 1: tag us at Elevation Church. Thanks again for listening. God

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Speaker 1: bless you