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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.

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Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today.

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Speaker 1: Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith.

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Speaker 2: Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving

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Speaker 2: in your life.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy the message.

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Speaker 2: I was telling my friend that I wanted to preach

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Speaker 2: a series on David and the Psalms. I said, I'm

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Speaker 2: gonna call it bars and battles, and he goes, I

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Speaker 2: didn't know David was in prison. I said, no, man

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Speaker 2: like bars, like bars, like hip hop bars, music measures

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Speaker 2: of music, four beats bars And you didn't get it,

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Speaker 2: So I said, I kind of ruined the punchline. But

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Speaker 2: I do want to set up one thing before I

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Speaker 2: go to my scripture today, and that is I want

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Speaker 2: to solve the debate of who is the greatest rapper

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Speaker 2: of all time. Of course I'm qualified to speak to

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Speaker 2: this subject, having grown up in Monk's Corner, South Carolina,

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Speaker 2: the epicenter of hip hop and the greatest rapper of

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Speaker 2: all time. Please withhold, suspend your judgment and throw stuff

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Speaker 2: at the stage when I tell you this, But the

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Speaker 2: greatest rapper of all time is not Biggie. Did I

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Speaker 2: just break your heart already? The greatest rapper of all

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Speaker 2: time is not Tupac. Sorry Poc. If you're watching from Cuba,

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Speaker 2: Thacs thacks now, jay Z.

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Speaker 1: Not Kanye, you seem to be in full agreement, not

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Speaker 1: eminem now j Cole.

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Speaker 2: I know that North Carolina pride makes you want to

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Speaker 2: I know, not Kendrick. I love Kendrick. I love Kendrick Cleaners.

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Speaker 2: But the greatest rapper of all time, of course, is

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Speaker 2: King d King.

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Speaker 1: David.

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Speaker 2: His songs, his bars have been topping the charts for

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Speaker 2: three thousand years.

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Speaker 1: That's pretty strong.

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Speaker 2: And I know what you think about the psalms, how

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Speaker 2: comforting they are and how cute they are, But I

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Speaker 2: want to show you that the psalms are more.

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Speaker 1: Like hip hop than they are like Hallmark.

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Speaker 2: Let's take a look today at Psalm fifty nine, and

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Speaker 2: I'm really excited to share this with you. This series

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Speaker 2: is going to help us get real with God. And

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Speaker 2: this series is going to help us get past the

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Speaker 2: nice things that we think we need to say to

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Speaker 2: God to convince him that we're doing better than we are,

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Speaker 2: even though he knows the full condition and intents of

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Speaker 2: our hearts and show us how that some of the

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Speaker 2: greatest bars come from some of the greatest battles. Of course,

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Speaker 2: through the scriptures, we get a portrait of David, who

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Speaker 2: is a victorious warrior and a giant slayer and a

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Speaker 2: great king, the most beloved king that Israel ever knew.

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Speaker 2: But we also have the benefit of reading not only

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Speaker 2: what was written about him, but what was written by him.

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Speaker 2: And so when you see that little book close to

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Speaker 2: the middle of your Bible called Psalms, it is over

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Speaker 2: half attributed to King David. And so we not only

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Speaker 2: see what was going on in his life, but we

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Speaker 2: see what was going on in his soul. And we

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Speaker 2: all have things that people see that we go through.

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Speaker 2: And then we have that other part, the stuff that

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Speaker 2: we don't say, the enemies that we don't talk about

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Speaker 2: in our e group because they're sitting next to us

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Speaker 2: and they're called our spouse. Okay, let's go to Psalm

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Speaker 2: fifty nine. Please look at this with me before I

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Speaker 2: say too much. It's only week one. Pace yourself verdict.

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Speaker 2: You are my strength.

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Speaker 1: Verse nine. I watch for you.

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Speaker 2: You God are my fortress, my God on whom I

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Speaker 2: don't you want to screenshot that and put it on

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Speaker 2: Put it in a cursive font, a pink cursive font,

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Speaker 2: Make a motivational poster out of Psalm fifty nine. You

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Speaker 2: you are my strength. I watch for you. You God

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Speaker 2: are my fortress, my God on whom I can rely.

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Speaker 1: Don't you love the psalms? Raise your hand if you.

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Speaker 2: Love that, to know that God is her strength and

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Speaker 2: Say, God will go before me. How many are grateful

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Speaker 2: don't know what's there, but He knows what's there. That's

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Speaker 2: to know that God has already been there. You will

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Speaker 2: go before me and will let me gloat over those

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Speaker 2: who slander me. Whoh took a little turn, there, took

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Speaker 2: But do not kill them, Lord, our shield or my

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Speaker 2: Uproot them and bring them down. For the sins of

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Speaker 2: they are no more. And now I'm confused because this

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Speaker 2: started as a devotion and it turned into a disc track.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if this is David or if this

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Speaker 2: Then it will be known to the ends of the

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Speaker 1: But I will sing of your strength in the morning.

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Speaker 2: I will sing of your love, for you are my fortress,

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Speaker 2: my refuge of trouble. I want to let you know

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Speaker 2: today that you have the upper hand turn to somebody

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Speaker 2: and let them know I have.

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Speaker 1: The upper hand. Come on, let's get started.

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Speaker 2: Spirit of God, speak to our hearts today in such

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Speaker 2: a powerful way that we will never forget this encounter

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Speaker 2: with you. Show us who you are and who we are,

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Speaker 2: and make up the difference in our lives for all

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Speaker 2: that we are not. Be something God right now that

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Speaker 2: we don't even know that we need speak something that

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Speaker 2: we don't even know.

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Speaker 1: We need to hear, deposit.

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Speaker 2: Something that we didn't even know we were walking around

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Speaker 2: praise in advance in Jesus' name.

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Speaker 1: Amen. So the question I have is.

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Speaker 2: What could David have been going through at this point

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Speaker 1: You saw it for yourself. It was a psalm sandwich.

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Speaker 2: The strength of God and the struggles of his life

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Speaker 2: the ability to take down giants. But what surprises me

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Speaker 2: and I want to talk to you from three points

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Speaker 2: to give you all three points. I want to talk

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Speaker 2: about the wars, the weapons, and the way the wars,

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Speaker 1: The Scripture declares.

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Speaker 2: times where I do not feel his love? The scripture

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Speaker 2: then that I feel under siege? It is into this

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Speaker 2: And you know, some of the psalms that are written,

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Speaker 2: that is recorded in scripture in First Samuel nineteen. Now

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Speaker 2: please understand once again that God is not your refuge

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Speaker 2: from trouble, but He is your refuge in trouble. That understanding,

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Speaker 1: You're in training.

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Speaker 2: What you see as trouble, God sees as training. And

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Speaker 2: I'm going to try not to holler and scream today,

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Speaker 1: But go over to.

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Speaker 2: And God didn't speak it to him like Joseph in

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Speaker 1: How many of you.

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Speaker 2: Have never heard a good Bible sermon about David and Goliath?

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Speaker 1: I need to see if you never heard.

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Speaker 2: This story about David and Goliath, well, I'm not going

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Speaker 2: spoiler alert, Goliath goes down. By the way, for every

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Speaker 2: Goliath in your life, spoiler.

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Speaker 1: Alert, he goes down.

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Speaker 2: He might be bigger, he might be loud, he might

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Speaker 2: be defiant. You might have never seen a paddle like

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Speaker 1: Heck, can I show you something?

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Speaker 2: When David stood before Goliath before he hit him with

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Speaker 1: Can I show you? Can I show you?

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Speaker 2: Because you didn't know that David was the original battle rapper.

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Speaker 1: You always saw him in your mind.

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Speaker 2: You saw him with a harp and a lamb in

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Speaker 2: He looks at Goliath and begins to declare what God

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Speaker 2: like he's fighting David. But I wonder how many times

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Speaker 2: in my life I thought I was fighting someone, and

444
00:25:56,280 --> 00:25:56,880
Speaker 2: I thought.

445
00:25:56,720 --> 00:25:58,159
Speaker 1: I was fighting something.

446
00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:04,080
Speaker 2: But the real fight, the real war, the real battle,

447
00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:08,399
Speaker 2: was not the battle with them, It was the battle within.

448
00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:10,600
Speaker 1: See.

449
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Speaker 2: I want to preach about David, but before I preach

450
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Speaker 2: about David, I.

451
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Speaker 1: Need to confess to you.

452
00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:18,399
Speaker 2: There have been times in my life where I have

453
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Speaker 2: been Saul. I've been fighting the wrong battles. I've been

454
00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:26,400
Speaker 2: trying to kill what God was trying to use. I've

455
00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:31,119
Speaker 2: been exploding at people and freaking out on people, and

456
00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:32,000
Speaker 2: in a bad.

457
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Speaker 1: Mood with people.

458
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Speaker 2: And if they would just know, if I would just

459
00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:39,000
Speaker 2: if I would bless the Lord, if I could get

460
00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:42,480
Speaker 2: myself right, if I could get my mind right, if

461
00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:45,200
Speaker 2: I could get my eyes fixed, if I could get

462
00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:52,120
Speaker 2: it together. Let's see, Saul, Saul is a walking, talking

463
00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:56,040
Speaker 2: civil war, and he is taking out what is happening

464
00:26:56,080 --> 00:27:01,480
Speaker 2: within himself on the closest available target. Parents do it

465
00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:04,800
Speaker 2: all the time to their children. It's not that you

466
00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:07,680
Speaker 2: don't love them. You love them more than you love yourself.

467
00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:12,880
Speaker 2: But you don't love yourself, and so you cannot give

468
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:14,400
Speaker 2: them the love for them that you have.

469
00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:15,280
Speaker 1: If there is not a.

470
00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:17,760
Speaker 2: Love from God that flows to you, you are not

471
00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:22,720
Speaker 2: fighting them. Stop yelling at your wife. And by the way,

472
00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:25,639
Speaker 2: let me preach to myself. Stop with the road rage.

473
00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:29,240
Speaker 2: It's not about the prius. There is something going wrong

474
00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:32,560
Speaker 2: in your heartfverdict when a prius can make you freak

475
00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:41,720
Speaker 2: out and speed up to eighty three. I am fighting myself.

476
00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:47,400
Speaker 2: I am fighting myself. And when I am at war

477
00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:51,040
Speaker 2: within myself, and when I am a wretched man, and

478
00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:53,919
Speaker 2: when I am when I am when I am fighting

479
00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:58,960
Speaker 2: with what Paul costs the weapons of this world, when

480
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:03,800
Speaker 2: I am fighting within myself and fighting against the very

481
00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:07,159
Speaker 2: things that God is trying to use in my life,

482
00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:13,880
Speaker 2: and slinging spears at David, the very one that God

483
00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:18,080
Speaker 2: sent to fight my battles. I wonder, are you trying

484
00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:20,479
Speaker 2: to kill something that God is trying to use in

485
00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:31,119
Speaker 2: your life. I want to preach about David, but before

486
00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:34,439
Speaker 2: I can get there, because I.

487
00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:35,840
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie to you. I want to be

488
00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:39,320
Speaker 1: David so bad. I want to be a man.

489
00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:45,760
Speaker 3: After God's on her. I want to kill Goliath. I

490
00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:50,360
Speaker 3: think it'd be cool to kill Goliath. I want to

491
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:54,520
Speaker 3: say tambourines. I want to I want.

492
00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:54,959
Speaker 1: To be David.

493
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Speaker 4: But sometimes I'm sold, some times I'm saw. Sometimes I'm

494
00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:16,600
Speaker 4: fighting against what I should be fighting for. So now

495
00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:18,320
Speaker 4: David has a choice to make, and so do you.

496
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:21,720
Speaker 4: And this is the decision that we see again and

497
00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:23,920
Speaker 4: again in a series. This is just the syllabus, This

498
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:24,760
Speaker 4: is not the class.

499
00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:28,080
Speaker 1: Is that.

500
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:38,920
Speaker 2: You have to decide which weapons to use when and Saul,

501
00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:42,480
Speaker 2: in his attempt to spear David misses and hits the wall.

502
00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:46,400
Speaker 2: I noticed a contrast, it said, I don't know if

503
00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:47,720
Speaker 2: you could put it back up for me, where it

504
00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:50,200
Speaker 2: says that Saul was sitting in his house with his

505
00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:57,200
Speaker 2: hand on the spear, and David had his hand on

506
00:29:57,240 --> 00:30:01,200
Speaker 2: the harp, he had his hand on the liar, he

507
00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:02,920
Speaker 2: had his hand on the string instrument.

508
00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:06,080
Speaker 1: Because I was thinking.

509
00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:08,640
Speaker 2: That, you know, if this is a game of rock

510
00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:13,960
Speaker 2: paper scissors, which one do you want spear.

511
00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:17,480
Speaker 1: Javelin or harp.

512
00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:24,120
Speaker 2: You choose, Come on, turn to your neighbor, rock, paper, scissors, spear.

513
00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:25,040
Speaker 1: I want the spear.

514
00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:34,600
Speaker 2: And when Saul misses, David has a decision because the

515
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:35,520
Speaker 2: Bible says that.

516
00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:40,680
Speaker 1: His spear stuck into the wall.

517
00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:43,760
Speaker 2: And now, so here's the decision that I have to make.

518
00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:49,760
Speaker 2: Do I take my hand off the harp and grab

519
00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:53,040
Speaker 2: the spear and throw it back. Because if there's one

520
00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:57,880
Speaker 2: thing we know about David, he doesn't miss. Ask Eliath

521
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Speaker 2: about David's aim. If you're gonna throw a spirit, David,

522
00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:06,200
Speaker 2: you better lock it in because if he throws it back,

523
00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:09,720
Speaker 2: I assure you it will not end up in the wall.

524
00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:11,440
Speaker 1: He will off your head.

525
00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:15,520
Speaker 2: So before you throw a spirit, David, take aim. You

526
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:21,600
Speaker 2: will not get a second chance. But David does what

527
00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:26,800
Speaker 2: must have been the hardest thing he ever did. Nothing.

528
00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:33,000
Speaker 2: Do you know how hard it is when you have

529
00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:39,080
Speaker 2: a reputation for killing giants to not fight back when

530
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:40,480
Speaker 2: you have the opportunity.

531
00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:45,200
Speaker 1: Do you know how hard it is when you have the.

532
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:49,920
Speaker 2: Opportunity to manipulate a situation and control a situation and

533
00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:51,480
Speaker 2: to try to get people to do what you want.

534
00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:53,440
Speaker 2: And they said this about me and I'm gonna say

535
00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:57,360
Speaker 2: it back. Oh God, I wish you could see some

536
00:31:57,360 --> 00:32:00,120
Speaker 2: of the replies I write the people on Facebook that

537
00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:01,680
Speaker 2: I never publish.

538
00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:10,320
Speaker 5: They are poetic. Throw it back. I can hit you

539
00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:12,080
Speaker 5: with this. I do words.

540
00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:13,160
Speaker 1: I can talk.

541
00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:15,960
Speaker 2: I can't fix a car, I can't bake a cake.

542
00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:17,400
Speaker 1: But I can talk.

543
00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:27,240
Speaker 2: And David can throw and he doesn't. He does something weird.

544
00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:34,400
Speaker 2: He ducks. David ducks.

545
00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:46,320
Speaker 1: David. Let's do it ducks because he has no other choice. Really,

546
00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:49,240
Speaker 1: the harp is not a portable instrument, so he can't

547
00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:52,160
Speaker 1: sidestep the harp or the spear.

548
00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:58,680
Speaker 2: You see it behind harp, And the hand of Saul

549
00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:03,080
Speaker 2: is on the sphere and the hand of David is

550
00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:06,800
Speaker 2: on the harp. And I want to know who has

551
00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:13,720
Speaker 2: the upper hand, who has the winning hand, because if

552
00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:18,080
Speaker 2: the hand of Saul is on the spear and the

553
00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:22,360
Speaker 2: hand of David is on the harp, it seems to

554
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:28,959
Speaker 2: me that spear beats strings. So I got one hand

555
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:33,920
Speaker 2: on the sphere and one hand on the strings.

556
00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:35,880
Speaker 1: And I know Saul.

557
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:39,640
Speaker 2: Didn't miss David if he was at close range sitting

558
00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:43,760
Speaker 2: down behind the harp. So how could the one with

559
00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:47,960
Speaker 2: the spear lose to the one with the How could

560
00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:52,200
Speaker 2: Saul have his hand on the spear and David have

561
00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:56,240
Speaker 2: his hand on the harp and David get out. There

562
00:33:56,320 --> 00:34:00,120
Speaker 2: must have been another hand in the room that it

563
00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:04,880
Speaker 2: is not mentioned in the text. How many know that

564
00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:06,760
Speaker 2: the hand of God.

565
00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:08,040
Speaker 1: Is on your life?

566
00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:12,239
Speaker 2: The hand of God was on David. The hand of

567
00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:15,640
Speaker 2: God grabbed the sphere of Saul and said.

568
00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:17,840
Speaker 1: Not him, not now, the.

569
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:21,080
Speaker 2: Weapon for to gets me shall behave.

570
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:22,680
Speaker 1: I feel like creature.

571
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:31,239
Speaker 2: Keep your hand on the harp, and God will put his.

572
00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:32,400
Speaker 1: Hand on the sphere.

573
00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:35,800
Speaker 2: He won't let it kill you. He will not suffer

574
00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:38,360
Speaker 2: your foot to be moved. The Lord who it is

575
00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:42,760
Speaker 2: keep with me. He will not slaugh, bird nor sleep

576
00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:49,400
Speaker 2: if you keep your hand on the hearth. See I

577
00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:53,440
Speaker 2: thought that David had an instrument and Saul had a weapon.

578
00:34:53,920 --> 00:35:00,760
Speaker 2: But maybe worship is a weapon, Maybe Tad, maybe David.

579
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:03,960
Speaker 2: If I keep my hand on the harp, if I

580
00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:08,560
Speaker 2: let God fight my battles, I cannot be defeated.

581
00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:14,880
Speaker 1: Are there any worship person in the house.

582
00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:18,680
Speaker 2: How about back here, any worship person?

583
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:21,440
Speaker 1: No, he'll fight my paw.

584
00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:32,399
Speaker 2: Sha.

585
00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:41,759
Speaker 1: Well that's just emotional. No is survival because if you

586
00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:42,719
Speaker 1: don't learn how to duck.

587
00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:52,480
Speaker 2: If you don't learn how to say God, the weapons

588
00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:53,880
Speaker 2: of our warfare are not cardinal.

589
00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:59,919
Speaker 1: I don't throw spears back. I got the winning hand.

590
00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:02,160
Speaker 1: And when I.

591
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:07,400
Speaker 2: Clap my hands, my praise confuses the enemy.

592
00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:11,080
Speaker 1: My praise, my praise.

593
00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:15,759
Speaker 2: When I lift my hands in worship, the hand of

594
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:23,600
Speaker 2: God is on you. And David knew that the same

595
00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:27,080
Speaker 2: hand that had plucked him from the sheep field, and

596
00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:30,120
Speaker 2: the same hand that had delivered him.

597
00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:33,719
Speaker 1: From lions and bears and goliaths, and.

598
00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:36,680
Speaker 2: The same hand that held the flask that poured the oil,

599
00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:42,279
Speaker 2: the hand of God is on my life. And Saul

600
00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:47,040
Speaker 2: cannot kill what God has crowned.

601
00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:01,439
Speaker 1: So the way I fight is this. I don't fight

602
00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:08,720
Speaker 1: for victory. That's the way the world fights. I fight

603
00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:17,960
Speaker 1: from victory. My worship is my weapon.

604
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:25,160
Speaker 2: I don't have to prove myself to people in situations.

605
00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:30,040
Speaker 2: If I take this spear in my hand, throw it back.

606
00:37:30,239 --> 00:37:33,320
Speaker 2: There's somebody in here who's got a spear in the

607
00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:35,440
Speaker 2: wall right next to your head, and you are trying

608
00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:39,520
Speaker 2: to decide right now whether to do it your way

609
00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:41,640
Speaker 2: or God's way. Can I give you a little piece

610
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:44,200
Speaker 2: of advice, Dug David.

611
00:37:49,080 --> 00:38:00,319
Speaker 6: Don and let God have his way.

612
00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 1: How did David keep his hand on the harp?

613
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:08,040
Speaker 2: And how do you keep your heart at peace with

614
00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:14,560
Speaker 2: spears flying at your head? David knew that if I

615
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:20,399
Speaker 2: can win the battle within my soul, God will fight

616
00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:22,320
Speaker 2: my battle with Saul.

617
00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:29,840
Speaker 1: That's where the real battle is. The war is within,

618
00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:32,360
Speaker 1: and so are the weapons.

619
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:37,120
Speaker 2: And over the course of this series, are you coming back,

620
00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:45,560
Speaker 2: By the way, if you come back, I want to

621
00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:48,680
Speaker 2: show you, over the course of the next four hundred

622
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:50,759
Speaker 2: and seventy three weeks or however long it takes us

623
00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:55,760
Speaker 2: to complete this series, how to do what David learned

624
00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:56,080
Speaker 2: to do.

625
00:38:57,400 --> 00:38:58,120
Speaker 1: How to live in.

626
00:38:58,080 --> 00:39:01,200
Speaker 2: A place where you constantly feel it were within yourself.

627
00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:05,560
Speaker 2: Learn how to speak to yourself what God has spoken,

628
00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:08,960
Speaker 2: instead of letting yourself tell yourself.

629
00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:17,960
Speaker 1: What you fear. You can't fight fear with fear. And

630
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:21,680
Speaker 1: so when David says, when.

631
00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:27,200
Speaker 2: David says, God, you are my strength, I'm so glad

632
00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:32,319
Speaker 2: for Psalm fifty nine because for Samuel nineteen gives me.

633
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:37,120
Speaker 2: The picture of what David did is that with Saul's

634
00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:40,800
Speaker 2: spears flying at him.

635
00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:42,239
Speaker 1: David was able to keep his hand on the harp.

636
00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:47,520
Speaker 2: It's a picture of being able to remain in a

637
00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:51,879
Speaker 2: place of trust and surrender in a time of turbulence

638
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:55,080
Speaker 2: and trial and frustration. It's a picture. It says that

639
00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:59,160
Speaker 2: Saul's hand was on the spear. That's me trying to control.

640
00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:04,120
Speaker 2: David's hand stayed on the harp, and he played his hand.

641
00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:07,880
Speaker 2: He knew that if I keep my hand on the harp,

642
00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:10,640
Speaker 2: I cannot be defeated. If I keep my hand, if

643
00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:12,320
Speaker 2: I keep my heart at.

644
00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:19,160
Speaker 1: Peace, it will not matter what spears fly my way.

645
00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:24,120
Speaker 1: He said, God, you are my strength. Can we read

646
00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:28,520
Speaker 1: the Psalm again? Look at this. I'm fifty nine, verse nine.

647
00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:29,799
Speaker 1: I watch for you.

648
00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:35,160
Speaker 2: Now that's interesting because David seems to be saying, I

649
00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:42,880
Speaker 2: wasn't watching Saul. I wasn't watching the spears. I was

650
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:50,640
Speaker 2: watching the one whose hand. How many believed the hand

651
00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:58,520
Speaker 2: of God is on your life? Now we know this,

652
00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:03,560
Speaker 2: We know this from our side of the cross, that

653
00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:06,319
Speaker 2: the victory has already been won by our King, our

654
00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:09,759
Speaker 2: greater David Jesus Christ. We know that David was not

655
00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:12,319
Speaker 2: the last king to come out of Bethlehem. We know

656
00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:14,400
Speaker 2: that he was a king who was pointing to a

657
00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:17,040
Speaker 2: king of kings. We know that the spirit of Him

658
00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:19,960
Speaker 2: who raised Christ is from the dead, and we've already

659
00:41:19,960 --> 00:41:24,080
Speaker 2: got the victory. We don't fight for it, we fight

660
00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:29,080
Speaker 2: from it. And the hand of God is on your line.

661
00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:31,560
Speaker 1: And you say, well, I'm not David, but you are.

662
00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:39,399
Speaker 2: Because David's name literally means beloved. And the same love

663
00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:46,280
Speaker 2: that crowned David has crowned you. And Saul cannot.

664
00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:52,840
Speaker 1: Kill what God has already crowned, and perfect love cast

665
00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:54,240
Speaker 1: out fear.

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Speaker 2: So so here's what David did. He said, I watched

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Speaker 2: for you, and a lot of stuff coming in my head.

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Speaker 1: I got battles.

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Speaker 7: And problems, brokenness ninety nine problems, and Bathsheba is one.

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Speaker 7: We'll get to that lights. But he said, bring it home.

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Speaker 1: Ford. You are my fortress. Next verse my God on

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Speaker 1: whom I can rely.

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Speaker 2: But but watch this verse eleven, verse eleven, do not

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Speaker 2: kill them Lord our.

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Speaker 1: Shield. Wait a minute, David did have a weapon.

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Speaker 2: David did have a weapon, because when Saul's spears started flying,

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Speaker 2: David God behind his shield. Come on, I need you

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Speaker 2: to receive this because you got some stuff flying at you.

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Speaker 1: You got some doubts in your soul. Come on, but

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Speaker 1: stay behind your seal. Come on, duct David, hit behind.

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Speaker 2: Your seal, Paul said, it's the shield of faith.

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Speaker 1: We're with you. Shall quitch the fierys are of the wicked.

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Speaker 2: I gotta seal there is anybody sealed it by the

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Speaker 2: power of God. And if I stay behind my shield,

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Speaker 2: soul cannot kill what God is crowding.

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Speaker 1: I got the winning and I might not look like much.

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Speaker 2: I might just be a shepherd boy, but I got

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Speaker 2: the winning and and God is my shield.

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Speaker 1: Father.

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Speaker 2: I thank you for your awesome presence in this place.

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Speaker 2: I thank you for your awesome power within us. Everyone

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Speaker 2: stand to your feet and lift your hands. This is

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Speaker 2: a worship moment. After all has been said and done,

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Speaker 2: with spears, flying, storms, raging doubts, the sailing winds blowing

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Speaker 2: in the midst of all of it, you have a shield,

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Speaker 2: say a lot them, shielded by the power of God. Father,

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Speaker 2: we declare victory in this place, not because of battles

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Speaker 2: that have been won, but because of battles that are

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Speaker 2: already in progress. Father, I thank you for the ways

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Speaker 2: that you are working in our life today. I thank

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Speaker 2: you for hiding us. I thank you for the shield

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Speaker 2: that you have been. I thank you for the promise

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Speaker 2: that you have given God.

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Speaker 1: I thank you you in this moment.

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Speaker 2: Then, no matter what soul throws, with our hands lifted

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Speaker 2: up and our hearts full of praise, come on, bless

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Speaker 2: the Lord, oh my soul, and all that is within me,

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Speaker 2: I will bless so Lord had all times hands his praise.

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Speaker 1: Stop continuing see in my.

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Speaker 7: Mouth, mom back to find the Lord with me.

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Speaker 1: Let us say, solt.

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Speaker 4: Is now so.

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