Who You Talking To? (Robert Madu)

0:00:01.560 --> 0:00:02.840 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:05.840 I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:08.360 I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope 0:00:08.360 --> 0:00:11.080 this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:13.600 gives your perspective to see God is moving in your life. 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:14.720 Enjoy the message. 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:21.320 I know we were singing it, but I want to know, 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:25.080 do you really believe it? Do you believe that God 0:00:25.120 --> 0:00:25.880 can make away? 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:29.840 Here's what I love about God. 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:33.120 If he didn't have to give you a preview or 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:37.800 a blues clue that he's about to make away, he 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:39.920 can just do it. For those of you who are saying, 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:42.120 I tell it doesn't look like he's about to make away, 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:44.760 it doesn't have to look like. When God wants to 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:48.160 make away, he will split a red seat, he will 0:00:48.159 --> 0:00:53.120 bring a wall down, whatever it is, He's able to 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:56.480 do it. And I got a feeling he's gonna do 0:00:56.520 --> 0:01:00.880 something incredible today. Do you believe that? On across every location, 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:02.880 would you give somebody a high five next to you 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:06.760 and tell them I'm glad I'm next to you today. 0:01:07.000 --> 0:01:09.560 Come on, make sure they got some faith. High five Somebody. 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:13.720 Say I'm glad I'm next to you today. Hey man, Amen, 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:15.959 Hey remain standing. I want to do something. I want 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:18.720 to do something. As was mentioned, I am not a 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:21.120 guest here at Elevation. I'm a part of the family, 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:25.759 but doctor myself in bring your greetings from the great 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:29.880 country of Texas with my wife and I passed an 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:33.520 amazing church social Dallas. And I don't take it lightly 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:36.560 and I don't take it for granted, the opportunity to 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:37.920 be here today. And I know what some of y'all 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:40.720 are thinking, like, that's Stephen look different now I'm not. 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:44.640 I'm not Pastor Stephen. I know some of y'all are disappointed. 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:49.080 And I tried. I did extra bench press today just 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:52.120 to come in and U Pastor Steven or the team 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:56.000 are out Elevation Nights. God is doing incredible things, incredible 0:01:56.040 --> 0:02:02.240 things literally around the world. And here's what I'm hoping. 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:03.960 First of all, I hope you're praying for the team 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:06.440 as they're out ministering, that God would use them mightily, 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:08.720 that they're gonna come back refresh. But not only that, 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:11.680 I pray you never take for granted the gift that 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:15.720 God has given you. If you needed any evidence, Elevation Nights, 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:17.440 so let you know Pastor Steven and the team, they 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:21.919 could go anywhere. Come on, somebody anywhere. So I pray 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:24.200 you never take for granted that gift God has given 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:26.960 you in Pastor Stephen, in Pastor Holly, and I always 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:28.919 want to give honor to them. They have been a 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:31.600 blessing to my life, to our church. I know they've 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:33.799 been a blessing to you and the Capital C Church. 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:35.560 So come on, can we let them know, just in 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:39.000 case they're watching, we love you. Come on, y'all can 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:43.520 do better than that. What. Thank you for your leadership, 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:47.280 thank you for your sacrifice, thank you for your yes. 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:50.800 So we don't have fun today? Are you all ready 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:54.280 for the Wordma? Stayding and I'm gonna jump straight into it. 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:56.200 I hope you feel like hearing it like I feel 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:59.040 like preaching it. Come on, if you got a Bible, 0:02:59.080 --> 0:02:59.840 would you wave it in the air? 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:00.520 I could just do. 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:04.720 Care how many about a paper Bible? I see paper bibles? Okay, 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:09.080 it's for real, save people. Come all, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:12.200 Even if your Bible is glowing you good. I want 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:16.760 you to go with me to a familiar passage of scripture. 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:19.919 Can we thank God for this worship team. Y'all are amazing, 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:23.560 so good. Thank you so much for meeting us into 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:27.280 God's presence. We're gonna jump into a familiar passage of scripture. 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:33.359 If this text was an eighteen episode Netflix series, we're 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:36.680 jumping straight into episode seventeen. We're skipping all the other ones, 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:40.040 and you're gonna see why in a moment. But first, Samuel, 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:43.000 chapter number seventeen, and I want to look at versus 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:47.520 forty one through forty seven. When you're ready to read it, 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:50.720 say yeah, if you need some time to find it, 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:53.320 say hold up. I heard them hold up, So I'm 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:58.080 wait for you, wait for somebody on you fan waiting 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:02.120 to find it. First Samuel, up to number seventeen. You're 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:04.280 gonna start in verse number forty one. Thank you so much, 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:14.920 And it says, meanwhile, the Philistine Meanwhile, it was a 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:20.360 mean while, because for forty days, this giant has been 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:26.280 verbally assaulting and attacking the children of Israel. He hadn't 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:30.000 thrown a punch yet, but the threat of what he 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:35.000 was about to do had them paralyzed in fear. Sometimes 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:39.680 the enemy doesn't even do anything, but the threat of 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:44.400 what could happen can lead many of us stuck in fear, 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:48.200 he says. Meanwhile, the Philistine, with his shield bearer in 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:52.080 front of him, kept coming closer to David. You looked 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:54.360 David over and saw that he was little more than 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:59.040 a boy, glowing with health and handsome, and he despised him. 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:02.120 That bless me. So he's a hater. But he's still 0:05:02.120 --> 0:05:06.360 got to admit, Yo, you healthy and you hanswer. I 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:10.640 don't like you like I admit you look good, he 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:14.080 says to David. Am I a dog that you come 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:18.160 at me with sticks? The Philistine cursed David by his gods. 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:21.359 Come here, he said, and I'll give your flesh to 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:26.520 the birds and the wild animals. David said to the Philistine, 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:33.000 you come against me with sword and spear and javelin. 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:36.919 But I come against you in the name of the 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:41.800 Lord Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:46.640 you have defied. This day, somebody say, this day, this day, 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:49.040 the Lord will deliver you into my hands, and I'll 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:52.200 strike you down and cut off your head. This very 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:55.559 day I will give the carcasses of the Philistine army 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:58.240 to the birds and the wild animals, and the whole 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:01.960 world will know there is a God in Israel. 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:07.159 All those gathered here will know it is not by. 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:10.000 Sword or spear that the Lord saves, for the battle 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:13.560 is the Lord's, and he will give all of you 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:17.320 into our hands. Can you say a man? Can you 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:21.360 say a man? If that don't make a shout, I 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:25.760 don't know what else. Really, look at what David is 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:31.000 saying before he starts fighting. I'm gonna preach today, not long, 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:35.200 probably about three and a half hours, using this as 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:35.920 a title. 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:38.320 Who you talking to? 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:47.520 Who you now? Who are you talking to? Who you 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:49.440 talking to? You gotta help me pre this. Look at 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:51.240 the person next to you one last time, say neighbor, 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:56.839 I got a question? Who are you talking to? Come on, 0:06:56.920 --> 0:06:59.400 find another neighbor. Find another neighbor, because that neighborhood stuck up. 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:04.120 Come on, say other neighbor. You my second option, But 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:07.240 I gotta ask who you're talking to. 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:10.280 If you believe God's gonna speak today, would you give 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:11.040 us some praise? 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:15.080 Father? 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:19.240 Have your way speak today? Amen? You can sit out, 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:27.400 you can sit down. You talking to. 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:30.800 Elevation fam. 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:36.320 Before I really jump into this text today, I want 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:39.160 to do something that I have never done in all 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:42.040 my years of coming to elevation. Don't get nervous. I 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:44.560 talked to past Steve, but we're good. Were good. But 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:47.560 there's someone who is here today who I want to 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:50.320 come out just for a moment and share a few 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:53.400 words with you. And the reason I want them to 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:56.600 come out is because this person is, in my opinion, 0:07:56.960 --> 0:08:03.160 one of the most influential and greatest communicators of our lifetime. 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:06.840 And I'm putting them on the spot. You're gonna know 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:10.840 exactly who they are as soon as they come out. Okay, don't, 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:14.280 don't pass out, But can we just welcome them before 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:15.720 they even come out? I just want them to share. 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:21.480 Just for them, they can welcome across every location. Come on, y'all, 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:22.800 would you make them feel welcome? 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:47.640 Come on, y'all? Can you see you? Yep, ephil I'm 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:48.600 blind and somebody can. 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:54.880 You'll see him. Make sure you get a good look 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:57.559 at yourself. And some of y'all, are you played too much? 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:00.319 I saw some of you. It's not like who is it? 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:07.559 You had you have already. But please don't let the 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:12.680 comedy mitigate the weight of what I said in my introduction, 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:17.959 my fake introduction. I said, I want to bring out 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:24.480 someone who is the greatest and most influential communicator. 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:28.360 Then I brought out a mirror and asked you, can. 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:32.480 You see you? Because I want to ask you, who 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:38.400 talks to you more than you, Who influences you more 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:42.120 than you, Who tells you where to go and where 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:45.079 not to go, what to wear and what not to wear, 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:49.079 what to post and what not to post more than you. 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:55.600 You are an influential communicator. You are a powerful communicator. 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:57.679 As a matter of fact, you are not just the 0:09:57.720 --> 0:10:01.000 greatest communicator that you have ever heard, You're the greatest 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:07.040 communicator that you are always hearing. There's always a voice 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:13.719 on the inside talking to you about you, who who 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:17.920 you talking to? I'm fully aware that as I'm preaching today, 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:24.080 although I'm preaching the infallible, incorruptible, everlasting, eternal Word of God, 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:26.280 and I do everything in my power to preach it 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:29.480 with clarity and precision, however, I'm aware that the most 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:31.760 important thing is not necessarily what I'm saying to you. 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:34.199 It's what you are saying to you about what I'm 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:38.080 saying to you. That's the important voice today. What are 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:40.400 you saying about what I'm saying? I could be saying 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:43.000 God's gonna use you, and then that voice says who 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:45.160 your trauma and your baggage, not you. 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:50.079 I could be saying things like, oh, you're suffering. It's 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:51.120 not for nothing. 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:53.800 God is able to use that suffering to shape you 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:56.760 into the image of Christ. But then you can say 0:10:56.840 --> 0:10:59.360 to you, no, I shouldn't be going through this anyway, 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:04.520 and God, this is your fault. This suffering means nothing. 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:07.280 I could be saying to you that God is gonna 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:08.800 open up a door this year. 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:11.160 And then you'll say to you, well, he should have 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:13.360 done it in January. We and I'm told. But now. 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:18.679 I want to know what are you saying to you? 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:19.800 Who you talking to? 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:24.160 Because that voice is critical. It is the internal narrative 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:26.800 that is navigating your life right now. It is the 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:31.240 story that you are perpetually telling yourself. Who are you 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:35.679 talking to? Some of you would slap a person if 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:37.480 they talk to you the way you talk to you. 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:42.640 I want to know what is the conversation that you 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:45.760 are having in your head right now? Who are you 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:50.920 talking to? Because that voice is the one that matters. 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:53.920 Is it that negative voice that wants to shoot down 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:56.520 everything God wants to do to you? By the way, 0:11:56.559 --> 0:12:02.000 where does that come from the devil? It's a demon maybe, 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:07.040 But have you ever noticed, at least for me, the 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:10.719 devil never sounds like the devil in my head. I 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:13.640 have never in my life heard a voice saying you however, 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:17.240 it don't sound like that. Have you ever known that 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:19.600 the enemy always sounds like you in your head? 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:22.319 And that is the voice that you are. 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:26.160 A warrior against, that you are waging war against every day. 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:30.480 Who are you talking to? 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:32.640 For some of us, it's the voice of somebody else 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:36.640 that planted a seed in our mind, and we have 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:40.120 been watering that seed over the years, rehearsing it over 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:43.400 and over and over again, and it's become a stronghold 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:48.079 in our minds. Who are you talking to? Reminds me 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:50.760 of a fighter. I'll never forget watching this fighter who 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:54.360 won this fight, powerful fighter, and he won the championship 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:57.320 and they were interviewing him after he won, and after 0:12:57.440 --> 0:13:00.320 one he was excited about winning the fight. This sudden 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:02.480 he looks in the camera and he says in the camera, 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:06.080 he goes, see dad, see I'm not a loser. 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:09.280 I am somebody. And the interviewer was looking at him like, 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:13.720 who are you talking too? 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:16.640 But he had a moment where he blacked out, and 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:18.360 you delve into a store, you find out that he 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:22.080 was verbally and physically abused by his father. In every 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:25.240 fight that he had, he would put the image of 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:28.400 his father on his opponent, and that's how he would 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:32.640 win the fight. And he was fighting and won a victory. 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:38.079 But the bigger fight was the internal conversation that's happening 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:41.520 in his head. Ladies and gentlemen, I am realizing that 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:44.480 most of the fights have little to do with the 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:50.280 external confrontation, but everything to do with the internal conversations 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:52.760 that you are having with yourself. I just want to 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:56.360 talk to you today and ask you who are you 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:58.280 talking to. I want you to elbow somebody next to 0:13:58.320 --> 0:13:59.280 you and say, I think this is for you. 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:02.199 I think this is for you. 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:07.839 Now elbaum, tell them they need this for you. Brings 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:11.080 me to my text today. My text today in First 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:15.960 Samuel chapter number seventeen. I shouldn't even read the text, 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:19.760 let's be honest, because come on, y'all, it's David and Goliath. 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:21.080 I think when I was reading some of y'all like, 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:22.240 are you for real? This is what I got out 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:27.640 of bed for First Samuel chapter seventeen. Everybody knows the 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:30.800 story of David and Goliath. Come on, I've been raised 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:32.680 in church, and I've heard some people jack up some 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:34.880 Bible stories. I mean, I've heard them jack up a 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:37.160 lot of Bible stories. I remember one dude, he was 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:38.600 new to the faith. He came to me, tears in 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:41.400 his eyes. He's like, hey, Pastor, let's mess up how 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:43.920 they did Joseph. They threw him in that pit. I 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:46.720 was like, yeah, He's like, but he came back. I said, 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:48.360 he sure did. He's like, yeah, he came back because 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:50.360 he got married to Mary and then they gave birth 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:54.440 to Jesus. I knew that. I ain't correct him. I 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:57.480 was like, God, God can turn it around. I can 0:14:57.560 --> 0:15:03.840 turn it out. People can Jacob John Jumps and Bible stores, 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:07.320 but don't nobody Jacob David and Goliath. 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:10.480 Come on, you know that story. I don't care if 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:11.680 you ain't been the church at a minute. 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:14.960 Everybody knows the story of David and Goliath, and ladies 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:18.280 and gentlemen. Perhaps that's the problem, because it is our 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:21.760 familiarity with this text that robs us of the revelation 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:24.640 that is in this text. And all this week I 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:27.600 was saying, Holy Spirit, help me see it in a 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:29.440 different way, help me see it. 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:31.440 And the more I looked at it, I realized is 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:35.040 not about the fight. It has little to. 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:37.720 Do with the fight in the valley against Goliath, y'all. 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:41.280 That is the shortest part of the text. The fight 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:43.640 is not that long. I mean, we can really put 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:47.280 this fight in four phrases. He hit them with a rock, 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:51.240 he fell, I'm dead, he cut up his head. 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:56.440 Hooray. That's the fight, right that. That is the entire fight. 0:15:56.560 --> 0:16:00.680 Why in the world, then are there fifty eight in. 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:01.880 Onest Samuel seventeen. 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:04.480 What in the world takes up all that space of 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:06.160 fifty eight versus? Is all that? 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:12.240 All that talking, All these conversations are happening before the confrontation. 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:14.680 There are so many conversations. 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:17.640 Don't forget when we come up against Goliath the first 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:21.560 time we see him, he's not fighting. He's talking for 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:24.760 forty days. He's just showed up, just talking. It's not 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:26.560 like he showed up for forty days cutting off heads. 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:28.680 I can understand if you'd be scared, then no, this 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:32.440 dude is just running his mouth and talking. And there's 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:36.200 something about them entertaining this conversation that calls them to 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:40.000 be paralyzed in fear. It is the conversation, not necessarily 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:43.200 the confrontation. Some of us are losing the fight not 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:45.560 when we get in the valley, but before the valley, 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:48.520 because the enemy has already convinced you that you don't 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:50.040 have what it takes for the fight. 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:52.040 Who are you talking to? 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:52.760 Oh? 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:54.320 This is why I love David. 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:58.720 Because when David was ostracized and alienated out with those sheep, 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:01.040 he went out there by himsel. He was out there 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:03.960 talking to God. He was out there saying, the Lord 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:07.480 is my shepherd. I shall not want he makes me 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:10.680 lie down in Green Castris. That's why he had confidence 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:14.639 because of who he was talking to out fair. I 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:17.480 want to know who you're talking to. What is the 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:21.879 conversation you are having with yourself? And so here's what 0:17:21.960 --> 0:17:23.440 I want to do today, and I'm gonna get you 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:28.399 the brunch. I just want us for a moment to 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:34.760 look at five critical conversations that David had before he 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:39.800 ever got to the fight. These five critical conversations. If 0:17:39.880 --> 0:17:42.480 David messes up in any of them, he never gets 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:45.880 to fight his battle in the valley. If he loses 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:50.240 the fight with these five conversations that preceded the confrontation. 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:53.040 Y'all good, Can we talk about him? 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:57.560 Yeah? The first conversation, I want to look at it. 0:17:58.040 --> 0:18:04.119 It's what I call the Uber Eats conversation. Yeah, the 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:08.600 Uber East conversation happens between David and his father Jesse, 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:13.680 and Jesse comes to him in First Samuel seventeen, says, Hey, Dave, 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:16.520 I need you to go to the battlefield and bring 0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:21.480 your brother some cheeses and bring them some bread. Just 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:24.359 make an Uber Eats delivery. This is what I need 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:27.439 you to do, which doesn't seem like a big thing, 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:30.520 but it is a major thing. It seems like a 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:32.760 small thing, but it's a big thing. I've learned in 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:34.640 life that the small things are actually the big things. 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:37.520 And sometimes you can't tell which small thing is actually 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:39.119 a big thing. That's why you have to be careful 0:18:39.119 --> 0:18:41.040 how you do the small thing. It was just a 0:18:41.080 --> 0:18:44.159 small thing to go deliver the cheese and the bread. 0:18:44.440 --> 0:18:46.159 And it doesn't seem like his dad asked a big 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:48.920 deal of him until you read First Samuel chapter sixteen, 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:50.000 and remember what happened. 0:18:50.480 --> 0:18:51.040 Don't forget. 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:54.960 David has already been anointed to be the next king 0:18:55.119 --> 0:18:57.760 and first Samuel chapter sixteen. You remember what happened to 0:18:57.800 --> 0:19:00.520 prophet Samuel. He comes into town, he's looking for the 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:03.400 next king, and here comes Jesse with all of his sons, 0:19:03.520 --> 0:19:05.760 all seven of them lined up. He did not even 0:19:05.840 --> 0:19:09.200 deem David worthy to be brought before the prophet. 0:19:09.480 --> 0:19:12.120 And here he is looking at all these sons saying, Nope, 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:12.560 that ain't it. 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:14.200 Nope, that ain't it. Nope, that in And then it 0:19:14.280 --> 0:19:16.600 has to ask a crazy question to a father, do you. 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:17.560 Got any other kids? 0:19:20.320 --> 0:19:22.280 And he's like, oh, yeah, my bad, I forgot Yeah, 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:25.000 I do have another one, but he's out in the field. 0:19:25.040 --> 0:19:25.480 He's out in the. 0:19:25.480 --> 0:19:27.600 Field, and I love what Samuel does. He says, go 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:30.040 get him. In the most gangst move, he says, we 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:33.200 will not sit down until he comes in the room. 0:19:34.880 --> 0:19:40.680 He makes all them brothers stand in their rejection. How long? 0:19:42.000 --> 0:19:43.840 How long do they have to wait for David to 0:19:43.960 --> 0:19:47.280 get in the room, like okay, hurry up? And then 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:52.000 here comes David. Hey, hey guys, oh hey, Samuel, did 0:19:52.080 --> 0:19:53.560 I didn't know the prophet was coming in? Is there? 0:19:53.640 --> 0:19:53.680 So? 0:19:53.760 --> 0:20:00.080 What's what's what's coming on? Samuel goes, you're in and 0:20:00.200 --> 0:20:03.800 anoints him in front of his brothers. This is a 0:20:04.200 --> 0:20:10.240 destiny moment. Can you imagine being David after being castigated 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:13.520 and ostracizing. Now you've been anointed as the next king 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:15.840 in front of your brothers. But in the next chapter, 0:20:16.200 --> 0:20:19.119 your father calls you. I wonder if David thought, Oh, 0:20:19.119 --> 0:20:22.520 I bet he gonna apologize for not invited me to 0:20:22.640 --> 0:20:29.560 the coronation. No, he's telling you go take lunch to 0:20:29.800 --> 0:20:32.800 your brothers. And David doesn't do what some of us 0:20:32.840 --> 0:20:37.600 would have done. Gone, who you're talking to? I'm the 0:20:37.680 --> 0:20:38.120 next king? 0:20:38.160 --> 0:20:39.440 You want me to drop charcuterie. 0:20:39.680 --> 0:20:43.400 No, I don't know. I'm sorry. Maybe maybe you didn't 0:20:43.440 --> 0:20:47.560 see it. Y'all didn't invite me. I'm the next king. 0:20:47.640 --> 0:20:48.040 I don't. 0:20:48.080 --> 0:20:49.320 But he doesn't. 0:20:49.480 --> 0:20:50.320 He doesn't do that. 0:20:51.640 --> 0:20:55.040 He doesn't do that. He pulls a Chick fil A 0:20:55.359 --> 0:21:01.920 and says, my pleasure, my pleasure, my pleasure. If my 0:21:02.040 --> 0:21:04.720 father wants me to do something, my pleasure. If my 0:21:04.800 --> 0:21:08.080 father hasn't assiment for me, my pleasure, ifn't has to 0:21:08.160 --> 0:21:13.240 be glorious. Whatever my father asked of me, my pleasure. 0:21:15.480 --> 0:21:17.800 So he passes the test in this conversation because David 0:21:17.880 --> 0:21:23.080 is showing us a heart of humility, a heart of humility. 0:21:23.480 --> 0:21:26.640 David did not think it beneath him to go deliver 0:21:26.840 --> 0:21:29.480 food to his brothers. You know why some of us 0:21:29.560 --> 0:21:32.280 never knocked down our goliath, because we can never knock 0:21:32.320 --> 0:21:38.439 down the giant of pride. You too special, you too 0:21:38.560 --> 0:21:41.640 wonderful to go deliver lunch to somebody else. And that's 0:21:41.680 --> 0:21:44.120 why you'll never step into the effulgence of your destiny, 0:21:44.400 --> 0:21:47.760 because pride will shut doors that God is trying to open. 0:21:48.000 --> 0:21:50.720 But when you have a heart of humility, the heavens 0:21:50.920 --> 0:21:54.800 open up over somebody that is humble enough to say. 0:21:55.280 --> 0:21:57.920 Whatever my father wants, I'll go do it. 0:21:58.960 --> 0:22:01.400 I know I'm the next king. But if my father 0:22:01.560 --> 0:22:06.399 has requested something of me, my pleasure, where have we 0:22:06.520 --> 0:22:10.520 seen this before? Oh Jesus, who thought it not robbery 0:22:10.760 --> 0:22:14.280 to come from heaven down to earth. And he came 0:22:14.359 --> 0:22:17.480 to the humans he created, and they rejected him, and 0:22:17.680 --> 0:22:21.600 yet with humility he came to serve. Can I tell 0:22:21.640 --> 0:22:25.879 you pride is what's blocking the door for you. You 0:22:26.000 --> 0:22:27.879 don't get the past to test because you haven't had 0:22:27.920 --> 0:22:32.040 a heart of humility. Can I fix somebody's marriage? Just 0:22:32.080 --> 0:22:32.520 real quick? 0:22:33.359 --> 0:22:34.240 Three seconds? You're ready. 0:22:34.280 --> 0:22:34.879 Here's the problem. 0:22:35.320 --> 0:22:38.679 Pride. That's a problem. 0:22:39.320 --> 0:22:42.400 Too much pride to say I'm sorry, too much pride 0:22:42.440 --> 0:22:44.760 to say I was wrong, too much pride to go 0:22:44.880 --> 0:22:47.960 to count. The pride is what blocks. But David has 0:22:48.000 --> 0:22:50.240 a heart of humility, and he gets to the battle 0:22:50.359 --> 0:22:53.879 and watch the timing, the sovereign timing of God. Just 0:22:54.040 --> 0:22:56.600 at the moment that David delivers the lunch I'm talking about, 0:22:56.640 --> 0:23:00.560 right after he takes the picture to send to him 0:23:00.800 --> 0:23:06.800 to say orders delivered. At that exact moment is when 0:23:06.840 --> 0:23:10.879 Goliath comes out and start saying what he's been saying 0:23:11.200 --> 0:23:15.560 for forty days, what they've heard for forty days. David hears, 0:23:15.720 --> 0:23:18.399 in one moment, says, oh, hold up, what is this 0:23:18.520 --> 0:23:20.480 right here? Hold on? 0:23:20.520 --> 0:23:22.640 No, no, not on my watch? Is there not a cause? 0:23:22.800 --> 0:23:23.480 Isn't it funny? 0:23:23.720 --> 0:23:26.560 They heard it for forty days, But in one moment, 0:23:26.880 --> 0:23:30.520 David heard something different. What they heard had been paralyzed 0:23:30.560 --> 0:23:32.719 in fear, but it had David getting ready to move 0:23:32.760 --> 0:23:33.320 out in fave. 0:23:33.640 --> 0:23:35.480 What they heard, they fought his opposition. 0:23:35.800 --> 0:23:38.160 What David heard, he said, no, this is an opportunity 0:23:38.359 --> 0:23:42.280 for God to do something. He heard something different, and 0:23:42.480 --> 0:23:44.919 one moment, why did they hear it because of who 0:23:45.000 --> 0:23:47.680 he was talking to. He was talking to a God 0:23:48.000 --> 0:23:51.399 that he knew could use him to take down that 0:23:51.640 --> 0:23:53.800 chart who you're talking to. 0:23:56.640 --> 0:23:58.800 Isn't it crazy how people can hear the same thing 0:23:58.880 --> 0:24:03.480 but have totally different I call it the frequency of faith. 0:24:04.720 --> 0:24:07.640 Oh, when you have a frequency of faith in God, 0:24:07.760 --> 0:24:10.080 you will hear things different than people who are just 0:24:10.200 --> 0:24:13.359 walking by sight and now walking by faith, because faith 0:24:13.440 --> 0:24:16.080 comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. 0:24:16.400 --> 0:24:18.879 So when some people are walking by sight, don't get 0:24:18.920 --> 0:24:21.720 it confused when they don't understand why you're moving the 0:24:21.760 --> 0:24:25.840 way you're moving because you hear something different. We can 0:24:25.960 --> 0:24:30.399 hear the same thing but have completely different responses because 0:24:30.480 --> 0:24:34.000 his ear was tuned into the frequency of faith. It 0:24:34.080 --> 0:24:37.080 rem reminds me of this group of people who are 0:24:37.119 --> 0:24:39.719 interviewing for a job back in the day. They're interviewing 0:24:39.760 --> 0:24:44.399 for a job and the job had them standing in 0:24:44.600 --> 0:24:48.040 line waiting for the interview. It's like three hundred people 0:24:48.080 --> 0:24:51.560 in line waiting for this interview to go in. But 0:24:51.680 --> 0:24:53.400 what they didn't know, the people who waiting in line, 0:24:53.840 --> 0:24:56.320 was that the interview was actually for somebody that knew 0:24:56.400 --> 0:25:00.200 Morse code so here they are standing the line. While 0:25:00.240 --> 0:25:03.960 they were standing in line, over an intercom morse code 0:25:04.040 --> 0:25:09.080 was going on, and the message of the Morse code was. 0:25:10.080 --> 0:25:11.639 If you. 0:25:13.400 --> 0:25:20.520 Can interpret this message, get out of line and come 0:25:20.560 --> 0:25:23.000 straight to the front door. All of a sudden, one 0:25:23.080 --> 0:25:25.240 dude who could interpret morse code gets out of the line. 0:25:25.359 --> 0:25:27.479 He was in the back and walked all the way 0:25:27.560 --> 0:25:29.399 up to the front and walked in, and everybody was 0:25:29.400 --> 0:25:31.520 looking at him like what is he doing. The reason 0:25:31.600 --> 0:25:34.960 that he walked in when everybody else stood still is because. 0:25:34.720 --> 0:25:38.400 He could hear something that they couldn't hear. 0:25:38.960 --> 0:25:41.680 See. People will never understand the way you moved because 0:25:41.720 --> 0:25:45.120 they don't hear it the way you hear it. See 0:25:45.240 --> 0:25:48.200 you heard they're not hiring folks. I don't have a job, 0:25:48.440 --> 0:25:51.000 I heard. God must have something else for me and 0:25:51.119 --> 0:25:51.840 another job. 0:25:53.680 --> 0:25:54.120 You heard. 0:25:54.200 --> 0:25:55.600 I don't want to go on a date with you, 0:25:56.000 --> 0:25:58.520 so I must be worthless, I heard, God. Thank you 0:25:58.600 --> 0:26:00.400 for not letting me waste my time on the day. 0:26:01.240 --> 0:26:03.360 You must have somebody else from me. I didn't even 0:26:03.400 --> 0:26:05.320 have to go to Cheesecake Factor to figure it out. 0:26:05.520 --> 0:26:06.840 Thank you that they rejected. 0:26:07.840 --> 0:26:08.560 What are you hearing? 0:26:10.040 --> 0:26:17.320 There's a frequency the faith. And so David heard something different, 0:26:17.640 --> 0:26:19.720 and watch what his action does. He goes, he talks 0:26:19.760 --> 0:26:23.720 to the soldiers. Here's another conversation. He goes, uh, what 0:26:23.880 --> 0:26:28.040 will be given to the man that defeats him? First 0:26:28.080 --> 0:26:30.000 words out of his mouth, the conversation to the soldier, Hey, 0:26:31.040 --> 0:26:33.679 what will be given to the man who defeats him? 0:26:34.800 --> 0:26:41.200 You missed it, David, here's Goliath. And then goes, what 0:26:41.320 --> 0:26:46.080 will be given to the man that defeats him? David 0:26:46.800 --> 0:26:53.560 already sees himself winning. He already sees himself winning. The 0:26:53.600 --> 0:26:57.800 back y'all sitting up here talking about his shield and 0:26:57.920 --> 0:27:00.320 his armor. I'm trying to figure out what does the 0:27:00.359 --> 0:27:02.440 man get who knocks him out? Because I am that man. 0:27:02.520 --> 0:27:06.520 I'm about to knock him out. He said. He said, Yo, 0:27:06.600 --> 0:27:08.480 you're gonna get the king's daughter in marriage, and you 0:27:08.520 --> 0:27:10.840 don't have to pay taxes? Say less? Say less? Where's 0:27:11.920 --> 0:27:16.080 no taxi? Where's my sling shot? In other words, he 0:27:16.080 --> 0:27:18.399 doesn't just have a harder humility, He's got a vision 0:27:18.960 --> 0:27:25.160 of victory. He can already see himself winning. While everybody 0:27:25.200 --> 0:27:28.800 else is focused or how big it is, David's like that, 0:27:28.960 --> 0:27:31.680 that's not my focus. I'm trying to figure out what 0:27:31.800 --> 0:27:34.600 do you get if you knock him down? Because I'm 0:27:34.640 --> 0:27:37.680 about to knock him down. When you read for Samuel 0:27:37.800 --> 0:27:40.200 and you see all the imagery that is giving about 0:27:40.359 --> 0:27:43.440 Delia's armor and his shield, what the writer is doing 0:27:43.480 --> 0:27:46.760 through beautiful poetry, He's actually shown you what the soldiers 0:27:46.760 --> 0:27:50.720 are focused on, which is why they're paralyzed in fear, 0:27:51.119 --> 0:27:53.360 because whatever you focus on is what's going to grow 0:27:53.440 --> 0:27:53.960 in your life. 0:27:54.040 --> 0:27:55.840 They're focused on the shield like. 0:27:55.880 --> 0:27:57.640 It is that bronze. Yeah, how much do you think 0:27:57.680 --> 0:27:59.600 of ways? I don't know, but it's got to be heavy. 0:27:59.720 --> 0:28:02.199 That's that's what they are focused on, which is why 0:28:02.240 --> 0:28:05.200 they're paralyzed and fear. David was talking to somebody else. 0:28:05.359 --> 0:28:08.159 He had a vision of victory. Do you have a 0:28:08.240 --> 0:28:13.080 vision of victory? Do you see yourself winning? Do you 0:28:13.240 --> 0:28:15.040 even see the marriage be in the hell? 0:28:16.560 --> 0:28:17.280 Do you see that. 0:28:17.440 --> 0:28:21.480 Child coming back home? Do you see it? I know 0:28:21.640 --> 0:28:23.440 that the enemy's trying to cloud your vision, but I 0:28:23.560 --> 0:28:25.440 want to encourage you today see it. 0:28:26.240 --> 0:28:29.359 Have a vision of victory, because if you can't see it, 0:28:29.520 --> 0:28:31.560 it's gonna be hard for you to receive it. 0:28:31.960 --> 0:28:36.680 Can you see yourself winning? Or have you lost so 0:28:36.840 --> 0:28:40.120 much hope that you don't see it anymore. Can I 0:28:40.200 --> 0:28:41.880 just testify about the season I'm in right now? We 0:28:41.960 --> 0:28:45.000 in a crazy season. Our church is three years old. 0:28:45.360 --> 0:28:48.560 God's doing incredible things. It's exploding, and we decided in 0:28:48.600 --> 0:28:50.840 the middle of all that to homeschool our kids in 0:28:50.920 --> 0:28:53.680 this season. And only that, I'm going back to school 0:28:53.840 --> 0:28:55.760 and working on a master's degree that I didn't finish. 0:28:56.040 --> 0:28:58.080 All that's going on, I leading the church, and y'all, 0:28:58.640 --> 0:29:02.640 it's hard. It's hard out here in these streets. Oh 0:29:02.680 --> 0:29:04.800 by the way, did I mention Our church is mobile 0:29:04.880 --> 0:29:07.560 and we've been in ten different venues in the last 0:29:07.640 --> 0:29:09.440 three years, trying to find a space. We don't have 0:29:09.560 --> 0:29:10.200 a building, and. 0:29:10.480 --> 0:29:12.400 It's hard in these streets. 0:29:12.560 --> 0:29:14.720 But you know what's keeping me. I got a vision 0:29:15.040 --> 0:29:18.160 I can't see. Oh, I see myself in twenty twenty 0:29:18.240 --> 0:29:21.640 six walking across the stage, my master's degree completed with 0:29:21.800 --> 0:29:24.640 that hood of I see myself. I see us having 0:29:24.680 --> 0:29:27.720 our own building where we can give God glory and put. 0:29:27.640 --> 0:29:28.600 I see it. 0:29:29.000 --> 0:29:29.640 I stan. 0:29:30.080 --> 0:29:32.000 That's what's kicking from me right now? Is I got 0:29:32.080 --> 0:29:32.719 a vision? 0:29:33.840 --> 0:29:34.680 A good do it? 0:29:35.600 --> 0:29:36.520 What do you see? 0:29:37.880 --> 0:29:40.920 What do you see? Yo? I see myself at eighty 0:29:41.000 --> 0:29:44.480 years old, still coming to church. I'm still gonna pull 0:29:44.520 --> 0:29:46.320 up an elevation. I probably won't be preaching at eighty eight, 0:29:46.360 --> 0:29:47.680 but I'm just gonna be in an artist, just standing 0:29:47.760 --> 0:29:48.440 up going to preach. 0:29:49.880 --> 0:29:50.920 Now, who that crazy dude? 0:29:51.000 --> 0:29:51.080 Oh? 0:29:51.120 --> 0:29:52.640 He used to come back in the day and speak, 0:29:54.240 --> 0:29:56.240 do you have a vision a victory? 0:29:56.840 --> 0:29:58.720 He saw it. He talked to the soldiers. He said, 0:29:58.720 --> 0:30:01.360 what do you get them mountain? Because I'm about to 0:30:01.440 --> 0:30:04.760 knock him out. He had a vision of victory. Right 0:30:04.840 --> 0:30:09.200 after he talks to the soldiers, somebody else shows up. Oh, 0:30:09.560 --> 0:30:14.160 and this is a critical conversation. His older brother, Eli 0:30:14.320 --> 0:30:18.200 Have comes up to him. I imagine him running up 0:30:18.240 --> 0:30:21.360 to him, what are you doing here? 0:30:22.560 --> 0:30:22.800 Reading? 0:30:22.800 --> 0:30:26.040 When you get to the crib, he's burning with anger 0:30:26.960 --> 0:30:33.600 translation he's big man, and he says, what are you 0:30:33.680 --> 0:30:37.000 doing here? And with whom have you left those little sheep? 0:30:37.760 --> 0:30:39.280 You know somebody's trying to get at you when they 0:30:39.320 --> 0:30:40.800 try to put a little number to your stuff. Don't 0:30:40.800 --> 0:30:44.400 nobody care about you your little job? Ah? You think 0:30:44.400 --> 0:30:45.360 I care about your little car? 0:30:47.240 --> 0:30:47.680 You left them? 0:30:47.680 --> 0:30:50.280 Borrow money? Can I get that little hundred dollars you 0:30:50.360 --> 0:30:52.479 care about? That or one little one you ask for anyway? 0:30:55.000 --> 0:30:58.040 With whom have you left those few sheep? I know 0:30:58.240 --> 0:31:00.760 the conceit and the arrogance that is in your heart. 0:31:01.160 --> 0:31:03.560 You come down here to see the battle. EXE was me. 0:31:03.640 --> 0:31:04.320 I'm like, what battle? 0:31:04.360 --> 0:31:05.240 Y'all? Ain't fighting? Y'all? 0:31:08.400 --> 0:31:10.200 Eliab is mad. 0:31:10.240 --> 0:31:14.480 And hear me. I understand Eliab's anger. The Bible gives 0:31:14.520 --> 0:31:17.160 you a blues clue to his anger because remember in 0:31:17.200 --> 0:31:21.800 First Samdue chapter sixteen, whenever the prophet comes, when he 0:31:21.920 --> 0:31:25.080 comes to anoint the next king, guess who Samuel's first 0:31:25.160 --> 0:31:29.920 pick was. It was Eliab, y'all. 0:31:30.360 --> 0:31:32.960 Eliab looked the part of the next king. He was 0:31:33.040 --> 0:31:35.520 Samuel's first pick. Eli App is the reason this scripture 0:31:35.560 --> 0:31:36.160 is in your Bible. 0:31:36.360 --> 0:31:40.040 Man looks at the outward appearance, but God looks at 0:31:40.080 --> 0:31:46.360 the heart. Eli Ab is frustrated with the rejection. Eliab 0:31:46.800 --> 0:31:50.640 is jealous and envious of David, and he comes with 0:31:50.800 --> 0:31:53.120 that energy to him, what are you doing here? I 0:31:53.200 --> 0:31:54.600 love what David says back to him, He's like, what 0:31:54.720 --> 0:31:57.960 did I do? Now? What I do now? That means 0:31:58.040 --> 0:32:01.360 this has happened before? What did I do? Now? 0:32:01.480 --> 0:32:02.320 Can I just talk? 0:32:02.920 --> 0:32:05.200 And then he makes a powerful move that you have 0:32:05.360 --> 0:32:05.920 to learn to make. 0:32:06.080 --> 0:32:06.400 Watch it. 0:32:06.840 --> 0:32:12.640 Watch it. They're spiritual, The Bible says, he turns his 0:32:12.800 --> 0:32:13.520 back on Elab. 0:32:14.520 --> 0:32:15.240 He watched it. 0:32:15.280 --> 0:32:21.440 Woman talk. He turns his back on e Lab. Do 0:32:21.520 --> 0:32:29.160 you know what that turn signifies? I know my real enemy. Eliab. 0:32:29.320 --> 0:32:32.440 You are not my real enemy. I don't just have 0:32:32.560 --> 0:32:34.760 a heart of humility. I don't just have a vision 0:32:34.800 --> 0:32:37.280 of victory. I know who my real enemy is. 0:32:37.600 --> 0:32:40.680 Eliab. You are not my enemy. You are my brother. 0:32:41.040 --> 0:32:44.200 My real enemy is behind you, and I cannot waste 0:32:44.440 --> 0:32:47.840 energy and all my fight trying to fight you when 0:32:47.920 --> 0:32:51.080 you ain't the real enemy. Goliath is the enemy. So 0:32:51.200 --> 0:32:54.400 I gotta turn my back on you and stay focused 0:32:54.480 --> 0:32:57.000 on my assignment. I don't know who this is for, 0:32:57.320 --> 0:33:00.840 but you have been wasting energy trying to your brother 0:33:01.080 --> 0:33:04.040 or your sister in trist and they are not your enemy. 0:33:04.280 --> 0:33:07.680 We wrestle not with flesh and blood, but with principality. 0:33:08.080 --> 0:33:10.400 You better learned to know who the real enemy is 0:33:10.760 --> 0:33:17.480 and it's not your brother. Who can I just speak 0:33:18.560 --> 0:33:21.360 in this crazy season where people lose their minds in 0:33:21.440 --> 0:33:24.720 political seasons and let you know your brother and. 0:33:24.800 --> 0:33:28.400 Your sister is not your enemy. We got a bigger 0:33:28.520 --> 0:33:29.520 battle to type. 0:33:29.760 --> 0:33:33.120 We gotta kill the enemy that's trying to destroy this 0:33:33.400 --> 0:33:33.920 nation and. 0:33:34.000 --> 0:33:38.600 Our kids and our family. You better know where the. 0:33:38.640 --> 0:33:39.440 Real enemy is. 0:33:41.200 --> 0:33:46.440 Elia is not your enemy. Oh you in the common 0:33:46.520 --> 0:33:51.240 section talking to Elijah, wasted energy? 0:33:51.320 --> 0:33:52.680 Your kids, Mimmy, can we go play? 0:33:52.800 --> 0:33:52.920 Now? 0:33:53.120 --> 0:33:55.920 They crazy? Let me respond to this now, I'm not 0:33:56.000 --> 0:33:56.680 the one hold on. 0:33:56.760 --> 0:34:02.520 To kids, waste the energy fighting eli Ab when he 0:34:02.680 --> 0:34:04.080 is not your enemy. 0:34:05.320 --> 0:34:07.840 And Goliath would love for you to pull out your 0:34:07.880 --> 0:34:11.080 sling shot on eli App and start fighting right there, 0:34:11.160 --> 0:34:16.440 all while he towers and laughs. But David had enough 0:34:16.560 --> 0:34:22.240 wisdom to know I can't fight you. You're my brother. 0:34:23.480 --> 0:34:26.480 You're my brother. I came to bring you cheese, and 0:34:26.520 --> 0:34:27.040 you mad at me. 0:34:27.120 --> 0:34:32.120 But guess what, I'm still not gonna I'm still not 0:34:32.200 --> 0:34:35.279 gonna fall into this trap to fight you. You are 0:34:35.480 --> 0:34:40.000 not my enemy. I'm gonna turn my back because I 0:34:40.120 --> 0:34:43.480 know where I knew my real enemy is. Some of 0:34:43.520 --> 0:34:45.840 you have been fighting your brother and your sister in 0:34:46.000 --> 0:34:48.440 Christ because you think they're the enemy, and I came 0:34:48.480 --> 0:34:51.480 to tell you they're not. You're doing like my oldest girl, Evy. 0:34:51.520 --> 0:34:52.759 I went to her room the other day and on 0:34:52.920 --> 0:34:56.000 her wall and on the door. She had no siblings on. 0:34:58.520 --> 0:35:00.399 I didn't want her younger brother or sister in the room. 0:35:00.560 --> 0:35:03.799 I mean, beautifully color on her front door. No siblings home. 0:35:04.160 --> 0:35:06.000 I said, that's interesting, because I don't remember the last 0:35:06.000 --> 0:35:10.560 time you paid a light bill. The mortgets it's the 0:35:10.640 --> 0:35:17.879 father's house. But you're trying to pick and choose which 0:35:17.960 --> 0:35:24.960 sibling can come in or out. Not my enemy. He 0:35:25.080 --> 0:35:28.520 turns his back when Eli abed and goes right into 0:35:28.560 --> 0:35:35.400 the next conversation. Miss Saul. Saul has had the answer. 0:35:35.520 --> 0:35:39.279 Walking to his office, David's like, letting nobody fear I'm 0:35:39.320 --> 0:35:42.040 gonna fight him. You would think you would get some encouragement. 0:35:43.719 --> 0:35:48.279 He gets discouraged by Saul. Saul says, you can't fight him. 0:35:50.080 --> 0:35:54.799 You're just the youth. He's been killing people since his youth. 0:35:55.920 --> 0:35:58.640 Have you ever had the voice of somebody else who 0:35:58.719 --> 0:36:01.279 is too scared to step into something, project their fear 0:36:01.440 --> 0:36:06.040 onto you, and they want to tell you what you 0:36:06.160 --> 0:36:09.440 can't do and give you a history of the enemy. 0:36:10.480 --> 0:36:13.560 He's like, you cannot fight goliaf He's killed so many people, 0:36:14.320 --> 0:36:15.880 some of you allowed the words of other people to 0:36:15.920 --> 0:36:21.399 get in your head. You can't defeat that alcoholism. It's 0:36:21.480 --> 0:36:26.760 destroyed everybody in your family. You can't beat that addiction. 0:36:26.960 --> 0:36:30.840 You can't be free. Everybody in your family is an addict. 0:36:32.080 --> 0:36:35.399 You can't be a great father. You never saw one. 0:36:35.480 --> 0:36:40.320 Have you ever had somebody tell you the history of 0:36:40.440 --> 0:36:44.120 a giant to make you feel like there's no way 0:36:45.160 --> 0:36:49.719 I can fight? But shout out to David. He's like, 0:36:50.080 --> 0:36:54.680 you talking about the history or Goliath, but you don't 0:36:54.719 --> 0:36:59.279 know about the history I have with God. When I 0:36:59.440 --> 0:37:04.040 was out in green pastures and it was just him 0:37:04.120 --> 0:37:07.799 talking to me, he said, I was out there, soul. 0:37:07.960 --> 0:37:11.920 Just so you know, I killed a bear and I 0:37:12.040 --> 0:37:19.319 killed a lion. I am posted, but it happened. If 0:37:19.360 --> 0:37:22.279 I had time. I wish we had the people that 0:37:22.280 --> 0:37:25.839 would just win some private battles first. And you ain't 0:37:25.840 --> 0:37:30.160 gotta tell everybody about your private battle before you get 0:37:30.200 --> 0:37:32.040 to the big battle. But anyway, that's another message. 0:37:33.120 --> 0:37:36.719 He said, Yeah, I defeated a lion, I defeated a bear. 0:37:36.920 --> 0:37:40.200 I feel like the same God that helped me defeat 0:37:40.239 --> 0:37:42.799 the lion and the bear help me knock him down too. 0:37:44.120 --> 0:37:48.640 Song goes, all right, the Lord be with you. That's 0:37:48.719 --> 0:37:53.719 in the Bible, and he says, oh, but before you go, 0:37:55.680 --> 0:38:02.120 come here, takes his armor, puts it on David. Put 0:38:02.160 --> 0:38:03.560 yourself in David's shoes. 0:38:03.600 --> 0:38:03.839 Y'all. 0:38:05.239 --> 0:38:08.879 This boy has been out with sheep. He's now finds 0:38:08.960 --> 0:38:11.120 himself in the presence of a king who puts his 0:38:11.480 --> 0:38:13.680 armor on him. No, this is like being in the 0:38:13.719 --> 0:38:15.920 locker room and Lebron going, you know, put this jersey armor. 0:38:16.040 --> 0:38:23.040 Just can you imagine? And here he is a shepherd 0:38:23.120 --> 0:38:30.520 boy wearing the king's armor. I wonder if there was 0:38:30.560 --> 0:38:38.200 a mirror, and he looked. He said, wow, I've never 0:38:38.280 --> 0:38:42.719 put on armor before, and certainly not armored this nice. 0:38:44.840 --> 0:38:48.440 I think while it was on, there had to be 0:38:48.520 --> 0:38:54.160 a temptation. Maybe I could, Maybe I could fight in this. 0:38:56.280 --> 0:38:58.160 I mean, I know I killed the lion and the bear, 0:38:58.239 --> 0:39:00.840 but this is a different This is a different battle. 0:39:02.040 --> 0:39:06.920 Maybe a different battle requires different weapons. So maybe I 0:39:07.000 --> 0:39:12.280 should go out in this armor. But then something clicks. 0:39:13.440 --> 0:39:18.200 He says, no, wait a minute, this looks nice, and 0:39:18.320 --> 0:39:22.400 so this might work for you, but it's not me. 0:39:26.640 --> 0:39:29.560 On I was praying for you this morning, and I 0:39:29.640 --> 0:39:33.279 was thinking about somebody who has on somebody else's armor. 0:39:35.840 --> 0:39:40.719 Some of you been wearing it for years, and you're 0:39:40.760 --> 0:39:44.480 trying to convince yourself that is you, but you know 0:39:44.760 --> 0:39:49.520 internally to say you, you've been trying to be your sister. 0:39:51.160 --> 0:39:54.479 You've been trying to be your brother. You've been trying 0:39:54.520 --> 0:39:56.160 to be the person that was in the position before 0:39:56.200 --> 0:40:00.880 you got in the position. God sit me from Dallas, Texas. 0:40:01.080 --> 0:40:01.400 Tell you you. 0:40:02.880 --> 0:40:11.800 Gotta do what David did. Work your weapon, Work your weapon. 0:40:12.640 --> 0:40:13.040 Watch this. 0:40:13.480 --> 0:40:16.640 People think the boldest and bravest move David did was 0:40:16.680 --> 0:40:21.000 to throw that rock. I think the boldest move was 0:40:21.080 --> 0:40:26.920 to take off Saul's armor and say I cannot defeat 0:40:27.040 --> 0:40:32.600 my giant in somebody else's armor. I've gotta work my weapon. 0:40:33.200 --> 0:40:35.680 I've got to use what God has given me. Hear me, 0:40:35.920 --> 0:40:38.520 You'll never grab your weapon until you take off somebody 0:40:38.600 --> 0:40:41.799 else's armor. Can you prove it in the text? 0:40:41.880 --> 0:40:42.400 I sure can. 0:40:42.520 --> 0:40:45.959 First Samuel seventeen, verse thirty nine. Look at what it says. 0:40:46.520 --> 0:40:48.880 It says, so he took them off. What did you 0:40:48.920 --> 0:40:52.360 take off Saul's armor? He took them off. Then he 0:40:52.480 --> 0:40:54.920 took his staff in his hand, chose file smooth stones 0:40:54.960 --> 0:40:56.279 from the stream, put them in the pouch of a 0:40:56.320 --> 0:40:57.920 shepherd's back. And with his sling in his hand, a 0:40:57.960 --> 0:41:00.120 person filled a sign. He took them off. Then he 0:41:00.239 --> 0:41:04.040 took You cannot take what's yours to fight with until 0:41:04.080 --> 0:41:12.360 you first take off what is not. You work your weapon. 0:41:12.520 --> 0:41:16.000 Can I make a confession? Oh I'm a horrible Pastor Steven, 0:41:17.719 --> 0:41:19.240 I'm a horrible Joyce Meyer. 0:41:20.360 --> 0:41:23.840 Oh I'm not a good Matt Chandler. But guess what, 0:41:23.920 --> 0:41:26.440 I'm the best Robert Madou, you have. 0:41:26.520 --> 0:41:33.480 Had a say in your life, and I've learned no 0:41:33.640 --> 0:41:37.920 matter the stage, it's a big stage. I gotta work 0:41:38.000 --> 0:41:41.880 my weapon. I've got to be me and you've got 0:41:42.000 --> 0:41:44.560 to be you. There's a weapon God that's given you 0:41:45.239 --> 0:41:48.880 to defeat your giant. Can y'all play real softly so 0:41:48.920 --> 0:41:55.080 I can land the plane? He had a herd of humility. Sure, 0:41:55.120 --> 0:41:57.960 I'll go take the lunch. He had a vision of victory. 0:41:58.560 --> 0:42:00.400 I know I'm gonna knock this giant. Now what do 0:42:00.440 --> 0:42:04.560 you get for knocking him out? He did what he 0:42:04.719 --> 0:42:09.120 knew his real enemy, My brother's not my enemy, Goliath is. 0:42:10.160 --> 0:42:14.840 Then he said, I gotta work my weapon. No more comparison. 0:42:16.239 --> 0:42:19.960 God gave me a slinging a rock. I'm gonna work 0:42:20.080 --> 0:42:24.600 that and so he goes ooh to the battle. This 0:42:24.680 --> 0:42:30.680 is the final conversation. He walks out. You see him, handsome, 0:42:31.840 --> 0:42:37.239 blowing with hell, small compared to this giant. And he 0:42:37.320 --> 0:42:39.800 walks out and he's ready. 0:42:40.600 --> 0:42:42.279 And Goliath laughs at him. 0:42:45.280 --> 0:42:46.040 Is this a joke? 0:42:47.239 --> 0:42:48.000 Am I a dog? 0:42:48.840 --> 0:42:49.040 Y'all? 0:42:49.080 --> 0:42:50.000 Come at me with sticks? 0:42:50.120 --> 0:42:50.759 Is this for real? 0:42:51.840 --> 0:42:55.200 Mocks him? You know it's the enemy. Whenever you are 0:42:55.239 --> 0:43:00.319 being mocked, the enemy loves to more. I mean, he's 0:43:00.360 --> 0:43:03.479 the father of all lies. If he's talking, he's lying. 0:43:04.160 --> 0:43:05.719 Lying is the native language. But he does have a 0:43:05.719 --> 0:43:09.400 second language. It's called mocking. He loves me. Really you, 0:43:09.800 --> 0:43:11.520 Oh you gonna lift up your hands and workship autter 0:43:11.560 --> 0:43:12.520 what you did last night? 0:43:13.520 --> 0:43:13.640 Oh? 0:43:13.719 --> 0:43:13.919 Really? 0:43:14.680 --> 0:43:16.160 You think God can use you. 0:43:18.400 --> 0:43:21.319 With all your issues? He loves Am I a dog? 0:43:22.360 --> 0:43:26.880 You come at me with sticks? He said, Hey, you 0:43:27.000 --> 0:43:30.319 come at me with sword and spear, But I come 0:43:30.360 --> 0:43:36.359 at you. And the name of the Lord takes the sling. 0:43:36.440 --> 0:43:37.240 You know the story. 0:43:38.600 --> 0:43:45.239 Takes the sling, hits Goliath in forehead, knocks him down. Now, 0:43:46.360 --> 0:43:49.080 because you've heard the story, I've heard store too. I'm 0:43:49.120 --> 0:43:52.280 curious if you know that there are scientists that actually 0:43:52.320 --> 0:43:55.239 look at scripture through the lens of science, and there 0:43:55.239 --> 0:43:57.400 are some of them that actually re few the veracity 0:43:57.440 --> 0:44:00.920 of this story, and how in the world could a 0:44:01.160 --> 0:44:03.680 rock kill a giant? 0:44:04.280 --> 0:44:07.840 And they did the scientific research, and they did a 0:44:07.880 --> 0:44:12.719 whole report on it, and I got the report. This 0:44:12.880 --> 0:44:13.400 is the report. 0:44:14.480 --> 0:44:17.799 They said, how is highly unlikely and improbable. 0:44:19.360 --> 0:44:20.120 That this could happen? 0:44:20.960 --> 0:44:24.560 You know what it says. Scientist said that David, with 0:44:24.680 --> 0:44:26.239 the rock the size of a baseball, and with the 0:44:26.280 --> 0:44:28.560 sling shot, the fastest that he could have released it 0:44:28.560 --> 0:44:30.960 would have been with a trajectory of about ninety miles 0:44:31.000 --> 0:44:33.839 per hour. And if you take a projectile going ninety 0:44:33.920 --> 0:44:36.000 miles per hour, and you use Newton's second law of 0:44:36.080 --> 0:44:39.160 motion and taken to effect the coefficient of restitution, that 0:44:39.280 --> 0:44:41.600 a projectile at that size at ninety miles per hour 0:44:41.800 --> 0:44:44.719 would generate about three thousand pounds of force as it 0:44:44.840 --> 0:44:47.560 was released. That is, if it was traveling the distance 0:44:47.760 --> 0:44:50.320 of a picture to the home plate, which is sixty 0:44:50.360 --> 0:44:53.640 feet and six inches. But since Goliath is at least 0:44:53.680 --> 0:44:56.160 twice that far, one also has to take into effect 0:44:56.200 --> 0:44:58.399 the drag of the distance of the ball that's working 0:44:58.440 --> 0:45:02.160 against the velocity of the force. Therefore, since he's further away, 0:45:02.360 --> 0:45:05.000 what was generated at three thousand pounds has now reduced 0:45:05.040 --> 0:45:08.320 itself arguably to at least one thousand pounds. That is, 0:45:08.600 --> 0:45:12.040 if David is throwing it straight. The problem is Goliath 0:45:12.160 --> 0:45:14.320 is taller than David, which means the angle of the 0:45:14.360 --> 0:45:16.400 projectile from which he launched it had to be at 0:45:16.480 --> 0:45:18.840 least forty five degrees, which means now the ball is 0:45:18.840 --> 0:45:21.680 also working against gravity, which also has reduced the force 0:45:21.760 --> 0:45:23.640 that the rock has been released. So what was three 0:45:23.719 --> 0:45:26.080 thousand pounds of force has now been arguably reduced to 0:45:26.120 --> 0:45:29.160 about five hundred pounds of force. But you must remember 0:45:29.360 --> 0:45:31.800 there's an armor bearer who stands in front of Goliath 0:45:31.840 --> 0:45:33.759 who would have lifted up his shield to take the 0:45:33.800 --> 0:45:36.359 projectile off of course, which would have reduced the force 0:45:36.400 --> 0:45:38.799 to at least fifty pounds and taken an off course 0:45:38.800 --> 0:45:41.759 of the direction headed towards Goliath. But if David could 0:45:41.840 --> 0:45:43.839 throw it, and if it did work against the drag, 0:45:44.000 --> 0:45:45.719 and if it could counter the weight, and if it 0:45:45.800 --> 0:45:48.320 did go against the coefficient of restitution, if it was 0:45:48.480 --> 0:45:51.440 not off course, and still ain't that goliath head. Don't forget, 0:45:51.640 --> 0:45:54.760 Goliath is wearing a helmet and a projectaile that started 0:45:54.800 --> 0:45:57.280 with three thousand pounds of force and ended at fifty. 0:45:57.480 --> 0:46:00.680 Hitting a bronze helmet would not have been enough to Goliath. 0:46:00.960 --> 0:46:04.080 So how can a young boy with one rock, working 0:46:04.120 --> 0:46:07.560 against gravity, working against through laws of emotions, working against 0:46:07.600 --> 0:46:11.280 the coefficient of restitutions, working against the drag being deflected 0:46:11.320 --> 0:46:14.359 by an armor a hit a bronze helmet. How could 0:46:14.400 --> 0:46:17.160 he kill a giant? And I got an answer for 0:46:17.320 --> 0:46:20.640 every science is out there. He didn't just throw a rock. 0:46:22.000 --> 0:46:25.719 He threw a name. He threw the name set is. 0:46:25.800 --> 0:46:29.800 About every single name. I don't know how the science works, 0:46:30.200 --> 0:46:31.840 but I know how the name works. 0:46:32.440 --> 0:46:35.480 I know that there's a name set is about every 0:46:35.640 --> 0:46:39.000 single name, And I think about somebody to day you 0:46:39.160 --> 0:46:40.239 letter throw that name? 0:46:40.760 --> 0:46:43.960 I know the giants sid throw the name. 0:46:44.680 --> 0:46:46.080 How do it looks greater than you? 0:46:46.880 --> 0:46:50.120 Roll the name? Roll the name that didn't heal the fish. 0:46:50.719 --> 0:46:53.520 Roll the name that you lave to pay roll the 0:46:53.640 --> 0:46:59.960 name that has healing and home and life, the name somebody, 0:47:00.080 --> 0:47:01.920 and give God the best phrase that you got in 0:47:01.960 --> 0:47:02.440 the place. 0:47:04.120 --> 0:47:07.040 No, I mean praise. I'm like you know, then it's time. 0:47:08.400 --> 0:47:09.400 That name. 0:47:12.080 --> 0:47:17.160 Who reminder standing all locations he found, like down your 0:47:17.200 --> 0:47:18.320 living room, remain standing. 0:47:20.640 --> 0:47:24.480 David didn't just throw a rock. She threw a name. 0:47:26.760 --> 0:47:29.239 Listen to it. We've heard it so much we forget it. 0:47:30.960 --> 0:47:33.640 You come at me with sword and spear and javelin. 0:47:35.320 --> 0:47:37.640 It wouldn't make sense to say I come at you 0:47:37.840 --> 0:47:43.120 with sleeve shot. He didn't say that. He said, you 0:47:43.239 --> 0:47:44.960 come at me with sword and spear and javelin. But 0:47:44.960 --> 0:47:48.000 I come at you in the name of the Lord Almighty, 0:47:48.600 --> 0:47:50.320 the God of the Armies of Israel. 0:47:52.840 --> 0:47:54.520 Coming on That name worked for David. 0:47:54.560 --> 0:47:55.640 It'll work for you too. 0:47:59.120 --> 0:48:03.800 He didn't throw a rock, He threw a name. The 0:48:04.000 --> 0:48:07.040 name made all the difference. And I don't know what 0:48:07.200 --> 0:48:10.840 Jihan you're facing today, but I do know. God's calling 0:48:10.960 --> 0:48:14.000 somebody today, hear me, to let go of your pride. 0:48:15.960 --> 0:48:18.920 You need a heart of humility. It says whatever my 0:48:19.040 --> 0:48:19.719 father asked him. 0:48:19.760 --> 0:48:23.440 Now I'll do it. He's calling somebody in here to 0:48:23.560 --> 0:48:26.640 get your hope again and get a vision of victory. 0:48:28.360 --> 0:48:35.000 See yourself winning. Stop forecasting your failure. Get a vision 0:48:35.080 --> 0:48:38.680 of victory. Hear me, know your real enemy. 0:48:39.880 --> 0:48:44.239 Your brother's not your enemy. That other denomination is not 0:48:44.400 --> 0:48:48.440 your enemy. That person that votes different than you is 0:48:48.640 --> 0:48:54.600 not your enemy. Your brother's not your enemy. You gotta 0:48:54.680 --> 0:49:00.360 know the real enemy. You gotta work your weapon something 0:49:00.440 --> 0:49:02.759 God has given you to do what he's called you 0:49:02.800 --> 0:49:02.960 to do. 0:49:03.040 --> 0:49:03.480 But watch this. 0:49:04.040 --> 0:49:10.319 That weapons not enough. You better throw the name, throw 0:49:10.400 --> 0:49:14.200 the name of Jesus. I'll tell you this, and I'm done. 0:49:17.440 --> 0:49:23.360 God is not obligated to defend your name. He's not 0:49:23.440 --> 0:49:25.040 obligated to defend your reputation. 0:49:25.200 --> 0:49:25.960 I know you want him to. 0:49:27.360 --> 0:49:31.040 But when his name is on the line, when his 0:49:31.400 --> 0:49:35.040 name is on the line, or fire will come down 0:49:35.239 --> 0:49:38.000 from heaven on now, Carmo, when his name is on 0:49:38.120 --> 0:49:41.919 the line, Red seas will split open when his name 0:49:42.080 --> 0:49:44.280 is on the line. Miracles, what happens. 0:49:44.600 --> 0:49:48.480 Giants will balm when it's his name. 0:49:49.719 --> 0:49:53.080 The name of Jesus. No matter what you're facing today, 0:49:54.040 --> 0:49:56.600 I believe that the same name that worked for David 0:49:57.560 --> 0:49:59.320 the same name that will work for you today. 0:50:00.000 --> 0:50:01.200 I'm when to ask every head be bound. 0:50:01.239 --> 0:50:06.279 I'll be closed across every location. Father, we're talking to you. 0:50:08.840 --> 0:50:11.839 We're talking to you. Thank you that you're a God 0:50:11.920 --> 0:50:13.040 that we can talk to. 0:50:14.680 --> 0:50:16.480 God. I'm praying for my brother. I'm praying for my 0:50:16.560 --> 0:50:20.520 sister who's in a real fight. But Lord, I'm praying 0:50:21.320 --> 0:50:26.480 for the power of the conversations to change the talk 0:50:26.560 --> 0:50:32.319 that they're saying internally. Let that shift today. Let us 0:50:32.440 --> 0:50:37.040 echo and repeat what you have said about us. Father, 0:50:37.200 --> 0:50:41.160 Thank you that the name that worked for David is 0:50:41.200 --> 0:50:45.000 the name that'll work for us. There's no other name 0:50:45.080 --> 0:50:48.320 by which we can be saved. In the name of Jesus. 0:50:48.480 --> 0:50:53.600 Let that name be appropriated, and the hearts and the 0:50:53.719 --> 0:50:56.920 lives of every single person who would call on it. 0:50:57.000 --> 0:51:02.719 Today in Jesus' name, we pray. 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