A Wound-Up Warrior - Pastor J. D. Howell 11-9-2025

This morning. We appreciate you being here.

I want to say we miss each one that is

unable to be here today. Brother Nathaniel and his family's

on vacation. We pray that the Lord to help him

be a mighty hunter before the Lord. He's dear hunting

in Tennessee. Has been at it for several days now.

May the Lord bless him and may he bring back

enough venison to share. But he's a hunting and his

family is with him. They're having a good time. They

were at the Knoxville Zoo yesterday and we miss them terribly.

I know the young people missed him teaching that class

this morning. We missed him on the electric guitar, and

we missed him his wife and his girls worshiping the

Lord today. Others are out today due to sickness and

illness and other things that I may or may.

Not be aware of.

But we miss everybody that's not here today. Looking nearby

and notice, if there's somebody missing today, just say a

prayer for him throughout the service and again. And my

heart is overjoyed with what the Holy Ghost has brought

to our attention that we are his bride. I'm looking

forward to that wedding day. Aren't you looking forward to it?

And apparently he knows there's one or two of monks

just that's just not ready. There's no deception like self deception.

And I've asked the Lord since I was a young child.

I said, Lord of all things, keep me from self deception.

Of all things, let me not be deceived. And I

think that's what has steered me into the old path,

the narrow way over the years. As I've said, God,

I do not want to be ignorant. I do not

want to be deceived. Have you ever had somebody tell you,

don't tell me, don't tell me.

I don't want to know it. I don't want to

hear it.

Even if it's the truth, I don't want to hear it.

I'm afraid there's too many people doing that. They're just

saying I don't want to hear it. I don't know

what to do with it once I hear it, and

I'd rather not have that knowledge. But if it's in

the Bible, I want to know that it's in the Bible,

if it's written pointed out to me, just as the

Holy ghosts pointed out out to us this morning, aren't

you glad once again to be the bride, not a bride'smaid. Amen,

praise the Lord. If you have your Bibles, will you

turn with me to the Book of First Samuel. May

I direct your attention to chapter number thirty and verse

number six. Brother Samuel Howell, Soalm chapter number fifty five

and verse number twenty two. Brother Jesse Acts chapter number twenty,

verses number twenty seven through twenty nine. Did you have

a good weekend? Amen, we had a good weekend. We

want you to know we appreciate you all so much.

It's good to see the crowd here this morning of

people of light, precious faith that love the Lord, have

the same purpose in mind for today. It's simply to

lift up the Lord so that he may draw all

things and all people unto him. We thank God for

the Spirit of God, the way it has moved in

the service, the way the sayingers have obeyed the Lord.

And I'm telling you they just sang the glory down,

and I'm thankful for that. I want you to know

that I have had a burden for several days now

ever since I heard that horrible scream in my sleep,

and I preached this past Wednesday night along them lines,

and I continue to be alarmed in my spirit. But

I want to encourage somebody today. But Sister Howell has

been walking with me. I've been trying to get at

least four thousand steps in a day, and I have

heard probably three to four different people scream the exact

scream that I heard. Now, I'm about fifty years old,

and in fifty years, I've never really heard anybody in

the general public scream per se just to do it.

And Sister how has been shocked and amazed with me

as we have witnessed God confirmed what I heard.

In mysterious ways.

In fact, at one point, this one individual scream twice

for no apparent reason, and they were not demonically possessed,

and it shook the area that they were in so

well that by the time Sister how and I circled

one city block of the Henry County Sheriff's Department was

there and on the scenes with their lights on, and

everything was okay. It was just God confirming to a

holiness preacher that somebody that was under the sound of

his voice this past week is in trouble. But I

want to preach to the saints of God this morning,

not the sinner. I want to preach to the bride.

Praise the Lord for the good Holy Ghost. Amen, I

want to preach to the bride. Sister Woot and Amen.

It sounded like you were excited as you worship the Lord.

The bride gets excited about being united with the bridegroom,

the wedding of the bride, united with the groom. We

shall see the king when he comes again. First Samuel,

Chapter number thirty, verse number six. Brother Samuel, would you

read Psalm chapter number fifty five and verse number twenty

to my brother, Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and

he shall sustain thee. He shall never suffer the righteous

to be moved.

Praise the Lord.

And I have sensed in my spirit that some of

the people in the building today just need to be encouraged.

Brother Jesse, Acts Chapter number twenty, Verses number twenty seven

through twenty nine.

Amen, Praise the Lord.

For I have not shunned to declare unto you all

the counsel of God. Take keed therefore, unto yourselves and

to all the flock over the which the Holy Ghost

hath made you overseers to feed the Church of God,

which he hath purchased with his own blood. For I

know this that after my departing, shall grievous woods enter

in among you, not sparing the flock.

And as since the apostle Paul was saying, there's going

to come a time when you need to be encouraged.

Which let's stand for the reading of our texts. First Samuel,

chapter number thirty and verse number six. The Bible says,

and David was greatly distressed for the people spake of

stoning him, because the soul of all the people was

grieved every man for his sons and for his daughters.

But David encouraged himself in the Lord his God. There

was no preacher to preach that day, there was no

priest to offer the ceremonial sacrifice for his sins that day.

He had to encourage himself. And I pray that we

can try to help you be encouraged today. But we're

gonna need you to put forth an effort to encourage

yourself as well. Heavenly Father, we love and we praise you.

We thank you for your goodness, We thank you for

your mercy. Lord, we pray that you would help this

thy servant. I realize Lord, I'm nothing. I know how

desperately I need you in this service this morning. You

would annoint this thy service, set a guard at my mouth,

and help me to say what you would have me

to say. Again, I say, annoint me, please, God, and

anoint the ears of this thy people, that they might

hear what the spirit of God says unto the church.

We pray God that we would depart this place joyfully

and not sorrowly. In Jesus's name. In the church says Amen,

I would like to preach a message the Holy Ghost

titled a wound up Warrior, A wound up Warrior. How

many of you are familiar with a wounded warrior project, Amen,

I'll tell you a lot of those wounded warriors have

found themselves wound up tight emotionally. Reading our text again

First Samuel, chapter number thirty and verse number six, the

Bible said, and David was greatly distressed for the people

spake of stoning him, because the soul of all his

people were grieved, every man for his sons and for

his dog. But David encouraged himself in the Lord his God.

Our text is found in an Old Testament book of

the Holy Bible, the Book of First Samuel. This particular

book of the Bible was a favorite of mine for

many years, and the reason for that is because there

is so much preaching material in this book of the Bible,

and as a young preacher, I found myself oftentimes preaching

from the books of First and Second Kings and First

and Second Samuel. And this morning, the Holy Ghost has

focused our attention upon a certain incident which took place

in the sweet psalmist life. David, the Sweet Psalmist of Israel,

had made some bad decisions. It's only been a couple

of months ago since Brother Jesse how will preach something

along those lines of David not acting like himself, David

not behaving himself as he normally would, and because of this,

David made some bad decisions. I have not went back

and listened to that message, but I do find it

very interesting that the Holy Ghost some months later would

be putting us again upon this particular chapter and drawing

our focus and attention to it. So, David, the anointed

of God had made some bad decisions, some which affected

him alone and others which affected him and his companions.

And him and his colleagues, cohorts and constituents. Even though

he didn't always have a strong grip on his own life,

he always seemed to have a tight hold on the Lord.

And I feel like I'm preaching to such a person

this morning that even though it seems like the things

of this life are out of your control somehow, because

of your faith and your determination, you hold on to

the Lord.

And I want to.

Encourage you this morning to continue holding own to the Lord.

In this narrative before us today, we can see of

another time when David made a horrible decision, and brother

Samuel Howe will because of this horrible decision, he found

himself between a rock and a hard place. We know

that his best friends Jonathan at one time found himself

in between a rock and a hard place. But that

was a time that was appointed by God. So Jonathan

made it through that without any problem, and the Lord

worked wondrously on the behalf of Jonathan and his armor bearer.

But now David has allowed himself and as close as friends,

men who are willing to give their very life for him,

to be in between a rock and a hard place.

When these warriors were dismissed from Akesh, one of the

Philistine kings brother Jesse. The Bible said that they begin

to make their journey back to a land that Acash

had given them, and that land was Zickclag. Reluctantly, David

headed back to Zicklag. After traveling three days, David and

these loyal, mighty men caught a glimpse of home. We

sing about it just yesterday that we can see the

lights of home. We've talked about how homesick we've been

of late for heaven.

And I know that David.

And his men truly were warriors and they were desirous

to fight another battle. But God had his hand in

this decision, and we find it to be the providential

hand of God steering David away from that military squirmish

and conflict and leading him to go home.

And I feel like there.

Are some people that are bitter babies of the church

that for whatever reason, it didn't happen here, but for

whatever reason, somewhere in a church sometime they became bitter.

And it could have been because the bad decisions that

they made, poor life choices that they made, and the

preacher had to come down a heart on them. How

many of you know that the church should still be

practicing church discipline. How many of you know that parents

should still be disciplining their children. I believe it is

of the Lord's order that we have such a thing

as discipline, and I feel like there are many times

that disciplinary action needs to be taken. And so David,

there's no doubt he understands the chastening.

Broad of the Lord.

He knows what it is to get out of step

and out of tune and out of line with the Lord,

only to have the Lord or write his steps that

have him walk to the right beat, and have him

led by the spirit of God in the right path,

and to find himself in the right place at the

right time. And even though this against the wishes and

the will of David, David is just about back to

zickclag And what a beautiful sight the horizon must have

been in the distance. But as they drew closer, something

didn't look right. There's no doubt something didn't smell right.

Brother Jesse, I feel like from a great distance, some

of these men who had good vision. You know, there's

people in this building that could see really well from afar.

I am one of those individuals. For years they called

me Ego eyes. If somebody lost their car keys or's

a tool in the middle of a twenty acre cow pastor,

they would come to me and say, hey, I've lost

this personal item. Sometimes it was a wallet, or a

pair of prescription glasses or a pair of car keys,

and some people would search, and because of their poor vision,

after an hour or two they were unable to find it.

But because my good vision to be able to see

from a distance, I could see things that a lot

of people couldn't see. I don't know why I was

blessed with vision like this. I thought, Man, if i'd

lived in the days of Daniel Boone and those other men,

i'd been a scout, you know what I'm saying. They

were just things that I could see a far away

that other people couldn't see. And I remember at times

them asking me, Jeremy, come over here. I was in

this general vicinity, And when they would nail it down,

it would still be about an acre plot of ground

that they would want me to search. And I didn't

have to walk very long, brother Jesse, until I recovered it,

because I was looking for something specific, and I'm sure

in the company of David and his men there were

those men that were looking for something specific. I'm sure

there's people in this building today would have been the

type to have been walking and kiss kick, kicking pebbles

and overturning stones and throwing rocks and not paying attention.

You've seen those kind of people that walk with their

head down. I've told my sons, I said, don't be

that person that walks with your head down. Recently, we

spent some time at a hospital awaiting the birth of Judah,

and I pointed out in the sister house, said, look,

how many people walk with their head down? I said,

it's no wonder so many of them run smack dab

into things because they will not lift up their head

and look at their surroundings and familiarize themselves with what's ahead.

And so I'm sure there were men like David and

others that were looking on the horizon and looking for

signs and symptoms of trouble. And I'm sure somebody would

have noticed that there was a lot of smoke going

up into the sky on that particular day. I'm sure

somebody made a comment that we didn't need that many

fire in order to cook supper for the inhabitants of

our little town. There was no doubt there was somebody

that noticed a destroyer.

Had invaded their little town.

And I want you to know, a preacher or a

pastor sometime can look at a family and know that

a destroyer has come into that marriage that family. They

can even look into another pastor's church, and a pastor

who's busy looking down and pretending live nothing would ever

go wrong in their church, and that preacher can say

there's something wrong and an enemy has done this. Let

me be clear, I'm sure the heart rate of every

male increased when the warrior cited a problem, When the

warrior and the scout said there's something wrong in the camp.

You see, these men would have been eye witnesses to

the wars of heaths and warriors and armies. They had

seen the after math of the Amlicos. Let me say

that again, they had seen the aftermath of the Amlicos.

You're not dealing with the aftermath of the Amlicos today,

but some of you are dealing with the aftermath of

a hireling that fled and left your little children at

church of somebody that was a paid preacher. They had

the pitching, the paycheck, the personage. But when trouble came,

it revealed to everybody they were a hireling, and they

wanted no part whatsoever in the recovery process. We have

heard it been said that a lot of good men

have inherited great works of great men, only to allow

the devil to come in and to wreakhavoc and to

destroy the works the great.

God of those great men of God.

You see, these warriors would have been walking around as

wounded warriors, and the more they walked around and surveyed

the damage, the more wound up they became. Are you

listening to me this morning? I'm preaching a message the

Holy Ghost titled a wound up a Warrior. I know

a lot of pastors and pastors, wives and elders of

churches are such a person as a wound up a warrior.

I don't believe they're dealing so much with post traumatic

stress disorder. But over the years, anybody involved with ministry,

be it a pastor or an elder, they have experienced

some traumatic things. I want you to know, Brother Richard

Jacob could tell you of some things that have happened

to good people because there was not a watchman on

the wall, or there was not any man of God

in the little town of God in order to help

defend the city. That's I want to preach to some

of you that feel like you have lost so much.

I want to tell you that in a time of prayer,

I heard a different cry. It was not a hopeless

scream of despair. It was a crime. I could tell

the spirit of God was in it. I could tell

the life of the Spirit was present, and I could

tell that the spirit of God was growning. I'm telling

you here today, I'm gonna preach to somebody. You have

looked like David and these wound up warriors did act

the after math left behind by rebels. David had seen

what the Amlekot army had did you have seen what

the devils henchmen have done to your friends and your

family and your loved ones?

Oh, come on now.

These men would have heard the testimonies of a handful

of survivors telling how these brute beasts them better to

find as savages had come in and tortured their victims.

They knew these men were known to leave I'm telling

you damage and hardship and calamity and chaos behind.

They knew these men.

Such as this would bring and leave behind times of

great suffering and times of great injury and trial if

they did not slaughter every one. And that is the

purpose of the devil. He walks about as a roaring

line of seeking to kill. He wants to steal, but

most of all he wants to destroy. And can I

tell you the malakotsay no different. They were of their father,

the Devil. David remembered who the devil was. David knew

the anger in the heart of the Philistine giant. Gonna

come on now, are y'all win me right here in

this building this morning. Some of you have been foughting

long enough now to know the wiles of the devol.

You know the cunning craftiness of the dampol. You know

the devil neither slumbers nor sleeps. As well, I'm telling

you God neither slumbers nor sleeps, and neither does the depot.

But I want you to know the Devil is not

an equal with Gabriel and Michael anymore. He's never been

an equal to Jesus Christ. Lucifer is on a leasha.

He is a formidable foe, but I want you to

know he is a defeated foe. It certainly looked like

a hopeless situation for David. I'm telling your brother Jesse, ever,

remember of this army's wiring up. I'm preaching a message

the Holy Ghost titled of wound up a Warrior. David

understood that each member of this town had been in

his care, and because they were under his watchful eye,

and because this had happened, he is responsible. Oh, we

can't find very many people anymore that would admit the

responsibility for their actions. Come on now, I want to

preach to you here this morning. So David knew these

people had been entrusted into his care. The apostle Paul

felt the same way about the church that he cared for.

In fact, he said, the burden that I carry is

so great it's all but unbearable if it was not

because of me sharing the.

Load with the Lord. When you look at.

The twentyth chapter the Book of Acts, brother Jesse read

that to us just a little while ago. He read

a few select verses out of that chapter. And whenever

you listen to what Luke recorded Paul saying, Paul said,

wherefore I take you to record this day that I

am pure from the blood of all men. What Apostle

Paul is saying, my hands are clean and my conscience

is clear. Come on, he said, right there, I am

clear of.

The blood of all men.

It means when the Holy Ghost bade him to preach something,

he preached it.

When the Holy Ghost told him to go somewhere, he went.

When the Holy Ghost spoke to him, he answered the call,

and he was going to depart this life with a

pure heart and clean hands. Luke recorded that Paul went

on to say he had not shut to declare under

you the whole counsel of God. I want you to

know some of your friends and family members and loved

ones are in the shape that they are in because

some refuse to preach the whole counsel of God. Louke

continued writing some other things that the Apostle Paul said.

He continued telling leaders to pay attention and take notice

that the Holy Ghost had made some of them over

seers to watch over the flock and to feed the

flock of God that's in the same chapter. Are y'all

listening to the pastor this morning. I've heard a lot

of preachers try to feed the flock, but there's very

few that want to watch over the flock.

Let me tell you.

When you watch over the flock, it's not for an

hour and a half on Sunday morning and for fifty

minutes on Sunday night and Wednesday night. You watch after

the flock twenty four or seven, and you feed the

flock for an hour and a half on Sunday morning

and hopefully for at least an hour or so on

Sunday evening and Wednesday night. Have God made you an

over seer? You ought to be a shepherd. And David

knew like Paul, that we are under shepherds, under the

Great Shepherd.

In verse number twenty nine of Acts twenty.

Luke recorded that Paul said, for I know that after

my departing there shall grieve us worsome.

It a're in among you, not sparing the flock.

David and Paul knew wherever there are sheep, there are

sure to be wolf's lurking nearby. I'll tell you what's

worse than a natural amalakanta coming into a little town

called sick Lag, It's a spiritual a malacote, a child

of the devil, coming into a marriage, coming into a family,

coming into a home, But more importantly, I'm focusing this

morning on coming into church.

I feel like there's.

Not a whole lot of spiritual a Malakite's here, But

I do know it's possible, because the Apostle Paul told

the precious young pastors, and you'd better be careful and

watch who eventually starts preaching there. They will think nothing

of cussing, they'll think nothing of singing a worldly song.

They'll think nothing of living like the devil. But they'll

try to get in your poopid and they'll try to preach.

They'll try to get behind the Sunday's court lictern, and

they'll try to teach. I'm talking about an invasion. You're

at your Amalakites and a real preacher and a real

edder and a real beacon and a real pastor, and

we'll understand.

The wolf will be the wolf. The devil will be

the devil. He will go about as a lion, he

will lurk as a wolf. He will always be a

beadied eye depod.

But you don't have to let him come into your

little town. I said, you don't have to allow him

to come inside of your little town. So David and

Paul new wherever there are sheep, there are sure to

be wolves lurking nearby. Brother Samuel Howell has shared with

us recently that on two to three occasions I know

of at least two, there may be a third one

there is a panther that is a killer panther that

is lurking nearby where they work. It has stalked Brother

Philip and has got within six to eight feet a

Brother Philip. And thank God for the Holy Ghost prompting

Brother Philip to look over his shoulder and to be

aware of his surroundings. That thing should have pounced on

Brother Philip, but God had mercy on Brother Philip, Sister Elizabeth,

Sister Ada, and this church family. Recently, a lawn care

company was in there doing the lawn for Brother Samuel

and brother Philip. They basically run the place under doctor

Abraham the veterinarian. And our brother Philip told me just

last week he said that the lawn care company, the

boss from that company called and said, listen, we won't

be going back in that part of your property anymore

because we called that panther stalking some of.

Her crew members.

And you know what, that's a real boss one that says,

I'm not gonna jeopardize my employee to satisfy your.

Wants and your wilms. Oh, come on now.

And I hope Brother Samuel has done the same thing,

and he has told Brother Philip and.

Others, we are not going out there.

We're not gonna play with fire unless we get burned.

Come on now.

Paul said that these people that would come into church

would be savages, and they would be rabbingous beast against

the flock.

Of the Lord.

I want you to know when them malachites rolled in

the sick Lag, the wife.

The warrior knew. They were not there.

To ask for biscuits and gravy. They were not running

through a drive through. They drove me in the recaboc.

You could think about the wife of the warrior. She

knew the enemy is here and there's nobody to protect something.

Do you realize the blessing of a hedge and a

man of God? Do you realize the blessing of a hedge,

of somebody going over there to fire forest and praying.

Day in and day out. Do you realize how blessed

you are? Back? Turn near it? Put in our golden Texas.

They even knew all too well what savages will do

to innocent humanity, to innocent human beings. It doesn't matter

if that child is cute and when it smiles, it's

got dimpls. It doesn't matter if that little boy and

little girl or pure with innocence. It doesn't matter if

that wife is the wife of one man. I'm telling you,

when the enemy comes in, I said, when the enemy

comes in.

And when David walked.

Around the charred remains of what had been, every man

was in his own ash pile, I said, every man

was stirring in his own ash pile. If they live today,

every one of them would have dropped a pin of

that certain geographic location where what should have been.

It's no longer where what could have been? It's no more.

Come on now, I'm telling you what's a time of

great distress. You get wound up one thing after another,

one circumstance after another, one difficulty after another. You think

the devil word ease up, but nobody. It keeps tightening

it up. I said, It keeps winding your spring until

it's had his leaping point.

You ain't gotta worry about a spring breaking.

What you gotta worry about is a spring leaping out

of that view and running to the world.

I want you to know David did not run to

the Malakatza.

First, David did not run to the Philistines, and David

did not run to the Hebrews. David went to the

Lord in a time of great distress. He felt like

God could bless And I want you to know, I

tell us some of you this morning. You will go

from be a greatly distressed to be a greatly.

Blessed if you put your trust in.

The Lord, I said, if you put your trust in

the Lord, great shall be the deliberance. So all through

his life David had dilemmas, one dilemma after another. You know,

you find yourself in them circumstances where you have to

make a choice, and really none of them are good choices.

You really don't like any of the things that are

up for consideration and choice.

You don't really want to pick any of it.

And so what I do Do I chase the Amalikites

without the presence of God. Do I be hasty in

my actions and suffer waste? Do I go back to

the five Kings of the Philistines that didn't want me anyway.

Do I go back to a cash and beg him

for assistance?

What do I do? And that's what you're wondering.

When are we gonna have another one of them sermons

that pastor preaches that shakes my spirit? When are we

gonna have another soul sing by Brother Jesse that stirs

my spirit? You heard it this morning? When is brother

Nathan You're gonna teach again? So wonderfully you hear it

every week?

You got all that.

These men did not have it, They did not have

a pastor to preach because the sweet simest of Israel

is in the same shape as they are in.

And that's what I want to ask you this morning.

What if your pastor was in the same shape that

you're in, We're just still make it. Would you help him?

Who's a fight for him? Who's a fight for your family?

I feel like some of you are seeing it right

now for the first time. It doesn't matter what shape

the olders enough, it doesn't matter how much they're getting Again,

I'm asking you what you're gonna do with those wounds?

Round up for you? What are you gonna do with

those wounds? Round up for you?

I'm gonna take them to the Lord. That's what I'm

gonna do. Pastor, I'm gonna take these wounds to the Lord.

Greatly distressed. For the writer to say, I'm greatly distressed. Amen,

he's greatly distress. Somebody's took the head off of a

giant named Glith and he said, I'm distressed. He's greatly distressed.

A man that literally served as an armor bearer, that's

gonna take jabblins, spears and swords for the one that

he's guarded and protecting. Yeah, when he says he's greatly distressed,

he's greatly distressed. His Sunday morning strawberry pop tart didn't burn. Yeah,

y'all just heard it. That's my secret, right there, a

Sunday morning strawberry pop tart. Y'all want to know my secret?

This Sunday afternoon, Little Abigail ro Cap brings me a

strawberry dragonfruit refresher with green tea.

Oh yes, oh yes, that's the secret. What is the

secret of victory? What is the secret of deliverance?

It's not a strawberry pop tart, and it's not a

strawberry dragonfruit refresher.

It is when I am greatly distressed.

I feel like just the turning of the event could

be leading to my being greatly blessed.

Oh come on now, I'm trying to encourage her right

here this morning.

If your pastor could say the same thing, job did

I've got nothing left? Oh come on, ain't nothing to

give it anybody. But ashes did not you burn? Did

not I burn? Apostle Paul said, you suffer and I suffer,

for we're all in the same boat, and we're all

rowing there with the same captain a board, and Jesus

is aboard this missile. And I want you to know

Jesus is able to help you wound it with Warrior.

Jesus is able to help.

You wound up Warrior.

But I'm wound up so tight, Mercy. I don't know

what to think about this. I don't know what to

do about that. I want you to know me still

and know that He is God. They said before, when.

You don't know what to do, do nothing at all

but for the child of God. I want to add this,

But when God speaks and he tells you what to do,

then do it.

And what they're saying here this morning, he is It

doesn't matter hit the pasta, the first Lady or the

eddor for anybody else. He's in the same boat. We're

in the same as pile. You have to encourage yourself.

And the Lord. How does that happen? My scripture? Reading?

By praying, by getting Yet when the spear of God,

he's moving. So the city of zick Lag is now

attended again. There's people there, it's inhabited again. The ruins

and the rubbish of zick Lag have some attendants there,

and they're all wounded and wound up, warriors getting wound

up more tight. I'm telling your brother, Caleb, their spring's

about to jump out. Somebody's cranked on it too many cranks.

Somebody's tested it too many times. Job's wife's a snapping

and she's breaking. Are you all with me now? Apostle

Paul told some of them, he said, you feel the tenchen,

you feel the pressure.

You're burning. I don't burn, you hurt, I don't hurt.

And David's over there hurting, and brother, whenever the tides turn,

there's nobody to preach to David. There's nobody to take

a harp and strike a g cord and the seeing

how sweet it is the victory. There's nobody to run

around and do any motivational speaking. There's nobody to say,

come on, king, If God before us, who can be

against us.

There's none of that going on.

And David realizes, well, it's up to me again, because

if I don't muster this crew, we're gonna remain miserable.

And that's what I want to tell somebody in this

building today, Dad and MoMA.

Only you can muster your crew.

Only you can shake them out of their miserable state

of affairs in mind. Only you can do it. Oh

come on, now, I'm telling you. I feel like God

just spoke something into my heart. I'll say this, God

will make a way for you, but you've got to

step forward and move on when God makes the way.

Greatly distressed, and the Bible said for the people spake

of stoning him, because the soul of all the people

was greed well joined the club. David sawl was grieved.

David's spirit needed reviving. Every man's upset about his sons,

every man's upset about his daughters, every man's upset about

his wife's. In fact, I think when I read that scripture,

I read it a few times. I need to go

back and read it, because we got them trouble makers

online that loved to listen to the preaching and find

where you found one word you misspocused up with paraphrase,

you know, But I don't think it said anything in

there about wives. I think it said the sons and

the daughters of every man's gone. I don't know what

kind of women they were dealing with. I'm sure they

wanted them back. I know David was missing his I

know that man of God, and all through the scriptures

you find references were David didn't want anything horrible to

happen to his Oh Sweet Jesus, should I keep preaching

or should we go to the chicken house?

Amen?

Get the imagery. David and his men are in distress.

Emotions are off the charts. Each man is standing in

an ashpile of what used to be, what could have been,

what should have been, And brother Tyler, somebody notices something

and observe it. Jeremy Howell or Nathaniel Howell says, I

don't smell the smell of burnt flesh. Brother Jeremiah Howe

was cremated of more bodies than probably about anybody I

know he's created a many a body a week. What's

the most you've ever done in a week, Brother Jeremiah,

doing as many as fourteen a day, And Sister, One

thing he told me when I went to watch him

do one was you'll never forget to smell the burning flesh.

And I had an idea that because I had worked

in a welding shop and had did some fitting and

welding and grinding, and I had burnt myself pretty severely

a time or two, and I remember the smell of

burnt flesh. But since the wood and I had never

smelled it in that degree, and these wounded warriors, they

would have known the smell of burning flesh. And somebody said, well,

I don't smell anything like burning flesh. Y'all see this,

y'all getting this? Well, there may be hoping. And some

kicked around in the wood debris, Brother Samuel, and in

the ashes, said I can't find any bones.

I'm sure of the fire didn't get hot enough to.

Disintegrate bones, Brother Jeremiah, y'all have to have a special

fire that will attempt to do that, and even that

it's unable to do it. And so they're looking for bones,

and they realize there are no bones.

Hey, come on.

Bethel's youth pastor recently warned our young people of savages

that live in the social on media circle and the

savages that.

Live in what video gaming.

He didn't say that word savage, but he was warning

you and telling you you better seek God. And I'll

tell you what will happen. If you don't seek God.

You'll find yourself seeking the savages. And before you deal

with the savages, you're gonna have to seek God. Daven

found that the Amblecots had invaded and burned their city

to the ground. At some point, someone noticed there were

no bones in the ash pile. There's no smell of

burning flesh. That one of a kind stencher is not

in the air. And that's what I'm telling you, Dad,

and Mama, and Pastor and first lady and elder. I

have not yet smelled the flesh of your loved one

burning in hell, I said, I have not yet smelled

the flesh, Nor has God smelled the flesh of your love.

This one's burning in hell, Oh my God, in heaven.

While they've got breath in their bodies, stir your Sapa

out of sleep and make war on Hell. Chargetal with

the promises of God, Chargetal, with the word of God, Chargetale,

with this message that you.

Came without four we cover all Amen.

On top of this realization, David sees one man speaking

to another, and then another one speaking to another. And

now the savage spirit is not only in the Melachites,

it's in David's best friends. Their eyes go from being

round the beady, narrow ud. They licked their chops, and

they begin to talk. Whisper to him, whisper to him,

whisper to him, whisper to him. David realizes, see all

these men whispering church. David realizes there's trouble. And all

eyes had always watched David, but this time they're bloodthirsty,

and this time all them warriors are wound up so

tight emotionally that their target is David. David may be

a match for Goliath, and David may be a match

for this one and that one, But David is no

match for the mighty men, them six hundred mighty men

that followed him. I'm telling you, when you get a

wounded spirit, and when you get wound up tight, the

man that loves you the most. The man that you

fled your homes to live in a cave with, the

man that defended you and your family. Something will get

a hold of your spirit. I'm telling you, you get

wound up. I'm telling you, wounded warrior, you get wound up,

and you know pretty soon you're targeting David. And then

there's talks of stoning him to death because of his

one bad decision. And when you look at why he

did what he did, it makes a little bit of sense.

And David says, in a time of distress like this.

I need help. I need help.

There's nobody to sing a song, there's nobody to preach

a message. David begins to encourage himself in.

The Lord, his God.

God helped him get a hold of that e foda.

He put it on and started having church for himself.

The Man of God was greatly distressed, but in his

distress he got blessed.

And that's what I'm telling.

You right here in these altars this morning, You've got

an opportunity to get down in your distress and to

talk to the Lord and to have church by yourself,

not outside in the church yard, not over there in

a bar club right there in the present. Have your

brothers and sisters with the right spirit. You can say,

right now, people don't understand me.

Right now, people have misjudge me. Right now.

True has been misrepresented right now, false accusations, her own

every hand. I really did have the best interest in mine.

But now, David, what are you gonna do when the

six hundred come for you?

I'll tell you what you do.

You start having church, I said, you start having church.

David taught us that if we can encourage ourself and

our Lord, we can have victory in our lives. Yes,

I'm an encourager, David could say, But now it's time

to encourage myself. David taught us that we can encourage

ourselves in our Lord when we can't get to church

on Friday. It's easy to encourage yourself and the Lord

on Sunday morning and Sunday night and even now.

While pastor's preaching.

But whenever there's no church on Monday and Tuesday and

Thursday and Friday and Saturday. David told us that you

can encourage yourself in the Lord when I can't see

the church, be in the church when I can't hear

the church.

Be in the church.

Right there in my prayer closet at home, I can

kneel down and say, God is faithful. And that's what

I want to tell somebody this morning. God is faithful.

And whenever Job couldn't get to church, as to how

he told missus Job, He's faithful. Great is thy faithfulness

was his testimony of God. God is there always. And

you know what he did. He prayed until God answered.

He wouldn't rely upon the answer of Abba Shi and

other notable warriors. He waited for God to say, let's go.

I'm sure after it got through having church there were

those that truly trusted David and said we're good to

go now. I'm sure some put some swords in a scabbard,

some smeared some ash on their face. That's what I

would have done. I'm bringing the ashes to you. But

David said, we got to hold on just a minute.

We got to wait for God. And David said, Lord,

should we pursue? Are y'all feeling what I'm a feeling

right now? David's two wives were taking captives, and Hnim

the gesu Ledis and Abigail, the wife of the Nable

the carmelite, and David was greatly distressed, and their wives,

and their sons and their daughters. They were missing their wives.

Amen.

Some have their hopes dashed right here this morning. Some

have watched their dreams disappear. Some have struggled to find work.

Some have struggled to pay bills. Some have struggled due

to illness. Some are fighting battles right now that nobody

else needs to know about. Some are fighting battles that

nobody needs to hear about. You're greatly distressed, but I

want to tell you can go to being greatly blessed.

David was in a state of great emotional distress. I

want you to think of the time in your life

when you were the most wound up emotionally. A fellow

approached me the other day. Their brother, Jesse, would come

to the piano and he said, Pastor, since I left

the church, he said, I've been going through it, he said,

one accident at to another, one accident at to another.

He showed me the scars on his neck, some of

them two to three inches long. He showed me scars

on his back right in the middle of Walmart, some

of them three to four inches long. He said, my

spine is disintegrating as fast as they can fix it.

And admittedly, he said, I've been on this painkiller. I've

been on this one. I've been on this one, and

I've just been suffering. And you could tell he's a

wounded warrior of this world. And you could tell he's

get wound up tight because of the suffering. You let

somebody get the suffering. There's some of your right now.

You don't know what it is to suffer some of you.

You don't know what.

It's like to lose a loved one, not to death,

but to the world. Every time a pastor loses one

to the world, no matter how the church feels, it's

best that they went. The pastor never shares those sentiments

because the pastor knows that path leads to hell. Wound

up warrior, you could just speak to them and they're

in attack mode. You just speak to them and they're

so defensive. You acknowledge and address them, and they're like

a coke bottle, all shook up, just ready to explode.

Apostle Paul said, in my body, the wounds every pastor

bears in his body, wounds that cannot be seen by

mortal eye, every elder, every dad, every mom, let's stand, please,

would you please stand that wounded warrior. If he's not careful,

he'll become the wound up warrior. They stopped thinking correctly,

they stopped feeling correctly. They see buggers on every hand.

Paranoia ensues, everybody's against them. In David's case, it was

that paranoia settling in.

It was a.

Reality, sister. How had they killed David that day and

buried him in his own ashpile, none of them would

have lived to see the next sunrise, because had words

spread David is dead, the grievous wolves would have descended

upon And that's what Paul knew. When the news breaks,

when the headline reads Apostle Paul Christianity's greatest persecutor. Now

it was once its promoter, it's now deceased. The grievous

wolves are coming. You watch it, Bethel, right here. When

your pastor dies. People you thought would never come, you

think they're coming because finally they feel like they can

be comfortable where there's no holiness preaching. But they come

on a mission to divide and destroy. But I know

I'm preaching to somebody today whether elder, pastor, pastor's wife, preacher,

whoever's listening, or young person. You're wound up tight, and

my brothers, if y'all will as you part back just

a little bit where I want you to come right here? Brother,

if you need to pray this morning, wounded warrior, you've

become a wound up warrior.

Sister, where you at?

You're here, there's about four of you today. You're wound

up so tight emotionally, let's bow our heads and close

our eyes. Well, Terry, just for about twenty seconds if

you would come, would you please do so right now,

keep your eyes closed and heads bowed. Please, there's two?

Is there two more? I've been through so much I

don't know what to expect next. I'm so shook up.

Encourage yourself into lord, brothers, the sisters are coming. The

brother's altar, which is unusual, remains empty. This is very unusual.

So brothers, I know this morning we've hit a nerve

on your side. I know of at least two men

that need to be in this altar. You know what

happens to the person that stays wound up? They self destruct,

They self implode.

Is there any others.

You may say, Pastor, I'm not wound up yet, but

I'm wounded and I'm trying to navigate this. There's more coming. Yeah,

you better deal with it before it becomes a wound

up situation. There's about fourteen of you now, let's just

all come in and find a place to pray.

And to those of you that aren't wounded and aren't

wound up, just hold on.

You will be soon enough. So if you will, please

pray for your brother and sister. Don't speak of taking

up stones and stone in them. If you're hurting, so

is your brother. If you're suffering, so is your neighbor.

That's what Apostle Paul said to you.

People.

Understand, I'm flesh and blood just like you. Could we

get together this morning and pray and be transparent. Preacher,

you're wound up tight. Feel like some pastors will be

listening to this. Pastor, you're wound up tight. Pray it through,

encourage yourself