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#GenCamp24: Giant Killers | Andy Yeoh

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  1. Hey there, you're listening to the Generation's Church podcast. We pray that the

  2. word of God today will challenge, change and channel you into your God given

  3. destiny. Now let's get started. But Samuel seventeen, verse thirty three to

  4. fifty one. If I'm going to bring attention to the title, I'm just

  5. I don't know what to call it, just calling it giant kill us?

  6. How many want to kill some giants? What about giants we have in your

  7. life or in your way? We have got DNA. We can learn how

  8. to be giant killers first, Samuel seventeen, verse thirty two fifty one.

  9. Hope you don't mind us reading the word of God. Yeah, And Saul

  10. said to David, you are not able to go against this philistine, to

  11. fight with him. But you are a youth. You're young, you're small,

  12. you're tiny, you're inexperienced. And he Goliath a man of war from

  13. his youth. But David said to Saul, your servant used to keep his

  14. father's sheep. I don't know how sheep had got to do with giants,

  15. But I used to keep a father's sheep. And then when a lion or

  16. a bear came and took a lamb out of the flock. I went after

  17. it and struck it, and delivered the lamb from its mouth. And when

  18. he rose against me, I caught it by its beard and struck and killed

  19. it. Your servant has killed both lion and bear, and this uncircumcised philistine

  20. will be like one of them, seeing he has defied the armies of the

  21. living God. Moreover, David said, the Lord who delivered me from the

  22. paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, he will deliver

  23. me from the hand of this philistine. And Saul said to David, go

  24. and the Lord be with you. So saw clothed David with his armor,

  25. and he put a bronze head helm on his head, and he also clothed

  26. him with a coat of mail. David fastened his sword to his armor and

  27. tried to walk, for he had not tested them. And David said to

  28. Saul, I cannot work with these, for I have not tested them.

  29. So David took them off, and he took his staff in his hand,

  30. and he chose for himself five smooth stones from the brook, and put them

  31. in a shepherd's bag, in a pouch which he had, and his sling

  32. was in his hand, and he drew near to the Philistine. So the

  33. Philistine came and began drawing near to David, and the man who and the

  34. man who bought the shield went before him. And when the Philistine looked about

  35. and saw David, he disdained him, for he was only a youth,

  36. ruddy and good looking. So the Philistine said to David, am I a

  37. dog that you come to me with sticks? And the Philistine cursed David by

  38. his gods. And the Philizin said to David, come to me, and

  39. I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and the beasts of

  40. the field. Then David said to the Philistine, you'll come to me with

  41. a sword, and with a spear, and with a javelin. But I

  42. come to you in the name of the Lord of Hosts, the God of

  43. the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. This day the Lord will

  44. deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you and take your head

  45. from you. And this day I will give the caucasus of the camp of

  46. the Philistines to the birds of the air and the wild beasts of the earth,

  47. that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel,

  48. man violent man, this guy, then hold this Essembli shall know that the

  49. Lord does not save with sword and spear, For the battle is the Lord's,

  50. and he will give you into our hands. So it was when the

  51. Philisting arose and came and drew near to meet David, that David hastened and

  52. ran toward the army to meet the Philistine. Then David put his hand in

  53. his bag and took out a stone, and he slung it and struck the

  54. Flisting in his forehead, so that the stone sank into his forehead and he

  55. fell on his face to the earth. So David prevailed over the Philisting with

  56. a sling and a stone, and struck the Philisting and killed him. But

  57. there was no sword in the hand of David. Therefore David ran and stook

  58. over the Philists, stood over the Philistine, took his sword and drew it

  59. out of his sheath and killed him and cut off his head with it.

  60. And when the Philistines saw that the champion was dead, they fled amen who

  61. It's a very very famous story. David against Goliath is often used to bring

  62. inspiration or to kind of like lend inspiration to people who maybe facing impossible circumstances,

  63. facing things much bigger than themselves, and feel like they are not able

  64. to overcome, and this story itself and as an inspiration that though we may

  65. be small, or we may be weaker, though we may be uh,

  66. you know, less adequate, we can overcome. Yeah, he probably have

  67. heard this story before, but I really believe that there's more to this than

  68. just that. I believe within this story is pas and principles that teaches us

  69. how we ourselves can become giant killers, overcomers of our situations, and what

  70. kind of life God wants us to live. And it's four very simple points

  71. for very simple things, And I hope you don't just look at them as

  72. a simple points. Sometimes the simple is the harder it is to live by,

  73. because we tend to complicate things. There must be like nineteen steps to

  74. this, right, not not nineteen or twenty eight forty five steps that come

  75. on. There needs to be more, But sometimes it's a simple that God

  76. wants us to live by. Imen. So, how are we to become

  77. a giant killer? How are we to become someone that overcomes what comes our

  78. way? And how can we fulfill the purpose of our life. How are

  79. we going to fulfill that purpose? Number one very simple. No, who

  80. you are speaks of our identity. Now it sounds easy enough. Who are

  81. you? And some of us will have multpeople answers. I'm a doctor,

  82. I'm a drummer, I'm a singer, I'm a mother, I'm a father,

  83. I'm a husband, I'm a wife, I'm a whatever you think you

  84. are. But of course the textbook answer here is that you are who God

  85. says you are. That's who you really are, a man. So while

  86. the world thinks that David is a shepherd boy because that's what he did,

  87. that's how he's stressed. In right, look at his tools. He had

  88. a sling bag, not a sword. Yes, slings, there's some little

  89. pebbles. But God knew he's not a shepherd boy. He's a king.

  90. Amen. If we learned this morning, we've all got potential. Remember we

  91. shook someone's hands and said, if you knew whose hand you're shaking, you

  92. will treat me better. Because God doesn't see the durance seed. God sees

  93. the orchard in the Durance sea. So life is about discovering who we are.

  94. And some words could be forty five or sixty years old and still trying

  95. to learn who we are. That's okay, it's not wrong. Who we

  96. are could be evolving and developing as we age, as we experience life.

  97. But life is about discovering our identity who we are In Christ, somebody saymen,

  98. so we are called to be overcomers. We are called to be champions

  99. in godnomn biologically, technically, that's the definition. That's you. That's you.

  100. You are the one out of one hundred and fifty million who won the

  101. race. You know what I'm saying. By definition, you are a winner.

  102. If you're sitting here breathing, you are a winner. You want a

  103. race once upon a time, and you're here. And each of us have

  104. a specific call, Like Goliath was David's grying to kill. You know that

  105. right, couldn't have been anybody else because Goliath was David's giant to kill,

  106. and they are giants in life. That's meant for you to take men,

  107. for you to bring down, men, for you to overcome. So do

  108. you know who you are? Do you know who you are? That's the

  109. big question. Amen, turn to your neighbor and ask who are you?

  110. The Bible tells you that you are a chosen generation, a peculiar people,

  111. a special, unique person. God has a plan for your life. You're

  112. not an accident. God has a plan for your life. Your called to

  113. fulfill that calling. Some of you will be in the political world, some

  114. of you in the medical worlds or in the educational world. Whatever the world

  115. God has called you to, that's your call. There's a giant for you

  116. to bring down, somebody, say, man, And that's why if you

  117. look at this passage again, when Saul finally said okay, okay, okay,

  118. go fight, go fight the giant. But look at you you've got

  119. you don't have the right clothes, you don't have the right whatever. And

  120. Soul tried to put his coat on him, gave him his sword, giving

  121. his shield, and Dare is like, please don't. This is not me.

  122. This is not me. It's back to quality and come on, this

  123. is gonna be way better than ship skin. I mean, it's sword and

  124. sling. You know who's from a win, I mean the too logical mind.

  125. But it's just not him, just not him. The first time I

  126. ever got invited to speak Overseas New Zealand, I was a wreck. I

  127. was super nervous, all because I was afraid they couldn't understand my ex and

  128. I actually had to practice my new Zealander accent, which I of course terribly

  129. failed. But the best advice someone gave me was, hey, they invited

  130. and need to go and speak. If they wanted TD Jakes, they would

  131. have invited him. If they wanted Steven thirty, they were invited Stephen.

  132. They wanted nd O, so you and the York should go. They want

  133. to hear Ado, So I went there. I got the advice. I

  134. stood on stage, I'm like, forget new general accent, forget as forget

  135. hey mate. My first summon, I said, guys, are gonna teach

  136. you how to respond like a Malaysian. I said, if I put something

  137. good and you like it, you say awesome lah. You today remember that

  138. today. So if you follow my Facebook someone it was sometimes reply my Facebook

  139. post with awesome ah, because you will always fail trying to be somebody else.

  140. You always feel I really want to be past the team. Pastivity Low

  141. is really awesome, and the last few days I've just been thinking how can

  142. I be more like him? And I think in some ways I'm already like

  143. him, and I USEDO like to maccamaka hang out with people. I don't

  144. like Bleadmington but like sport. But I just keep hearing this voice, like

  145. you know, you can learn the good from him, but you are you

  146. trying to be like past the team, no matter how awesome he is.

  147. It is trying to put on Sol's coat on myself, and you will never

  148. fit, never fit. I'm not saying you cannot learn from other people.

  149. You can, you should. You don't know everything, but learning from someone

  150. is not the HI is trying to be that person. Amen. And so

  151. I'm gonna apply another scripture a different way. You know, if you try

  152. to be somebody else, you'll always at best. At best, you will

  153. just be a very good copy, still a copy. So the Bible says.

  154. So then, because you'll look warm, neither hot nor cold, I

  155. will varmit you out of my mouth. God doesn't want us to be like

  156. neither here nor there. That's what happens when we try to be like somebody

  157. else. We're neither here nor that, We are neither that person who are

  158. neither ourself. We end up being nobody. So God says, if you're

  159. gonna be you're gonna be hot, be hot all the way, you be

  160. cold, be cold all the way, but don't be look warm. You

  161. be hot or be cold, but never look warm. And could you apply

  162. that to the way you worship God, the way you pray. You should

  163. know me long now to know that. And I'm talking about everybody must be

  164. an extrovert. I was saying, even if you are introvert, the most

  165. quietest person in the world, you can still pray with all your heart,

  166. with all sincerity. Amen. So you either be you're gonna hear a Christian.

  167. You be all the way on fire for God, or you just go

  168. you want to sing, you go all the way up, but don't put

  169. one leg in one boat and the other leg in another boat, and then

  170. you get split. Because friends, what God has for you is for you.

  171. There is a call on your life. There's God's plan on your life,

  172. and only you can fulfill it. Like Goliath is David's giant to kill.

  173. You know, they almost anointed the wrong guy when God sends Samuel to

  174. anoint the king. Even prophets can get me wrong. Sometimes. I can't

  175. tell you how many people told Jay and I our first child will be a

  176. girl. Play hands girl, not this own girl. Nothing wrong with that.

  177. I won't give it a girl. It's just that, and I think

  178. you not. It's just that God already gave me your name, Sion,

  179. So I knew. I knew. Even prophets can get it wrong sometimes.

  180. So Samuel almost anointed the wrong guy. But the anointing was for David,

  181. not Ilio, not any of the other sons. It's for David. And

  182. this is an anointing that's for you. Amen. And men can plan to

  183. rob it, steal it, diverted, but God's more powerful. God's purpose

  184. is more powerful than men's plans. So Samuel almost anointed the wrong guy.

  185. But though the prophet doesn't know who the anointing does, the Holy Spirit does.

  186. Amen. The Holy Spirit knows who you are, So be you,

  187. be you. So this scripture again, you know, so tried to put

  188. his armor on it, and maybe it's very good and say, hey,

  189. you know, ah, this armor. I fought forty nine battles. I

  190. won each one, very good one. Don't worry you no erros think go

  191. through. It's very good. Why David. My encouragement to all of you

  192. is, don't rely on past anointing, past armor old armor, borrowed anointing

  193. somebody else's revelation. It won't fit. It might even kill you. So

  194. stay away from religion and meaningless tradition. I am all for tradition when you

  195. understand the meaning tradition without meaning is it's just tradition. But stay away from

  196. just things that just been because it's been trying, tested before by somebody else.

  197. And therefore you will work for you well if God says so, then

  198. yes, use what God has given you. Don't try to be somebody else,

  199. be you. That's the first point. I want to be a giant

  200. killer. You can't do it being somebody else. You're supposed to be David

  201. to bring down go life, not Ilia and any other person. Amen.

  202. And there's a call on your each of your life. You need to know.

  203. This doesn't matter if you're seventy today or seventeen, there's a call on

  204. your life. You're still breathing, right, m hmm. Therefore, the

  205. how your house is proof of the potency of your purpose. That means,

  206. if you've got a house, you're meant to be here. Your job's not

  207. done. Number two, Know whose you are? Number is, know who

  208. you are, your identity Number two, you know who you are? Who

  209. do you belong to? Any Can I be so bold to say you don't

  210. belong to your company? And now we ought to be good citizens, don't

  211. You don't belong to your country in that sense? I know you here your

  212. surname, but you don't belong to your family in context. Understand what I'm

  213. trying to say. We ultimately belong to God. We are created to worship,

  214. so we will worship you know that, right? Friends? You can

  215. say, Nola, I don't worship any God. Even atheists who don't believe

  216. God is worshiping something. They're worshiping the idea that there's no God. That's

  217. what they worship. And if that's not what they're worshiping, in they worshiping

  218. something. We are creatures of worship. And so if you don't understand who

  219. you belong to, you worship something else. Btsa black beinger, raginy gang,

  220. I don't know, junk ah ogay twice. Know who you are.

  221. Be a worshiper, because before you are a warrior, you are a worshiper.

  222. I know I'm telling you to be a warrior, win your battles and

  223. blah blah, blah. But before that, you have to be a worshipper,

  224. because that's what David was before he killed any giant. Oh, you

  225. wrote many psalms, he sang many songs, he played the heart before he's

  226. flung a stone. Worshipper. Don't forget that. No matter how big your

  227. platform gets, one day you're a worshipper. You belong to somebody. You're

  228. not your own. Your life is not yours. You don't dictate where your

  229. life was is to go. You have a God, You have an almighty

  230. God, a God that we serve, that we have a legionce to I

  231. mean, I'm serious. We are first a worshiper. And when you when

  232. you realize that, everything becomes worship and it changes everything. How you drive,

  233. how you text, how you work, how you treat people, that's

  234. worship because you are a worshiper, a man extra. In twenty two,

  235. when he had removed him, he raised up removes all, and God raised

  236. up for them David as king, to whom also he gave testimony and said,

  237. this is God's testimony of David. I have found David, the son

  238. of Jesse, a man after my own heart, who will do all my

  239. will. God's not impressed with the giants and killed. Go's not impressed with

  240. his administration skills, writning a nation, Go's not impressed about He wrote many

  241. songs, good songs. Go's not impressed with the songs. He's like,

  242. Now, what I'm impressed with is a man after my own heart, a

  243. man that whose heart is shaped after mine, A man whose heart is always

  244. chasing after mine. Amen, and min You David was a king. He

  245. wasn't a pastor, he wasn't an elder, he didn't work full time in

  246. the church. He had a nation to run, a cup place person and

  247. still wholeheartedly after God. So it's definitely possible. Amen. And I know

  248. we talk about being marketplace weakness and all that. Hey, just because you

  249. talk about it doesn't mean you're being it. You have to be it,

  250. have to be it, Amen. Number three, So number one know who

  251. you are, too simple, right? Number two know who you are.

  252. It's about worship. Number three is go to school. If you stop learning,

  253. you stop growing. I don't care if you're eighty eight years old today.

  254. You keep going to school, keep training, keep learning, keep growing.

  255. I mean Bible school now. And the more the more I know.

  256. The more I realize I don't know so little I know about God really seriously,

  257. and yes, sometimes can be a rabbit hole like this one connected that

  258. one trinity, but it's good look at David then saw Simon just to send

  259. messages to Jesse and said, send me your son, David, who is

  260. with the ship. What is verse? You know what happened before this verse?

  261. Like earlier Earlier he was annointed to be king. That means that there

  262. wasn't like home at the call. The prophet himself came to the house and

  263. said, I want to annoy you as king. You are going to be

  264. king of Israel. Hey, kids, kids are kings. Young. We

  265. will imagine someone told you what you will be in ten years time. You

  266. know what you would do? Stop studying, right, I already know what

  267. going with me. What I told my mother. That didn't work. I

  268. told my mother, but mom, I'm going to be a pastor. Knowing

  269. to waste time studying. I wanted away to skip SPM and not go study.

  270. I want to be a pastor, you know my colleagen Mommy, why

  271. I need to study? Didn't work. My mother was smart, She said,

  272. no, you go study. So that one day when you become pastor,

  273. people cannot say you stupid become pastor, cannot study become pastor? Oh

  274. okay, I took on the challenge. I studied, Yes, I did

  275. well. What come on? David knew who is going to become but it

  276. was not yet time. So what does he do? What does the woodpe

  277. king do? Full fee? My responsibility? If he was dishous, you

  278. know, wash dishes, if it was homework done homework, it just happens

  279. that he was taking care of sheep. So where does he go back to

  280. the sheep? And if the current king wanted to look for David, where

  281. does he go the backside of the hill where he was taking of sheep because

  282. there was his job. He was a teenager. Their teenagers study, do

  283. your exam. You may be the next prime minister. Where you study and

  284. some of you you are I don't know what level? Are you? Not

  285. in your company? Do your job? All that is preparation. Did David

  286. know all those boing times by the river king up stones, shooting at birds

  287. and squirrels were one day coming handy and one day you want to be a

  288. squirrel, one day will be a target. Ecademies did he know all that,

  289. don't what? Who is molding you? For David? It was the

  290. wild, the humbleness of taking care of sheep. You know what the brothers

  291. were doing. They were at in the in the war zone. They did

  292. the real man's job. They're in the front lines because they're older, stronger,

  293. more muscular. And David, Ah, who the h David? You

  294. go on, you go? There was David's job. Imagine you know you're

  295. a king, you know, but you have to go and make sure the

  296. sheep don't fall into the river. What's molding you? Friends? Can I

  297. say what seems to be normal or mundane to you could be what God is

  298. using to move you, mold you, set you up in place for what

  299. you're called to do. Nobody would have thought slinging stone is going to be

  300. used to bring on a giant. Only God knows. David did not know

  301. that he was going to be king of Israel. But there was a king

  302. inside of him. And there's a king inside of you, a man that's

  303. symbol, that's something God has created you to become, and that's inside of

  304. you. And God has called all of us clay. He's the porter,

  305. we are the clay. So the question is who's moding this clay, So

  306. be careful who you're allowing to touch you. You're being shaped. So for

  307. every Adam Grant page you read, I pray you better read the Bible at

  308. least two times more something like that, like, Okay, please don't take

  309. this as some kind of rule or law. I'm just saying, I hope

  310. you get what I'm saying. What shape you? Be careful who gets their

  311. hands on you. I want to say this next thing is this is pointble

  312. two B one number three B. Your trouble could be your training. If

  313. God is sovereign, if he allow something bad to happen in your life,

  314. he has a good reason. That's a simple premise. God is good.

  315. He allows bad things to happen for good reasons only, And so your trouble

  316. could be your training. For Sevenel seventeen thirty four to thirty seven. I

  317. won't read the whole thing. You know the context. He was begin saying,

  318. Hey, I was thinking of sheep, and then a lion came.

  319. I wiped the floor, a bear came, I wiped the bla all.

  320. And if you're not understanding, you'll be like God, why me? Why

  321. la? Why you send me the lion? Why you send me the bad?

  322. Why all this trouble? Why are all these problems? Why me?

  323. Because there's a giant waiting. So it's all about building up a testimony,

  324. building up a track record. Do you have a testimony worth telling us?

  325. David could stand in front of the king and say, I don't I'm not

  326. kill a giant before, but I've done lion and bear. I think good

  327. because those times he's not even bring attention to himself. So you know how

  328. I know God it is here or not? You know which which Hannah used

  329. left? And you know it wasn't about him. It's like, you know

  330. what better phrase? I did it because God gave me the strength to and

  331. the same goal that helped me do it is gonna help me do this one.

  332. His story is all about God in his story. I wonder that deal

  333. why because God was there? I managed to win that deal with Why?

  334. Because God was in it? You know I was. I managed to do

  335. this? Why because God was in it? A testimony? And every test

  336. that God allows in your life is to build up a testimony. Do we

  337. have a track record? And a track record a testimony is often built or

  338. created in the real world. David didn't create these testimonies in the temple,

  339. not even tab on. A girl's a you in the better ground, the

  340. real world, right where you are, in the workplace, marketplace, school,

  341. college, uni, family, whole. That's where it's being built.

  342. And David was both a testimony in the marketplace as well as at home.

  343. He was obedient, he was honoring so much so first Semuel sixteen, David

  344. was someone who honored and someone who obeyed. You don't have to go and

  345. look for his tests and trials. If you're following God, they will come

  346. looking for you. If I pray for patience, Lord, please may be

  347. patients. Suddenly everyone around you becomes annoying, and you wonder why. Oh

  348. yeah, I pray for patience. That's why. So God allows things to

  349. happen, because God doesn't waste any opportunities. Amen. Remember Joseph. First

  350. it was the pit, then party for his wife, then prison, then

  351. Pharaoh, and he became prime minister. All the trouble you've gone through in

  352. the past is not even just trouble, but training. Past trials are stepping

  353. stones to future triumphs. That is why Israel to build altars because there's like

  354. a memorial that's like, ah, I remember this one. This is when

  355. God asks Moses to strike, they will rock with a rod and water came

  356. out. Oh ah, I remember this one. This is when we cross

  357. the rates scene. Remember. So that's why I think I appreciated that youth

  358. can befall. We need to build altars in our life, alters. That's

  359. what all the cause are symbolic. Amen. So the lion and the bear

  360. how gooted David to stop him from his destiny. The lion would have killed

  361. the lamb and David, but God was on him. So there will be

  362. things that come into your life that will try to stop you. Troubles,

  363. problems, challenges, try to stop you or to short change you. But

  364. there's a king that's inside of you. That's what the enemy is after the

  365. destiny. So don't let the external overcome you. You overcome it by the

  366. power of God. The bigger the giant, the bigger the victory. The

  367. bigger they come, the harder they fall. Amen. For Samuel for the

  368. seventeen forty five to fourty seven, David said to the Philistine, you come

  369. to me with swords, spear, with javelin, I come to you in

  370. the name of the Lord Foes, the God of Army of Israel, whom

  371. you have defied this day. The Lord will deliver you into my hand,

  372. and I will strike you. Blah blah blah blah blah. He's really saying,

  373. you know what, You may be a giant, but you're still a

  374. man. God will overcome you. So whatever happens in your life, nothing

  375. is more powerful than God. Amen. Prec Never despise the power of little

  376. things. Never despise the power little things for seventeen Semuel, seventeen seventeen.

  377. Then Jesse said to his son David, take now for your brothers an effort

  378. of the strike grain and these ten loaves, and run to your brothers at

  379. the camp Verse twenty. So David rose early in the morning, left the

  380. ship with the keeper, and took the things and went as Jesse had commanded

  381. him. And he came to the camp as the army was going out to

  382. fight, to the fight and shouting for the bat though so basically he did

  383. this regularly. He was the guy that did the job nobody wants to do.

  384. Go bring some bread and some cheese to your brother who's in the front.

  385. Line, and if you read the whole story, he went there and

  386. there's all this commotion and he was this busy body, little brother, Hey,

  387. what happened? What happened? He was shouting, Ah, he really

  388. wanted to eat on the action. But he's just a guy that brought cheese

  389. and bread. Imagine, David said, I a fair uh blah. I'm

  390. supposed to be thinking, you know what, bread, bread, cheese,

  391. cheese, all let somebody else do it. He saw what he did.

  392. He asked the import to take out a shift, and he went and delivered

  393. the break could have been the other way around. Now you do that,

  394. walk there, walk back, Walk there, walk back. This is your

  395. putting on sick covers, removing sick covers every Saturday. You get what I'm

  396. saying. This is you're putting up your banner a j hand right there.

  397. The banner is right behind you. I'm telling you. This is your typing

  398. the lyrics. This is all these little things that seems mundane. Man.

  399. This is your show up in church every Saturday anyway. Because the Saturday you

  400. said today i'll sleep in, that could be the day. God squeaks.

  401. No, I'm telling don't think things for granted these small, small things.

  402. Don't despise the little things. That's why I don't know. Okay, I

  403. don't know how long I do this, But I don't just turn down and

  404. speaking against one just because of a small group one thousand students not listening to

  405. you, all talking among himself. I'll go because you just never know.

  406. Because I'm old enough to have people come to me. You remember me or

  407. not? Sorry, I don't. Yeah, you won because uh, the

  408. last time you preached, I was sorely tell about what you preached? I

  409. don't remember. Yeah, but you helped me. I got saved that day.

  410. And when I finally remember, oh, dere wana, that wana the

  411. one way I struggle, and I felt like nobody's listening. The one you

  412. gotta say, yeah, pastor why I listened? What? So? Never

  413. despise the little things, the practices. Every musician knows this. You know

  414. how you do well here on stage? You did well at home? David

  415. brought cheesus and bread, and because he faithfully did it. You know all

  416. the other days, nothing happened. Sometimes you come on Saturday's nothing happened.

  417. I don't feel God. I don't receive anything personally preaching again. Oh my

  418. gosh, can you you somebody else you'd be like this. Never despise the

  419. little things, Amen, I don't care how big we grow, how don't

  420. forget the small things, coming on time, rolling the cables, little things.

  421. Don't despise it. Little things open doors to great things. If you

  422. can be faithful over little things, this is biblical, you will go or

  423. make you rule it over great things. If you can do little things as

  424. if they were great things, that's a sure sign that God is setting you

  425. up to do great things. Great people are people who do little things with

  426. greatness. The greatest miracles are made of little things. The little pot of

  427. oil, the little stick a part of the red sea, the little donkey

  428. jo bone that kill ten thousand Philistines, the little ones in the midst of

  429. doing a little thing, David delivering cheese and bread. David encountered the giant,

  430. and God set him up to bring that giant down. Amen. Last

  431. point number four, Number three was to go to school. Number four go

  432. to God and encounter. So if you can't remember one words identity, worship,

  433. training, encounter, know who you are, you know whose you are,

  434. Go to school, go to God, Encounter. Amen, I pray

  435. generations will never forget how to always encounter God. Last night I was praying

  436. with somebody and you know we I realized something and it was a word for

  437. him. By then he became a word for me to. In the past

  438. one year, I've gone to the Bible School and I'm intellectually challenged. I've

  439. grown a lot in the world of God, and I feel like I know

  440. a lot more now, although the more and more the more I know,

  441. the more I don't know and all the things. But I don't know if

  442. you notice. But for many months, I didn't give a salvation call.

  443. For a few months, I didn't even pray in tongues because I mean processing

  444. inside of my head like hey, you know how it's free wheel or no

  445. free wheel tongues or no tongues, and and I feel like I've became off

  446. balance. And no matter no matter how theological or how whatever it is,

  447. the power of God is still real and God still moves. So we're not

  448. all about experiences only or if you experience God and then must be true.

  449. No, the word is important. The word is important. I'm trying to

  450. leave intention in tension. If you get what I'm saying, those of you

  451. who hike up or cycle, you know that the tension is important. Is

  452. the tension that keeps your bike straight. Without the tension, you fall without

  453. you know that gravitation, gravitational pool. So it's okay to leave intentions.

  454. Sometimes you're like, ah, to damn free will. I'm not sure.

  455. I just feel like we cannot forget that the power of God, the presence

  456. of God and all that is just as real as the word of God,

  457. the knowledge, the theology is important. So we must make room for God's

  458. power to show up. And that happens when we make room. That happens

  459. when we go to God and encounter God. And that's happened when we say,

  460. God, do whatever you want to. David was anointed with oil.

  461. Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him. And this picture actually means

  462. not just that, not like in our auto collar we take some olive oil

  463. expressions and we take one dab and then this is like and then the oil

  464. flows all over. It's a picture of like, hey, don't just settle

  465. with one little touch. Don't settle with like, yeah, last camera was

  466. touched by God already, La, don't you set Yeah? I got testimony.

  467. It happened fifteen years ago. Don't just settle. God is saying,

  468. hey, there's more. Where it came from it all, Amen. It

  469. all an encounter. So that when you have victories and when you when you

  470. have over coming, when you have breakthroughs, you give glory to God because

  471. you know where it came from. Amen. David brought down the giant because

  472. he spent an awful lot of time writing psalms, processing his feelings and thoughts.

  473. David sounds schryzophenic, sometimes half the sound scoring God, the other half

  474. repenting. But that's that's life. So he was someone who had If he

  475. had a complain, he went to God. If he had a praise or

  476. compliment, he went to God. If you had a question, he went

  477. to God. If you had a doubt, he went to God. He

  478. has something to share, he went to God and counter God. Amen.

  479. So I feel like generation shouldn't just be like we want to be strong in

  480. the word. It's good because it is the word that actually gives us contexts.

  481. They will notice laughing is God or not? They will know, oh,

  482. this means God on It gives us that meaning and context. Yes,

  483. so strong, but Hey, let's not neglect an encounter, giving space to

  484. God to speak, doing God space to move in our lives. Amen.

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