David and the 3 Test | Elder Wong Kien Yiak

You're listening to a message to go from acts church. We hope this message

will light up your day today. I want to speak about David and what

David has went go to his besides good life. But if we talk about

when we talk about David, we talk about David. The only first thing

you know about David is a man after cool. Really, I know what

job I have to do here. So David, the Bible says, is

a man after God's own heart. Basically, a man who desired to do

what God's want, a man who wants to please the Lord. That's what

it means, a man after God's own heart. It's very okay. This

is not a guy liking a girl, all right, That's that's no,

that's that's the human nature. This is a man who wants to please God.

Friends, you know how hard is it to please the Lord? You

understand because God is not a physical being. So therefore we hold ourselves sort

of the highest standard, because if God can be seen, then sometimes it's

easy for us to because God has just had to raise his eyebrow, or

we've done something wrong, like lid to children. Right as to be a

member of children, our parents are to discipline us. The tone of our

parent voice already will indicate whether we have done something correct or wrong. The

facial expression will ignore whether we have good dinner or bad dinner. Right and

the stuff like you understand the right physical presence of a deity. Sometimes it's

slightly easier, but this the Bible says, David served the Lord, a

man after God's own heart, right, a person that is not there physically,

but he understands that in his life there is a God in heaven that

he serves, and he worshiped. So outcomes Goliath, Goliath, and you

and I know that David took down Goliath. Frays. Goliath is a physical

being. Sometimes it's now life is easy to fight a physical being a physical

situation because you can attack, you know how, you know how to handle

a physical thing. But after Goliath, friends comes the greatest test that David

has to go to the test of his own heart. Because after Goliath,

David had to serf under King saw friends. King saw is not a very

It was not employer of the year. No, he did not win Employee

of the Year for numerous years. Right. The Bible says that when David

serf under King saw right. They saw when cycle one day decided to go

and throw the spear towards David. I'm not sure at your workplace, how

many of your bosses have thowed a stapler and you're not and and hit the

war and you know, stap you chose that's the anger. You can near

it to the war one, right, they'll try. Don't try and hope

place. Don't try to hope. Right, But you understand you open the

state pler, you chose someone already the anger it force you. You can't

just hold on the world for a while. Would you imagine, right,

your boss chow a pen and appenand is like at the wall, the kind

of thing right, angry and you chose things that you this stuff like that.

I'm not sure how many words after the incident you remain in the employment

or not. Would you consider remaining in the employment that will resign you.

We will go, you know to the industrial called and stuff like understand,

okay, very natural, But David, the Bible says that you know he

was still the word was he wasn't lawyer to sort as much as he was

lawyer to the lord. Because he made reference to Kings saw as the man

that God has chosen, not as a man that he has chosen the work

under, but the man God has chosen, which means to say that David

worked, he just will work as just earning away she felt as a higher

purpose and calling when he's dead at the palace. Right, So, so

after decided to go after David, to go after David's life, friends,

could you imagine right now, after leaving the employment, your ex employer decided

to hand you down. That's what happened to David his ex employee, or

rather they King saw chase David. One day David could be in the palace

eating the finest choices of cuisine, right somehow mean you could you imagine right

now the next day it's a quarter of Meggie having to share with his band

of brothers in a cave. One day there were a mattress as worth maybe

twenty to thirty thousand. Next day was on the floor, no springs but

got stones. Could you imagine the transformation, immediate change. One day you

dress your finest drobe, you have hot shower. Next day you have to

bathe whatever trickers or water that comes down from the cave. If we've ever

been on a mission trip, before that. Some days you don't have accessibility

to the word is to what we have at home. If you ever been

on a mission treat back in the nineties where liquid soap wasn't invented yet and

you forgot to bring your soap, will you share your soap or not?

Would you share your soap? Mm hmm? My mission treat member asked me,

elder, can I pin jam your soap? No time to buy yet?

The next day and they can buy at the very moment you becuciated,

say here, I take it or break it to half, because the piece

that you brought is small enough just to the last a couple of days.

I beIN jamming my soap, and I threw it away after that because because

it was returned to me, be curly Fries, if you understand, do

you know how disgusting it is? I saw the thing whether I put under

running water, you know you under running water? A cup of that.

You take off the couple of layers, but still the top the top person

like, oh take the story rap against your face. But anyway, the

explaw Right went after David. One day had everything, the next day he

lost everything. One day he had the finest of things. The next day

he was on the run. Do you know as a person, as an

individual, before I get open the word of the Lord? Right, that

really builds up something within a person's heart. Run you build up anger,

frustration. There are days you wake up, Yes I can overcome it with

the jow of the Lord. Yes I can overcome this. But days you

wake up you just feel like what am I running away for? After all,

none of them take down go Live. None of them have the ability

to share. They take down Golive except me. If I can take down

Golive, I can take down King Saul. If I can take down Golive,

go Live. Nobody wants to child to take up the child life.

I took up the life challenge and I won. They missed the other words.

If King Saul did not take up the life, I could have over

taken King Saul. Temptation very real and very strong. The anger of frustration

built up. The word is begin to power on. What would you do?

Friends, in the midst of the situation? Turn me Miranda right now?

The first semichapter twenty nine, let me just go read first semech of

the training nine right verse one. The Philistines gathered together at armies at Apec

and the Israelis Israelis and camp by a fountain which is in Jaziy. So

the Bible here says that you know, the Philictin and the israel are going

to war the flicing and they are going to war. Friends, if you

watch any war story before, war is not a place where by the torpedo

fights or two roses at each other, see who get injured by the roses.

Is real, brutal, bloody and someone will get killed along the way.

It's not a pretty sight. David Bing is right for the very first

time right now. David Bing is right for the very first time right now

have to fight against his own brothers and sisters. Most probably his brothers could

be on the other camp now, if you will, if you follow the

story of David before, David's own brothers did not view David in a good

light. They view David as a young, very young and brash person.

Why do you come here to look at this war? Don't you have nothing

better to do? Don't you have those ships that he asked you to take

care of? Why do you come here to observe the war? Right?

Could you imagine the relationship Day had with his own brothers, the resemblent they

build up. If you're the second child, any second child here, second

child, you understand you said ship between right, the eldest and the youngest

one. That no man's land like that, right, I'm the second child.

I know the almost I know voice one right. No, not your

family, my family, all right, just kidding anyway. So anyway,

so David cooked the very first time fight against his brothers. So could you

imagine right now, I will get even my brother's abuseless. I'll show him

King Saul rejected me. I will show him, right, I was loyal

to a King Saul the very moment, the very first time. David,

right now, the Bible says right that he has to fight. That is

red verse two that the lot of the Philistines, okay, passed in review

by hungers and by thousands, but David and this man passed in review and

the rail with ashesh Basically, the scripture explains that the bout of the Philicites

army are in front, David is at the back. Now. I'm not

sure whether or not this boost up your confidence, but could you imagine the

most important part of warfare is that you will not be caught by surprise,

right, And here David being sort off an enemy being at the back.

That's why sometimes at the workplace we don't like to get stabbed from the back,

because you can fight what's in front of you, but very hot to

fight what's behind you. God give you a pair of ice to look in

front, but not behind your head. And that doesn't boost up confident because

the moment you go to war, you're worried or not whether David will betray

you or not. And this is what the Princess of Phylicies say that I'm

going up to war, and the Bible says they're numbered by thousands, okay,

and they're marching out by the day David and six hundred men. Come

on, how many people does the Philists have? Thousands? How many people

that David's had six hundred? How many you know that six hundred is less

than thousands. Even if they fight friends, I'm sure the phyllisani will come.

David. Think about it. Let's say David killed a couple of thousand.

They will go tired, they will get killed. But David right now

has to face a choice to fight against his brothers and sisters on the wharf,

on the field. Not his personal choice, but he has to fight.

Let's look at worse tree. Then the Prince of phyllis Is said,

why have this he? What are this Hebrews doing here? Then, as

she said to the Prince of Phylicis, is this not David, the servant

of Saul, King of Israel, who has been with me these days and

these years and to this day. I found no fault in him, since

it defected to me. Friends, the Prince of Philis is doubled David by

the King of Ashes. The king himself believe in David, which beds to

say, friends, David, even though serving a foreign king, he was

lawyer, he had this, he did his conduct right. Friends, I

want to encourage you. Friends, sometimes a wope, this may not be

the best, but we need to keep a conduct right. Mm hmm.

Some of the churches may not be the best, may not be the best,

but still have to keep or conduct right. If we don't go to

homes because the home, theydn't ask you to go to. Friends don't know.

Friends don't don't if you're going to homes because someone like home. You

know, coming to homes man, you don't don't please don't go to homes

because you felt a guilt trip put on you and stuff that no, it

has because a lot is leading you to the homes. Don't. It's okay

on friends, because it's your journey with the Lord. I pray your all

of your attest to home stuff. But if you're not friends, I pray

to you, ask God, God, please speak to me. But here

is it that you know David did his conduct well. And the prisoner listen

just said this, I don't trust David. I don't trust This is basically

I don't trust David. But here's the king saying I trust David. The

clique say, I don't trust David. If you were David hearing it for

the very first time, of course, you would feel that you need the

proof. I've done everything correct. Man, right now, the Bible say

he bathe vice. The King said, all these is serving me defected from

the serving me right. He done everything correct. Some of us see in

our life we have done everything right. Yeah, you sed toll find things

against you. She'll find things against you. Friends. The first test that

this test that has to go to, it's not the test of exterior material,

But the test of David's heart. Friends, a test is not to

fail us, but a test is to reveal what's in our hearts. Without

the revelation what's in our hearts, you and I will never know what do

we need to do? One of the live most greatest challenge is this great

to the dentists because just because we could eve, could chew and everything like

that, and there's no pain in our mouths doesn't mean that bacterial or cavity

is building up. How many of us see away until there's pain? Only

we go maybe something the fear of the sound. I wish I could just

download the sound of the drilling noise and just play with us here and just

for a moment with thirties, I guess help many al uys get that hard

that sound or not. But you know at the wedding, even you hear

the dentists using that that drill sound, I don't know how many hear was

like, oh yes, I look forward to that that that that drilling moment,

or you go hear the sound, you go like, oh no,

the next patient could be me. And just because friends, the fear of

singer dentists and we can use our mouth to eat. There is no pain

doesn't mean that there is no cavity building up, only the found the dentists

when they look into our mouth and do discover that, mister, you got

to cavity. Sometimes it takes even deeper and we cannot save your tooth.

You can do canal. The pain of going to something once being revealed,

friend is not pleasant. But the pain of when being revealed is to tell

us what course of action that we need to do, not to get angry

at ourselves. Like I wish I could have done that. I wish I

got turned back to town. I wish I visited you earlier and sometimes alive

and God reveals things to us. That's what happens to us. We go

like I wish I have done that, I wish no friends. Is not

to live in regret when God reveals things to us, it's not to live

in regret. It's just okay, this is right and right now, and

that's what I need to do. And you and I we are on a

journey with the lot of friends. Verse four, Worst four saying the Prince

of Philis was very angry with the King of Ashes. So the Prince of

phylisines said to him, make this fellow return, that he may go back

to the place which you have appointed for him. Come on, and do

not let him go down with us to better at least the better it becomes

the adversary. Friends. The Bible here is describing that David. Right now,

Friends, David is just walking and walking up walking and the rear of

the army of Philistines. And what happens is that there was this commotion,

this discussion in front. The Bible says, they've done everything correct, still

couldn't break it, couldn't win the house the Prince of Phylicines. It's like

would saying, I can't just exscribe it. It's like coming to church for

the very first time. You're new to church, but you try to break

into the church group. You know how difficult. Sometimes you've done everything,

you come to church right, you lift behind your worship, but to break

into the fellowship of the church group is sometimes could be very hard, can

be very honest. You're there on the outside, look very happy. Yeah,

and you thought that you're one of them, only discovered that actually sometimes

they have another check without you being incited. You you understand that all right.

First, So this is what happened. This is what happened. That

the test of whether you believe that God is still in control? Not because

every day that David has so much towards the Army of Issiel is every step

the way the pressure becomes even more real. When you're closer to your deadline,

when you're closer to the exam the pressure because even more real. And

David's test was this the test believing that God is still in control? Because

David I truly believe they don't want to fight his own brothers and sisters.

Come on, if David could say that even cutting a piece of King Saul's

rope can cause David to felt so bad want more to fight the Army of

Israel, who he refers to the armies of the Living God. Could you

imagine David, every step, every journey, every hour going there God,

if I run away from you, it's just goldn't show that I would am.

I am, I am what they say I am. They cannot trust

me. I got no place to hide. But if I go find my

own brother and sisters blood, their blood will be on my hands. What

should I do? Lord? Have you been in the place before? Whereby

you go so die, you don't go so wan. David was in the

same place. But here's what happened. Friends, David, while in the

midst of walking down, God allowed doubts to sew in the in the hearts

of the Prince of the Philistines. Think about it for a moment. David

could have engineered his own salvation. Go and just have a small little pepper.

How you know I won't betreat you there? Could you imagine right now

David into one of those sessions with the Prince of Philistines. Right, maybe

I'll be treat you there. Ha ha ha haaa. Right, could you

come with the small talks and just so sise of doubt and because people,

yeah this David, the six hundred men, no mighty man, some more

right can be treated you? You and we want to engineer own salvation at

the end of the day, because you wanted to see a brick through.

But David did not. The Bible says, David did. How did David

handle this? David behave wisely? The Bible says, let me just show

to you they may behave wisely. He committed in the midst of the pressure

to move forward and from the peers he did not try to reason out with

the prison of phelicity to prove that he's lawyer. Man, someone say you

have done something wrong, we want to prove that we are right. But

friends, the days whereby we need to learn how to walk away. The

Bible here says that David behave wisely because King ashes give him a very good

commendation. You behave wisely in all that you have done for me. In

Look two fifty two, Jesus grew in wisdom. Jesus grew in wisdom.

Friends, I want to encourage you really to grow in wisdom of God.

Yes we won out. We're gone one and I'm not very smart as we

grow up. But you know, in life something that teaches us a hard

way. But no matter where we are, what issue we are, friends,

there is no such that God cannot thing. So around one, God

is still in control. I want to encourage you He's still in control.

He's still in control. The test of whether God is in controls to reveal

where our heart is well faith is. And this test is constantly going to

be a test of our hearts because as believers, right, there is no

end to these tests. God's going to bring us for one face to another

face, whether it's still in control or not. We have to be sure,

friends, We have to be sure. We have to know that God

is still in control no matter where we are, what stagious we are,

because the challenges comes very different man a different way. No, no,

no, no challenge are equal, but the asset of challenges is still remains

the same game whether or not God is in control. Think about it for

a moment. You can package in a different way and God say, God

will say that it comes in a different manner, but it is God still

in control in your life? Is God still in control? So David the

Bible says that he wisely look to fifty two says Jesus, good wisdom,

Jesus gooing wisdom in stature, in favor with God and with men. How

important is for you and for me to grow in wisdom? Come on?

Yes, we grow in the ability to understand how social media works, how

to get all the right camera angers and stuff like that. We grew in

the ability to grow our lights, our following on social media. Fantastic.

Good on you if you're into that. Could I encourage you to go in

wisdom? But you may say, how and this stuff like that. Probabs

one was seven the fee of the Lord. It's the beginning of knowledge,

the fear of the Lord. Come on, how do I know that David

feel the come I say earlier on David just by cutting a piece of cloth,

could you imagine cutting off a piece of soul's rope? He felt so

bad? And I asked myself a question that you know that if you're clicking

something bad to you? You know, we have those crazy colligues once in

a while, right, And I'm sure once in a while we want to

get even once sometimes you understand Okay, okay, do you understand? Right?

Okay, that's it. And then the days whereby we we could have

done something, but we make something a bitings be easier. I just we

could make things and be easier, but we didn't. All right, right,

I'm not sure how many of us let our conscious just appeerss like David

just by cutting the moment he cut a piece of cloth, and David said,

what have I done? What have I done? I catched the loss

on David himself. I cut a piece of I don't know how we overseee

it like David. In David's position, just cut the rope right and go

like, yeah, hallelujah, right, praise the Lord. He got delivered

King Saul to me, or we're like David said, oh yea, I

felt so bad. Come on, it's only a piece of cloth. It's

not even sauce. It's all said. It's a different story, right,

This is only a piece of cloth. Not even the pet dog thinks life

anymore. This is a piece of cloth. And David felt so bad.

Second opportunity came. This time, David don't have to kill King Saw.

David don't have to touch King Saw his right hand men best January say,

David, just say the words, Just say the word. I'll cull it

for you at that very moment where you think about it. If you were

David one day, you used to be in the palace, next thing,

you were in the cave one day, you use of everything next to you

in what at one word and one word, at one word from you,

I'll kill King Saw. Your hands is clean, my hands will be dirty.

At one word. You don't have to run anymore, you don't have

to hide anymore. Things should be restored. What what? What? What?

What? Would our response be very easily to get tempted to say this

kill King Saul. You're not leading and by yourself you've got about six hungred

men with you. You're looking at your man. Your man's the tired living

in a cave, scavenging for food and this stuff. That you understand the

pressure that King David has. But David say that you cannot touch the lot.

Son in the fear of the Fear of the Lord is the beginning of

knowledge, which means to say that David do not just serve and want to

preserve King Saul's life for his own sake, but he leads himself with the

highest standard. I want to encourage you, friend, the test of whether

God's control nor is the test of just living yourself in the highest standard in

the Lord. Yes, it's not never easy. Friends, If you choose

this path, you're going to stay in the cave. Come on, this

is not a Batman's gave Batman cave, very different. This is a cave

whereby there is no life, no lessity dripping up from the ceiling. Food

just you know, simple and stuff like that. But it's a choice.

At the other day, because you wanted to follow the Lord. Some of

our choices who cause us the place where by redoubt like God, I chose

you, mam, but I'm still in a cave. I chose you,

I'm still going through this. I chose you, but I'm why am I

still here? Tests of regards children? The second test is this after that

king actually saying you go back to zick leg and David the Bible says initially

was he was mad, like, why do you ask me to go back?

I serve you with all my heart? You got to read first,

I no time, just read everything. You just go back and read first,

seme enterity right. And David said that THEYVI just said this, right?

What have I done? I serve you? I was loyal to you?

And I thought it was just the test of really regards in control not

But the other test I look at it is can you handle the test of

rejection? Face value? Right? David done everything correct? Rejected by the

peers, the Prince of Philistine. No matter what David, they couldn't David

couldn't break you couldn't break you in the circle in the fellowship and booted out.

You go back to your hometown. What did David DODVI did not form

a social media page to tear the Prince of Philistines out. David took up

with the king. Friends, if you're in the face of a first frustrating

problem, frustration, please bring up to the King of Kings. Please bring

up to learn how to bring up things to the King of Kings and not

deal with the Prince of Philistines. Matters what whether we deal with the Prince

of Philicine because they were the cause of all the problems. Man, but

David just deal King ashesh which means to say, you and I when we

deal it frustration, we need to learn to bring up to the King of

Kings. When was the last time we're doing our devotion? We we were

offloading things on our hearts. That's why in chapter six the US prayer,

forgive me Lord, as I forgive those trespass against me. Friends, we

need to allow God to deal with our hearts, to offer those some of

the pressures that we have. If not, we're constantly going to carry the

frustration and the anger and the disappointment and XPJA. They said, And so

I think you also saying us out here we make room right? No,

no, okay, PJD. I say, you know how dangerous is something

to to to sing songs like that, to make room for God and this

stuff like that, because the moment you make room for someone that you're not

gonna puss it up in the room. Many times we say we make room

for you, Lord, and we are Lot got inside. Yeah I have

got in the room. Praise. Yeah. It's the most like wearing something

on your neck like yeah, I got got here. But God doesn't just

want to stay in the room friends, making God making room for God is

like looking in our friends. So I have to tell XP is about money.

Friends, I'll schedule for example, our schedule is so packed on the

daily. He says, God has to make room for me. And the

make room for me is not just that one room there. Yea Lord,

I want the d means for you. That's it. It's not the agenda,

but the relationship with the Lord. Really, it is a relationship with

Lot. So David friends Paul towards the king, King saying you go back

to zickleg. David did not fight against the king. Zickleg is almost embarrassment.

You don't trust me, go back to hometown. Is that you don't

trust me? Lord? Com meat the hometown is like I've done everything correct,

Yet I cannot break true. I've done everything right. You cannot win

over you. Almost I wasted my time? Have you been you? I'm

so sorry when I look at David's life, I look at the emotions of

friends, because if we were like Davy shoes Dave, the Bible said that

they will carry himself wisely my right and just shows to me that David,

why would the king said he did it as you and I we never know

fully why God is orchestrating things about Because when David went back only to find

out his base, his hometown, his family was taken away. Could you

imagine that David didn't go back. David fought with the king, tried to

reserve with the prince of Philistine. I think he will forever lose his family.

Sometimes in our life is the moment we go against the king direction,

we might lose our family. One you think away from have you went agains

gotten our friends and we lost everything. So the second test that Davy has

to go to the first first chapter thirty is the test of losing everything.

He remembered the Zigg. The Bible says that only the felt zig like his

hometown was on fire. And when you look at David respond on first seven,

chapter thirty, all right, and we're gonna be from first semeter,

chapter thirty and thirty and thirty one, first such of the thirty. Now,

what happened when David and these men came up to Zickleg on the third

day that the Americas had invaded the South? And z and zick like and

attack zic like, burning with fire, friends, zick Leg was burned out

with fire, burned down with fire, verse two, and taken captive.

Women and those who were there, small to great, come on, small

to great, everybody taken away, everybody taken away friends. Women speaks about

fruitfulness, Choe speaks about the future. Could you imagine going by your hometown

the place of refuge? Burn So David has a hard day at work already

a friends with the Prince of Philis is right, and some of us really

a place is quite stressful? All right? Come on, don't you look

forward to go back to your own own woman or own house. Could you

magine going by your own place only for out there? Constant argument, constant

violence, constant Inderstand I'm trying to say, I'm not sure how many of

us it's a sight they want to go back to or not. But that

was what happened to David. He went back to Zig on fire. And

sometimes our houses are not on physical fire, but really it's on fire's very

hot, not because of no icon, it's hot, no rest. David's

wife and children were taken. I want you to look at David's and his

men's respond in worse three and David his men came to the city and there

was but the fire, and the wife and the sons daughters were taken.

Captive was for David, and those who were with him lifted the voices and

web until they had no power to reap. House on fire, women,

wife, and ChIL were taken away. Friends, David did not say,

oh, Zile is a fire less by great another town I have to share

one said David did not. Also, do not say this my wife and

unity because away a play. So I'm singer again. I can remarry Ah,

thank you Lord. David did not say that. Friends. He doesn't

say remarry is an option. Neither did say that. Fiday, Lord,

my wife been neggive me. That's me to change as me to stand straight

right. David did not. The Bible says that everybody was in tears because

friends, the site was very overwhelming, so much so grief turns to anger.

The Bible says the next scripture that David men begin was angry towards David

and wanted to stone him. There was six hungred men with David right now,

six hunger wiices, six hunger hands lift up stones and wanted the stone

David. Friends around here right now in this room is about sixty plus people

because you many times ten surrounding passes, Stephen pastor Stephen, you asked us

to do this. See how much we have paid the price. We lost

everything, We lost time, friends, I mean this menjument not Stevens married,

all right, just go Chid. He lost everything together with your Also,

it's not it's different than friends. It's different when if David did not

lose everything anything, and other people lost, but David also lost everything.

And hear the very very very very people that he transformed, change and courage,

the very people that he let turn against him, six hundred voices shouting

to his David, you want to know what six how the six hum words

is sound? Next time you worship? Hear then of the sound system.

Hear the sound sixty people amplify that by ten times when his worship is really

ful, friends, when his voice of violence, voice of voice of one

taking about someone's life is not et pity that the very moment, Friends,

I want you to imagine right now, if you were David, what would

you have done? What would you have done? It's never easy because the

Bible only put one scripture on it. Worse, six, David strengthened himself

in the lot. Sometimes you just reach God. We just explain to how

did he do it? Step one, step two, step three? Right,

So it's easier because you're not that smart after all. I mean,

it's so if it's so easy, friends, we tried so many times we

strengthen ourselves in the Lord, and many times you feel only because you've got

no strength. Can I just offer you something which I just try to understand

the scripture? I truly believe that, David, how you responded was this

is that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of confidence, the fear

of the Lord. Let me just discriputy thin approached the seventeen was twenty six

aproach the seventeens trainy six is no fourteen vers twenty six. Fear of the

Lord. There is strong confidence. These children, we have a place of

refuge in the field of the Lord. Come on, there is strong confidence,

not just confidence, but strong confidence. I wanted to encourage you friends.

I know I don't have a lot of time. I don't think i'll

do the last point. I will just envy this point. The test of

losing everything, everything is just it's the test of having this confidence in the

Lord. It's gonna be all right, God, It's going to come true

for you again. At times you don't have enough friends, really done,

enough time, enough resources, manbow everything. Our strength comes from the Lord,

the fear of the Lord. There is strong confidence, not just confidence,

strong confidence. I was driving here. The Lord just reveals another thought

to me that I was asking, why is it one line of friends?

How is this problem though? Why is this cripture only one line? But

David strengthened himself. You know why is it only one line? Because I

just wish that he could be like our textbook, like that step one,

step two, step three, right there, you know what to do.

But and I just got this thought. Your confidence doesn't come from remembering the

steps. Your confidence come from having a relationship think about it, and I

understood this. Your confidence come from having a relationship with him. No,

so so much so that if you didn't, if you obey all the steps,

doesn't mean the confidence will come sometimes alive you obey all the steps.

Life has his way to tow us a curveball. But when he is a

relationship, as are going to close when he is a relationship with the Lord.

Friends, no matter what curveball life true at you. You know that

the Lord is your refuge, a place you could run to a place that

you can pour your heart out, to a place whereby you know that God

we never leave you, no forsake you. As I close right now.

Sorry for taking this extra ten to fifteen minutes. First test was tested to

see whether God's in control or not. You know, our in our journey,

in our life. This test is always going to be there. When

it's called faith tests faith, faith, faith, You'll be tested. You'll

be tested with Okay, I mean maybe you don't like the word test.

Repackage it and that sounds like you'll be challenged to know whether God is there

or not. You'll be definitely be challenging one way or another God's control or

not. So I'm not talking about this finances, talking about everyday life.

Somethody could be driving and just driving, just many you own business friends.

Then some crazy driver on another lane decided to break Then the car on the

other land decided to serve into your lid. It happens, life happens.

God is still in control. He is still in control. We were asked

to leave DBCC. God is still in control. You're not going to hold

on the Lord? Why but God? Good night years, friends, good

night years. When we were carrying things down, some tears came down our

eyes. So many stories we turn up formal nightclub around and stuff like nobody

wanted to rent the place, former night club, the cleills in the trash,

and stuff like that, condombles following one area, you know, prostitution

happening in another area, and stuff like we're the workers themselves don't to work

in the area because they felt evil presence there and it was a very bad

place. But we turn it around. We turned, we turned, we

turned the place around. Even right now we have children playing around the area

because there's no evil presence anymore. We had a very bad neighbor tenet behind

us. There were but instance, in the shopping mall, don't stop real

big fire and not the small one. Okay, this real big fire.

That's how they would they They actually covered the fire alarm and stuff like that.

And we completed a couple of times and stuff that. You know,

we told the owner owner tried to do something right, but they we know

they were not wrestling with flesh and blood. How understand that? So we

did the most Christian thing we ever could do. We decided, though we

have very very old computers. Put put the old computers speaker, put praiser

of worship, and the force ever just put it very loud towards towards the

door. They're aiming towards them. For every person that passed by, they

listened to prais of worship. And then the most Christian thing we could do

anyway, in the most peaceful living way. But really and then of the

day, friends, they would have according to the new owners of the up

there, they tried to get them out. God is still in control.

Friends, There is no day and one. I want to encourage you to

tests of losing every day. We lost our place broken into twice. Early

days of church, brand new computer. Back then we saved enough money in

friends. If you know how expensive Apple I might was back then, this

was that mythic color monitor. We saved about six thousand ring back then,

small amount to some of us, but we saved for three years. But

our very first computer, use of two days, got stolen, brooking into

our plots, all booken into. We came in there a Monday, taken

funny things. You don't take our tables. They took our computers, took

everything away. We were disappointed. We were crashing, was like trying to

figure out who. They took our air counts as well. Then after that

we did up the place again, only to be booken again. We didn't

spend of two months. It was not our unit, but this whole whole

shop lots around back then. We were disappointed. We lost almost everything.

We were like our spirit was crushed because our very first computer that we bought

firsthand. All this time we were given hand me downs computer and we need

complain. We just used it was given to us. We're all right,

but you know, to own something for the very first time, try and

enjoy, right, you understand what if you understand so only to be sold

after treated usage. Then we have a staff that resided on one man up

because you have to he wants to work for his own church. We asked

him on the side of that, hey, you took a computer back to

Usler just joke compute that you go, we bless you, right, But

we're just joking with him. But you know, really it's like close right

now we lost everything, we lost, we lost everything back then, it's

very sad alone. Then we're putting measures whereby humanly we slept in our office

all night because we don't trust the locks for a season, we just took

them sleeping in the office. But what would you do really and them being

angry, being you know, suspicious, don't trust anyone, No ready is

allowed. You know how hard it is, you know, to trust again,

especially people who opened up their place with home zone. We thought everyone

who knows how to use the toilet. Seriously, I remember I've been to

one homes. As I close, I go, they share the CEU.

A person used toilet in flash big business. The next person used came in

there saw the mess. These are not random streaming is just people know the

anger frustration builds up. I think the question here is is that you know

with with your things being a desecrator. Can I just use the word your

sanctuary, your rest like like David like no more already, but you even

can you? Can you even find strength in your relationship with the Lord?

Very important? Can you find strength in your relationship with the Lord. It's

not so much about doing the steps I used to think. It's about steps

you used to think about, like step one, step two, step three,

right, But it's your relationship that gives you strength. Think about it.

Your earthly relationship with your spousers give you a lot of strength to wake

up to fight for another day. What more, relationship with God. That

relationship will give you hope and the future. That relationship will give you strength.

There seems to be no more strength. That relationship will help you to

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