“How to Have Hope When It’s Hard” – Episode 2

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Chang this morning I want to talk about

hope when it’s hard

hope when it’s hard we’re going to look

at David’s life we’re going to look

at challenges that he was able to

overcome and how he was able to overcome

them uh you know as a result of Us

coming out of this pandemic it’s so

important for us to know what we’re

supposed to be doing you know we are

living in a new normal we’re living in a

new uh dispensation that we’ve never

experienced before uh the things that

are taking place and so we’ve got to

begin to know how to navigate we’ve got

to know how to move how to make progress

and I believe that there’s a way to do

it but we have to begin to learn from

from those under the old Covenant under

the Old Testament as the Bible says uh

and as a result of us learning from them

that we can know how to appropriated in

our lives and so that’s what the purpose

of looking back at some of the

Patriarchs and matriarchs from times

past because we can look at how they

were able to move forward how they were

able to deal with opposition how they

were able to experience victory in spite

of the challenges that they dealt with

and so we know that there’s so much

hopelessness in the world today today

there’s uh so many things that could

cause us to be in a place of negativity

a place of Despair depression um as a

result of the pandemic so many people

have gone on to be with the Lord and so

many things are different so many things

have

changed but you know what thank God for

him being the same yesterday today and

forever so he is that constant presence

in our lives he is that consistent force

that enables us to be able to trust in

him because he has not changed although

the world has changed and things are

changing maybe some of your worlds have

changed maybe you had loved ones maybe

you had things that were lost as a

result of the pandemic businesses were

lost some people lost relationships out

of marriages ended in divorce and so

there are a lot of things if we’re

cognizant of that have changed and so we

want to look at how to have hope when

it’s hard

how to have hope when is hard now let’s

look in 1st Samuel chapter 17 and we’re

going to look at David when he faced a

hard situation because I believe that

many of you are dealing with difficult

situations things that you don’t quite

know how to move forward in but thank

God that he provides us with

answers he gives us Solutions he does

leave us stranded he doesn’t leave us in

a place where we’re worse off than where

we were before he enables us to get into

a place where we can have strength to

move forward and that’s what this moment

is about that is what this season is

about knowing how to move

forward when it’s difficult when it’s

hard when you’ve been in a place for so

long then all of a sudden the rug just

got snatched out from up under you

and you say God what is

this and then began to allow him to

speak into our lives and so that’s what

David was dealing with because David was

a man who had a lot of experiences prior

to facing Goliath and so you know

Goliath was a big giant he was a big guy

and so many times in our lives when

we’re dealing with things these are

things that seem bigger than

life because they’re unfamiliar things

that we’re unaccustomed

to perhaps you know it may be a new

thing or perhaps it may have been

something that’s kind of lingered from

generation to generation how many you

know the devil will begin to visit

generations to Generations to cause that

same thing to exist and to be

perpetual and so so in 1st Samuel

chapter

17 we’re going to look at this story

here of David and galath one that I know

you probably are familiar with and have

heard

about in times past Sunday school one of

those Bible lessons where he faced the

Giant and we’re going to face some

Giants in our life if we’re not already

facing them right now

and so uh verse 12 of 1st

Samuel chapter

17 I’m going to read from the New Living

Translation if you want to read along

with

me because

David had to make the decision based on

what was going on with Saul’s advice on

whether he was going to do what Saul

wanted him to do or what he was going to

do based on what was in his

heart and so there were many who were

afraid of Goliath his older brothers the

armies they were intimidated the Bible

talks about how Goliath would strut

around and as a result of him strutting

around that it would put fear in the

Army and fear in people who saw him and

so you know there is that opportunity to

either re deceive

fear and shrink back like so many had

done in David’s scenario or to begin to

do what David did so he says in verse 12

now David was a son of a man named

Jesse an ephrathite from Bethlehem in

the land of

Judah Jesse was an old man at that time

and he had how many sons eight

Sons Jesse’s three oldest sons elab

ababab and Shemia had already joined

Saul’s Army to

fight the

Philistines some say Philistines some

say the Philistines but today we’re just

going to say

Philistines David was the youngest son

David’s three older brothers stayed with

Saul

Army but David went back and forth so he

could help his father with the sheep in

Bethlehem for 40 days every morning and

evening the Philistine champion strutted

in front of the Israelite Army how many

you know that is the

devil and that’s what the devil will do

will cause you to try to fix St on him

and on his

plan sickness maybe to cause that

sickness to just be right in front of

you and strutting back and forth or you

know maybe a broken relationship a

strain situation the enemy wants to hold

that up to cause it to be magnified in

our hearts to be magnified in our lives

to cause us to become

hopeless and to become obsessed with

that very thing and so that’s what

goliath was doing when he was

strutting back and forth how many you

know he was trying to get their

attention and the enemy wants your

attention this

morning he wants you to think that there

is no hope he wants you to throw in the

towel and he wants you to begin to think

that there is no way that you can come

out of that situation so it says for 40

days twice a day morning and evening the

Philistine Giant strutted in front of

the Israelite

Army so you’ve got to

realize that there is an enemy

loose and he wants to cause you to think

inferior thoughts and to think that you

are inadequate and that God’s word

cannot work and there is no way that

anybody can come out of this

situation none of your relatives have

been able to come out of this situation

nobody else that you know of and so as a

result he did this for 40 days not just

one day in the morning I’m telling you

morning and evening you hear me

how many you know there’s a strategy

that the enemy was trying to do at that

time and so it says here in verse 17 and

one day Jesse said to David take this

basket of roasted grain and these 10

loaves of bread to your brothers and

give these 10 cuts of cheese to their

Captain see how your brothers are

getting along and bring me back a letter

from

them d D’s brothers were witha the

Israelite Army at the valley of

Ella uh fighting against the Philistines

so David left the sheep with another

Shepherd and set out early the next

morning he arrived at the outskirts of

the camp just as the Israelite Army was

leaving for the battlefield with shouts

and battle

cries uh let’s skip down

to well we’ll just keep going soon the

Israelites and the Philistine forces

stood facing each other Army against

Army David verse 22 left his things with

the keeper of the supplies and hurried

out to the ranks to greet his

brothers and as he was talking with them

he saw

Goliath the champion from gath come out

from the Philistine racks shouting his

challenge to the army of Israel So Not

only was Goliath walking around

strutting around morning and evening for

40 days he was also shouting at

them he was shouting at the army of

Israel and verse 24 says and as soon as

the Israelite armies saw him they began

to run away in

Fright and that’s

exactly what the enemy wants us to do is

to run and hide in

fear and that’s what they did it says as

soon as they saw the

giant they began to run

away why because he was so big Goliath

is believed to be around 9 ft

tall uh his helmet alone was like over

100 fet I mean just humongous in terms

of the comparison

between he and the Israelite

Army and so when they saw

him just in the physical they began to

think about how impossible it

seemed that they could stand up against

this enemy that they could stand up

against this

giant but you know what David had

something else in his mind when he saw

Goliath and uh it says in verse 25 have

you seen the giant the men were asking

he comes out each day to challenge

Israel and have you heard about the huge

reward the King has offered to anyone

who kills him the king will give him one

of his daughters for a wife and his

whole family will be Exempted from

paying

taxes David in verse 26 talked to some

others standing there to verify the

report what will a man get for killing

this Philistine and putting an end to

his abuse of

Israel so when you begin to face your

challenges and your

hardships and difficult situations in

your life you’ve got to begin to think

about bringing an end to that

thing because you know what if you don’t

bring an end to it it’ll just continue

on and on and on it’ll maybe go to your

next generation or it’ll begin to cause

an outbreak or it’ll be worse than what

it was and so David had on his mind how

I can end this

thing and um he says what will a man get

and he says and putting an end to his

abuse of

Israel who is this Pagan Philistine

anyway that he is allowed to defy the

armies of the Living God

David had the Covenant on his

mind he says who is this he’s not in

Covenant he doesn’t know

God and so it says David received the

same reply as before what you’ve been

hearing is true that is the reward for

killing the

giant but when David’s oldest brother

iLab heard David talking to the men he

was angry he says what are you you doing

around here

anyway they saw him as the little

Annoying Brother elab David what are you

doing here why are you here what about

those few sheep you’re supposed to be

taking care

of I know about your pride and

dishonesty you just want to see the

battle David says in verse 29 what have

I done now David replied

I was only asking a

question he walked over to some of the

others and asked them the same thing and

received the same answer then David’s

question was reported to King Saul and

the King sent for

him look here in verse

32 it says uh don’t worry about a thing

David told Saul I’ll go fight this

philistine think about

that all the older brothers the eldest

ones the most experience the ones who

were trained the ones who had the

knowledge the equipment the weapons to

use the

artillery uh just all the things that

had been prepared but it was

David who

chose to deal with the Giant

and so there are things in these last

days that God’s going to choose you to

deal with that perhaps other people ran

and hid

from thank God for his wisdom thank God

for his grace thank God for his

anointing thank God for his power

because I’m telling you we’re coming

into a time where it’s going to require

the supernatural assistance and the

supernatural Aid God’s

intervening and beginning to show uh to

Covenant people his ability in the

situations in life and so it was David

who made up in his

mind when he told Saul he says I’ll

go I will

go he didn’t run he wasn’t afraid he

says I’ll

go and then look at verse 33 he says

don’t be ridiculous Saul

replied there is no way you can go

against this Philistine

David he thought that David was

ridiculous but you know what David had

experience God’s victory in his private

battles and so it gave him confidence in

his public

battles so that’s why it’s so much more

than just you know

playing church and doing church this is

about going home being at home where you

know how to win and you know what to do

in your personal

battles because people will try and talk

you out of standing against

opposition because they’ve not stood

against opposition they don’t want you

to stand

either as far as they know it’s never

been done that’s just how it is that’s

just what happened but how you know God

has the final say so Factor God in the

situations in your

life Welcome him in invite him in allow

him in and let him

intervene and not base the decisions in

our life based on what someone else said

because they thought that what he chose

to do was ridiculous when he said I’ll

go

David you don’t know what you’re doing

you’ve been out there uh you just here

to be nosy you’re here to just watch

you’re not knowing uh anything about

what it takes and he says I’ll

go and he says

uh there is no way you can go against

this Philistine you are only a

boy and he has been in the Army since he

was a boy

even his youth was being addressed and

attacked there because of his age and

people will

base and surmise your ability and your

Victory uh on the age and how many you

know God’s not looking at any of those

things God called a king who was 10

years

old I better not get into that

God will use a donkey God will use a

jackass God will use whatever he wants

to use he’s not limited by

age it says in verse 34 but David

persisted I have been talk I’ve been

taking care of my brother of my father’s

sheep he says I’ve been taking care of

my father’s

sheep he was a Shepherd boy when a lion

or a bear comes to steal a lamb from the

flock I go after

it that mean he wasn’t

afraid to go after a bear or to go after

a

lion that’s something that speaks

volumes right

there because they knew they weren’t

willing to go after a lion or a bear and

deal with those situations but David was

and so he says when a a lion or bear

comes to steal a lamb from the flock I

go after it with a club and take the

lamb from its

mouth if the animal turns on me I catch

it by the jaw and Club it to

death so as far as he was concerned this

9

foot

overgrown individual does not intimidate

me because you know what if I I can deal

with the bear and I can deal with the

lion I’m

good he says I’ve done this to both

lions and bears and I’ll do it to this

Pagan on

Philistine two for he has defied the

armies of the Living

God the Lord who saved me from the

claws my

goodness in his private time he had a

revelation he had a flashback of what

God did for him out in the shepherd and

in the field he thought about that he

says uh the Lord who saved me from the

claws of the

lion and save me from the bear he’ll

save me from this

Philistine David saw victory in his

private

life he began

to get before God and spend time with

God and know his Covenant with God he

reminded himself of what God had

done and then as a result it caused him

to have

courage to face the hardship to face the

difficult giant to face what seemed to

be

intimidating and so he says he’ll save

me he’ll save me you got to make up in

your mind God Will Save Me God will

deliver me God will heal

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