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your world and so we have
to make up in our mind are we going to
allow like the Israelite Army did 40
days of fear anxiety intimidation to
just parade itself in our our
lives or are we going to deal with the
situations in front of us are we going
to like David did be willing to face
it be willing to confront it be willing
to take responsibility Lord I need you I
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changed so thankful for you being here
this morning so thankful for you who are
tuning in
online I just believe that this is a
time where we can just continue to stay
full of God and to be in the
Overflow uh I don’t know about you I’m
learning the importance of just how
beneficial it is to keep your tank full
instead of running around on E how many
you know it’s just such a peace in
knowing that you can be in a place where
God is able to speak to you God is able
to uh do things in your life because
you’re positioning
yourself and putting yourself right
where he wants you to be it’s something
about being full of God that puts you in
the right place at the right time
will allow you to have the right
relationships that will allow people to
come into your life at the time that
he’s appointed for your
life uh being full of God just causes
our psyche and our conscience to be
awakened to what God is
doing and so that’s what this time is
about this morning Bible study I just
kind of tag myself in Pastor Kim Pastor
Carol the other ministers who normally
do and I just want to share uh some
things today that I think will help you
last week we talked
about uh you will never win a battle you
don’t show up
for anybody remember that you never will
win a battle that you do not show up
for I think we talked about and titled
it hope win its heart and so we
emphasize the importance of just showing
up that was what d Avid did he showed up
and he was
one that was equipped because he was
right there at the right place at the
right time you know he wasn’t in the
shepherd’s field uh he was at the Battle
Ground and doing what he was instructed
to do and as a result he just began to
walk in a victory that he had never
envisioned that day for his life and so
today we want to continue on and we we
want to talk about why we we run why we
run and I want to begin today and I want
us to look at the importance of not
running from
battles the importance of not running
from battles we all have moments in our
life where we just may want to run hide
disappear thinking that if we do that
that things will be different but you
know what God wants us to learn some
things today and get a hold of some
principles and examples that we can look
at and glean from in Genesis 3:
10 uh this is an example of why Adam and
Eve
ran uh God was looking for them God had
been spending time with them and he
thought that they were in a place where
he could continue to spend time with him
but on this particular day after they
had eaten from the fruit of the tree God
came along and he
says where are
you and they had made a
decision to move from where they were
accustomed to
being and so many times in our life we
have to ask ourselves are we running
from battles in our
life are we hiding from situations in
our life
I heard someone say that man is not what
he thinks he is he is what he
hides and so we have to understand and
recognize where did running from
problems come from and we can look at
that in Genesis 3:
10 and this is where it all started in
Eden when Adam and Eve felt God when
they ate of the fruit of the tree they
ran away and wouldn’t face it or God and
so it is in our life that we can do the
same thing in verse n let’s look at this
I’m going to back up one verse and the
Lord God called unto Adam and said unto
him where art thou Where Art Thou and he
said I heard your voice this is Adam
speaking in the garden and I was afraid
God he heard God’s voice he was in the
garden in Eden he heard God and so in
response to him hearing God he says I
was afraid because I was naked and I hid
myself and so I want to look at this in
1st Samuel chapter 177 because we’re
going to continue on with this uh story
here that we looked at last week as
relates
to uh David when he faced the Giants in
his life and we know know in these last
days there are some giants that are
trying to raise their ugly head in our
lives it might be the giant of anxiety
it might be the giant of depression it
might be the giant of
loneliness um
fear
addictions uh it might be anything that
you could be dealing with in your life
but I want us to look at what David did
and how he
responded because like I said he showed
up for the situation and he did not run
like Adam and Eve did
from the situation he did not run from
the
battle he did not uh hide from
Goliath the Bible talks about how
Goliath would go around and for 40 days
and 40 nights morning and night it says
that he would strut himself around just
to
intimidate the army of
Israel he would on
purpose do this because of his size his
stature and because he was so big you
couldn’t miss him and so problems and
circumstances in our life we have to
decide how are we going to deal with
them are we going to let them deal with
us are we going to show up to the battle
are we going to hide and say the battle
doesn’t exist I’m too afraid like some
of the brothers that David had or are we
going to do what David did so here in
verse 24 1st Samuel chapter 17 verse 24
look at what it says and all the men of
Israel when they saw the man referring
to
Goliath they fled from him and were sore
afraid so we have to decide if we’re
going to be like the men of Israel when
they saw their problems when they saw
the Giant in their life they fled they
ran because of how big and how
intimidating the situation was so we
have to make up in our mind are we going
to continue to run or are we going to
deal with
situations uh there’s a decision to
either cover up like Adam and Eve did
they covered up the situations they
covered up themselves when they hid they
were trying to to protect God from
seeing what was going on there’s this
word of escapism and also there’s this
word of avoidance so we have to make
some decisions today on how we are going
to deal and address things that happen
in our life giants that happen in our
life
let me read this to you I thought I
might just kind of start with this to
kind of make it a little light here uh a
father passing by his son’s bedroom was
astonished to see the bed was nicely
made and everything was picked up then
he saw an envelope propped up
prominently on the pillow it was a dress
dad and with the worst premonition he
opened the envelope and read the letter
with trembling hand
the letter
said Dear
Dad it was it is with great regret and
sorrow that I’m writing you I had to ELO
with my new girlfriend because I wanted
to avoid a scene with Mom and you I’ve
been finding real passion with Stacy she
is so nice but I knew you would not
approve of her because of all her
piercings tattoos her tight motorcycle
clothes and because she is much older
than I
am but it’s not only the passion dad
she’s
pregnant Stacy said that we will be very
happy she owns a trailer in the Woods
has a stack of firewood for the whole
winter we share a dream of having many
more
children Stacy has opened my eyes to the
fact that marijuana doesn’t really hurt
anyone we’ll be growing it for ourselves
and trading it with other people in the
commune for all the cocaine and ecstasy
we
want in the meantime we’ll pray for
science to find a cure for AIDS so that
Stacy can get
better she sure deserves it don’t worry
Dad I’m 15 and I know how to take care
of
myself Someday I’m sure we’ll take we’ll
be back to visit so you can get to know
your many grandchildren love your son
Joshua PS dad none of the above is true
I’m over at Jason’s
house I just wanted to remind you that
there are worse things in life than the
school report that’s on the kitchen
table call me when it’s safe to come
home how many you know we can easily try
to avoid and
hide and cover up our problems that’s a
way of of us addressing and in some
instances thinking that we’re dealing
with
them and so uh you know this is
something that I am learning you know as
a woman as a leader as a wife as a
parent because these aren’t things that
I was taught and perhaps these may be
things that you haven’t been taught just
how to deal with opposition how to deal
with problems how to navigate through
life and so when we get over into the
things of God and we recognize that
there are going to be battles in life
and obstacles and challenges and all
kinds of things and a pandemic how many
you know we’ve got to begin to learn how
to face these things to face the Giants
in our
life to face the situations in our life
just like David did he
faced the Giant in his
life and so it is we must face the
goliaths we must face things
and you know what it’s so vital that we
understand this important area
of Our Lives let’s look at some
ineffective ways that people deal with
problems some ineffective ways that
people deal with problems number one
they ignore the problem and hope that it
will go
away I’m sure that maybe the guys the
older brothers the ones who were in the
Army you know for 40 days Goliath
the scripture says that he strutted
himself he strutted himself is what it
says in the tlb translation for 40 days
and so you know they probably just
ignored him in hope in hopes that he
would just disappear that this giant
would go away that this problem would
just
disappear
and so look at what it says here in
verse 16 of chapter
17 verse
16 it says
um and the
Philistine Drew
near
morning and what
evening and presented
himself not just one day not just every
now and then just to remind them of who
he was but what it said twice a day and
presented himself for 40 days and I’m
telling you that’s what the enemy wants
to do in our lives he wants to
constantly bring things to make them
appear bigger than life to make them
appear as if they they are
impossible but it’s so
vital that we begin to understand that
one of the ineffective ways that people
deal with
problems is they ignore the problem in
hopes that it’ll go away another way
look at verse 28 of that same
chapter verse 28 and
elab his older
brother heard when he spake unto the men
and eliab’s anger was kindled against
David and he said why comest thou down
hither and with whom H has thou left
those few
sheep in the
wilderness I know your pride the naess
of your heart that thou art come down
that thou mightest see the battle
another ineffective way to deal with the
problem is to minimize
it
and it’s so interesting that his older
brother was more focused on David being
at the Battle and being in the
commenting about David being there I
know why you’re here I know why you’ve
come to be nosy I know what you’re doing
in hopes that
Goliath would be
minimized and that the situation would
be minimized look at verse 25 another
ineffective way of this same
chapter chapter
17 verse 25 let’s look at what it says
here and the
men of Israel
said have you seen this man that is come
up they were talking among themselves
about the problem about the giant about
this situ situation this man that won’t
quit he keeps coming out not just in the
morning not just you know every now and
then but every day have you seen him
have you seen this giant have you
seen and so they asked themselves
amongst themselves have you seen this
that this man is come
up surely to defy Israel is he come up
and it shall be that the man who kth him
the king will enrich with great riches
and so another ineffective way that we
deal with problems we talk about the
problems with
others we
talk about
it with others like they did
there and then another ineffective way
is we do
nothing we do absolutely nothing and you
know I’m just being honest because
sometimes we don’t know what to
do verse 11 talks about that look at
verse 11 they did absolutely nothing
when Saul and all of Israel heard those
words of the
Philistine
they were
dismayed and greatly afraid they were
dismayed and you know what they did
absolutely
nothing and so we have
to make up in our mind are we going to
allow like the Israelite Army did 40
days of fear anxiety intimidation to
just parade itself in our
lives or our we going to deal with the
situations in front of us are we going
to like David did be willing to face
it be willing to confront it be willing
to take responsibility Lord I need you I
don’t know what to do but my eyes are on
you I don’t know what’s going on right
here I
don’t want to just ignore it because I
know the more I ignore it it’s not going
to change
anything the more I try and minimize it
the enemy just comes back with more and
more darts more and more thoughts to try
to get the attention over on these
things I don’t want to be idle and just
allow this thing to just parade itself
around in my life
Lord how many you know that’s when you
got to go to
God and ask the Lord to help
me to deal with the battles of Life help
me to deal with this
situation in my life because I’ve never
done this
before never been in this
situation so we have to make up in our
mind
we have to be cognizant of the need
to uh make a decision the need to not
allow those things to be bigger than
what they really
are so one of the ways that we can do to
stop running away from our problems is
to be bigger than your
fears be bigger than your fears I
remember before before the pandemic
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he says we’ve got a cancel Services
we’ve got to shut down the building we
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to cancel it or the decision to have it
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remember that
and so I said Lord I just need to not
allow my fear to govern dealing with
this situation dealing with this
problem and so I realized the importance
of just being led by God and knowing
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me to do cuz I’m more concerned about
pleasing him than I am
anything
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