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look with me in first Samuel chapter 30
for just a few moments this morning I do
believe that what I’m going to share is
for people under the sound of my voice
like never before
like never before God
I believe has a word for people today
first Samuel chapter 30 begins with now
it happened when David and his men came
to ziglag on the third day the
amalekites had invaded the South and
zigblagged and attacked ziglag and
burned it with fire they took captive
the women and those that were small and
great
and and I won’t take time to read it all
verse 4 says David and his people who
were with him lifted up their voice and
Wilt until they had no more power to
weep
they were taken captive their families
their children verse six now great David
was greatly distressed for the people
spoke of stoning him because the soul of
the people was so grieved every man for
his sons and daughters but David
encouraged himself in the Lord his God
verse 8 so David inquired of the Lord
and said shall I pursue this truth shall
I overtake them and he answered the Lord
did pursue for you shall surely overtake
them and without fail recover
and just one more quick reference to
this amazing story
it says in verse 16.
and when they brought him down speaking
of David and he found what the people
who had done this horrible thing that
they had done
they were spread out over all the land
notice this eating drinking dancing
because of all the great spool which
they had taken from the land of the
Philistines and from the land of Judah
that’s David that’s his people
then David attacked them
everybody say attack
then David attacked them from Twilight
into evening the next day not a man of
them escaped except for 400 young men
who rode camels and fled Verse 18 so
David recovered all that the amalekites
had carried away and David rescued his
wives the next verse ends with David
recovered all he recovered all
I want to speak to you for a few moments
this morning about this story because
there’s some powerful steps to victory
that David took that everyone can take
on the most devastating broken day of
your life
how do you go on what do you do
when You Face a day like David had to
face and every one of you are going to
end up in ziglag at some point it’s the
worst day of your life and we can
pretend it’s not going to happen but you
will have a day where you will find
yourself standing in the ashes and the
smoke of something that just absolutely
devastated your life David could not
avoid ziglag you will visit it somewhere
between the prophecy and the destiny
John 10 10 said the thief comes to
everyone’s life to kill steal and
destroy but David took some steps to
victory some practical things that you
ought to do when you’re at the worst
place in your life and the first thing
that David did was number one he will
he well he’s I think it’s so significant
that he stood in the midst of the
smoldering ashes of everything that he
had lost and he began to weep he went
for his City he went for his home he
wept for his children and his family and
his wife he began to weep and not only
did David wait but this is so amazing to
me those Mighty Men those powerful we
would we would call them Navy Seals and
then some because these men if you read
the book of Samuel were warriors on
another level hand-to-hand combat in
other words they had faced death many
times they had become used to Bloodshed
they had faced tragedy so many times but
on this day grown massive strong
powerful men well your Bible said until
they could not weep anymore
they will
that’s what you do on the worst day of
your life there was no more strength to
weep a lot of people think that if you
have faith that somehow if you live by
faith you’ll be immune to your feelings
that somehow you you shouldn’t let
anything affect you that any sign of
tears and sorrow and grief and pain and
Devastation is somehow a failure of
Faith but the Bible doesn’t teach that
many of the greatest people in the Bible
Well Abraham wept when he stood at the
tomb of Sarah his wife
we know that Joseph went when he was
reunited with his brothers after the
family had been so divided and he had
been estranged from them for years and
years and years and when he finally
revealed himself they all joined each
other and and grabbed each other and
they wept the Bible said that Hezekiah
when he received the news that he was
going to die set your house in order he
willed the scripture said that Paul in
Acts 26 said I serve the Lord with many
tears and we know that even Jesus at the
friends at his friends gravesite Lazarus
Jesus well he was moved he was God he
was all-powerful and yet there was
something that made him weep he well
because he felt the emotion and the
sorrow of the moment and so when you
understand that Ecclesiastes said
there’s a time to weep Psalms 30 and
verse 5 gives us a great promise about
weeping he said weeping may endure for
the night but joy comes in the morning
if you have a a night of weeping you
will have a dawn of Faith there will be
another other season of Joy if you won’t
give up in the night of weeping as a
matter of fact there is a weeping
that can go beyond normal grief and you
begin to enter in to unbelief and
self-pity
that’s why God got angry in Numbers
Chapter 11 when the people of God were
in the wilderness and they began to weep
and say we wish we were back in Egypt
and God said that’s not a weeping of
Sorrow that’s a weeping of unbelief the
tears the tears don’t have hope in them
the tears don’t have faith in them and
it’s all right to weep But You Weep
knowing a season of Joy will return in
the second book of Samuel chapter 5 the
Bible talks about David and he was in
the valley of Rafi M and Rafi m is the
Hebrew word that means Giants it
translates Giants he was in the valley
of gigantic trouble
and the Bible said he got under a uh a
weeping tree which the Hebrew word is
Baka b-a-c-a and as he was under the see
the picture he’s he’s in it he’s under a
weeping tree he’s got gigantic problems
he’s in a valley a dark deep valley and
he doesn’t know what to do and he feels
overwhelmed and suddenly the word of the
Lord comes to him and the word of the
Lord says listen for the sound of
wrestling above the weeping trees
because when you hear that sound David
Advance quickly the Lord has gone before
you to give you the victory over your
enemy in other words he said David
there’s a sound above the sound of your
weeping in your lowest Valley surrounded
with gigantic problems and if you will
listen to the voice of the Holy Spirit
he will not leave you in the valley
weeping but there there’s a sound above
the sound of your weeping that’s saying
Victory is coming I’m going to restore
unto you what the enemy has taken I will
you shall recover it all and if you
can’t recover it God can replace it with
something even better but the point is
there will be another season of Joy God
will wipe every tear from your eye God
will take what the enemy meant to
destroy you and he will get Glory out of
it if you believe it say Amen you will
never
receive a miracle feeling sorry for
yourself at some point you’ve got to
come up out of the tears of unbelief and
self-pity and say I’m crying but I’m
also believing that if weeping endures
for the night Joy is coming back to this
family to this marriage to this life
life to this situation clap your hands
if you believe it and say praise the
Lord
don’t let grief conquer you don’t let
grief conquer you don’t let it conquer
you
the second thing that you do when awful
things happen is number one you eat but
You Weep with faith knowing
that another season of joy is coming
that’s God’s promise number two
you refuse to get bitter
because the Bible said that the men
begin to blame David David who had
helped these men immensely David who had
done all kinds of things for them but in
that moment when tragedy hits human
nature inside of all of us is to blame
someone
we start blaming one another we start
blaming this person and that person
and then we begin to get bitter once we
move from tears if we don’t control
ourselves and line up with the word of
God when we’re going through a grief and
a tragedy and the worst situations that
life can offer us if we don’t watch it
we get bitter at people and we blame
people or we get bitter at God and we
blame God
and this is what David refused to do
about Hebrews chapter 12 and verse 15
said be careful that a root of
bitterness not spring up in you when
something happens that you don’t
understand or somebody does something
wrong to you that a root of bitterness
spring up and cause trouble and many
there be defiled by it
in other words a root of bitterness the
text said calls this trouble trouble in
your health if you get bitter trouble in
your mind trouble in all your
relationships when you carry bitterness
and unforgiveness it will destroy you
well how in the world do I get beyond
the bitterness Pastor how how do I do it
the Bible said that the children of
Israel in Exodus 15 were in the
wilderness and they were thirsty and
there was a pool of water that they
found but when they tasted the water it
was bitter but God showed Moses a tree
and he said take a limb off that tree
and put it in the bitter water and the
bitterness will become sweet when the
tree gets in that bitter situation what
is the tree Proverbs 15 and 4 tells us
how to turn bitterness into sweetness a
wholesome tongue is as a tree of life
and what Moses put that tree in that
bitter water and it turned its swing our
tree is our words in other words speak
words of healing not words of criticism
speak words and use your tongue for
healing use your tongue in bitter
situations and begin to speak the word
of God and begin to speak life if your
marriage is bitter if your life is
bitter our tongues can be the healing
force that turns bitterness and roots of
bitterness and anger and unforgiveness
into healing the tree of life is right
there in your mouth it’s called your
tongue and when you speak a wholesome
tongue is as a tree of life proverbs 4
and verse 23 says keep your heart with
all diligence watch this for out of its
Springs water that’s speaking of water
Springs the issues of life
and so you speak healing words and you
turn bitter into sweetness
he he made up his mind and he well but
he wept in faith and then he refused to
get bitter and then thirdly this is a
powerful step to victory that David took
on the worst day of his life he
encouraged himself in the Lord
he said I am not encouraged by my
circumstances I am encouraged because
I’m focused on God he wept he refused to
become bitter and then he encouraged
himself in the Lord his own men talked
about stoning him but he encouraged
himself in the Lord he’s standing there
in his house is still smoking and on
fire in the whole city his children have
been kidnapped his finances have been
devastated he’s lost everything but in
that moment he said I still can find the
courage to get up and do what God called
me to do he knew I would be here he knew
this would happen and he encouraged
himself in the Lord what do you do when
tragedy hits your life when you lose
your job when you lose your business
when the doctor’s report is bad when you
end up in a divorce that you didn’t want
what do you do the one translation said
when and he encouraged himself in the
Lord you limit your focus to God you get
God tunnel vision you focus on how
Mighty he is how powerful he is how
faithful he is how he’ll never leave you
and he’ll never forsake you no matter
what happens in Acts 26 and verse 2 the
Apostle Paul said I think myself happy
I think myself happy I think myself
happy one translation said I command my
emotional state to be one of joy and
happiness another translation said I
choose the joy of the Lord as my
dominant emotion Hallelujah in other
words you just get up and you say I can
have a cheerful consistency I don’t have
to be laying down in depression and fear
and worry all the time that’s not God’s
will for your life encourage yourself in
the Lord your God he’s still Mighty he’s
still powerful he’s still fighting for
you he’s still on your side shout
depression will not dominate me fear
will not dominate me worry and defeat
and failure will not dominate me I will
encourage myself in the Lord my God
but then he did something powerful he
inquired and said God should I pursue or
should I just give up on this dream
and when he inquired of the Lord here’s
the here’s the fourth thing he did he
got a word from the Lord
listen that gave him a vision
on the inside
of total victory
nothing had changed
he got a word from the Lord there are
two Hebrew words in your Bible for the
for the word
there’s logos that’s the word of God in
general from Genesis to Revelations
that’s a general that’s the Bible that’s
God’s word that’s logos then there’s a
word called Rhema
and Rhema is spoken a spoken specific
now word for the right person at the
right time and when you get it it is not
some kind of vague impression it is when
God is speaking arama to you it’s not
like it’s kind of sword and you’re
trying to plot to your life somehow but
it really doesn’t fit but when God
speaks a word to you it’s like thunder
in your spirit it’s like suddenly even
though you’re in the same situation he
still had the smoke he still had the
fire he still had the missing kids he
still had the family this devastated he
still had the money messed up but right
in the middle of it when he got a word
from the Lord suddenly he had a vision a
victory in the same circumstances it was
a specific word for a specific person in
a specific situation and when you get a
word like that that God says now it’s up
to you to stand up and take what I gave
you and fight and when I tell you to
move move for you shall recover it all
give God a big praise if you believe it
your vision is your future
you got a vision of total Victory he got
a vision of restoration
and the Lord said to him you shall
recover it all
I’m telling you I read this verse this
week I wrote it down Genesis 13 verses
14 and 15 God said Abram lift up your
eyes now boy God help me to preach
there’s somebody watching me on
television somebody watching online and
you you’re having the worst season in
the worst situation in the worst days of
your life you’re crying yourself to
sleep then you’re broken and I don’t
minimize it we’ve been there we’ve been
there as a family we felt felt like we
lived there for a couple years but I’m
not living there now and he said lift up
your eyes listen to this and look from
the place where you are
for all the land north south east and
west that I show you I will give you and
your descendants after you
don’t be confined to where you are lift
up your eyes from where you are and say
I won’t always be depressed I won’t
always be defeated I won’t always be
alone I won’t always be struggling I
won’t always be an alcoholic or a drug
addict I won’t always be in a position
in a place of failure but God opened my
eyes and he got a vision David did on
the day the worst tragedy of his life he
got a vision of victory
telling you today the last thing he did
and this is so important I filled this
thing down in my bones can you tell
I love this last point
David
got mad
as Hades
that’s the Greek word for hell
he got mad
at the Devil
now his soldiers got mad at him
but he knew who the Real Enemy was
my battle is not with flesh and blood
and the Bible said that they took David
down behind a rock or a boulder
and when he was eavesdropping
on the amalekites that had kidnapped his
family and burned his City and stolen
all of he looked and saw the gold and
silver on the camels he looked in the
Bible your Bible said that they were
they were laughing and they were dancing
and they were drinking wine they put the
verse up they were drinking and dancing
and partying I could see Abigail David’s
wife being forced to get out there and
men walking up and putting their hands
on her and hugging her and David’s I
mean he he was not he was not a girly
man David was a killer David was vicious
David was so bloody God said I can’t let
you you’ve been in war and you’ve done
things I can’t even let you build my
temple I’m gonna use your boy cause you
got a lot of blood on you and David has
seized them touching his wife and sees
his children huddled up over there
crying and scared and holding one
another season this gold on their camels
and suddenly something hit him he said
I’m not a victim I’m not going to sit
back and just take this I’m mad at that
spirit that thinks that he can come in
you can’t have my family you can’t have
my children you can’t have my church you
can’t have my nation you can’t have my
own you can’t have my world you can’t
have it
if I’m here greater is he that is in me
than he that is in the world come on and
clap your hands in faith right now
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