Affirmed | Dr. Matthew Stevenson | It Doesn't Fit

first Samuel 17 is where we're going or we're gonna do this real quick first Samuel 17 I'm a priestess just a little bit to allow that you say man too fast I'll be out your way and imma catch some Devils out of some of you maybe prophesy we'll see but the room is filled with spiritual activity be here tonight for enter in God's got some things to say to you how do you re at first Samuel 17 have you not know where go to first Samuel 17 in your Bible verse 32 is where we're starting first Samuel 17 verse 32 David said to Saul that nobody lose heart on account of this Philistine your servant will go and fight him and saw replied you are not able to go against this Philistine and fight him you are only a young man and he's been a warrior since his youth but David said to Saul your servant has been keeping his father's sheep and when a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock I went after it struck and and rescued the sheep from his mouth and when it turned on me I seized it by its hair struck it and I killed it your servant has killed both the lion and the bear and this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them because he has defied the armies of the Living God the Lord who rescued me from the paw of the lion you better hear this and the paw of the bear will rescue me from hand of this Philistine so Saul said to David go and the Lord be with you then Saul dressed David in his own tunic and he put a coat of armor on him and a bronze helmet on his head and David fastened on his sward over the tunic and tried walking around because he was not used to them I cannot go in these he said to Saul because I'm not used to them so he took them off father helped me to preach this in Jesus name Amen and I know y'all got some freaky Devils in here and I want to arouse many of them but look at somebody holy by the hair and say take it off why y'all line they're phony you ain't this ain't divide just one o'clock you okay with saying take it off be honest we just added in the presence of the Lord nothing shows you what you're made of like a fight when you are in a fight you begin to realize things about you vulnerability strengths weaknesses uniquenesses and when it comes to your future and your destiny you are literally being anointed for a fight tailor-made for you there is a fight you're going to have to fight that your mother's not going to understand your daddy's not gonna understand it your friends are not gonna understand that your support system will be there but not fully comprehend the fight you were born for but you were born for a battle something is before you and this doesn't always mean that there's going to be bloodshed most battles there are bloodshed but you are somebody's escape route basically what that means is that if you don't hurry up and become who God made you to be then somebody won't have a way to escape one of the reasons why I walk with the fear of the Lord with my life is because I know I am the escape route see what God is doing with many of you is not just making you an inspiration that's easy he's not just making you an encourage that's common what he's making you is a delivery path in other words there are people who suffer who struggle who are bound who are tormented who are confused and they have resolved that this is life but the appearance of an exit path gives hope and faith on what God is able to do say yes have you ever been in a spot in your life where you had just resolved to be defeated in an area or to not expect in an area or to think that there was no other way to live until a person who happened to be a possibility showed up in your life maybe you didn't realize that it was possible to start a company or possible to go to school and somebody who with similar disadvantage and somebody with similar resistance shows up and you cross paths with them and their mere existence their mere arrival to you means that something is possible the good news is that's what God is anointing you to be he doesn't just want you to be a model and an example he literally wants your life to be a doorway to the freedom of somebody else he wants your decisions and he wants your behavior and he wants your conversation to open up a possibility to somebody before you now I got to go to this verse but this is why I've got to admonish you you never win for you know no battle that you have is personal even if you can't see how it's going to benefit people beyond you there is no such thing as a private battle even your private battles are for public benefit and the last thing you want the hind closed doors you are about to see somebody walk through your last victory you missed that you'll get it over to port late tomorrow I said the last thing you won privately is about to be the entry way for somebody else to win if you don't want nobody else to win you're not a worshipper a worshiper wants other people to win a worshiper will their lives to be the in road to freedom imagine how long you suffered unnecessarily because of who was unwilling to fight imagine how long it took you to get where you are because you had to do it on your own without a door to walk through your life is a door elbow somebody who smell like corn chips say your life is a door come on tell them your life is a door come on tell them your life is a door come on curry so your life is a door come on tell them your life is a door you are a door to your children many of you are going to be a door to your spouse or your future door and you ought to live the type of life that when people enter into you they are no longer who there used to be I should not come in your life and be worse than I was before you I said into into your life and experience to God who set you free and by virtue of the fact of relationship I should enter into your history with God in this next season of your life Sheol and your God is going to use you as a door not just a promoter or manager but people will literally walk through not on but through you through you to victory and to clarity and to peace lift your hands they make me adore one of the things God was making David was a door had David chose to remain defeated that would have come upon the nation now listen to me a part of your problem is you still don't believe that there is the power to impact in you this is why you make decisions on this level as if they're only going to impact you but before time began God wrote the story so uniquely that there's a whole audience relying on you to make it I know you don't want to hear that cuz everybody around you is a hater and telling you what you can and what you ain't but the people that are silent are the ones that need you the devil knows how to dispatch you you'll make the most vocal people come around you to talk more to discourage you out of making it but you make it for ministry and you make it for testimony and you make it to break the curse if you don't make it there'll be other people that lay here and die ask me why you I'm talking to yourself you are going to be people's proof that it will be worth it help me hold it I just need 10 of you to rest you can go home I say you people will look at you one day and say my god if you could do it for her and if you could do it in him and if you could change it for them certainly I could have and what will happen is your success is going to contact faith in them and they will undergo what they need to to where you have to make it do you have to I'm talking to your Snapple here you have to make it and you have to stop pretending like maybe you won't make it you have to make it you have to make it puta you have to make it the future is going to be unlocked as you make it here's the complexity to that sometimes when you're trying to make it people that have not done what you desire to do will discourage you from trying have you ever been advised by somebody on how to build a healthy marriage who had never been married y'all go lie have you ever been coached in friendship by somebody who changes relationships every two weeks BFF BFF FF b FF FF FF FF I mean they just change it all the time and we are in a hypocritical culture aren't we everybody has opinions beyond their experience and what they do is they like to try to give you information and give you know how on how to do what they don't have the guts to do but a part of why God allows that is to see how determined you'll be with contrary counsel nobody wanted to face the Philistine he was big he was skilled and everybody was counting on or counting the excuses why he should not be confronted David says I'm going I'm gonna do this I'm gonna confront him everybody's counseling him out of what God is saying to him concerning the future now you don't know the grace on your life yet this is starting to feel good what that means is there are things that you are called to do that's gonna look hard to other people and you just don't have the sense enough you know what I realize about me the look ten percent of crazy I do have God gave it to me and here's how I know he gave it to me I need it to be able to pay attention cuz this is gonna bless you to have a realm of risk that stayed open in my life because all great men and women are gonna come to a place where they're gonna take a risk that nobody else takes you don't like that you've been living your life in the safe zone you've been living your life in middle ground you've been living your life and the patterns of other people but as you start asking God Lord who am I and what do you want out of me you're gonna be introduced to a ram call risk people who are not risk-takers are going to be scared of what you do they're gonna be nervous as you take risk that's the good news you know the bad news is at every level of influence the risks get worse there is no such thing as decreasing risks the risk factors are worse and more money say yes the risk factors are worse in a real relationship say yes the risk factors are worse in deliverance that it is in contentment when you in sin and try to stay that way ain't no risks but when you make a decision to leave bondage to leave wickedness to consecrate yourself all of a sudden here comes the counsel of the car note or be careful you don't want to do too much Church on I'll be careful now listen you didn't do too much sex you didn't want to not do too much alcohol some of you freshly hungover right now you don't want to not do too much gossiping we are only concerned about overdosing on destiny but none of us are concerned about overdosing on the demonic it's time for you to get future wasted I'm working in here it's time for you to get to Uncle yesterday [Applause] hi ash David because he was a worshipper I feel my help through him he was not afraid of risks many of you are scared to find out who you are because of the risk of getting it wrong now this is why you need to become a worshiper first because to a worshiper all goodness Nick listen to me a failure is not final to a worshiper failure is a pit stop why won't you help me you are only going to stay a failure if you're not connected to the Father but when you connect it to the father failure is not final it's a pit stop it's a big elbow somebody whose ass you say it's a pit stop it's a pit stop it's a bit you can rest there but you will not stay there worship has away I've given you access to everything you need look as somebody whose eye rolls and tell them I'm getting drunk on my future tell them that there's a method to my man is looking somebody who's got a bad twitch and tell him I'm getting drunk on my future now I'm not gonna die got some more meat to get into but as some of you don't have to look that far back but do you remember the last time you were what they call scummy drunk now now now even it oh oh oh oh oh I see your taste buds now there's a there is a place called can we be real this is one o'clock black people have a phrase that our other counterparts don't use dr. Ross you don't know this oh maybe you do it's called tipsy and tipsy is when you had just enough where you can still walk good god I feel gone you can still know who people are you can still drive some of you even can go to work just I look tipsy you know you can get tipsy off a little wine a little tipsy off a little champagne knee you can get just a little tipsy but there's some of us who were born preciate the generational curses in what my blood type is Hennessy you understand what I'm talking about so I never knew tipsy by the time I was drinking I was drinking so bad that I actually shut down my tipsy barometer I'd never stop that tipsy there was a there was a there was a who are you how did I get here where my clothes at jump mic on there was a there was a there was a drunk that needed a designated driver drunk I don't trust myself through here so I'm gonna rely on somebody else to take the wheel now you know what it is to be drunk inhale and for hell and drunk on love and all that would be an on-set but you better get ready to get drunk on the future and drunk on the purpose you gonna look up and be seeing double holiness you gonna be real late learning how to get close to God and wake up with your heads rolling up courses and baggage say yes [Applause] I believe David was future drunk because nobody in his right man would have walked up to a monsters that I can take you I can take you I can take you here is where we take an interesting turn and this is gonna be one of the most important things you ever hear in your life even sometimes on your support system accepts what you say is your identity and agrees what were you about to go sometime even with good intentions they give you bad advice all bad advice is not malicious sometime it's just ignant they are advising you ill because of what they don't know I'm sorry and because of what they don't see what you're going to have to fight here what the spirits say it to you in this next season of your life and identity is the expectations of people around you David was ready to fight everybody thought he was capable of fighting but Saul was like let me give you a little wisdom take my suit and put it on you this is the type of weaponry you go need after all I thought Goliath before not I had a battle with him before not he had not experienced Goliath and yet thought and assumed what David needed to fight him say take it off and so he put the armor on him which caused an unfair expectation from the onlooker let me talk to you one of the things as in the way of your destiny is your mama's expectations look at Sam I say your mama one of the things that's working against you is your daddy's expectations one of the things that's working against you is your college buddies expectations Oh y'all don't want to be honest I'm hitting a sensitive place ain't I this is why social media is so dangerous because subconsciously you start making moves based upon the expectation of people here's what cheers me out you're not even in your life no more you're trying to prove to people who you gonna see at a 20-year reunion that you and your potential and making money it is the wrong expectation and if you carry their expectations into your law you've already lost most of you are suffering from the expectations of people around you have you ever had a conversation with people who had wonderful ideas about who you were supposed to be by now have you about a conversation with a parent who told you I didn't raise you this way you 37 years old and the pressure of those nagging antagonisms based upon unhealed stuff in them has got you in a panic now to hurry up and try to be something you don't want to tell the truth and hurry up and try to pretend and assume like you're somewhere but here's what you get free they don't have to be ready for what God is making you ready for they don't even have to prepare for what God is preparing you for and there's a way for people to misunderstand you and still love you this place saw love David he star hating them until he started winning it took for that win to prove that there was something in him but right now he's just trying to give him weaponry for the wrong war can I tell you one of the things God's gonna make you do through deliverance in this season is retire old weapons and retire ineffective weapons and retire ineffective sworn sir and in effect of shields and ineffective strategy because the battle is unprecedented he was not able to deal with the giant under the weaponry of so let me ask you this whose expectations are you wearing beyond this don't lie whose expectations do you wear your mom your god mommy my god I mean my god I mean she's been there but my mom and my gun on me whose expectations are you wearing an invisible hater I know I know exactly who y'all wearing the expectations uh-oh y'all know this person I'm gonna call it full name and you're gonna Noel debris they y'all met BAE you can't you can't do that because I gonna say oh you can't wear that because oh don't be putting all your out there because while you go to that church over there you know your life your money your energy your decisions are being controlled by some monstrosity called a and you ain't even seen him in a long time great is saying you can do for yourself as shared expectations you do listen you don't have to be what they want many of you are not gonna get the profundity of that for another month but if you let that really hit you you liberate yourself to find out what else is in you being what they want is gonna make you lose the war when the greatest problems in marriage is that we grow up to three four five six seven eight developing a woman in our brain if you're a girl and you got a good daddy you start making a junior your daddy in your head and all of the qualities you see in your father you start magically putting them in a man who you ain't met yet then you get dating age and you start exploring women and men and relationships and there's conflict you've got difficulty committing or difficulty saying yes and the real problem is you're trying to date and you're not single you're trying to court and you are very committed the trick comes here is because who you dated and what you committed to in a person you have been married longer to the man in your head or the other one and you've been dating the girl in your brain much longer than this person right here so because you got this ancient holy you call it standards but that's not true because what it really is it's a list okay you got this Genie list look at you up with people and you're measuring a real person and a real man against somebody you are already in love with I know you don't like but you have carried into this an expectation from your past here's what its most dangerous you not hold you are here most of you ain't say so in that level of life you to come up with this idea of what you need and you're not considering your restoration in the equation so you're not gonna need the man you think you mean when you become a whole woman and you don't need the type of woman you think you mean when you become a restored man you think you mean what you need because you're insecure broken men don't want a woman with an opinion because dating a dummy makes me feel like a better leader if you don't have any oh I'm hitting the paint today if you don't have an opinion did it makes you look like all my decisions are goober so I mean yessuh massa blonde who's gonna follow me anywhere I go a whole man likes a woman to think even if I let her know I run this I still want to know what you think about it oh you know what even though I'm going to make the decision I appreciate the rich wisdom God has put in you to be my help broke and women don't want to protect her they want something to show people off with for this guy have all kind of criminal records tear drops under his eyes the people he didn't kill but because he been in the pen he got abs and you just want to be able to settle and reduce your whole life cuz you got somebody to hold your arms with so your mama can stop question you or so you can keep up with your siblings it's the truth see people take in brokenness they try to marry in brokenness and because we have a broken society broken don't know that people broken so they get together waste each other time for years and him Allah it ain't working yeah Bobby y'all handicapped emotionally you have not recovered from trauma from stress you got resentment you want me to be your daddy and I'm not telling you what to call your husband in the bedroom but sometime that's up get look we're Verde wants it go from Big Daddy to father we got an issue right here all y'all don't want to have why y'all looking at me like that some of you have emotional needs that you're trying to project on another person because of the expectations of people around you who gave you your academic deadlines where did it come from who gave you your marrow but you billet buddies I'm 37 i'ma retire now that's a good desire it shouldn't be trust about unless you the one that came up with it but if other people are imposing their ideas and putting their armor on you you'll never find out how God made you defied they did looked at saw and said oh we all do respect I have to take this off they take it off I had to take off your ideas about how to win this I have to take about another you know you people have him problems with your children don't try to recycle the wisdom of everybody around you with a trouble T the problem is even if the principles work and your kid is different so even though they're like girls I'll tell you what I broke in our GGA ain't gonna stay in my house when you become 17 I kick you out but that may have worked for your kid and that's why he's gonna continue to be a social terrorist I wanna love mine a little more Oh Lord what when you start messing with people's parenting strategies they get defensive but this is exactly why we got a whole generation of derelicts is because we experiment on the first ones don't get it right unto the baby and they refuse to admit we got it wrong at all check it out then they'll be on the streets ldlr then ain't hard love that's black people dysfunction my mama did it to me look at you that's exactly why you trying to impart that same unresolved pain cuz you were imperative improperly and now you're trying to continue the cycle take that stuff off what kind of pressures are you under for the people around you when David took it off he could move quicker he's like I'm gonna go ahead i'ma deal with this how God shaped me and i'ma tell you what it's important many of us are under these expectations subconsciously especially those of you who have never had anybody be proud of you if you've never known anybody to celebrate or acknowledge how far you've gone in life then you create and you imagine their expectations and you put their armor on willingly and you try to fight to make them proud they're people around the world who are never ever going to hear from anybody I'm proud of you it's a devastating truth but some people are gonna say I'm proud of you that's great are you gonna live the rest of your life in need of that or are you gonna focus on the future and fight what you need to fight here's what happens next we're done after he took it off he was sized up by the giant the giant looked at him like this here do you think I'm a play toy that you said some boy up on me are you when you take off the wrong armor your adversaries gonna make you try to feel small because of what you not because of what you don't know because of how you were not prepared now if you're gonna lie and act like you aren't very prepared for your future then I'm talking to the person next to you who is being honestly I'm not exactly clear on what all is out there so I'm preparing now to the best of my ability I don't know where my end up I'm just trusting the Lord and walking with God until he shows me how to end up dicted up the Phyllis I told him I've been fighting karate chopping I know Taekwondo I take MMA imma kill you I've been practicing as a boy David said this my security is not in my armor I'm not protected by people's expectations I don't get security in there what's your security the other day come on look at somebody say the other day come on tell him the other day now here is why this is important because of what God did for you the other day it should give you courage for what he wants you to do today come on look at somebody say the other day now the other day may be different from today but just because it happened the other day should give you security on what God wants to do with you today and there's a lot of you who don't know what to do today because you forgot about what he did the other day don't you ever again forget what he did yesterday I know you don't want to live that no more I know you hate that place but what God did for you the other day ought to stir you up about what he's about to do for you today if you don't remember yesterday today is gonna wear you out you gonna be intimidated overwhelmed vets frustrated but look at somebody say the other day the other day come on I remember the other day don't do that come on act like you had another day now you may not have all the money you are but you are not who you were the other day you may not be as far along in your career as you are but you ain't where you are the other day your family may steal how challenges today but it ain't how it was the other day and when you can unlock the riches of yesterday you can pull on the power for today the other day your servant was confronted with a lion a bear and I dealt with de Lyon and I dealt with the bear with my hands no Armour nobody else's expectation with my identity I fought them and you will be just like their see what you've gone through in life has been practice for who you're supposed to be this is why it is so important I spend so much time teaching people come from under the expectations of people around you it's not always evil some people are looking at you like oh and you as a boy I knew you was gonna be a surgeon not look at you you a preacher and they registered for hell already so they have no conviction or appreciation for what it takes to become a messenger with splinters in his mouth who's kissed the cross to the extent that they could cry out under people made a decision I wish this was as easy as a scalpel I'm in charge of people so you can grow another limb if I cut it but you can't grow another soul but you got a hellish family member reducing your journey I know I'm in the room disrespecting what the work you put in to become miss secure and the reason this is important is because many of us have people that have seen for years what we're just starting to see in ourselves everybody does not have the same level of security in their potential but it is irresponsible of an onlooker to be mad at you about what you can't see in you that's not an issue of frustration that's an issue of patience when people around you can't see what you see you have to work to help them to see it I've known people that's gotten frustrated with other people's deliverances processes by now you walked away from alcohol and brownies now you got this here cigarette look at you look at ya look at ya you start avoiding them not wanting to come around them because they look at you that expectation it's unnecessary pressure you can't move that way take that stuff you'll be much freer to fight oh you're still in school huh and they and these are from people who many of them drop down at the seventh grade I nail and they'll tell you I raised you better than that no you did you ain't got and agree on your wall no tell me nothing about how to get mine say an and agree on your own your problem is you're not focused you know TV we're only busy mapa because you can't afford one yet so don't try to advise me through your defeat some people feel good about being able to criticize the accomplished gives him a realm of security to be able to tell you something about something they never saw and

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Published: Mon Jul 23 2018