"Just Survive It" - Touré Roberts

[Music] I want us to look at First Samuel chapter 25 and I'm gonna read quite a bit of this I'm not gonna have you stand for the whole thing but I'm gonna read it and I just really believe to unpack everything that is happening in this passage and I believe it's it's gonna ultimately be one of your go-to passages you know we have those go-to passes come on somebody this is gonna be a go-to story and I believe it's a story that's gonna help you it's going to encourage you it's gonna prosper you in moments particularly in moments where you don't know exactly what God is doing and I'll just tell you right now if you are a destiny person that means you go from glory to glory and level the level and strength the strength and face to fave and in between that glory to glory in between that strength to strength and in between that faith to faith they're uncomfortable seasons but the word is not as delicious in your season of prosperity it's good but it's not good are you tracking with me because you're in your season of prosperity everything is confirmed you know what I mean the word is confirmed by your life and you are hallelujah thank you Jesus Oh bless the Lord O my soul I'm blessing out of fact save sanctify right and that's cool but but but how many of us know when you're in the in-between that's when the word is really good to you are you tracking with me the word the word is it's best to you when all you have is it are you tracking with me anybody ever been there where all you had was a word from God you know you didn't have manifestation your life looked nothing like the word and you had to pretty much just close your eyes and not look at circumstance and just believe the word until the Lord brought you through so I believe that this is going to be one of those two passes is only one of your favorite go-to passes of Scripture because you're gonna find somebody in the person of David who who I believe in this moment that we find him in is a moment that will not be any worse or you will not be in any worse moment than he was in and we're going to talk about that I'm on only have you stand for the first verse and then I'm gonna have you sit down and we're gonna walk through the verses together in the first verse of First Samuel chapter 25 and verse 1 reads then Samuel died and Samuel died and the Israelites gathered together and lament it for him and buried him at his home in Rama and David arose and went down to the wilderness of Paran let's pray bow with me Lord we thank you for this moment that you've given us to be in your house to be in your courts and to experience your word we understand father we're here because of this understanding that man does not live off of bread alone we don't live off of earthly nourishment alone but what we live by are the words that proceed out of your mouth and so God we're hungry for those words and God I want you to fill us to the full and I want you to give us so much word today that we're stored up for any season not just the high seasons but to store us up so much with your word that that word will minister to us and counsel us empower us and strengthen us when we have to go through the in between the reality of the space between levels between dimensions between glory because that is when we need your word the most and so god I thank you for every person here every person from campus to campus from Denver to LA to online that is being exposed to this right now bless them enrich them empower them enlighten them feed them and may we leave here stronger than we've ever been more clear than we've ever been more determined that we've ever been in Jesus name Amen amen god bless you please be seated my theme for today and the theme that will will minister around today is just survive it and we'll stick with before the second bonus I want to tell the story and the story sounds so much better with music it says then Sam you'll die now if you just look at that and just look at those three words it doesn't seem like much but let me give you the backdrop of this account which is really about David it's not about Samuel this is about David and this is arguably the most difficult moment of David's life this moment for David is so difficult that it is the only time that you see David great strong mighty giant slaying King David prepared to throw it all away what a moment he's in this is King David who has been when we find him in this text he has been anointed by the prophet Samuel he has been promoted in the house of the king of Israel Saul consequently subsequently and consequently Saul gets jealous of David and initiates this assassination attempt that runs David out of saws house out of his own father's house and into hiding and now song that saw the most powerful man in Israel is pursuing David to take his life that which had become familiar that which looked like a promotion now all of a sudden seems like the worst thing that can ever happen to him he has lost everything he is in the hiding in the stronghold whip some men that he just gathered together who also were in distress were discouraged and were discontent with life times themselves and he's in the stronghold he's in the hiding places in the place of safety and while he's in the place of safety he gets the worst news that he can get up to that point because he had lost so much all that he had left was his spiritual father and his spiritual father was the prophet Samuel he was at this time the only sense of assurance the only sense of peace that David has it was Samuel after all who anointed him King and said you're going to be the king over Israel it was Samuel who when Saul was bugging out and trip and this was his counselor this was his confidence his father for the most part for all intents and purposes we can believe that his father somewhat rejected him and so all he has in this moment is the prophet Samuel spoke words and anybody just you just just a friend that if this friend was removed from your life you don't know what you would do it could be a parent or someone of great significance in your life David is in a tough place he is as far away from the from the promised based on his perception than he can be and he gets news that the only one who knew what was on his life the only one who you know some people just encourage you some people just inspire you you just know that they know who you are they know what's on your life and they don't treat you like where you are they treat you like where you headed you know what I'm talking about and you just get around them and you're inspired by them you know and you're on the inside you're still working out you know I mean what God is already you're still working things out and for whatever reason God has given them the grace to see you not for where you are but where you're headed you know what I'm talking about people like that and they just inspire you and when you feel like a flea or a tick you get in their presence and you feel like a king again they hand you your crown when you want to take your crown and toss it down because you've made a mistake or because of what is happening to you they your crown put it back square on your head and say stand up and put your shoulders back and put your chest out and believe and swing again you know what I'm talking about can we just thank God for people like that that God makes sure are in our lives just take a minute because those people are great blessings and never take them for granted never take them for granted because truly they save your lives that's family that's who samuel was to david and he dies and quite frankly he dies at the wrong time you're not supposed to die until I've made it cuz I need you you're not supposed to die until everything that you know about my future and everything that God has shown us together we're in covenant we are Co dreamers you can't die now I'm still in the stronghold I'm still hiding I'm still running my the manifestation has to come you can't die not you let anybody else die but you but the Bible says Samuel died and what makes matters worse for David is as it says then Samuel died then Samuel died so unfair anybody ever felt like life was unfair you ever been kicked by life when you were already down that ever happened to you before I can't take another hit I want to talk to some real people here today we we're not gonna have cute church we gonna have we're gonna real Church in you today you you see their seasons win when blessings overtake you and you're like whoa wow and you're just getting smacked all around by blessing oh but then there are other seasons oh god I feel this see this is for you because I'm talking to some champions here today and there are some things that champions must understand some things that champions must understand there are things that champions must endure David this is the timing is terrible for his strength for his covenant comrade to die on him who do I have left now we dream together you inspired me together we we inspired together one another and now you're gone and David's reaction in this moment David had been through a lot of things and he would go through a lot of things after this moment but there was something about this moment that brought him to the brink of quitting it brought him to the brink of quitting let's look at it when I look at a little further and I got a few things to say and it will be will be out of here today and David then Samuel died and the and the Israelites gathered together and lamented for him and buried him at his home in Rama and David or better but David arose and went down to the wilderness of paran so souls Samuel dies and Israel could celebrate him could properly mourn for him by burying him he cannot because he is exiled from Israel and so while Israel is going through the mourning and the grieving process which as we all know is a healing process he can't even do that because he's on the run so my mentor dies and I can't even grieve him properly and instead of going down to Rama to grieve him what I do is I arose David arises and he goes to the wilderness that's not unlike us you ever had the wilderness within you drive you to a wilderness outside of you have you ever been so confused and so dark inside the absence of light inside that you didn't want to be where the light was you wanted to go in another environment where this is David he's going through it's going through if we skip down to verse four it says when David heard in the wilderness he's in the wood on us he leaves the safety of the hiding place and goes into the wilderness he goes into the wilderness the wilderness is a place that is there that is designed to train you and to develop you it's not a place that you go and run to but yet David goes there and it says in verse 24 and verse four it says then David heard in the wilderness that nabe all introduced character number two the neighbor was shearing his sheep David sent ten of his young men tin the people that are with David and David said to the young men go up to Carmel go to nay ball and greet him in my name and thus uShip you shall say to neighbor who lives in prosperity so sown a ball is a guy who is just balling right now David is in a low season he goes to the wilderness he seized a ball and a ball is just prospering he is doing well and all of a sudden now David takes aim at him and we're gonna read and see that that neighbor has a little history with David in fact let me tell you the history with David so so David is now in the wilderness and he sees nabe all neighbors prospering he's sharing his sheep he's doing well and david says hey hey send out go out there and howl at neighbor because you know what my history with Nate ball is this you know there was a time when I was doing ok and I was out in the wilderness with my men and nay balls men were out there and you know I took his men up under my wing and I protected them and I covered them and I looked after them and nothing was missing I wouldn't let anybody harm neighbors men and now I'm having a moment right now and I'm in this place of entitlement and so I want you some 10 min from my camp go out to neighbor and say this today ball this is the PT translation say this to neighbor hey it's your boy David it's your boy David you know remember me a day ball a ball is your boy David man I see you prospering homie you over there prospering and stuff my due and you remember that time when you wasn't really prospering and but I was prospered in the wilderness a little bit you already prospered and your boys came into my camp and you know I could have like you know because I'm ruthless I could have like you know but I didn't do that because I'm a good man you know not covered them and I protected them and they lost nothing and everything is cool and I'm in a pickle so like you'll let me hold something I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today you don't know nothing about that y'all know nothing about that yeah so he sends his man out to basically say hey tell him is David man I'm going through see the reality of it is he is so disappointed that he is disconnected from his sense of self and he is disconnected from his identity as a Son of God and when you get disappointed you get disillusioned and you forget where your help comes from and you start becoming manipulative and because you've been disconnected from the source now when you see somebody else prospering you no longer trusting jehovah-jireh you're trying to get help by man while you tracking with me this is where David is we're gonna talk about some some just give me a minute that's what David is and if we skip down to verse 10 it says then a ball answered David's servants and said who is David PT translation who is you who is David and who is the son of Jesse there are many servants nowadays who break away each one from his master shall I then take my bread in my water and my beat that I have killed for my Shearer's and give it to men when I do not know where they are from he completely dismisses David completely dismisses him says who are you like I know you you're saying this you come here trying to get something betting a ball it was like dude like what how did you even get my number and that is the moment that David absolutely snaps he forgets that he's a son of the Most High God I feel the Spirit of the Lord he forgets that there is a calling on his life he forgets that there is a promise on his life he is so disoriented by his disappointment that he is delusional now and now David purposes in his heart to kill him he purposes in his heart to become a murderer he is so confused so out of his head that he's getting ready to throw his future away entirely because he was in a moment of desperation let's keep reading can we read and then I'll explain further it says so David's young men in verse 12 it says so David's young men turned on their heels and went back and they came and told David all these words yo David I thought you said this was your boy I thought you said yo David this is not your boy I don't know what y'all have been through but dude this is not your boy I'm telling you I was shocked so David's young men and turn on their heels and went back and they came and told him all these words then David said to his men David completely snaps he completely flips out he says every man gird his sword and so every man girded his sword and David also girded on his sword and about 400 men with David and 200 stayed with the supplies David now mana fellows because of his disappointment and disappointment is often followed by disillusionment anybody ever been disappointed by God I taught a sermon once called when a God disappoints you and religious people like hey God never disappoints me shut up that's not true it's not true God does disappoint us however it's not because of God it's because of us disappointment is the byproduct of an ignorant expectation are you tracking with me that saw disappointment is disappointment necessitates ignorance that's why God can never be disappointed in you some people think or disappoint of God stop it no you didn't because that means that God would have had to have expected something out of you and believed that something was going to happen out of you and you shocked him when it didn't happen because he was ignorant to the outcome no you don't you never disappoint God hello somebody just get that off I know people teach get that off you can't disappoint God because he knows the end from the beginning okay now a god thing can disappoint you because you don't know the end from the beginning you had an expectation but it was your expectation of an outcome that was not God's and so in that context God can in fact disappoint you and when you are disappointed particularly when God disappoints you almost always the next step is dish and disillusionment because it comes you come to a place to where you say wow well if if God disappointed me Who am I what is my life are these promises true and you are completely disoriented because prior to that your life is governed by and situated in the promise of God and the expectation of those promises being manifested in your life the expectation of God never leaving you nor forsaking you take listen never underestimate the power of what trusting and God produces in your life right now many of us the only reason why we haven't lost our mind is because we're believing a promise are you tracking with me the only reason why we're still in in Colorado or still in California are still where we are is because we're believing in a promise of God and God is faithful and that's why we're here the only reason why some of us haven't put a gun in our mouths can we have a real conversation in here right now you have been through some things that have wiped out people who were not standing and believing in a promise so the promises of God and the the presence of God in your life situates you a particular way and when you believe that God has disappointed you and the enemy does a masterful job at trying to discredit God in your thinking it creates disillusionment and now you're trying to figure out where you are and you look up and you will find yourself in a wilderness and so he is in this wilderness of disillusionment the same family the same the same David who took down Goliath the same David who was so clear who was so clear about who he was in God he runs up on a giant that was three times his size fully convinced you going down I don't know how it's gonna happen but it don't matter somehow you are going down because God is for me this I know and if he's for me who can be against me and he even puts himself in harm's way because he has convinced the same David now has forgotten about all of that because life showed up on him at the wrong time and he is ready to throw it all away he's ready to become a cold-blooded killer on his way to destiny that's how disillusion 'el he is but as we continue to read are you gonna learn some stuff as he continued because we continue to read it says in verse 18 there's the introduction of now character 3 and her name is Abigail check this out are you gonna love this and everybody needs an Abigail in their life and I submit to you everybody chosen will have an Abigail show up in their lives just at the right time watch this it's gonna be good it's gonna be good so it says as David now is on his way to forfeit and to completely sabotage everything that's on his life it says then Abigail made haste and she took 200 loaves of bread 2 skins of wine five sheep already dressed five shares of roasted grain 100 clusters of raisin yummy and 200 cakes of figs and loaded them on donkeys and she said to her servants go on before me I am coming after you but she did not tell her husband NAB all its neighbors her neighbor his wife by the way her husband was a fool when she knew it ya gon ruin it for all of us and she gathers her stuff and she gives it to her servants and she puts it on donkeys and she sends it ahead of her and then she goes on to don't say nothing to this fool and so it was she wrote on the donkey that watch this now this is powerful it says that she went down under cover of the heel so here is this imagery David has no idea that his miracle is on the way he is making his way to do something crazy and abigail was making her way to bless him and to get him back on course are you tracking with me and I want to encourage somebody see see she's under cover of the hill which means that she was on the other side of the hill he could not see what was on the way to him and I just believed it says some people that God wants you to know that you're in a tough spot that you're in a difficult situation and you can't see your miracle and you only one way forward and you only see one way out but I came to describe to you today that does it Abigale on the other side of your mountain on the other that gosh [Music] after Gilles coming a vehemence coming papa somebody say abigail is coming abigail is coming abacus abacus abacus Kilis coming abigail is coming Alec Alec Alec Alec Ellis coming you are not freaky shaken you are not forgotten the moment that this thing started God had prepared and Abigail she's coming she's coming she's coming she's coming your steps are being ordered she's coming she's coming it's not unto death it's coming and all you gotta do is just surviving [Music] he's gonna share [Music] abigail is coming abigail is coming I can't wait to tell you what Abigail means have Achilles come Abigail is coming have Achilles coming eat up on yourself have Achilles coming yeah you're next you die [Music] can't you see David can't you see David can't anything worse happened to David [Music] you already having a bad day a bad day that was enough and then you lose the representation of your hope he's on his way to kill a ball not realizing why says this is kind of crazy but not realizing that what out of the same house that brought him more pain deliverance was on the way out of the same situation that you're lamenting you tracking with me deliverance is coming are you hearing me that same thing that broke your heart that same thing that made you want to jump off a bridge I hear God's saying out of the ashes I will because I caught for those who love God and the called according to his purpose out of the same house of your confusion comes your miracle Abigail is coming high-five somebody say Abigail is coming Abigail is coming Abigail is coming Abigail is coming abigail is coming Abigail is coming Abigail is coming [Music] you got to study when you get a chance but in essence abigail rose up and she talks David out of what he is getting ready to do she reminds David of who he is she reorients David with his identity his purpose and his destiny anybody have an Abigail in your life right now come on somebody you need people around you that will reorient you when you get off track and then she says and then she says something to the effect of this she says David my husband is a fool don't worry about that she says David but this this huge thing on your life and when God gets finished when God gets finished doing everything he spoke concerning you you won't even remember this moment in your life just survive the moment [Music] [Applause] [Music] just some remit and there's some in this room right now there's some under the sound of my voice and you are expending cognitive energy trying to figure out what to do next and I hear God say take a moment don't try to figure out what to do next just survive this thing baby because so let me tell you something really quickly about champions for any champion they're gonna be certain things that happen to you in life that are so confusing that they bring you to the point of quitting watch this until you discover that those things are actually normal for champions see David in the future goes through even more difficult things but his response is different because he recognizes now what is normal for a champion feel the holy spirit as I was prepared for this I was studying I started thinking about Navy SEALs and I started thinking about the training and the preparation that Navy SEALs go through watch this Navy SEALs are trained in adversity so that trouble becomes normal you didn't catch it did you catch it they're trained in adversity so that trouble becomes normal so that they can continue on when most people give up come on champions the only thing that separates champions from everybody else is there quitting point it's a quitting point so so they're trained in treacherous circumstances so that treachery I made up a word can become their normal let me give you another analogy so I trained I trained in in Krav Maga a few years ago it's a wonderful sport Krav Maga wonderful wonderful right and when I first started learning it the instructor would just randomly come up and surprise hit me and like what are you doing and I get back in my position you know what I mean and you know and I haven't done in a while but I'll still nice strike you to death don't play with me but anyway anyway so he wouldn't he would just randomly come and he would just pop hit me what are you doing right and it was shock bit first and then I learned later why he was doing it he was trying to get me used to being hit so that I can stay focused if I'm ever in a fight I won't be so shocked by the blow that I get disoriented and can't protect myself are you tracking with me there's some people in there right now and life is slapping you around but it's not slapping you to kill you it's slapping you to prepare you for what's coming on the next level you're in training but say no one see no one told me that at first at first he's laughing I might do what are you doing I'm paying you to help me not hurt me and he's like and that's exactly what I'm doing I can't have you be shot when a punch comes that it disorients you and debilitates you and life right now is slapping you because it's getting you ready God is teaching you how to take a punch because of you know how to take two putts you can get a punch are you tracking with me that's all it is Saul it is leave this is normal for champions this is normal he's at the lowest point of his life not realizing that God is just training him I think I think I want to I want to wrap up by saying these these couple of things first of all every chosen person has again has an Abigail an Abigail is a secret weapon that God all always has in play when he's getting ready to allow you to go through something there's an Abigail always in play it is a secret weapon a secret to you because it's coming towards you on the other side of the heal and at the right moment it's going to show up in your life to reorient you with who you are who God is and what God has for you now let me tell you what Abigail means and then we're done Abigail the literal a burger literally means father of joy father of joy strange but anyway father of joy Abigail somebody named her daughter father of joy praise the Lord but if you dig down into those words that produce the word Abigail's two words AB and then Gail of course means father and injeel' if you break that word down it literally means a revolution or a spin a revolution or a spin and so I'm thinking okay what is that like like like David he has this experience he's become something else he's gone in the wilderness he's he sees Crazy's bugging out and and he's on his way to completely destroy and sabotage his life because of what he's going through and then Abigail shows up and explains to him who he is and where he's headed Andrea reorients him and so so Abigail father of joy or the father who spins and then it hit me it's God the Father who is the Potter and we his children who are the clay and when God is shaping us it feels like we're spinning and we're confused and we are disoriented and we are unorganized and we are afraid and we don't know who we are becoming but God does not tell us in that moment that that's what he's doing but he will send an Abigail to you to remind you that he's got you the wonderful thing about the Potter and the clay if you ever look at that process I think God would the potter's house but the wonderful thing about that and one thing that you must never forget about the Potter as he is shaping clay his hand is always on the claim just-just-just imagine I would have Foust being a good son of my father I would have had an image behind me with with this pottery thing spinning but I'll get it next time amen you know but but but but I want you to imagine clay being shaped by Potter his hands are always on the clay the clay is moving around and it is disfigured and it is deformed and it can you can't tell what its gonna be and it is just all it's just crazy and you know all that but when God gets well first of all the hand is always on it and there's always a strategy in the mind of the one whose hands are always on it and when God gets finished with it it becomes everything that he envisioned just survive it know that no matter where you are on your journey on the potter's wheel and even when and we're all let me tell you that right now all of us are spinning we're spinning right now sometimes it's just in certain seasons he has to spin a little faster and you get a little dizzy and disoriented but the reality of it is whether you're spinning slow where you can manage it or fast where God is it's you know sometimes there's an acceleration in your life because God is gonna accelerate some things and so sometimes you're spinning on that wheel goes faster and you get like oh god what is I don't understand remember even though you feel disoriented you are safely oriented and perfectly positioned in the hands of the one that's shaping you are you tracking with me I've got to stop right there I want to pray for some people here this afternoon if you hear man you feel like God was speaking right to you if you're here and you just know man I got my word I've been trying to figure it out and I've been going crazy and I've been doing a little bit of this and I've been losing myself and I've been on the brink of compromise and doing some things that are unlike me and I heard God speak to me today and he just said just surviving because abigail is coming if that's you just stand up I want to pray for you if that's you and Denver stand up and I want to pray for you if that's you online I just want you to lift your hand and receive there's someone I want to pray I want to pray I want to pray for you I want to pray my wife is here honey can you come pray please [Applause] father god you're the only one who knows what we're going through you're the only one who sees all and knows all and knows the in from the beginning so God reacts that you would give us the strength to survive this test that we're up against that you would give us focus and clarity and vision that unleashes the next dimension of who we are father God I acts right now on behalf of every hand that is lifted every heart that is open that you would begin to reveal to us the truest version of ourselves I prophesy right now in the name of Jesus at this battle we're fighting right now we will no longer have to fight anymore I claim victory right now in the name of Jesus I claim conquering right now in the name of Jesus God dig down into their soul until overcoming is all that spring sports out of them deep down on the inside of them until hope comes springing out of them because the time we can't afford to be our own worst enemy any longer teach us how to thrive in this wilderness because we know you didn't place us in it to die new life new oil new creativity new vision new identity new strength new purpose new relationships please okay [Music] [Music] move forward then I may lay hold of your great and perfect will for my life I receive your strength I receive your spirit I receive your vision for my life let it consume me O God and take over every part of me that I may be a testimony in Jesus name [Music] you

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