Tackle The Text // Outsmarting the Obstacle

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telling you you are in for a treat we had an opportunity to go over this text prior to our conversation and i'm telling you you don't want to miss it to my right is pastor hammond to his right is pastor rhema and to his right is pastor matt uh of our downtown location pastor rhema of the south and pastor hammond of the west and um i'm so grateful to have you guys here today you guys doing all right you're doing good good man you know here we are another tuesday another day and it's always great to uh to hear what you guys think i want to jump right into it because um and this text is so pregnant with possibility and when you read the entirety of first samuel chapter 26 you can be kind of overwhelmed because it's such a long story but would you agree that even though it's a long story it's really a short occurrence um that you can kind of concise it into a conversation so we can just set the groundwork for those uh who are watching uh basically david uh sends out some scouts to verify that saul has actually arrived to where he was because he heard that saul was after him and that he was trying to kill him and so um he he sends out some scouts and he recognized that is true and so david does something different and this is the second time that david is in a position to kill saul but he spares his life and the bible says that david set out and and he went to the place where saul was sleeping where he was kept and david saw it and he basically was about to kill saul but he came to his better senses and said wait a minute this is god's anointed this is god's man and he doesn't touch david he takes his water and he takes his spear and we're gonna get into all of that um and so that's the really the topography of what we're dealing with it's this silent battle between two nemesis uh and one has the position and the other one has the oil right and and and which one is more important the one who has the oil or who has the position you got the dichotomy of all that is going on so pastor rhema when you look at this text and you see david sparing saul's life again um what kind of leaped out at you uh as you tackled this text in your own private time thank you pastor i think the first thing that um just i i mean you've taught us about how to just look at the characters in the text so i just looked at the life of david and you've taught us also not just to approach a text because you've preached it before but to just look at the text for new things so i took a step back and looked at the text and i it dawned on me that david was a man of war it's almost like this man knows how to kill like and if i know how to sing and i know that singing this is going to earn me this amount of money and they give you a microphone you're like no i don't want to do it that's that's a tension in the text because it's almost like oh he saw his enemy he could no no this guy was trained everything about him he never lost a battle and now he is faced with this and i asked myself a question why didn't he do this this was a man that just killed goliath so so and the spirit of god told me sometimes we just because first of all just because you face it doesn't mean you have to fight it that's so good stay right there just wow okay now you didn't start it off hitting hard that's so major can you please spend some time talking about that just because you faced it doesn't mean you have to fight it the spirit of god acts and and he said the spirit of god said that we spend so much time responding to our enemies instead of researching our enemies and i asked i need a deeper you got to break this down and he said david called goliath an uncircumcised philistine he started him enough to know then called saul the lord's anointed if we take some time to study our enemies wow maybe we will not respond to them the way we do go ahead sir you sound like you want to say that you go so so i i think no no while i was thinking about this here one of the things i wrote down because i was just taking notes while i was listening to your sermon and the spirit of god asked me if you fight everything you face then you're not a believer you're just a fighter and i am irrelevant in your life in this battle all you have to do is stand the bible tells us in ephesians right it says put on this whole ammo and stand not fight and i asked myself go what you said because i vengeance belongs to me there's something i reach a pastor i have to say and i'll i'll hand it over the spirit of god dropped this in my spirit says if everything gets under your skin then you're not ready to get anything under your belt so for me it's can god trust you with an enemy your enemy somebody had to kill jesus your enemy is part of your prophecy if everybody was jesus's friend and nobody killed jesus where would the resurrection come from so the question is can god trust you with an enemy i think that that last few moments is some of the most profound things i've ever heard you say the fact that you don't have to fight everything you face and that god really entrusts us with the enemy and researching the enemy to the place where we know he did because he called goliath and uncircumcised phyllis he knew exactly who he was and then he gets to the king and recognizes that he is the lord's anointed he understands him so much that he tries to tell the people who are with him he informs them don't bring heat to my name to my reputation i need you to obey what i'm doing i i think of it organizationally about how sometimes whether it's in your family organization how sometimes you can have people in the organization who are marching to a different beat that david had decided that saul needed to be spared but he had to tell abeshai not to touch him because sometimes people can try to prove their loyalty to you come on by proving their disloyalty to god because god said touch not the anointed and here they are trying to show david i'm for you but what happens and should we be okay with people in our life who are okay disobeying god just to prove something to us i mean you just some of the most profound thinking i've ever heard matt what is happening here because david david is actually the king okay now we keep saying that saul is the king and he is i guess we can say technically yeah but as it relates to god's decision and anointing the oil is now on david yes am i right in that in that regard so help us to understand it because there's a tension here between the person who sits in the seat and the person who sits in the oil yeah and something is going on here please tell me what you think so what you're saying there we're looking at a the difference between the president and the promise right the president doesn't always reflect reflect the promise but when i studied this i took a step back like you said and what you said was amazing um it made me look at things at two things david's level of restraint and his commitment to submission because i looked at it from a language standpoint he when he started calling out to him saul said david is that you my son now put a pen in it if you've been trying to kill me don't bring him up don't don't don't bring up my relationship with you and his response to it was yes my lord it is your servant my king oh and in the midst of that he he went past the disrespect the the hurt and he said i'm going to be submitted sub under the mission the mission of god i'm going to be submitted to that and so we know that it hurts when somebody does you wrong but when you family when i look at you as as somebody i'm in a relationship with a like a father that hurts me differently and the way that david was committed to the mission of god it showed through his level of restraint and that was what jumped out to me because i've had family members do me wrong i've had people who called me brother do me wrong and like and i wasn't as gracious and committed to the mission as david was in those moments and this is this is the blueprint as we can say as to how to handle being wrong in those situations so sir so when you said that the the thought that came to my mind pastor is can hurt and honor coexist i think we should stay there because in my mind i couldn't figure out how to to describe the statement of how he was still able to answer to what he was called in spite of what saul tried to do to him and you just you just expressed it it is hurt and honor coexisting in the same place and why is it then why is it that in most of our circumstances whether it's intimately relationally uh uh professionally when hurt enters honorably how many people watching us today have either witnessed or are guilty of allowing the honor to leave when the hurt arrived wow and if if i can interject this it has to go with so good it has to go with value it it it i remember bishop jake said this one time one of the most profound statements ever heard is that value is determined by sacrifice you can tell how much you care about something and what it's worth to on what you're willing to give and at that moment he was willing to give up that hurt in order to honor because he valued honor in being submitted to not only god in aspect but to steal to saul yes in the moment through the through the hurt through the pain through the dishonored era through the betrayal this is the same man that he went and played the heart for and soothed him this is the same man that he served this is the same man all these things that he's done and he said i still value you and god more than whatever you can do to me look at what we have we have hierarchy jesus we have the heart we have the hurt and we have the honor yeah saul is at the top of the hierarchy david is playing the harp saul issues the hurt david has the honor hierarchy hurt honor and harp do you see how one person has everything that's up here and one person has everything that's down here but the person who is up here ends up down here and the person who's down here ends up here because both of them have to figure out here it is thank you holy ghost jesus because david ain't the only one hurting what would you do if you woke up one day and you were no longer stephanie's husband what would you do if you woke up one day and you were no longer ethan's father what would you do if you woke up one day and you were because the saul is hurting too because he's suffering loss but the person who wins this war is the person who handles the hurt best look at what saul does with his hurt he throws spears look at what david does with his hurt he plays harp so so hurt is a crystal ball you can't draw yeah so that's what i heard because because um a lot of heart and honor are crystal balls you cannot just handle anyhow if not it's gonna there's things that happen in your life that are like rubber balls they drop you can pick them up but things like hurt and honor god wants to see can you handle can you handle being hurt and honor at the same time that's why that's why that's why and pastor you've said this before i know you don't want to tell your story but but whenever i hear your story about how you were hurt in the same church and in the same day god gave you elevation it brings to my mind what happened with joseph joseph basically told his brothers god sent me here in advance so they called it affliction he called it transportation because he knew how to handle his hurt and still honor them at the same time pastor heaven well for me pastor you talked about that hurt and i think in my mind i think about how what you talked about the harp and the hurt and david uh calm saw spirit by playing the harp and i think sometimes when we think about hurt we think about it in the context that most of us when we are hurt we transfer the hurt so in other words i want you to feel my pain we often say that do you feel my pain when really the word declares it god says come unto me all who are heavy laden and i will give you rest we we can't transfer our hurt to people we've got to transfer our hurt to god and i find here in this text that that david uh goes uh when he goes with his man into the camp and i'm seeing that all saul's people are sleeping now in the place where david was on the hill when they get to saul's place uh if you do the research it says this was the cave of dreamers and sometimes god will put you in a place to put your enemy asleep so you can receive all that they have into your key preached about that and so at the same time when david gets there to saul he calls out with a loud voice and they awake sometimes god will put a word in you to wake up those that sleep on you and see a lot of us are always worried about are they sleeping on my they sleeping on me they don't know let them sleep because god has put a word in you that can can wake up your enemy and make the transfer happen you know andy grove the former ceo of intel the processing company he said that bad companies are destroyed by obstacles he said good survive obstacles and great companies are improved by obstacles and i started thinking you could take company out and you can put relationship you can put church you can put people listen bad relationships are destroyed by obstacles good relationships survive them great relationships are improved by bad churches crumbling crisis good churches survive them great churches are improved by them one of the things that i know for sure is that all great men and women have one thing in common they are fueled by their obstacles it's one thing i know i have been blessed to meet many great people and the three of you all are included in that and what i know about every one of you all is that you are fueled by what's in front of you jesus that that whenever something comes up against you matt you determine okay all right i'm gonna run through it that that no matter what discomfort you may have pastor raymond you're gonna say okay i'm gonna figure out a way to outsmart this thing i'm gonna pastor hammond you'll figure out you know what i don't care whether i'm left but i'm going to find a way to out-serve it every one of you all have found a way that whenever you get to that fork in the road that you find a way to outsmart the obstacle that was the point of the message and the message was is that there was this thing called a king that is in front of david but the truth is it wasn't really a king that was in front of him it was a mirror i think that david had an opportunity by being confronted with saul to see what he would become if he was hurt and you saying that as you were preaching the holy spirit kept dropping in second corinthians 12. and when he talks about you know paul gets to his dorm but before that he said lest i get to it you know he said i was sent a messenger of satan to buffet me lest i be exalted yeah and and just because it's a stone doesn't mean it's from the devil right and that situation i heard a sermon before tomorrow to buff it see you read that it looks like buffet but the buffett means to spar it means to strike yeah to be hit and so he was saying that something keeps me balanced yeah i'm facing this i'm facing this obstacle and it's in front of me not to break me but to make me as you said and when you get to the other side of it it prepares you for what's on that other side that when you gave that example of the king who plays the uh the boulder yes the stone yes and many people came to and they walked away they weren't gonna outsmart the obstacle they weren't gonna get past it but when they did he was prepared for what was underneath that because of what he fought for to get to it man and you say david you get there and you look at david david is standing there and he's looking at saul and he is sleeping and and then here's what the bible says guys he literally now not only assault sleeping but every his whole click sleep right 3 000 3 000 people knocked out where can you ever get 3 000 people to sleep at the same time it's dangerous to be in a sleepy circle yeah it's dangerous to be around everybody who sleeps when you sleep right you know who suffers when you suffer somebody got to be woke he gets there everybody sleep and and david says uh to abasha he says don't kill he says that which i said i'm gonna take him out he says please please please y'all anybody got a friend like please let me get them for you like let me handle it for you he said i'll stab him so good i won't have to stab him twice he's helmet get rid of him then he says all right check this out don't touch him wow just take his water and his spear now pastor hammond they are in the wilderness they are in the camp if it's two things i need in the middle of nowhere it's my water and my defense mechanism protection my protection the water's gonna keep me alive and the spear is gonna keep the enemy at bay and he took it and then the bible says he put some distance in between them and he goes to the top of the mountain and i'm paraphrasing he basically says saul i could have killed you i had you you were asleep but i remember what god said touch not my anointed come on and do my prophet no harm and the lord gave me a revelation jesus that here david is in the middle of nowhere and if it's two things that he also needs is water in the spear and i don't doubt he had his own water and i don't doubt he had his own spear but now he's got two jugs of water and he's got two spears and then the lord showed me that if you will spare your obstacle he will give you their supply is that why the bible says he will prepare a table in the presence in the presence of your enemy and there's something and i'm going to hand over to you sir there's something that that that dropped in my spirit while pastor was talking about the supply and all of that i i thought about the fact that one of the principles of david's life is however you get it is how you keep it if you have to kill to get the position you have to kill to keep the position basically i wonder why we try to kill judas when judas will self-destruct my assignment is not judas but we focus so much on judas and david understood i'm too close i'm too close to lose my composure and maybe that's a word for somebody you are too close to lose your composure over to user hello everybody my name is pastor keon henderson i am privileged to give leadership to the lighthouse church and it is giving time and we'd like to give you an opportunity to be blessed i want you to understand that we are incredibly grateful to all of you who give so regularly and you're in different parts of the world so god knows that you're dealing with all kinds of storms and mishaps especially at this time of year but i wanted to take a moment to thank you because many of you are so diligent to bring your offering to give your offering each week online and i know life gets crazy you know kids get sick and you're out of town on business and life just happens but i want to thank you 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is getting ready to happen in this season and when you give and you help us through benevolence to help somebody else and their life is blessed guess what paul says as a result of you giving god will allow all grace to abound to your account and i speak abundance and abounding to your accountant your checking account and your savings account your discretionary account your 401k your full 3b your iras i speak abundance to everything that you have investment in in the name of jesus do you receive it hallelujah amen i'm going to toss you back to tackle the text because you don't want to miss what these guys have to say next check this out i thought about what you said uh in the message you talked about how your hurt should be an instruction to you and and i thought about in that moment where his servant was with him and he told him don't kill him and there's some moments where we want to uh speak out of hurt when sometimes god wants us to listen when we're hurt because if he had so good if he had not listened he would have uh went against the anointed one right um and then i the lord gave me this to me that through the instruction of our her we've got to identify the content of the hurt because instruction is broke down to several things content process product effect and environment so if you identify the content of the hurt you'll go through the process and the process will produce a product that will affect your environment so david moved from the environment of being pursued to now he's in a place called ziklag and in the place called ziglag god delivered him and the bible said he never saw saul again he never saw saul again never saw him again and he's been running from him whether he goes to the cave of arulam he's running from he's been all of these places and this is listen guys this is the second time this isn't the first time this is the second time that he has been in a position to end his enemies but he never did he outsmarted this obstacle and the same thing to me pastor rhema is a type of christ because judas tries to get jesus killed jesus does nothing about it and the bible says that judas goes and he hangs himself well when david gets to ziglag the bible says that he never sees david again but we see david again in first chronicles chapter 10 falling on his own sword because every obstacle that you spare every obstacle that you outsmart will take care of itself vengeance is mine said the lord of hosts i will and so i i thought about david says saw i didn't i didn't even lift a finger and i could check my resume dawg like everybody i'm that guy everything tell me you've read the bible what battle did david ever fight with his hand that he lost never no one if it was solely outlived that if it was the philistines he outlived that if it was the ark of the covenant slipping off of the off of the oxen because he was moving it uh to move it to the house he outlives that he's survived his own son absalon he has he has survived his traditions attempt to get uriah murdered to get his wife he survived all of that illegitimate children he survived it all you would think that he would have it coming for him and somehow he survives i have to ask myself why why why didn't god kill him i can't see i can't see that david through action was any better than saul but here's what he could do because the bible says that he was a man after god's own heart so the heart was separated from the hand yes jesus because most of us are so emotionally driven that anything's our anything our feelings tell us to do we do so if it were you or if it was me and we see saul laying on the ground knowing that he tried to kill us our heart would tell our hand to stab him and we'd have allowed our heart to lead our hand but david understood that he watched this separated his emotions from his power let's talk to the people about not doing what they could do in response to people doing what they did do pastor i think in that same vein because he had a heart after god he had a mindset of if i spare my hand god will put something in my hand and we saw that that he left with the spear and the water and that was provision because he he had a change of heart and his change of heart allowed him to receive the increase in so if you don't use your hand for pain god will fill it with provision he he he got to the place where he didn't use his hand to stab the king and now he's carrying more than he can carry a blessing he don't have room enough to receive because he did the right thing with his heart his hand was blessed and i speak right now that if you do the right thing with your heart god will fill your hand if you allow your heart to stay pure god will fill your hand if you release somebody you've been holding captive because of unforgiveness god will fill your hand if you let go of the anger and the visceral frustration of watch this which they deserve which they had coming because of what they did to you god says i will fill your hand i prophesy filled hands lord to god and i prophesy healed hearts and it's gonna be a result of how you handle your hurt and how you keep the honor of the hierarchy god is going to do it i prophesied and i believe it get ready somebody just open your hands right now because i sense a move of the holy ghost that god is getting ready to bless your hand because of how you handle your heart in hurt go ahead man i was just going to say when you said that if he would have killed saul he would have ended his enemy but he also would have ended his process and god was not done with his process yes sir and for speaking to the people out there the moment that you try to end your enemy prematurely we know what happens with premature births you're released into the world before you have everything that you need before you're ready and the thing is is that your is that your process is preparation for the promise and inside of the promise there is provision yes sir and so we have to think about that being too eager to try to end something i would get into it but really trying to circumvent process is really just trying to skip submission please stay there go hold on wait come on we ain't got to go nowhere else because that's dope please explain what you mean is that when a lot of people we watch things expedited and we've talked about that we want things expedited but when expedition is pricey getting elevated is expensive and the thing is is that when you try to circumvent process it's not really the whether i think it's going to happen i'm it's not really i just need it now it's more so i'm wondering if it's going to happen or not so we're talking about the prodigal son so when you when you expedite process it's actually a reflection of a lack of submission absolutely jesus did y'all hear what he just said yeah this is pastor this is why the bible talks about jesus and what jesus didn't say he submitted himself father forgive them and after going through the cross we see him ascending and people think oh resurrection trans i mean but there is there is a pattern i'm seeing here because people with bad attitudes cannot survive high altitude and basically come on matt geez how the bible says he gave him a name that is above every other name and we see all of that oh we call jesus but we don't know how it came he didn't skip the process he didn't kill judas he didn't kill he didn't kill any of them and how you handle people you cannot stand determines you're standing before god and that's why god says i've given him a name he has a stand because he handled people he could not stand and so today we talk about jesus and we're but we don't understand like you said he did not skip the submission process let's let's talk about not skipping the process i mean what we know about daniel how do you skip the lion's den what we know about the hebrew boys if they skip the fire what we know about joseph is skip the pit what we know about uh uh solomon had he skipped his process what would we know about david had he skipped goliath or the field or the sheep would we know about the list goes on and on and on and on and on and on what we know about paul had he skipped damascus what we know about ananias had he skipped out on paul there what we know about barnabas what we know about silas had he skipped the prison we could go on and on and on and on about how many people what if what if the process is the promotion yes not not the outcome but the process what if the journey is what god is using to get us there and not the end result what if it was mount sinai that helps us know about isaac and not the fact that he was abraham's son we didn't nobody nobody would know about him we would still be talking about ishmael your process elevates you that's what made isaac more important than ishmael because ishmael was born first but the reason why isaac was the only son is because of process because of process because of what he'd gone through here is israel the illegitimate child but that was his father's process it wasn't his and he is not the promised son now we have isaac who comes afterwards and look his process he's born from two aged parents come on look at his process he's taken up to a mountain with no sacrifice process his father has to put a knife to his neck process and i don't know about you but if somebody puts a knife to my neck they don't get to call me son after they take it away but he understood it was processed so he went up the mountain of sun and he came down the mountain of sun and i'm afraid that we're dealing with the generation that because it hurt going up we change our attitude coming down and god is calling us to understand what we're going through so that we are the same going up as we are coming down and i don't know who i'm talking to today but he is the same god when you are based and when he is abounding he's the same god when you're rich and when you're poor he's the same god in a sleep number bed and in a hospital bed and i don't know who i'm talking to but he's god on the bus and he's god in the bentley you got to know he's god going up the mountain and know he's god coming down the mountain he's the same yesterday today and forevermore don't allow your process to change how you view your god don't allow what you're going through to make you differentiate and misdefine who your god is he is god with a knife to your neck and he is god when manna is falling in the wilderness he's god all by himself and beside him there is no other david had the ability to know his promise irregardless of his process and i think it's a message for every one of us and every one of you walking that what you are dealing with is not pain it's process it's instruction it's god's way of pointing you into the direction of your expected end the level of my pastor rhema the level of my altitude is determined by my attitude how do you act in high places how do you respond in low moments i know what you do when somebody say we're friends but what do you do when the friend betrays you and what do you do when the friend denies you three times before the rooster crows if you're immature you say we're not friends anymore if you're mature you say would you preach pentecost for me when is the last time you sent an invitation to somebody who gave you isolation when is the last time you've cared for somebody in spite of them trying to you my god that's called outsmarting the obstacle yes conserve your energy yeah you listen not only in order to thank you holy ghost in order to outsmart in an obstacle you not only have to conserve your energy but you have to keep your creativity you have to be creative enough to know how to treat somebody who's trying to kill you come on it takes creativity yeah it takes creativity it takes humility yes to be able to to stand after having done all you can stand to stand what do you do what do you do i hope that you have heard what they said because this is definitely the season for you to develop a strategy on how to outsmart your obstacle matt close us out he goes and he spares saul's life pastor hammond told us that subsequently contextually find out he ends up in a place called ziggler and i believe it was at that moment pastor hammond the scripture says that he never saw saul again i want you to encourage somebody because they don't ever remember a time in their life where they didn't see saul whatever whatever saul is for you your soul they listen there is a few thousand people who will see this and and and yea even tens of thousands they don't know what it's like not to have something breathing threats and slaughter over their life i keep saying so they keep seeing saul for some of them saw this insecurity and every time they go to therapy they they handle it but they can't get rid of it for some of it's depression they they they can kick it a little bit but it hops back on them from for some for some of them it's drugs it's alcohol it's it's promiscuity it's it's a lion's spirit it's gossip everybody's faced with the soul what do i do when i don't know a season without my soul my word would be to endure you have to be submitted and have endurance like you said there are they are eventually we all will eventually get to that place to where we see saul no more but we have to remain submitted and consistent inside of the process i say this and and i'm trying to harp on it because a lot of us we want to wiggle our way out and missing this process i feel this in the spirit missing this process will determine the level of the promise that we actually see and when you get to that promise if you didn't deal with this process you will lose everything that you need to steward the place that you'll be in david you will be saw if you kill saul listen oh my god if you don't see what it is gonna be like when you have that power because somebody will come after you absalom will come for your throne and if you don't handle this situation the right way if you don't get what god is trying to deposit into you if you don't work out what he's trying to work out of you you will be the very person trying to kill the one that you call son you have to be careful that you don't become what you despise yes listen i've got a pair of adidas human races one of my favorite pair of shoes i just i just can't get rid of them i love them they they're comfortable they still sell them and i i you know i could probably borrow a couple of dollars from these guys and get another pair but i want the ones i got so you know what i do every once in a while they're cloth i put them in the washing machine and and i've got a special detergent that's designed for shoes and i wash them and every once in a while i don't put them out to dry because sometimes i want to wear them the day i wash them so sometimes i just put them in a dryer the other day i put the shoes in the dryer anybody ever put shoes right here boom boom and all of a sudden i would hear it stop i would go to the dryer and recognize that the shoes have knocked the dryer door open so i would close the door restart go back in there door's open again close the door still got a little time on it in the process so i push the button because it's not dry yet and i realize my shoes don't know what's good for them they keep trying to throw the door of the process open the goal is to dry them but they can't stay in it long enough to get what i want from them but because i'm a good owner i keep closing the door and because i know what's best for them i keep pressing the process and every time the shoes open the door i close the door the shoes open the door and i close the door and eventually because i am submitted to the process and i am committed to giving the shoes more time eventually they get dry even though they didn't like it the whole time and that's what god is doing to you right now i know you want to get out and i know you want to escape the drama but god keeps closing that door because he who has began a good work in you shall complete it until the day of jesus christ don't you get out of that spin cycle before it's your time stay in that cycle i know it's hard and i know it's loud and i know it's hot but the longer you stay in the closer you get to your goal and when he has tried me i fought the good fight i kept the faith that's paul saying i stayed in the process and guess what as a result i finished my course you can't stop until you're done and god always ends in well done so trust me if all ain't well it's because god ain't done it will end in the well done out smart the obstacle and in every obstacle you ever face is enough to change your circumstance you can get through this you can make it through this i hope you heard the words of the prophets they gave you enough for life and that life more abundantly thank you for being with us on another tackle of the text can y'all come back one more week i mean just gonna have stick pictures pastor torrance might get me don't tell him i said it but if i just feel an anointing glory uh that's going through and pastor torrance is working hard right now that's why he's not here he's doing something else for me uh and pray for him he lost um a loved one and and he's um dealing with the grief of that but i just want to see if you guys can just one more tuesday absolutely we're good all right listen i'm gonna bring this same group back a week from the day and we're gonna tackle one more text and um it ought to be good i'm i'm grateful for you guys i'm praying god's speed over your life and nothing but his best and that god will continue to endow you with blessings you don't have room enough to receive thank you so much this is another tackle to text don't you forget to outsmart the obstacle wow what an amazing word we just heard do you know that when god gives you his word he gives you himself the bible says god is one with his word there there's so much power in what you just heard and i always like to say faith comes by hearing and hearing and hearing and hearing by the word of god so i want you to go back listen to this i bet there's something you're gonna hear that you didn't hear the first time because the bible says god speaks once but we hear twice listen what we're trying to do here is we're trying to serve you we're trying to we're trying to seek god's kingdom we're trying to expand this kingdom and and a lot of people want to partner with us they've been emailing us texting us letting us know we want to be a part of what god is doing here and we hear you and so all the details you need to give is on the bottom of your screen that is one way we can connect with what god is doing in this season but maybe you want to take it to the next level you just you just don't want to give you want to be part of what god is doing here and you want to join what we're doing here you want to be part of this body we also have ways you can do that all the information you need is at the bottom of your screen listen lighthouse is a place the bible tells us that lighthouse is a city set on a hill that cannot be heated that's what we are that's who we are i want to speak into your life today before i leave i want to speak a word of blessing over you that god's light will shine upon you that you will be like a city set on a hill that cannot be hidden that you will leave out the name of this church a lighthouse wherever you go you would dispel darkness and you bring the light there like we always like to say we love you and there's nothing you can do about it god bless you hey everybody what's going on this pk here and listen i want to tell you that i get so many dms so many messages of people saying pastor how can i connect with you i love your messages but going through youtube is kind of difficult where can i come to a centralized place we heard you and that's why we created lighthouse 2.0 lighthouse 2.0 is our tribe it's our 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Length: 61min 23sec (3683 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 09 2021