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Hey, good people, this is Torre Roberts. Blessings to you and welcome to the ONE Podcast. I'm excited that you're here. ONE is a community of dynamic and vibrant thought leaders, preachers, teachers, and just a community of wonderful people all together. And we're excited to bring you this weekly podcast from our Services from ONE in la. If you haven't been the One, I encourage you to check it out. You can go to One the Word one O N E online and find out all about the service times and all about the teachers and all the philanthropic things that we have going. I believe you're going to be blessed to be a part of it. And speaking of being blessed, we're getting ready to get into a teaching right now that I believe is going to bless you. So tune in, enjoy, and I'll be back with you at the end.
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First Samuel, chapter 30, verse 1. Stay right there. I'm gonna try to give you a little word. First Samuel, chapter 30, verse 1. Now, it happened when David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day. Things happen on the third day, okay?
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And the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag attacked Ziklag and burned it.
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With fire and had taken captive the women and those who were there.
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From small to great.
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They did not kill anyone, but carried them away and went their way. So David and his men came to the city and there it was burned with fire.
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And their wives and their sons and their daughters had been taken captive.
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What they had partnered with what they had produced had been taken captive. What they had been working on and.
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Seeing grow.
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Had been taken captive. Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their voices and they wept. They wept until they had no more power to weep. Anybody ever cried your eyes dry?
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Anybody ever ran out of tears? Anybody ever cry your own eyes dry? They. They wept until they had no more power to weep. That's. The tears flowed and then the tears dried up, and now it's just. Anybody ever wept that. Till you had no more power to weep.
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And David's two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail, the widow of Nabal the Carmelite, had been taken captive. Now, David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because now they were with him. Now they ready to stone him. Because the soul of all the people was grieved. Every man for his sons and his daughters. See, when it hits you, you'll pray for somebody else. When it hit them, you'll stand with them.
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You'll Tell them, I know what God's done for you. I seen him do it before. You'll remind them. You'll pray for them. You'll seek to strengthen them. You got faith in God. But when it hit you, their son, their daughter, what they had produced, what they were raising, what they were watching grow, when that's lost to you.
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They turned in their grief. But David strengthened himself in the Lord, his God Father. Great are you, Lord, meet us in Ziklag today. We know if you meet us in Ziklag, we won't stay in Zik. So thank you. Open our eyes to see our sick lag. Give us the bravery to look around and count the loss as it really is. Help us not to dissociate from it. Close our eyes, ignore it. Toxic positivity it. Spiritually bypass. But allow us to know where our zig is. Because if we don't acknowledge the destruction and the theft, how will we recover it? So show us. Strengthen us and send us in Jesus name. Amen. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Sit down so I can try this because. Whoo. This presence in here, this flavor of this presence is something. It's David. It's not King David right now. It's just David. The prophet Samuel has said that he will be king, but he's not king yet. He's just David. He knows who he's called to be. He knows who God said he would be. We don't really see him doubt it. But things go awry after he finds out what God's called him to do. Anybody ever had the scenery suddenly change right when you got that word about where it was going? Hallelujah, child. I used to have. I work hard on it now. I used to have a spiritual calculator. I didn't use it for good purposes. It really was a flesh calculator, but I called it a spiritual calculator. All in my youth, I would watch people receive words from the Lord. I'd watch them God send messages to my parents and my grandparents and men and women of God who I knew, knew God about the mighty things that were coming. And I've always been a scientist by nature, so I'm gathering data all the time. And I noticed that after those words would come, it would rain every time I sat there every time. And so when I got to a certain age and a prophet would come through the church and they would say, little girl, come here. Say what God was going to use me for in my mind, I'd whip out that calculator that sounds Expensive, because I watched and I wanted to consider what I thought was spiritual cost. I kept this calculator well into my early 30s when I realized it wasn't a spiritual calculator, it was a flesh calculator. Because it was, what is it going to cost me? How much pain will it be? What will be the difference? But this is the problem when, as children, we see things that we're not ready to handle. I just saw my dad, my mom, my godmother, grandma. Man, it seems like the harder they serve God. It seems like things are always going wrong. And I don't like. I'm not sure I want to ride that train. I was too young to understand. That's why when my children were growing up, as we were in ministry, I didn't tell them the hard stories. They were too young. They were just getting to know the good God. And a lot of times we as adults, we think that all of the attack is about what is happening to us because of someone else or because of the enemy. But there is always our God present who is working something out of our character, who is purifying us in fire. And so if I had understood enough to be able to see my parents as just a man and a woman with a history, with generational trauma, with their own character quirks and things that they needed refined in them, I would understand that they were being refined for grief, greater glory. But I didn't get that. I just saw them unhappy. And so I started calculating what will this cost me because I didn't know how to calculate the reward. I had the wrong math. Some of you may have grown up in some spaces, like mine, where it seemed like following Jesus was not the highest, most pleasurable road. But it really is about making us better. Even when the enemy does bring the attack, God will force good to come out of it. And one of the ways he does that is by making me better. And so David knows he is anointed to be king, but he has not yet officially become king. And in between there, Saul, who was the current king, who had appreciated David.
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Who had loved his gifts, got jealous.
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And became David's enemy. So David had to leave Israel because Saul was trying to kill him. And so he's running from Saul. 600 men are with him, 600 misfits, 600 people who told, chose to stick with what they believe God was doing. They're with him. And they went and hid in a Philistine city. Remember the Philistine Goliath that he had killed? Well, they went to Hide in a Philistine city. They looked to Israel as if they were actually the traitors that Saul was accusing them of being, but they were not. But it was a safe place because they were being called traitors. And so would they hide among the traitors. Then the traitors believed they were traitors. So there was this safe space, but they were not actually traitors because David was always looking out for the interests of Israel.
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And so he would go on military.
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Missions with these men on behalf of the Philistines, the king who gave them this town, this border town called Ziklag, to live in. He would send them on missions on behalf of the Philistines to go and kill Philistine enemies. And they would go on these military.
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Missions, but he would actually carry out.
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Missions that benefited Israel.
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Because he never.
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Stops serving the God of Israel. And so he's on a mission out there defending Israel, attacking Israel's enemies. One of those enemies were the Amalekites.
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And they got mad. So while David and the men were away on a mission, the Amalekites, who had been Israelite enemies for generations, raided.
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Ziklag, burned it to the ground, took all their wives and children and belongings and left.
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And David and the men come back. Now they've already had to run from Israel. They are wearing the traitor costume as a disguise. They're working for the people who are against them because they believe God. And now they come back and their.
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Wives are gone, and their children are gone, and their belongings are gone. And this little safe space that they.
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Thought they had is burned to the ground.
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What happens when the safe space you carved out, it's small, but it's been yours. That room you rented, that job, that's below your capacity, but at least nobody's bothering you. And your bills are paid that distance.
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From your family of origin where they can't abuse you every day. You might be lonely, but it's a safe place. It's small. It's too small for you. It's below your level, but it's safe. It doesn't reflect who you really are, but it's safe.
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And then even that gone. The job you have in the field you were trained for, and then God.
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Is allowing things to move you out of that, into an area where you feel called but not qualified. You were safe.
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Everything was gone. And so that's where this story begins. These men are weeping beyond weeping. And now that they're out of tears, their grief turns to anger. Grief is like that. It is sadness at its core. But that Sadness is wrapped in fear. And sometimes I believe it was CS Lewis who said that he didn't realize until he felt it, that grief felt so much like fear. And then when we are tired of being scared, we'll get mad at somebody, anybody, anything. Because feeling mad is better than feeling sad and scared. Because there's something about anger that makes me feel powerful. I can do something about it. I know whose fault it is. I can attack. And so they got tired of being sad. They were out of tears. They got tired of being scared.
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So they decided to do mad and.
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They turned it to David.
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And so now David is alone, not.
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Even having the people who had been with him in the wilderness place that he is. Ziklag represents this total loss of safety. It means literally that word, a place of pouring or pressure. It's a place where you are pressed out, twisted, measured and pressed out again. Sounds like a place where oil comes out of an olive. A place of pouring, emptying out and pressure. Ever juice an orange or a lemon and you try to get one more drop out and all you're doing is scraping the inside. Some of you, anybody feeling like that anywhere in their life, why are you still twisting this? God, there is not a drop of juice left in here. That's that place of pressure pouring out. That's Ziklag. That's where they were living, the Amalekites. Amalek, or Amalek means people who cause weariness. They were the descendants of Esau's line. Remember Jacob and Esau?
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Jacob tricked his brother, so he had.
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To father on his and took his brother's birthright. So he had to run. And Esau spent generations chasing him like I'm. When I said see you is on site.
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Esau generations, he had a.
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That was his motto.
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On site.
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These are his descendants. They are the descendants of Jacob, his brother's enemies. And so we have to look at them as this spirit of depletion, that what doesn't win in one generation will try and win in another generation. We'll try to win in another generation. The generations of your family, the generations of a ministry, generations of a business. There are things that just run. What is the calling Incomplete and another generation incomplete and another generation incomplete and the same enemy, they will exhaust you. So the people who cause weariness were attacking them in the place of pressure and took away everything that they had. Now, let's go back to that verse. We see this burned city. It says now, David was greatly distressed. He was in an emotional place of distress and isolation. And so he is under this pressure where the only person he's leading now is himself.
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Because you can't lead people because you.
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Want to lead them. You can't. You can be a leader, but the following is a choice.
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And so he was yet a leader, but the only person he could lead in that moment was himself. And so he had to look at where he was emotionally and he had to be honest about it.
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He was greatly distressed, great distress. So what does he do? It says he strengthened himself. That's what we call today emotional regulation. He needed to what we might think or call self regulation. That means I'm responsible for what's happening in my nervous system. I need to calm down. I need to allow the emotions to flow through me. I need to acknowledge how I'm feeling and where I am. Because if I don't, how can I make the right next move if I'm not honest about where I am right now? If I just say, no, not I'm, I'm good, I'm good. Let me just try to jump to the solution.
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You don't even know if you're facing.
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The right direction because you haven't been honest about how you're feeling. You have not spoken of your pain to yourself. And so you think, well, it doesn't really matter.
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Let's just get the job done. But you don't know what the job is until you acknowledge what damage, what pressure, what direction it is coming from. So he had to know. It didn't say he was greatly angry. It didn't say that. He said he was greatly distraught. He had to know where he was. But guess what? Self regulation, that works. We cry till we can't anymore. We jump, we shake it out. We journal. We throw something, we punch a pillow. We can do some things. That's some of our self regulation. And we believe that's our only option when there's no people around. But we were actually not created for self regulation. We find ourselves having to do it. But God didn't create an individual and be done. He said it is not good for man to be alone. It is not good. Not for just the gender, the biological male. It is not good for humans to be alone. He allowed Adam to recognize that. Let me jump to Genesis, where Adam was naming every living creature as God.
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Told him to do.
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And it says when he finished doing that, he did not find a helpmate suitable for him. God knew there wasn't a helpmate suitable for him. But he didn't know he was on his own until he looked around and realized it was once he knew he had something missing, then God was ready to fill the need. But you got to know. And so in this Western culture, especially where the individual is the king and the unit of measurement and not the couple and not the friendships, not the two or the three that are supposed to be that cord, two and three, we are looking at it that way. How do I handle this by myself? And if you don't know Jesus, then it might feel like that's all you got. But baby, I am always in a state where I can co regulate. Because in me.
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Never alone, I don't have to worry. I'm never alone. Never. I'm never alone. And I catch my own self sometimes thinking, okay, Anita, get it together. Instead of Holy Spirit, co regulate with me. See, my God said, I will not leave you by yourself.
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He said, I want to leave you a helper, a counselor, a comforter, a comforter and my Holy Spirit living in me. As soon as I receive Jesus as my Savior, I'm literally never alone. I have an internal comforter who will co regulate with me the way I was created to do it in relationship. I wasn't made to calm myself down. I was made to connect. And I'm never by myself when I know Jesus. And so David strengthened himself.
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How did he do it? What did he do? That word strength means strengthen, means to.
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Be strong, to seize, to take hold, to make firm, to encourage yourself. It doesn't say in that verse how he did it, but we can look at the psalms that he wrote.
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Psalm 42, 5. Why are you cast down, O my soul? See him tapping in. We not by ourselves. And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God. Did you see?
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He went from, I'm trying to self regulate my flesh. My lower self is saying, I'm on my own. He said, no. So why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God.
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Our challenge is we aren't always hoping in God. We're hoping in an outcome. We're hoping to get the job, the grant the part. And we hope for that. And we say, God, I'm hoping for the thing.
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And then when the thing doesn't come, that's why the hope deferred makes the heart sick. Because when you're hoping for a thing and you're looking at the thing, you're hoping for the positive pregnancy test after the third round of IVF and you already mortgaged your house. So this is it. You're hoping that this last trip Home, you're gonna be able to have that conversation that's gonna make a difference with your family. You're hoping that this next therapist is gonna get you the breakthrough that you haven't been able to get. You're hoping in a thing. And when that thing starts to slip through your fingers, you lose hope because it's in the thing. Hope in God. Because God never fails. So when you start losing hope, check on what your hope was in. Because my God doesn't change, my God doesn't fail. If I hope in God, then the thing that I was looking to see manifest doesn't. I lift up my eyes to the hills from which cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord. So I'm okay.
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I'm sorry. I gotta hurry up. I gotta hurry up.
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But.
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But somebody needed to replace their hope, get it replaced because it's not in the right place.
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You got it.
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But I need you to replace it. Amen.
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Then David said, when I remember you.
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On my bed, I meditate on you in the night, watches because you have been my help.
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He stabilizes himself by recalling God's past faithfulness. When you find yourself alone where your safe place has been destroyed and you were tempted to self regulate and you realize you have God with you, then remember what he's done for you.
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And finally, Psalm 34:1 says, I will bless the Lord at all times. His praise shall continually be in my mouth. This is that kind of worship. That's not denial. It's not a fake confession.
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You're just saying what you know is.
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True until you feel like it's true.
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So you just start talking because I've.
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Taught you many times, the only thing.
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That can stop your running mind is your running mouth. You cannot say one thing and think another thing. So your mind won't stop running, will start running your mouth. I will bless the Lord at all times.
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His praise shall continually be in my mouth.
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This is the victory that I have in God. I am the head and not the tail. I am above and bottom of the knees. Oh, I'm gonna bruise a serpent's head. In my life, I can do all things through Christ who strengthened me. The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want anything that come out your mouth. Just keep your mouth running. And your mind can't run enough way. You gotta say it till it stirs up your own heart. That's why the Bible says, hide my word in your heart. Because when I start activating those words, the soil, the seed starts to pull the soil, the seed of the word starts pulling water out of the soil of my heart that matches that word. See, a seed can stay in soil for decades and never burst open because the soil doesn't have what the seed needs. But when I get that seed of the word moving, it starts pulling water into itself, hope into itself, till it bursts open and starts growing. Honey, you got to let the word out your mouth. Once that heart shifts, new thoughts will grow.
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You cannot fix your heart with your mind. Heart is soil, seed is the word.
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Plant is the mind.
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Fruit is what you do.
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A plant doesn't make soil or the plant doesn't do that. The soil nourishes the plant. So you take a thought captive. That means you pull the weed out the ground. But if you don't do something about the soil being fertile ground for that weed, guess what's going to happen tomorrow? It's going to have grown right back up overnight because you didn't shift the heart space because you didn't want to admit that you were greatly distressed.
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Oh, this emotional awareness thing is not just for tiptoeing around through therapy. Baby, your emotional wellness is the groundwork for your spiritual power.
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Let's get back in the word.
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Let's get back. Let's get back. First Samuel, chapter 30.
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Let's go to verse seven.
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David has strengthened himself. Then David said to Abiathar, the priest Amalek, son, y' all know I don't like pronouncing all them Bible words. Please bring the ephod here to me. And Abiathar brought the ephod to David. So David inquired of the Lord, this is why you gotta get that heart direction first. Because if he just went straight to the solution from they burned down our place. My savior.
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Place is gone.
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Wives are gone, children are gone.
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The men that had been with me are no longer with me because in.
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Their grief they're attacking me.
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I'm alone.
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You know what kind of solutions you start thinking of from that spot so.
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You can't skip over how you feel because you don't realize what you're getting ready to do next. So he got into that emotion space, he strengthened himself, he co regulated with the Lord, and when he got that heart shifted, he, he called for the ephod and he got ready to talk to God. First.
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David inquired of who, saying, shall I pursue this truth? Shall I overtake them? He's sitting there saying, it looks like everything's lost. But once I strengthen myself and start reminding myself what the word says, I start getting a little bit Of.
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Whoosh up wood energy.
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You start getting a little bit like, oh, I know who did what, what my name is in whose mouth? What child of God, What?
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You start getting a little spritzy. And he said, I don't know if I'm willing to let it in like this. See, some of you have let a thing in.
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You let it in. It looked so lost. You said, I'll just start over somewhere else.
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Uh huh, Called it. You might even throw a scripture on it.
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God allowed this. He allowed this to burn down because it wasn't for me. God removed all these people from my life. She wasn't for me, these kids weren't for me. God was setting me free to launch me into my next good thing. So it's all burned down. They couldn't have burned it down if God didn't let them burn it down because so it must have been the will of God for them to let it down. If you don't stop faking God's character on your fear, you ready to quit because you don't want to do the thing that needs to be done. But after he finished encouraging himself in the Holy Spirit co regulating with God, he started talking to God. He didn't go yet, but he said he start feeling a little, but he still didn't move. He said, should I, should I pursue them? We have to ask God what to.
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Do about this thing. Shall I overtake them?
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He said, can I?
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Because I can get you.
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He said, shall I? And shall I?
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Because he wanted to hear from God. Now if the destruction of the thing, you have gotten yourself in co regulation with the Holy Spirit, you've gotten into your prayer closet, you are waiting and.
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You have asked God what to do.
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And he says no, let it go, that's fine. But did you do it from a place of willingness to fight? Cause if his answer to you you believe was no and that was congruent with where you were emotionally and mentally. PDA in a little mood today? It's all right. We have to be in a place to hear whatever answer comes because otherwise we come continue to have a relationship with God that is shaped exactly like the personality that we were born with. And so if you are an aggressive person, assertive person, a high risk taker.
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All you ever hear God say is jump, leap, run, do. And you ain't never in your whole life heard him say, sit down, be.
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Still, it's time to grow up little bit.
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If all you ever want to do is back out, lay down, be quiet, dissociate unplug. And you've never heard God say, get up and go. You might not have hit the next level of maturity, because you may have still been in your walk with God, where he's just kind of perfecting you where you are.
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But when stretch time comes, when grow.
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Time comes, when my salvation is at the stage where it makes me more than I naturally am. When do I get the super on the natural? If my salvation is always just patting me where I'm comfortable?
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Oh, Jesus. Y' all might not believe this about me now, but when I was young, German Jesus. I'm not younger now, but when I was younger, I was scared of a fight. I remember I had a fight in high school. I didn't have a fight. Somebody came to fight me. And she was the baddest one in the grade boy. And she came in my face, and I was like, this is not gonna end well. And she put her books down and she jumped. And, you know, I know some of you guys don't know this about me, but I grew up in a different community. And so, like, I was totally. Like. I used to talk differently. Cause it was a different place. And, like, the friends that were with me were not the same as the friends that were with her. And so she came to fight me, and this was not an even situation.
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And so she threw her books down.
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And her friends gathered around her. And I stood there, and when I looked, my friends were gone. Because they were like, I should get.
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The teacher, because this is not gonna.
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Go well for Anita and child. She swung at me, and I don't even know if she actually landed a punch. I think I just laid down. I'm not even sure what happened. I just was. That was it.
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And there was this other sister in.
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The grade who was a big, strong sister. And she picked the girl, jumped on top of me, and she picked her up and dropped her over here. And I scurried out there and made my way to the principal's office. And so they threatened to suspend us both.
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But now I got loud.
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I said, oh, you're not gonna suspend me. First of all, I have perfect attendance.
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My grades are.
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You're not gonna not fix it and suspend me. I ain't do nothing. Suspend her. So they suspended her. They came to school the next day.
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People was like, you think if that.
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Girl hadn't broke it up, you could have won? Absolutely not. I fooled down.
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Everybody see that thing on Instagram?
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I'm calling the cops.
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Officer Bradley.
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That's her right there.
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So I wasn't a fighter.
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Moral of the story.
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But most of people wouldn't believe that.
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About me now because at some point.
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I had to let God make me more than I was. Now I'll be trying to get back a little bit because there has to be a moment where you can hear something from God that is not congruent with what you want to hear, what you love to hear, what you wish to hear.
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And so before you ask him, come on, make sure you're in a place where you'd be willing to take either answer. So he answered him. David inquired of the Lord, verse 8. I was looking at my time. We'll see what happens. So David inquired the Lord saying, shall I pursue? This troop shall overtake him. And he answered him, pursue, for you.
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Shall surely overtake them and without fail recover. Oh, God sent me here this morning to tell you that you need to go ask God if it's time for you to pursue, if you should overtake. Because the answer on this morning is, God said, go pursue. You shall recover. Oh, baby, you about to make a full recovery. What was lost is about to be found. What was taken is about to be retrieved from your spirit, from your heart, from your mind, from your body, from your pocket, from your relationship, from your job. We cut everything. I mean, get you a list of every single thing the devil took from you, and you go get his tail. And don't come back with two things out of 10. Don't come back with eight out of 10. Don't come Back with nine out of 10. I got nine. I'm gonna find that 10th one. Oh, I'm not leaving without my stuff. Somebody gonna show me where number 10 is. I'm not leaving without everything. My God said to tell you pursue.
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For you shall surely overtake them.
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And without fail, without fail.
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What is the thing that you have.
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Not put on your altar of prayer? We have these areas that we pray for, and then we have these areas.
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That we just deal with, the things.
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We just do because we're good at them or we have experience with them, or it seems like it's within our reach to do. And so it hasn't hit our prayer closet yet. We don't hit it in our prayer closet till everything's burned to the ground. But what can you get into now.
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That you can get started? Pursuing it? Pursuing it. Pursuing it.
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That means you gotta do something. That means you gotta get up. That means you gotta actually initiate the change. You gotta actually pull the trigger. You gotta come on. Rack on around the block. Yep. You're gonna have to come back because you abandoned it before. There's something for you to do. But more importantly, there's something for you to do internally. Because you will try to make this pursuit the same way you do everything else.
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Because you want the environment to change, you want the circumstances to change, but.
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You don't want to be changed. I know. I know. That's not the one you wanted. She just was getting good, and now she messing with.
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Listen, with me.
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You have to stop running from your gethsemane moment until you have wept God, please anything.
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Until you let him break something and rebuild it so that you. No one would believe you were never a fighter or no one would believe you were ever anything but Zen. Aha. You're so calm. I just feel calm around you.
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You know, you used to be crazy. But until you lay and get started.
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And say, not my will, but yours be done.
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Not just the thing that I need to do, but the way I want to do it.
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Because we've learned to rearrange our internal furniture to fit anything on the inside.
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Without giving anything up so that we.
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Can get through the situation and come.
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Out on the other side the same.
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But it's time for you to come out different. First Samuel 30, verse 9. So David went and guess what? He and the 600 men who were with him because he gave them an option. You mad at me because you think we can't do nothing? He said, you got the wrong. We gonna do something.
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So the 600 men who were with.
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Him and they came to the brook basor where those. Where those stayed who were left behind. But David pursued.
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Now 200 of them didn't go all the way. David pursued. He and 400 men, they went further.
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And 200 more people fell off.
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Because, baby, everybody's not made to run the race all the way with you. You keep going where you're going, the people who have it in them are going to keep running. And he didn't stop to say, oh, y', all, 200 is fake, y'. All, 200 is weak, y'. All. He just kept going, baby. He probably don't even know when they dropped off. Please get over labeling your hate and labeling who left you and labeling who can't go in your next season. He don't even know when they fell off. He just kept going. See who's with you when you get there. Come on. This is kingdom work. We run and we don't stop. We endure for the joy set before us. And when I get to joy, baby, Because I'm a disciple filled with. With joy and with the Holy Spirit. When I arrive, I'll see who's with me. My God. So he left. He left. And so 400 men, 200 stayed behind.
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They were so weary, they were tired, but I don't feel no ways tired.
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Then they found an Egyptian in the field, a sinner.
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That is not me formally calling the people of Egypt sinners. And brought them to David. And they gave him bread and he ate and they let him drink water.
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And they gave him a piece of.
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Cake of figs and two clusters of raisins. So when he had eaten, his strength came back to him. For he had eaten no bread nor drunk water for three days and three nights.
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And David said to him, to whom do you belong and where are you from?
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And he said, I'm a young man from Egypt, servant of an Amalekite. And my master left me behind because three days ago I fell sick.
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So you worrying about who's left you.
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Who got left behind from you, but somebody else that got left behind from.
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Somebody else might be the person for you. Baby, stop worrying so much about where they came from and what their past was and whether they're everything on your checklist. Somebody else left them behind, but they.
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May be the exact person that's gonna join with you.
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And so he got there.
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He said, we made an invasion of the southern area of the chur of somethings in the territory which belongs to Judah, their.
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Names not worthy to be spoken.
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And of the southern area of Caleb. And we burned ziklag with fire.
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He was part of it.
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But then he found out that those aren't the people to run with because they'll leave you behind. And you're so busy looking at the fact that they maybe was on the other side at a time. But God is place someone in your path. And David said to him, can you.
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Take me down to this truth?
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Show me where they at. I have a very special set of skills.
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So he said, swear to me by God that you will not kill me nor deliver me in the hands of my master. Don't play me, I'mma hook you up. But do not play me cuz they left me and I'm mad.
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But don't you play me and I.
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Will take you down to this troop.
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Oh my gosh. And when they brought him down there they were spread out all over the land, eating and drinking and dancing with my stuff. With my stuff. Jesus.
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Because of all the great spoil which.
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They had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Jesus, Judah. Then David attacked them. From twilight until evening of the next day.
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They was whooping their behinds for 24 hours. They did not get tired. They was like, I got this. And they was like, here, you come in and got some water, guys. 24 hours, they did not stop. Maybe it was 26, I don't know. Don't come at me. It said from the evening till it was the next day. That mean they fought all night. When you wake up in the middle.
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Of the night, fight.
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Fight. I've given up on that. Trying to get upset. Oh, gosh, I need to go back to sleep. You know what?
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Fine.
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I'm up. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. I come against everything that's coming against me. I'mma walk this floor till I'm sleepy again instead of spending two hours scrolling and wishing I was sleep. If I'm woke, I might as well fight somebody. Oh, my God. You ain't woke up feeling refreshed till you spend half the night letting the devil no. Fight, fight. Fight. Fight. Jesus.
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Not a man of them escaped, except.
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400 young men who rode on camels and fled. So now David recovered all that the Malachites had carried away, everything that those.
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People who exhaust you had carried away.
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And David rescued his two wives. He got his people. Don't lose track of your people saving all other people. And nothing of theirs was lacking, either small or great sons or daughters, spoil.
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Or anything that they had taken from them.
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David recovered.
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Then David took all the flocks and herds they had driven before those other livestock and said, this is David's spoil. Not only did he retrieve everything they took from him, he took they stuff and brought that back with them. Stand on your feet. My God.
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Are you ready to recover all? Because I know every life circumstance is different. And there's some areas in your life where there's been loss, where when you ask God if that's what you should pursue, the answer will be no. But I also know by the spirit of God why he gave me this word. Because there is an area in your life that he is revealing to you right now where you are given the strength to overtake them and recover everything. I need you to reverse the quit, reverse the release, reverse the thing you gave up on. Reverse what you let go of. But don't bring it back looking like you imagined it because you had hope in it. Have hope in God. It's not just the money you lost, it's the faith that was weakened. Recover both. Yes. See that needs to be recovered more.
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You are powerful. You are not in it by yourself. Run after what the enemy stole. Don't look over your shoulder. You'll see who's with you when you get there. You'll see who's with you when you get there. Do not fear the unusual assistance that you encounter on the way. You don't know who or what God will use. Stay in touch with where you are so that your discernment is sharp. But God said, you will recover all. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I feel like that word was received in every heart in this room. I feel your heart open. You gave it. Thank you. I love having the opportunity to be a part of his work in your life, even for a moment. I can't wait to hear the testimony of what you recovered. Don't go and not tell us. We want to know.
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Hey, family. Well, I pray that you were just as blessed by this teaching as I was. I'm just so grateful again to be a part of a dynamic community full of love, full of revelation and wisdom. One has been a movement that's been blessing people for over two decades, and I'm so glad that you got an opportunity to experience it. I also have a podcast called the called it's right here on wherever you're listening to this Spotify or Apple or wherever you're listening to this podcast. You can just look up the call T H E C A L L E D with myself, Terry Roberts. This is designed for entrepreneurs, leaders and business people. It's a weekly podcast and it will bless you. But hey, I enjoyed having you here. Meet us here next week. Check out the call. Much blessings to you. We'll catch you next time.