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from the book of Nehemiah. That's because as I was praying
the Lord put in my heart something a kind of a revelation
about the life of David and about the spiritual warfare.
So you know, sometimes you chase a rabbit hole what you call
chasing as a rabbit hole. I did that so ended up with this
passage. So the first time in chapter 17,
when you look, when you read how many of you are read it at least
1/2. That's that's good.
Congratulations. Yeah.
When you read through the whole chapter, you see the name of
Goliath only two or three times. I would say three times.
And initially it comes up only two times.
Verse 7, verse 43, one more time somewhere.
So but the name of David comes up 30 plus times, then the whole
story is not Golad anywhere. He is there, but he's called.
He himself calls it. Am I not a Philistine?
He calls himself a Philistine. He doesn't want to have identity
of his own. Am I not Golaya?
Am I not 9 foot tall? Don't have this, this, this,
this armor that I'm wearing? No, no, no.
He identify himself as a Philistine, one who is opposed
to God. The Philistines were opposed to
Israel, the enemies for decades and decades.
They just fought Israel. That's because God told them, I
am going to give you the land of the, you know, all the
Jebusites, The he was all kinds of hides, but seven different
nations. They did not drive them out.
And one of them is the Philistines.
They did not drive them out because they failed to drive
them out. They remain like a thorn in
their side, in their flesh, poking the mall the time for
decades. So sometimes that is
representing Christian life. When you are saved, you are not
100% delivered. You use certain unconfessed
sins, unconfessed issues. The history remains like a thorn
in your flesh, like the Philistines and keeps goading
you all the time. I am just wondering about this
whole concept. How does it happen?
Because sometimes when we hear
the gospel, it is not the full gospel.
We don't encounter holy God, we only encounter encounter a
merciful God, a gracious God. We talk about mercy and grace,
not about holiness of God. So we see people who are living
together, even though they are believers, they are trying to
meet people, live together, all kinds.
I am coming across every day all the time.
I wonder what kind of salvation they have.
Will not they will be in their in their body and soul if they
are compromising with sin because they are playing with
the holy God. They are playing with the holy
God. And that is the main problem in
the church today, all over the world, not just one church
everywhere, people forget God is holy and that's why there's
defeat in their life. So the name Philistine is used
25 times in this chapter, 25 times he is reduced to a
Philistine, A nameless entity, a just a Philistine.
And when, when we when you think about it, you know that's not
the story of a Christian. When you come to Christ, when
you come to God, your name should be heard again and again
because you believe in him and you do exploits for him.
But sometimes we leave like Philistine, our name is reduced.
No one hears our name because we compromise sin and devil.
And then these people were living in complete oppression.
Who Israelites? If you go backward sometime in I
think in chapter 13 verse 22, there was a battle between Saul
and his army, the Israelites and the Philistines.
But what does say 1326? On the day of battle, not a
soldier with Saul and Jonathan had a sword or spear in his
hand. Only Saul and his son Jonathan
had them. Is it a good picture?
Only King Saul and Jonathan have a sword to fight and no one else
has anything. Nothing.
Now this is purposefully the Philistines have oppressed
Israel so that they cannot have any of this armor or ambition or
swords or Spears. No.
Secondly, Philistines were having advanced technology.
They were able to mould, they were able to melt the metals and
cast them into different kinds of things, and they were black
spits. But these people, the
Israelites, had to travel across the border, go into Philistines
area and then they had to have their plows and mattox, you
know, axes and sickles, even the gold, you know the stick with
this pointy thing in the print, you want to poke the bull so it
will turn the right way or the left way.
You have to use the goat. Even that if the needs to be
sharpened, they had to, they had no one to do it in the nation of
Israel. They have to go to Philistine
area. This is a sad story.
And today the church is like that in many parts.
We are not equipped to fight the spiritual enemy, the devil, all
the time. Christ has paid the price.
He struck the head of the enemy, He crushed the Satan, crushed
the devil, crushed that serpent his head and overcome.
But the Church is living as if they have no ammunition, no
armor, no weapons, nothing. Jesus has disarmed, disparities,
powers, rules of darkness. He disarmed so that they will
not have any, no weapons they have.
They have no weapons. He stripped them of the weapons.
That is what Christ has done. But the church is living in
fear. Church is living in fear.
So now what is happening here is I'm not going into the whole
chapter 17 just want to focus on these few verses.
First thing that you see here is I mean David goes against
Goliath and what does he carry with him in verse 4948?
Let's read from 48. As the Philistine moved closer
to attack him, they would ran quickly toward the battle line
to meet him. Reaching into his bag and taking
out a stone, he slung it and struck the Philistine on the
forehead. The stone sank into his forehead
and he fell face down on the ground.
Everybody say forehead, What is it?
This area, forehead, very important area.
When I started studying this forehead, it just struck me that
the high priest used to wear a golden plate on his turban which
says Holy to the Lord. It will cover his forehead, holy
to the Lord. And when the high priest is
putting on that plate saying holy to the Lord, he is
consecrating himself to represent their sins before God.
He is carrying the sins of the people when he says he's setting
himself apart as a holy to the Lord.
And that is what Jesus did. He became the high priest,
taking our sins on Him. Secondly, the forehead is the
place where the enemy is going. In the book of Ezekiel, before
the judgment came, God said to an Angel, go to Jerusalem and I
put a mark on everybodys forehead who is vexed by the sin
in the city, in Jerusalem. If we are going to be unhappy
with sin that's in the community, in the city, in the
nation, then we, you are going to receive that mark.
You know in the book of Ezekiel it says put a Tau.
Tau is the last letter of Hebrew letter Tau, which is looks like
an X of English letter X. So there is a mark of X put on
their forehead. There is a mark.
And Jeremiah says you people are looking like a brazen, shameless
prostitute because you are putting the mark on your
forehead. What?
What do people see? That's the question is what does
devil see? People may not be able to see,
but devil sees some. Once there was a man who came
into the church and the pastor was able to look at that man and
call him out and say, I see bottles on your face.
You are a drunkard, come out and God want to say, Tiffany, the
point is human beings cannot see what is on your forehead.
God sees and the devil sees. What does the devil see in your
forehead? Does it say set apart, holy to
the Lord? If it is not holy to the Lord,
it's going to be something else, something else, which is not a
very pleasant thing. So we should be set apart for
God. So what is happening here?
When Goliath was coming, he was completely covered with the
armor. He had a helmet that was
weighing certain kilos and then he had a coat of mail, that's
what it is called, coat of mail that is covering his whole chest
and everything, abdomen area and all that, so that no sword can
hit and kill him on the body. What was the weight of coat of
mail? 57 kilos?
How many if that bakota melt on you will you get up from sitting
down when you are you able to stand up?
And this guy had completely covered.
He had Greaves on his shins, TBL bone covering the TBL bone, the
calf muzzle from the front and the back, and he had footwear.
And then he was carrying a javelin and a spear and a spear
was the beam. It was like a wooden beam of a
Weaver, so strong and so big and weighing certain number of
kilos. And the javel, his head was
about 8 kilos. This is a massive guy and his
sword must have weighed certain kilos, maybe 10 kilos or more.
And when he is walking, probably you will feel earthquake under
his feet. He was completely covered and
protected and he's a warrior. And now here is a young boy,
David, who was a shepherd boy basically was keeping taking a
shepherd sheep and he was sent by the father to care for the
brothers just to get a news of them that they are doing well in
the battle. And that battle has been going
on for more than 40 days. Really speaking.
David arrived on the 40th day bringing food for his brothers
and gives it to the quartermaster.
And then he meets the brothers. Hey, everything OK?
Everything OK? And the brothers get angry.
Hey, why did you come here? I know you with your intention.
You want to really come here and to see the battle.
That's why you came here. Who?
Who did you leave the few sheep with?
You're so careless. You're lazy, irresponsible, all
kinds of things. This poor boy was hearing.
He said. What have I done?
I haven't done anything wrong.
I just came with food for you guys just to take the news that
you are doing well to the father.
Probably this is again, I'm saying, dude, probably what was
going on in the brother's mind is that anointing that took
place when Samuel came to their city or to their town, to
Bethlehem. And he calls for a sacrifice and
he calls for the elders, calls Jesse and his sons.
And then he, he, he wanted to anoint the next king because
already Saul had disqualified himself by disobedience.
And then he, he looks at the elder one, eldest one.
Wow, he's so handsome, he's so tall, he looks so powerful and
he certainly should be the king. And God said don't look at on
the outside because God looks at the heart, not on the outside
appearance. And he is, I am not selecting
him. The second one, the third one,
seventh one is done. And then he said, do you have
any more sons? I have one more David who takes
care of the sheep. He said hurry up, bring him
until he comes. We are not going to do the
sacrifice. And when he comes, the word uses
his ready face. Face was ready, pinkish with
youth, and he was so beautiful, rounded and the Holy Spirit says
to him, rise up and annoy, but he is the one, because he is a
man after my own heart. And Brother Bashar remembered
that you got anointed, but I was looked at, not God did not favor
me, but he favored you. But you are here with the wrong
intention. You are in the wrong place.
You are not supposed to be here.
But David was in the right place.
He was in the right place because God's anointing is upon
him and the story is going to change.
And then what happens is he ran towards the Philistine, not with
the sword, not with the javelin, not with the spear, but he was
running towards him with just a staff in his hand.
And that guy looks over and says, hey, are you coming to me
with just a staff in your hand? Do you think I'm a dog to chase
me away by a stick? He is a dog.
He's a dog. Whenever I see dog in my dream,
I know it's a devil. He's a dog and some people may.
Please don't be offended. Those of you who love dog and
keep in your home, I'm not talking against you, but
spiritually it is spiritually for me, I have never liked dogs.
Maybe that's my that's how I am wired.
And when I see in my dream a dog, I know something bad is
going to happen. So I pray and even after I
praying that goes something goes wrong and again I have to pray
to fight the consequences. That's how I have learned to
understand what a dog is to me. So here Philistine was a dog and
he was an enemy of God anyway. He was heart was against set
against Yahweh, the Lord of the Israelites.
His heart was set against it. And he says, oh, you're coming
with a stick, You think I'm a dog?
And then he took this, that 5 stones that he had taken, the
pebbles. Yeah, the pebbles that he
gathered from the valley of Elah, there must be a stream
flowing there. And from the stream he picked up
five smooth stones. He only needed one, probably
just about. He must have practiced the sling
multiple times, thousands of times, thousands of times that
he can swing it and hit a target without missing a hair.
Why do I put the Why would I bring the concept of hair before
the story of David? In the book of Judges?
You have 700 Benjamites who were able to sling us a stone and not
miss a hair. You put a hair on the wall and
you give him a sling, he can goes and hits that hair.
Sharp vision. I was just studying this sharp
vision thing again. We are, we only know 6 by 620,
by 20, you know those kind of things.
Some people can have 6 by 5. What somebody will see at 5 feet
distance, they can see at six feet distance.
And if you ask Seema, she can see the aircraft flying in the
air and tell it is Pan Am or whatever it is Jetstar or she
has a sharp eye. And that is the same kind of I
said the demand for the pilots before they are recruited
because they need to have the sharp eyesight.
So here is this man who was able to just took one stone and he
said, you know, what is the secret of David?
David's victory? What is the secret of David's
victory? Ask your neighbor, what is the
secret of David's victory? It is not ability to throw the
stone, is not his ability to any of these things.
He is the secret of David. He is his understanding of God,
who God is. He is the Holy One of Israel,
and God is a God of covenant. He called Abraham, and now he is
a descendant of Abraham, and he has such a great concept of God,
such a wonderful, exalted view of God, and he thinks that that
guy Goliath is defying, challenging the armies of the
living God. All these thousands of soldiers,
they have no such concept. Neither the King Saul has that
concept, nor the Abner, his commander had the concept, nor
the soldier had the concept that they are the army of the living
God. They have forgotten it.
But David knows that he is part
of the army of the living God. His God is a living God.
Secondly, David had experienced God's faithfulness in his life.
How did you do it? He's taking as a sheep.
He's always, every time now and then he'll be counting the sheep
probably if he has 50 sheep, 123456049 Where's the one more?
Where's one more? Oh, I see that lion is taking
that one and running after. He goes after it and then stops
it and the lion says, oh, I'm losing my meal.
It turns against Goliath, sorry against David, and David grabs
it by its mane and pulls it and then strikes it and kills his
bare hands once, twice, many times, probably we don't know
how many times. And he has rescued the sheep
from the mouth of the lion and the from the mouth of the bear.
He has done it several times. And he says, I know that my God,
I know that my God who has rescued me from the mouth of the
lion and the bear is going to rescue me from this Philistine.
So the private victory will give you confidence for public
victory. Everybody say private victory
gives confidence for public victory.
Do you? Have you killed a lion and a
bear? What I mean is figuratively.
If you have victories in the past, they will prepare you for
victory in the present. If you have victories in the
past, they will prepare you for victory in the future.
If you are not seeing the power of God in the past, you are not
going to see it now. You are not going to see it now.
It begins from the time you believe in Jesus.
It begins. You will, you will come across a
lion, you will come across a bear, and you will have to
defeat them. And when you defeat them, when
the Goliath comes on the scene, you know he is your definite
target and you are going to triumph over him.
And you have that confidence to say I am going to kill you.
I am going to kill the army of people behind you, everyone of
them. Your flesh will be given as a
foot to the birds of the air. Where does that confidence come
from? Knowing God.
That confidence comes from knowing God.
And when you know your God, then you know your destiny is going
to open up. But many Christians don't want
to know their God. They have no time to study the
scripture. They don't have time to obey
him. They have no time to pursue him.
They have no time to hear his voice.
They have no time for it. They want to do something
religious. What's the use of it?
I heard a joke about it long time ago.
There's a flight that is taking going in the over the Atlantic
and then the pilot says 0. Everything is going good guys,
enjoy your time, everything is fine.
Only to come back after a couple of hours and say, hey, not
everything is good. One engine has failed so people
started becoming uncomfortable in their seats.
You know what next? Don't worry, we have one more
engine that will take us through.
Then after 30 minutes he comes back again and says this, I have
bad news. The second engine also failed.
So all the people started shouting in the aircraft.
What were they shouting? Some are praying loud.
Oh, God have mercy on us. All kinds of things was going on
and somebody shouted do something religious, do
something religious. So 111 man got up, take off his
hat, started taking collecting money from the people.
We are not here to do something religious.
Let's not do something religious.
When you read the Bible, let there be awe in your heart that
says I am handling the word of the living God.
I am hearing His voice in the Scriptures.
And when you approach that word with that kind of a sanctity,
that kind of a high view of the Word of God, He will speak.
It will not go unattended. Call because you have
expectation that He will speak. OK, I have to be quick.
There's so much more to say and then what happened is for it.
Let us come back to the for it again.
King Uzaya. Yeah, it is for it is the right
pronunciation. Do not worry about it.
You have any different difficulty, just check with the
advanced learner, Oxford Advanced Learner Dictionary.
So British pronunciation for it. So King Guzziah, he wanted to
take over the responsibility of a priest.
He wanted to offer fire. The incense.
He takes the golden censor, puts scores of fire on it, puts the
incense and offer it to God. Job of a priest, he wanted to
take it on himself. And the priest come and say, hey
thing, you cannot do these things, don't stop me, I am
going to do it. And then suddenly what happens?
Leprosy broke out on his forehead.
Leprosy broke out instantly. And then the priest look at him
and say leprosy is on your forehead.
Run before we evict you, before we throw you out.
You have become unholy. You have become sinful because
of the leprosy. And he ran away from the temple
of God. Ran away from the temple of God.
He remains secluded. When you read the book of when
Isaiah, you will see 2 kings present.
One is himself. He had made a separate building
for himself, lived there as a leper, but his son took over as
a king. So you have two kings at the
same time during the time until he died.
So this is a judgment of God S the foreign represents.
Either you are in favor with God or you are under judgment of
God. If the favor is not there,
judgment is there. You cannot have any anywhere in
between, nowhere in between. And you know our experience
nowadays, whenever you are praying for people, sometimes we
see this in, in even among the Kiwi people and you know,
African, Chinese, we see Shiva, an Indian deity or devil.
We see him and his strong point is between the brows.
The strong point he, he thinks he has got a third eye.
And we put our finger in that place and say in the name of
Jesus, he's destroying a third eye.
Yeshiva come out now. And he goes, he goes and the
Philistines this guy Goliath had only 1 little space exposed that
was the forehead helmet is there on the sides is covered male of
coat of mail covering his chest. He got everything covering his
hands and then the feet and thighs and the chains and
everything is covered except this area little bit exposed.
And David takes the aim and releases the stone.
He goes and hits him there. How does it happen?
That stone, when you practice it quite well, can go at a speed of
100 mph. How much?
100 miles. And that is enough to crack the
bone of the skull. So it sank into the stone, sank
into his forehead between the eyes, and he fell face down.
Everybody say face down. When he fell face down, two
things are there. 1, he is defeated. 2 He is submitting.
Defeat and submission happens in one go.
That's what Jesus did when he crushed the head of serpent on
the cross. By his death he has defeated and
he has put the forces of darkness under submission to the
church. He did it for you, said to your
neighbor. He did it for you.
So the point is we need to know that you're not operating from
fear. You're not operating because
you're going to lose the battle because the battle is already
won. The battle is already won.
Say battle is already won. And when you have, when you are
fighting from that perspective, you're not going to lose.
You're not going to lose. When you fight from that
perspective, you're not going to lose.
And that is what the church has to know.
Every Christian has to know that you are on the winning side, not
on the losing side, not on not only winning side.
It is already won. It is the past tense. 2000 years
ago it's done. So we should have confidence to
tell the devil come out. It's very, very important.
Now the devil also uses the same technique.
He puts a mark on the forehead for those who belong to him.
In the end times there is going to be people who will receive a
mark on their hand or on the forehead.
And devil is doing exactly what God is trying to do.
And God says in the Book of Revelation, we read the Book of
Revelation, He says put a mark on those who belong to me.
So my question is, what is the mark on your forehead?
Does it say you belong to God? Does it say you belong to the
devil? There is no middle ground.
We need to be very clear in our
mind. We must receive the mark of God.
When you, when you are a child of God, God has mocked you
already. When you believe in Jesus by
releasing or pouring out His Holy Spirit into you, He mocked
you with His Holy Spirit. That is marking #1 and when you
are faithfully walking with God, He puts a mark on your head so
that they will cannot touch you. They will cannot touch you.
Do you have the mark of God on your for it?
They will cannot touch you. We need to be very sure.
This is the secret of David. I am not going into the battle
and all the fight and all those kind of things, but that is what
it is. Secondly, I start, I decided a
little bit about the stone. The Hebrew word used is eben.
Everybody say eben E BEM eben means stone.
Now this Pebble, was it made by humans?
Have you put the stick in there and rub it on a stone, make it
shiny, round and smooth? To know it's been coming down
from wherever it is flowing down the hill somewhere and the
stream is flowing and is water has been flowing over it for
decades and centuries and it has worn out the big stone into a
Pebble, small Pebble. What I'm trying to say here is
not made by human hands, not made by human hands, but it's
good enough to be a projectile to be used in a sling.
Because David was an experienced person, he could pick the right
kind of a stone that is going to achieve the purpose.
He picked up just 5 stones. Interestingly, there were only
apart from Goliath, there were four more giants during his time
and he killed I think one more or two more and others killed
other, other, other time during the lifetime of Goliath.
All five were killed. He was a forerunner of a giant
Slayer. He became a giant Slayer so that
others could become giant slayers.
The point is faith to conquer is I am looking for that word
contagious. When you see somebody winning,
when you see somebody throwing out the demons, then you get the
confidence that you can do it. We prayed for a young man last
week and another young man also was with with him.
So I told him after some time, OK, put out your hands, I impart
to you power to throw out the devil from the lives of the
people. And now you pray for that guy.
And when he prayed he was manifesting and the devil came
out, the spirit came out, we went to America, then we prayed
for a couple there and prayed for them for deliverance and
they understood the process. I told them, see this process
that we do for with you is two ways.
One to set you free, 2 to train you both in one go.
And now we hear that they were praying for somebody else to
set, set the person free and he was manifesting and that they
were able to cast out the demon. So this is what it is very
important thing is Omega knows how to do this thing in a simple
way. We do not have one more book,
one more volume like this. You have to read this big book
so you can cast out demons. No, it's very simple.
In the name of Jesus. OK, cool.
So we, you can see, you can first you experience it.
We can pray with you. Whatever problem you have.
You may say I do not have any problem.
Let us talk about it very soon. Then let us see if there is a
problem, then come, we are going to help you anytime, all the
time. Rather so the stone is not made
as human hands. That is, much before Daniel saw
a stone that is not cut with human hands, and a small stone
come and hit the golden statue, golden head, silver chest, you
know all different metals, and then fetal mixture of steel and
clay, it come and hit on the feet, and the whole statue was
evaporated, became dust and the wind blew it away, and this
small stone became a big mountain filling the whole
world. The word used is Eben is the
same ebon, same stone, what appeared like a small Pebble in
the hand of king. I mean, David has become a stone
that is not cut with human hands and that came and hit the golden
statue, which has erased every succeeding Kingdom, its impact
because it becomes a Kingdom by itself.
It occupies the whole world. God's Kingdom has come in Jesus
Christ. He is the stone.
Everybody say he is the stone and devil comes to tempt him and
says, hey, you are hungry, you didn't eat for 40 days.
Turn this stone into bread. He is the stone and He is the
bread. Where is the necessity to turn
stone into bread? Am I communicating here?
He is the stone, he is the bread.
There's no need to change. And the same Daniel who saw a
stone uncut his human hands come and strike the statue and
destroy it, was thrown into the lion's den.
And when they threw him into the lion's den, they urged that king
to come and place a stone on the mouth of The Cave thing where
the lions then and seal it with the seal it so that nobody can
save him. Nobody can secretly come in the
middle of the night and save him, as if the lions need many
hours to kill him. Foolish fellows, but they put a
seal on it. And the Jesus Christ of
Nazareth, when he was, when he died on the cross, when he was
put in the tomb, they made sure again on the stone they put a
seal, Roman seal. In the first case they don't
want to leave him. In the second case, they don't
want to come, don't want him to come back to life, or his body
will go missing. When you are committed to this
kind of a work, I am telling you, when you are partaking in
the ministry of God, when you are partaking in the work of
God, you are going to experience, taste some of
Christ's sufferings. And that's what Daniel did.
He not only saw the stone victorious, but he also saw the
stone become a stone to finish him off.
But God brought him out. God brought him out.
If you are a servant of God, if you are a son of God, a daughter
of God, your life is not ending in the hands of devil.
No, he doesn't have a final say. You have the final say and your
say is final on devil because Jesus has said already.
The question of all questions is, do you know who you are?
If you know who you are, you are going to be different.
You are going to be different. So the question again here is
this about the switching. In my mind, we are going to see
in the Book of Revelation chapter 22, verse 4, they will
see His face and His name will be on their foreheads.
We are going to see Him, Jesus Christ, and we are going to bear
His name on a forehead. Is there something to rejoice?
Can I hear Hallelujah?
We are the victorious ones and we are going to bear His name on
our heads. When you look at Him, His name
is honored and He has many names.
Who? The lion of tribe of Judah,
Jesus Christ of Nazareth, has many names.
One of the names no one knows except himself.
That name which no one knows, only Jesus knows, that name will
also come on here for it. I tell the whole week.
I had a great time, you know, meditating on the Scripture.
It's just fantastic experience. I am telling you every day I
would tell something new to John.
I said, did you come up with this idea?
I said yeah, as praying. This is what I see.
This is what I understand. I tell you when you, when you
read the Scripture, the Holy Spirit will teach the Scripture
and it is going to be different. You will not be the same.
Some people are groaning to come
to the Bible study. Oh, these questions are hard.
It is difficult for us to read, difficult for us to understand,
can't answer these questions. I tell you, you approach it
differently. This is the word of the living
God is going to change you, empower you, and when you come
with that attitude, that word will light up.
There will be light coming from the Scriptures will hit you on
your head that your understanding will come.
That is what we want everybody experience the ministry of the
Holy Spirit through the written word is what we are wanting to
happen in the Bible study. I tell you, there's life
transforming power there. It's not tedious, laborious
drudgery. No, that's not what we are
promoting. We are promoting encounter with
the living Word. So you see here, 1 cannot have
revelation without being involved in God's plan.
He had revelation, Dan had revelation of Jesus, Son of Man
and he was thrown into the lion's den and sealed that his
participation in Christ. Same way there will be
tribulation for his namesake. When you are part of it, you are
going to go through it. When you are part of it, you are
going to experience it. And this guy just a briefly I
want to say how world, how world is functioning in the in the
field of boxing. You know, before you have a
boxing match, everybody pays a lot of money.
Millions of dollars is generated. 30 minutes, 15
minutes, 5 minutes, 2 minutes, all the money goes, millions of
dollars just to watch the game. But before the you see the let's
say Mike Tyson is, before he comes into the ring, he's
exercising, he's warming up, doing things, beating in the
air, beating in the air. And you'll hear somebody like
probably you'll remember Muhammad Ali.
I fly like a butterfly. I sting like a bee.
I tell you, this is all nothing before God.
They will will do exactly the same thing.
And they say they go into something called beast mode.
They really become beast. And Mike Tyson, he said I become
someone I don't like. When he's getting ready for the
going into the ring, he's practicing it and he becomes
another man whom he doesn't like.
He is a beast. He was turning into a beast.
He doesn't like it to become like a beast.
And that is the sport you are paying for, to watch the demons
take over the fighters. And it is basically a clash of
demons versus demons. That's what you are paying for.
I'm sorry if I'm putting a pin into your bubble.
That's what it is all about. The point is, that's what the
point is. Same way we have to 1st learn to
fight our lions and our bears. Tell your neighbor we must fight
our lions and our bears before you take on Goliath.
I don't have any. I don't see any lion.
I don't see any bear in my life. Hmm.
Unforgiveness keeps you chained to past wounds.
You are chained, you know one side.
You see David is finishing off lion and the bear and the
Goliath and you have another person, Saul.
He's being taken over by a lion and a beast and a bear because
he starts to fear Davids fame. He starts to fear.
It goes into a kind of a fear mode because David became famous
by killing Goliath. So sometimes we think, ah, we
have finished off a lion and a bear in somebody's life, but he
pops up in somebody else's life. So you think of unforgiveness.
Pride refuses correction and elevates a self over God.
That is, pride yourself is more important than God.
Fear paralyzes faith and distorts trust.
Rebellion actively resist God's authority.
Boastfulness seeks attention, validation from others.
Judgmentalism elevates self by tearing others down.
Anger is like a bear simmering resentment that erupts under
pressure. Bear does not attack you until
it is provoked. It minds its own business even
when it comes face to face. You will stand there for a long
time. You do not do anything.
You stand there for a long time. You turn away and walk and you
take a stone and throw it and you are done with it because you
are provoking it. So sometimes it is like that and
anger is like that. Simmering anger, resentment, it
erupts under pressure. Bitterness, unresolved pain that
poisons joy, lust, quiet indulgence that erodes purity,
greed, subtle craving for more, never satisfied envy, Secret
comparison that breeds discontent, sloth, spiritual
laziness that avoids growth and self pity.
A deceptive comfort that keeps you stuck.
If you have any of these things which you only know in secret in
your heart, you have a lion, you have a bear to deal with, you
need deliverance. I would say you wouldn't need
deliverance. I would say what is deliverance
just to go free? What is not allowing you to live
for God? What's the point in living
another 1020 years with your lion and your bear and mis God?
What's, what's the harm in getting some prayer and say I
want to be set free? I have these problems.
Is there any harm in, oh, I have confessed it 1000 times.
Is there a harm in confessing it 1001 time?
Is there a harm in it? That is what we do.
We encourage everybody to be set free.
We want you to discover who you are.
God has paid a high price by giving His own life for you on
the cross. Why do you want to live with a
lion and a bear? Why do you have to live with a
lion and a bear? Oppressing you, suppressing you,
taking away your joy. You're seeing the children being
dragged away. You're seeing somebody else in
the family being dragged away. Somebody is sick, somebody is
ruining themselves. Why do you want to watch it all
saying no, no, I don't need prayer, I would encourage it.
I myself have gone through deliverance, my wife Sema has
gone through deliverance, our sons have gone through
deliverance, we have gone through deliverance.
Why? We want to be set free 100%.
We don't want devil to put his finger and say this area in your
life is mine. No, you are dethroned, you are
defeated, we throw you out. We are consecrating ourselves to
be holy for God. Every Christian is delivers at
some point or the other. How many years you are a
Christian doesn't mean anything. I will be a Christian this
October, nearly 48 years. I pray to God for anything that
is displeasing to you. Please take it out.
Father God, you are the
gardener. Jesus, your son is the wine.
I have a branch in him. Please prune me.
Take it away. Whatever is displeasing to you,
take it away. Where in the scripture does it
talk about deliverance? Everywhere.
John chapter 15 talks about it. First Samuel 17 talks about it.
Genesis 315 talks about it. When David threw that stone and
hit Golath on his head and he fell face down, Did he have a
sword to kill him, cut him to pieces?
No, he took the sword of the Goliath.
He he actually stand. He stood upon the body of
Goliath. He's trampled down snakes coffin
all the powers. Anyway you have the power.
Jesus said I'm giving you power to tread up on snakes coffin all
the powers. Anyway, do you use it?
Do you stand up on Goliath and tell him you are defeated?
I am finishing you today. I will draw your own sword from
your thing and I'm going to cut off your head.
I have to tell you, your adrenal will flow into your bloodstream
when you think of all those things and give you the faith,
give you the courage to deal with the devil in your life.
But if you are doing something wrong, sinful before God, you
don't have that courage. You don't have the courage.
Well, simple things can be to stop doing what is wrong.
Let's do things right. Power of God will come upon you.
Your destiny will change. David's private victories over
the lion and the bear prepared him for public victory over
Goliath. We need to begin to experience
the faithfulness of God, power of God in our private life, and
then God will promote you to victory in public.
Saul killed thousands and David killed 10 thousands.
He killed only one guy. He was busy with many other
things. He was busy trying to retrieve
the armor, take it back into the safe place and he was holding
the head of that guy. Normal person's head will weigh
something like 7-8 kilos, 10 kilos.
This Goliath must be 1520 kilos. He was carrying the head of
Goliath in his hand and probably the sword he used another 10
kilos. And how does he carry the mail
of coat and other things that belong to him?
It would have been he would have been running back and forth,
take something, go and hide it, go back again, take something.
And then ultimately he walks with that head before saw.
And then Abner says, hey son, come here.
Whose son are you? Whose son are you?
And he was in the lineage of the Messiah to come.
They did not know it. They did not know it.
And God wants you to be a king. God wants you to be a David.
And when he selected the shepherd boy, what?
One thing that God is telling the whole world forever and ever
is that he doesn't look at your appearance, doesn't look at your
background. He cares nothing about your
thing, but he's looking for all that is whether your heart is
for him. And if your heart is for Him, He
wants to lift you up and make you a king.
Question of all questions is, is God everything for you?
Is he your delight? Is your joy?
Is your purpose for your existence?
Is He your motivator? Is He the one who inspires you
to live your day? Is he the one who gives you
power? If you want your life to change,
surrender yourself to Him 100%. Let us pray.
Thank you Jesus, Rasha basare kanare barani manare
sundarasastakuruni. The Lord says whole Israel had
no idea that God is a living God of Israel.
Only one little boy knew it in this generation.
I am looking for David, says the Lord.
I'm looking for Davids whose heart is sold out to me, whose
heart is completely surrounded. Exalt me to praise my name, to
obey me, to be, to be feasting on my beauty and my glory, to
worship me, to praise me, to obey me.
I'm looking for Davids. If you want to be a David, just
stand where you are. I want to pray for you.
Rahasekarani Marani Sandharanu Samarasaste Kurasarono sharaka
sakte Samakarane Rasta kori Bandabara Sastaroni hora banama
shakare sanama Sandrano ro Jose kare Savastaro horaba Sandra
Vastakaroni. Until Jesus comes again and
breathes with his breath puts the devil to complete
annihilation and death. The war has not not going to
cease. The battle is not over and do
you want to be in this battle? Do you want to be this battle?
And the Lord says, I'm looking for David's father.
I commit your children before your throne.
They are responding to your word and they are on their feet.
And now I pray that you put on the whole armor of God that Paul
talks about in Ephesians chapter 6.
In the name of Jesus, put that helmet of salvation upon the
head and and our Father righteousness on the chest and
love built of truth on their waist and readiness of peace.
The gospel of shoes. Put the shield of faith in their
left hand and word of the sword of God in their right hand.
And I pray make them victorious in the name of Jesus.
Let them discover the power of the cross in their life.
Let them discover the power of the bread of Jesus.
Let them discover the power of the name of Jesus.
I pray for the revelation now in the name of Jesus, let them know
who they are, children of the mighty living God.
In the name of Jesus my Father, I pray that every lion, every
bear be put to death in their life and every every Goliath
that is good they are going to face.
Let them have victory over Goliath in the name of Jesus, to
the glory of your name. The time is coming.
The Lord says time is coming when all eyes will see when I
put the devil to death. We praise you our Father.
We await your coming back and I pray that you make us like David
in the name of Jesus. I pray that you fill them with
your spirit now start up, start up, start up that anointing,
start that anointing. Start the anointing in them, in
the spirit, soul and body. I pray that you start stir them
up, start them up, start them up.
Oh, I pray for the fire to come from your altar and to a light
up on the head right now. May Angel of God bring fire from
your altar and touch their the forest.
Now put the mark on the forest to the glory of your name.
In Jesus mighty name. We have asked and everybody says
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