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One of the greatest battles that Christians are fighting right now is the battle that's

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fought in the mind, and it really has to do with fear.

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So today I want to give you a short little word encouraging you to not entertain fear.

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I want to start off with Psalms 34, 1 through 5.

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I will bless the Lord at all times.

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His praise will continuously be in my mouth.

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I will glory in the Lord.

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Let the afflicted hear and rejoice.

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Glorify the Lord with me.

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Let us exalt his name together.

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I sought the Lord, and he answered me, and he delivered me from all of my fears.

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Now that's an incredible scripture.

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He delivered me from all of my fears.

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David was an amazing musician, but he was also a very mighty, powerful warrior.

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And I love studying his life because I think a lot of what David goes through is a lot

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what Christians go through.

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He had a promise.

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He had a relationship with God, but he went through some pretty dark seasons before he

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ever became king.

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It just wasn't always easy.

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Let's look at Isaiah 26, 1 through 4.

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In that day, a song will be sung in the land, and I personally love this because it's about

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singing and about a song.

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We have a strong city.

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God makes salvation its walls and its ramparts.

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Do you know your greatest defensive weapon that you have is your salvation?

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It's the wall around you that enables you to walk in a place of protection.

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Your salvation is precious, and because of that and because of now who is in you, you

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have the ability to walk in a very dark and troubled world that is often filled with fear.

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That is your greatest defensive weapon, who you are in Christ.

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You are an overcomer.

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He has come in you to give you peace and give you victory.

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Let's keep going here.

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Open the gates that the righteous nation may enter, the nation that keeps faith.

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You will keep in perfect peace whose mind is steadfast because he trusts in you.

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Perfect peace, not fear, perfect peace because the mind trusts in God.

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Listen, there is so much craziness on the web right now.

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I have a very difficult job.

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I bet you do too.

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The world is spinning at times.

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But God wants to keep you in this perfect peace that he promised.

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Trust in the Lord forever.

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The Lord, he is the rock eternal.

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You know, when you walk in peace, you can walk because of what you carry in you, not

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because of you, but because who you belong to and who you are in him.

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You know, in the natural, there's a lot of things I can't do, but I know that God that's

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in me can do more and something better than I could have ever imagined or thought.

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I love this portion out of first Samuel and it's first Samuel 21.

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And here is King David.

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He's killed Goliath and the armies of Israel are just enamored with what an incredible

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warrior, wise warrior this guy is, you know, but he went through a very, very dark time

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when he was being chased through the desert by King Saul and Saul was out to kill him

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and destroy him.

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Saul was tormented.

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He had known the presence of God and the presence of God lifted and now he was tormented and

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he was coming after David.

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David couldn't figure out why is he chasing me?

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You know, why does he want to kill me?

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Have you ever been through something in your walk with Jesus that just doesn't make sense?

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Like why is this happening?

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Or God, I got this prophetic promise and now I'm going through this.

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Why hasn't it come to pass?

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Well, God has us all on a journey and that journey, we're walking it all out.

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And I can tell you firsthand that my timing is not always God's timing.

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It's his timing.

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and he knows best and he's positioning and putting things in place and in purpose in

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my life and I have to trust him.

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Sometimes you have to walk through some very difficult things just like King David.

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I sought the Lord and he answered me and he delivered me from all of my fears.

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God is good and he wants to walk through the difficulty, the crisis with you.

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The greatest testimony that you have isn't that you've had an easy life or that everything

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has necessarily been glorious.

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The greatest testimony that we have is that when we've walked through something very difficult,

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he's there.

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We walked through something and we came out on the other side and he delivered me from

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my fears.

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Why?

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Because I trusted in him.

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David didn't become a king overnight.

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David wasn't promoted to a position of leadership where he ruled the nation.

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No.

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He went through a very, very dark troubled season in the desert being chased by Saul

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who wanted to kill him and he didn't always understand why.

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Why?

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But God did something in his heart in the middle of it.

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God did something tangible in his life.

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He delivered him from his fears and he walked in a position of trust.

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Did the prophetic promise come to pass?

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Yes, it did.

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He became king.

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Did God have his way with David's life?

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Yes.

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Did he walk through difficulty getting to that place?

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Yes.

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Hang on to your prophetic promises.

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Hang on to the words that have been birthed in you, things that have been spoken over

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your life or your family or your children or your grandchildren.

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They will come to pass.

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Don't be moved by what's happening right now.

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Don't be moved by what you see in the natural.

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Trust him.

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He's good.

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He's going to walk you out.

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You're going to get to the other side.

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Why?

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Not because of what you have or you, but because of what is in you.

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He loves you.

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He has a plan and he will deliver you.

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I think we should all stand on this promise today.

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It's one I need to speak over myself.

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And he delivered me from all of my fears.

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Wow, what a good scripture.

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Thank you for listening.

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Have a beautiful day.