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Creflo Dollar - How To Have Hope When It's Hard

August 25, 2025 | S25 E206 | 28:56

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Taffi dollar: this morning i wanna talk about
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"hope when it's hard."
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Hope when it's hard.
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We're gonna look at david's life.
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We're gonna look at challenges
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That he was able to overcome and how he was able
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To overcome them.
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It's so important for us to know what we're supposed to be doing.
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You know, we are living in a new normal.
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We're living in a new dispensation that we've never
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Experienced before, the things that are taking place.
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So we've got to know how to navigate.
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We've gotta know how to move, how to make progress, and i
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Believe that there's a way to do it.
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But we have to begin to learn from those under the old
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Covenant, under the old testament as the bible says, and
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As a result of us learning from them that we can know how to
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Appropriate it in our lives.
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And so that's what the purpose of looking back at some of the
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Patriarchs and matriarchs from times past, because we can look
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At how they were able to move forward, how they were able to
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Deal with opposition, how they were able to experience victory
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In spite of the challenges that they dealt with.
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And so we know that there's so much hopelessness
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In the world today.
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There's so many things that could cause us to be in a place
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Of negativity, a place of despair, depression.
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As a result of the pandemic, so many people have gone
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On to be with the lord and so many things are different.
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So many things have changed.
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But you know what, thank god for him being the same yesterday,
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Today, and forever.
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So he is that constant presence in our lives.
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He is that consistent force that enables us to be able to trust
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In him because he has not changed.
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Although the world has changed and things are changing, maybe
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Some of your worlds have changed.
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Maybe you had loved ones, maybe you had things that were lost as
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A result of the pandemic.
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Businesses were lost, some people lost relationships, a lot
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Of marriages ended in divorce, and so there are a lot of
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Things, if we're cognizant of, that have changed.
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And so we want to look at how to have hope when it's hard.
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How to have hope when it's hard.
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Now, let's look in 1 samuel chapter 17, and we're gonna look
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At david when he faced a hard situation.
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Because i believe that many of you are dealing with difficult
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Situations, things that you don't quite know how to move
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Forward in, but thank god that he provides us with answers.
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He gives us solutions.
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He doesn't leave us stranded, he doesn't leave us in a place
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Where we're worse off than where we were before.
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He enables us to get into a place where we can have strength
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To move forward, and that's what this moment is about.
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That is what this season is about.
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Knowin' how to move forward when it's difficult, when it's hard.
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When you've been in a place for so long, then all of a sudden
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The rug just got snatched from up under you.
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And you say, "god, what is this?"
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And then begin to allow him to speak into our lives.
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And so, that's what david was dealing with because david was a
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Man who had a lot of experiences prior to facing goliath, and so,
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You know, goliath was a big giant.
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He was a big guy.
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And so, many times in our lives when we're dealing with things,
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These are things that seem bigger than life.
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Because they're unfamiliar, things that we're unaccustomed
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To, perhaps it may be a new thing, or perhaps it may have
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Been something that's kinda lingered from
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Generation to generation.
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How many you know the devil will begin to visit generations to
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Generations to cause that same thing to exist and to be
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Perpetual.
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And so in 1 samuel chapter 17, we're gonna look at this story
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Here of david and goliath.
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One that i know you probably are familiar with
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And have heard about in times past, sunday school,
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One of those bible lessons where he faced the giant.
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And we're going to face some giants in our life if we're not
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Already facing them right now.
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And so, verse 12 of 1 samuel chapter 17, i'm gonna read from
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The new living translation, if you wanna read along with me.
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Because david had to make the decision based on what was going
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On with saul's advice on whether he was going to do what saul
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Wanted him to do or what he was going to do based on what was in
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His heart.
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And so, there were many who were afraid of goliath, his older
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Brothers, the armies.
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They were intimidated.
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The bible talks about how goliath would strut around, and
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As a result of him strutting around, that it would put fear
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In the army and fear in people who saw him.
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And so, you know, there's that opportunity to either receive
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Fear and shrink back like so many had done in david's
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Scenario, or to begin to do what david did.
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So he says in verse 12, "now david was the son of a man named
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Jesse, an ephrathite from bethlehem in the land of judah.
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Jesse was an old man at that time, and he had--"
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How many sons?
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"--eight sons.
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Jesse's three oldest sons--eliab, abinadab, and
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Shimea--had already joined saul's army
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To fight the philistines."
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Some say philistines, some say the philistines, but today we're
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Just gonna say philistines.
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"david was the youngest son.
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David's three older brothers stayed with saul's army, but
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David went back and forth so he could help his father with the
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Sheep in bethlehem.
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For forty days, every morning and evening, the philistine
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Champion strutted in front of the israelite army."
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How many you know that is the devil?
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And that's what the devil will do, will cause you to try to
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Fixate on him and on his plan.
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Sickness, maybe to cause that sickness to just be right in
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Front of you and strutting back and forth.
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Or, you know, maybe a broken relationship,
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Estranged situation.
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The enemy wants to hold that up, to cause it to be magnified in
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Our hearts, to be magnified in our lives, to cause us to become
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Hopeless, and to become obsessed with that very thing.
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And so, that's what goliath was doing
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When he was strutting back and forth.
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How many you know he was trying to get their attention.
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And the enemy wants your attention this morning.
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He wants you to think that there is no hope.
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He wants you to throw in the towel, and he wants you to begin
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To think that there is no way that you can come out of that
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Situation.
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So it says, "for forty days, twice a day, morning and
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Evening, the philistine giant strutted in front of the
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Israelite army.
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So you've gotta realize that there is an enemy loose and he
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Wants to cause you to think inferior thoughts and to think
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That you are inadequate and that god's word cannot work, and
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There is no way that anybody can come out of this situation.
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None of your relatives have been able to come outta this
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Situation, nobody else that you know of, and so as a result, he
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Did this for forty days.
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Not just one day in the morning.
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I'm tellin' you morning and evening, you hear me?
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How many you know there is a strategy that the enemy was
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Tryin' to do at that time?
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And so it says here in verse 17, "and one day jesse said to
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David, 'take this basket of roasted grain and these ten
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Loaves of bread to your brothers.
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And give these ten cuts of cheese to their captain.
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See how your brothers are getting along, and bring me back
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A letter from them.
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David's brothers were with saul and the israelite army at the
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Valley of elah, fighting against the philistines.
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So david left the sheep with another shepherd and set out
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Early the next morning.
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He arrived at the outskirts of the camp just as the israelite
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Army was leaving for the battlefield with shouts
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And battle cries."
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Let's skip down to, well we'll just keep goin'.
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"soon the israelite and the philistine forces stood facing
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Each other, army against army.
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David," verse 22, "left his things with the keeper of the
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Supplies and hurried out to the ranks to greet his brothers.
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And as he was talking with them, he saw goliath, the champion
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From gath, come out from the philistine ranks, shouting his
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Challenge to the army of israel."
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So not only was goliath walking around, strutting around morning
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And evening for forty days, he was also shouting at them.
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He was shouting at the army of israel.
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And verse 24 says, "and as soon as the israelite army saw him,
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They began to run away in fright."
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And that's exactly what the enemy wants us to do, is to run
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And hide in fear.
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And that's what they did.
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It says, "as soon as they saw the giant,
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They began to run away."
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Why? because he was so big.
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Goliath is believed to be around nine feet tall.
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His helmet alone was like over a hundred feet.
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I mean, just humongous in terms of the comparison
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Between he and the israelite army.
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And so when they saw him, just in the physical,
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They began to think about how impossible it seemed
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That they could stand up against this enemy,
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That they could stand up against this giant.
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But you know what?
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David had something else in his mind when he saw goliath.
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And it says in verse 25, "'have you seen the giant?'
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The men were asking.
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'he comes out each day to challenge israel.
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And have you heard about the huge reward the king
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Has offered to anyone who kills him?
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The king will give him one of his daughters for a wife, and
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His whole family will be exempted from paying taxes!'
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David," in verse 26, "talked to some others standing
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There to verify the report.
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'what will a man get for killing this philistine and putting
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An end to his abuse of israel?'"
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So when you begin to face your challenges
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And your hardships and difficult situations in your life,
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You've gotta begin to think about bringin'
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An end to that thing.
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'cause you know what?
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If you don't bring an end to it, it'll just continue on and on
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And on.
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It'll maybe go to your next generation, or it'll begin to
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Cause an outbreak, or it'll be worse than what it was.
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And so david had on his mind how i can end this thing.
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And he says, "'what will a man get," he says, "in putting an
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End to his abuse of israel?
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Who is this pagan philistine anyway, that he is allowed to
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Defy the armies of the living god?'"
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David had the covenant on his mind.
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He says, "who is this?
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He's not in covenant.
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He doesn't know god."
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And so, it says, "david received the same reply as before.
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'what you've been hearing is true.
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That is the reward for killing the giant.'
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But when david's oldest brother, eliab, heard david
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Talking to the men, he was angry."
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He says, "'what are you doing around here anyway?'
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They saw him as the little annoying brother, eliab,
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'david, what are you doing here?
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Why are you here?
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What about those few sheep you're supposed
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To be taking care of?
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I know about your pride and dishonesty.
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You just want to see the battle!'"
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David says in verse 28,
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"'what have i done now?' david replied.
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'i was only asking a question!' he walked over to some of the
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Others and asked them the same thing and received
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The same answer.
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Then david's question was reported to king saul, and the
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King sent for him."
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Look here in verse 32.
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It says, "'don't worry about a thing,' david told saul.
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'i'll go fight this philistine.'"
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Think about that.
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All the older brothers, the eldest ones, the most
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Experienced, the ones who were trained, the ones who had the
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Knowledge, the equipment, the weapons to use, the artillery,
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Just all the things that had been prepared, but it was david
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Who chose to deal with the giant.
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And so, there are things in these last days that god's gonna
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Choose you to deal with that perhaps other people ran
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And hid from.
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Thank god for his wisdom.
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Thank god for his grace. thank god for his anointing.
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Thank god for his power, because i'm tellin' you, we're coming
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Into a time where it's gonna require the supernatural
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Assistance and the supernatural aid.
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God's intervening and beginning to show to covenant people his
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Ability in the situations in life.
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And so, it was david who made up in his mind when he told saul,
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He says, "i'll go. i will go."
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He didn't run. he wasn't afraid.
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He says, "i'll go." and then look at verse 33.
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He says, "'don't be ridiculous!'
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Saul replied. 'there's no way you can go against
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This philistine, david!'"
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He thought that david was ridiculous, but you know what?
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David had experienced god's victory in his private battles,
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So it gave him confidence in his public battles.
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And so that's why it's so much more than just, you know,
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Playing church and doing church.
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This is about going home, being at home where you know how to
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Win and you know what to do in your personal battles.
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Because people will try and talk you out of standing against
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Opposition.
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Because they've not stood against opposition, they don't
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Want you to stand either.
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As far as they know, it's never been done.
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That's just how it is.
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That's just what happened.
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But how many you know god has the final say-so.
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Factor god in the situations in your life.
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Welcome him in.
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Invite him in.
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Allow him in.
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Let him intervene, and not base the decisions in our life based
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On what someone else said.
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Because they thought that what he chose to do was ridiculous
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When he said, "i'll go."
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"david, you don't know what you're doin'.
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You've been out there.
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You're just here to be nosey.
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You're here to just watch.
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You're not knowing anything about what it takes."
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And he says, "i'll go."
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And he says, "there's no way you can go against this philistine.
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You are only a boy, and he has been in the army
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Since he was a boy."
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Even his youth was being addressed and attacked there
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Because of his age, and people will base and surmise your
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Ability and your victory on the age.
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And how many you know god's not looking at any of those things.
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God called a king who was ten years old.
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I better not get into that.
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God will use a donkey.
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God will use a jackass.
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God will use whatever he wants to use.
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He's not limited by age.
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It says in verse 34, "but david persisted.
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'i've been taking care of my brother--of my father's sheep.'"
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He says, "'i've been taking care of my father's sheep.'"
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He was a shepherd boy.
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"'when a lion or a bear comes to steal a lamb from the flock,
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I go after it.'" that meant he wasn't afraid to go after
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A bear or to go after a lion.
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That's somethin'.
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That speaks volumes right there.
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Because they knew they weren't willin' to go after a lion or a
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Bear and deal with those situations, but david was.
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And so he says, "'when a, a lion or a bear comes to steal a lamb
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From the flock, i go after it with a club and take the lamb
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From its mouth.
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If the animal turns on me, i catch it by the jaw
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And club it to death.'"
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So as far as he was concerned, this nine-foot
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Overgrown individual does not intimidate me,
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Because you know what?
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If i can deal with a bear and i can deal with a lion, i'm good.
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He says, "'i've done this to both lions and bears, and i'll
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Do it to this pagan philistine, too, for he has defied the
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Armies of the living god!
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The lord who saved me from the claws--'"
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My goodness. in his private time, he had a revelation.
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He had a flashback of what god did for him
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Out in the shepherd and in the field.
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He thought about that.
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He says, "'the lord who saved me from the claws of the lion and
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Saved me from the bear, he'll save me from this philistine.'"
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David saw victory in his private life.
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He began to get before god and spend time with god, and know
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His covenant with god.
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He reminded himself of what god had done.
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And then as a result, it caused him to have courage to face the
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Hardship, to face the difficult giant, to face what seemed
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To be intimidating.
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And so he says, "he'll save me."
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He'll save me!
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You gotta make up in your mind, god will save me!
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God will deliver me.
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God will heal me.
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God will protect me. god will do what he says.
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Creflo Dollar - How To Have Hope When It's Hard

August 25, 2025 | S25 E206 | 28:56

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