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Taffi Dollar - The Importance Of Not Running From Battles

August 27, 2025 | S25 E208 | 28:55

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Creflo Dollar | Taffi Dollar - The Importance Of Not Running From Battles | August 27, 2025

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Taffi dollar: and so, we have to make up in our mind, are
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We going to allow like the israelite army did 40 days of
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Fear, anxiety, intimidation to just parade itself in our lives?
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Or are we going to deal with the situations in front of us?
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Are we going to, like david did,
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Be willing to face it, be willing to confront it,
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Be willing to take responsibility?
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Taffi: so thankful for you being here this morning,
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So thankful for you who are tuning in online.
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I just believe that this is a time where we can just continue
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To stay full of god and to be in the overflow.
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I don't know about you.
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I'm learning the importance of just how beneficial it is to
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Keep your tank full instead of running around on e.
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How many of you know it's just such a peace in knowing that you
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Can be in a place where god is able to speak to you, god is
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Able to do things in your life because you're positioning
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Yourself and putting yourself right where he wants you to be?
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It's something about being full of god that puts you
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In the right place at the right time,
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Will allow you to have the right relationships,
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That will allow people to come into your life at
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The time that he's appointed for your life.
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Being full of god just causes our psyche and our conscious to
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Be awakened to what god is doing.
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And so that's what this time is about.
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This morning bible study, i just kind of tag myself in pastor
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Kim, pastor carol, the other ministers who normally do.
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And i just want to share some things
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Today that i think will help you.
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Last week we talked about you'll never win
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A battle you don't show up for.
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Anybody remember that, you never will win a
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Battle that you do not show up for.
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I think we talked about-- entitled it
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"hope when it's hard."
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And so we emphasize the importance of just showing up.
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That was what david did.
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He showed up and he was one that was equipped because he was
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Right there at the right place at the right time.
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You know, he wasn't in the shepherd's field, he was at the
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Battleground and doing what he was instructed to do.
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And as a result, he just began to walk in a victory that he had
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Never envisioned that day for his life.
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And so today we wanna continue on and we want to
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Talk about "why we run," "why we run."
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And i want to begin today and i want us to look at the
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Importance of not running from battles, the
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Importance of not running from battles.
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We all have moments in our life where we just may want to run,
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Hide, disappear, thinking that if we do
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That, that things will be different.
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But you know what?
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God wants us to learn some things today
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And get ahold of some principles and examples
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That we can look at and glean from.
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In genesis chapter 3, verse 10,
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This is an example of why adam and eve ran.
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God was looking for them, god had been spending time with
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Them, and he thought that they were in a place
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Where he could continue to spend time with him.
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But on this particular day, after they had
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Eaten from the fruit of the tree, god came
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Along and he says, "where are you?"
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And they had made a decision to move
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From where they were accustomed to being.
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And so many times in our life, we have to ask ourselves, are we
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Running from battles in our life?
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Are we hiding from situations in our life?
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I heard someone say that man is not what
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He thinks he is, he is what he hides.
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And so we have to understand and recognize where
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Did running from problems come from?
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And we can look at that in genesis chapter 3, verse 10.
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And this is where it all started in eden,
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When adam and eve failed god.
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When they ate of the fruit of the tree,
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They ran away and wouldn't face it or god.
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And so it is in our life that we can do the same thing.
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In verse 9, let's look at this.
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I'm gonna back up one verse.
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"and the lord god called unto adam and said unto him,
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'where art thou?'"
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Where art thou?
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"and he said, 'i heard your voice.'"
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This is adam speaking, "in the garden, and i was afraid, god."
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He heard god's voice, he was in the garden in eden.
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He heard god, and so in response to him hearing god, he says, "i
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Was afraid because i was naked and i hid myself."
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And so, i want to look at this in 1 samuel chapter 17 because
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We're going to continue on with this story here
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That we looked at last week as it relates to
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David when he faced the giants in his life.
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And we know in these last days, there are some giants that are
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Trying to raise their ugly head in our lives.
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It might be the giant of anxiety,
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It might be the giant of depression.
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It might be the giant of loneliness, fear, addictions.
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It might be anything that you could
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Be dealing with in your life.
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But i want us to look at what david did and how he responded.
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Because like i said, he showed up for the situation and he did
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Not run like adam and eve did from the situation.
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He did not run from the battle.
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He did not hide from goliath.
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The bible talks about how goliath would go around and for
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40 days and 40 nights, morning and night,
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It says that he was strut himself
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Around just to intimidate the army of israel.
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He would on purpose do this because of his size, his
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Stature, and because he was so big, you couldn't miss him.
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And so problems and circumstances in our life, we
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Have to decide how are we going to deal with them?
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Are we going to let them deal with us?
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Are we going to show up to the battle?
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Are we gonna hide and say, "the battle doesn't exist i'm too
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Afraid," like some of the brothers that david had?
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Or are we going to do what david did?
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So here in verse 24, 1 samuel chapter 17,
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Verse 24, look at what it says.
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"and all the men of israel, when they saw the man," referring to
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Goliath, "they fled from him, and were sore afraid."
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So we have to decide if we're gonna be like the men of israel
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When they saw their problems, when they saw the giant in their
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Life, they fled, they ran because of how big
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And how intimidating the situation was.
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So we have to make up in our mind, are we going to continue
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To run or are we going to deal with situations?
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There's the decision to either cover up like adam and eve did.
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They covered up the situations, they covered up themselves.
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When they hid, they were trying to protect
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God from seeing what was going on.
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There's this word of escapism
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And also there's this word of avoidance.
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So we have to make some decisions today on how we are
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Going to deal and address things that happen in
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Our life, giants that happen in our life.
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Let me read this to you.
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I thought i might just kind of start with this
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To kind of make it a little light here.
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"a father passing by his son's bedroom was astonished to see
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The bed was nicely made and everything was picked up.
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Then he saw an envelope prominently
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On the pillow, it was addressed, 'dad.'
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And with the worst premonition, he opened the envelope
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And read the letter with trembling hands.
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The letter said, 'dear dad, it was--it is with great
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Regret and sorrow that i'm writing you.
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I had to elope with my new girlfriend
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Because i wanted to avoid a scene with mom and you.
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I've been finding real passion with stacey, she is so nice.
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But i knew you would not approve of her because of all her
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Piercings, tattoos, her tight motorcycle clothes,
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And because she is much older than i am.
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But it's not only the passion, dad, she's pregnant.
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Stacey said that we will be very happy.
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She owns a trailer in the woods, has a stack of firewood for the
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Whole winter, we share a dream of having many more children.
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Stacey has opened my eyes to the fact
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That marijuana doesn't really hurt anyone.
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We'll be growing it for ourselves and
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Trading it with other people in the commune
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For all the cocaine and ecstasy we want.
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In the meantime, we'll pray for science to find a
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Cure for aids so that stacey can get better.
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She sure deserves it.
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Don't worry, dad, i'm 15 and i know how to take care of myself.
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Someday, i'm sure we'll take--we'll be back to visit so
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You can get to know your many grandchildren.
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Love, your son joshua.
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Ps, dad, none of the above is true.
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I'm over at jason's house.
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I just wanted to remind you that there are worse things in life
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Than the school report that's on the kitchen table.
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Call me when it's safe to come home.'"
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How many of you know we
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Can easily try to avoid and hide and cover up our problems?
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That's a way of us addressing and in some
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Instances thinking that we're dealing with them.
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And so, you know, this is something that i am learning,
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You know, as a woman, as a leader, as a wife, as a parent,
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Because these aren't things that i was taught.
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And perhaps these may be things that you haven't been taught.
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Just how to deal with opposition, how to deal with
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Problems, how to navigate through life.
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And so when we get over into the things of god and we recognize
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That there're going to be battles in life and obstacles
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And challenges and all kinds of things in a pandemic, how many
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Of you know we've got to begin to learn how
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To face these things, to face the giants in our life,
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To face the situations in our life?
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Just like david did, he faced the giant in his life.
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And so it is, we must face the goliaths.
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We must face things. and you know what?
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It's so vital that we understand this
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Important area of our lives.
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Let's look at some ineffective ways
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That people deal with problems.
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Some ineffective ways that people deal with problems.
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Number one, they ignore the problem
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And hope that it will go away.
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I'm sure that maybe the guys, the older brothers,
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The ones who were in the army, you know, for 40
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Days goliath, the scripture says that he strutted himself.
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He strutted himself, is what it says in
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The tlb translation, for 40 days.
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And so, you know, they probably just ignored him in hope--in
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Hopes that he would just disappear.
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That this giant would go away.
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That this problem would just disappear.
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And so look at what it says here in verse
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16 of chapter 17, verse 16.
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It says, "and the philistine
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Drew near morning and," what?
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"evening, and presented himself," not just one day, not
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Just every now and then just to remind them of who
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He was, but what is said twice a day,
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"and presented himself for forty days."
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And i'm telling you, that's what the
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Enemy wants to do in our lives.
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He wants to constantly bring things to
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Make them appear bigger than life, to make
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Them appear as if they are impossible.
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But it's so vital that we begin to understand that one of the
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Ineffective ways that people deal with problems is they
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Ignore the problem in hopes that it'll go away.
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Another way, look at verse 28 of that same chapter, verse 28.
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"and eliab his older brother heard when he spake unto the
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Men; and eliab's anger was kindled against david, and he
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Said, 'why comest thou down hither?
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And with whom hast thou left
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Those few sheep in the wilderness?
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I know your pride, the naughtiness of your heart, that
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Thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.'"
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Another ineffective way to deal with
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The problem is to minimize it.
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And it's so interesting that his older brother was more focused
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On david being at the battle and being in
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The--commenting about david being there.
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"i know why you're here.
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I know why you've come to be nosy.
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I know what you're doing," in hopes that goliath would be
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Minimized and that the situation would be minimized."
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Look at verse 25, another ineffective
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Way of the same chapter.
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Chapter 17, verse 25.
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Let's look at what it says here.
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"and the men of israel said, 'have
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You seen this man that is come up?'"
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They were talking among themselves about the
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Problem, about the giant, about this situation.
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This man that won't quit.
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He keeps coming out, not just in the morning, not just, you know,
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Every now and then, but every day.
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"have you seen him?
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Have you seen this giant?
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Have you seen?"
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And so they ask themselves amongst themselves, "have you
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Seen this--that this man is come up?
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Surely to defy israel is he come up: and it shall be, that the
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Man who killeth him, the king will enrich with great riches."
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And so another ineffective way that we deal with problems, we
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Talk about the problems with others.
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We talk about it with others like they did there.
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And then another ineffective way is we do nothing.
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We do absolutely nothing.
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And you know, i'm just being honest 'cause
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Sometimes we don't know what to do.
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Verse 11 talks about that.
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Look at verse 11. they did absolutely nothing.
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"when saul and all of israel heard those words of the
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Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid."
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They were dismayed, and you know what?
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They did absolutely nothing.
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And so we have to make up in our mind, are we going to allow,
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Like the israelite army did, 40 days of fear, anxiety,
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Intimidation to just parade itself in our lives?
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Or are we going to deal with the situations in front of us?
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Are we going to, like david did,
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Be willing to face it, be willing to confront
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It, be willing to take responsibility?
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Lord, i need you.
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I don't know what to do, but my eyes are on you.
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I don't know what's going on right here.
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I don't want to just ignore it because i know the more i ignore
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It, it's not going to change anything.
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The more i try and minimize it, the enemy just comes back with
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More and more darts, more and more thoughts to
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Try to get the attention over on these things.
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I don't wanna be idle and just allow this thing
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To just parade itself around in my life, lord.
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How many of you know, that's when you gotta go to god,
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And ask the lord to help me to
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Deal with the battles of life?
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Help me to deal with this situation in my life
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Because i've never done this before.
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Never been in this situation.
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So we have to make up in our minds, we have to be cognizant
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Of the need to make a decision, the need to not allow those
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Things to be bigger than what they really are.
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So one of the ways that we can do to stop running away from our
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Problems is to be bigger than your fears.
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Be bigger than your fears.
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I remember before the pandemic started, creflo called me and he
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Said, "i got a call from the mayor of south fulton,
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And he says we've got to cancel services,
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We've got to shut down the building."
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We cannot allow any more than whatever
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The number was at that time.
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And we were right on the cusp of our annual conference.
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And i said, "dear lord."
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This was like second or third week in
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March before, you know, things just began.
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Things were just kind of starting to happen.
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And it was this toiling between to cancel
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It or the decision to have it.
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Now granted, that was before any events were virtual,
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Before things, everybody during that
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Time was just canceling everything.
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All the major events were canceled.
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Music festivals, sporting events, everything was canceled.
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Anybody remember that?
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And so i said, "lord, i just need to not allow
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My fear to govern dealing with this
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Situation, dealing with this problem."
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And so i realized the importance of just being led by god and
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Knowing whether or not i'm doing what god wants me to do, 'cause
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I'm more concerned about pleasing him than i am anything.
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And you know, we had some things in place, thankfully,
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That we could easily pivot and make the meeting virtual.
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And that's what we decided to do.
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"god will save me, god will deliver me, god will heal me."
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Taffi Dollar - The Importance Of Not Running From Battles

August 27, 2025 | S25 E208 | 28:55

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