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Swim (Revival 2021) *Verses in NKJV*
- It has been great to be here every night this week. It is a special blessing from the Lord that we can publicly meet without fear of imprisonment or financial ruin if caught.
- Example: China missionary, persecution through technology and govt tracking, church having multiple meeting places/service times to avoid this. MUST be there to know when the next will be.
- What happens in these church walls does not need to stay in the church wall. The world needs this!
- While many in the world are dying for this, you get to live in it. Don’t waste this opportunity!
- If I asked you how to swim, what would you say? What if I asked you how to NOT drown?
- I could describe to you what to do, but something would be missing that you will only truly understand by being in the water. Knowing WHAT to do and knowing HOW to do it aren’t the same.
Example: USMC boot camp swim qual. Your choices are sink or swim, because staying out of the pool is not an option. They had instruction, and motivation, and desire, but some of them didn’t know how to turn that stuff into NOT drowning.
- Honestly, they should have taken time to learned how to swim before they got in that position.
- In the storms of life, you’ll need to learn how to spiritually swim BEFORE you get in the water.
In our scriptures, David was drowning under the pressure of losing everything. His home, his family, his friends, his victories. All the things he had been relying on to bring him comfort or safety.
- 1 Samuel 30:6 (NKJV), Now David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was [a]grieved (literally “bitter” over the loss), every man for his sons and his daughters. But David strengthened himself in the Lord his God.
1. You will default to your foundation.
- This is David. As a child he killed lions and bears, and the giant Goliath. The mighty warrior and leader, praised for his many victories in battle. The anointed, chosen, future king!
- David was described by God as a man after God’s own heart. He was a strong man of God!
- He is now in a long season of trials and relentless persecution, and his strength is running out.
- King Saul is on a mission to kill him. David won’t kill Saul, he is running out of places to run, and now he feels like he is out of options.
- 1 Samuel 27:1, And David said in his heart, “Now I shall perish someday by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape to the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me anymore in any part of Israel. So I shall escape out of his hand.”
- Wouldn’t this have been a great time to “strengthen himself in the Lord”, rather than run to seek comfort in the hands of the enemy? Did he forget that God is the deliverer?
- Example: My PTSD.
- My default strategy for going through hard times was to “grind”. I didn’t see it at the time. I would tell you to pray, seek God, lean on His strength… I knew what to do, but when the seas raged, I defaulted back to what I’ve always done.
- I had always been able to “swim” through it, but you can only hold your breath for so long.
- The biggest convicting moment was when my psychologist who is not a Christian, knowing I’m a pastor,
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Swim (Revival 2021) *Verses in NKJV*
- It has been great to be here every night this week. It is a special blessing from the Lord that we can publicly meet without fear of imprisonment or financial ruin if caught.
- Example: China missionary, persecution through technology and govt tracking, church having multiple meeting places/service times to avoid this. MUST be there to know when the next will be.
- What happens in these church walls does not need to stay in the church wall. The world needs this!
- While many in the world are dying for this, you get to live in it. Don’t waste this opportunity!
- If I asked you how to swim, what would you say? What if I asked you how to NOT drown?
- I could describe to you what to do, but something would be missing that you will only truly understand by being in the water. Knowing WHAT to do and knowing HOW to do it aren’t the same.
Example: USMC boot camp swim qual. Your choices are sink or swim, because staying out of the pool is not an option. They had instruction, and motivation, and desire, but some of them didn’t know how to turn that stuff into NOT drowning.
- Honestly, they should have taken time to learned how to swim before they got in that position.
- In the storms of life, you’ll need to learn how to spiritually swim BEFORE you get in the water.
In our scriptures, David was drowning under the pressure of losing everything. His home, his family, his friends, his victories. All the things he had been relying on to bring him comfort or safety.
- 1 Samuel 30:6 (NKJV), Now David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was [a]grieved (literally “bitter” over the loss), every man for his sons and his daughters. But David strengthened himself in the Lord his God.
1. You will default to your foundation.
- This is David. As a child he killed lions and bears, and the giant Goliath. The mighty warrior and leader, praised for his many victories in battle. The anointed, chosen, future king!
- David was described by God as a man after God’s own heart. He was a strong man of God!
- He is now in a long season of trials and relentless persecution, and his strength is running out.
- King Saul is on a mission to kill him. David won’t kill Saul, he is running out of places to run, and now he feels like he is out of options.
- 1 Samuel 27:1, And David said in his heart, “Now I shall perish someday by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape to the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me anymore in any part of Israel. So I shall escape out of his hand.”
- Wouldn’t this have been a great time to “strengthen himself in the Lord”, rather than run to seek comfort in the hands of the enemy? Did he forget that God is the deliverer?
- Example: My PTSD.
- My default strategy for going through hard times was to “grind”. I didn’t see it at the time. I would tell you to pray, seek God, lean on His strength… I knew what to do, but when the seas raged, I defaulted back to what I’ve always done.
- I had always been able to “swim” through it, but you can only hold your breath for so long.
- The biggest convicting moment was when my psychologist who is not a Christian, knowing I’m a pastor,