Growth Comes From Stress === Ethan: [00:00:00] You are now listening to Growth Comes From Stress taught by Pastor Randall Crawford Senior. Please visit our website to listen to more messages like this one and subscribe to our newsletter at bethel house of truth dot org. Again that is bethel house of truth dot org. Enjoy the message and God Bless You. Pastor Randall Crawford Sr.: Good evening, I wanna welcome you all to Bethel House of truth this Wednesday, bible study special. We're doing a special today called Growth Comes from Stress. Growth comes from stress. If you could grow in your stress You are blessed. If you cannot grow in your stress, still got some growing to do. Anything that grows takes pain. It takes pain. It's a struggle. It takes strength to grow. Amen. It takes strength to go through stress. It does. So we're gonna talk about some things today YHVH wants us to know that we can't grow without stress. [00:01:00] The stress of a, a plant coming through the ground, okay? Very stressful, extremely stressful. Women giving birth, it's extremely stressful. An animal giving birth, it's extremely stressful, okay? But then you forget all about the pain and the hurt and everything that comes with it. Once that child or that animal is born, unless it looks like his father, then you got a problem. Of course, if you don't like that person, the mother, you got a problem. If you don't like that person, but in this sense, stress, we know it can kill you, okay? Stress can kill you if you ponder on it too much. If you worry about it, it can kill you. Stress comes every single day. Stress comes every single day, and you have to understand that. It's coming to you because of the world that we live in, because of the flesh that we live in. Because we have an enemy named Satan and he has workers. Okay? And we make mistakes in the flesh, we do. And sometimes our own mistakes [00:02:00] cause stress in our life. Okay? But I and YHVH and the Holy Spirit, we want you to know that it also shapes us and it grows us (stress). If we learn from the stress in a good way wisdom has done its job in your life. Amen. It has done its job in your life. If we don't learn from the stress, wisdom has knocked on deaf ears and knocked on the deaf heart and stress, okay? Stress will get stronger in your life because you're not growing and you're not learning from it. This is an important message. It really is. Okay. YHVH in life will teach us a lesson until we get it right. Okay. Until we get it right. You will, you will keep going over that same lesson until you get it right. Okay. And once you master that lesson of life, that all that stress that came with that lesson. Amen. Okay. Then you can move on to another form of stress. Okay. That's life. That's life in itself. That's life [00:03:00] in itself. Okay. You know how hard it is to be successful? It's extremely hard to be successful, and then it's even harder to stay successful. Amen. Then it's on to the next stress. Okay. Now, if you're stressed because of money or foods we eat, okay. Or certain things in your life, YHVH shows us how to overcome all these things when stress comes because of them. We should listen to the wisdom and the pain and grow, but your body and your mind and your spirit is suffering it's trying to tell you something. Amen. It's literally trying to tell you something and that's anguish that there's pain there's stress, something's going on. You gotta listen to your body. You don't want it to get too late when a doctor has to tell you. Amen. You don't want it to get too late when you're ruined because all you go after is money. You understand what I'm saying to you? If money is your problem and you're stress, okay, you'll never have it in abundance because you let [00:04:00] it rule your mind and your spirit. It and you do things your own way instead of YHVH's way. As we know in Malachi 3:7-18 God says, bring all the tithes into the house and I will bless you with the heavenly blessing. I will bless you with so much blessing. With so much blessing over and over again, and I will rebuke the devour, which is the devil in your life, and I will grow you and bless you. That's what he says in Malachi 3:7-18 we must discipline our minds to the money that we have. Amen. YHVH's ways are not our ways. You can't be disciplined unless you learn from the stress. Money causes you, okay. It causes you stress. But the stress, that money causes in your life, because you don't know how to do it. You don't know what to do with it. You're just a mess because your word revolves around it. I know people like that, and you lacking wisdom and you lack to do better in the word of God. You have a problem. You're gonna always have a problem until you learn from the stress. Okay? Money don't solve everything. Amen. It just does not, [00:05:00] you gotta understand that it makes things better, but it don't solve everything. Amen. It's the same thing with foods, the way we eat and the way we think about foods and the way we consume foods. Too much of anything. Too much of anything we take in or eat will kill us. Christ said it himself: all things of moderation. If food causes you stress, if life causes you stress and you turn to food, you got a problem. You got a serious problem. You got a serious problem. Okay. That's a common thing too. You must go to the truth of YHVH's word and learn from the stress of our, our undisciplined flesh before it's too late, and our organic bodies die because of our unorganic way of listening, and the way we never learn, cause we don't listen to our organic bodies. We don't listen to the word of God. We wanna [00:06:00] enjoy life instead of listening to a God has to say. Don't let stress bring you down. Life and YHVH and our bodies have a way of warning us and teaching us through the stress if you listen. But if you don't listen, if you don't hear, we die. Stress wins.. Stress wins, and that's a problem. Amen. It's a huge problem. So let's go to we're gonna start in Matthew 6 just some quick hitters. Let me give quick hitters so you get that Grand slam. Matthew 6:25. And it reads. Christ speaking, 25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life,what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, nor yet for your body what you shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? (Than clothing). Yes it is. That's way more important than that stuff. 26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. And ye are much better [00:07:00] than they? You are. 27 Which of you by taking (worry) fault is where fault is worry can add one cubit unto your stature? Can it? You can't. If you worry, it's not gonna make you grow actually it's gonna shrink you. It's gonna decrease who you are. Stressful kid you. Amen. If you allow it. 28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Why? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: 29 and yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Facts. God's creation is beautiful. Solomon had to dress up. God created his creation in beauty. 30 herefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, hall he not much more clothe you, ye of little faith? Have faith believe in God. Learn from the stress that you go through. Listen to what he's saying here. 31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, Wherewithal shall we [00:08:00] be clothed? Why do people worry about those things? It's okay to look nice. It's okay to want to look nice. It's okay to want to eat the best foods. It's okay to want to be healthy. Nothing wrong with none of that stuff, but it shouldn't be a worry, and it shouldn't cause you stress. It shouldn't cause you stress. See, the problem that I have with human beings, the problem God has with human beings is what someone else has someone else that don't have what they have, worry about what they have and it becomes stress. And then they put themselves in a bad spot in life and they go into usery and they just pretty stupid. And then you got more stress on top of the stress that you already had. 32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) The people who don't serve God? They seek that this is their life. This is what revolves around them, the themes of the world. 32 For your heavenly Father know of that you have need of all these things) 33 but seek ye first the kingdom of God. I live by this 33 and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Make YHVH and Jesus Christ and wanting the Holy [00:09:00] Spirit and completing the plan of God your number one priority. He's saying, I will add all these things unto you. That means through stress and everything, make them your number one priority. 34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought (take worry) shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. Did you hear what he said? He said, there's enough evil you don't need to add to it. There's enough evil. Don't worry about tomorrow. Live for Christ today and grow. In this holy name, tomorrow should never be a worry to you. It should never, ever be stressful to you. Trust God. I said you trust God. Trust your father. Trust that he's more than able. He's more capable than you think, okay? To move things around in your life, to make you not worry or not stress, [00:10:00] but the stress that you do go through, learn from it so you don't have to go through it again. Amen. Why would you put yourself to the same thing over and over again. Go to I Corinthians 10:1 I Corinthians 10:13 remember this verse. When someone come to me as a pastor, they're going through something. I go to this verse, 13 there hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: meaning everyone goes through what you're going through. Everyone, someone on Earth has gone through what you've gone through, and they understand exactly what you're going through. Okay? So you're not special. Okay? When stress, when, troubles of the world or things jump on you, or you're going through a hard time in life, it's not a special thing. It's a horrible thing, but it ain't a special thing. Don't say, don't separate yourself [00:11:00] from the love of God. Like, this only happened to me. It didn't only happen to you. Okay? It happens to people throughout the world, throughout the whole world. Learn from it, grow. Watch this. 13 There hath no temptation taking you but such as common to man: (that's mankind) but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it. That it doesn't stress you out. Amen. That life does not stress you out. You don't want life to stress you out at all because when you do you're gonna be stressed out, then you're gonna stress other people out, and your health is going to go up and down. It's gonna be a problem. You have a problem, and that's the truth, speaking truth to you. Okay, I Chronicles. I Chronicles 16:8. I love this [00:12:00] chapter. This is David speaking here in this song concerning how he, was on the run and how God delivered him, how he was so stressed out. He was so stressed out and God delivered him. He was so worried he didn't know what to do, but he knew who to go to. Amen. He knew who to go to. His name is Jesus. I Chronicles 16:8 8 Give thanks unto the LORD, call upon his name, Make known his deeds among the people. When God does something great for you, make it known. Why do people keep secrets? I don't understand why people keep secrets. Don't keep secrets. When God does something good for you, when he does something great for you. It's [00:13:00] from God. It's from God. There's a difference. It's from God if you ain't fabricating your own blessing, but if it's God, amen. A lot of people fabricate their own blessing. Because they want it to look like God. Then you call yourself a deceiver. Okay? You don't have to tell everybody everything you do, you just don't. But when it's something that's wonderful and it's already complete and it can't be, delayed by the devil or by one of his workers, (which is still the devil) you can speak of it. Amen. You can speak of it because it's already done. 9 Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him, Talk ye of all his wondrous works. Why? Why, why must we talk of all his wondrous works? Because when you do that, it glorifies him it glorifies him. It makes people want to trust in his glory and his holy name. Yeah, his glory and his holy name. And some people who don't understand this, they will take it as bragging or prideful. It's not bragging. It's not prideful, okay? It's [00:14:00] just you lack. And if you lack, that's your problem. Amen. That's your problem, but I'm going to glorify God. Amen. 10 Glory ye in his holy name: Let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD. If you're not seeking God, what else? What are, what are you seeking? Trouble, trouble when you walked in. If you're not seeking God, what are you seeking Trouble. If you're not seeking God, what are you seeking for work? If you're not seeking God in Christ, what are you seeking? Stress. You're seeking all their own things. 11. Seek the Lord YHVH and his strength. Seek his face continually. 12 Remember his marvelous works that he hath done. His wonders and the judgments of his mouth; Every promise. 13 O ye seed of Israel his servant, Ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones. (His elect. This is to you).[00:15:00] 14 He is the LORD our God; His judgments are in all the earth. Look around you. 15 Be ye mindful always of his covenant; The word which he commanded to a thousand generations; To a thousand generations. That means even past your generation. 16 Even of the covenant which he made with Abraham, And of his oath unto Isaac; 17. and have confirmed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant. Jesus Christ would come. He has, he did, he rose. He's returning at the seventh trump, not the sixth, the seventh. 18 Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance; 19 when you were, but a few, Even a few and strangers in it. I [00:16:00] decided to give it to you. It doesn't belong to the Muslims, it belongs to Israel. This is what they're fighting over the dome. This is clear right here, who it belongs to. 20 And when they went from nation to nation, And from one kingdom to another people; 21 he suffered no man to do them wrong: he reproved kings for their sakes, He moves, God moves things around. What is he saying here? When you're stressed, he comes in. When you're stressed, he comes in. It doesn't matter if it's a kingdom stressing you out, okay? He comes in and he moves things around to be in your favor. Glory to God. 22 Saying, Touch not mine anointed, And do my prophets no harm. But you gotta be his anointed. You gotta be his prophet. You gotta be one that loves him. Amen. 23 Sing unto the LORD, all the earth; Shew forth from day to day his salvation. 24 Declare his glory among the heathen. Among the heathen, those people who do not serve him, you declare his goodness and his [00:17:00] marvelousness, that's not even the word. 24 His marvelous works among all the nations. 25 For great is the LORD YHVH and greatly to be praised. He also is to be feared above all gods. And in my book, there is no other God. But you have heathens. You have people who don't serve God. And guess what? Guess what? They believe their god is God. And God saying right here, he saying it right here, 25 for great is the LORD YHVH and greatly to be praised. He also is to be feared above all gods. But all the gods of the people are idols. But the Lord YHVH made the heavens. Amen. Amen. And he did. No, no one else. No other God can take that claim, only God. 26 Glory and honour are in his presence; Strength and gladness are in his place. You hear what he's saying? Did he say stress? Did he say Stress? So I want you to, I want you to say something here. What happens when stress comes up? [00:18:00] What happens? Why is stress? Why is stress present in your life? Why? Because we allow it to be there, right? Because you think it's normal, right? It's not normal. It's not a normal thing. It's not a normal thing. When you're in God, it's not a normal thing. Happiness, joy, and peace, love, that should be what's dwelling inside of you. A little version of me that's what should be dwelling inside of you. Amen. That's exactly what should be dwelling inside of you, and that's the truth. Okay? A version of our Father, of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, the fruits of the spirit. Stress comes from the devil. Stress comes from your undisciplined self. Stress comes from you not listening to your organic body. Stress comes from you being undisciplined. Second just adds to it. He just adds to it. Watch this. I love this verse. 27 Glory and honour are in his presence; Strength and gladness are in his place. 28 Give unto the LORD YHVH, ye kindreds of the people, Give unto the LORD [00:19:00] YHVH glory Give unto the LORD YHVH the glory due unto his name: I added that holy name, but it is holy. 28 Bring a offering and come before him. Worship the Lord, ve and the beauty of his holiness. There it is. And the beauty of his holiness. You don't come to God's stress, but people do go to God's stress. This is why God, this is why repentance and salvation is so amazing because God tells us, he says, yes, you're gonna have problems in the earth because you're in the flesh, but that's not how I want it to be for you. I don't want you to dwell in those problems. I don't want you to dwell in stress. I don't want you to dwell in stress. Stress is bad. Again, stress will kill you if you allow it. If you allow it, if you allow it. If someone had cancer, shouldn't you learn all about cancer? If someone has diabetes? Shouldn't you learn all about diabetes? Right? If someone has AIDS, shouldn't you learn all about AIDS? If someone has a rare [00:20:00] disease, shouldn't you learn all about a rare disease that you have that's carrying inside of your body? If someone has a situation or that causes stress in your life, should you learn all about that and other people who go through the same thing, right? You gotta learn from the stress. God says, I'm strength, I'm joy. I'm happiness, I am peace. But when you cancel God out, when you let the stress remain, and you get an attitude and you be angry, and you be sad, and you be angry, and you be sad, and you allow the stress to win. You allow the situation of the stress to win you're gonna have a deeper problem. Cause now it's shaping you in a negative way instead of shaping you in a positive way. You, you hear what I'm saying? Right? If you hear what I'm saying, just say Amen. 29 Worship the Lord in the beauty of his holiness. There's no stress. God removes stress. Amen. He removes it. This is why we repent for the things that cause us stress. The sin brings stress in our life. Amen. Sin unanswered for unrepented for brings stress into our life. So we repent for [00:21:00] those things and we forgive people who do things to us that cause us pain. Amen. So you could be free. Amen. Hear what I'm saying? Here's your formula right there. His name is Jesus Christ. 30 Fear before him reverence him all the earth: The world also shall be stable, that it not be moved. God set things in order for a reason. He knows what he's doing. 31 Let the heavens be glad and let the earth rejoice: And let _men_ say among nations the LORD reigneth. The Lord YHVH reigneth and He does. 32 Let the seas roar and the fullness thereof: Let the fields Let the fields rejoice, and all that is therein. 33 Then shall the trees of the wood sing out at the presence of the LORD, YHVH, Because he cometh to judge the earth. When? When does this happen? After the millenium. Glory to God.[00:22:00] David was a prophet, by the way. He's prophesied 34 o give thanks unto the LORD YHVH;for he is good; For his mercy endureth for ever. Meaning there's nothing that you could put yourself through that satan can put you through. There's no sin that you could do that God will not forgive you for unless it's the unforgiveable sin. Amen. And only God's elect can commit that. 35 In say, save us, oh God of our salvation, And gather us together, and deliver us from the heathen, That we may give thanks to that holy name. _And _glory in thy praise. Hallelujah. 36 Blessed be the Lord YHVH God of Israel. For ever and ever. And all the people said, Amen, and praised the Lord YHVH. Hallelujah. Listen to what he's saying here just is gonna come because you gotta see Stress is gonna come because you're in the flesh, but it doesn't matter you. Learn from everything you go through. If you [00:23:00] don't learn from, you gonna keep going through it. You gonna keep going through it. Imagine just waking up every day, stressing your brain, stressing your brain, stressing your brain, stressing your brain, stressing your brain. Never releasing it. That's bad. That's the recipe for disaster. Is it not? It is. YHVH saying, when stress comes (and it will). Turn to the word of God, grow instead of folding, grow instead of folding. And just don't just lay down for whatever comes with the stress. Remember all of YHVH's wonderful deeds and claim every promise he ever made for heve is the promise keeper. He will never leave us nor forsake us. He's for you, he's for you. Understand what I'm saying to you. Understand what God's saying to you. Deuteronomy 31:6. Deuteronomy 31:6. What does it take to grow from the stress you go through from [00:24:00] life in this flesh? It takes strength. It takes God's strength. It takes obedience. It takes wisdom. It takes some understanding, okay? It takes trust on God's part, on your part to God. God's gonna do his part. How about you do your part? That's all you gotta do. Do your part. You'll be all right. Deuteronomy 31:6. If you have it say glory to God. 6 Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, Listen now, fear not. 6 Nor be afraid of them for the LORD YHVH thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. That's God. That's God. That's your father. It's your closest relative. That's God telling you that you're my child, you're my wife. I created you. You mean the word to me, I'm gonna make sure you're good. I'm gonna take care of you. Fear no one. This is Moses giving charge to [00:25:00] Joshua, and Joshua will take them into the promised land. And God's telling Moses to tell Joshua to be strong and a good courage. You are less than every other nation out there, but I'm with you. That means you are the majority. Amen. And it's stressful. Could you imagine how stressful it was for Joshua to take over from Moses with people who were unruly? Right? Could you imagine how stressful that was? Right? Could you imagine how stressful it was for the people that Moses brought out of Egypt? By the power of God, by God's powerful hand, and all his might and wondrous works. And how they wanted to stone him every other day. Could you imagine how stressful that was? 7 And Moses called unto Joshua and said unto him and the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou must go with this people unto the land which the LORD YHVH has sworn unto their fathers to give them and to give [00:26:00] them, and thou shall cause them to inherit it. What causes you to inherit the promises of God? Strength. Strength, bravery, bravery, faith, all those things. Faith, strength, bravery. Okay. And people like to make their own way, you know what I mean? That's fine. You make your way. Okay. I depend on God for everything, for everything. I depend on God for everything. Okay, now you have to understand this. That means I have to be brave. That means that when stress comes, I have to be brave in the stress. I have to be wiser than the stress, okay? I have to know that God has my back so I can step on the stress. Amen. Gotta be strong. Gotta be strong. You can't serve God and not be strong because then you ain't serving God. God is your strength. Have some eight. And the Lord YHVH here it is that th go before the he will be with thee. He will not fail thee [00:27:00] neither forsake thee. Fear not neither be dismayed. Do not hold your head low. That's what he's saying. No matter if you cause the stress in your own life. God's saying, I'm here. He's saying, I'm right here. If someone else calls stress in your life, God's saying, I'm right here. Don't hold your head low, okay? Don't get down to yourself. Don't be sad. Don't be angry, okay? Don't project your anger, okay? He's saying, I'm here for you. I've been here for you. I've been loving you, and I'm going to continue to love you. But I need you to be brave and I need you to trust me. I need you to trust me that I'm gonna pull you through. You gotta be strong and of good courage. You gotta be brave. If you just lay down, stress will kill you. You gotta fight in Jesus Christ name. That's what the name's for. It's the fight. It's all the power. It's in the name. It's in the name. It ain't enough that you say, _well, I'm a Christian. Satan, get behind me._ [00:28:00] That aint how it works. Okay. That's not how it work. That's not how it work. Do you know you can rebuke any situation? You can rebuke any situation. Not just someone trying to come at you, not just the devil trying to come at you, but any situation, if something's not working for you, you have the power in the name of Jesus Christ to rebuke a whole situation. You can't just lay down. Again, you gotta fight. In Jesus name for this holy name. We have the victory, V I C T O R Y. Right. Life will hand us some powerful blows, stress will as well, and so will Satan. Yeah. Three things, right? But we keep going. We keep going. Protos. Protos. We move no matter what the win, no matter what the stress, no matter what comes against us, we move forward. Amen. If we don't learn from the [00:29:00] stress that comes to us it will take over us. Amen. It will take you over. Strength to grow and to peel back stupidity. Listen now, strength to grow and to peel back stupidity if, if someone does something and it doesn't work over and over and over and over, and over, and over and over again. What is that called? It's called insanity. Right and wrong. Called insanity. You have to peel back all the stupidity off of your body. Off of your flesh. Peel it back. Just peel it back. Peel it off. Peel all of it off. Why keep it up there? You know you stupid. I know I'm stupid. Right? Peel it back. Amen. Peel it back. That's the only way you gonna learn. Peel it back. Peel it back. Thank YHVH. We don't have to do it alone, YHVH and Christ Jesus is our strength and our hope. Remember that Psalms 34. One more place after this when we're done. Psalms 34. Psalms 34:1. Beautiful psalm. We got David here speaking again. Watch this. And you know David. Mm. Yes, when ab Beek who drove him away and he departed when the king had [00:30:00] someone else drive him out of his own kingdom, think about how stressful that is for a second, right? If you live in the house, (right) and the person says, get out, and it's a shock. Complete shock and surprise to you, right? You're like, um, where the heck am I going? What do you mean get out? Get out. There's a gun to you. Get out. There's a knife to you. Get out. I don't want you here you anymore. Go. Think about that for a second. How stressful that is, right? Think about that. I'm stressed when my wife tell me to go sleep on the couch. I'm stressed. Look what I wanna do on the couch. _The leather get hot. It get cold. Sleep on the floor. I don't care. But you gotta get up outta here._ But you gotta understand though, it's stressful for David. It's stressful, life in itself, and the reason I brought up, him being pushed out of his kingdom by someone who was not the king and David was [00:31:00] anointed to be king. He was still pushed out of his kingdom by someone who was not anointed to be king, right? Whatever you go through, Okay. I want you to put it up to being called of God, being the annointed of God. God saying you are the king, and then someone kicking you out who's not king. God did not tell you to go out. This person told you to get out. You understand what I'm saying to you? Think about whatever you go through, okay? You got some bad things that people go through. Yeah, I'm talking about. The little things that stress you out. I ain't talking about major things. I'm talking about this what David was going through was major. This was major. I'm talking about the little things that we stress about today. Right? It's really not worth stressing over, right? You're not losing the kingdom, are you? No. David speaks: 1 I will bless the LORD YHVH at all times: His praise shall continually be in my mouth. Listen to this. David was the greatest king ever besides Jesus Christ when it comes to Israel. Okay? Greatest King ever when it comes to Israel and Juah besides Jesus Christ. Now if [00:32:00] David saying, I will bless the LORD YHVH have at all times. His praise shall continually be in my mouth. Right? How could stress come in? How could stress come in? Right. It can't. Right? Think about that for a second. How could stress come in if you are praising God continually all day long like we're supposed to? Right. How could stress come in? It can't, right? That's truth. It just can't because stress can't be where praise is. Pure praise anyway. It can't be with when you're, if you're praising in the spirit, if you're praising God in the spirit, trust can't be there. Satan won't go there. 2 My soul shall make her boast in the LORD YHVH: the humble shall hear thereof and be glad. Yeah, the humble will always be glad because they're humble and they're able to hear the prideful people are not able to hear. 3 O magnify the LORD [00:33:00] with me, And let us exalt his name together. Yes. That's not what it should be. Amen. Stress can't break through that. Amen. 4 I sought the LORD YHVH, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears. Do you hear that? I sought the Lord and delivered me from all my affairs. So what happened? I thought David was praising God continuously all day long. The problem is David had a problem with, if he likes something, he would just go get it. Okay. That was David. Okay. And the problem that he had was even when David had his friend murdered, so he could have his wife, ( which is straight murder). Okay. God says, I love you David, and I know even though you were wrong, you're gonna correct us. I'm taking your son. And when David continuously called on God, God continuously heard David. He removed all his fears. Praise God. When David was kicked out of his own kingdom by [00:34:00] someone who was not anointed to be king that God did not anoint to be king. David continuously prayed and he waited for God to bring him through. Glory to God. 5 They looked unto him, and were lightened: And their faces were not ashamed. 6 The poor man cried, and the LORD YHVH heard _him_ and saved him out of all his troubles. The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, (that reverance him) And delivereth them. Amen. If you knew what was around you wouldn't stress. You wouldn't stress, but maybe because you can't see it, maybe you do stress, but do you need to see to not stress? Or could you just believe? Which one, right? 7 O taste and see that the LORD is good: Blessed is the man that trusteth in him. Oh, taste and see. Just try. 8 O fear the LORD, ye his saints: [00:35:00] (those with the purpose, his elect) for there is no want to them that fear him. God always makes a way outta no way for his elect. For those who love and revere and reverence him. Those who come to him when they're in what stress, those who trust him enough to share whatever going on in their life with him, he removes the stress. Amen. 10 The young lions do lack. Why? Cause they're full of pride and suffer hunger. 10 But they that seek the LORD YHVH shall not want any good thing. And that's the truth. They lack. They hunger. They're not learning from their stress. Amen. 11 Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD YHVH. I'm gonna teach you the fear of YHVH. 12 What man is he that desireth life, And loveth many days, that he may see good? Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from [00:36:00] speaking guile. Stop being fake. Don't be fake and don't speak evil. Amen. Again, don't, don't be fake and don't speak evil. Say it one more time. Don't be fake and don't speak evil. Say it again. Don't be fake and don't speak evil. Amen. Amen. Because when you do, what do you invite in? Yeah, you're inviting Satan and everything that comes to say stress. On top of stress, on top of stress, on top of stress. Now he's inside of you. These thoughts just don't. Guile is a spirit. Evil speaking is a spirit. Lies is a spirit. Hate is a spirit. Prejudice is a spirit. Jealousy, envy, that's the spirit. Pride is a spirit, okay? All these things are spirits. If they live inside of you, he's in you. [00:37:00] He is literally in you. Literally, you have a problem. 13. Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking guile. 14 Depart from evil and do good; That means what? Love what God loves. Hate what He hates. Seek peace, and pursue it. _Well peace is boring._ Is peace? Is it boring really? Is peace boring? You know what I wanted for father's day this year? For daddy's daddy. I wanted to just chill. Chill. I wanted to just chill. I wanted everyone to just sit in the family room, okay, and chill with me and just chill. That's what I wanted. That's what I want every year to chill and have peace. I want peace I want peace.. I want no bad news, right? I want no bad news, none. 16 Depart from [00:38:00] evil, and do good; seek peace and pursue it. Love of God loves hate what he hates and pursue only the things that are pleasing to God. The eyes of the Lord YHVH are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry. He hears. He hears when you go through things, he hears when, when your flesh got you in trouble, he hears when you allowed an emotion or spirit to come into your life. He hears it and he wants to, all he want to hear is, _Lord, help me get rid of this because this is not how I want to be._ That's what he wants to hear. Help me get rid of this stress, this, this spirit that's inside of me or in my home or in my mind, or in my thoughts or in my being. Help me get rid of it because this is not how I want to be. 16 The face of the LORD YHVH is against them that do evil, To cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. Yeah. They're gone. 17 The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, And delivereth them out of all their troubles. You go through things in life, but God says, I will deliver you because I'm your closest relative. [00:39:00] I'm your father. I created you. You are my anointed. You are my elect, and I make it a purpose to make sure that you are happy and not stressed when you make it a purpose to make sure that I'm happy and you're not causing me stress. It says in one of these psalms it says, god talks about how his elect, his saints are the apple of desire and how even when you get close to touch the apple of the, the apple of your eyes, your pupil inside of here, when you get close to touch, that it's going to blink. Okay. And I don't know if you realize how huge God is, okay? Okay. But if the earth is his footstool, you do the, you do the measuring, right? So if he can take the earth and move it here, take Venus and move it there, take Pluto and say, okay, I guess you're still a planet, and keep it there and do all these other things, right? When he bats his eyelash to protect his people, which is (his elect), It's gonna harm whoever's trying to [00:40:00] harm his pupil, (his elect). I want you to see that 18 The LORD YHVH is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; A humble heart. He's close to them because God don't deal in pride. 18 And saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. A broken spirit. He's gonna put your back together. Amen. That's who he is. 19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous: But the LORD YHVH delivereth him out of them all. So the righteous go through things, but YHVH is there with us through it all. Why do the righteous go through things? Because you're targeted. You're targeted. As we learned last week, you're targeted by the devil. You are targeted by his workers. You're targeted, but God is there. God is there. 20 He keepeth all his bones: Not one of them is broken. This speaks of Jesus Christ on the cross. 21 Evil shall slay the wicked: And they that hate the righteous shall be desolate. Yeah. You can't just hate [00:41:00] God's children his anointed, his elect, and think you gonna just walk around the earth, _all loody duty_. It ain't happening. 22 The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: And none of them that trust in him shall be desolate. Praise God. You serve a great God. I want you to to know that pride keeps us in stress, and from growing and learning, they have a's true way of living. People can't grow or come out of stress because they're prideful. And their prideful heart. If that's the case, you will stay in your stress until it destroys you, until it turns you into something that you really don't want to be. Because you refuse to grow because it's too painful. Okay? We gotta remember, ves with us every step of the way to deliver us pride removes YHVH and welcomes [00:42:00] Satan and more stress that could lead to death. These are all facts. These are all facts. Philippians in closing. Philippians 4:11. If you have it say, glory to God. 11 Not that I speak in respect of want Paul saying, I don't speak in respect of want, meaning I never, I didn't send you these letters to say, oh,_ I, I'm in need. I'm in need, I'm in need, I'm in need, I'm in need._ _I didn't send you these letters to say, okay, stuff it with money and give it to me because I'm trying to run the ministry here._ That's not what Paul's saying here. Watch this: 11 not that I speak in respect of one for I have learned. And whatsoever state, I am therewith to be content. 12 I know both how to be abase (to be low and not have much) and I know how to abound and (to have very much) every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry. I know how to have so much that I'm full [00:43:00] and I know how to have not enough that I'm hungry. 12 Both to abound and to suffer needs. I know how to be wealthy and I know not how not to have Paul's saying here. And I can say the same thing. 13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. Period. Hands down. Which strengthened me well. I'm a child of God. I'm supposed to always have. That aint how it always works. That ain't how it always works. Okay? Remember where you come from, Amen. Remember where you started? Probably started in the pot, okay? And you got, and you came out of the pot, probably lived in a gutter. Your situation wasn't great. Probably had rats, roaches, all types of kids running around your house like it's Chuck-E-Cheese all types of things going on. Just a mess. Just a mess. But one thing that you can [00:44:00] do and one thing that you can be sure of, you can do all things through Christ who strengthened you. Amen. And that's for sure, because if you allow stress to dictate your life situation, you're always going be in a stressful situation and never. Because it's dictating how you live your life. Amen. 14 Now, you Philippians know also that in the beginning of the gospel when I departed, from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but ye only. You're' the only church that communicated back with me out of all the churches I founded Paul saying, you're the only one that communicated with me and was gonna supply my needs for my long trips. 15 For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my [00:45:00] necessity. Nobody, he's saying, you never stole from me. You never just came, listened, and didn't do what God said to do. You never just stole, you always gave and did what you're supposed to do. Praise God. Not because I desire a gift, but I desire fruit that may abound to your account. I'm asking and I'm desiring of it because I want you to be blessed of God. When you give to the truth, you're blessed of God. Amen. It's gonna cause less stress. Amen. Again, money's not the problem. Your mindset towards money is the problem. Amen. 16 But I have all and abound. (I am full. Having received, the things of Epaphroditus which were sent from you an odor of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable. Well pleasing to God, when you do things God way, you are [00:46:00] well pleasing to God. When you give to the truth, you are well pleasing to God. When you give to the truth, not to say that you gave to the truth, but when you give to the truth because you are obedient to God, you will be blessed. The heavens will open up to you. Okay? 19. But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. I want you to understand what you just said. But my God shall supply all your needs according to his riches and glory. Who's richer than God? No one. No one who has more blessings than God, no one by Jesus Christ. By Christ Jesus. Now onto to God and our Father, be glory forever and ever. Amen. Listen, no matter if need grabs you in life and stress comes with that need, be strong in Christ Jesus and grow. If sickness comes and stress comes with it, (and it will) be strong and grow in Christ Jesus. If love leaves you [00:47:00] or if you never receive love, be strong in Christ Jesus and grow, fix yourself. YHVH will supply your needs. He just will. That's who God is. That's who Christ is. That's who the spirit is. Okay? We don't live to stress. We live to serve God. We the name of Jesus Christ. Remember saying the grace to God because that's where he wants you. God bless you all. I love you all. All glory and praise to the Father and the Son. I take credit for nothing. In Jesus name. Amen.