The Sermon Connecting by David McGee
Sep 15, 2013
Connecting (39:18)
Referenced Scriptures: Psalm 28
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Psalm 28
1) To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don‘t be deaf to me; Lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.
2) Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, When I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.
3) Don‘t draw me away with the wicked, With the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, But mischief is in their hearts.
4) Give them according to their work, and according to the wickedness of their doings. Give them according to the operation of their hands. Bring back on them what they deserve.
5) Because they don‘t regard the works of Yahweh, Nor the operation of his hands, He will break them down and not build them up.
6) Blessed be Yahweh, Because he has heard the voice of my petitions.
7) Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.
8) Yahweh is their strength. He is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed.
9) Save your people, and bless your inheritance. Be their shepherd also, and bear them up forever. Psalm 29 A Psalm by David.
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We are looking at Psalm twenty eight Psalm twenty eight and I entitled this message, connecting, and it's about David. Of course, I have been with one of our one of my favorite writers on when the why, but the David is a favorite kind of an extraordinary person, not only because of who he is and white what he has accomplished and where you come from, but how that he has a sensitivity to where he is at and how that in his sensitivity to sensitivity to where he is that he is very straightforward in his declarations. The God and what he expects from God and what he expects to come it be as an answer to his prayer, so this Psalm Psalm twenty eight is a song I entitled the is a form of connecting Davis connecting to his environment, which he considers and is depicted as being evil. But he also then find out how to go through this and see where he's at and then connect to God, and he brings this whole situation to God, and with the declaration that God himself is going to see them through, so some twenty eight and I'm reading from the message Bible and I have some little extra phenomena say as we go through this and then don't think because I finished all my excerpts and I'm done with my sermon. I just didn't want to think that a tanking summary really got excited. He's done already. Not okay Psalm Psalm twenty eight verse one this is the in message Bible and here is David connecting connecting to his environment and connecting God don't turn a deaf ear when I call you, God, if all I get from you is deafening silence. I be better off in the black hole. What David says here is he's frustrated is frustrated with his life and is frustrated with the things because they're just not one he had wanted them to be verse two I letting you know what I mean calling out for help lifting up my arms toward your inner sanctum game and now is trying to the somewhere muster up the strength muster up the faith to connect with God, and to bring all the things and he 's making a real effort. I am letting you know and I'm lifting my arms, I'm directing everything to this holy place. First, three and four don't shut me into the same jail cell with those crooks begins an idea about where he is living with those who are full-time employees of evil may talk a good line of peace being moonlight for the devil. So David is seeing himself in his surroundings like he's sentenced to a jail cell with all of these wicked people, and he knows how bad they are an evening moonlight with the devil in the next section, pay them back for what they've done for how bad they didn't pay them back for their long hours in the devil 's workshop. Then cap it off with a huge bonus. He's connected to how evil these people are not yell. He also connects with some of the New Testament Scriptures that the wages of sin is death that said, and earns all wage, the gift of God is eternal life. The wages of sin and what David is doing here is he's telling God. God pay them back for their wages came in their wages and give them a bonus because verse five. They have no idea how God works or what he is up to God will smash them to smithereens and walk away from the real what you say here is that that evil what is done out of deceitfulness can never last, and when judgment comes in Melissa is the only thing that's going to last from now to eternity is what is done for God with you. I think it's going to make it so. David here and saying, God just smash their stuff. The citizen of the reigns. Let the judge would get here ahead of time and just get rid of it then David okay, he's connected and crying out. I want to hear me on ominous gel salad. Nothing seems to change these people are bad. They just gone from bad to worse and then verse six something changes. He connects now with God, blessed be God, he hurriedly praying a prayer of these on my side, I throw my lot in with him. Now I'm jumping for joy and shouting and singing. My thanks to God. It is only now his focus is is gone through all of the jail cell environment is his focus has gone beyond the problems that he is facing and now is starting to celebrate and his soul celebrating his life. God is all strength verse eight and nine. Gone is wall strength for his people. He's an ample refuge for his chosen leader. Save your people and bless your heritage care for them and carry them on terrorism like the good shepherd. So David is saying, wow, God has no control doesn't say that the evil people are gone he saying that I feel like I'm being carried by God, I am an heritage, I am God 's heritage. What God has has now come into my life. So David and Solomon is offering a prayer to God. He is seeking God 's help and he surrounded not by troops of soldiers. He is surrounded by wickedness. Wicked people. Did you ever think that you know can get any worse, no evil. And now the steam engine, the line the people while David finds himself in the situation and is seeking God and he's being very realistic about what happened is very very realistic about where he is, what he's doing. What happened to him and he is bringing at the God Bible says for us to pray about everything else in everything give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you while Fred on everything and give thanks and everything, but I like everything after I give thanks for what I don't like that the person beside you and say I really like you, like I have a hard time giving thanks for you both. I like it is a good thing to give thanks to you tonight so I really like it and still sometimes you have a hard time putting up with me and and the idea is that we find ourselves in. There's an honesty about where David is as an artist about his connect to the T with what is going on in his life and the prior prayer band becomes our help in our times of trial in our times of difficulty. We are to go to the Lord in prayer. No, because I know we need to understand privacy not informing God about something he doesn't know okay with the prayers and telling God something he doesn't know God. I want you to know that prayer is allowing myself to work our self through work. Frank talk ourselves through the situation so that we know exactly where arrest God here I am in this spot, sitting in this place. Having these difficulties are surrounded by these people and this is what's going on. That is not informing God that is focusing in on what is get what is happening that is for us to focus and to give ourselves a direction whenever we pray, we have to have a direction when we pray we can give the God let the whole world and all those who are problems and take care of those around the world that our need we are grateful for your mercy around the world than what we pray for it. We pray for our. We know what's going on. So David is being very specific, he's being very real about what's going on, and our father who art in heaven hallowed be thy name. What is a collective agreement that God is the one who is working in our life and that God has a dwelling place, just as we have a dwelling place. David was the Pentagon to his inner sanctuary, his hallways of holies, and we are saying our father is with alone to God thing about it. Would you like having to hit the notes father envelope along to you. I wanted a note, but I belong to you, John. I belong to you I. He's my father. Our father, and we're directing ourselves to God and to his place where God 's dwelling places. While God 's dwelling place isn't just inhabited near sanctuary exploit places enormous feelings within a heartbeat. He lives inside of us, so we aren't looking. God is well aware of all the surroundings they bought it. We need to be reminded. We need to be reminded of where I am what's going on and how that God is going to connect with me in this cell where I think I'm confining the first one of of of Psalm twenty eight says we haven't been up that say I find it here in my notes in David's psalm area. It says don't turn a deaf ear when I call you God. If all I get from you is deafening silence. I be better off in a black hole. So David wants God to speak to him again. Prayer is not only informing ourselves. Mister Barak is also listening to God. Prayer is also listed soprano sang gone I I identify please don't give me a deaf ear. No, God hears all things, God knows all things, and God knows my thoughts are even before we say them, but our prayers are about listening to not only being specific about what we are where we are at, but listening. Because if God hear our prayer that our expectation is that he will respond so don't turn a deaf ear. If all I get is silence. I be better off the black hole. I be better off with those who are in hell, you have no hope, and who have no place within no one to listen to them that really cares so we find this placement. Damon is surrounded by wickedness, to the point to the point, he thinks or feels like he's locked up in a cell. So these people that this community that he is living in her use of himself and he feels trapped dirt ever feel trapped air felt like you were in a place where you just couldn't get out of and that it wasn't that it was locked up, but it was the people around you. It was the situation around. It feels like I'm trapped here, and there's no way out. I feel like I am in a cell. David that she is feeling and what he sees prayer is about your relationship with God, and taking what you're feeling and what you're seeing and presenting at the God not to inform God, but for us to be specific about what we see and know first to you, says I'm letting you know what I need. I letting you know what I need is a very specific. I'm letting you know God. This is likely what I need to go the grocery store, not relist what you come home with everything Junior did you hear about the new thing is everyone up on a mirror on a shopping cart. It's easy that is the premier on a shopping cart so you will look at yourself while you're buying and saying I want to be thin. I want to be downloading by the thin stuff in him. When we got the grocery store when we need to. And they say the wrong kind of the grocery stores when you're hungry, because no gym or give a go with your kids are to remember to look at your melamine can enjoy the grocery store what you get. I want then I went back then it wasn't something that was really good for you. It was something you know you get the story so I'm letting you know what is the specific prayer. It is this part. This is the place. This is what I am indeed in need of an God, these are my answers I'm looking for that's what we specific, you can also say to check this off the list. Our prayers are to be specific so we know when they are answered and that is not so general. While it just so happened that it worked out. No, God has worked it out in my life. Being specific and David says in verse, verse two, calling out for help. How can I deal with this. How I'm gone. I need your help because I'm being specific. I'm telling you what's going on telling myself with going on, I'm explaining to myself what is happening, but I'm doing this with God and how can I deal with these things. How can I deal with a single blanket. They don't go away. Thank you TinyURL now and not deal in the old days, they used where around her neck. They would wear bags of clothes and spices and things, and I know why because people stunk so bad they couldn't stand the smell throw and we interpret that as well. That's how they kept himself from being ill health but that may be one of the raises they can get. L because they start so that nobody get around them until they were where to stop and smell it, get out while what happens is that we are calling out for help and God wants us to put thy word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against the net that God 's word is high is a part of our life to the point that we can be so preoccupied with the things around us, and even our old condition that we need to take the word have hidden your heart is part of who we are and look at it to meditate on the wicked. They'll go away. But neither does God 's word, neither does God 's word or God 's help, so our residency isn't God, thy kingdom come, thy will be done it. This is where believing that God 's kingdom. God 's will will be established and so we are being very specific. Jesus said my life and my kingdom are not of this world is aware of this world, my felonies. The Davis crucifixion is dying out pilot is telling him, might my soldiers making them thought of this world. It were of this world. I am alarming here is not of this world and you have no power over me and I wasn't given to him by my father. So no, don't think that you're in charge of this place and our kingdom. Our kingdom is not of this world and that we are praying that God 's kingdom would be thy kingdom come, thy will be done were praying to God 's kingdom be established in the very things that we feel imprisoned by author like him in a cell. I feel like I'm being held captive here. This is in love with bars and with doors, but it seems high but my faith rages inside of me, and I believe that God is working in my life and so I am establishing a way out. The Bible says. First Peter says do not repay evil with evil or abuse for abuse. Don't get hung up in doing the things the way the people who want to up are doing things if ever repay evil for evil. I went to him and it works like better back. I'm not the kingdom, the word of God. I don't have to fight their fight and fight their way I'm going to live the way that God has because I'm praying and asking God specifically for his power and presence in my life and God. This is how it is Lord, I'm lifting my arms. Verse two. I'm looking arms toward your inner sanctum on lifting arms to you like what arms. Although I surrender. I'm lifting my arms to you. I surrender. I'm surrendering to your presence, not to this. Not that these evil ones. I'm not turning on surrendering to you and I lift my hands and I am surrendering to your provisions. I am surrendering to God 's provision, which is God. Oh, everything was not happy is all-powerful God has a will or purpose. The plan so therefore I am your time in your kingdom. I am your child and I am surrendering to your provisions that you're going to give me& they are daily bread. Give us today our daily permissions. I am surrendering to your provisions for this salmon. I find myself in the seat for any of us is that at any moment in any place at any time we can immediately be in God 's presence, we are immediately in his presence. Why, because God can never be so far away is just near the net being as far away as just he abides within us, we belong to him. I belong to you first three. Sub me into the same jail cell with the those crooks got dealt let me see you think that this is my life. This is a I'm here I'm in this place I can get out of it. Lord his God family take you out of it. Jesus said in his prayer for his people. God father. I don't present you take them out of the world, but I pray that you given the strength of the power where they are wrapped. But there I my children, and in daily to say I'm in a cell is surrounded by these people, but don't don't let me see myself as locked up with them. I'm not locked into their mentality. I'm not locked into their perspectives. I have a different perspective. David reminds himself that God will punish these people eventually the price not to be caught up in their schemes by kingdom come. God 's kingdom and costs, protects and provides broad, yet we think of the ten Commandments in an limiting Commandments on the building. Although the gods rules that because he doesn't want to do things the Commandments of God are our protection and our provision God is protecting us from the things it would destroy us, and if were protected from the things that destroy we aren't, and in a place where we can be provided for so his commandments are part of protection. Protecting our heart protecting our thoughts protecting our going out and are coming in and then we had this whole idea provision so. David prays that God will pay them back. The wicked for their schemes for their get rich quick for their abuse of their allies and everything that they do God phrase is David prays that God will pay the back and paying for how bad they have been all David is asking with a one hundred and four, while the reality is, evil will be destroyed when it's all said and done in life is over and goddess reigning supreme in new heaven and new earth. Evil will not make it. Everything that evil has devised and steamed and plans will be nothing will be nowhere. The only thing that is going to make it from here to eternity is what God has done in us, and what God is not in the lives of others and how that is, the things have built the kingdom of God joining to make it so. David is seeing the reality. I feel like I'm in a prison cell with these schemers and gone. I just pray that there's this whole thing would be over that their schemes would be disrupted and destroyed verse five space of they have no idea how God works or what God is up to it's it's it's a lot values that idea. It's funny how that is not none fighting the sense of laughter, but it's odd, funny that people have no idea that God is love, and they think about some crazy ideas that they heard or whatever and that's their scheme of things about what God is about him. David says to have no idea how God works have no idea what God is up to. Just think how far out how much better off we'll are what God is doing God will smash them to smithereens and walk away from the ruins what that means is their life 's work will have no lasting value their lives work on this gaming in the conniving in the AL on the backbiting, backstabbing, stepping on stepping over whatever some day it will perish. It will be smashed still be shattered, and nothing eternal will be there and so it's just like definitely no value their work will have no lasting value, said he will eventually be destroyed and punished, and David prays that but I just hope it would come pretty soon, though. Pray God, this WiMAX. I'm surrounded by the scheming people I feel like I'm in a cell. I'm trying to get through them trying to get above all of this and trying to get my spirit and my life focus beyond all of the drivers is going on. I know Lord that all this garbage is going to just be destroyed and this is in them, it will amount to nothing, and I've got to focus on that which is the last. So that's kind of Irish art are straightforward prayer, this one at this is what I'm thinking this is what I'm feeling and I'm I'm directing it to God, and I'm trying to get about this am trying to unlock God, hence appear. Now I'm trying to all of you for six and seven. Blessed be God, you heard me pray who happen all these lifted out of Marysville longer money scheming people know that Zeta says that inside David is understanding God is heard my prayer. God has heard my prayer why does he know God is heard his prayer because he feels he understands the promises coming back to him that the steamers. The climbers the room. There's nothing lasting about what to do so, God, your kingdom come your will be done. My life is not about the wicked. My life is about the good that I can do my life is about the good that you will do through me. Touch the lives of others L Thursday and Friday after Friday in MAI. I like motorhomes and Lycos. With the Hershey Thursday Wednesday night with the Rachels and Thursday and half-and-half until noon on Friday, but the Hershey and has the largest RV show in the world boy what fun and down they had everything from the call little boy campers and they're just these will pull behind them. They're big enough for one or two people method that those corrupt of the million-dollar jobs, and anything. Everything you could want or look at and of course I'd like to wander around and tell God exactly where I'm at and how I'm surrounded by, and what I would like to have any of these big was God. I just wait for you to transfer the funds of the scope what any Opera down payment on their and I was surprised. I mean, there was this one section, there were eighteen people blocked the things one day that was not the little boy things. These are the ones that are forty forty four quarters eighteen people. Bobby's Monday, making the call on that one of them never but that's not my story. The story is that they're the people that you may they bring in these individuals from all the world all over the United States on the United States to tell you informed about these units and all that they have to offer. Whether it's a little fully nine pop-ups or whether it's the five hundred thousand dollars. It was surprising that in my conversations. You know what these people I would you be directed. Others probably thirty, forty thousand inner representatives there and how that you'll be directed to be with an individual who listen to what you doing I said while llama pastor and I worked in hospices as all my dad died in hospital this summer so I spent the next half hour forty five minutes talking with her about her dad 's death about how that you're what it happened in that whole situation and tried to comfort her in that in that place again by motorhome so that I want another one, and I'm there and I got is what you want. I so want one just like this since wanted to somebody talk to so easily as his friend that he doesn't do this all the time but is a former NFL player is about six eight three hundred some pounds I like about this bill above his stomach and I said. Noon I and I had an NFL player who was a friend of mine. His name was and he was individual who was in auspices of yell. I've always been worried about Europe as I've had severe concussions and head injuries played nine years with one team in two years with another team before he retired and we talked about head injuries and concussions and about. He doesn't really have a faith in God, and how that God was going to work in his life, and then there was a person that I met at the last five. The show I was at two happens to be in charge of the company and we said we talked and he wanted to know this is not really have to watch your videos as I told him about my sermon. And I have to watch it because you always seem to have the right answer for me whenever we meet, and how that God direction because EERA was the last time we met in Syracuse. He was talking about how that he was having difficulty and with his Bible study at home and the always adhesive in a level large church in the all and all the things and he's now one of the directors, board members that the direct their out of region and he was having trouble with this in a Denny's talking to me. Where is there for another half-hour talking about how the God is going to work in his life, his home and in his church and about prayer. Prayer and we just had shared some ideas and so you know, I never thought of it that way. Please give me your card have to call you, not about buying a home, but about our church in about the new the outreach that we want to do more church. You see, we are surrounded by lots of things, but the things that we are surrounded with is not not locked in a cell. God has a way of taking what we do where we go. The people we interact with all that and bring it together to a divine principle and the divine claims. Sure, I'd like to have a motorhome in God 's ideal motorhome for me as well. The little boy pop-up tents, but my idea. Motorola's something different, but that does not doesn't matter. What matters is this is where we are at and this is what God has in who you know, our dreams. They're not about us about what we are going to get our dreams are about what God is going to do while we are dreaming seeing what is God going to do with us in our dreams because had I not had these ideas. These dreams. I would've never met. These individuals and who knows whether my dream was not about getting something, but about giving something to people who were in very difficult places in their life, and I have to drive. I don't have to go to El Salvador. I went to Hershey with the Syracuse and there I met these people who had been troubled with things in their life. When I met the other man to me. Natalie was in Florida and I met him, he says, you don't know what you did for me in that hour and a half. We sat inside that one camper you don't know. He told me this this this week as I met him at the be there to if you don't know what you did for me in that time we said we spent together. It changed my life. See our dreams are not about what we acquire our dreams about what God is doing with us while we're dreaming David has found himself in a place he feels like he's in a cell. But while these he feels like he's in a cell. He's very honest with God, and he talks about his dreams. He talks about all these things, and that God, who is our refuge. You know, he is our refuge and he is our strength is a very present help in time of trouble, get us this day our daily bread. Our daily provisions. We know how God is going to blasts and how we are going to benefit from being related to God with allowing a belong to you the songs we sing they are talking about these places. Verse nine says save your people and bless your heritage. Think about this. God God we are his heritage. We each of us. We are his heritage, and they were the same blaster heritage Bank, God bless me, and I want to say we are. We are here. The property heritage is property that disables to an error. We are his heritage that what he is sentenced towards all week, but once you know don't count on a thousand hills gold and silver are supported, but all power is given. In Jesus name. There is forgiveness in the name of Jesus. There is love beyond anything we can ever imagine. This is the heritage that flows to us in. Where are we, what, where, in this redness cell with all these wicked people, but the heritage that I have is not from the wicked heritage that I have from God, it flows to me, and what is slowing his love, his forgiveness is strength. His power, his peace, his presence of God. I belong to you. I belong to you and then verse nine says God save your people, bless your heritage care for them, carry them like a good shepherd carried them like the good Shepherd. Those who are broken and wounded the shepherd picks them up and carries this is the heritage that belongs to us, the good Shepherd he knows our name. We are the sheep of his pastor. We hear his voice. We follow him. This is God, we belong here we belong to his family went along to you Lord and we are his heritage. So when we pray when we pray, be very honest with who we are. Be very honest with what we see in what we feel, but don't be preoccupied. This is not where we live, we wait maybe here, but this isn't what I inherit these evil, whatever people around me. This is not live us along to me what belongs to me is why my heritage. The flows from God who allows me to rise above all of these schemes of the people and say things and believe things and know that God is with me and that in all these things on more than a conqueror in Christ and through all the problems. There is a wisdom that comes from God, and that in my dreams. There is a place for God is leading me. And there's a place for God is going to use me to touch the lives of people I interact with. I belong to you. I belong to you. You say that the God I belong to you, God said again. I belong to you, God, and the heritage of God flows into our life, one because I belong to show us the so when you think like God has a deaf ear don't turn a deaf ear when I call to you, God, what it feels like he's not hearing us when we pray and we found we feel like were surrounded by scoundrels. But worry about it. They have no idea what God is doing focus on God. Blessed be God, he heard me when I trade the first didn't feel that way, but he finally realized God heard me. He proves that he's on my side, I throw my lot in with him. I'm not jumping. I know I'm jumping for joy. And I'm shouting and singing and thanks to him, because hey, wow, I made it. Why not. I'm out here with the God is with me. Thank you, God, for being with me and carrying me, my good Shepherd. He carries an end. Can you see it. This understand. We understand it's eyeing his heritage, close father, thank you allow that heritage. Oh God, that is rich in you to flow into our lives. And whatever our need is peace, joy power, presence, whatever is needed in our life. God I belong to you flow into my life. I'm your heritage and I'm open to receive from your gift from you. Your gifts and then amen. God bless you share a hug or handshakeWe are looking at Psalm twenty eight Psalm twenty eight and I entitled this message, connecting, and it's about David. Of course, I have been with one of our one of my favorite writers on when the why, but the David is a favorite kind of an extraordinary person, not only because of who he is and white what he has accomplished and where you come from, but how that he has a sensitivity to where he is at and how that in his sensitivity to sensitivity to where he is that he is very straightforward in his declarations. The God and what he expects from God and what he expects to come it be as an answer to his prayer, so this Psalm Psalm twenty eight is a song I entitled the is a form of connecting Davis connecting to his environment, which he considers and is depicted as being evil. But he also then find out how to go through this and see where he's at and then connect to God, and he brings this whole situation to God, and with the declaration that God himself is going to see them through, so some twenty eight and I'm reading from the message Bible and I have some little extra phenomena say as we go through this and then don't think because I finished all my excerpts and I'm done with my sermon. I just didn't want to think that a tanking summary really got excited. He's done already. Not okay Psalm Psalm twenty eight verse one this is the in message Bible and here is David connecting connecting to his environment and connecting God don't turn a deaf ear when I call you, God, if all I get from you is deafening silence. I be better off in the black hole. What David says here is he's frustrated is frustrated with his life and is frustrated with the things because they're just not one he had wanted them to be verse two I letting you know what I mean calling out for help lifting up my arms toward your inner sanctum game and now is trying to the somewhere muster up the strength muster up the faith to connect with God, and to bring all the things and he 's making a real effort. I am letting you know and I'm lifting my arms, I'm directing everything to this holy place. First, three and four don't shut me into the same jail cell with those crooks begins an idea about where he is living with those who are full-time employees of evil may talk a good line of peace being moonlight for the devil. So David is seeing himself in his surroundings like he's sentenced to a jail cell with all of these wicked people, and he knows how bad they are an evening moonlight with the devil in the next section, pay them back for what they've done for how bad they didn't pay them back for their long hours in the devil 's workshop. Then cap it off with a huge bonus. He's connected to how evil these people are not yell. He also connects with some of the New Testament Scriptures that the wages of sin is death that said, and earns all wage, the gift of God is eternal life. The wages of sin and what David is doing here is he's telling God. God pay them back for their wages came in their wages and give them a bonus because verse five. They have no idea how God works or what he is up to God will smash them to smithereens and walk away from the real what you say here is that that evil what is done out of deceitfulness can never last, and when judgment comes in Melissa is the only thing that's going to last from now to eternity is what is done for God with you. I think it's going to make it so. David here and saying, God just smash their stuff. The citizen of the reigns. Let the judge would get here ahead of time and just get rid of it then David okay, he's connected and crying out. I want to hear me on ominous gel salad. Nothing seems to change these people are bad. They just gone from bad to worse and then verse six something changes. He connects now with God, blessed be God, he hurriedly praying a prayer of these on my side, I throw my lot in with him. Now I'm jumping for joy and shouting and singing. My thanks to God. It is only now his focus is is gone through all of the jail cell environment is his focus has gone beyond the problems that he is facing and now is starting to celebrate and his soul celebrating his life. God is all strength verse eight and nine. Gone is wall strength for his people. He's an ample refuge for his chosen leader. Save your people and bless your heritage care for them and carry them on terrorism like the good shepherd. So David is saying, wow, God has no control doesn't say that the evil people are gone he saying that I feel like I'm being carried by God, I am an heritage, I am God 's heritage. What God has has now come into my life. So David and Solomon is offering a prayer to God. He is seeking God 's help and he surrounded not by troops of soldiers. He is surrounded by wickedness. Wicked people. Did you ever think that you know can get any worse, no evil. And now the steam engine, the line the people while David finds himself in the situation and is seeking God and he's being very realistic about what happened is very very realistic about where he is, what he's doing. What happened to him and he is bringing at the God Bible says for us to pray about everything else in everything give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you while Fred on everything and give thanks and everything, but I like everything after I give thanks for what I don't like that the person beside you and say I really like you, like I have a hard time giving thanks for you both. I like it is a good thing to give thanks to you tonight so I really like it and still sometimes you have a hard time putting up with me and and the idea is that we find ourselves in. There's an honesty about where David is as an artist about his connect to the T with what is going on in his life and the prior prayer band becomes our help in our times of trial in our times of difficulty. We are to go to the Lord in prayer. No, because I know we need to understand privacy not informing God about something he doesn't know okay with the prayers and telling God something he doesn't know God. I want you to know that prayer is allowing myself to work our self through work. Frank talk ourselves through the situation so that we know exactly where arrest God here I am in this spot, sitting in this place. Having these difficulties are surrounded by these people and this is what's going on. That is not informing God that is focusing in on what is get what is happening that is for us to focus and to give ourselves a direction whenever we pray, we have to have a direction when we pray we can give the God let the whole world and all those who are problems and take care of those around the world that our need we are grateful for your mercy around the world than what we pray for it. We pray for our. We know what's going on. So David is being very specific, he's being very real about what's going on, and our father who art in heaven hallowed be thy name. What is a collective agreement that God is the one who is working in our life and that God has a dwelling place, just as we have a dwelling place. David was the Pentagon to his inner sanctuary, his hallways of holies, and we are saying our father is with alone to God thing about it. Would you like having to hit the notes father envelope along to you. I wanted a note, but I belong to you, John. I belong to you I. He's my father. Our father, and we're directing ourselves to God and to his place where God 's dwelling places. While God 's dwelling place isn't just inhabited near sanctuary exploit places enormous feelings within a heartbeat. He lives inside of us, so we aren't looking. God is well aware of all the surroundings they bought it. We need to be reminded. We need to be reminded of where I am what's going on and how that God is going to connect with me in this cell where I think I'm confining the first one of of of Psalm twenty eight says we haven't been up that say I find it here in my notes in David's psalm area. It says don't turn a deaf ear when I call you God. If all I get from you is deafening silence. I be better off in a black hole. So David wants God to speak to him again. Prayer is not only informing ourselves. Mister Barak is also listening to God. Prayer is also listed soprano sang gone I I identify please don't give me a deaf ear. No, God hears all things, God knows all things, and God knows my thoughts are even before we say them, but our prayers are about listening to not only being specific about what we are where we are at, but listening. Because if God hear our prayer that our expectation is that he will respond so don't turn a deaf ear. If all I get is silence. I be better off the black hole. I be better off with those who are in hell, you have no hope, and who have no place within no one to listen to them that really cares so we find this placement. Damon is surrounded by wickedness, to the point to the point, he thinks or feels like he's locked up in a cell. So these people that this community that he is living in her use of himself and he feels trapped dirt ever feel trapped air felt like you were in a place where you just couldn't get out of and that it wasn't that it was locked up, but it was the people around you. It was the situation around. It feels like I'm trapped here, and there's no way out. I feel like I am in a cell. David that she is feeling and what he sees prayer is about your relationship with God, and taking what you're feeling and what you're seeing and presenting at the God not to inform God, but for us to be specific about what we see and know first to you, says I'm letting you know what I need. I letting you know what I need is a very specific. I'm letting you know God. This is likely what I need to go the grocery store, not relist what you come home with everything Junior did you hear about the new thing is everyone up on a mirror on a shopping cart. It's easy that is the premier on a shopping cart so you will look at yourself while you're buying and saying I want to be thin. I want to be downloading by the thin stuff in him. When we got the grocery store when we need to. And they say the wrong kind of the grocery stores when you're hungry, because no gym or give a go with your kids are to remember to look at your melamine can enjoy the grocery store what you get. I want then I went back then it wasn't something that was really good for you. It was something you know you get the story so I'm letting you know what is the specific prayer. It is this part. This is the place. This is what I am indeed in need of an God, these are my answers I'm looking for that's what we specific, you can also say to check this off the list. Our prayers are to be specific so we know when they are answered and that is not so general. While it just so happened that it worked out. No, God has worked it out in my life. Being specific and David says in verse, verse two, calling out for help. How can I deal with this. How I'm gone. I need your help because I'm being specific. I'm telling you what's going on telling myself with going on, I'm explaining to myself what is happening, but I'm doing this with God and how can I deal with these things. How can I deal with a single blanket. They don't go away. Thank you TinyURL now and not deal in the old days, they used where around her neck. They would wear bags of clothes and spices and things, and I know why because people stunk so bad they couldn't stand the smell throw and we interpret that as well. That's how they kept himself from being ill health but that may be one of the raises they can get. L because they start so that nobody get around them until they were where to stop and smell it, get out while what happens is that we are calling out for help and God wants us to put thy word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against the net that God 's word is high is a part of our life to the point that we can be so preoccupied with the things around us, and even our old condition that we need to take the word have hidden your heart is part of who we are and look at it to meditate on the wicked. They'll go away. But neither does God 's word, neither does God 's word or God 's help, so our residency isn't God, thy kingdom come, thy will be done it. This is where believing that God 's kingdom. God 's will will be established and so we are being very specific. Jesus said my life and my kingdom are not of this world is aware of this world, my felonies. The Davis crucifixion is dying out pilot is telling him, might my soldiers making them thought of this world. It were of this world. I am alarming here is not of this world and you have no power over me and I wasn't given to him by my father. So no, don't think that you're in charge of this place and our kingdom. Our kingdom is not of this world and that we are praying that God 's kingdom would be thy kingdom come, thy will be done were praying to God 's kingdom be established in the very things that we feel imprisoned by author like him in a cell. I feel like I'm being held captive here. This is in love with bars and with doors, but it seems high but my faith rages inside of me, and I believe that God is working in my life and so I am establishing a way out. The Bible says. First Peter says do not repay evil with evil or abuse for abuse. Don't get hung up in doing the things the way the people who want to up are doing things if ever repay evil for evil. I went to him and it works like better back. I'm not the kingdom, the word of God. I don't have to fight their fight and fight their way I'm going to live the way that God has because I'm praying and asking God specifically for his power and presence in my life and God. This is how it is Lord, I'm lifting my arms. Verse two. I'm looking arms toward your inner sanctum on lifting arms to you like what arms. Although I surrender. I'm lifting my arms to you. I surrender. I'm surrendering to your presence, not to this. Not that these evil ones. I'm not turning on surrendering to you and I lift my hands and I am surrendering to your provisions. I am surrendering to God 's provision, which is God. Oh, everything was not happy is all-powerful God has a will or purpose. The plan so therefore I am your time in your kingdom. I am your child and I am surrendering to your provisions that you're going to give me& they are daily bread. Give us today our daily permissions. I am surrendering to your provisions for this salmon. I find myself in the seat for any of us is that at any moment in any place at any time we can immediately be in God 's presence, we are immediately in his presence. Why, because God can never be so far away is just near the net being as far away as just he abides within us, we belong to him. I belong to you first three. Sub me into the same jail cell with the those crooks got dealt let me see you think that this is my life. This is a I'm here I'm in this place I can get out of it. Lord his God family take you out of it. Jesus said in his prayer for his people. God father. I don't present you take them out of the world, but I pray that you given the strength of the power where they are wrapped. But there I my children, and in daily to say I'm in a cell is surrounded by these people, but don't don't let me see myself as locked up with them. I'm not locked into their mentality. I'm not locked into their perspectives. I have a different perspective. David reminds himself that God will punish these people eventually the price not to be caught up in their schemes by kingdom come. God 's kingdom and costs, protects and provides broad, yet we think of the ten Commandments in an limiting Commandments on the building. Although the gods rules that because he doesn't want to do things the Commandments of God are our protection and our provision God is protecting us from the things it would destroy us, and if were protected from the things that destroy we aren't, and in a place where we can be provided for so his commandments are part of protection. Protecting our heart protecting our thoughts protecting our going out and are coming in and then we had this whole idea provision so. David prays that God will pay them back. The wicked for their schemes for their get rich quick for their abuse of their allies and everything that they do God phrase is David prays that God will pay the back and paying for how bad they have been all David is asking with a one hundred and four, while the reality is, evil will be destroyed when it's all said and done in life is over and goddess reigning supreme in new heaven and new earth. Evil will not make it. Everything that evil has devised and steamed and plans will be nothing will be nowhere. The only thing that is going to make it from here to eternity is what God has done in us, and what God is not in the lives of others and how that is, the things have built the kingdom of God joining to make it so. David is seeing the reality. I feel like I'm in a prison cell with these schemers and gone. I just pray that there's this whole thing would be over that their schemes would be disrupted and destroyed verse five space of they have no idea how God works or what God is up to it's it's it's a lot values that idea. It's funny how that is not none fighting the sense of laughter, but it's odd, funny that people have no idea that God is love, and they think about some crazy ideas that they heard or whatever and that's their scheme of things about what God is about him. David says to have no idea how God works have no idea what God is up to. Just think how far out how much better off we'll are what God is doing God will smash them to smithereens and walk away from the ruins what that means is their life 's work will have no lasting value their lives work on this gaming in the conniving in the AL on the backbiting, backstabbing, stepping on stepping over whatever some day it will perish. It will be smashed still be shattered, and nothing eternal will be there and so it's just like definitely no value their work will have no lasting value, said he will eventually be destroyed and punished, and David prays that but I just hope it would come pretty soon, though. Pray God, this WiMAX. I'm surrounded by the scheming people I feel like I'm in a cell. I'm trying to get through them trying to get above all of this and trying to get my spirit and my life focus beyond all of the drivers is going on. I know Lord that all this garbage is going to just be destroyed and this is in them, it will amount to nothing, and I've got to focus on that which is the last. So that's kind of Irish art are straightforward prayer, this one at this is what I'm thinking this is what I'm feeling and I'm I'm directing it to God, and I'm trying to get about this am trying to unlock God, hence appear. Now I'm trying to all of you for six and seven. Blessed be God, you heard me pray who happen all these lifted out of Marysville longer money scheming people know that Zeta says that inside David is understanding God is heard my prayer. God has heard my prayer why does he know God is heard his prayer because he feels he understands the promises coming back to him that the steamers. The climbers the room. There's nothing lasting about what to do so, God, your kingdom come your will be done. My life is not about the wicked. My life is about the good that I can do my life is about the good that you will do through me. Touch the lives of others L Thursday and Friday after Friday in MAI. I like motorhomes and Lycos. With the Hershey Thursday Wednesday night with the Rachels and Thursday and half-and-half until noon on Friday, but the Hershey and has the largest RV show in the world boy what fun and down they had everything from the call little boy campers and they're just these will pull behind them. They're big enough for one or two people method that those corrupt of the million-dollar jobs, and anything. Everything you could want or look at and of course I'd like to wander around and tell God exactly where I'm at and how I'm surrounded by, and what I would like to have any of these big was God. I just wait for you to transfer the funds of the scope what any Opera down payment on their and I was surprised. I mean, there was this one section, there were eighteen people blocked the things one day that was not the little boy things. These are the ones that are forty forty four quarters eighteen people. Bobby's Monday, making the call on that one of them never but that's not my story. The story is that they're the people that you may they bring in these individuals from all the world all over the United States on the United States to tell you informed about these units and all that they have to offer. Whether it's a little fully nine pop-ups or whether it's the five hundred thousand dollars. It was surprising that in my conversations. You know what these people I would you be directed. Others probably thirty, forty thousand inner representatives there and how that you'll be directed to be with an individual who listen to what you doing I said while llama pastor and I worked in hospices as all my dad died in hospital this summer so I spent the next half hour forty five minutes talking with her about her dad 's death about how that you're what it happened in that whole situation and tried to comfort her in that in that place again by motorhome so that I want another one, and I'm there and I got is what you want. I so want one just like this since wanted to somebody talk to so easily as his friend that he doesn't do this all the time but is a former NFL player is about six eight three hundred some pounds I like about this bill above his stomach and I said. Noon I and I had an NFL player who was a friend of mine. His name was and he was individual who was in auspices of yell. I've always been worried about Europe as I've had severe concussions and head injuries played nine years with one team in two years with another team before he retired and we talked about head injuries and concussions and about. He doesn't really have a faith in God, and how that God was going to work in his life, and then there was a person that I met at the last five. The show I was at two happens to be in charge of the company and we said we talked and he wanted to know this is not really have to watch your videos as I told him about my sermon. And I have to watch it because you always seem to have the right answer for me whenever we meet, and how that God direction because EERA was the last time we met in Syracuse. He was talking about how that he was having difficulty and with his Bible study at home and the always adhesive in a level large church in the all and all the things and he's now one of the directors, board members that the direct their out of region and he was having trouble with this in a Denny's talking to me. Where is there for another half-hour talking about how the God is going to work in his life, his home and in his church and about prayer. Prayer and we just had shared some ideas and so you know, I never thought of it that way. Please give me your card have to call you, not about buying a home, but about our church in about the new the outreach that we want to do more church. You see, we are surrounded by lots of things, but the things that we are surrounded with is not not locked in a cell. God has a way of taking what we do where we go. The people we interact with all that and bring it together to a divine principle and the divine claims. Sure, I'd like to have a motorhome in God 's ideal motorhome for me as well. The little boy pop-up tents, but my idea. Motorola's something different, but that does not doesn't matter. What matters is this is where we are at and this is what God has in who you know, our dreams. They're not about us about what we are going to get our dreams are about what God is going to do while we are dreaming seeing what is God going to do with us in our dreams because had I not had these ideas. These dreams. I would've never met. These individuals and who knows whether my dream was not about getting something, but about giving something to people who were in very difficult places in their life, and I have to drive. I don't have to go to El Salvador. I went to Hershey with the Syracuse and there I met these people who had been troubled with things in their life. When I met the other man to me. Natalie was in Florida and I met him, he says, you don't know what you did for me in that hour and a half. We sat inside that one camper you don't know. He told me this this this week as I met him at the be there to if you don't know what you did for me in that time we said we spent together. It changed my life. See our dreams are not about what we acquire our dreams about what God is doing with us while we're dreaming David has found himself in a place he feels like he's in a cell. But while these he feels like he's in a cell. He's very honest with God, and he talks about his dreams. He talks about all these things, and that God, who is our refuge. You know, he is our refuge and he is our strength is a very present help in time of trouble, get us this day our daily bread. Our daily provisions. We know how God is going to blasts and how we are going to benefit from being related to God with allowing a belong to you the songs we sing they are talking about these places. Verse nine says save your people and bless your heritage. Think about this. God God we are his heritage. We each of us. We are his heritage, and they were the same blaster heritage Bank, God bless me, and I want to say we are. We are here. The property heritage is property that disables to an error. We are his heritage that what he is sentenced towards all week, but once you know don't count on a thousand hills gold and silver are supported, but all power is given. In Jesus name. There is forgiveness in the name of Jesus. There is love beyond anything we can ever imagine. This is the heritage that flows to us in. Where are we, what, where, in this redness cell with all these wicked people, but the heritage that I have is not from the wicked heritage that I have from God, it flows to me, and what is slowing his love, his forgiveness is strength. His power, his peace, his presence of God. I belong to you. I belong to you and then verse nine says God save your people, bless your heritage care for them, carry them like a good shepherd carried them like the good Shepherd. Those who are broken and wounded the shepherd picks them up and carries this is the heritage that belongs to us, the good Shepherd he knows our name. We are the sheep of his pastor. We hear his voice. We follow him. This is God, we belong here we belong to his family went along to you Lord and we are his heritage. So when we pray when we pray, be very honest with who we are. Be very honest with what we see in what we feel, but don't be preoccupied. This is not where we live, we wait maybe here, but this isn't what I inherit these evil, whatever people around me. This is not live us along to me what belongs to me is why my heritage. The flows from God who allows me to rise above all of these schemes of the people and say things and believe things and know that God is with me and that in all these things on more than a conqueror in Christ and through all the problems. There is a wisdom that comes from God, and that in my dreams. There is a place for God is leading me. And there's a place for God is going to use me to touch the lives of people I interact with. I belong to you. I belong to you. You say that the God I belong to you, God said again. I belong to you, God, and the heritage of God flows into our life, one because I belong to show us the so when you think like God has a deaf ear don't turn a deaf ear when I call to you, God, what it feels like he's not hearing us when we pray and we found we feel like were surrounded by scoundrels. But worry about it. They have no idea what God is doing focus on God. Blessed be God, he heard me when I trade the first didn't feel that way, but he finally realized God heard me. He proves that he's on my side, I throw my lot in with him. I'm not jumping. I know I'm jumping for joy. And I'm shouting and singing and thanks to him, because hey, wow, I made it. Why not. I'm out here with the God is with me. Thank you, God, for being with me and carrying me, my good Shepherd. He carries an end. Can you see it. This understand. We understand it's eyeing his heritage, close father, thank you allow that heritage. Oh God, that is rich in you to flow into our lives. And whatever our need is peace, joy power, presence, whatever is needed in our life. God I belong to you flow into my life. I'm your heritage and I'm open to receive from your gift from you. Your gifts and then amen. God bless you share a hug or handshake