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When the ground beneath me trembled and my world seemed to crumble, it was a single verse, Psalm 118:24, that became my battle cry. Join me as we journey through the tempests of life, anchoring ourselves in faith that can move mountains. In today’s episode, we delve into the resilience of the human spirit as I share how recognizing the Lord’s hand in every moment can transform both our trials into triumphs and our despair into joy.
We’re not alone in our battles; like Peter, after Jesus’ resurrection, we are reminded to stay alert to God’s presence in every situation, turning our giants into testimonies of His might. As we proclaim, “This is the day the Lord has made,” let’s rally together in the knowledge that each day is woven by the divine. I’m here to remind you that the faith of our biblical heroes is the same faith pulsing within us, ready to manifest miracles in our midst.
This episode is a testament to God’s unwavering sovereign power and a celebration of life’s bigger picture, including the promise of life beyond death and the joy of eternal communion with Him. Through personal anecdotes and scriptural wisdom, we’re reassured that the Lord’s good work in us will see its glorious completion.
We draw lessons from David’s victorious encounters with the Philistines, understanding that our true stronghold is found in God. We discuss the duality of strongholds, both as places of refuge and patterns of thought, and how aligning with divine guidance brings about miraculous provision and victory. Whether it’s weathering economic uncertainty or personal struggle, the episode underscores the power of attentive obedience and trust in God’s plan.
Where to dive in:
(0:00:00) – Building Faith in Adversity
God’s limitless power, recognizing His presence, and the power of perspective and faith during waiting periods.
(0:09:21) – This Is the Day
Faith in God’s sovereignty and purpose, rejoicing in each day, and the promise of eternal life.
(0:24:09) – Running to the Stronghold
David’s encounter with the Philistines teaches about spiritual strongholds, seeking refuge, inquiring of the Lord, and recognizing God as the “Lord of the Breakthrough.
(0:39:07) – Guide to Miraculous Provision and Victory
Faith and reliance on God during economic uncertainty, emphasizing attentive obedience to His instructions for overcoming adversity and achieving success.
(0:54:07) – Faith in God for Victory
Patience, faith, and divine guidance lead to spiritual victory and praise. Building a strong foundation and seeking refuge in God. Prayer and audience engagement.
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regardless of who’s involved, regardless of how difficult it may seem. Your God is creator of all of all and there is nothing too difficult for him, nothing, there is nothing impossible for him. All things are possible to them that believe. I’m wanting to build your faith right now to a place of belief. We choose to believe this God, who delivered from the beginning, is still delivering today, who delivered the children of Israel out of bondage, complete and total bondage, and set them free by the miraculous power of his hand. Welcome to the Jamie Luce podcast.
Thank you so much for joining me today for this time of Bible study, and if you will do this with me right now, I think we will get off to a great start. The Holy Spirit has impressed a couple of scriptures on my heart and I want you to say this with me right now, and I want you to say it with all of your heart. I want you to think about these words, what they mean, and I want you to declare them from a place of faith in your heart, regardless of where you are today. Regardless of where you are today, regardless of what you are facing today, what you could be right, smack dab in the middle of right now what you could be fighting and resisting, what you could be bearing up under, regardless of your circumstance. Today, I want you to stop and I want you to declare this with me. This is the day that the Lord has made. I will rejoice in it. I will rejoice and be glad in it. Glad in it. That’s actually Psalm 118, verse 24. This is the day. Say it with me. This is the day that the Lord has made. I will rejoice and be glad in it.
Now, depending on what you are dealing with today, whether it be wonderful or whether it be the pit of despair, it can be both. You can be in both places right now. You can, on the one hand, know that God is speaking to you and it is my intent and it is my purpose and it is what I believe, that God has given me something to come and bring this to you right now, that this was not my intention, this was not in my mind. This is something that he stirred up in my spirit, in my heart, and, at the same time, that we are dealing with the heaviness of circumstance, no matter what that would be, whether that’s you personally, someone you love or care about, whether it’s the world we’re living in and and our country that we’re concerned about. Whatever place you find yourself in at the very moment that you are feeling the weight and the depth of whatever that circumstance may be, at that same moment faith can burst from your spirit and affect your soul.
And this verse now I’m not going to talk on this verse, this is just the opener. This is just to get us warmed up. But if we will think about this I meditated on this, I said this verse to myself today over and over and over again I recognize that some things, even for me, for me personally, in my life today, there were some things that just happened that it’s like, lord, I recognize you. It’s just like when Jesus had already died, was buried but resurrected, but resurrected, and he was still showing up to the disciples in some places before he had not yet ascended. So it’s in that little, those 40 days that he was here.
Afterwards I believe it was 40 days, and Peter is out fishing with some of the disciples and they’re not too far from shore but they aren’t close enough to have a good picture of who that is on shore. But they see someone on shore and that person on shore calls out and says have you caught any fish? Any fish. And at the exchange, at the, at the word, at hearing the word, at hearing the voice, at hearing it in his spirit, peter says it is the Lord and he literally jumps in the water with his coat on and all to get to Jesus on shore. And when they get there, jesus is already frying up fish and going to have a wonderful time of fellowship with them and encouragement to them, probably instruction to them, before he ends up leaving their presence for the last time in the physical sense.
And I felt today several things that it was that recognition. It is the Lord. And it’s critical, folks, that when we are facing things, and it’s critical, folks, that when we are facing things, when we are running up against very difficult obstacles, things that we think we cannot bring that giant down, that somehow, in fact, this past week in our church service that we attend, this past week, in our church service that we attend, our pastor spoke about being grasshoppers in the sight of our giants and us seeing ourselves that way, and the enemy will then, in turn, agree with you. He’ll see you that way too, unless you use faith, unless you come, like David came and recognize that it’s not you who’s fighting that giant. It is that giant who is standing against your God. He’s not standing against you. He is standing and trying to defy the God that you serve and the promise that that God has made. And that enemy will look at you and agree with you if you think of yourself as less than and ill-equipped and unable to stand against that thing, that you’re standing against, this giant that stands before you. And in those moments, if you can recognize who God is, if you will remember and set your eyes on the God that you serve, it will change your perspective. It will bring strength into your bones.
That’s why we wait upon the Lord. You could be waiting for salvation, waiting for God to come in and do the miraculous. You are in a time of waiting on God, but waiting is not doing nothing. Waiting is faith. So we wait on the Lord. And what happens when we wait on the Lord?
David taught us so much, and the psalmists, whoever were writing the Psalms, taught us so much about how to deal with those times of in-between, the times when it’s a battle that we think we can’t get through or get over, and we learn how to fight. David said you taught my fingers to war and my hands to fight. I could be quoting that a little bit wrong, but that’s the gist. He also was the one that said by my God, I was able to run through a troop and leap over a wall to do the things that seem impossible to do. We wait in faith. We wait in faith. It is by faith.
If you read through Hebrews, it is by faith that those who were generals, whether known by name or not, stood believing their God to see the miraculous take place. It is by faith. So I want you to say this again with me this, this is the day. This, this is the day. Decide it in your spirit that you will stand in faith today, because this is the day that the Lord has made, and if he’s made it, he’s in charge of it. If he made it, he ordains it. If he made it, he declares over it what he will. There is none who can stand against our God, and it is this God that we say this is the day that the Lord has made, has made. I will rejoice. I will rejoice that he’s my God. I will rejoice that he made this day, not my circumstance, not my wrong choices, not my sin, not my enemy. None of those things have made this day. It is God who has made this day. This is the day the Lord has made, and I will rejoice and be glad in it, because I can rejoice that he made it. I can rejoice that he knows it, from its beginning into its end, from the rising of the sun to the setting of the same. I can rejoice in that God, who knows my today and knows my tomorrow, who knows the hairs on my head, who can carry me from today into tomorrow. I know him and he made this day, so I can rejoice and be glad in it. I can rejoice and be glad in it. I can rejoice and be glad in it, and not only can I. It says that we will.
Well, the version I’m reading this version. Let me read this to you this is the day that the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it. So, join me today. Let us, let’s take this moment, no matter what has come, no matter what’s to come, and let’s declare that it is God’s day. He made it and we’re going to rejoice in it. We’re going to rejoice that the purpose he has for this day is accomplished, we’re going to rejoice that the purpose he has in me today is going to be accomplished, that his promise over my life, that he is going to perfect that which concerns me, that he is the one who ordains my steps, that this God, who has a good plan for me, who has a good plan for me, who started a work in me, will be faithful to complete that work, or in the person I’m believing for or in the circumstance that I’m expecting to change. God will have his way. Amen. Do you receive that today?
Before we dive into these other passages, I want you to get that in your spirit, from a place of understanding that this day, no matter how dark it may seem to you, if you’ve got Jesus Christ, he is the light of the world. That light is set abroad in our hearts. That light bursts forth into the darkness and it cannot. Even though the darkness cannot understand, it tries to resist it. It cannot, it cannot. It is his light that shines and dispels all darkness. That’s the God we serve. If you are relying on him today, you can be assured that his purpose will be made manifest and he will finish what he started. He will get the glory and he will do what he is purposed to do, regardless of who’s involved, regardless of how difficult it may seem. Your God, god, is creator of all of all and there is nothing too difficult for him, nothing. There is nothing impossible for him. All things are possible to them that believe. I’m wanting to build your faith right now to a place of belief. I’m wanting to build your faith right now to a place of belief. We choose to believe this God, who delivered from the beginning, is still delivering today, who delivered the children of Israel out of bondage, complete and total bondage, and set them free by the miraculous power of his hand. That God is still living and active.
In fact, jesus used the verse when he was in the Gospels, when he was attacked and they were trying to catch him in something, to say something wrong. According to the laws, they knew it to be able to accuse him for whatever they wanted to accuse him of, to disqualify his words. They accused him and asked him a question on if this woman is married to this man and the man dies and leaves no child, and she subsequently, because of the law, marries each of the brothers and they die and leave no child, and there’s seven of them and eventually they die and they are in heaven. Whose husband will she be? And Jesus correctly states to them that you’re mistaken because you don’t know the scriptures. The ones who were accusing him with this question didn’t even believe in the afterlife anyway. So they’re asking a question without wisdom. They have no knowledge because they didn’t believe it anyway. So they’re asking something they don’t know. And Jesus totally calls them out on their error and says you are in error because you don’t even know the scriptures or the power that’s in those scriptures. And he tells them that those scriptures says that God is God of Abraham, god of Isaac and God of Jacob, that he is the God of the living, not the dead. Why would he say that if he was not the God of the living, saying that, first of all, your error is that you think they’re dead, that they’re all in heaven supposedly. If you think there is an afterlife, which you don’t, but that they are actually alive, they’re not dead. It’s why Jesus could say that the little girl was not dead, she was sleeping.
Folks, we do pass from this life into another life. There is life after the body’s physical death, but who we are remains alive. Physical death, but who we are remains alive. That doesn’t change. We don’t die. The second death is simply hell, forever. To live in a perpetual death state, that is living through it, that’s torment, that’s torture.
But, folks, we serve the God of the living. He is the same yesterday, today and forever. He has not changed. He loves you. He has a plan that he is purposing in your life and if we will surrender, if we will surrender to his will in it and say not my will, your will be done, then we can say this is the day that the Lord has made. I will rejoice and be glad in it. Praise God, praise God.
Okay, so that’s my intro. I just wanted to build your faith. I want you to turn with me. We’re going to stay in Psalms today. Well, I take that back. We’re going to start.
Let’s start in 2 Samuel, but we’re going to go back to the Psalms. There’s a scripture, in fact I’ll read it to you real quickly and we’ll go to there. I’ll kind of bookend this. We’ll start here and then need to go look this up, and this doesn’t happen to me very often, but these words were very specific and the whole scripture did not come to me. It was these first couple words. So I Googled the first words and then it came up. And this is what’s funny. This is how I knew it was the Lord too, because I don’t care for some of the translations that, to me, are not translations. They are a person’s opinion of what that scripture is saying. So it’s that person’s interpretation, but it’s not a translation, and so I usually don’t read those. There are some very popular ones out there, but I don’t tend to read those.
But the Lord was drawing me to a very particular scripture and, out of my spirit in fact, I’m going to pull up the words so I can say to you what he said to me. I’ll look up the right thing here. I’ll look up the right thing here. The words that came to me was I will say to my soul. I will say to my soul Now, in most of the translations that I do read, there is a scripture in Luke that says I will say to my soul and it’s referring to a parable that Jesus is teaching, and that’s not what was. I knew. I knew it was a Psalm. I knew what was coming up in my spirit was the Psalms. It was a Psalm to speak to myself. You know, we know, and and all of the whether it’s self-help, whether it’s um new age, whether it’s biblical and it’s coming from a godly person Um, there is a truth about how we speak to ourself.
David did this. He spoke to himself. All through the Psalms, we see what he would say to himself, and he would speak to his own soul, and and I knew what the Lord was saying to me he said I will say to my soul. So he was saying I want you to command your soul, jamie. So he used those words on purpose, but he was taking me to a psalm.
What he spoke to me, though, was a version of scripture that I usually don’t read. It was a translation that I don’t normally read. It was the Passion Translation, and I don’t tend to read that, but it said then I will say to my soul don’t be discouraged, don’t be disturbed, for I fully expect my Savior, god, to break through for me. Then I’ll have plenty of reasons to praise him all over again. Yes, living before his face is my saving grace. Now, that’s beautifully said. Beautifully said, and the words took me on this journey that I will say to my soul well then, that’s how God does me, so he, he gets me going and shows me where he wants me to go, based off of little things, that he speaks into my spirit. But it was in that moment of understanding he is telling me that there is a way.
And this I’m going back to what I was saying whether it’s coming from whichever direction, secular or Christian or not, I have to speak to my soul and I have to tell my soul what it is to think. I am to tell myself what the word says. I am to declare over myself the truth of God’s word. That’s why I started with the scripture that I started with. This is the day I’m going to declare God’s word. I’m going to declare it not just because I’m declaring it. I am speaking truth into my spirit and when you’re facing a giant of any kind, you must speak the truth of God into your spirit, say to yourself, say to your soul Okay, so we’re going to go back to there. That’s just your little nugget. Hold on to that. That’s one of the bookends we’re going to go through and I’m going to take you through this understanding that God is the God of the breakthrough.
Now I’m going to read it to you in a different version and we’ll go back to the Passion Translation to finish it up, but I’m going to read it to you from the version I read right now. Which is, what am I reading right now? Let’s open this up and see what I’m reading right now. I’m reading the English Standard. Up and see what I’m reading right now. I’m reading the English Standard Version. Okay, I’m reading the English Standard Version.
So let’s go to 2 Samuel and we’re looking at chapter 5. And this little story I loved because what caught my heart was in the passion translation of that scripture they use the word that my God will break through. For me. Now, the words break through are not in this English standard version that I’m reading, and so I was curious, because I know that we get the sense of breakthrough many times in scripture and it even if you read in psalm 40, 42, david talks about the fact that god’s waters break over him, and but there is a very specific instance in second samuel, second samuel, where God is considered the God of the breakthrough. He is considered the God of the breakthrough and David so names the place because of it, and David has been anointed King at this point in scripture. He has been anointed King of both the North and the South. Okay, so he’s got Judah and he’s got all of the Northern kingdom of Israel, the south Okay, so he’s got Judah and he’s got all of the Northern kingdom of Israel. And he had reigned in um Judah for um. I believe it was six and a half years. Let me look at that. Um, I’m sorry, seven years and six months. Seven years and six months. And then he reigned over Israel and Judah for 33 years. Okay, so David was anointed king of Israel.
And then we come upon this. There’s a story in there. I’m going to kind of skip through that, but this is right before David’s going to set up, to store up the items to build God a house. So there’s a talk between him and Hiram, king of Tyre, who sends all the cedar trees. But I’m going to skip past that. Let’s go to verse 17. And we’re going to read through the end of the chapter, which is verse 25.
When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to search for David. But David heard of it and went down to the stronghold. Okay, that’s just important. You have to know where your stronghold is. We know. Scripture tells us that the Lord is our strong tower. We run into him and we are safe. David knows he has to go and get um, take um cover to be. That’s not the word I want either. He he’s going to it’s, it’s correct, but he’s going to go take refuge in the place of strength. Okay, so when you’re battling difficult circumstances, things that are weary you, they’re, they’re heavy, maybe you’re exhausted with this, maybe this has been a very long, heavy battle and you have to know where to run. And for David, he ran to the stronghold. So you’ve got to run to the stronghold.
Now, I’m going to take that just for a moment. He went to a physical stronghold. I’m going to use that as a picture of the spiritual. Okay, so that’s the scene. Let’s, let’s take it to the unseen the spirit, the stronghold.
A stronghold, depending on how you think of it, and I’m going to use this, spiritually speaking, is is, and I’ve given this to you before, it is a pattern of thoughts. So for me now, because I don’t have a physical stronghold to run into now, you know there still could be physical strongholds. Let’s say you are somebody who is, you’re driving down the road, someone’s following you, you know there’s mischief in mind and you drive to the nearest police station, public place, right, you’re running to a stronghold, you’re running to a place of safety. Okay, so there’s a physical um picture of that and that that is still real, relevant to, uh, uh yeah, relevant today, relevant. Relevant. Relevant today, not relevant relevant. Relevant today for us, in our circumstance.
But I want you to also think of this in the spiritual sense, in the interpersonal sense, on the inside of you. Okay, where do you run when your fear and anxiety, or your anger and frustration, or your pain and your hurt are overwhelming in the thing that you are dealing with? Where is the stronghold for that? Now, on the one hand, one sense you want to be around people who will love you, pray for you, encourage you. That would be the physical, outward stronghold. But on the inside of you, where is the stronghold? The stronghold and I’m going to use this again a pattern of thoughts. What am I saying?
You need to have your thoughts. You need to have your thoughts. The stronghold of your mind needs to be and I’m using this because we see in the New Testament, when Paul is explaining fighting spiritual battles, okay, and we know we need to have a helmet of salvation on our head, but that we have to tear down every imagination. Those are thoughts that would rise up to seemingly be in strength over, to overpower what your knowledge is of God and the power of God to you. Okay, so this is how you like. How I said about the grasshoppers to you. Okay, so this is how you like. How I said about the grasshoppers, how you see yourself. You also need to um, have the strongholds set in your mind of how you see your God, what you know about your God. So the stronghold you must run to are all of the things you know about God, so the thoughts that need to be running through your head. The stronghold of thoughts needs to be. This is the day the Lord has made. You need to be running through the scriptures that greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world. You have to be calling forth what you know about God, about what he has said about you, what he has said in his word, about his plan and his purpose, and that stronghold needs to be available, and you need to be running into that stronghold when an enemy is presenting itself and threatening to come after you. So I’m going to read this again. So keep this in mind.
When the Philistines heard the enemy heard that David had been anointed king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to search for David. He’s being sought after, he’s being attacked, whatever that means for you. Make this your story. Okay, see yourself in the text. But David heard of it and went down to the stronghold. Now the Philistines had come and spread out in the valley of Rephaim and David inquired of the Lord shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you give them into my hand, lord? Should I fight this battle? Will I be victorious if I fight this battle? Is what David is saying. And the Lord said to David Go up, for I will certainly give the Philistines into your hand. And David came to Baal-perazim and David defeated them there. And he said the Lord has broken through my enemies before me like a breaking flood. Okay, this is all that breaker speech. The Lord has broken through my enemies before me like a breaking flood. Therefore, the name of that place is called Baal Parazim. The word Baal just means Lord and Parazim is the breakthrough. So he’s Lord of the breakthrough. That’s what he named. David names this place the Lord of the breakthrough, and the Philistines left their idols there and David and his men carried them away. I mean, the false God, the false ideologies that would stand against God. They had to leave their idols there and David was able to carry the enemy away.
Let’s go on Now. You would think, okay, great. I’m going to talk to those of you who haven’t just fought one battle. But you fight one battle and get great. I’m going to talk to those of you who haven’t just fought one battle, but you fight one battle and get victory and here comes another. So you know, god is the God of the breakthrough. But then here comes another. I already fought that and I’m tired. I got the victory, but I was hoping for a little space in between here, between having to fight battles, and the Philistines came up yet again, the same stinking enemy. Have you had to fight the same enemy again, one that you’ve defeated, and what will the taunt of the enemy be? The taunt of the enemy will be you didn’t really defeat it and it’s coming back, and it’s coming back stronger, and you’re always going to have to fight this enemy. This enemy is always going to be a problem for you. And the Philistines came up yet again and spread out in the valley of Rephaim. They spread out. They wanted to take a lot of territory. This enemy said you may have won there, but this time we’re taking everything. We’re defeating you and we’re defeating you on a huge scale. This is going to be worse than the last time. Do you hear what I’m saying Now?
David knows to run to the stronghold. David knows that his God is the God of victory. David knows it is not David who fights. Now, how do we know that? David knows Does he have to actually go physically fight? Yes, he does, but he knows it’s God who fights for him. He knows the victory comes from the Lord, that it’s not based off of how well he fights, though he’s going to fight with all his might. It is God who determines the outcome and if God says go fight, then you’re going to win the victory. If God tells you to fight, then you’re going to win the victory. If God tells you to fight, then you’re going to win the victory.
Now, this is where we need to understand Lord, do you want me to fight this, and how do you want me to fight this? Do you want me to fight this and how do you want me to fight this. That means I’m not going to run on my own understanding, I’m not going to lean on my own understanding. I’m going to trust the Lord. I’m going to ask him, acknowledge him in all your ways and he will direct your paths. You know, there’s a passage in Luke where Jesus actually is saying in fact, I should read that to you. Go to real quickly or you can write it down, because we’re going to go back. Luke 13 is it Luke 13? Let me make sure I’m getting reading the right one, sorry. Luke 12, verse 57.
Jesus is actually asking a great question here and he says and why do you not judge yourselves what is right? Why aren’t you judging yourselves what is right? They’re getting ready to go up to a magistrate, they’re going to court and he’s saying you should be able, amongst yourselves, you both should be mature enough and you both should have the right character, that amongst yourselves, as brothers amongst yourself, that you would judge righteously yourselves and not need to go to court. He’s condemning them for even doing this, them for even doing this. And why do you not judge yourselves what is right? As you go with your accuser before the magistrate, make an effort to settle with him on the way, lest he drag you to the judge and the judge hands you over to the officer and the officer puts you in prison. I tell you, you will never get out until you have paid the very last penny.
He’s saying if you don’t judge yourselves what’s right, if you don’t, whether it’s you humbling yourself, coming forward and saying, yep, that was my fault, whether it’s you or the other person, this is talking to both parties. Somebody’s wrong here and somebody needs to make amends and somebody needs to make this right and both need to work together. And somebody’s not doing it right and this is going to get out of hand. And then someone’s going to get put in bondage for this and have to pay the penalty for this. When it wasn’t necessary to do that, it wasn’t necessary to do that. It wasn’t necessary to do that. So we need to know, lord, what do you want me to do and how should I do it? And there’s sometimes that we are supposed to go fight. I mean, there’s times when he says go, pursue, do what I’ve told you to do. So let’s read this, verse 22.
And the Philistines came up yet again and spread out in the valley of Rephaim. And when David inquired of the Lord. So this is how we know. He didn’t just run off thinking it was in his own power. He knows I need to do it God’s way, with God’s instruction. If he tells me to go, I’ll go. If he tells me not to go, I won’t. He’s going to tell me how and which way to do it.
He says, and when David inquired of the Lord, he said this is God speaking. You shall not go up. Go around to the to their rear. Go around to their rear. You’re saying don’t go straight up into battle on this there. There’s a plan here and I need you to go a different way. I need you to take a different direction. I want you to come up from behind. I don’t want you to go at them and just face them. I’m not telling you to charge and go straight after the enemy. I have a different plan. Let’s come out. This from the backside. Let’s not start this problem from the front side. Let’s go to the backside, he says, and come against them opposite the balsam trees. Do it opposite the way you think, opposite the balsam trees, and when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, so God is saying there’s going to be when you hear don’t even I’m telling you to go which way, but don’t start. Just stay there until you hear this sound.
These are very specific instructions that, if you want the victory all along the way, we are asking the Lord. Okay, what do you want me to do today, lord? This is the day the Lord has made. How do you want me to navigate today? He tells us, don’t be anxious for anything, don’t be worrying about tomorrow, he tells us, don’t worry about what you’re going to wear, don’t worry about what you’re going to eat, don’t worry, don’t do any of those things Each day. We submit that day to the Lord and we say Lord, what do you want me to do today? What’s the battle plan for victory today? Today, do I charge into the day? Do I come up from behind and I wait? Is there a signal you’re going to give me that I should do this or do that, turn right or turn left? This is what he’s saying.
When you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, then rouse yourself. To rouse yourself means you were at a place of rest and you have to rouse yourself. You have to rouse yourself. In fact. Let me just for fun.
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Okay, the word means to pay attention. So I’ve got all of a sudden a frog in my throat, forgive me. He’s saying you’re going to follow my directions and I want you to pay attention. When you hear this sound, david, it’s time to pay attention. So what does it mean to pay attention? You know it to me as I’m thinking about this right now, kind of going over this with you as I’m, I’m processing out loud, actually, so you can process with me that if we are to bestir ourselves r rouse ourselves, pay attention. It means there’s something I need to be looking for. If I’m going to pay attention, it means I need to focus. If I’m going to pay attention, it means I have to be looking carefully.
Some things need strategy, folks, and, depending on what you’re dealing with, some things, some things are just an outright battle. It’s just a fight and you need to. You just need to come against the enemy and and bind the works of Satan and stand on God’s promises and declare truth and let the enemy fall. Sometimes we deal with things, especially if they are, um, something we’ve dealt with a long time. We tend to this is my opinion we tend to, um, if it’s been a long time, we we tend to fall into the trap of self pity, self pity for one, but then also the trap of okay, I’ve tried everything, like we think we’ve, we’ve done all of this and there is no other way. Okay, so, so we self-defeat, we have self-defeating talk, we take ourselves, like I mentioned earlier, and put us back in that grasshopper state.
I am now a grasshopper. I’m no longer looking at the problem from the perspective of my God, and that God has a purpose in this, but I’m making it me inferior to God, inferior to this enemy, and this enemy is larger and more powerful than I. So I completely wreck my perspective and therefore I’m not in the stronghold, because I am not in the position of thinking on God’s thoughts. I’m not thinking on God’s truths, I’m not thinking on the character of God. I’m thinking about my thoughts. I’m not thinking on God’s truths. I’m not thinking on the character of God. I’m thinking about my humanity. I’m thinking about what? Uh, maybe past experience. Uh, you know, we can, we can allow ourselves to go down all kinds of roads that will take us off of the fact that we need to rouse ourselves. So God can’t rouse you for you.
You have to pay attention. God is giving the instruction and he says I need you to pay attention, get in your word, pay attention, know who I am, pay attention. Ask me what I, what I am telling you is the plan. Ask me what you should do and then do what I tell you to do. You know God could give us instructions all day long and we could sit every day and pray and read the word. But if I don’t actually do what I’m reading, it was a waste of my time to sit and read his word. If I have no intention of actually doing what his word says, I am wasting my time sitting there reading. I’m wasting my time, I mean. God is telling him this is the plan and you’re going to have to rouse yourself at a very particular time. And you’re going to have to rouse yourself at a very particular time. Pay attention, follow my instructions, do what I tell you to do. If you want victory, this is what’s necessary. If you have need victory over your enemies, you need God to give you instruction and you must follow those instructions.
So many times people get afraid, they get confronted with situations and immediately they forget everything God told them. And because they forget what God told them, they run off in the flesh and cause all kinds of new problems and end up not doing what God said and not getting the victory. This is what the parable of the soils, the first soil, the first ground. You basically forget the word, I mean mean it just gets plucked away. You just, you had the word but you didn’t keep it. The word’s gone. You don’t even remember. It’s just gone. Not having that soil, not because the soil’s good. God says his ground is good, he plants in good soil. If you’re just, you know you’re just letting it go, you’re not paying attention, you’re not taking it, you’re not allowing its roots to go down in you. That’s on us.
Rouse yourself, for then, the Lord, for then, if you do these things, if you will go the way I’ve told you to go, don’t do the typical thing, don’t do what you’re used to doing, and then wait, wait till I give you the sign to do it, and then, when you get the sign, you need to pay attention and rouse yourself. For then, not until then, for then the Lord has gone out before you to strike down the army of the Philistines. And David did as the Lord commanded him and struck down the Philistines from Geba to Gezer. Praise God, the God of the breakthrough. He is the God of the breakthrough, but we do need to do it God’s way. Okay, I want you to turn to Psalm 42 and in I’m going to go ahead and read this to you because I think this will encourage you.
When you see the um where David’s heart and mind has been and how he constantly vacillated, I think that we can. It does for me. It so encourages me. It reminds me. It’s why Job encourages me. I used to really neglect reading the book of Job because I felt like it was so depressing, it was just hard to read, and now is an encouragement to me. It really now really encourages me, because Job was not condemned before God for having these feelings and saying what he said said.
When God shows up on the scene, god corrects Job, not by telling him what he said was wrong, but by saying you don’t know me yet, you don’t know, and telling him all the things he does not know about God. He just explained how much bigger he was than what Job even said, but he didn’t tell him what you said was wrong. He told the friends that you need to listen to Job, that Job was not wrong. Okay, so these men, jacob too, he wrestled with God. He wrestled with God, and David wrestled this stuff out. He wrestled his emotions out. He wrestled this constant, these constant battles out.
So let’s look at that Psalm 42, as a deer pants for flowing streams. So pants my soul for you, god. I’m desperately thirsty. I’m desperately thirsty. I need you, god. I so need to be refreshed by you. Okay, my soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? When am I gonna feel like I’m in your presence and you hear me? And I’m going to make it through this Jamie’s translation.
My tears have been my food day and night. Boy, have I lived that. My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all day long where is your God? The tears are saying where is my God? I’m crying out in these tears day and night, because I’m saying where are you God, where are you God? These things I remember.
So when he’s feeling all of that misery and distress and pain, sorrow, verse four, these things I remember, as I pour out my soul, how I would go with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God, with glad shouts and songs of praise, a multitude keeping festival. So then, what does he say to himself when he remembers this? Why are you cast down, oh my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God, for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God. What just happened right there in verse five, what just happened was that the stronghold David ran to was remembering who God was and when they would be praising God and giving him the glory for the wonderful things that he has done.
When David was leading them in processions, those processions leading to the festivals were victories that God had brought, and David would lead the crowd, dancing out of his clothes, singing the songs of victory, and he’s saying I remember those things, I remember that God, I remember who he is, I remember that he is my salvation and he’s still my God. My soul is cast down within me. Therefore, I remember you from the land of Jordan and of Hermon and Mount Mazeer. Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls, all your breakers and your waves have gone over me. By day, the Lord commands his steadfast love and at night, his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.
I say to God, my rock, why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning Because of the oppression of the enemy, as with a deadly wound in my bones? My adversaries taunt me while they say to me all day long where is your God? Verse 11. Why are you cast down, o my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God, for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God. In fact, chapter 43 basically continues this thought and he says vindicate me, oh God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people from the deceitful and unjust man. Deliver me, for you are the God in whom I take refuge. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go about mourning? Because of the oppression of the enemy? I mean, he’s saying, why am I walking around? He’s questioning his mourning. Why do I go around mourning because of these oppressive people, this oppressive enemy? Send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me and I say that to myself, you need to say that to yourself today. Let them bring me to your holy hill and to your dwelling. Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy, and I will praise you with the leer oh God, my God. Why are you downcast, oh my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God, for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God. That verse, let me read it to you again in the Passion Translation and we will end here. Let me read it to you again in the Passion Translation and we will end here. Then I will say to my soul don’t be discouraged, don’t be disturbed, for I fully expect my Savior, god, to break through for me. Then I’ll have plenty of reasons to praise him all over again. Yes, living before his face is my saving grace.
That verse, verse 11, hope in God, for I shall again praise him. That is David’s faith statement. I will again praise him. What is he saying? I know I’m going to have the victory again. I know God is bringing me the victory again and I will praise him again.
This situation I’m facing right now. I’m in the waiting. Him again. This situation I’m facing right now. I’m in the waiting, I’m in the waiting. He’s going to give me the battle plan. He’s going to tell me what I need to do and when I need to do it. And when he does, I’m going to pay attention and I’m going to do it and I will gain the victory. And I will come, praising my God, to his holy hill again. I will bring the throngs behind me. We will sing, praise and give thanks, for God has been merciful again, bringing me the victory, for he is great, god is great, and great is his faithfulness. He will be faithful to you again. That’s his word. Build up the right stronghold, make sure you’re running to the right place, make sure you’re getting your instructions from him, not running off in the flesh and doing it yourself, but waiting on God. He will bring the victory, he will bring a breakthrough.
Thank you so much for joining me today. Let me pray for you, father. I thank you for your word, the power of your word, the ability to know you in your power, in your might, in your glory, and that you have a plan, that you are working. You will not forsake the work of your hands and we give you the glory for it today. We take refuge in this day, for this is the day that the Lord has made and we will rejoice and be glad in it. Thank you that you will bring us the breakthrough and that we will again praise you for the victory, and it’s in Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.
Thank you again for being with me today. It was my pleasure to be with you. If you would do, go on to. Well, if you’re on YouTube, just hit that like and subscribe so you can get notified for any new material that comes out. You can also visit me on my website If you wanted to leave an email for me or contact me. That’s mail at jamielucecom. That’s J-A-I-M-E-L-U-C-E. I’d love to hear from you if you’ve got any testimonies to share, and I’ll be praying for you. Just know that I’m in your corner. We’re doing this together. We’re in this.
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