1. Where we END, GOD takes
Over – Part 1
I Samuel 30

2. Introduction
• We are at an exciting period in our
church history
• We have established the eldership to
support and build this house with Ted
and Solveig
• Building the House of God requires
tunnel focus and a spiritual awakening
that we are warriors for and of
God, seeking the lost and restoring the

3. Introduction
• We need everyone to understand that
we are here to fight to build His House
and win souls for Him in the West
• We need to realise if we are not focused
or aware then we are fooled and not
being effective for God
• We need a people that is sold out for
God and testify His goodness wherever
we are

4. Introduction
• Some of us are in a place where we are
fighting and we are at our end….and
• I want to teach you today…that when
we think we are at the end…that’s when
God begins
• We need to understand how we get
through every
minute, hour, day, weeks, months, year
s from that moment on

5. Reading 1 Samuel 30
• David has a falling out with Saul
• David joins the Philistines
• Philistine leaders don’t trust his allegiance
• David is sent home to Ziklag
• The Amelekites have burned down his
whole town and taken all the women and
children away
• David and his men return and realised what
has happened and they wept and wept until
there was no more strength

6. Observations
• David was called “a man after God’s
own heart”
• David is a soldier, and he is focussed to
serve even to a people (Philistines) that
was represented by Goliath which David
killed with a sling shot
• David was a legend “Saul has killed his
thousands but David killed tens
thousands”

7. Observations
• What happens when you wake up one day
and everything turns bad and you like
David had a bad day…that became worst
• Your children is in trouble, your spouse is
arguing with you, your finances are down
to the dollar, your car has broken
down, your boss is on your case, your
health is deteriorating as you cant sleep
thinking about all that you need to do and
don’t know where to start?

8. Observations
• Do you feel like running away…going
somewhere and hide in a corner…shout
and rant and rave at
God……crying, balling your eyes out
until you are totally exhausted….
• David had his 2 wives and children
taken from him. He had his men (fought
with him) start to plot to stone him for
their loss…what does he do..

9. Notes
– BUT David found strength in the Lord his
God
– David had to refocus – he called for the
priest to bring him an ephrod
– David asked of the Lord 2 questions
– Shall I pursue and Can I catch them?

10. Observations
• BUT….David found strength in the Lord his
God
• The strategy that David had was to look from
within where we can draw on not physical
strength but spiritual strength….
• When we fight and become
tired, exhausted, we need to find strength from
God inside of us
• We need to get refocussed and like David
takes his battle gear off and puts on the ephrod

11. Observations
• When David wears the ephrod he is
focussed and seeks God
• When we are at the end….we need to
take off what or who we are and all we
represent and put on the garment of
prayer and seek the Lord..
• God wants to tell us he hears our prayer
and he answers them..

12. Notes
• Lets go and all his men joined with him
and went after the Amelekites
• 200 men were exhausted and stay behind
to take care of the supplies and 400 went
ahead
• They met an Egyptian and got help in
locating where the Amelekites were
• They battled from dusk to the next evening
and won. All the spoils and all the women
and children

13. Observations
• When we have spent time in prayer and
seeking God, he restores and re-energises
you to then be ready for the battle
• When we are in a battle there will be some
that will be in the front line and others that
will stay back to protect the supplies
(defend)
• God often provides you with strategic
items in your battle
(people, events, things, information) to
assist you in your fight

14. Observations
• We need to look out for this like God
sent David an Egyptian man along the
way who provided him with information
to locate the enemies
• David and the army fought from dusk to
the evening the next day and
won….because what God has told him
in prayer that he will succeed..

15. Observations
• When God speaks to us from His
word, in prophecies, in prayer and or
worship…we must hold on to this and
from this base we go forward and
build…let us never never forget His
word to us

16. Observations
• David recovered everything, his
wives, all the women and children and
also on top of that all that the
Amelekites had raided from previous
towns
• His frontline men were arguing that the
spoils should only be for those who
battled and not to those who stayed
behind to protect the supplies (400 vs

17. Observations
• The victory for David was more than just
the recuing of his wives and children and
everyone else, he was given more …..
God gave David all that was theirs and
More…what a blessing…
• David always recognised and he made it a
statute and law from that day for Israel
1. God is our Provider
2. God is our Protector
3. God is our Overcomer

18. Summary
• We need to get into our minds that we are
all in a battle
• We need to engage both physically and
spiritually to fight
• We need to be more intimate with our
relationship with God and hold on to the
promises
• We are building an army and we are all
soldiers of the house

19. Summary
• Example – My testimony, Lauren skin
healing, Lauren and Justin's job
situations
• Fight for the lost, our family, our
health, our finances, our workplace, for
the House, wherever we are in the
marketplace

20. Summary
• God make me aware, show me and
teach me how to fight, teach me how to
win the battles
• Never give up and stay strong in the
Lord
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