The Roar of Victory over Adversity
Pastor Phil Derstine 1-28-24
Get Your Roar On! – to have Victory over Adversity.
- Know your Identity, Authority, and Assignment
- Success is not the COMPLETION of a goal, but the COMMITMENT to the Cause (Assignment)
- I Peter 5:8 (NLT) “Stay alert: Watchout out for your great enemy, the devil. He prowls around like roaring lion, looking for someone to devour. (9) Stand firm against him and be strong in your faith…”
I Samuel 30:1-20 (David at Ziklag) – lost everything: his home, finances, family… and found a way to recover it all.
- How David responded to his Adversity
- 4 Things We Can Learn – A Faith Pattern for full recovery
- David Wept Aloud (v.4)
- They “wept until they had no more power to weep.” (go ahead and weep!)
- Ecclesiastes 3:4 "There is a time to weep… a time to mourn…”
- Medical fact: Tears have healing quality for stress, sadness, grief, anxiety.
- Psalm 30:5 “Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.”
- II Sam. 5:24 – In Valley of Rephaim (giants), camped under Mulberry Trees (Heb: Baka tree – “weeping”) “When you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees… advance quickly for the victory”
- David Encouraged Himself in the Lord his God (v.6)
- Focus on your God and not your circumstances
- Psalm 34:1 “I will bless the Lord at all times, His praise shall continually be in my mouth.”
- Proverbs 15:4 “A wholesome tongue is a tree of life.” (Exodus 15 - bitter waters at Marah turned sweet)
- Don’t get bitter, get BETTER!
- Acts 26:2 “I think myself happy…” (Apostle Paul’s words to King Agrippa, who wanted to behead him)
- Nehemiah 8:10 “Do not sorrow, the joy of the Lord is your strength.”
- David got a Word from God (v.8)
- “Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all.”
- Jeremiah 33:3 “Call unto me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you know not.”
- Romans 10:17 “Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.” (Rhema)
- Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV)“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
- David Recovered all (v.18-20)
- I Samuel 30:19 “And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor any thing that they had taken to them: David recovered all.”
- I Corinthians 15:57 “Thanks be to God, which giveth us the VICTORY through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
- Ephesians 3:20 “Now unto him who is able to do immeasurable more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us.”
