Paul
Gifted Response
Everlasting God
Facedown
Majesty
God Of This City
Uganda trip, red clay all over, everywhere
God of this city, …
Greater things have yet to be done
Matt
God’s faithfulness
Psalm 136
His Love endures forever x26
David wrote this thinking about what God has done
Not a lot of waiting in today society
We don’t have the character to back it up
We want right now, we want an audience
David knew of process from going to significance to …?
1 Samuel 16:1 – Saul is rejected and Samuel needs to find a new king
David is described as ruddy and handsome
Irish?
Young
Josephus says David is 10 at annoiting
1 Samuel 16:13
David has power
Life gets messy
Power but no audience, no significance
David doesn’t automatically become kIng…he goes through a process…God shapes him
Character building process
Was he willing to be filled with power and wait or do the best he could where he was
Has God called you to something larger than yourself?
How many times did David think, “I shouldn’t have to do this sheep stuff…I’m king!”
If we don’t realize that God was shaping our character, then it’s worthless
David waited approximately 20 years
Don’t like your work, your finances? Time to learn something
We haven’t gotten there yet
God will see us through to the end
David kills Goliath
Goliath is defying God and nobodies getting angry except for David
1 Samuel 17:34-38
David didn’t wait for FedEx to deliver the crown to him
He actively participated in what God gave to him
Something free inside of him and he believed that he could succeed
David knew how faithful God was
Practice killing lions and bears
Committed in his heart to do something significant
20 years between called and crowned
God has a purpose in your life
You are David in your workplace…don’t let others defy God
Share God’s love
God is shaping you a character that can preach to the audience He has given you
Jon
See?
Anointing = passion
Start a seed selling company or save kittens from the pound
Her mother appreciated her passion
Tragic 30s in the 80s
Gave up 11 year old son to husband 3,000 miles away
7 years of study
Psalm 46 – be still and know that I am God
Yes, not yet (bothered by the Holy Spirit) and no (miss out)
Son was 18 and killed by a motorcycle
I haven’t asked you to do anything that I haven’t done
Are you willing to accept it my way?
Helping those that can’t help themselves
Helped her dad by reading Psalms and saved him
Ministered to her mom through dementia
Daughter was a single mother and needed help
Gave up her job and raised her grandson and did ok
Then Satan reared his head and tore the family apart
God whispered how to bring order out of chaos and she filed for custodian of her grandson
Extravagant court battles are still going on
Can’t let the money counters make the bank deposits
He had a broken ankle and nobody was helping and now he’s home to stay
Matt
Optimism for what God is about to do
Share how God has been faithful to us
Our stories
Focus on what God did to help us realize what he’s about to do
His love endures forever
Worship band from Belfast went to Thailand
Ran into a bartender in the roughest neighborhood
Played gospel music in a brothel
Drank a lot as well
Playing worship music and watching a 12 year old girl walked upstairs followed by an old man and they forgot the words on the music stands and started to sing “you are the God of this city”