the interesting thing about first Samuel chapter 30 is this is where this is the story about David and ziklag so I'm going to read the story first in fact I'm going to pray and ask God to like settle my mind father thank you for your goodness and your word and the truth of it I pray that you'd help me to settle and just relax into your word I pray that you'd help us to to perceive what you have for us to perceive so we can receive what you have for us to receive in the name of Yeshua amen all right so um this story is um I'm just gonna I'm gonna before I read the story I'm going to give you a little background so um David I think in I think it was in chapter 16 or 17 of first Samuel David kills Goliath right so Saul's anointed to be the king and um he's after he's anointed to be the king because it's so funny like so many even before I say that let me say this so the Bible is not a book about religion okay the Bible is a book about a king a kingdom a royal family and the culturalization of a foreign land that foreign land is called Earth and the objective of the objective of our experience of life as followers of Christ is to establish Heavenly culture in the Earthly realm that's why we're here right um and uh it's so it's so interesting that we see in the Bible we see promises we see principles we see practices we see patterns we see precepts and prophecies and prayers that give us the ability to understand life so we can make predictions about outcomes in the future so we can position ourselves in the right place to fulfill our purpose and experience like the prosperity and the word Prosperity is the Bible word so I like the word Prosperity um uh and the word Prosper basically means to flow right and so so we can experience the prosperity of living our lives on purpose in our purpose right so but we have to learn to recognize these promises principles practices patterns precepts prayers and prophecies we have to learn to recognize them when we see them because oh this reminds me of that right and so what's really interesting is when the people of God said give us a king because all the other nations have a king they chose uh God chose Saul who is Head and Shoulders above all the people and it you'll see that's one of the patterns you see in scripture you see um you see the principle of the second born right so the firstborn is often through scripture rejected and the second born is accepted and that's just a that's a pattern of the first atom sinning and being rejected because of that sin and the second Adam Christ redeeming us back to God so that's what's a picture of and we see it we see it in Cain and Abel we see it in Jacob and Esau we see it in um um yeah from Manasseh we see it in um um Isaac and Esau we just all throughout scripture well Saul was chosen first but he's the type of the flesh Head and Shoulders Above the Rest so he looks he's apparently the one right and so what we have to understand is what is a parent is not always real and a parent comes from the word appear so things are seldom as they seem to be and seldom do things seem to be as they are so as long as we understand that anyway so so them David kills Goliath and then um there's a new hit song and the new hit song is um Saul has slain his thousands and David has slain has tens of thousands now David liked that song I'm sure David's mom and dad like that song I don't think his brothers were crazy about that song and Saul hated the song Every Time Thomas all turned on the radio obviously there was no radio but but he got tired of hearing David and saw his singing his thousand David slaying his tens of thousands and and see the reason that bothered Saul is because Saul was not focused on who he was supposed to be he was comparing himself with somebody else and the scripture tells us clearly that they that compare themselves among themselves measuring themselves by themselves are not wise uh Peter asked the Lord he said he's he's asked Yeshua he said he said about pointing at John what shall this man do because Christ told Peter what kind of death he was going to Dyson and what shall this man do and Jesus said to Peter what is that to thee follow thou me what is it what difference does it make what they're going to do like somebody else's assignment is not my business my assignment is my business and if I'm focused on my assignment then and only then can I fill my assignment I can't be competing with Max and saying okay I gotta outdo Max I don't have to outdo Max I can't outdo Max the only person who can outdo Max is Max right you want to compare yourself to something compare your practice right now with your potential that'll give you something to compare yourself to so anyway I'm getting all worked up that's what I do I get myself worked up in the introduction right and so so so what happened is because Saul didn't like the song and he didn't like the fact that that Samuel Samuel had come and anointed David to be the King after God gave Saul a a directive that Saul disregarded and here's what God told Saul and and a lot of times we as we as followers of Christ we have a hard time with so much in the Bible because because we believe in our Traditions more than we believe in God's truth right but here's what God here's what here's what God told us all to do God said I want you to go down to the amalekites and I want you to wipe them out now when I say wipe them out here's what I mean I want you to kill every man every woman every child and every animal now that's that's some serious Annihilation and what kind of God would do that the kind that don't answer to you that's that's the kind let's don't get that Twisted God doesn't owe us an explanation for anything it's all his the Earth is the Lord and the fullness thereof right but God loves everybody I know that's what you've heard but that's not what the Bible teaches God doesn't love everybody right and if you don't believe me go read Psalms chapter 5 verse 11 go read psalms I mean Psalms chapter 5 verse five go read Psalms chapter 11 verse 5. go read Romans chapter 9 where he reiterates from the Old Testament that Jacob have I loved Esau have I hated right right hated God can't hate people he's God he can do whatever you want to do he has a he has a right to hate all of us but because he shows Mercy on some of us we think that that's not fair well the fact that he showed Mercy on anything fair so are you you are you as irritated that he showed you Mercy as you are that he didn't show somebody else Mercy come on now anyway God told him to wipe out the amalekites here's why God told him to wipe out the amalekites because the amalekites were the Canaanites that laid in wait for them and ambushed them when they came out of Egypt on their way to the promised land now here's what the amalekites are a picture of since I'm since I'm giving you the groundwork of the story I might as well just go ahead and give you all the groundwork since I'm since I'm rabbit chasing so so so the amalekites are a picture of secret sin in your life that hides out in the dark places and waits for you to become vulnerable and then it attacks you and so God said you don't play with that secret sin you don't pet it you don't let it you don't let it in your house you don't entertain yourself with it here's what you do you wipe it out you eliminate it completely and utterly because if you don't it's going to come back and kill you the thing that you're protecting the lie that you're protecting is the one that's going to come back and take your life and so he said wipe out every amalekite so I didn't do that so because Saul didn't do that when Samuel comes and says so so what what are you doing bro I gave you the Commandment of the Lord he said go Wipe Out the amalekites he said he said he said he said something like behold the man of God is here and I have obeyed the Commandment of the Lord he said really he said what is this bleeding of uh uh this um blowing of The Oxen and the belief this bleeding of the sheep that I hear he said he said if you did what God told you to do what's all this I hear in the background right and he said he said oh um the people the people they urged me and and to keep the best stuff alive and he saved the king of the amalekites and he saved the best animals and he said Samuel told Saul because you've rejected God's word God has also rejected you from being King over Israel now here's what the tragedy of that is that when Saul didn't obey God it didn't just destroy his life it destroyed his whole family's life all of his kids were killed except one and the one that was left alive the one that the one child that didn't get killed was lame from his feet because his nurse dropped him when she was trying to escape the attack of the enemy like literally because Saul did not do what God said it didn't just negatively impact his life and they like we we need to make better decisions for our children's sake we need to make better decisions for our grandchildren's sake like we can't just do what feels good in the moment and let let whatever comes after that let it be what it is we got to take into consideration that this is not the last of it anyway so um Saul doesn't kill him and then Sammy Sammy holds all he said here God has rinned he has rent this Kingdom from you he's torn it from you and he's given it to your brother who is better than you who's that Brother David he went to David's house and anointed David to be the king and the president of his brother I don't even have time to go on that so David Gets anointed to be the king now here's what's really interesting about David being annoyed to be the king like you got to be so in tune with God's assignment for your life that you recognize it when other people don't because here's the thing about David's coronation service he was the only person in his family not invited [Laughter] Samuel Cassie's house and says hey oh your sons God told me that one of your sons is going to be the king and he brings all seven of his eight Sons all seven of his eight cents um um and he looks at the first one Samuel looks the first and surely this is Lord and and the scripture says and the Lord has rejected this right now this ain't it that ain't it you either no not you not you not you you said don't you have any other children he said yeah I got one little David he's out in Pastor he's contending on sheep surely it can't be him call him and Dave and Samuel anointed his head with oil here's what an anointing you got to understand the concept of an anointing the anointing was when God revealed your purpose to you and all of those around you that's what the purpose that's what like when we talk about an anointing there's an anointing on your life that means God has revealed your purpose to you and those around you that's why it says that Samuel anointed David to be king where in the presence of his brethren because God wasn't just showing him God was also showing them now I'm going to tell you something when you get your anointing in the presence of people who don't yet have their anointing sometimes your anointing is annoying [Laughter] am I telling the truth this morning sometimes they're like no no no you hey you remember you remember when you remember when Joseph got his anointing don't you God showed him in a dream hey your brothers are gonna bow down to your parents are gonna bow down to you Joseph made the mistake of revealing his anointing to those who would be annoyed by it and they they were so annoyed that they thought about killing him killing their own brother like I can't imagine killing anybody but my own brother I sure can't imagine that and then they said well let's don't kill him because we can't make no money if we kill him let's sell him you know what that's a good idea let's sell him and they sold him to some foreigners and they took him into a foreign land what in the world like what are y'all thinking well what I'm thinking is his anointing is annoying right so hey hey hey hey let folks know don't you let my anointing annoy you because it's not your annoying because I'm sure not gonna let your anointing annoy me how many are tracking wave at me my people so so what you understand when you understand David Gets anointed now what happens now David becomes one of Saul's soldiers and Saul invites him to a dinner picks up a spear and tries to like throw it through his heart like like he puts out a contract on David he tried to kill him they put out a contract on David's life David is running from Saul for his life he can't find anywhere to go so guess where he goes he goes to the Philistines he feigns Madness and then he gets recruited into the army of akish and the Philistines so David is serving in the enemy's camp now here's what's really interesting to me I I don't there's so many there's so many parentheticals in this story that like I almost anyway I'm just going to go ahead and tell it so so what's really interesting about about God and what we see in the Old Testament what we see oftentimes throughout the Old Testament is that when God got ready to deliver his people from oppression war or bondage he would often often take the leader of the Deliverance out of their protected religious environment and put them into the Palace of the king why because when Adam and Eve sinned they abdicated their Kingdom authority to Satan and you you go read the story in Genesis chapter three like Adam and Eve got in Genesis chapter one God gave Adam and Eve Authority God blessed them and said to them be fruitful multiply replenish theirs will do it and have dominion Dominion is authority over Adam and Eve yielded to Satan so they yielded their authority to someone who was under them now what happens if you look at what began to happen after that the seed of Satan the descendants of Satan the descendants of Cain um um lamech they began to build kingdoms and name those kingdoms after their children and the children of God began to build altars and so Satan was using Kingdom principles that God wanted to use to establish his kingdom he was teaching them to his children so they could establish their his Satan's kingdom on the earth because the Earth is the place where God intended for his Heavenly Kingdom to be expanded so Satan said I couldn't take over heaven but so now I'm going to try to take over Earth so God would take somebody like Joseph and put him in Pharaoh's Palace before to deliver his people from starvation took Moses and put him in the palace took Ezra and put him in the palace took Ruth and put her in the palace and we can see this as a pattern over and over and over and over again and even King David before he went up to Reign on the throne of David he went down for years and worked for the king of the Philistines that's a parenthetical doesn't really have a whole lot of stuff to do with this this bible study this morning except this David was we could call him the mayor of ziklag this little village in Palestine that the king of the Philistines had given him to rule over with him and his 600 Mighty Men so David settled for Less than the appointing of his anointing what I mean by that well whenever there's an anointing the anointing is always for an appointing and we as human beings what we like to have is we like to have are appointing show up right after our anointing but God has ordained that our appointing doesn't happen immediately after our anointing we have to go through another season between the season of anointing and the season of appointing there's another season it's called the season of disappointing and that's the season where God gets you ready for what he already has ready for you it's where he prepares you for what he already has prepared for you it's the thing it's the place that makes you strong enough to stay there when you get there and so David is in the season of disappointing but since he's there in his uncomfortable comfort zone he settles in he settled in so much that it came time for the Philistines to go to war against Israel and David's like David reporting for Duty sir Akin said okay well uh there's a problem uh my princess they said you can't come what have I done have I not been paid yet I have not you've been like an angel of God these many years this is what the King this is what king of philistine said you've been like an angel of God for these many years I've not found any fault in you at all but my princess said you can't come to this battle because they think you'll get out there and we'll be fighting against Saul and you'll see it as a good time for you to restore yourself to your master Saul and you'll turn against us and they said is this song was so popular it got it got all the way down to the Philistines they said isn't this the same David they said Saul has slain as thousands and David is tens of thousands he ain't coming with us so they sent David back to to ziklag what is ziklag zip lag is the place you settled for that's less than you're appointing ziklag is your comfort zone and I am here to tell you that it's time to for the comfort zone to end this is the end of the comfort zone now the comfort zone is the failure Zone right the comfort zone now here's what's interesting about it it doesn't feel like failure right what's it feel like it feels like Comfort that's why we call it the comfort zone right the comfort zone is the failure Zone it's the place you settled in but I got news for you the comfort zone was never even a place you were meant to be the comfort zone was never the place I've been and we live in a world that coddles people and that that that says oh you can you can oh oh you're just you don't need to worry about changing your your awesome the Way You Are really I've never met anybody who's awesome the way they are not as awesome as they could be if they put some effort into becoming more do you understand that we were created to become more than we are in fact it's interesting interesting thing interesting side note and you've heard me talk about the fact that Hebrew words are built well um one of the word for man in Hebrew is the word Adam right is the word Adam and it's spelled Olive dalid mem every Hebrew letter has meaning it has significance the letter aleph represents God hmm and God said let's make man in our image dollid mem these two words spell the word blood and we know the life of the flesh is where in the blood so what is a man a man or woman by the way God called their name Adam Adam later called her name Eve right so what is a man or woman we are god-like creations with flesh and blood but see Hebrew words don't have they don't Hebrew words don't have vowels right they just um yeah Hebrew words don't have vows so what do they have they have uh no that's not what I'm looking for I just use this so Hebrew words don't have vowels they have only consonants and and these consonants um I gotta get rid of all this stuff sorry okay so so they have only confidence and what they do is they put um they put like symbols uh like they're called nakud and so like if I go like this oh yeah at that point I'm going to change back to my marker now so I can write so if they put this under that then it makes it make the off sound like Abba ah and then a dome if I put a dot here this is Adam Adam right but if I put if I don't put those there and I put um if I put uh the meh now this says adame which is means what I will compare myself for I will become like and so it shows us that the same word depending on how we pronounce it this means I'm I will become like I'll make this part of me more like that part of me and make sure this part of me is yielded to that part of me I'm supposed to make the Flesh and Blood part of Myron yielded to the spirit the god part of Myron making this yield to this and making this more like this is the purpose of Our Lives to become more than we are spirit is infinite flesh is limited the spirit is willing but the flesh is what weak we need to make the flesh we need to make the flesh yield to the spirit so that we can accomplish more from and with our lives but most people don't do that most people don't even attempt to do that what do they do they just well I'm just I'm just I mean everybody everybody's gonna win everybody's going to pass everybody's going to get you're all winners if you're in a competition you ain't all winners anything there's there's first place and there's every other place right and every other first place gets a w every other place gets what an L that's how life works we are supposed to be seeking to maximize our potential making ourselves more than we are see people who are not striving to maximize their potential in what in every aspect of their lives they resent the struggle of life in this life you shall have tribulation but if you're not like if you're not working to become more than you are if all you're doing is existing you're going to resent the struggle of life you're gonna be like I I don't like this why because you don't see the light at the end of the tunnel you don't see the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow you don't see the Finish Line while you're running around the track you're just like I'm just doing this no wonder most people are frustrated there's there's there are a couple of books that I would recommend that you read one is called the coddling of the American mind and it's showing you how our schools and our colleges and our universities are creating a bunch of weak-minded manby pamby whimpering tantrum tantrum throwing babies and adult bodies oh that wasn't that I didn't that wasn't politically correct was oh that's right I'm not running for office I forgot okay ending ending oh the title of the book is the coddling of the American mind there's another book called anti-fragile I don't know if you've read anti-fragile but anti-fragile says the the premise of the book is this the same wind that extinguishes a candle feeds a forest fire so what's the point what's the point don't be the candle be the forest fire and so the difficulties that break weak people don't see there's fragile there's non-fragile and there's anti-fragile fragile easily broken non-fragile not easily broken anti-fragile the things that break most folk make us stronger anti-fragile so so I didn't even read the story yet okay so now we understand the background David is living in ziklag he's living in the comfort zone and he settled for it and the comfort zone was the place of hiding how many of you are hiding in your comfort zone hiding in that easy place huh but it's also the place of hindrance see because as long as you're in the comfort zone if you're sitting on the throne of ziklag you are not sitting on the throne of Israel it's a place of hindrance and what's really interesting it's I don't even know how much time I have it's a place of hesitation because you're waiting and waiting and waiting for that perfect time there is no perfect time so you have to take the time that is and make that perfect so now we're going to read the story you're going to see what happens this is mind-blowing here's what it says um first Samuel chapter 30 verse number one down to verse number eight it says and it came to pass when David and his men were come to ziklag on the third day because they left where the battle was going on between Saul and the Israelites that the amalekites had invaded the South and ziklag and smitten ziklag and burned it with fire wow and had taken the women captives that were therein and slew not any either great or small but carried them away and went on their way so that his men came so that so David and his men came to the city and behold it was burned with fire and their wives and their sons and their daughters were taken captive and David's people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept I'm sorry then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept until they had no more power to weep have you ever cried that hard have you ever cried so hard that you ran out of Tears wow exactly that's this is a place of despair why because the comfort zone had been burned to the ground here's what the interesting thing about the comfort zone oftentimes we relish the comfort zone so much that God has to ordain that an enemy destroy it because I'm not gonna we we ain't gonna destroy it I I would destroy it but it's a little bit too comfortable and see a lot of times we think that the end we think that what's going on that's difficult is the end but everything that feels bad ain't bad and everything that feels good ain't good and we think that the destruction of the comfort zone is the destruction of my life but it's not right because why because my life begins at the end of my comfort zone and we're talking right now about the end of the comfort zone but here's what's gonna happen in your life in my life I can think back to times in my life where I did not end my comfort zone God ended it right just like God said okay I'm gonna send I'm gonna send destruction I'm gonna ordain God doesn't send the destruction he ordains that the enemy brings the destruction to destroy your comfort zone here's what the enemy doesn't realize the enemy doesn't realize when they come at you like that it's to their own demise right right before they lose they think they won it's the whole story right and David and the people that were with him looked over their voices and wept until they had no more power to weep and David's two wives were taken captive a Hino him and the jezraelitis and Abigail the wife of Naval the Carmelite and David was greatly distressed for his people for the people spake of stoning him because the soul of all the people was grieved every man for his son and for his daughters and David encouraged himself in the Lord as God when your comfort zone is destroyed it causes you to lose it causes you to lose family how be it temporarily but you don't know that when you're in it causes you to lose friends his own friends were speaking of stoning causing you to lose faith that's what happens next in verse number seven and David said to abiathar the priest son I pray thee bring me hither the ephod and I Abby athar brought thither the ephod to David and David inquired at the Lord saying shall I pursue after this troop and overtake them and he answered he who he got answered him pursue for Thou shalt surely overtake them and without fail recover all here's what God Said now that the comfort zone is destroyed go get your stuff the enemy made you think he won they made you think you lost and he thinks he won but I'm telling you right now go get your stuff don't you let the enemy have your family don't you let the enemy sneak into your house take you by storm take you by surprise and steal your family and sell them into some illicit lifestyle to to drugs to alcoholism to to sex to homosexuality don't you let don't you let the enemy come in and steal your family and by the way if they've already got them your family's Worth Fighting For if they already have your pride the enemy already has your product is worth fighting for and I don't know about you but I know me I can remember a time in my life and the not so distant past when the enemy had came in and destroyed my comfort zone so bad I didn't even know if I ever wanted to be an entrepreneur again I was like done I was like over it it was I was exhausted and worked hard and almost everything that I worked hard for was gone you know what God said go get your stuff and here's what it says you will no doubt recover all I'm not going to finish the story today but here's what I'm going to say when you're Comfort zoned when your comfort zone ends pray bring me the ephod what was that that was the that was the what the priest wore when they went before God for man pray prepare you will yes pursue after them you will overtake them so pray prepare pursue because that is the only way that you will ever prevail and what we're going to look at on the next Bible study next week if not next week for those of you who are here by the way what we're going to do next week on YouTube what we're going to do we're going to release the next video and tell you the rest of the story it's going to blow your mind it blows my mind when I think about it so stay blessed by the best remember your anointing is for your appointing but you're appointing almost never comes right after your anointing in fact you have to go through the season of disappointing because that's the thing that makes you strong enough to stay there when you get there Saul is one of the only people in scripture I see who's anointing I mean whose appointing came right after his anointing he didn't have to go through anything maybe that's why he wasn't strong enough to stay there when he got there the end of the comfort zone is the beginning of the purpose Zone don't Lament The Comfort Zone step in to the purpose of fulfill the purpose for which God created your life if you like this video click the like button comment share subscribe and all the other YouTube stuff that I forgot to say do that and I look forward to seeing you on the next video bye for now