David: Portrait of a Champion, Part 8
Leading The Way Radio Podcast
Leading The Way with Dr. Michael Youssef
4.9 • 620 Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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In David: Portrait of a Champion, Dr. Michael Youssef takes us through the amazing victories, tragic losses, and difficult trials of Israel's greatest king. Learn why God called David a man after His own heart, and discover the change He wants to make in your heart, too.
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| 0:00.0 | There are several sad chapters in David's life. This is one of them. Because at this point of his life, David is feeling inferior and acting inferior. And when I thought about this, I thought of the story of the man who went to his psychiatrist and he thought that he has an inferiority complex. And he said to the psychiatrist, |
| 0:21.9 | I believe I have an inferiority complex. And the psychiatrist examined him thoroughly, gave him |
| 0:27.5 | some test, talked to him, and finally came to him with a diagnosis. And he said to him, well, I have |
| 0:32.1 | one of those good news, bad news kind of a diagnosis for you. He said, the good news is this. You have no complexes. And the bad news, kind of a diagnosis for you. He said, the good news is this. |
| 0:38.3 | You have no complexes. |
| 0:40.8 | And the bad news is you are certainly inferior. |
| 0:47.7 | David here is acting and feeling inferior. |
| 0:51.8 | Discouragement is one thing, but allowing discouragement to persist in our lives, |
| 0:59.7 | most certainly going to lead you to confusion and going to lead you into sin. |
| 1:04.9 | Please hear me right. We all face discouragement. All of us face discouragement. |
| 1:16.7 | Discouragement is like a garment. You can choose to wear that garment or you can choose to hang it up in the closet. Discouragement is like a bad companion. You can choose to |
| 1:24.4 | walk with that bad companion or you can choose to bring that relationship to an end and part your ways. |
| 1:31.8 | David at this point of his life chose to wear the spirit of discouragement. |
| 1:37.3 | David at this point of his life allowed discouragement to be his companion everywhere he went. |
| 1:43.9 | David at this time on his life elected to give in to the |
| 1:48.1 | spirit of discouragement. The spirit of discouragement led him to trot in roads that he would never |
| 1:54.8 | have trodden. The spirit of discouragement has escorted David into events and into functions that he would never |
| 2:02.3 | have gone to. How did it happen? Well, David began by moping and talking and feeling |
| 2:10.0 | sorry for himself. And that is always a warning sign because when you begin there and you |
| 2:17.1 | stay there, you're going to end up in Zichlag. |
| 2:19.9 | Now, if those of you who have your Bibles and you got it there in 1st Samuel 27, I want you to put |
| 2:25.1 | a circle around the word Zicklag. I'm going to come back to it again and again. |
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