What battle are you fighting today in your life?

A divorce, your children are on drugs, you lost your job,

all these things that you're going through, God says,

I will help you if you only trust me.

If you only come to me, I will help you.

And it's not your time,'s his time he has a perfect time I am falling in love. I am falling in love. I am falling in love. I am falling in a series in the middle of a series in the Somebody Loves You Radio, the Bible teaching ministry of Roll Rees in Diamond Bar, California.

We're in the middle of a series in the Book of First Samuel. And as Raul outlines the changing

fortunes of the Israelites in their ongoing conflict with the Philistines, you'll see that their

success on the battlefield directly corresponded to their submission and obedience to God.

Follow along for encouragement to fully surrender to the Lord and trust him to fight your battles.

We'll be in 1 Samuel chapter 7 today. Here's we'll race with a lesson, the people repented.

If we go back to chapter 4 when we were in chapter four the last time, if you remember

that Philistines had come and I thought the nation of Israel had been working in the flesh,

they had not only listened to God, but they were moving away from God.

They were moving into their own ways.

And God decided to chasten them. I'm going to take the enemy, and the enemy is going to wipe you out. And they're going to take the Ark of the Covenant, and they're going to destroy Shiloh, the temple. We're going to destroy it. And they're going to take the Ark of the covenant, and you're going to get 30,000 will get wiped out.

And then first of all, 3,000, then 30,000 will get wiped out.

And see if you got the message.

They didn't get the message.

In chapter 4, if you remember, he says, theyllisans attacked and defeated the army of Israel,

killing 4,000. And then again in verse 10. And so the phyllisines fought, he says, desperately,

and Israel was defeated again, and they slaughter a grade of 30,000 Israelites, soldiers died. And as you go through the chapters,

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