Silence the Voice Holding You Back | Robert Madu

hey before I really jump into this message today uh I want to do something that I have never done at Life Church never done don't be nervous this is Pastor Craig approved um I want to do something I want to bring somebody out here just to share with you just for a little bit before I really jump into this message and the reason I want this person to share something with you is because I had no clue they would be here today and this person in my opinion is one of the most influential communicators of

our gener ation and so this is a surprise across every location they're about to come out as soon as they come out you're going to know who they are don't freak out uh I actually want you to welcome them uh but I just want them to share just before I give the message is that okay come on across every Life Church location can we just give God some praise as they come oute oh come on y'all can do better than that they're going to don't stop clapping till they come [Applause] [Music] can you see [Applause]

you oh that was too good some of yall like you play too much I thought somebody was really coming out oh but please don't let the comedy mitigate the weight of what I said in my fake introduction I said I want you to welcome one of the most influential speakers and communicators of Our Generation then I brought out a mirror and said can you see you so I want to ask you who talks to you more than you who influences you more than you who decides where you'll go or you won't go what you'll eat

or you won't eat what you post or what you will not post more than you hear me you are an INF influential Communicator you are a powerful Communicator as a matter of fact you're not just the greatest Communicator that you've ever heard you are the greatest Communicator that you are always hearing good you are always hearing a voice on the inside speaking to you about you wo you talking too I'm fully aware that even as I'm preaching today across every location that although I'm doing everything in my power to preach today's word with Clarity and

precision I am fully aware of the fact that what's most important is not just what I'm saying to you it's what you are saying to you about what I'm saying to you that voice is what is critical that voice is what is important because I can be saying to you oh God's going to open up a door for you and you could be saying well he should have done it last year cuz it's too late now I could be saying that God is going to use your suffering and that suffering and the pain that you're

going through he is using it to form you into the image of Christ and you can be saying to you well I shouldn't be going through this anyway I'm telling you it is the inner narrative that will always navigate the direction and the trajectory of your life and I want to know today who are you talking to how are you talking to you some of you would slap somebody if they talk to you the way you talk to you what what are you saying to yourself what is that inner voice that is the voice that

is critical reminded of this boxer who one day won this championship and as they're giving him the belt and he's celebrating and all excited all of a sudden he looks at the camera as they're handing him the championship BT and he goes you see Dad you see Dad I am somebody I'm not a loser and the person that handed him the belt was like who are you talking to all of a sudden you find out this boxer story and his father was verbally abusive his entire life and the way he would win each match was

to picture the face of his father on his oo on his opponent and then in a championship moment we realized the inner dialogue that was going on in his life I am convinced that life is little about the external confrontation that you face and everything about the internal conversation that you are having with yourself who who are you talking to brings me to my text today in 1st Samuel chapter number 17 I know some of you that when you came to church today you're like for real David and Goliath is that what I came to

church for today because let's be honest everybody knows this story this is a classic story if you went to Sunday school one time in your entire life you know David and Goliath and perhaps that is the problem I think it is our familiarity with this passage that actually robs us of the Revelation that is in this passage I want us to look at David and Goliath today this classic iconic story I want us to look at it with fresh eyes and see maybe there's something deeper that God wants to speak to us and I am

convinced that this passage this fight has a little to do with the fight and everything to do with the conversations that preceded the fight who who they were talking to we have made this about the fight between David and Goliath but I think it's deeper than that cuz I mean come on think about it the fight really could be summed up in four stanzas he hit him with a rock he fell down dead he cut off his head hooray that's the whole fight right there and four standers that is the entire fight why then are

there 58 verses in 1st Samuel chapter 17 it's all that talking it's the conversations when we run up to Goliath we notice he's not cutting off heads of the enemies all he is doing is talking and what he is saying has been paralyzed in fear so I want to talk to you about five critical conversations that David had before he ever got to the fight and I think there are principles from these five conversations that you have to apply to your life are you ready for this today come on across every location look at somebody

say I know this is for you I know this is for you five conversations I want us to look at today the first conversation I call this conversation the Uber Eats conversation we could call it the door Dash dialogue this this is the first conversation and it is in 1st Samuel chapter 17 verse 17 and this is when his father Jesse David's father Jesse comes to him and says hey I want you to go to the battlefield and take your brothers some cheese and some bread and some barley just says go deliver some food to

them that is the first conversation that he has and oh that is a critical conversation it seems like it's a little thing right just go deliver some cheese and some bread it seems like it's a small thing but how many you know it is a big thing it is a massive thing because if David rejects this request of his father he is never positioned for the battle that he was ordained to fight it looks like it's a small thing but it's actually a big thing I have learned that generally big things are always packaged in

little small requests from God often the big doors that everybody wants God to open generally has a little bitty door knob and God wants to see how can you Steward the little thing how can you Steward the small thing before I ever bring you into the big thing imagine if David said no he responded to an Uber Eats request from his father to go bring cheese and bread to his brothers this was a critical conversation especially when you consider what happened in 1st Samuel chapter 16 oh don't forget what happened the prophet Samuel came to

Jesse's house and said I'm looking for the next king bring me all your sons all seven sons come out God rejects all seven of them and Samuel has to ask Jesse a question that you should have to ask a father uh do you have any more kids and he's like oh yeah I I do have another one oh but yeah David just yeah I guess he's out there with the field with the stinky sheep and I love what Samuel says it's so gangster he says we're not going to sit down until he comes here makes

all seven of the brothers just stand in rejection how how long did they have to wait before David made it from the field into the house all of a sudden David walks in and Samuel goes you are the one this is God's anointed it was a destiny moment he anoints him as King David knows that I'm going to be king and then he gets a request from his father I wonder if he thought oh he's going to apologize for not inviting me to Samuel coming he's going to say I'm so sorry that I didn't deem

you worthy to be the next king that's not what he says he says hey can you go take your brothers some cheese and some bread if that was me I would have been like uh who you talking to don't you know I'm the next king of Israel you don't see this oil that's still dripping on me please you want me to deliver shakeri I am the next king of Israel but David doesn't say that what does he say he pulls a Chick-fil-A he says my pleasure my pleasure if my father father has a request for

me my pleasure whatever my father wants me to do my pleasure I am not too prideful to deliver this cheese and bread to my brothers even though I'm the next king of Israel what is David teaching Us in this conversation that you have to have a heart of humility a heart of humility and I want to know when God requests something of you is your response my pleasure or is it who you talking to God you want me to serve in the church they should be glad I just showed up today really no wonder God

can't move you into what he has for you and some people will never step into the effulgence of their purpose not because they can't knock down a big giant named Goliath but because they can't knock down a big giant named Pride David is showing us a heart of humility and he tells his father if this is the assignment you have for me my pleasure I know I'm the next king but I'll go ahead and drop off this Uber e order and look at what happens when he drops it off he drops off the order to

his brothers and after he drops it off right at the moment he drops off the order I'm talking about right at the moment he's about to take the picture and send it to Jesse and say order delivered it just so happens that's the moment that Goliath comes out and starts taunting the children of Israel like he's been doing for 40 days and as soon as David here's it he's like wait a minute what is going on this cannot happen ain't it interesting that he heard the same thing that the other soldiers heard but he had

a completely different response he heard the same words from Goliath but he had a completely different reaction what caused them to be stuck in fear caused David to rise up to the moment oh I'm telling you when you have been talking to God you walk into rooms differently when you know who you are and whose you are I'm telling you you respond differently David was responding because his ear was tuned in to what I call the frequency of faith when you are walking by faith and not by sight you respond differently than other people he's

like oh no wait a minute is there not a cause there's no way I'm going to let you talk about my God like that he heard the same thing but had a different reaction when you are tuned in to what God can do in you and through you when you've been talking to your God just like d David did when he was out there playing the heart with those stanky sheep he wasn't doing anything but receiving who he was and he knew who he was talking to he drops off the order and then all of

a sudden he has the next conversation and this is a critical conversation he has it with the soldiers I want you to hear what he says to the soldiers he says what will be done for the man that defeats this giant you missed it David here's Goliath talking and immediately goes what will be done for the man that defeats this giant y'all missed it too he hears Goliath talking and his immediate response is what is going to be done for the man that defeats him in other words David already sees himself defeating this giant in

other words he doesn't just have a heart of humility he has a vision of Victory he is not stuck in fear he already sees himself defeating this giant so he goes hey I want to know what does the man get who defeats this giant because guess what I am that man oh I don't know who this message is for today but God told me to tell you you got to get a vision of Victory you got to see yourself defeating that giant he had a vision of Victory he could already see it see the soldiers

they were focused on something else in fact the writer in 1 Samuel he gives you great detail explaining Goliath's helmet and his shield and the the reason he's going into great detail is because he's showing you what the soldiers have been focusing on it's Hebrew poetry he's letting you know that they're looking at his helmet and oh my goodness I've never seen a shield that big and oh my God and whatever you focus on the most that's what's going to grow in your life David says I don't care nothing about his shield I don't care

anything about his sword I just know one thing that the God that I serve is able to take him down so I already see myself winning the battle what does the man get for defeating that man cuz I know I'm that guy he's got a vision of Victory can I ask you something do you see yourself winning do you see your marriage being restored do you see your children coming back to God do you see it because if you don't see it it's going to be hard for you to step into it you got to

have a vision of Victory God is doing a miracle in our church social Dallas we've seen God do incredible things we've been in 14 different venues since we pled at our church 4 years ago and our church is just growing and there is a venue that we went in 2022 and we were out there and part of the venue was for sale and the other part wasn't and I was just out there just saying what if this whole property went for sale and guess what it went for sale and I could see it I could

see it and then I was like okay what if we put an offer we put an offer I was like oh what if they accepted it but the whole time I'm just driving and I'm looking I'm like I can see it I can see it I can see our church parking here I can see it and I'm just so happy to announce we closed on that 990,000 FT Property a few weeks ago wo but I saw it before I saw it look at your neighbor say get a vision Vision a victory you have to see

it he had a vision of Victory he says what do you get for defeating this giant because I'm about to defeat him and right after the vision of Victory woo a critical conversation his older brother eliab runs up to him I can see him he steaming mad runs up to him and says hey what are you doing here on this battlefield and with who have you left those little bitty sheep oh you know he's speaking bad when you're talking about how how little his little sheep are like oh who cares about your little sheep you

ever had somebody just disqualify something you had no nobody care about your little job your little house where have you left those little sheep he's so angry with David he said I know the pride in your heart David you just came here to see the battle and I love what David says to him he says man what have I done now in other words this isn't the first time eliab has done this and I love the Bible because the Bible gives us Blues Clues as to why eliad feels this way don't forget that when Samuel

came to anoint the next king guess who the first person he looked at was eliab he thought he looked apart elab was the first person that got rejected as the next king of Israel elab is the reason this verse is in your Bible man looks at the outward appearance but God looks at the heart so can you hear the jealousy in the voice of eliab with David what are you doing here I know the pride that is in your heart if I was David I would have been like who you talking to I came to

bring you food bro but look at what David does he says what have I done now can I not just see the battle and watch what he does I love it you got to learn this move he turns his back on eliab that's a good move if you're taking notes write that down if you if you can write this down he turns that's a good move you know what he did by turning his back on eliab he was proving that he knows his real enemy he understands eliab you are not my real enemy there's a

giant behind you that is my real enemy and I refuse to start wasting my energy fighting my brother when God called me to fight and defeat a giant he turned his back wo because he knew his real enemy hear me you got to have a heart of humility you got to have a vision of Victory but you got to know who your real enemy is and can I tell you your brother and your sister in Christ is not your enemy there is a bigger devil to fight and I wish the church would wake up and

stop fighting each other and let's put all of our energy towards fighting the enemy that's trying to kill steal and destroy from us look at the Brilliance of David he turned his back he says I don't have time to waste energy fighting my brother who is not my enemy and somebody in here today needs to stop fighting your brother and know that there is a bigger enemy behind him oh the devil would love for you to start fighting your brother or sister in Christ in the comment section just fighting eliab they're not your enemy there's

a bigger enemy can you imagine if David would have gotten mad and said I just came to bring you food and pulled out a slingshot and started swinging at his brother that he would have missed his Destiny he would have missed his assignment he knew his real enemy and it wasn't his brother he turned his back on him and he's ready to fight and he goes to Saul essentially says to Saul hey you've been looking for an answer the answer just walked in I'm going to defeat this giant I'm gonna knock him out and Saul

not encouraging at all says you can't do it you cannot defeat this giant David he's been fighting since he was a youth you are a youth have you ever had somebody project their own fears onto you just because they were scared to do it now they want to tell you how you can't do it he starts giving David a history of Goliath he's been killing people since he was a youth that's what the enemy will do he'll start giving you a history of the Giants in your family and the things that have taken other people

out you you can't defeat alcoholism do you know how many people in your family has taken out you you you can't be a good father you never saw one he starts giving him a history of Goliath but I love David cuz he knew who he had been talking to he had a deeper history he had a history with God he said well I got a history with God I just ain't been doing nothing can I tell you my history Saul he said one day I was out watching some sheep and I killed a lion and

I killed a bear can you see Saul going really he's like yeah I did it I didn't post it but it happened he had history with God he said I I've defeated him and I just am convinced that the same God that helped me defeat The Lion and the bear is the same God that'll help me defeat this giant so Saul's like all right the Lord be with you sends him out he says oh but real quick how about you put on my armor go out there and fight this giant with my armor and can

you imagine being David in this moment I mean he's been out in the field now he's with the king and the King puts his armor on David y'all this is the equivalent of Lebron in the locker room taking off his jersey going try that on real quick can you imagine I bet he looked in that mirror said wow I've never seen armor like this and I've never fought a giant like this maybe because this is a bigger battle I need to try different Army but then all of a sudden David makes to me one of

the bravest decisions he says I can't fight with this and he takes off Saul's armor this is not me when he took off Saul's armor do you know what he was teaching us from this conversation you've got to work your weapon you've got to work what God gave you you cannot fight your giant in somebody else's armor you have got to be who God uniquely called and created you to be I don't know who this message is for today but God wants you to know you got to work your weapon hear me until you take

off the armor of other people you will never grab your own weapons can you prove it in the text absolutely look at it verse 39 it says so he took them off that's David he took what off Saul's armor he took them off then he took his staff in his hand chose five smooth stones from the stream put them in the pouch of his Shepherd's bag and with his sling in his hand approached the Philistine he took them off and then he was able to grab his own weapons I cannot grab my own weapon until

I take off trying to be somebody that God did not call me to be can I make a confession at Life Church I am a horrible Pastor Craig oh I am a terrible Joyce Meyer oh I'm not a good Steven fdick but can I tell you I'm the best Robert M do thei you've ever seen in your entire life and anytime I get in a battle I got to work my weapon he works his weapon says I got to work with what I got then he goes up to Goliath Goliath laughs at him mocks him

am I a dog you come at me with sticks what is this how many Know The Enemy loves to mock you his native language is lying if he had a second language it would be mocking and David feels the mock of the giant can't believe you're coming to me he says uh you come at me with sword and spear but I come at you in the name of the Lord God Almighty you know the story he throws the rock Goliath falls down but he says to him this is the conversation you come at me with

sword and spear but I come at you in the the name of the Lord God Almighty then he threw the rock which got me to thinking did David throw a rock or did he throw a name cuz it makes sense to say you come at me with sword and spear I come at you with slingshot he doesn't say slingshot he said I come at you in the name of the Lord God Almighty fny through the rock so what did he throw a name or a rock some people would say it was just just the Rock

there's actually some scientists believe it or not there are scientists who look at scripture through a scientific lens and many of them debate the veracity of this story they say that there's no way that a boy could have killed a giant with a rock and they have a whole report on how it's impossible and I brought the report this is what they say they said that David with the rock of size of a baseball and with the slingshot the fastest that he could have released it would have been with a trajectory of about 90 milph

and if you take a projectile going 90 mph and use Newton's second law of motion and take into effect the coefficient of restitution a projectile at that size at 90 mph would generate about 3,000 lbs of force as it was released that is if it was traveling the distance of a pitcher to the home plate which is 60 ft and 6 in but since Goliath is at least twice that far one also has to take into effect the drag of the distance of the ball that's working against the velocity of force therefore since he's further

away what was generated at 3,000 lb has now reduced itself arguably to at least 1,000 lb that is if David is throwing it straight the problem is Goliath is taller than David which means the angle of the projectile from which he launched that had to be at least 45° which means that now the ball is also working against gravity which has also reduced the force that The Rock has been released so what was 3,000 lb of force has now been arguably reduced to about 500 lb of force but you must remember that there's an armor

Bearer who stands in front of Goliath who would have lifted up the shield to take the projectile off of course which would have reduced the force to at least 50 lbs and taking it off course of the direction headed towards Goliath's head but if David could throw it and if it did work against the drag and if it did counter the weight and if it did go against the coefficient of restitution if it was knocked off course and still aimed at Goliath's head Goliath is wearing a helmet and a projectile that started with 3,000 lbs

of force and ended at hitting a bronze helmet would not have been enough to kill a giant so how can a young boy with one rock working against gravity working against Newton Law of Motion working against the coefficient of restitution working against the drag and being deflected by an armor Bearer hitting a br bronze helmet how could he kill a giant and I came to tell the scientists I'm with you he didn't just throw a rock he also threw a name and the power wasn't just in the Rock The power was in the name oh

come on somebody that he threw can I give you the last Point whenever you're facing a giant don't just have a heart of humility don't just have a vision of Victory don't just you need to have a name that you throw a name that is higher than every other name you better throw that name against fear throw the name Jesus against worry throw the name Jesus against anxiety there is power in that name he didn't just throw a rock David threw a name and long before he had the confrontation there were conversations that preceded the

confrontation but when it got down to it he knew the power is not just in this rock the power is in the name that is above every name if you call on that name today no matter where you are he's able to save you he's able to heal you and he's able to deliver you would you bow your heads I want to pray father thank you for your word today thank you for the power that is in your name and thank you that no matter what the giant is it can fall if our hope and

our trust is in your great name amen amen amen God bless you Life Church come on hey can you help me tell Pastor Robert thank you wo hey yet all of our churches today I wonder how many of you recog recogniz that nobody talks to you more than you and you may need to adjust what you say to you if you recognize that maybe you're not always speaking the truth of God to yourself and you want to change what you say so you can change how you think would you just lift up your hands in

a moment of honesty today God thank you for the word that you've brought to us we pray God that your word would renew our minds with your truth God we thank you for the name that is above every name God I pray you would silence the lies of the evil one and God fill our minds with your truth so we can honor you in all that we do we give you praise as you keep praying today at all of our churches there may be some of you that you recognize you're not close to God maybe

you don't know him personally and I want to tell you about the name that is above every name the name of Jesus who is Jesus Jesus is the son of God who is without sin and and the voice inside may tell you you're you're too bad for God you're not good enough for God I want to tell you what the truth is the truth is that God is a good God and God loves you exactly as you are and because of his love He sent Jesus who was without sin perfect in every way and Jesus

gave his life on a cross so that we could be forgiven the good news is he didn't stay dead God raised him from the dead and scripture says whoever calls on that name the name that is above every name that God would hear your prayer and forgive all of your sins and make you do today at all of our churches if there's any one of you that you wonder where you stand with God today we're going to step away from our sins and we're going to call on the name that is above every name scripture

says one day every single Knee will bow to that name and every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord of all today if you make that confession you surrender your life to him God will make you brand new all of our churches and around the world online if you say I don't know where I stand with God but I want to be a peace with him I want to be made new we're going to ask for forgiveness of our sins and we're going to call on that name today if that's you you say yes I

need his grace I need his forgiveness today I Call On Jesus to save me to forgive me to be the Lord of my life today I give my life to him that's your prayer would you lift your hands high right now all of our churches and say yes God we give our lives to you God thank you for people today at all of our churches saying yes online you can type in the comment sections I'm surrendering my life to Jesus I'm surrendering to Jesus and today would you just pray wherever you are pray heavenly father

I give my life to you forgive all of my sins Jesus save me be the Lord of my life thank you for new life I give you all of mine in Jesus name I pray Church could you welcome those today born into God's Family come on church God we give you praise today I don't know about you but I definitely needed that the conversations we have with others and more importantly ourselves definitely shape Our Lives if you're looking for healthier selft talk and better thoughts check out this playlist go ahead tap and start watching [Music]