Dutch Sheets: Like David's Mighty Men, We’re Called to Turn a Nation (1 Samuel 22:2)
Channel: King of Kings Worship Center
Date: 2023-06-06

Dutch Sheets: Like David's Mighty Men, We’re Called to Turn a Nation (1 Samuel 22:2)
Dutch speaks at River City Church in Moline, IL on 5/7/2023. Quotes: “Last night I talked about the mocking spirit that I hear in the nation that the enemy tries to discourage us with what he's doing.
I mentioned David's mighty men and how David's army started out as a very rag tag group of soldiers. When the enemy mocks us and says it's too late, our response is, must be to go to the Word of the Lord and say, “We are the army of God, He has prepared us for this time. We are well able to do this. We will overcome. We will defeat every foe. God will do everything he said he would do in this nation. He will accomplish every bit of it.”

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I talked last night a lot about the nation.
It's hard for me to, to go anywhere else, really.
My calling is to not one region or one city.
My calling is to the nation as a whole
and that's always on my mind.
That's what I think about when I do the posts.
I try to do something that will help you
grow in your walk with the Lord,
but also try to connect it to the nation.
My assignment for 30 years has been to
work toward shifting the nation back into what it needs to be.
And I didn't know it would take that long,
but it does take a while to turn a nation.
And God's doing great things.
He's been working behind the scenes
in a lot of ways to get us ready for the turning
not just to turn us, but to steward a turning,
to disciple a nation and to accomplish what we need.
So, you know, God's been working, doing a lot of things
and he's going to finish what he started. Amen?
So, you know, last night I talked about
the mocking spirit that I hear in the nation
that the enemy tries to discourage us with what he's doing.
And our response to that is to
keep ourselves encouraged and keep ourselves focused
and not allow what he's doing to distract us.
He always tries to discourage us
by pointing out his victories and his activities.
And our job is to stay focused on what the Lord is saying
not on what the enemy is doing.
We have to know what he is doing, because we have to pray,
we have to, depending on our calling, do things to offset that.
But at the same time, we have to take our marching orders
from the Lord, from Holy Spirit.
And I mentioned David's mighty men last night
in how David's army, how they started out
as a very rag tag group of soldiers.
They weren't even soldiers.
They were misfits, discouraged, bitter at life.
And that was David's army when he was first called.
And instead of the palace, he found himself in a cave
and he had to fight through that. He had to grow through that
to get to the point where God could use him
to do all that he wanted to do.
But this morning, I'm going to read to you
how that army of misfits turned out.
And I'm going to, we're going to let the enemy know
that his mocking was in vain.
So, you can read about David's mighty men
in 1 Chronicles 11 and 12.
You can read about 'em in 2 Samuel 23.
And I'm just going to read a few verses
to describe how these misfits
that were bitter, discouraged, in debt,
the down and outers of the day,
gathered to him in a cave, and this is how they ended up.
These are the names of some of the mighty men David had.
Adino the Eznite.. He was called Adino the Eznite
because of 800 people slain by him at one time.
He fought in one battle, he fought so hard
and in such an a significant, skilled way
that he killed 800 enemies in one battle.
Eliezer, the son of Dodo, the Ahohite.
Any of you pregnant families looking for names?
The son of Dodo the Ahohite.
Maybe not, don't do that. That might not work.
One of the three mighty men with David
when they defied the Philistines who were gathered to battle
and the other Israelites had withdrawn.
Listen to this, this is one of my favorite stories
of David's mighty men. "He arose and struck the Philistines
until his hand was weary and clung to the sword,
and the Lord brought about a great victory that day,
and the people returned after him to get the slain."
When the battle was over,
they had to peel his fingers off of his sword.
I said in one of my books, when he could hold on no longer
with his physical strength, he just held on with his heart.
Shama, took his stand in a ground, a plot full of lentils, peas,
and fought the Philistines off and brought about a great victory.
Benaiah, who jumped in a pit on a snowy day and killed a lion.
These guys, some of them became sort of I think loony.