Secrets in Psalm 27. God's Companion, God's Champion

1. Fearlessness
Secrets in Psalm 27:
God’s Companion, God’s Champion

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Psalm 27 Secrets to Fearless Faith
A Psalm of David:
The LORD is my light and my salvation; Whom shall I fear?
The LORD is the strength of my life; Of whom shall I be afraid?
When the wicked came against me To eat up my flesh,
My enemies and foes, They stumbled and fell.
Though an army may encamp against me,
My heart shall not fear;
Though war may rise against me,
In this I will be confident. - Psa 27:1-3 NKJV

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These Questions Must Be Answered
caused David to be fearless?
WHAT
WHY
was David determined to continually
battle the odds and go up against
giants no one else wanted to take on?
HOW
did David become so fearless?

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This Challenge Is Found In The Very
Hebrew Meaning of “FEAR”
DAVID WAS ASKING HIMSELF A TOUGHER QUESTION THAN YOU MIGHT BELIEVE
WHEN HE SAID “ WHOM SHALL I FEAR?
WE SEPARATE THE WORD FEAR FROM THE WORD WORSHIP. THE HEBREW WORD
DOESN’T!
(yârê' BDB)
to fear, revere, be afraid,to stand in awe of, be awed, to fear, reverence, honour, respect, to
be fearful, be dreadful,to inspire reverence or Godly fear or awe, to make afraid, terrify

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The Beginning of the Secret
The worst words next to the most sacred words! The worst dreaded emotions next to
greatest holy emotions!
WHEN FEAR IS A WHAT:
Fear: panic, alarm, horror, trepidation, doubt, worry, anxiety, dread, angst, dismay,
foreboding, nightmare.
WHEN FEAR IS A WHO:
David didn’t dwell in the emotion, the numbers, or the odds. David targeted the most
important question and he answered it: Whom shall I fear?
DAVID MADE THE RIGHT CHOICE! YOU CAN TOO!

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David had a lifelong theme and Declaration
The Lord Is My Light And My Salvation
Our Life In Christ Begins With His Light And Salvation And It Will Never End
▪ It Is Immediate To Any Situation And Moment
▪ It Is Going Before Us Into Our Destiny
▪ It Is Eternal In Heaven.
You Are Always And Eternally Set In God’s Light And Salvation Through Christ.

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Protection And Triumph Over Our Enemies
David enumerates the fears he faced and was facing. Fears you and I face today:
“Though and army encamp against me”
▪ Opposing forces and people coming up against you
▪ Many enemies and devastating situations surrounding you
“Though war rises up against me.”
▪ Wicked groups and army’s wanting to consume us: consume our resources, consume our
families, our homes and land, our nations

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David Reveals His Fearless Faith:
When you are a ONE THING PERSON
One thing have I desired of the LORD
that will I seek after
that I may dwell in the house of the LORD
all the days of my life
to behold the beauty of the LORD
and to enquire in his temple.
- (Psalm 27:4 KJV)

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Only One thing is Necessary!
▪ David wanted to be with God everywhere God was
▪ He wanted to be with God every single day of his life
▪ He wanted to be with God in private prayer
▪ He wanted to be with God and understand him
▪ He wanted to see God not with his eyes but with his heart
▪ He wanted to find God in God’s temple- Personal and Public

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Jesus Revealed This Secret As Well
(30) 'And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all
your mind, and with all your strength.' This [is] the first commandment. (Mark 12:30 NKJV)
▪ Love God with ALL Your Heart
▪ Love God with ALL Your Soul - Mind, will and emotions
▪ Love God with ALL Your Mind
▪ Love God with ALL Your Strength
DAVID’S WAS 100% - Not perfect, totally human, yet totally engaged!
WHAT IS YOUR PERCENTAGE OF ENGAGEMENT WITH God?

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This Secret Of A Fearless Life –
Love A Fearless God
When you love somebody you make sure you are in their company! Show up where God is...
▪ In The Word
▪ In Prayer
▪ In Church
▪ In Obedience
▪ In action to God’s heart
▪ Give him your heart to get his heart
▪ Be willing to fight for him!

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Companionship with God Causes
Championship of God
God SAID THIS ABOUT DAVID: "...He raised up for them David as king, to whom also He gave
testimony and said, 'I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after My own heart, who will do
all My will.' - Act 13:22 NKJV
Jesus explained it to his parents when he was only a child and they had lost him for two
days, only to find him in the temple discussing things with the rabis. His parents were
understandably upset at finding him there. His answer was:
And He said to them, "Why did you seek Me? Did you not know that I must be about My
Father's business?" - Luke 2:49 NKJV

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David’s life of Triumph
▪ David’s relationship with God was the most important thing in David's life.
▪ David’s who in his life gave him his what and why in life.
▪ David knew his life purpose because he knew God.
▪ David knew why he was alive because he knew God.
▪ David had his why in life that made him who he was and what he did for God.
▪ God called him to be a Shepard first and then a warrior and finally warrior king.
▪ David was willing to fight for God’s honor and purposes.

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Fearless Champion of God:
David’s Original Drive that put him into Kingship
DAVID’S REASON FOR FIGHTING GOLIATH:
▪ (26) Then David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, "What shall be done for the
man who kills this Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who [is] this
uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?" ...
▪ (45) Then David said to the Philistine, "You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a
javelin. But I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel,
whom you have defied.
1Sa 17:26, 45 NKJV

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How To Succeed
Against Your Enemies
▪ The secrets to the “how to do” fearless radiated out from David's relationship with God:
▪ When you said, "seek my face," my heart said to you, "your face, LORD, I will seek."
- Psalm 27:8 NKJV
▪ God said seek his face. So David did and gained God’s heart.
▪ God invites each one of us to seek his face.
▪ It is an opportunity.
▪ We co-labor with God in the kingdom, for the kingdom.

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Find your God given why will
make you Fearless
1. Pay attention to what drives you that is of God: God has created you and gifted you
2. Find what is your cause for God against the enemy - what are you to do to advance the
kingdom of heaven?
3. Choose to push the envelope, go against the odds, fight the giants, move the
mountains, speak to the storm to calm it
4. God is who leads you and your God given cause will be your what and why that
drives you to your destiny in God.

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Way to Fearlessness:
Meet in God’s Secret Place
For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion; in the secret place of his tabernacle he
shall hide me; he shall set me high upon a rock. Psalm 27:5
▪ God answers every kind of trouble we are in when we seek him personally with love and faith
▪ Trouble isn’t the place to stay in without God - find refuge in God.
▪ God is the best companion when you are in trouble
▪ That place where you gain God’s wisdom, council, strength, very word and faith you need from
God is the secret place
▪ God will lift you up to safety - high on the rock of Jesus Christ
▪ God is your active salvation every single day
▪ Your salvation today will look different than your salvation tomorrow.

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Way to Fearless Confidence:
Believe God is Faithful.
When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take care of me. - Psa 27:8 NKJV
▪ No matter who you have lost in your life: no matter who has betrayed you or left you:no
matter who you never had in your life - god is there and will be there for you if you choose
him!
▪ God will not leave you. God is faithful. God is supernatural and can be there for you
everywhere, any time, every situation.
▪ God cares about your emotions, your needs, wants and desires. Your physical safety. Your
financial safety. Your health. Your position in life. He calls it peace. He calls if life in
abundance.
▪ God will battle the fear along side you, because he is there and he won’t run out on you!

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Way to Fearless Love and Warfare:
Learn God’s Ways
(11) Teach me Your way, O LORD, And lead me in a smooth path, because of my enemies.
- Psalm 27:11 NKJV
▪ Simple truth: god knows your enemies better than you do - he can fight them better than you can.
▪ God will lead you out of any dark or terrible situation.
▪ Learn how god fights, god loves, god does things - best reason to study the bible
▪ To battle as god does you must love as god does. The bible is god’s book on the art of love and
the art of war
▪ God will change your life and the situation you face, when you face him first and then turn and
face the situation in the way god says to do it.
▪ Do it to the the best of your ability and lean heavily on god’s grace.

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Way to Fearless Vision:
Say it and Praise Him
(And now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies all around me; Therefore I will
offer sacrifices of joy in His tabernacle; I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the LORD. ...
Psa 27:6 NKJV
▪ Declare it in faith
▪ Praise god when you see it in your inner vision
▪ Praise him before it comes to pass
▪ Promise to praise him when it is completed

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Way to Destroy Fear:
Hope Again... And Again
... I would have lost heart, unless I had believed That I would see the goodness of
the LORD In the land of the living. (Psalm 27:13)
▪ Believe you will see these good things from god
▪ Faith and hope have a divine connection and brings you into the love of god.
▪ (13) three things will last forever--faith, hope, and love--and the greatest of these is love.
- 1co 13:13 NLT
▪ Don’t wait for heaven, or even a sign from heaven- hope for now - look for it in the land
of the living!

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Way To Fearless Courage:
Keep Serving God As Companion And Champion
(14) Wait on the LORD; Be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart;
Wait, I say, on the LORD! - Psa 27:11, 13-14 NKJV
How to wait on the Lord:
➢ Trust him
➢ Become closer to him
➢ Expect good things
➢ Patience
You take courage and god will give you the rest:
Courage and strengthen = to strengthen, prevail, harden, be strong, become strong, be
courageous, be firm, grow firm, be resolute

23. Thank
You