Introduction
Good day to everyone! Let us turn to 2 Samuel, Chapter 22. We are nearing the end of our study of this book. The entire book of 2 Samuel tells the story of David's life and his experiences. This chapter recounts a poem David recited during the days when he was fleeing from Saul. Why is this poem placed at the end? It serves as an introduction to the conclusion. The author clearly records David's lifelong understanding of God. The theme of this chapter should appropriately be titled The God David Knew, or alternatively, God is the God who saves me, as the entire chapter speaks of God saving him. However, choosing God is the God who saves me seems to lack a certain depth. If we narrow it down, we could choose God is the God who saves me.
What kind of God did David know? The God David knew is a God of salvation. Yet, many have not experienced God's salvation, and some have not only not experienced God's salvation but seem to have been given a kick by God. Don't you find that interesting? Therefore, brothers and sisters, we must know what kind of God David knew. If David received so much grace, we can do the same and receive grace as well. But the problem is that people just refuse to do it that way; they prefer to do the opposite. I often advise brothers and sisters to trust in God, but some people turn a deaf ear to my words. Only when trouble strikes do they seek God. This is people's strange way of doing things, because the logic system within them is not like David's logic system.
Some people manage their children from the age of fifteen or sixteen to twenty or thirty, and some are even almost fifty years old and still do not understand things. This breaks the parents' hearts, and it's disheartening to watch. Yet, they feel good about themselves. Such people have the courage to live solely based on this feeling. Isn't this a tragedy? You think you are fine, so you are fine? Compare yourself to David's poem and see how you are doing.
My mother is already seventy or eighty years old and still worries about her children. Once, she got off a bus, accidentally stepped on a stone, and sprained her foot. I happened to call her, and I could tell she was very worried. The children are all grown up, some in their 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s, and they still cause the old lady to worry, but they still feel they are fine. As a result, I led my mother in prayer, and after the prayer, her ankle loosened up. How did she sprain her foot in the middle of winter? Because she was taking the bus to attend a gathering. The place was quite far. After I led her in prayer, she went to the gathering. I praise my God! I truly praise the God who saves me! The God I know is truly a very, very good God.
Some people never let their parents have peace of mind in their entire lives. Looking at the results they live out, I feel distressed, let alone our God? So sometimes, I minister to those parents, whether their children are in their teens, fifties, or even sixties, and I advise them not to worry about their children: Children and grandchildren have their own fortunes, and each person has their own destiny. If he is a David, you don't need to worry about him or hold your breath for him; only God is his salvation. If he is not a David, then forget it; you cannot save him. Do you parents feel more relaxed after hearing this? From now on, when you see them, stop worrying, because each person has their own destiny, so let him go!
The God David Knew is the God Who Saves Me
What kind of God did David know? He is the God who saves me. Look: On the day when the Lord saved David from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul, he spoke to the Lord the words of this song, God is the God who saves me. It also says here: “The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation. He is my stronghold, my refuge and my savior— from violent people you save me.” This is David's understanding of God. God is so awesome!
“He reached down from on high and took hold of me; he drew me out of deep waters. He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from my foes, who were too strong for me. They confronted me in the day of my disaster, but the Lord was my support. He brought me out into a spacious place; he rescued me because he delighted in me. (2 Samuel 22:17-20)
“You have delivered me from the attacks of my people; you have preserved me as the ruler of nations. People I did not know now serve me, foreigners cower before me; as soon as they hear of me, they obey me. They all lose heart and come trembling from their strongholds. “The Lord lives! Praise be to my rock! Exalted be my God, the Rock, my Savior! He is the God who avenges me, who subdues nations under me, who saves me from my enemies. You exalted me above my foes; from violent people you rescued me. (2 Samuel 22:44-49)
David recited this poem. The God you think He is, is the God He is. If you believe that God is the God who saves you, then God will save you; if you believe that God is not the God who saves you, then God will not be the God who saves you. We must think about why God is the God who saves David, but not the God who saves some people? Why do some people always encounter misfortune? We must seriously ponder, what is the reason for this?
I once met a preacher who was truly unlucky. He couldn't do anything well since he was a child. After growing up, he became a preacher. Isn't that harming people? Then he gave this testimony: Because he couldn't do anything well, he felt that God was calling him. I wondered, is that really the case? He can't do anything well, is this God saving him? If he were escaping from the hand of Saul, he wouldn't even have that opportunity. He wouldn't need to escape from the hand of Saul; Saul wouldn't even take him seriously. So this is a very strange argument. Many people give such testimonies: Doing business and ruining the business, doing work and ruining the work, and then they use a very good reason: God is calling him. What is this logic? Later, he didn't serve God well either.
I knew a pastor, and later someone gave him a prophecy, saying that his calling was not to be a pastor but to be a designer; some callings are to be teachers, not pastors. Later, he resigned from his church work to do something else. This is really going to give him a hard time! So God is the God who saves us and the God we know are closely related. Then, what kind of God is the God we know? You slowly ponder it!
In the Gospel of Matthew, there is a very interesting thing recorded, that is, if you think God is a stingy God, He is a stingy God; if you think God is a generous God, He is a generous God. If you think God is a stingy God, reaping where He has not sown and gathering where He has not scattered, is God such a God? So he buried the thousand talents that God gave him in the ground, so that when God returned, he could return the original amount. Is that God's motive? If you encounter inflation and devaluation, can you still get back a thousand talents? That is no longer a thousand talents. What kind of brain is this? He thinks that God is an evil God, and he gets the title of wicked and lazy servant.
“The man who had received one bag of gold came. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘I knew that you are a hard man, harvesting where you have not sown and gathering where you have not scattered seed. So I was afraid and went out and hid your gold in the ground. See, here is what belongs to you.’ “His master replied, ‘You wicked, lazy servant! So you knew that I harvest where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed?' (Matthew 25:24-26)
On the day when David was fleeing from all his enemies and Saul's pursuit, he recited this poem to the Lord God. How many hardships did he experience? The days he spent under King Achish were not easy; the days he spent fleeing from Saul were not easy either. At that time, he had no money or food, and he couldn't eat regularly. How did David get through it? It was all God's salvation, God's provision. He has so many testimonies to give!
On the day the Lord delivered David from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul, he sang to the Lord this song of deliverance. (2 Samuel 22:1)
God is the God who Hears My Prayers
In my distress I called to the Lord; I called out to my God. From his temple he heard my voice; my cry came to his ears. (2 Samuel 22:7)
What did David say in verse 7? David said, In my distress I called to the Lord; I called out to my God. From his temple he heard my voice; my cry came to his ears. Look how well this is said! God is the God who hears my prayers. But does God hear your prayers? Whether God hears prayers is closely related to how you know God. Why did I initially establish the church and create Chinese Mingding Destiny? Because the most common phenomenon I saw in the church was that God did not hear people's prayers. Some people are better off not praying, but once they pray, it's over, and the problem becomes even worse.
Some people pray: God! Protect me from successfully robbing a bank tomorrow. As a result, when they go there, the police are waiting there! Can God hear such prayers? If God hears such prayers, it would be a joke. Put a statue of Guan Gong in the police station, and then light incense, just wanting him to protect them from successfully catching thieves; the gangsters also put a statue of Guan Gong, light incense, and hope to protect them from successfully robbing this time. Guan Gong doesn't know who to listen to? What was David's prayer? He said, In my distress I called to the Lord; I called out to my God. From his temple he heard my voice; my cry came to his ears.
What is the reason? Everyone must know that David believes in God, listens to God's words, and treats God as his treasure. No matter what the situation, he will not abandon God. Many people are very interesting, they have the heart, but they don't have the strength. When there is nothing going on, their faith is very strong: I want to trust in my God! But when it comes to the critical moment, they still trust in their business; some people say I want to trust in my God, I want to pray to my God, but when it comes to the critical moment, they will definitely choose to put God aside first.
Such things happen frequently and are a great lesson for me. I don't learn lessons from myself, but I learn lessons from others. Seeing such people, I pray to God and say: I don't want to be such a person. Some people will think, aren't you judging people? No, I am warning myself that I don't want to be such a person. I want to be a person who can make God hear my prayers. My prayer has entered God's ears, so what if your prayer enters God's nostrils? It smells a bit stinky. God sits on the high throne and smells a stench. God is also upset.
What is the problem? What exactly is our understanding of God in our hearts? Why did I set the theme of this chapter as The God David Knew? What kind of God do you know? Look at the things you are asking for: God! Protect my child to be admitted to college; God, protect me to find a daughter-in-law; protect my son to be successful in a blind date... all these things. David treats God as a treasure, so have you treated God as a treasure? I want to boast to everyone, since the day I knew God, I have recognized that God is my treasure. No matter what kind of situation I encounter, serving must be the first priority. Although the effect of serving was not very good at the beginning, I know that it is because my understanding of God's word is not deep enough, and climbing the spiritual peak is not high enough.
Some services really take a lot of effort. They often serve until 3 or 4 in the morning. Just yesterday night, at more than 1 o'clock, I saw a message sent to me. It was a service agreed upon during the day, but at 9 or 10 o'clock, I was so sleepy that I took a nap. When I opened my eyes, I saw the message and quickly called back. The other party felt embarrassed, afraid of delaying my sleep time. But I put serving first, and later I developed this habit, feeling that the night is the best time to fight ghosts. So among us, the pastors and co-workers you see have more or less my appearance, because I trained them like this.
I have seen some pastors whose prayers God really doesn't listen to. Once they had a gathering and invited me to go. They are addicted to gatherings, but I prefer to serve. Once at a gathering, I served a person who has now come to us. When they were gathering, I said that I had a service and had to leave first, so I drove a long way to the home of the person who needed service, and then led him in prayer. At more than 10 o'clock in the evening, I had to call the person who invited me to participate in this gathering, so as not to worry others and hold my breath for me, but are people really worried about me? As soon as I called him, he turned off his phone, and he turned it off several times in a row.
I was worried about him, this pastor must not have an accident! Because I couldn't get through to him, we found a small restaurant to eat a bowl of noodles, and then found a cheaper small hotel to spend the night. The next day, when I saw him and asked, I learned that he turned off his phone on time every night at 10 o'clock. When I heard it, I said, Oops! You can't be found even if your mother dies! This kind of person is afraid of being disturbed to sleep, and as a result, he has developed a body of fat. I am a bit mean when I speak. Pigs are fattened and can be slaughtered for meat, but what can people do when they are fattened? Can God listen to this kind of person's prayer? I don't think so.
Our God is a God of great power, who hears prayers and saves us, the question is, do you know this God? If God doesn't know you, even if you know God, it's useless. For example, you knock on the door and Lee Kuan Yew comes out. You say: Oh! Prime Minister Lee, I can see you. You know Prime Minister Lee, but people don't know you! Even if people have great power in their hands, a wave of his pen can help you get things done, but it's useless if people don't know you. With a wave of his hand, you can get out of the way. If you have been a Christian all your life, and God says: I don't know you. That's troublesome.
Therefore, we must know God while we are alive, let God know you, and be the sheep of His pasture, so that God will hear our prayers. This is also the proof that God hears our prayers. Later, I established Chinese Mingding Destiny and created a theological system, constantly restoring the truth of God in the Bible and the glory of God. Our understanding of God is also getting closer and closer to David's understanding of God. God treats us like He treats David, it's really very good.
God is a God of Great Power
In the early days, I sought God and didn't know which God could help me. I am a person who does things in a very intellectual way, so I sought and investigated which is the true God? If I worship a God, and this God is not ranked in the spiritual world, He is just a little thing, wouldn't that be ruined? If I encounter someone more powerful than Him and admit defeat, what am I worshiping Him for? I want to find a God who speaks and counts, and whose signature is valid. Second: Even if He is very powerful, if He doesn't love me, it won't work. I myself can't even afford to eat, and I have to offer incense and tribute to Him before He will help me. How can this work? That is taking bribes. So, I found the God David knew.
The earth trembled and quaked, for he was angry; the foundations of the heavens shook and swayed. Smoke rose from his nostrils; consuming fire came from his mouth, burning coals blazed out of it. He parted the heavens and came down; dark clouds were under his feet. He mounted the cherubim and flew; he soared on the wings of the wind. He made darkness his canopy around him— the dark rain clouds of the sky. Out of the brightness of his presence bolts of lightning blazed forth. The Lord thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High resounded. He shot his arrows and scattered the enemy, with great bolts of lightning he routed them. The valleys of the sea were exposed and the foundations of the earth laid bare at the rebuke of the Lord, at the blast of breath from his nostrils. (2 Samuel 22:8-16)
Such a powerful God! From the day I wanted to know God, I have been searching non-stop. Although I don't know which God is powerful, I will slowly investigate. Once, I wandered into a church where they were doing healing, deliverance, and casting out demons. I am quite brave and not afraid that the demons would come out of that person and run into me, so I went over to watch. As a result, what I saw was like a peep show. They commanded the demons to leave in the name of Jesus, and the demons actually left.
I felt that this God was truly powerful and mighty! The God I believe in does not need me to support Him, but He supports me. If I had to support Him, that would be troublesome. Because I don't even have the ability to support myself yet! It would be logically incorrect to treat a small demon as a god and support it! Later, step by step, it was confirmed that our God is a God of great power. Through God, I don't know how many demons I have captured and how many ghosts I have cast out!
Recently, we have been casting out demons fiercely! It is all about knowing God in the understanding. When people know God in the understanding, they can figure out the matters of demons. There is a particularly effective phrase: in the name of Jesus Christ, there is no name under heaven that can compare to the name of Jesus Christ! I am especially grateful to know this God, and that He also knows me. Therefore, I am constantly climbing on the path of knowing God.
Later, I discovered that there is no end to knowing God, so I began to study the spiritual world, the Word of God, the Tao of God, and the attributes of God. The results were simply amazing, a major theological discovery. As we increasingly know God, the power of God is constantly manifested among us, and we are more and more convinced that only our God is a God of great power. If the God David knew could not even save him, and he had to burn incense for Him when he had nothing to do, that would be a problem, wouldn't it?
God is a God of Clear Rewards and Punishments
God rewards or punishes people according to their knowledge of Him. Those who love God, God keeps His covenant and shows loving-kindness to them for a thousand generations; those who hate God, God will visit their iniquity on them, on the fathers and on the children to the third and fourth generations. Our God is definitely not a God who does not distinguish between black and white and whose rewards and punishments are unclear.
The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands He has recompensed me. For I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God. For all His judgments were before me; and as for His statutes, I did not depart from them. I was also blameless before Him, and I kept myself from my iniquity. Therefore the Lord has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness in His sight. With the merciful You will show Yourself merciful; with a blameless man You will show Yourself blameless; with the pure You will show Yourself pure; and with the devious You will show Yourself shrewd. You will save the humble people; but Your eyes are upon the haughty, that You may bring them down. (2 Samuel 22:21-28)
How well this is said! God is a God who rewards me, as if I were His benefactor. But that is not the case. Because we carefully observe and follow His ways, God rewards us. In fact, rewards are always smaller ones repaying bigger ones, but it is very interesting that David used this word to describe God. How does God reward him?
For all His judgments were before me; and as for His statutes, I did not depart from them. I was also blameless before Him, and I kept myself from my iniquity. Therefore the Lord has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness in His sight. (2 Samuel 22:23-25)
How did David become a blameless man? He was pursued and wronged by Saul, had the ability to discern good and evil, but refused to discern good and evil, and even though he had two opportunities to kill Saul, he never offended Saul. Therefore, he was a blameless man before God, like Joseph was a blameless man before God. When we are ministering, we feel, how come this person is not like David? If everyone were like David, we would not need to minister to them, but rather they should minister to us. If everyone were like Joseph, there would not be this or that problem; if people were all like David, there would not be these messy things.
Our God is clear in rewards and punishments. With the merciful, God shows Himself merciful; with the blameless, God shows Himself blameless; with the pure, God shows Himself pure; and with the devious, God shows Himself shrewd. If you observe carefully, you will find that some people walk and walk and end up in bad luck. Is this the case? Yes. If you see someone walking and walking and ending up in bad luck, you must stay away from such a person, because God treats him with deviousness, which is enough for him to handle, unless you want to serve him.
We do not know God, do not know the Tao of God, and often violate the word of God, which is very deadly! What happens to us, which point is not the result of God treating him with deviousness and crookedness? He should not have gotten cancer, but he got cancer. This is caused by the deviousness inside the person, because the person's nature is very strange.
In the process of our ministry, we find it very interesting. I myself have often experienced such things recently. I seek their benefit, and he also seeks his own benefit, but he still gets angry with me. Where can you reason about this? After thinking about it, I said to God: God! I was a blameless man before You, and I could have discerned good and evil, but I did not discern good and evil. We must know how David treated the word of God:
For all His judgments were before me; and as for His statutes, I did not depart from them. (2 Samuel 22:23)
Speaking of this, I will talk about my feelings. How many people have believed in the Lord for twenty years and have not finished reading the Bible even once? They just like to make decisions by patting their heads. How is it possible to know God? If such a person does not have bad luck, who will? Our church's 003 ministry recruits some people to be class leaders, but it is not that he needs to be a class leader, but that he needs to be trained in that position. As a result, he boasts a lot but is useless, he fails the exams repeatedly, and he keeps having to retake them. How many years have you believed in the Lord? Good things never come your way, but you have a share in bad things. Isn't this a devious person, and God treats him with crookedness?
We must begin to break away from this crooked and perverse generation and escape from crooked natures! There are too many devious things inside us, and we always think we are right! We are all human beings, but the difference lies in whether we know what kind of person God rewards? If God hears your prayer, you must thank God and constantly know God. I ask you: when I led you in prayer on Tuesday, did you thirst for the word of God after you were healed? Some people said to me: Teacher, I followed you in prayer on Tuesday, and I followed you in Bible study on Wednesday and Friday. What else do you want me to do? After hearing this, I felt particularly annoyed! I retorted: Do I need you to participate? You need to know that you need it. How does receiving grace become a matter of paying a price? Is that called paying a price?
When I first believed in the Lord, before I was baptized, I was reading the English version of the Bible. There were more than twenty unfamiliar words on each page, so I read while looking up the dictionary, and I had to read until two in the morning every day. I had to get up early the next morning to go to work, so I developed a habit of staying up late. Everyone said: You must take good care of your body! I believe that practicing godliness in the middle of the night is the best care for the body! I think this attitude of learning God's word must be pleasing to God. I want to remind everyone, don't grab a treasure and then throw it away casually. You must know that God is really a treasure!
God is the Tao of My Life
For You are my lamp, O Lord; the Lord shall enlighten my darkness. For by You I can run against a troop; by my God I can leap over a wall. As for God, His way is perfect; the word of the Lord is proven; He is a shield to all who trust in Him. For who is God, except the Lord? And who is a rock, except our God? God is my strength and power, and He makes my way perfect. (2 Samuel 22:29-33)
How well David said this! God is the light on my path, the light of my life. God has the Tao of eternal life. What else do I need to seek? Apart from God, there is nothing I love! Having God is enough. Some people open their mouths and close their mouths with money, but I have not seen him make money. All he thinks about is making money, thinking about listing the company, but before the company is listed, he doesn't know where to go. Brothers and sisters, you must be clear-headed. What do you live on? If you are a Christian, you do not live by the word of God. Do not say that God does not know you. I do not want to know you either! Because our relationship is in the word of God. If we all regard the word of God as the Tao of our lives and live by the word of God, then we are truly destined.
David read the word of God in the Bible so carefully! Which place is the word of God and which place is not the word of God, he knows clearly in his heart. Brothers and sisters must be careful, because there is too much garbage in our heads! Someone said: Teacher, are we actually trying to understand your meaning? That is because you have guessed my meaning wrong and understood it wrong. If you take understanding your own meaning as understanding my meaning, you are all understanding the meaning of people, then will you not soon become Peter? I almost said: Satan, get behind me! It seems I do not have the qualification to say this. People must put the word of God in their hearts!
Sometimes I speak quite harshly. He talked to me for a long time, and I asked him: Which sentence is the word of God? It seems that none of the sentences are. Then what are you talking about? God is our lamp! If the Spirit of God, the word of God is in us, there will be no darkness inside us; without darkness, there will be no crooked things; without those devious things, our God will not only not treat us with crookedness, but will also give us those rewards! He will not only hear our prayers, but will also often reward us according to our faith in God. It is truly a tragedy if people do not know the word of God! But people live and live and forget about this.
David really thought that it was the Tao of life. If he had slashed down with his own idea and killed Saul, he would have killed his relationship with God. The words I speak are a bit rough, because that is not the word of God! If people often walk according to their own ideas, they will cut off their relationship with God. I feel that I am so blessed in my life. I am very serious about the word of God. My whole life has been illuminated by the word of God until now. Among the people I have met in the past few years, there is really no one who can surpass my enthusiasm for the word of God, including those pastors, so is God not treating me well? God rewards me according to the righteousness I walk in, wearing the halo of God on my head, how good is that!
God is My Strength
He makes my feet like the feet of deer, and sets me on my high places. He teaches my hands to make war, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze. You have also given me the shield of Your salvation; Your gentleness has made me great. You enlarged my path under me, so my feet did not slip. I have pursued my enemies and overtaken them; neither did I turn back again till they were destroyed. And I have destroyed them and wounded them, so that they could not rise; they have fallen under my feet. For You have armed me with strength for the battle; You have subdued under me those who rose up against me. You have also given me the necks of my enemies, so that I destroyed those who hated me. They looked, but there was none to save; even to the Lord, but He did not answer them. Then I beat them as fine as the dust of the earth; I trod them like mire in the streets, and spread them abroad. (2 Samuel 22:34-43)
You must know that strength is not something that is trained through martial arts, it is given by God. Once, I ministered to a person who was one meter and ninety centimeters tall. He was a martial arts coach and a taekwondo master. As a result, his knees were so painful that he limped. I ministered to him. As a result, it was terrible. He started practicing monkey fist in our church. The monkey fist was beautiful. It turned out to be a kind of spirit.
As a result, I had to cast out the demon on him. This demon manifested and wanted to beat me. This situation has happened more than once. You think he weighs 100 kilograms and I weigh 50 kilograms. If he sits me under his butt, it will be enough for me to handle; if he gives me a punch, I will not be able to bear it; if he throws me on the ground with a slap sound, he will break me. Because of this, I suddenly realized that God is my strength. It is God who puts those who love Him on the palms of His hands and distributes His strength to those who love Him.
David is similar to me, a small guy of one meter and seventy centimeters, but this little guy is extremely handsome. He faced Goliath, a giant of more than three meters tall, just like a five-millimeter drill bit compared to a three-centimeter drill bit. One is the father and the other is the son. Compared with a five-millimeter drill bit and an eight-millimeter drill bit, it is like a grandfather and a grandson. It is that kind of situation. The size is twice as different, but the volume is three times different, which is eight times. The athlete's fingers are about as thick as carrots. It is as scary as if he would crush an ant if he hit me!
There was also a sumo wrestler who weighed one hundred and fifty kilograms and I weighed fifty kilograms. He came to me and wanted me to cast out the demon on him. His two big hands were scratching wildly in front of me, trying to strangle me. At that time, our church was really not as victorious as it is now. There was no exaggeration at all. But the power of God became my power in the same way. As a result, he fell from the chair and lay on the ground for several minutes as if he had no breath, but after getting up, he was released.
What I am talking about these things is to tell everyone that we are drawing on the strength of God to fight with these demons. We have the Spirit of God on us, and Goliath has the spirit of demons on him. The spirit of demons will definitely be destroyed before God. God has the power to fight with demons. Whether it is this kind of battle or that kind of battle, I have not fought a losing battle until now.
God is mighty, God loves me, God hears my prayers, God rewards me, God saves me, and then the word of God is the Tao of my life, and He becomes the strength inside me to fight for me. Since this is the case, if you do not regard God as a treasure, are you not stupid? If you do not regard God as a treasure, I will send you a sentence: Your head is full of thin shit, then quickly remove the shit. You must regard God as a treasure. You must know that the strength of fighting in the spiritual world comes from God!
Conclusion
The Lord lives! Blessed be my Rock! Let God, the Rock of my salvation, be exalted! It is God who avenges me, and subdues the peoples under me; He delivers me from my enemies. You also lift me up above those who rise against me; You have delivered me from the violent man. Therefore I will give thanks to You, O Lord, among the Gentiles, and sing praises to Your name. (2 Samuel 22:47-50)
Therefore, we must give thanks to our God and sing praises to His name among the Gentiles and those who do not believe in God! When I meet people who do not believe in the Lord, I tell them about the works of God.
He is the tower of salvation for His king, and shows mercy to His anointed, to David and his descendants forevermore. (2 Samuel 22:51)
You must know that Jesus Christ has established you and me to be kings, and He is the King of Kings. If we follow the structure of the city-state, like the Roman Empire and Athens, one is the King of Judah and the other is King Herod, one city-state for one king. To reign with Jesus Christ, you must have the attributes of a king. Do not have a heart as small as a peanut and a head as small as a walnut. From now on, we must have the mentality of a king inside us. God wants us to become kings. God wants to anoint us to be His children, anoint us to be kings, because God is the King of Kings!
We must regard God as a treasure, know God little by little, and constantly move forward. Do not be lazy anymore. If you know God, God will surely give you grace according to what you know. You must not treat yourself badly anymore. You must also be like me and give thanks to God among the Gentiles, so that the Gentiles and those who do not believe in God will see our works and call us great princes. We must sing praises to His name forever! Amen!
May God bless everyone!