Whew!

OK so the hard drive has been installed. A new OS has been installed. Found out that Comcast now offers it's customers Norton, YAY, it's been installed. Installed Microsoft malicious male-ware remover and mcafee. Think I'm protected now? lol probably not. Today is gonna be another crazy day too. I have to close out my Tupperware party, I have a massage therapist coming at 1pm, I have a coffee date with a really sweet elderly couple at 4pm then we have movie night at church at 6:30pm. Yeah, I like it crazy! Ha! Here's Pastor Hersch

Shelly


"Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion." 2nd Samuel 5:7

When David spied out Jerusalem in 1000 BC, it was a forbidding fortress inhabited by an old enemy who declared, 'You'll never get in here ... Even the blind and lame could keep you out!'

End of story? No, just the beginning! The walls were high, the enemy daunting and the voices intimidating, 'Nevertheless David took the stronghold ... dwelt in it ... and called it the City of David.'

Now that's what you call turning the tables!

What's your stronghold, the one area where Satan's strong enough to hold you? A sharp tongue? A judgemental attitude? A losing battle with a stubborn habit?
When the enemy says, 'You're stuck, you'll never get out,' God says, 'Nevertheless' [even so; despite how it looks on the surface]. Strongholds mean nothing to God, His mighty weapons ... knock down the devil's strongholds. And He will do for you what He did for David, once you understand two important principles:

There are two voices continually competing for your attention; one says, 'You can do it; don't give up!' The other says, 'It's hopeless; you'll never make it!' Follow David and practice selective hearing. Tune out the voices that taunt you from your stronghold.

Instead of dialoguing with the devil, say what Jesus said: 'Get behind Me, Satan' Matthew 16:23

Look through eyes of faith. Where others saw walls, David saw tunnels; they focused on the problems while he looked for the possibilities. And because he did what nobody expected, he accomplished what nobody envisioned - and with God's help you can too.



Pastor Hersch