CCOG Sunday Service 10-5-25. Tyler Helton: Intimacy First: Why Authority Without a Secret Place Fails

What if the authority you’re praying for is waiting on the other side of a shut door? We trace a bold, ancient pattern across Isaiah 22 and David’s early life: God entrusts keys to those He can fasten “as a nail in a sure place.” That means image can’t carry you, platforms can’t protect you, and performance can’t produce what only the secret place can give. We talk honestly about worship that looks strong on Sunday but runs thin by Wednesday, and why seasons of fire—welcome as they are—will never replace a daily life of intimacy with Jesus.

Walking through Shebna and Eliakim, we draw a sharp contrast between optics and obedience. Shebna carved legacy into stone while the city needed intercession; God replaced him with Eliakim, a faithful steward He could trust with the keys of David. From there, we sit with David’s hidden years and the habit that marked his reign: he reached for the ephod before the sword. That single choice—presence before strategy—reshaped how we think about leadership, spiritual authority, and the work we do when no one is watching. Ask in secret, and God rewards openly. Reverse the order, and you can gather attention without gaining authority.

We also get practical about busyness, fatigue, and screens that promise rest but steal it. The cure for thin zeal isn’t more hype; it’s more presence. If you’re new to faith, the first step is the closest one—meet the Savior and begin the relationship that changes everything. If you’ve walked with Jesus for years, the invitation is renewal: push back the plate, open the Word, shut the door, and let God rekindle a private fire that the public world can’t counterfeit.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome & Housekeeping
• 0:57 Gratitude for the Worship Team
• 3:42 Revival Season and Its Limits
• 4:25 Guarding Intimacy Over Authority
• 6:21 Scripture Reading: Isaiah 22
• 7:52 Authority Flows From Intimacy
• 10:04 Trust, Heart Posture, and Access
• 12:00 David’s Heart Versus Saul’s Image
• 16:20 Discernment: Stop Chasing Appearances
• 18:24 Ask in Secret, Be Rewarded Openly
• 20:02 Formation Before Promotion
• 22:14 Fire From the Secret Place
• 24:16 Ephod Before the Sword
• 26:28 Busyness, Discontent, and Zeal
• 28:45 Rekindling Personal Fire
• 30:00 Shebna and Eliakim: Keys Entrusted
• 33:07 Can God Hang His Glory on You?
• 35:01 Call to Salvation and Renewal
• 37:10 Service Close & Contact Info

Transcript

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You know what this team gets up here, and I'm going to exclude myself. I'm not part of the team this morning. What this team gets up here and does every service is a very hard thing to do. It's a hard thing to come up here and try to convince people every week that they need to press into God. That's hard to do. To come convince people that they need to worship no matter their circumstances, to come and create an atmosphere where the Spirit of the Lord can come. That's hard to do. Very hard to do. Because we come in so many times, me included. We come in so many times not really grasping what God has done for us. We come in so many times, not really, not really comprehending that we shouldn't be here. We think, well, I got out of this mess because I, you know, I done this and that. I got I got my got into a mess. I almost got in a car wreck, but thank the Lord I reacted quick enough. You should be in a grave. Every person in here this morning deserves death. But because of what he's done, we can come into his house and give him praise. We can come into his house and worship him in spirit and in truth. And I'm thankful for that. I'm thankful for this team. I can remember a time down the lounge when we first started back in 2013 that Pastor John played the piano and sung. If the drummer was there, I played the bass. And if the drummer had to work, I played the drums. That's what you got. Tyler and John Road Show. The traveling preachers. I don't know what you should call us. T and J. But I'm thankful that we're out of room. I'm thankful that we've got a worship team that's out of room. I have to stop sometimes and step back away from it and look and remember all the prayers that I prayed. God, send us this, send us that, send us people that'll be faithful with this. Send us people that will handle this the way it should be handled. God, do this for us, provide this for us. And sometimes, I may be the only human in here, but sometimes I forget about stuff like that. Sometimes I get aggravated or frustrated. Things ain't going right. Sounds messed up. Brand new keyboard over here, not even a year old yet, got broke keys on it. Almost$3,000 already broke. That's frustrating. But look what God has done. And if He bought us that one, He'll buy us another one. We don't need no pianos. What we need is Jesus. You know, lately we're in a season of great fire, it seems. We're in a season of great services. And it seems like every week we come in here and the Lord shows up. Even on Wednesday nights, which is hard to find. You can find uh energetic people on Sunday morning at church. It's hard to find that on Wednesday nights. Every week we find ourselves dwelling in his presence. It's a time of revival. He's reviving our spirits, he's reviving the fire and reviving a longing for him. But one thing that we have to do, and I hope that I can bring this to you the way that the Lord showed it to me. One thing that we have to do during times of revival and times of fire is we have to safeguard our intimacy with the Lord. We cannot replace closeness, closeness of intimacy with revival. We can't, because revival won't tarry forever. But if we can be intimate with God, that's everlasting. We can be everlasting intimate with the Savior, even when revival's not here. Because we've all seen it. We're all thankful for what the Lord's doing right now. We've also seen it when it's dry and when it's hard, and when it's like you're trying to push the weight that God has placed on your back on sandpaper. Like nothing moves, nothing responds, nothing listens. There's a brass ceiling above you. You can't get through, you can't do nothing. We get up here and we pray and we sing and we play and we clap and he preaches and nothing happens. But we have to maintain that intimacy with God. Through those hard times, we have to maintain the intimacy of God. Don't forsake the intimacy. The first thing the enemy wants to do, and I've heard this said a lot, the first thing the enemy wants to do is not take your marriage, not take your children, not take your peace, not take your finances. If he can withdraw you from being intimate with God, all those other things will fall apart by themselves. If you're not in the secret place, spending time with the Savior of your soul, all those other things cannot be held together. They have to be built on a foundation, and that foundation is Jesus, and the only way we lay that foundation is through intimacy. It's not through songs, it's not through preaching, it's not through churches, it's not through any of that. We have to be intimate with the Father. We have to be intimate with our Savior. Isaiah 22 20 through 23. And it will and it shall come to pass in that day that I will call my servant Eliakim, the son of Helkiah, and I will clothe him with thy robe, strengthen him with thy girdle, and commit thy government unto his hand. And he shall be the father of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah, and the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulders, so he shall open and none shall close, and he shall shut and none shall open. I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place, and he shall be a glorious throne for his father's house. Let's pray this morning. Heavenly Father, God, in light of all that you've already done this morning, God, we ask you to still pour your presence out upon us, God. God, even though your spirit has been here, Father, and we have felt your presence, God, and we believe that you've been in our midst, God, we want more and more and more of it, Father. Continue to pour your blessings out on this house, God. Cover us, Father, in the blood of Jesus, God. Lord, we look to you, we lift you up and magnify you, God. Help us to be intimate with you, Father, in all that we do. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen and amen. The content of this scripture gives us an understanding of the authority to decree his purpose, that we have a key to the kingdom. He says, I'll give him the key of the house of David. David carried great authority. We can look at David's life as king, and he carried great authority, but something else that David also had was great intimacy. David was very intimate with the Lord. His whole life was built on intimacy and authority, and David learned very early that you couldn't have one without the other. You couldn't have one without the other. You couldn't be authoritative with God's power and God's call on your life until you were intimate with God. You had to spend time in intimacy. Before we can have the key to authority, we have to have the key to intimacy. Before the key unlocks authority and order, it unlocks intimacy and prayer. The keys unlock intimacy and prayer, and then those things unlock spiritual authority. Intimacy over authority. We have to have intimacy over authority. We want authority. Amen? Somebody want some authority this morning? Yeah, well, it's bought in prayer. It's bought in prayer. The greater the pull for authority in today's church, then there is for intimacy. Our mindset today is that when I have heaven's authority, then I can be intimate with heaven. We think that we have to have the authority to unlock heaven before we can go in and be intimate with the Lord. But let me remind you that Jesus tore the veil. There's not a key anymore to get before the Lord. You just get before the Lord. His spirit is with you when you are in your secret place. He is in your secret place with you. We have to unlock intimacy before we can unlock authority. Heavenly authority comes from time spent with the king. The posture of the heart will determine heaven's authority that you have access to. Just like someone will not allow you to make decisions on their behalf until they trust you. Somebody's not going to let you just run down to the bank and decide what happens with your money unless they trust you to do so. A very good example is I can walk down here and get April's purse right now, and I can go out there and get in a car and drive off with it. I can go, I can dig through it. I do it sometimes, and she gets mad at me because I mess everything up. But I can make financial decisions on her behalf. I can go anywhere I want to in our house and do anything I want to. Why? Because we know who each other are. We know each other. We have spent time learning each other, growing together, being intimate together. Therefore, we can trust each other. She doesn't have to ask me to do something. I don't have to ask her to do something. We know. We know what we will allow into our home. We know what we will allow our money to be used for. We know the decisions that we're going to make because we know each other. That's how we have to be with the Father. You can't go around declaring and decreeing all the things of the Lord when he doesn't know who you are. You can't go around making statements like, Lord, turn them loose, Lord, heal them, Lord, set them free. And the Lord's like, Jesus, I know. And Paul, I know. Who are you? I don't I think I've heard your name on Sunday morning once. I think I said, yeah, I think I seen you on Sunday. You don't get that authority by coming to church on Sunday morning. There's a price that has to be paid in the secret place. See, before there was a key of David, there was a heart of David. Before God gave him a key to the kingdom, God looked for his heart. We can see Samuel tells Saul in 1 Samuel 13. He says, But now thy kingdom shall not continue, Saul. The Lord has sought him a man after his own heart, and the Lord hath commanded him to be a captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the Lord commanded of thee. Saul was a king of Israel, and he was the king of the people. Saul saw authority with the people. He was a man after Israel's heart. He was about image and prestige and winning of wars. He was a man after the heart of the people. God stepped back and said, You know, a man after the heart of the people that doesn't care about my heart probably shouldn't be in charge. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to search the land and find somebody who has a heart after my heart. Because if he's got a heart after my heart, then he can be trusted to rule the kingdom that I'll establish on the earth. I have to find somebody that's not just a warrior, somebody that's not worried about image and appearance. I have to find somebody that's worried about the deep things of the heart to give him authority to be the holder of the keys of the kingdom. And you know, God searched the land and he saw David. He saw a heart out in the field all by himself, just caring for sheep. Just a shepherd boy with a heart and a heart for the father. That's all David had. He was destined to spend his life as a shepherd boy. He was destined to just guard the father's sheep. They didn't want anything to do with him. The father didn't want anything to do with him. His brothers didn't want anything to do with him. He was a hindrance. They didn't want to fool with him. He was destined to spend his life in the fields tending the sheep. But while David was in the fields tending the sheep, he was also tending to the heart. He was also tending to the things that God had laid before him. The Lord knew that inside of David's lovesick heart there was a king. And David wasn't even named until three chapters after Samuel told Saul that God had found someone after his own heart. Three chapters later, before we ever hear David's name, Samuel came up to Jesse because God told him to go anoint the next king and that it would be a son of Jesse. He said to Jesse, are all your children here after he looked at all of David's brothers that were mighty men of valor and mighty men of war, could go off to battle by themselves and come back victorious. He looked at them and God said, That's not them, Samuel. That's not the ones that I that's not the ones that I want you to anoint. So Jesse said, or Samuel said to Jesse, Are all your children here? He said, There remaineth yet the youngest. And behold, he keepeth the sheep. Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch him, for we will not sit down until he comes here. And this was after Samuel, the prophet, who heard directly from God to go anoint the next king, had already determined in his mind that Eliahab was going to be the next king. He said, When Eliahab, Jesse's son, walked up, Saul said to himself, He said, It came to pass when they were to come that he looked upon Eliab and said, Surely the Lord's anointed is before him. And the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, nor on the height of his stature, because I have refused him. For the Lord seeth not as man sees. For the man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart. Samuel, the prophet, the man of God, hearing the word of God and declaring it, direct connection with the Father, perceived in himself somebody was a king, and God said, No, I've already rejected him. You can think what you want to, Samuel. He might look like a king, he might act like a king, he might dress like a king, he might fight and war like a king, but I ain't looking at those things. I'm not looking, Samuel, at the outward appearance that you're looking at. I'm looking at the heart. Samuel was looking for someone who could assume the kingly role. Someone that he could bring in, put a robe around them, put a crown on their head, put a ring on their finger, and everybody around would think that's a king. That's what Samuel was looking at. You can appear to have authority all you want. You can sound the part, you can say the right things, you can dress the part, but your appearance of authority will not override your lack of intimacy. The appearance of authority that you may carry will not compensate for the lack of time you spend with the Lord. It will not overcome it. You can appear it all you want to, but you have to earn your authority through the heart. You have to earn it through the secret place. And you know, this is something that's very controversial today. Something that a lot of people don't like. But it just is what it is. And this is the way I feel, and you're welcome to disagree. That's why we have to safeguard against what we watch, what we listen to, what we subscribe to, what we like, what we follow, what we give our eyes to, and what we give our ears to, because there's a really good chance you're subscribing to stuff that looks like it has authority. There's a good chance that I'm subscribing to stuff and following stuff and listening to stuff that sounds like it has authority, that seems like it has authority, but when you get to it, it's all just a cover. There's no intimacy there, there's no heart behind it. We have to safeguard ourselves against what we watch and what we listen to and what we pour ourselves into. We have to protect the intimacy we have with God and not pervert it with things that only seem to have authority. It matters what we lend our ears and our eyes to, it matters what we led into our intimate place. Stop looking at stages and cameras and lights and suits and instruments and sounds and start looking at intimacy with God that comes from the heart. Because I can tell you that stages will fail, singers will fail, musicians will fail, preachers will fail, pastors will fail, your friends will fail, your family will fail. But if you can build on intimacy with God, you have built on a foundation that will not be shaken. Because when you know who he is, you can trust who he is. It's hard to trust something that you've never known, and the only way to know him is through intimacy. We have to remember that we're anointed to open and close, to lock and unlock, to declare and decree. But the keys have God has given us were never intended to unlock authority before it unlocks intimacy. We have to be intimate with the Father. We have to be intimate with God. We have to spend time to get to know Him and let Him get to know us. Ask in the secret place and God rewards you openly. Ask in secret and God rewards you openly. It doesn't say ask openly and he'll reward you in secret, which we get mixed up sometimes, I think. In the modern church, we get it mixed up that if I'm loud enough, if I'm talented enough, if I'm big enough, if I'm flashy enough, if I'm all these things enough, then God will reward me when I'm really struggling at home by myself. It's that's not how it works. Ask in the secret place and God rewards you openly. God wants to take you somewhere this morning before he gives you something. God wants you to go on a journey that leads to authority. He doesn't want you to start in authority. And the reason that is, is because we can't be trusted with authority. We can't be trusted with authority. Do you know how many things would be different if I had the authority to just say something happens and it happens? Everybody in here would do that. I would cause things to happen that was never in the will of God if I was given the authority to do so. And the reason being is because there's situations that we get into as a human being where our feelings are involved and we're hurt and we're broken. We get into situations that we would change that God never intended to change, that happened exactly how God wanted them to happen. We can't do that this morning, church. We've got to know who we've got to know his heart and we've got to know him good enough and trust him good enough that if he says, This is my will and this is my plan, then we go forward with his will and his plan. And we can do that when we are intimate. David was a man of pursuit. He did not pursue promotion, but he pursued God's heart. And from that pursuit, his kingly anointing came. His lineage, his performance, and his skills did not bring forth a kingdom, only his pursuit after God's heart. One of the greatest things we have today as believers is our God-given authority. We must walk in it, we must act in it, and we must be about it. But if your authority was bought with anything other than intimacy, then you have the appearance of authority with no power. We can stand on any stage, but with our authority coming from anything other than intimately knowing who Jesus is, we are just flashing lights. We have nothing to offer. We're just there in appearance only. We have nothing good. I've told the worship team, I've said this for years, I would rather you have a bucket of anointing with a drop of talent than a bucket of talent with a drop of anointing. You can take your talent and leave it in the parking lot. You can take what you think you have to offer and leave it in your car. We're not interested in it. The only thing we want is the anointing of God to flow from this stage. We want the anointing to flow from this stage and nothing else. It's not about us. We're not up here to get applause, we're not up here to get accolades, we're up here to see his kingdom come and his will be done. The enemy has to respond to a heart that can say, I have seen the Lord. When your heart can truly say that I have seen the Lord, the enemy then has to respond. We can only see the Lord through our intimacy with him. Have you seen the Lord? Or can can you see this morning that you have seen, can you say this morning that you have seen the Lord? Because if you have, it was in your secret place. If you have seen the Lord in your secret place, then you'll come out of your secret place with authority to do what he has told you to do. You can't go forth with a calling on your life and never have intimacy. We had a young man in our youth group years ago, he's a grown man now, got a family and everything, don't even live around here. He felt he had a call to preach on his life. A strong call, and you could tell that he was a strong calling. He got so discouraged that he turned his back on the Lord because doors weren't opening for him. He was thinking that he should be preaching all over the place. God called me to preach. Why is he not opening doors? And I would try to explain to him, God put a calling on your life. Now he's going to cultivate you to work in that calling. He is going to open doors for you as he sees that you are ready to walk through them. He will open doors for us, but he won't open a door that we're not ready to walk through. Amen. Psalms 27 and 8. When you said seek my face, my heart said to you, Your face alone will I seek. This has to be our heart's cry. I will seek your face and your face alone. The book Secrets of the Secret Place, written by Bob Sorge. If you've never read it, I encourage you to do so. Look into Bob Sorge. He's a very anointed man of God. He said, You are destined for fire, and you will burn for all of eternity. The only question is where? You're destined for fire, and you're going to spend eternity burning. The question is, where are you going to burn? Are you going to burn in hell or are you going to burn at the throne? You're destined for fire. He goes on to say the only sure way to be on fire for God is through devoting yourself consistently to the place of the shut door. The place of the shut door, the place of secrets, the secret place. That's the only way to stay on fire for God is when you devote yourself consistently to the secret place. The secret place is where we find our authority. Our keys are in the secret place. Intimacy is the only door we can walk through and come out with keys to the kingdom. The only door we can walk through as believers is intimacy that will let us come back out with keys to his kingdom. A heart of intimacy is a heart that killed giants and slew thousands of people on the battlefield. God doesn't find pleasure in our performance, amen. He only takes pleasure when we pursue after him. He only takes pleasure when we pursue after him. David, we can see when after he was king, he always ran to the ephod before he ran to the weapon. The ephod was a priestly garment that represented the presence of God. David would run to the presence of God before he ran to the battlefield. He would run into God's presence and seek God's face and say, What should we do in this situation? Because there's many times in the Old Testament we can see kings that ran into battle before they ran into God. We have to run after the ephod this morning. We have to run after the presence of God to see what he wants us to do in battle. Our battles are null and void and will be lost if we're not doing it under the authority of God. And the only way we can operate under the authority of God is to be intimate with God. We have to get to know God. We find ourselves so many times in discontentment. We're never satisfied. We can't finish one thing before we start the next thing. We are always looking for the next thing to come and consume us and drive us, drive away our discontentment. This is what brings forth busyness. And then busyness will pull you away from pursuit. And all along you just had a spiritual ache to be in the deep places of God. You had a spiritual ache to go deeper with God. Your spirit was crying out to be closer to the Father, yet your flesh was filling the void with busyness. How many in here have said, if I could get some more rest, I could do this or do that? I say it all the time, y'all. I'm like, if I could just sleep like more than six hours. If I could just sleep, if I could get a full night's sleep, boy, I'd feel good. I'd feel great, you know. Maybe if when the Lord wakes me up at five o'clock in the morning instead of getting on YouTube and brain rotting a video for hours, maybe if I'd spend time in his presence, I wouldn't need as much rest at night. Maybe if we maybe if I would feed my flesh or my soul a little bit more, my spirit a little bit more, my flesh tiredness wouldn't be so prevalent in my life. We lack zeal and passion in our praise and in our worship and in our prayer. And we do not lack this because we are tired. We lack it because we lack intimacy. We lack zeal in what we're doing for the Lord, not because we're busy, not because we're tired, not because we're overworked and underpaid. We lack zeal for the Lord because we lack intimacy with the Lord. It's hard to be excited about what God's doing when we're not even sure what it is. It's hard to be excited about what the doors that God's opening when we don't even know if we need to walk through them or not. We have to know the Lord with intimacy. We don't need something to stir us up so we can feel the presence of the Lord. We don't need a cheerleader or a coach. We don't need a different worship team or a different pastor or a different preacher. We need to be intimate with God. Amen. When you come to know him on an intimate level, your praise will show that. When you have spent time in the secret place, you can't contain that in the public place. When you've encountered God in the secret place, it will show publicly. You'll be on fire for God. You may be wondering, why am I not on fire? Why am I not on fire? Why can't I feel the fire of the Lord? I go to church every time the door is open. Push your plate back, open your Bible and listen to what the Lord's saying. That's the only way to build the fire of the Lord in your life is to hear what God is saying, and the only way to hear what he's saying is to spend time with him. Nothing satisfies us, nothing fulfills the glory that he has for us other than spending time in his presence. Nothing less and nothing more than spending time with God. That has to be our prayer this morning. Nothing less and nothing more than spending time with my Savior. You know, when we when we open, I read the scripture about Eliakim. And let me see, I'm just gonna go back. It says in Isaiah 20, 22 and 20, It shall come to pass that day that I will call my servant Eliakim, the son of Heleki, and I will clothe him with thy robe and strengthen him with thy girdle. And I will command the government into his hand, and he shall be the father of the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of David. And the keys of the house of David I will lay upon his shoulder, so he shall open and none shall shut, and he shall shut and none shall open, and I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place. He has a and he shall be a glorious throne for his father's house. But before Eliakim came onto the scene there was Shebnah. If we look in Isaiah 22 15 it says Thus says the Lord God of hosts, go proceed to the steward, to Shebnah, who is over the house, and say, What have you here and whom have you here? That you have hewn a sepulchre here, as he who hewn himself a sepulchre on high, who carves a tomb for himself in a rock. At this point, Shibna had the authority over the household, over the royal household. But when the Assyrians breached the walls of the city, instead of Shibna seeking God about what to do in battle and how to oppose the Assyrians and stop the attack, Shibna decides to create a tomb that would secure his legacy of the ruler of the royal household. Shibna wanted to appear to have authority instead of actually having authority. Shibna was more worried about how he appeared to the people he wanted to be laid in a tomb hewn on high so he could look like a king or look like he had something to offer people. So all through history people would look up and say look at Shibna all he's done. Look at all he's done you can grow content in the face of death by preparing a place that makes you seem like somebody special you can seem like somebody special this morning and be content with rotting away and dying because you have the appearance of authority you don't have authority. When you have authority when you've been intimate with the Lord you're not content with just making it look like you have authority you're not content until you're doing the will and the works of the Lord. Amen because he stops seeking the Lord God tells Shebna that he will throw him violently away and that he will seize him and throw him violently like a ball into a large country and there you will die and your glorious chariots shall be a shame of your master's house and verse 20 we go back to it and says in that day I I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Helekh and I will clothe him with thy robe and strengthen him with thy girdle and I will command thy government into his hand and he shall be a shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. The keys of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulders so that he shall open and none shall shut and he shall shut and none shall open and I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place for he shall be a glorious throne to his father's house because Eliachim was a faithful servant to the royal household he now has been given the keys of David and the keys that will lock and unlock the kingdom of heaven the authority that was sought out by Shebna has now been granted to Eliachim due to his faithfulness in God's call. Twenty three says I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place he shall be a glorious throne to thy father's house and 24 says I will hang upon him the glory of his father's house. And I'm asking you this morning are you fastened in a sure place that God can hang his glory on you? Has God set you in a place because you've been intimate with him and faithful in seeking his face that he can hang his glory on you? Have you paid the price in the field alone with God so he can pour the oil over your head and anoint you as a chosen one to handle the keys that's a tall task this morning church that's hard to think about am I in a place with God to where he can hang his glory on me can he fasten me like a nail in a wall and use me to hold his glory have we paid the price this morning worship team if you want to come back when David came up from the field looking ruddy in stature God said Arise and anoint him and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward. David's intimate time alone with God had birthed an authority that otherwise he would have never known God spent time in the field with the Father long before he ever spent time in a castle long before he ever spent time in the kingdom with holding the keys and you might say this morning you know none of this makes any sense to me I don't even know the Lord is my savior I don't even know who the Lord is. How am I supposed to be intimate with him? There is nothing more intimate you can do than coming to know him as your savior as the church stands this morning I ask you do you know him as your savior do you know that you are saved by the blood of the Lamb are you intimately in a relationship with Jesus and if you're not this is your call to come if you're lost this morning this is your call to come to the altar and begin that intimate walk with Jesus to step up and to step out and do the things that God has called you to do. And the rest of us this morning I know I do we need to find a place to pray this morning and ask God to restore our intimacy with Him. God restore the longing that I have take me back to my first love. Take me back to the things I loved first all the other stuff let it be pushed to the side take me back to what I loved first God which was you. Take me back to when I took the step of intimacy and accepted you as my Savior take me back to that Lord restoring me my first love take me back to having a heart like David that even if I'm stuck in a field by myself I'll praise you.

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Even if I'm a shepherd over a bunch of sheep I'm gonna pull my harp out and I'm gonna give you praise can we find a place to pray this morning I'm gonna let it shine is the light of mind you've been listening to Cape Wood Church of God Sunday service and if you're looking for a church please come and visit us and join us at the C Wod Church of God Sunday service time is 1130 a.mun Wednesdays is at 630 p.m Sunday school is at 1030 a please go check out our website for more content and information at HOR421 Show dot bussprout dot com coordinated at 421 Studio for contact information you can email at HOR421 Ministries at gmail dot com. Phone numbers 239849150