Victory In the Lord

1. Seek the Lord’s Mind

2 Samuel 5:17-

2 Samuel 5:19 CSB

Then David inquired of the Lord: “Should I attack the Philistines? Will you hand them over to me?” The Lord replied to David, “Attack, for I will certainly hand the Philistines over to you.”

In your decisions that you make, before you make a move

In spiritual battles that you face

In personal or professional struggles that you have

/ Psalm 62

2. After Victory, Seek the Lord again

2 Samuel 5:23 CSB

So David inquired of the Lord, and he answered, “Do not attack directly, but circle around behind them and come at them opposite the balsam trees.

2 Samuel 5:22

Temptation is to see victory and relax

Don’t let down your guard after a victory, there is a valley afterward

Don’t rely on self when God has just given victory

Great lie is that we can offer any help to God

Jeremiah 17:7–8 CSB

The person who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence indeed is the Lord, is blessed. He will be like a tree planted by water: it sends its roots out toward a stream, it doesn’t fear when heat comes, and its foliage remains green. It will not worry in a year of drought or cease producing fruit.

2 Corinthians 3:4–5 CSB

Such is the confidence we have through Christ before God. It is not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God.

2 Corinthians

Philippians 2:3 CSB

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility consider others as more important than yourselves.

Philippians 4:13 CSB

I am able to do all things through him who strengthens me.

Philippians

3. God’s Victory - From every distress

2 Samuel 4:9 CSB

But David answered Rechab and his brother Baanah, sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, “As the Lord lives, the one who has redeemed my life from every distress,

2 Samuel 4:

Are you in Distress, are you lonely, are you tired of struggling?

Rest in the Lord

Matthew

Matthew 11:28–30 CSB

“Come to me, all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take up my yoke and learn from me, because I am lowly and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”