Am I David or Am I Saul?: Part 2 | Pastor Tyler Johnson & Guest Sarah Jenson | 02.01.26

``But then David, if we could call him the USS repentance, the USS prayer warrior, the USS repenter, whatever you wanna call it, the the the the surrenderer. When when David would take on water, he wouldn't just leave it there. He would find a way to get it out. And I'm here to tell you there is this mechanism the Lord gives us to get the water out of the boat. [00:45:32] (20 seconds)  #RepentAndRelease

God, we come to meet with you this morning. God, we wanna hear your word. God, your word does not return void. It is alive. It is active. And so, God, I thank you for what the church represents. When the saints gather, there's nothing like it. The ecclesia, the government of God, you are rearranging things in the spiritual. You are aligning things. Things that are out of order are coming into order. God, the the principalities of the enemy, the gates of hell cannot stand against your church. [00:37:15] (25 seconds)  #ChurchChangesThings

Some of you, you've you've allowed a disappointment to sour the way that you see the rest of your life, the way that you dream for your life. The way you pray, you you pray restraint now because you're trying to guard yourself from being hurt again. And I'm here to tell you that that the one that knows God has an energy for God. And I don't wanna be a bitter Rachel and I have fourteen years pastoring together. I've been ministry twenty years. Been around a lot of pastors. And, yeah, when you pastor people, wounds happen, betrayal happens, gossip happens, lies happen, and it can mess you up for a second. But I'm not gonna allow somebody's unhealth to make me a bitter person. [00:39:38] (37 seconds)  #RefuseBitterness

there are gonna be storms in our life. And why is it that some storms sanctify one person and sink the other person? Why is it some stores storms destroy one person and develop the other person? My pastor would say this way when I was first growing up in church. He would say, watch out. Life will make you bitter or will make you better. Life will make you sour or will make you sore. Life will make you a victim or will make you a victor. He had all these rhyming things. God's will, God's will, leaders or readers, and he had all of them, okay? But they were true. [00:38:59] (34 seconds)  #StormsMakeOrBreak

and he felt great about it. And so we go on the water. And I'm having fun as a little kid. We're we're we're catching little sand sharks even. I'm seeing fish I've never seen before. And and so I'm gonna have a good time. And then out of the blue, the weather shifts in two seconds. Water starts coming like, you know, waves are hitting. And this boat, the seams have cracks, and they're coming through the seams. Now the seams are pretty high, but because the waves are so high, it started coming in the boat. And I'm not saying, like, up to the ankle. It's starting to come up to the knee. Like, the boat started becoming the ocean itself. [00:43:55] (29 seconds)  #StormsRiseQuickly

And the bible's very clear there must be a response of faith that a confession of faith saying that I am a sinner that needs savior. And the way we respond by faith is that we just raise our hand. And what what that represents is that we are representing that that grace is doing all the heavy lifting. You're just responding to what Jesus is doing. He's opened your eyes to his glory. So maybe during worship, during the message, during the conversation, whatever part it was, you just realized, man, I want I want this Jesus. [01:18:03] (23 seconds)  #GraceDoesTheHeavyLifting

Let me read you one Billy Graham quote, and then we'll move on to the next part of our service. Billy Graham would say this, when you are in the ditch, you have two choices. You can curse the mud, or you can look for the hand that is reaching down to pull you out. Saul cursed the mud, David grabbed the hand, Billy Graham. [00:51:42] (15 seconds)  #ReachForTheHand

But it's not gonna sink him, it's gonna sanctify him. He starts praying, God, may this not be the end of my story. May this thing that happened to my life, may this not be the thing that marks my life. And as he's praying and pleading, there's this moment as he starts to see his life, the water's starting to leave the boat again. And he goes on to say, God has heard my prayer. He has heard my plea. And I love it. He gets a little more swagger. He goes, my enemy enemies better turn and run because I'm gonna destroy them. I'm here to tell you that if you don't know how to pray your pain, oh, you are taking on way too much water in your life. [00:49:30] (34 seconds)  #PrayYourPain