The X-Factor | Message 2: Training for Reigning | Pastor Chad Dingess | 01/12/2025

1 John 2:27
As for you, the anointing which you received from Him remains in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you. But just as His anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and is not a lie, and just as His anointing has taught you, you must remain in Him. (MULTILINE)

1 Samuel 16:13-14 (NIV)
Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed David in the presence of his brothers; and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon David from that day forward. And Samuel arose and went to Ramah. Now the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord tormented and terrified him. (MULTILINE)

2 Samuel 5:4
David was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned forty years. (MULTILINE)

1 Samuel 16:12
The Lord said “Arise, anoint him; for this is he.” (MULTILINE)

Mark 3:21
When his own family heard this, they went to take custody of Him; for they were saying, “He is out of His mind.” (MULTILINE)

1 Samuel 17:17-18
Now Jesse said to his son David, “Take this ephah of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread for your brothers and hurry to their camp. Take along these ten cheeses to the commander of their unit. See how your brothers are and bring back some assurance from them. (MULTILINE)

1 Samuel 17:28-29
When Eliab, David’s oldest brother, heard him speaking with the men, he burned with anger at him and asked, “Why have you come down here? And with whom did you leave those few sheep in the wilderness? I know how conceited you are and how wicked your heart is; you came down only to watch the battle.” “Now what have I done?” said David. “Can’t I even speak?” (MULTILINE)

Ephesians 6:12
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. (MULTILINE)

1 Samuel 17:4-7
Then Goliath, a Philistine champion from Gath, came out of the Philistine ranks to face the forces of Israel. He was over nine feet tall! He wore a bronze helmet, and his bronze coat of mail weighed 125 pounds. He also wore bronze leg armor, and he carried a bronze javelin on his shoulder. The shaft of his spear was as heavy and thick as a weaver’s beam, tipped with an iron spearhead that weighed 15 pounds. His armor bearer walked ahead of him carrying a shield. (MULTILINE)

1 Samuel 17:8-10
Goliath stood and shouted a taunt across to the Israelites. “Why are you all coming out to fight?” he called. “I am the Philistine champion, but you are only the servants of Saul. Choose one man to come down here and fight me! If he kills me, then we will be your slaves. But if I kill hi, you will be our slaves! I defy the armies of Israel today! Send me a man who will fight me!” (MULTILINE)

1 Samuel 17:11
When Saul and the Israelites heard this, they were terrified and deeply shaken. (MULTILINE)

1 Samuel 17:26
David asked the men standing near him, “What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and removes this disgrace from Israel? Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?” (MULTILINE)

1 Samuel 17:32-33
David said to Saul, “Let no one lose heart on account of this Philistine; your servant will go and fight him.” Saul replied, “You are not able to go out against this Philistine and fight him; you are only a young man, and he has been a warrior from his youth.” (MULTILINE)

1 Samuel 17:34-35
But David said to Saul, “Your servant has been keeping his father’s sheep. When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock, I went after it, struck it and rescued the sheep from its mouth. When it turned on me, I seized it by its hair, struck it and killed it. (MULTILINE)

1 Samuel 17:45-46
David said to the Philistine, “You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the Lord Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. This day the Lord will deliver you into my hands, and I’ll strike you down and cut off your head. This very day, I will give you the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds and the wild animals, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel. (MULTILINE)

1 Samuel 17:47
All those gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the Lord saves; for the battle is the Lord’s, and he will give all of you into our hands. (MULTILINE)

1 Samuel 17:40
Then he took his staff in his hand, chose five smooth stones from the stream, put them in the pouch of his shepherd’s bag and, with his sling in his band, approached the Philistine. (MULTILINE)

1 Samuel 17:49
Reaching into his bag and taking out a stone, he slung it and struck the Philistine on the forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell face down on the ground. (MULTILINE)

1 John 4:4
But you belong to God, my dear children. You have already won a victory over those people, because the Spirit who lives in you is greater than the spirit who lives in the world. (MULTILINE)

1 Samuel 17:51
Then David ran over and pulled Goliath’s sword from its sheath. David used it to kill him and cut off his head. (MULTILINE)