Reigning As A King In Youth by Dr. Paul Enenche: Sermon Notes

The season of youth is a season of energy, exponential growth, vigor and freshness, the window between childhood and adulthood. Scripture holds up David's life as a pattern for reigning as a king during that season, and this is a continued walk through what made him who he became.

What Reigning as a King in Youth Requires

1. Strong Awareness of Purpose

   David knew what he was in the earth to do long before the throne caught up with that knowledge.

2. Purity and Integrity

   His private life matched his public confession before either was tested at scale.

3. Responsibility

   He kept his father's sheep faithfully long before he was entrusted with a nation.

4. Guard Your Associations

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   Choices of friendship shape a future and a destiny. Be careful, not paranoid, about who has regular access to your life.

5. Be a Person of Skill

   1 Samuel 16:18

   David was described as cunning in playing, a mighty valiant man, a man of war, prudent in matters, comely, and one the Lord was with. What took him to the palace the first time was not his fighting, it was his skill on the instrument, developed in obscurity, alone with God in the field. Ecclesiastes 9:10 instructs, whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might. Proverbs 12:11 promises that whoever works their own land will be satisfied with bread, and a person skilled in their work will stand before kings, not before obscure men. Skills built quietly in small, unglamorous seasons are what carry a person into rooms they never expected to enter.

6. Stay With What You Know

   1 Samuel 17:38-39

   Saul armed David with his own armor, but David said, "I cannot go with this, I have not tested it," and took it off. Never let anyone talk you into using a method you have not proven, no matter how well it worked for them. Don't practice new, unproven approaches in the middle of a real battle. Know what genuinely works for you, and don't abandon it just because it is unfamiliar to others or because something else looks more popular.

7. Never Carry What Has Not Worked for Someone Else

   Saul's armor never worked for Saul either, which is exactly why it made no sense on David. Refuse to carry a weight, an obligation, or a method that was never built for your own shoulders, financially, spiritually, or otherwise.

8. Know Your Tools

   1 Samuel 17:40

   David took his staff, five smooth stones, and his sling, ordinary shepherd's tools that looked absurd against a giant. He did not need Saul's sword, he needed what he had actually mastered. Whatever ability is genuinely yours, however small it looks next to someone else's, perfect it and use it fully rather than abandoning it to imitate another person's method.

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9. Never Let the Enemy Have the Final Say

   1 Samuel 17:44-47

   When Goliath threatened to feed David's flesh to birds and beasts, David answered back at length, declaring the battle belonged to the Lord and that the outcome would prove there was a God in Israel. Never keep silent while your destiny is being spoken against. Counter every negative declaration with the word of God rather than absorbing it quietly.

10. Be a Person of Vision

    David spoke exactly what he intended to do to Goliath before he ever threw a stone, and what he declared became precisely what happened.

11. Be a Person of Speed

    1 Samuel 17:22, 48, 51

    David ran to the army, ran to meet Goliath, and ran to stand over him after he fell. Refuse the spell of slow motion. Age is not a disqualifier: David was anointed king at seventeen, long before he sat on the throne. Speed in pursuing what God has shown you matters as much as the vision itself.

12. Accurately Fulfill Your Vision

    Habakkuk 2:2-4

    Write the vision, make it plain, so that whoever reads it can run with it. David declared it, then acted on it. He even used Goliath's own sword to finish what he had promised, a reminder that the very people who mock a vision can end up positioned by God to help fulfill it.

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13. Never Apologize for Your Victories

    David carried Goliath's severed head into Jerusalem in plain sight and kept the giant's armor as a lasting reminder in his own tent. Don't hide what God has done through you.

14. Do Exploits That Make People Ask If You're the Same Person

    After the victory, Saul's own commander did not recognize the boy who had played music before him days earlier.

15. Make Qualitative Friends

    Deliberately keep company with the most spiritual and most diligent people around, not the most entertaining ones. Stay close to people who are visibly ahead of you in character or skill, and learn from them rather than settling for being the best in a small room.

16. Be a Person of Wisdom

    1 Samuel 18:5, 14-15

    David behaved himself wisely in everything, and the text notes that Saul grew afraid of him precisely because of it. Walking in God's wisdom draws its own protection; when people cannot explain how someone operates, that same wisdom becomes what keeps them from being harmed.

17. Be Careful of People Who Over-Praise You

    1 Samuel 18:6-9

    When the women sang that Saul had slain thousands and David ten thousands, it planted the jealousy that eventually turned Saul against David. Excessive, public praise, especially praise that compares you favorably to someone in authority over you, can create enemies you never intended to make.

18. Stay Away From Destiny Killers

    1 Samuel 18:11

    When Saul openly tried to kill David with a javelin, David avoided his presence, twice. If it is clear someone means harm, distance is wisdom, not cowardice, whether that threat comes wrapped in friendship, romance, or family obligation.

19. Treat Every Setback as an Opportunity

    Saul sent David into dangerous battles hoping he would die there; David used every one of them to grow instead.

20. Never Let Anyone Force You Into Marriage

    Saul offered his daughter to David as a trap, not a blessing. David, a man who inquired of the Lord in scripture more than twenty times over major decisions, never asked God specifically who to marry, and that gap is where later trouble in his household began.

21. Love the Lord and Be a God-Chaser

    Psalm 42:1

    As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after You. Let that hunger, not obligation, be what defines a young believer's pursuit of God.