insight
“David’s days spent diligently looking after
the sheep prepared him to face the giant Goliath
and later to be king over Israel.”
where God has placed you, because it may just be
a test which God is using to train you for great things
to come. God uses every circumstance in your life
even – or especially – the negative ones to bring you
to the place he wants you to be. David’s days spent
diligently looking after the sheep prepared him to face
the giant Goliath and later to be king over Israel.
There was a reward offered for the person who
could defeat Goliath, and maybe David saw it as an
opportunity to get out of his current situation into
better position. Certainly something stirred on the
inside of him that was not stirring in anybody else, not
even King Saul. David was not taking the initiative; it
was the Spirit of God that was at work. Remember
that when it comes to spiritual gifts, we never initiate
anything – we act in response to God.
It is not you who decides that a miracle is
going to happen. So, bold as the gift of faith is, that
sudden surge of confidence that God is going to do
something miraculous and amazing, which becomes
such a confidence within you that it can look like
you are the initiator. God is the one in control!
David received an insight; he could see the spiritual
reality behind the fleshly experience. And because he
was tuned into God, faith was triggered in his heart.
He knew that God was going to do something.
When David asked, ‘Who is this uncircumcised
Philistine?’, he was using covenant language. As
New Testament believers, we speak about the new
covenant in Christ Jesus. In our experience, every
supernatural manifestation of God is about
extending his kingdom God.
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David knew and understood God’s plan, and he
lined up with it. Timing is everything. Somehow
David understood that this was the moment. In any
experience where I’ve seen a miraculous situation,
there is something that is hard to explain, but the gift
of faith recognises that ‘now is the time’. It is not you
presuming, it is God showing you. An excitement
comes in your spirit, something wells up on the inside
of you, and words come out of your mouth that you
would never have said.
David reasoned with the logic of faith. The Bible is
full of faith logic statements such as ‘if God is for us
who can be against us’. The Lord was with David,
so he saw things from God’s perspective and used
divine reasoning: nothing is impossible if it lines
up with God’s will.
When you reason with the logic of faith, natural
logic doesn’t operate. When you move in the gift
of faith, at that time, by the spirit of God, you start
thinking differently, you start seeing things differently.
Everybody looked at Goliath, and said, “He is too big
for us to hit.” But David said. “No. He is too big for
me to miss!” and fired just one stone.
In this way that despised shepherd boy rose up,
and with one shot from his sling did what no member
of Israel’s army could do. That’s the potential of when
you allow God free reign in your life. He prepares you
and develops you, as you surrender your life to him.
There will come a moment when God will use you.
And when he uses you, giants will fall. ❖