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"When the words which David spoke were heard, they told them to Saul, and he sent for him." (I Samuel 17:31, NASB) You can't really appreciate this kid until you see where he came from. There is a progression in David's life that is really beautiful to the home. When we first read about David in verse 15, we find - "But David went back and forth from Saul to tend his father's flock at Bethlehem. (I Samuel 17:15, NASB) The we read in verse 17, "Then Jesse said to David his son, "Take now for your brothers an ephah of this roasted grain and these ten loaves and run to the camp to your brothers." (I Samuel 17:17, NASB) The next thing you know you hear David saying to Saul - "Let no man's heart fail on account of him; your servant will go and fight with this Philistine." (I Samuel 17:32, NASB) David had gone from feeding sheep and running errands to confronting giants. God had been preparing David for the big thing, by teaching him to be faithful in the little things. David had learned by tending sheep, running errands, and defending his flock how to step up and do a job that nobody else wanted to do. The first thing you have to do to solve any problem in your life, to meet any challenge in your life, to overcome the giants in your life, you've got to have the courage just to step up. The reason why most people can't solve a lot of their problems is because of rather than stepping up to the problem they run away from the problem. The motto of the king's guard in Ancient Greece were these words, "All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward sometimes to death, but always to victory." There is one thing any army knows in military warfare and that is there is never victory in retreat. There are some of you here, right now, and you think your biggest problem is the problem that you are facing when really your biggest problem is not the problem you are facing. The biggest problem is you are not willing to face the problem. You can't solve marital problems when you cut and run. You can't solve financial problems when you cut and run. You can't solve spiritual problems when you cut and run. The first step that you have to take, if you are going to win life's battles, is the courage to step up to the fight. Then we must have... 4
II. Confidence To Step Out For The Fight When David first volunteered to face Goliath you would have thought everyone would have breathed a sigh of relief and there would have been great joy in the camp. You are going to see now why David was the only one in the entire nation willing to face this giant. There was a tremendous difference between where David was looking and where everybody else was looking. What was the army saying? "The men of Israel said, "Have you seen this man who is coming?" (I Samuel 17:25, NASB) In other words, the army was saying, "Do you see how big, how brutal, how strong this man is?" The king was saying the same thing. "Then Saul said to David, "You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are but a youth while he has been a warrior from his youth." (I Samuel 17:33, NASB) The hot topic of conversation with everybody else was Goliath, but the hot topic with David was God. It took a shepherd boy to remind a king of just how great God was and how powerful God was and what great things God could do. One of the biggest problems you and I have in facing our giants is we forget what we ought to remember and we remember what we ought to forget. We tend to remember our failures and forget our victories. We remember our low points better than we remember our high points. Your mind has a hard drive just like a computer. When you erase from the hard drive of your memory what God has done for you in the past you will doubt what God will do for you in the present. David had been out there tending sheep, running errands, fighting off bears and lions and all that time, God was teaching David the greatest lesson He ever wants to teach any of us and that is this - Trust Me with your problems and your problems become possibilities for Me to work in your life. What Saul called "naive; and what many in the army called "youthful foolishness", God called "trust". David didn't say, "He can deliver me from the hand of this Philistine." David said, "He will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine." There were two ways that David knew that - not only because of what God had done for him in the past, but also of what God always does in the present if we trust Him. 5
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