Apparently David turned from one soldier to another and kept asking them, “How about you?  Will you fight Goliath?”  It quickly became clear to him that no one had the faith or courage to believe that this vile giant could be killed.  Word of David’s confidence and boldness immediately spread through the Israelite camp like… Read More »

David was stunned by his elder brother’s hostile reaction and the fear that possessed the huge Israelite soldiers surrounding him.  He asked Eliab,”…….What have I done now? Is there not a cause? And he turned from him toward another, and spake after the same manner: and the people answered him against again after the former… Read More »

When you are stepping out to challenge your foes, sometimes individuals (sometimes leadership) may point out the vast difference between spiritual boldness and rude arrogance.  Nevertheless, there is a true boldness that the Holy Spirit gives to surrendered vessels.  David was a yielded vessel.  He was so surrendered to God’s power working through him that… Read More »

1 Samuel 17:28, “And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake into the men; and Eliab’s anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom has thou left those sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for thou are come down… Read More »

Then verse 24 says that “….all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and they were sore afraid.”  I want to present to you that it appears like David joined the crowd at this time, because it looks like he came to his senses in verse 26 of 1st Samuel… Read More »

David’s first encounter with the giant Goliath, and perhaps something in Goliath’s words incited anger in David’s soul.  What a shock it was for this young (probably teen-age) shepherd to hear a pagan Philistine insulting the God of Israel and to realize that no one was doing anything about it! Is that like someone you… Read More »

We need to read 1st Samuel 17 to see what happened next: “Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehemjudah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons….And David was the youngest: and the three eldest followed Saul.  But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at Bethlehem…And David… Read More »

The Israelites wrongly considered and meditated on Goliath’s threats, allowing those threats to flood them with fear.  As a result, they were neutralized without a ground war ever taking place! That of course is how the enemy still attacks people’s minds and emotions.  He doesn’t strike once and then come back a week later to… Read More »

Goliath said, “…….I defy the armies of Israel this day….” (vs. 10).  Today the devil is still breathing out the same kind of blasphemous and terrorizing statements against the people of God, such as, “Just try and get healed.”  “Don’t think you are going to turn around your financial situation.”  “You are never going to… Read More »

If you do NOT learn how to take your thoughts captive, your mind and emotions will be use as tools of satan to dominate your thought processes for the rest of your life.  If you do not take charge of your mind…learning how to SPEAK God’s truth to yourself rather than LISTEN to the enemy’s… Read More »