David responded to Saul’s doubts with confident words of faith: “……..Thy servant kept his father’s sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock:  And I went out after him……..” (vv. 34,35).  Goliath wasn’t the first enemy David had faced in his life, he already had face to… Read More »

In the natural, David was too young and unskilled in the natural weapons of warfare to do battle with this giant.  King Saul knew this.  therefore, looking on things from a fleshly, worldly perspective, Saul knew that David (naturally speaking) was no match for Goliath.  BUT, David had HEAVEN’S PERSPECTIVE.  He knew that the outward… Read More »

1 Samuel 17:31-31, “And when the words were heard which David spake, they rehearsed them before Saul: and he sent for him.  And David said to Saul, Let no man’s heart fail because of him; thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine.” In David’s heart was a WILLINGNESS to be used of God and a… Read More »

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 »