A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; OLD TESTAMENT STORIES: ONE SLING SHOT WILL DO P/8

  

                               

A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; OLD TESTAMENT STORIES 

                  ONE SLING SHOT WILL DO 

                                  PART VIII 

"I, David, the youngest son of Jesse, am here at the battle field of Elah... The Israeli army is in battle with the Philistine army... But the Israeli army has just run away in fear.... The reason they have run away is the intimidating shout of a Philistine giant named Goliath... But the Israeli army needs to remember that they are not just any army... They are the army of the living God...I believe my God has sent me here to show them....I have just told them that this giant is nothing more than an uncircumcised Philistine... And can easily be defeated.... The Lord has put it on my heart as well to put actions to my words... However, I am not a soldier... So I will not fight him with the weaponry used by soldiers....I will fight him with the weaponry I used as a shepherd...I will use a sling and a stone...And I believe my God will guide the stone that I will use to the exact location in the body of this uncircumcised giant....He is so big that it is impossible to miss him... He will be dead this very day... For my God will have the victory.... And the Israeli army will once again know that they are the army of the living God.".... Please read the typed out attachment when you will learn that David chooses very carefully his weaponry against the Philistine giant Goliath...

 

                ATTACHMENT A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; OLD TESTAMENT STORIES

                                                ONE SLING SHOT WILL DO 

                                                             PART VIII

It is time for David, the youngest son of Jesse, to put into practice what he had said so he goes to find the weaponry he can use as a shepherd to successfully deal with this uncircumcised Philistine giant once for all as you can read in 1 Samuel 17:40 

Then he took his staff in his hand, choose five smooth stones from the stream, put them in his shepherd's bag and with his sling in his hand, approached the Philistine.

After David has found his unusual weaponry, he does not wait for Goliath to come to him but he readily approaches him, fully confident that his God will be with him as he approaches the enemy of the Israeli army. It is time for the Israeli army to remember who they really are: the army of the living God.