29/02/2024
Only Way To Increase Your Faith...
Excerpt from "How to find God's Will for your life?" by Jim Vernon
One morning, I was reading in Psalms and it didn’t even say anything about David and Ifelt like the Lord said, “Think about David”. I said,” Think about David?” Then this thought came to me, that he worshipped as a shepherd boy.
When he was out in the fields tending the sheep he was actually worshipping the Lord. You think, where did he get all those musician skills? He was able to make instruments and all the things you read about him in the Old Testament, he was a real worshipper. He learned to worship as a shepherd boy.
I thought of that time he had in his life. He was going to come into lots of responsibilities later on. It was like God had him in a “Greenhouse” and that his time as a shepherd boyin the fields was like a “Greenhouse for his faith”. I thought of that Lord, that you were nurturing his faith in that “Greenhouse” through his time that he was spending with you.
What are some of the results? What is one of the first times that you see David’s faith? Certainly, killing the bear and the lion took tremendous faith. He must have spent quite a bit of time with the Lord - to have that kind of faith to take on a bear and a lion. Something in him rose up and he had faith that he could kill that lion. Or even thecompassion, that he had so much compassion for the sheep that maybe he wasn’t surewhether that lion wouldn’t kill him.
But because of his time with the Lord, he must have received something from him that gave him compassion for those sheep. What was the next thing David did? He killed Goliath.
The armies are on both sides of the valley and he comes in there, he’s just a boy,especially in their eyes. He says, “I can kill that guy”. I mean here is a ten foot guy down there, with a gigantic sword, shield and spear and all the rest of Israel was shaking in there boots. He must have gotten something from God. He got it from spending time with the Lord.
The last example of faith that he got was the ability to rule Israel. He grew overtime in the ability to actually shepherd Israel. He moved from being the shepherd of a few sheep to shepherding millions, which was a tremendous responsibility.
Because he was a man who spent time with God, his legacy, which is in scripture and we hear it all the time and we are hearing it thousands of years later, that he was a man after God’s own heart. Would any of us like to have that kind of legacy in our lives, that God would say - that you’re a man after his own heart.
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