Touching Heaven, Changing Earth

People, God has an assignment for you today. You assignment is to go to an army that refuses to fight, that refuses to pray, that refuses to read the Word and to get real for God. You are called to go to an army today is lives in hypocrisy. God is calling you to get off your excuses and to fight.

David was sent by his father to take cheese and bread and find out what was happening. His father knew there was something in David’s character that would help them win the war.

Look at verse 20, Early in the morning David left the flock with a shepherd, loaded up and set out, as Jesse had directed. He reached the camp as the army was going out to its battle positions, shouting the war cry. David at come to the trenches. Do you know where your trenches are? They are outside the doors of this building. They are your home, your work place, your neighborhood, your college campus…any place where God has strategically placed you right now in your life. These are the trenches and God is telling you to get in there and wake some people up. Christianity is something that is worth fighting for, it is something that should not want us to play games with our lives and the lives of other people. The number one killer of kids under the age of 5 is not mumps, measles or polio. It is their parents. And someone has to reach those parents with the Good News of Jesus Christ before we loose more to family violence. It is time to get mad at the devil and his demons who have reduced our society to such a place where we have become numb to the conditions which are around us.

People, there is no place for us except under the wings of God. And the giant comes and says give me a man to fight against, give me a woman who dares to take me on and I will have them for lunch, and we begin to believe the giants.

But David did not. This taunting get him all excited. He had not been with the older soldiers who would have told him not to worry about it, the giant will eventually go away so we don’t want to get to excited, we don’t want to get too worked up. David got mad, he got angry and started letting everyone in the camp know, I am the man who will take up the fight. The giant had better shut up because this is David’s territory purchased by God. I mean David became pretty outspoken…who is this giant that is speaking up and saying this stuff which is not true, I’ll cut him down to size. And of course, Goliath is looking out wondering who this David, this speck in his eye is as well. Goliath thought when the pressure was put on David would fold just like everyone else did. He thought David would hide his Bible just like other had. Goliath thought when he roared David would take off his Christian T-shirt and the pins he was wearing on his wind-breaker. But David was not about to be intimidated. David was not about to be beat down. David was not about to shut up, sit down or slip out. David was going to stand even if the army around him was going to cave in and be whimpy. What about you?

David’s brother, his elder, came along side David and let him know he did not have a clue as to what he was saying. He probably wanted to give David a history lesson, to tell him why we do what we do, to explain the sacred cows of history and why we just let things be. He probably wanted to tell him that when he became older and wiser in his faith he would understand. He probably wanted David to know that he too in his younger days might have responded the same way, but now he was more seasoned and has learned how to sit in the pew and not make waves. And then there was Saul. He also wanted to hear and share some words with this young upstart.