Diligence Before Destiny | Lessons from David | John Giftah | Christian Sermon

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0:45 Speaker 2: HeiG Goficializ has a joy for me to be with all of you to do on this segment of the Fuel for the Soul with John Gift of podcast where I'm going to talk to you today about an important lesson that we learned from the life of David. This week, we've been talking and learning a couple of things from for Samuel to seventeen, and I'm going to take you there to share something very very important. So there is this moment where you need to understand that David's brothers are in the army and at one point.

1:11 Speaker 2: When you look at verse seventeen, one day, Jesse, the father of David, says to David, take this basket of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread, and carry them quickly to your brothers. I want you to understand them. Reading from the Nalty version, he says, carry them quickly to your brothers. And he gives a couple of instructions down there. And when you look at verse twenty, it says, so David left the sheep with another shepherd and set out early the next morning with the gifts as Jesse and directed him.

1:45 Speaker 2: See, I wanted to understand something here. You have to understand that David in general was not treated right by Jesse. Right, he was the overlooked son, the forgotten son. When you look at chapter sixteen, when King's prophet Samuel wanted to anoint the next king of Israel, Jesse forgot to even line up David. Right, you have to understand something that David was the one who had to fight the lines and the pairs, He had to go through all of those things. Jesse knew the dangers that he was putting David in because he didn't care about David.

2:19 Speaker 2: Right. So David was already treated like a slave. He was given all the menial tasks. He was given the something like a Huber Eats delivery person, you know, go and deliver food, bring back a report to me, tell me what is going on, you know, like he was using him like a like like a transportation delivery or parcel delivery person, you know, something like that. But you're sitting I wanted to understand right when Jesse gave him an instruction saying, you know what, I want you to go and do this quickly, he didn't, you know, sit out in complacency.

2:56 Speaker 2: The Bible talks about how David was diligent demon in these insignificant things that he was assigned, you know what I mean, Like even there, he immediately took a step, and even at that point, the Bible says he left the sheep another shepherd. Like he was a very responsible guy, you know what I mean. He was not like, oh okay, fine, I'll just leave and go. Oh come on, I'm always treated negatively. I'm not treating right. I'm not treated equal with my brothers. I'm treated like a you know, like a servant delivery boy, you know, less than you know the rest of the siblings.

3:34 Speaker 2: But he's the thing I wanted to understand right even there he was acting out with responsibility. He understood his responsibilities. He was diligent even in the things that seemed very insignificant. That is something I wanted to pay attention. He left out early in the morning, he listened to his dad, and even even though the instruction came from a negative source, he paid attention. When he said go quickly, he immediately assigned somebody else to take care of the sheep. Given those simple things, there was menial tasks.

4:10 Speaker 2: David was responsible response, and David was diligent, and he had a spirit of excellence. Today, I want to ask you, there may be things that you're asked to do that you don't really pay attention to that you're like doing it like an assignment. You're doing it like, oh, man, I need to get this done. But can you be someone who will be like, you know what, I'm not supposed to do this with this kind of an attitude. I'm supposed to do every assignment as if I'm doing unto the Lord. The Bible says, don't do as if you're doing unto man.

4:42 Speaker 2: You do do it as if you're doing unto the Lord. You know, I want to tell you something, right, like, especially during Christmas times, my mom prepares a lot of you know, dishes or cakes or along with that maybe some journals or book or some tracks or something like that to give to different people. And for the most part, like you know, I'm the one who has to go give it to the people. And especially I think one of those years, I was so worked up, you know, there was so many things going on. I was like, oh, man, so I have to give to this many like I think.

5:20 Speaker 2: I think I almost had like fifty people that I need to visit, Like in the last couple of days before Christmas, I was like, oh, I have to. I was more focused on getting the checklists done, you know, or person number one, person number two, like just go give it, get it done, get it done. Till at one point the Lord was like convicting me and said, see, I know you'll feel like you're just going and giving food to them, just like how David was giving food to the brothers. But God was like, can you be diligent even in that?

5:50 Speaker 2: You know what if I wanted you to minister to them while you were giving them food. Maybe you could have slowed down to listen to what they were going through. Maybe they would have shared something, maybe they would have given you a prayer point, or maybe they would have you know, like come to know about you know something about your ministry and followed your content or I mean that really shook me. I was like, I was doing this, like let me get the job done. But what if I had slowed down to say, you know what, even in that, I would be diligent, be led by the spirit of God to see if God wanted me to minister to someone while giving them just Christmas goodies.

6:30 Speaker 2: See, that is the way I want you to think. Don't ever rush through and think through as a getting a job done, but be diligent in everything that you do, because God wants to use those simple assignments. You see. Long story made sure David went to give food to his brothers and that was one of his life changing moments when he got opportunity to defeat Goliath. That changed the trajectory of his life. So you never know. I'm not saying do do it with that intention of maybe an opportunity coming away, but always do it with that sense of diligence.

7:06 Speaker 2: A sense of excellence. And I'm telling you, when you walk with stewardship and responsible enough to carry out the assignments given to you, that's when God will bless you for the greater that He has in store for you. Amen, God bless you.

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