Faith Needs Strategy | Lessons from David and Goliath | John Giftah | Christian Sermon

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0:46 Speaker 2: Hello everyone, Welcome to this edition of the Fuel for the Soul of John gift Of podcast where I'm going to talk to you today on an important thing that we can take away from the life of David from First Samuel, chapter seventeen. I want you to understand this is a moment when David is going to give food to his brothers and he comes to know that Goliath is taunting the armies of the Living God. And what happens at this time he says, you know what, I'm going to fight this. I'm just paraphrazing this because I want to get quickly to the point, because I want to share something with you.

1:17 Speaker 2: When King Saul is saying this to David and he says in verse thirty three, he says, don't be ridiculous. There's no way you can fight this philistine and possibly win. You're only a boy and he's been a man of war since his youth. But verse thirty four, I want you to understand something very important verse thirty four and verse thirty five so powerful. He says, I have been taking care of my father's sheep and goats, and when a line or a bear comes to steal a lamb from the flock verse thirty five, I go after it with a club and rescue the lamb from its mouth.

1:48 Speaker 2: If the animal turns on me, I catch it by the jaw and club it to death. Now I want you to understand something, and he goes on to say, I've done this for both lion and the bear. Now here's the point. I wanted to understand that a lot of Christian's miss right when we say how can you handle this opportunity? How can you be sure that you know when you take the step of faith, you're going to see the result, How can you be sure that this is what the Lord wants you to do? This is stupidity. It doesn't make any sense.

2:13 Speaker 2: You don't have any plan in hand, you know. I want you to understand. David did not just say, oh, come on, you need to trust in the Lord. Oh come on, you need to have more faith. He didn't say, oh, I know my God will not let me down because I've been praying, I've been looking up to the Lord. He didn't say any of that. You know what he said he said something that is so important. He said, you know what, this is what I'm going to do. I'm going to, you know, go after that with the club and rescue the lamb, and if the animal turns on me, I'm going to catch it by the jaw and club.

2:47 Speaker 2: You do that. Now, it may not make sense to you and your when you just read it, but it just daunts on you that, you know what. David knew what he was talking about. He was not talking just theory. He was talking about the practical steps in how has done this and how he plans to execute this opportunity. I wanted to understand something here. He was not just blindly saying, you know, what, Oh, I trust in the Lord. You've got to trust in the Lord. Oh, you know what, I know God will not hurt me down.

3:14 Speaker 2: God is faithful, God is good, God will do this. You know he didn't. I know, he ultimately said, you know what, it is the Lord who's going to do this. It's the lot who us had done it. He always ultimately gives out all glory and honor to the Lord. But on a practical sense, David was rooted in reality. He did not just vaguely say something. He gave the strategy that he used and which worked for him in the past, and he says that this is a strategy I'm going to use because I know it worked in the past, and I know that God will give the victory using the same strategy today.

3:46 Speaker 2: See, I want you to understand it's not enough to just say, oh, you know what, just trust in the Lord, or who just have faith or just you know, like in a very theoretical manner. You know, David thought through, he knew what he was talking about. He had a practical strategy in hand. See my question to you is if you f you're saying, you know what, I'm praying that the Lord will do this, I'm asking the Lord to do this, or I am I want others to believe in my vision and all of these things. My question is, all that is great, but on a practical note, the person who's listening to you, he may not have the same spiritual you know understanding like you do.

4:23 Speaker 2: But they may not have the same kind of you know visions from God, encounters from God, or the same spiritual wavement. For them, all they can understand is practical thought. And if you don't have something practical and solid and relatable and with a strategy in hand, they're not going to pay attention to you. You've got to come out of that religious boat and get into the strategy today. My challenge is if you've been praying for a miracle breakthrough, or you're praying for a moment like David was able to defeat Goliath, my question is are you prepared with the strategy in hand?

4:59 Speaker 2: I want to ask you, how are you going to handle this? How are you going to take the step? How am I going to see the fruit? How is this going to work out in your life? Do you have a ready made strategy? Are you having already made procedure that you can inculcate or is it just going to be blind trust? This is only going to be Oh, come on, you know what, Whatever I do, God is going to help. No, David was very clear on what he was talking about today. My challenge is, if you've been praying for a miracle, breakthrough or whatever, or if you're praying for an opportunity as well, or you're praying for the right people to support and stand with you, I challenge you to pray and make sure that you are clear on your strategy.

5:44 Speaker 2: Now, what are the things that makes it very clear that David was not lying about saying that he defeated the lion at the Bear was because he had a clear strategy. For example, when I go to an interview right for a job and I say I've worked on a certain tool, they test me and say, okay, how do you handle this tool in this kind of first scenario? How do you what are the features available in this tool? Now, if I just said in a lying manner that you know, I know this tool, but if I've not worked on it, if I don't know how the interface looks, if I don't know how the features are, I may not be able to answer do you know what I'm saying.

6:18 Speaker 2: Because I worked on that tool, I'll be able to answer and say, this is what you got to do. This is a step, this is the feature, this is the application, this is what you can use for this particular result. So same way, what gave the proof for David that convinced Saul to say, okay, let me allow David to go fight the Philistine was him coming out with a strategy saying I have done this. If he was vague, if he just you know, he said, I know there is some way I can just do it and I'll let me just figure out something.

6:53 Speaker 2: You know, if he was vague, Saul wouldn't have been convinced enough to love him to go and defeat Coliath today challenged each one of you biz get clarity and get ready with your strategy, and then you will see the Lord open the right doors at the right time for you. Amen. God bless you.

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