Know What to Carry | A Hidden Lesson from David | John Giftah | Christian Sermon

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0:46 Speaker 2: Hello everyone, Welcome to this edition of the Fuel for the Soul with John gift podcast where I want to talk to you today on another lesson that we can learn from the life of David. This old week, we've been talking and learning about different things we can learn from First time El Scepter seventeen and I really recommend you to go back and check the powerful lessons that you can inculcate in your life. And even right now, I want to share something very important with you to give you a little bit of context in case you're not familiar with this passage.

1:11 Speaker 2: This is the moment when David is going to meet his brothers who are in the army, and that is that giving him instruction, saying I want you to go and give them food, and I want you to give me a report of what is happening and what is going on. And David is going there diligently. And here's the thing. I wanted to understand that when he goes there, he comes to know about what is happening with regard to Goliath taunting the army, and everybody is so scared, not knowing what to do. So I want to share two verses with you specifically from this and share an important lesson from this that we can learn.

1:47 Speaker 2: When you look at Worse number twenty two, it says David left his things with the keeper of supplies and hurried out to the ranks to greet his brothers. Now, I wanted you to understand, like I said, if you see through those verses, now David had carried a lot of I mean things that his dad had given a basket of roasted grain and the ten loaves of bread, and you know, stuff like that that Jesse had given. In verse seventeen, you can seck this out, so you're in verse twenty to David leaves those things out, and then he goes to meet his brothers.

2:22 Speaker 2: Right, and then a long story made short when you see he's getting ready to defeat Coliat. Okay, yes, the thing I wanted you to understand. He has this encounter with David, sorry, King Saul, and then finally he agrees to do it, and long story made short. Right. If you look at verse forty, it says he picked up five smooth stones from a stream and put them into his shepherd's bag. Then, armed only with the shepherd staff and sling, he started across the valley to fight the Philistines. So Philistine, that is Goliath.

2:57 Speaker 2: Here's the thing I want you to understand. Right, when you look at verse twenty two, he left the supplies with the keeper. When you look at verse forty, it says that he picked up stones and put them in his shepherd's bag, which means that he was still carrying the shepherd's bag and he was carrying the staff and the sling. Okay, I wanted to understand something here. David knew what to carry and what not to carry, and he knew what to carry when to carry, you know what I mean. So when David went to meet with his brothers, he was not doing a shepherding job.

3:37 Speaker 2: He has given his sheep into the hands of another shepherd, the Bible says. And then he comes here, right, he is taking care of the sheep and he's come here, so he's not doing a shepherding job. But even here, he brought his shepherd's bag, shepherd's staff, and shepherd's sling. Right, I wanted to understand this. And even when he comes here, what happens. He keeps those items, those supplies, and then he still does not leave his sling and the shepherd bag there. He's carrying those with him, you know what I mean.

4:15 Speaker 2: So listen, this is a very powerful lesson because a lot of people miss this. They take the wrong things with them, and they're carrying the wrong things with them. David did not carry the supplies when he was going to meet those brothers. He gave those supplies to the concerned person and then he walks. But when he's keeping those supplies there, he's not keeping his staff and the sling also, you know what I mean, Like he's not walking like a free burn man. What I wanted to understand is certain things that you need to carry carry with you, but learn what to keep so that you don't have to carry things that you don't have to carry.

4:57 Speaker 2: But I also always be a to carry things that are connected to your calling. This is an important lesson we need to learn. You know, for example, right, if I'm saying I'm called to be a content creator, for example, right, Like one example I want to give you. So if I'm going to be like, you know what, I never know when I'm going to get an opportunity to make a video. Right, I had to carry the phone with me. Right, I have to make sure that, Okay, I have the phone with me so I can give it take the video.

5:30 Speaker 2: One of the lessons I learned in recent times, especially is that there were times I did not carry extra books. I've authored multiple books, right, I didn't carry extra books with me, and I would meet somebody and I would want to give a book to them, and I'd be like, oh my gosh, I wish I'd carried an extra book. I wish I'd carried my book, you know what I mean. So this is a lesson to learn. Like David brought things that were connected to his destiny because he was always prepared for that opportunity.

6:00 Speaker 1: Whereas when he.

6:01 Speaker 2: Knows that he doesn't have to carry the supplies wherever like even to carry. Imagine if he was carrying all the supplies and going to fight Goliat, it makes no sense, right. So if you are called for something, there are times you need to let go of things that are burdens, or there are cares, or there are things that you're carrying that you don't have to carry. You need to put it off and take with you only the things that are connected to your destiny. That's a lesson to learn from David. He carried things that were connected to his calling, his purpose, his destiny, and put off the things that were not connected to his destiny at that point.

6:47 Speaker 2: And that's a lesson that I want to share with you guys today, that you will make sure that in any area of your life that you are saying, I'm praying for God to give me a Goliath moment, or for God to help me to fulfill my purpose, you need to make sure that you know when to carry what and when to leave something and carry certain things with you wherever you go.

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