Win With What You Know | David's Strategy | John Giftah | Christian Sermon

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0:45 Speaker 2: Hello everyone, Welcome to this edition of the Fuel for the Soul with jo On Gifta podcast. If you've been listening to our recent episodes, you don't noticed that this all week we're learning different lessons from the life of David from First Timeuel, Chapter seventeen, and today I want to talk about one more important thing that really caught my attention and I want to take this forward. You know I'm reading from the NLT version. Okay, this is what happens. So there's a moment when David is trying to convince King Saul that he would go and defeat Golaiath.

1:13 Speaker 2: If you look at verse thirty eight, then Saul gave David his own armor, a bronze helmet and a coat of may, and David put them on, strapped the sword over it, and took a step or two to see what was it like. He had never worn such things before, and then he protested, saying, I can't go in these, I'm not used to them. So he took them off, and he picked up five smooth stores from a stream and put them in this shepherd's bag, and armed with only the shepherd staff and slaying, he started across the valley to fight the Philistine.

1:45 Speaker 2: I wanted to understand something here. Right. When you think about David, he is very crude in his approach, in the sense that he's more of somebody who has fought unofficially. He's not having any credit, he is not having any proof assats like. He can talk about his strategy. He can talk about what he has done, but it's something like, you know, like an amateur doing it. It's not something like written on stone. It's not something he can say, you know what, I have this professional training. Nothing.

2:16 Speaker 2: He's done this by himself. He has seen some output. Yes, he's tried to convince King Saul that I have seen all of this. But he's the thing. When King Salts tries to put in the David in the you know, there's the armor and all of that, David is not able to handle it. So David just puts them off and then he goes with what works for him, what he's comfortable. See, this is the thing I wanted to understand. Sometimes you have to go with what you are comfortable with. You have to go with the tools and the strategies that God has already thought you and he keipped you.

2:50 Speaker 2: Because see, maybe later on David could have learned how to use the armor, how to use the sword, and all of these things. But right now he just took up the opportunity based on what was available to him. Sometimes they talk about even musicians, right if even if you're going for a musical concert or if you're going for a competition, they say, always go with the instrument that you practiced with, Like even though it's the same instrument in the sense of it's the same keyboard, or it's a guitar or a violin, But they always say, you know, go with the one that you're comfortable because you're used to it.

3:29 Speaker 2: Like sometimes you you you worked with something and now the guitar is just seeming a little off, or you know, there's something is off like, so always is best to go with what you have practiced with, you know what I mean. It's it's it's even with getting a license, they generally say this. You know, if you have practiced using a certain vehicle, go with that for getting your license test as well. So on a similar note, I want to share that you know, sometimes when an opportunity like defeating a Colaith comes in your I want you to just you know, like make sure that you don't you know, at that moment is not a moment for you to test something new, you know.

4:07 Speaker 2: David, he could not say, okay, fine, let me test the sword, let me try how it feels in the armor. Like he gave it a shot and then he realized this is not for me.

4:16 Speaker 1: He knew it.

4:16 Speaker 2: He was confident in his own strategy. And even there it says that you know every detail is there for a reason, right. It says he picked up five smooth stones from a stream. Understand something here. He didn't just pick up random stones, right because you see, normal stones on the ground could just be you know, like rough, and they would not be as smooth and polished as a stone in a stream. Okay, So even in that, he was cock sure of what he was doing and he stuck to it. People are gonna laugh and walk.

4:53 Speaker 2: What is this guy doing. He's trying to defeat this giant who's having this big I mean, he's a giant in its in himself, and he has all this training, and he has all of this experience, he has all of these weapons, and this kid he is going with a sling shot and five stones, and he's also going to a stream to get the stones, because the stones in a stream are more polished, are more you know, like proper in shape, so they actually help hit the target better than a stone on the ground, you know what I mean.

5:31 Speaker 2: So David was cocksure on his strategy and he doubled down on that instead of trying out something new. So this is a message for some of you that, you know, if you are praying for a medical breakthrough or whatever, and when an opportunity like defeating a goliath comes, you need to be sure on doubling down on the strategy that you're comfortable with doubling down on what worked for you in the past, because that is not a moment for you to try something new or test something new, Because this is a moment for you to say, you know what I'm gone for with this, which for me, it may be crude, It may not be effective in the in the in the in the way it looks, it may not look professional enough.

6:09 Speaker 2: But this is what I am confident with the skill, the experience, and the and in the talent that God has given me in the past. You know what I mean. You know He has given me and so I'm going to use the experience of the past to use it for the advantage of this present opportunity. Are you getting what I'm saying? So this is the lesson I want you guys to take it forward, right like instead of you know, like I've come across people, they get a opportunity, they want to try something new. See, there's a place for trying, there's a place for all of that.

6:43 Speaker 2: But when the time comes when you can hit the opportunity like hitting a goliath moment, that is not the moment for you to try something new and fail. You know, there's a moment when you need to be more confident and double down on the strategy that God has helped you this accessful in the past, because that's the key for you. And even in that moment, he didn't just say, okay, fine, everybody's looking. I mean, let me just pick up a stone. He was clear that he was going to pick up a stone from a stream.

7:12 Speaker 2: He was clear on what he was going to take, and in that he was doubling down on his strategy and he was able to get the result that he was hoping for. So there's a place where ultimately the victory comes from the Lord. Where there's also an important thing to note that the victory comes when we partner with the Lord in doing what we are called to do in accordance to what God has already prepared us with. And that's how we'll be able to see the victory. All right, God bless you guys, and I'll see you very soon.

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