George Müller started a network of orphanages across England in the 19th century. Despite being responsible for thousands of kids, he never appealed for money or daily provisions. He wanted GOD ALONE to be his provider and prayed constantly for his beneficence. He admitted to developing faith in God equal to the daily responsibility of his ministry. "My faith...has increased little by little....over 26 years." Then Sings My Soul, Vol. 1, p. 103.
As a previous blog in this series suggested, the Holy Spirit empowered 15-year-old David with Samuel's anointing with oil I Samuel 16:1, 13. As a result, possessing faith in God far beyond his physical age, he confronted Goliath with confident audacity. Across the swells in the valley floor David could see the ever-larger form of a monster-man towering higher with every few yards. No matter to the lad. He knew God had already devoted Goliath to himself and would use David as his servant of destruction. At perhaps 60 yards Goliath had begun his plodding way, heralded by his armor-bearer, now just a companion. At 50 yards he stopped, looked and began to swear in thunderous disdain against the insult to his manhood. Then, in anger equal to the insult received, he determined to make a meal for vultures of the boy. "You want a fight, boy?" he shouted across the yards. "Fine; let's fight. But I'll warn you now, you'll lie in this field until the birds eat your eyes out and the animals bare your bones. No burial for you." On he went, poisoning the air with curses on Saul and the pup he sent as a warrior. This is what is called a boast. David stood those yards apart, listening. When Goliath finished, David began, answering boast with boast. Only he outboasted Goliath, in length and in content. He had come in God's name, not with sword or spear, David shouted. And the God he served, whom Goliath had disgraced, would uproot him from life like a dead plant pulled from the ground. David would strike him, cut off his head and see to it that Goliath's corpse remained on the field to be consumed by carrion. It would all be done to prove that Israel had a God who saved by his power alone. At last, all the talking over, all the bragging done, the combatants stood yards apart, Goliath sneering in contempt at David, David dripping with scorn for Goliath. End Part VII
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