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David, is, with out a doubt a person of great
influence in the history of the people of God, as he is the most
famous king of Israel, with the exception of the King of kings
Yahshua. But what is not so well known of him is the origin
where he came from, and the fact that he was the last of eight
brothers, with whom no one counted in Israel for a labour, even
for a mayor labour.
However Yahweh, the omniscient God, does know
the hearts of men, and therefore He tells Samuel, the prophet
who He raised for his people, that the first king, Saul, whom
all had as the leader of Israel, is rejected by Him, for
disobedience, and that in his place He is going to put a young
man, who before the eyes of men does not seem to meet the abilities to govern Israel, unknown and
dedicated to sheppard
the sheep of his father. Precisely this one is chosen by God,
because his heart trusts his God, and because God knows that
David, an archetype of a man of faith, imperfect like we all
are, would precisely be obedient to God, but who had also
received a special gift, the
conviction and
the trust in the authority of God and his determination for His
people.
In the same way as David,
today, any disciple has to face Goliath in his life, the
philistine, who is not other than the representation of the
tests that seem impossible before our eyes, but that if we have
faith and over all we trust our God, if we obey Him and are
living a life of spiritual effort for love to our Yahweh Jesus
Christ, Yahshua, and to our neighbour, we know that God is with
us and we with Him.
The victory of David over the
giant, represents our victory against the enemy, who in
principal is stronger that us, the Almighty God, our Father who
loves us, is infinitely superior to the enemy, to whom He
already overcame on
the Cross of Calvary, the biggest
proof that God is
on our side, if we love Him, believe in his Son Yahshua, and
obey Him.
In the Bible Text about the
war between the armies of Israel and the armies of
Philistine we find
the battle that in one only act gives the victory to the people
of God; a smooth stone slang with a simple sling
sank in the forehead
of Goliath before the amazed eyes of his army. But this is not
the most surprising, but that the army of Israel is also
amazed by the action of David. Israel, the same as Thomas the
unbeliever in the gospel, when he placed his hand in the
wound of
resurrected Yahshua, and glorified God and praised Yahweh, the
same as the armies of Israel gave glory to God for the victory
of a young sheep pastor who without war clothes, without armor,
without sword of his army, and without other typical equipments
of a soldier, wins the war for his people, astonished by the
unbelief of his nation, which for him its protected by his God,
and they don't see it.
We will see in the Texts why
he only uses one of the five stones, which has a spiritual
meaning, and why he uses the sword of Goliath to kill him and
cut his head,
and what this means for our daily life in the Spirit.
BIBLE
TEXT
1SAMUEL 17
1Now the Philistines
gathered together their armies to battle, and were gathered
together at Shochoh, which belons to Judah, and encamped between
Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammim. 2And Saul and the men of
Israel were gathered together, and encamped by the valley of
Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines. 3The
Philistines stood on a mountain on the one side, and Israel
stood on a mountain on the other side: and there was a valley
between them.
The philistines, enemies of
the people of God, the gather to attack; the powers of evil, in
all the fields of action, both earthly and spiritual, organize
them selves to attack the people of God since it's on the earth,
I mean the spiritual people of God, those obedient to God of the
Hebrews and those obedient God from the Christians or Messianic.
In this Bible study we will discover that although Saul and the
literal Israel, are attacked, these represent the people of God
in a situation of spiritual distance from God. The development
of the Text will show us the deplorable state, regarding faith
and obedience, that the people of God have, both in the O.T. and
in the N.T. when we trust a false religious structure, or
in the worldly capacities that we have acquired, to fight
against our spiritual enemy.
4And a champion went out
from the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath,
whose height was six cubits and a span. 5He had an
helmet of bronze on his head, and he was armed with a
coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand
shekels of bronze. 6And he had bronze armor on his legs, and a
bronze javelin between his shoulders. 7The staff of his spear
was like a weaver’s beam; and his spear’s head weighed six
hundred shekels of iron: and one bearing a javelin went
before him. 8Then he stood and cried to the armies of
Israel, and said unto them, Why have you come out to set
your battle in array? Am I not a Philistine, and you
servants to Saul? Choose a man for you, and let him come
down to me. 9If he be able to fight with me, and to kill me,
then we will be your servants: but if I prevail against
him, and kill him, then shall you be our servants, and serve us.
10And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day;
give me a man, that we may fight together.
The champion is the strongest
of the army of the enemy, their leader, in this case the devil,
who equips himself with all kind of armor which represent the
powers of the world, to beat in those who precisely trust in
them. Six hundred shekels represents that his javelin, what he
throws us, is followed by the name of the enemy in the Bible,
number six, in opposition to seven, the number of God, this way
we can identify its origin and what it takes. The one before him
helps him in his labours by announcing his attack, imitating
Yahweh when John the Baptist announcing His arrival. Cried to
the armies of Israel, this means the angels of Yahweh and the
church to threaten us. It depends on our faith that we fear, so
lets pray together with same purpose, let us be of one mind
guided by the Holy Spirit, for the spiritual battle because the
victory is great, because our leader is Yahweh of Hosts.
Servants of Saul implies that
although he is king of Israel, he is not in the faith as he has
no strategy, has no revelation of what is happening so that the
enemy is threatening the people, which today is a symbol, as
well as it was then, of the spiritual people, the church. This
is what's happening today in the church in the world.
The man that we give, the one
that fights against the devil is Yahshua. This is the only way
we can beat the enemy, in the person of Jesus Christ, who is
grater than the enemy.
11When Saul and all
Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed,
and greatly afraid.
This is the confirmation of
the previous, the fear of the people of God today before the
threats of the enemy. We must trust Christ, not men. We must
pray that God raises the spiritual leaders, many that no one
knows inside churches, those who have faith.
12Now David was the son of
that Ephrathite of Bethlehem Judah, whose name was Jesse; and he
had eight sons. And the man was old, anvanced in years, in the
days of Saul. 13The three oldest sons of Jesse went and followed
Saul to the battle. The names of his three sons that went to the
battle were Eliab the firstborn, next to him Abinadab, and the
third Shammah. 14And David was the youngest: and the three
oldest followed Saul. 15But David went and returned from Saul to
feed his father’s sheep at Bethlehem.
The older brothers go to war
and the younger, David feeds his father's sheep. This is the
attitude, to feed the sheep the Word of God and to trust in God
the battle for no one can beat Him. To concentrate in prayer and
in the Word of God and lay down our burdens in the hands of
Yahshua, the only one that can carry them and resolve them. He
teaches us, if we ask Him and shows us when and how we intervene
and when we mustn't do anything, that He might do.
16And the Philistine drew
near morning and evening, and presented himself forty
days.
Forty days and nights was our
Yahweh in the desert and was tempted by the enemy. The same way we
are shown here in times of David when he would be prepared by
God to defeat the enemy. This is a good tool that must serve us
as a time of separation and sanctification before beginning any
battle or ministry of Yahweh. The "morning and evening"
prayer, which were even instituted in the priesthood, serve us,
amongst other things to strengthen and maintain us in the faith.
...Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give
thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. Do
not quench the Spirit...
1Thessalonians 5:16 & further.
17And Jesse said unto
David his son, Take now for your brothers an ephah of
this dried grain, and these ten loaves, and run to
the camp to your brothers; 18And carry these ten cheeses
to the captain of their thousand, and look how your
brothers fare, and take their pledge.
Pledge means to come back with
the Gospel received by someone and to present this to God the
Father for His glory. Jesse means "Yahweh is" represents the
Father, who sends us to our brothers with dried grain, which
represents the Word of God before cooking it, interpreted in
preaching to make it bread. The cheeses come from the milk which
is the Gospel of Salvation, which as the cheese, is a symbol of
the spiritual milk on which time has passed and not being
adulterated may convert into food for adults, meaning
spiritually, and this with regards to the captain of the
thousand, meaning a great assembly of the church.
19Now Saul, and they, and
all the men of Israel, were in the valley of Elah, fighting with
the Philistines. 20And David rose up early in the morning, and
left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as
Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the camp as the army was
going forth to the fight, and shouted for the battle. 21For Israel and the
Philistines had put the battle in array, army against army.
22And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the
carriage, and ran to the army, and came and saluted his
brothers. 23And as he talked with them, behold, there came up
the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of
the armies of the Philistines, and spoke according to the same
words: and David heard them. 24And all the men of Israel,
when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid.
25And the men of Israel said, Have you seen this man that is
come up? surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be,
that the man who kills him, the king will enrich him with
great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his
father’s house exemption from taxes in Israel. 26And David spoke to the men
that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that
kills this Philistine, and takes away the reproach from Israel?
for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that
he should defy the armies of the living God? 27And the
people answered him after this manner, saying, So shall it be
done to the man that kills him.
A keeper is a deacon of the
church, brothers that help and angles, that the Father sends.
The men that fled are the
souls of believers, men and women, youth and elderly that fled
before the tests, before the threatens of the devil, instead of
getting on their knees to pray and share with their congregation
to make a common prayer task.
A price of great riches for
the one that beats him. A price of the world at first site, but
the daughter of the king of Israel is the royal linage, the
entrance to the kingdom that God puts in our hands, in our
personal life, in which, with Christ we live like kings and
priests spiritually and those around us perceive it. Do we have
the faith and the trust in God? that you can see, you feel it,
its emanates and its a powerful testimony to preach the Gospel.
To examinee our house of tax,
does not mean the tenth, but the freedom before God to use all
that He gives us, not only the tenth, but even the air that we
breath, asking Him, not being under the law, under the
rudiments, under the traditions, and under the impositions of
some false prophets and false masters that are under covered in
the Church who we beat like Goliath, with the faith in Christ,
in the Word of God alive.
The armies of the living God
are we, the Church, and the armies of angles that are on our
side from Yahweh. That way an uncircumcised, someone, man or
angle who is not circumcised his hart spiritually to emanate
love for God and for his neighbour is no one to win the war
against God and against His People. Even though he beats
battles, he lost the war. Therefore ...What then shall we say to
these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who
did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how
shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?... Romans
8:32.
28And Eliab his oldest
brother heard when he spoke unto the men; and Eliab’s
anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why did you
come down here? and with whom have you left those few sheep
in the wilderness? I know your pride, and the insolence of
your heart; for you have come down that you might see the
battle. 29And David said, What have I now done? Is there not
a cause? 30And he turned from him toward another, and spoke
after the same manner: and the people answered him again after
the former manner. 31And when the words were heard which David
spoke, they reported them before Saul: and he sent for him.
In the same manner as Jesus or
Nazareth was hated by his own brothers, David was by his own,
and today many brothers in the churches around the world are
hated by their own brothers in the faith, they do not consider
them, nor respect them, because Goliath has seeded panic between
the unbelievers, many of them respected group or assembly
leaders, but who don't have the power of God, because they hate
the brothers who don't submit to their sectarian
totalitarianism and
false prophecies that never fulfil. Churches that are
disappearing. Come out of her, my people! says Yahweh about
these small children of the great harlot of Revelation, in which
their leaders terrify the children of God.
If you experience this, leave
to another congregation; if you are several gather in your
houses, or seek for real Christians, who emanate love of God and
brotherly kindness. ...You shall know them by their fruits...
Matthew 7:16 Don't ever fail, God has plans for your lives. Its
sad the amount of brothers that write from all the world who are
suffering these situations before leaders like Saul, who being
terrified by Goliath, don't obey God and don't know how to tend
nor feed the people of God. Don't let any one trouble you,
because Paul had a prayer for those who do so in Galatians 5:12.
God has plans for many, He
says that He reserves
7000 that have not bowed their knee to Baal. This one is proud
and evil. If any of you is hated by his brothers, in the church,
in the family, at work, if you know you are on the side of God,
and God on yours, be patient because God has plans to develop in
your life.
See what happened to David,
the hated by his brothers, the one who was not in the army with
his brothers, the not considered by the people, the unknown.
Symbol of Yahshua, between the people the Messiah raised, and
the majority did not receive Him. The Pharisee, the scribes, the
people, all of them at first site where the orthodox, and Jesus
Christ and His followers the rare, the hated, the
demon-possessed and all kind of defame, the same which are use
in the Church today by leaders of the type of Saul and by
Goliath. Both enemies of God. Both defeated by God, by the hand
of a man of faith. You and me are called to act with the same
faith, the faith on which Jesus, Yahweh, the Son of the living
God has built His Church, for which He has given His precious
life, resurrecting and ascending to the Father, from where He
came from eternity. The kingdom of God is amongst us. The fight
is to death, the victory is ours in Christ.
32And David said to Saul,
Let no man’s heart fail because of him;
your servant will go and fight with this Philistine. 33And Saul
said to David, You are not able to go against this Philistine
to fight with him: for your are a youth, and he a man of war
from his youth. 34And David said unto Saul, Your servant use
to kept
his father’s sheep, and when a lion or a
bear came, and took a lamb out of the flock, 35I went out
after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth:
and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and
smote him, and killed him. 36Your servant killed both the lion and
the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one
of them, seeing he has defied the
armies of the living God. 37David said moreover,
Yahweh that
delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of
the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine.
And Saul said unto David, Go, and Yahweh
be with you. 38And Saul armed David with his armor, and he put
a helmet of bronze on his head; also he armed him with a coat
of mail. 39And David fastened his sword upon his armor, and he
tried to walk; for he had not tried them. And David said
unto Saul, I cannot walk with these;
for I have not tested them. And David
took them off him.
Magnificent David's courage
and zeal for Yahweh, a deep lesson that must serve us to not let
the fire of the Spirit of YHWH turn off. So David introduces
himself to the king with his faith, his holy zeal and his
experience in God and does not understand how the army nor the
king have faith. He opts then to offer himself to beat the
philistine. He shows by his experiences that he has already
beaten lions and bears, demons and powers of the dark who are
more powerful than men and very tough tests, with his faith in
God.
The king dresses him with his
clothes and his armor, but soon David has to take it all off as
its a clothe weak in the faith, of trust in manly systems, in
armies, and in all that logically is used to beat battles,
either physical or spiritual. The bronze helmet the same as the
philistine's stands for the personal law, moral or religion in
which each of them trusts, things with which one cannot gain the
blessing of God, without a superior moral and relation with God,
the Holy Spirit, the trust in God, the trust in the mercy of God
and on his salvation by grace.
The
confrontation
between Goliath and Saul is in
equal terms,
with the same clothing,
sword and helmet, all of it is a symbol of that in which they
trust. David instead trusts Yahweh only, takes as a fact the
He's is the victory, does not doubt because his heart is in
peace with God.
In the church happens exactly
the same, many trust religiosity, in the building of the temple,
in the structure, but when all this is shaken, when the
religious weapons are useless to lift the people of God, it is
necessary a man who has enough faith and vision and conviction
which the Holy Spirit gives to lift the people of God. The, so
called Saul, offer and trust in several doctrines, supposed
relations, false prophecies, visions and dreams that
darken and
trouble the
determination of those who don't follow the Holy Spirit. It is
all useless to fight against theses powers, the only one
stronger is God, the faith and confidence in Christ alive when
you have a close
relation with Him.
Many pastors cannot carry the
churches, and inside they have youth that are capable for it,
but we already know of the attitude of Saul to David. Saul is a
leader without faith and disobedient to God who has the church
in his hands, and David is obedient and has faith, therefore God
gives him vision and wisdom as well as determination and
projection.
At the same time Saul and
David are two attitudes in ourselves, one which believes that
because God has chosen us we are worthy of everything, and the
other one does not stop obeying, believing, trusting and seeking
God and does not doubt in the leadership supported in Yahshua.
In the personal field of
faith, we cannot trust either in our own merits, nor in all our
effort, nor in long a repeating prayers, nor in some penitence,
but in the faith and in the trust in God, in obeying His Word
without doubt, even when it doesn't seem rational, our mind must
give way to our spirit carried by the Spirit of God.
40And he took his staff
in his hand, and chose him five smooth
stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd’s bag
which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling was in his hand:
and he drew near to the Philistine.
David’s staff as well as the
rod of Moses, or Aaron’s that budded, Psalm 23:4 …Your
rod and Your staff they comfort me...
this is the
faith which gives us spiritual life, the
rod and the staff of God, His authority, the certainty that He reigns.
Precious our next passage:
Isaiah 11:1 ...And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of
Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his
roots: And the spirit of Yahweh shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom
and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge
and of the fear of Yahweh; And shall make him of quick understanding in
the fear of Yahweh: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes,
neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: But with righteousness
shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth:
and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and
with the spirit of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and
faithfulness the girdle of his reins... This is the attitude and the Spirit
that we must receive, and the one we must pray God for Him to give us,
increase and strengthen, always, because we are rod of spiritual branch of
Jesse, father of David, father of Yahshua, so called son of David. This is
Jesus Christ, from whom we have received by faith,
His mind and His Spirit, glory to
Him!. With the “spirit or
breath of our lips”
means that what we say with our mouth comes from the heart, and if we
announce and proclaim victory in the name of Yahshua, Jesus Christ, we shall
smite the wicked spiritually.
Five smooth stones
from the brook. The stone is a
symbol, as we all know of faith. Bear in mind that the Greek word for Peter
is "Petrus", which means stone and rock, on which the Lord said he would
build up His church, I mean on the stone or rock of the faith in Christ. Being taken from the
brook means that is a pure faith,
clean, baptized, that carries the
water of
life of Yahweh, as He shows us: ...If any one thirsts, let him come
to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of
his heart will flow rivers of living water... John 7:37. Five stones are the faith applied to each one of
the parts in which we could trust and of which we use to do things, which
are: the body, the soul, the mind, our spirit and the Holy Spirit. The five
faiths we will see in the next Texts.
41And the Philistine came
on and drew near unto David; and the man that bare the javelin
went before him. 42And when the Philistine looked about, and saw
David, he disdained him: for he was only a youth, and
ruddy, and good-looking.
The man or woman of
the World, used to treating his enemies with weapons of threat, curses,
vengeance,
sues, wars, etc, does not understand
how you can trust the ways of Yahweh, denying himself and laying the
matter in the hands of God that He may defend us and set us free of the
battles on our favour, maybe by doing nothing, maybe doing what He shows us
in each moment. All this is motivated because they don’t know God nor fear
Him, nor obey Him, nor believe in Him, nor trust Him, and don’t love Him.
43And the Philistine said
to David, Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks? And
the Philistine cursed David by his gods. 44And the Philistine
said to David, Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the
birds of the air, and to the beasts of the field. 45Then
said David to the Philistine, you come to me with a sword,
and with a spear, and with a javelin: but
I come to you in the name of Yahweh of
hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.
These are the
threats of the enemy, in each field, material, of the world, affective,
spiritual, to deliver us to the powers of
the air and to the beasts of the
field, to the
powers who are our enemies that they may beat us in the spiritual and in the
earthly. But also this is the trust with which we, children of God, have to
live with; this is a higher step than faith, that
tiny grain of mustard, I refer to
trust. We know that faith is the conviction of what is not seen, but trust
is based in the security that one has and in the knowledge of God and of His
justice, if we are serving him in the Spirit and in Truth, if
...we
follow the Lamb wherever He goes... ...Here is the patience of the saints;
here are we who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus...
Revelation 14. Vayamos pues en el nombre de Yahweh de los
ejércitos, el Dios de los escuadrones celestiales.
46This day Yahweh
will deliver you into my hand; and I will strike you, and take
your
head from you; and I will give the carcases of the host of the
Philistines this day to the birds of the air, and to the wild
beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a
God in Israel. 47And all this assembly shall know that
Yahweh saves not with sword and spear: for
the battle is of Yahweh, and He
will give you into our hands.
This is the conviction with
which we must face daily life, being the salt of the
earth,
preaching the gospel, defending the Word of God, being patient,
supporting the week in the faith, bearing one another's burdens,
sharing with those who love God and make the effort to do His
Word, denying themselves for the love of God and of the
brothers, because the battle is of Yahweh.
Not only battles in the most
strict spiritual way, but also others which seem to be less
important, but that affect us daily, like for example the
blessing of our marriages, the education, love and friendship of
our children, the blessing of our works, the family finances,
the health, the friends, the brothers in the church, the
ministry in which God delivers us, daily life and everything
that surrounds it, all these battles ore of Yahweh, and He does
not save with sword of man nor with javelin, but with the sword
of His Spirit, with His Son Yahshua, because: ...For we do not
wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities,
against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age,
against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places...
Ephesians 6.
48And it came to pass, when
the Philistine arose, and came and drew nigh to meet David, that
David harried, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine.
49And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence
a stone, and slung it, and
smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sank into
his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.
To take a stone. From the five
stones that we have, we must only use one, the faith in Yahshua
that we are given by the Holy Spirit. The other four stones
symbolize other four resources that depend of the first.
The faith in Christ that the
four resources of our being may be used in accordance with God
and not according with our human way of thinking without God.
Lets take a look at these four parts of our being with which we
could face the battle if we did not know God; which is what they
do, those who don't know Him, but we, instead of turning to the
other four stones, will place our faith in the first stone, to
not use the other four; our body, our soul, our mind and our
spirit, all four must be subject to the Spirit of God, in the
faith in Christ, so lets see the result in our lives as
disciples of Yahshua:
The faith in the body.
The body gives us the sensation of existence in this physical
environment, depending of the circumstances we can fall in
trusting in our physical capacities to fight the spiritual
battle. If we stop our selves of using, for example violence, we
must have virtue of self control and we will obtain the blessing
of God and we'll be able to beat many of the weaknesses of this
part of our being. Surely we must have faith in God for those
things that affect the our body, like our health which we must
look after, for those who still smoke to quit, that we care for
our nutrition and fasting, that believe that God gives us power
to leave vicious, drugs, alcohol, fornication "any other sin is
outside the body" because is temple of the Holy Spirit.
The faith for the soul.
The soul is another part of our being in which by its capacity
of feeling and loving or hating, we can use to fight against the
spiritual enemy, and against people. Therefore our heart can
deceive us in its sentimental perceptions and we must resign
that it guides us in the spiritual battle, in how to treat
those that heart, if to us or to others, we must pray in the
Spirit that our feelings are of the Lord. Faith in God that He
heals our feelings, take off hard feelings and other obstacles, that
they are pure and full of piety and mercy, that we can love
spiritually with our all our soul, with a patient heart, and of
brotherly kindness to God to our family, to our wives or
husbands, children, brothers in the faith, all this requires
faith to obtain virtue and that our heart is guided by God, and
converted in a heart circumcised in Spirit.
The faith for the mind. This
is probably the hardest part to subject to the Lord but as
necessary to do so as with the others, but the natural and human
is to trust our intellectual capacity and our knowledge to
prepare strategies to use against all enemies that come, either
from the world or spiritual, soon the man of God realizes about
the vanity of his mind, and of the useless of using it without
having it subject to the Spirit of God and to the mind of
Christ, specially because it lacks patience. The mind is quick
in finding thousand and one solutions, but; What is the will of
God? this is what we must learn, before we face the battles,
specially those of the faith.
Patience is an abundant lack
amongst men, but faith is the solution to learn how to wait for
the Lord to explain things to us, and be able to think with our
mind guided by the mind of Christ, which is the spiritual mind
of God, which is able to convert ours, that naturally is of the
flesh, of the world. If we believe in Yahshua, if we pray to
receive faith, that Jesus makes it grow, the we will receive the
blessing of virtue for wisdom and intelligence of the Lord, the
knowledge of God, like all the men in the Bible.
The faith for the spirit. Who
many say they feel that this or that way is correct with their
intuition, of by a strong feeling, and so many other ways of
expressing that our perceptions can be correct, is a battle
between the mind and the instinct. An interior battle which is
rapidly put in order when the person receives Jesus Christ as
his personal saviour and delivers in His hands the wheel of his
life, of his soul, of his mind, and of his spirit that He may
direct it. Although we may make mistakes, because the man of God
keeps growing spiritually, the Bible is the greatest guide which
will confirm the perceptions, instincts and intuitions that the
Holy Spirit will be teaching the disciple in his
maturity, after
learning the obedience, acquired and worked in prayer the faith
and trust in God that bring patience and that direct us to the
perfect love that God flows from our interior, not a human love,
but a superior love,
suffered and with purpose.
Over all we must pray to have
faith that our spirit is one with the one of God and may hear
His voice every day. That we don't receive any spirit, but be
able to discern the spirits; I
guarantee that
the Lord is the first one interested in giving us this gift of
His Spirit.
So, lets use the first stone,
and let this one win that our entire live is blessed in the
trust and in the faith that God gives us with all his love.
And many other examples that
every one will be able to apply to his live if he applies to all
his parts the faith and trust in the Holy Spirit, who is the
spring of our faith for each one of our components and for every
situation that we may live, in such a way that we may prevail
until the end, and may enjoy the glorious coming of our Lord
Yahshua to take us to the Father, to eternity.
The faith is symbolically the
stone that we must throw, it will direct all our being, as an
orchestra director, having organized and prepared all the
components of our being, that well orchestrated may, in harmony,
enjoy the equilibrium that God gives those that trust Him. For
this we must pray, asking God in the name of Jesus Christ, the
virtue of persevering by His side always, that we may be a good
spiritual instrument in His hands, that our lives may be lives
of blessing, not only for ourselves, but for the glory of God
and for others.
50So David prevailed over
the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the
Philistine, and killed him; but there was no sword in the hand of
David. 51Therefore David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and
took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and
killed him, and cut off his head with it. And when the
Philistines saw their champion was dead, they fled. 52And the
men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted, and pursued the
Philistines, until they came to the valley, and to the gates of Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way
to Shaaraim, even unto Gath, and unto Ekron.
The sword of the philistine,
represents his own law, his convictions, his beliefs, his moral,
all of them take him to death, because they are a law, that like
any law comes back
against man, because he cannot fulfil it and because man cannot
become perfect before God with any human law or moral. Is the
spirit of God Who makes us perfect by the faith in the blood of
Yahshua. Therefore God uses man's law, which He only has to
compare with the law of God, to beat him, his own sword, with
which to cut his head, which represents the idol in which he
believed, the building that the man had built with his own mind
and experiences, in which he trusted.
Man's head must be Yahshua
Himself, as well as it is of the Church. The philistines, who
symbolize the rest of the men who had believed in a leader of
the world, or in an
dream, wee how he drops before God and seek other.
Sometimes they find God while seeking, or even better, God finds
them, if in their hearts there is sincere hope.
53And the children of
Israel returned from chasing after the Philistines, and they
plundered their tents. 54And David took the head of the
Philistine, and brought it to Jerusalem; but he put his armor
in his tent. 55And when Saul saw David go forth against the
Philistine, he said to Abner, the captain of the host, Abner,
whose son is this youth? And Abner said, As your soul lives, O
king, I cannot tell. 56And the king said, Enquire whose son
this young man is. 57And as David returned from the slaughter of
the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with
the head of the Philistine in his hand. 58And Saul said to him,
Whose son are you, young man? And David answered, I am
the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.
From Bethlehem is Yahshua,
from where our faith must be spiritually, born of Christ. The
head of our spiritual enemies are given to us, the powers of the
enemy run away when they see the champion defeated, and all this by
faith.
Have you got an enmity with a
member of your family, with a brother in the church, with a
person of the world; do you have an illness that you don't know
how to face, or a beloved one has it; do you have financial
problems; do you lack faith. Pray to the Father in the name of
Jesus Christ, Yahshua, obey God, tell God about it, share your
entire life with Him, lay your problem in the hands of God, and
He will do, He'll never leave your with no reply if you trust
Him. Be patient and wait in God, at His time and in His form He
will win the battle, He will give you the light to see the
solution. God will defeat Goliath, will give you a smooth stone,
rock, that you may through with your
sling and will hit
the target.
Don't stop carrying the five
stones inside your being, but remember that you must only use
the first one, don't have faith in the four without the first
one. Don't think that with your capacities you can win. If we
don't let the Spirit of God act, we can do nothing, but with the
first, which is of God, feed the other four, that give the
spiritual life in the four parts. Don't trust your body
capacities, in your resistance or in your strength, don't trust
your heart, your feelings of your soul without God, don't trust
your spirit. Trust all your being and your life in the first
stone which is the faith in Christ and embrace the unction of
the Holy Spirit, the wheel of your life. He is the only one that
can drive your faith in Christ to defeat the enemy, as long as
you obey Him and trust in the plan of God for your life, don't
do your own strategy without God in prayer. In all the matters
that we be expose, remember what the Scripture says in Jeremiah
33:3 ...Call to Me, and I will answer your, and show you great
and mighty things, which your do not know... Says the Lord.
Amen?
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