FAITH CAPSULE: Keeping God’s testimonies positions one under the covering of God’s love.

1Samuel 17:31-49
 
While climbing to the top of your expected goal, the place where God wants you, giants on the way will attempt to pull you off track. If you are facing a massive giant along your way, learn from David. He was anointed by God through Samuel but still had to travel through a passage before getting to God’s plan for his life. In David’s confrontation with the giant, no one nor any thing was in place to work for him in bringing down the giant, except the testimony of what God had done in his life. When King Saul voiced discouragement, David responded with testimony of what God did for him. 1Samuel 17:34, “But David said to Saul, ‘Your servant used to keep his father’s sheep, and when a lion or a bear came and took a lamb out of the flock, I went out after it and delivered the lamb from its mouth; and when it arose against me , I caught it by its beard, and struck and killed it.” He also stated in v.37, “Moreover David said, ‘The LORD who delivered me from the paw of the lion and bear, He will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said to David, ‘Go, and the LORD be with you!’”
David was operating the power of testimony against his enemy. Psalm 119:2 testifies, “Blessed are those who keep His testimonies,who seek Him with the whole heart!” Ones that keep His testimonies are the ones that are constantly covered by the love of God just as the word states in Proverbs 8:17, “I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently will find me.” Finding God is in keeping His testimonies while keeping His testimonies is seeking Him diligently. David keeps his testimonies of God and he found God to fight on his behalf.
In addition to keeping testimonies of God, David also held on to the name of God when he came face to face with the giant. 1Samuel 17:45, “Then David said to the Philistines, ‘You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin but I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defiled.” The giant, Mr. Goliath, succumbed to David because of David’s testimony and because he continually called on the name of his God. Have you approached your Goliath yet? Are you holding to any of His testimonies in your life? Remember what God has done for you (that is His testimony for you to use) and do not stop calling His name. God showed up on behalf of David and His Goliath fell. David got to his divine schedule, and you will get there too.
 
Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace to constantly remember His testimonies in the face of every challenge.