Seize the Moment – Day 755
The Power of the Anointing!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Monday, April 11.
King Saul’s reaction to Goliath, found in 1 Samuel 17:11, sets the stage for the contrast between himself and David: “When Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly afraid.” Shockingly, there was not a person in Israel who was willing to face the giant.
Then the shepherd boy, David, walks on the scene. Without Saul’s knowledge, he had been anointed by Samuel as the next king of Israel (1 Samuel 16:13). David’s proclamation to Goliath about his impending defeat, found in 1 Samuel 17:45-47, demonstrated his faith in God’s power:
You come to me with a sword, a spear, and 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 taunted. This day the Lord will deliver you up into my hands, and I will strike you down and remove your head from you. And I will give the dead bodies of the army of the Philistines this day to the birds of the sky and the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel, and that all this assembly may know that the Lord does not deliver by sword or by spear; for the battle is the Lord’s and He will give you into our hands.
Setting up this magnificent story of faith and victory, in 1 Samuel 16:14-15, God’s Spirit fell mightily upon David at his anointing, followed by the Spirit departing Saul. This story is a graphic illustration of the importance of the anointing of God for His people to walk in His victory!
Seize the moment and walk in the power of the Holy Spirit. It is by faith that mountains are moved because it is God who defeats the giants!