1 Samuel 17:46-47 (ESV Strong's)
This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you down and cut off your head. And I will give the dead bodies 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, and that all this assembly may know that the Lord saves not with sword and spear. For the battle is the Lord's, and he will give you into our hand.”
Subject: God's Deliverance
God chooses many methods to save His people. In the above text we see that David is about to go to war against Goliath. In the text we read, "... That all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel, and that all this assembly may know that the Lord saves to with sword and spear." What the world is about to know is that God choose to use a young shepherd boy with a sling and a stone. God is the one who choose to use the sling. We could read the above passage and think that David was simply going to get on his knees and pray Goliath to death. God COULD HAVE chosen to do just that. But, God elected to, instead, use a rock and a stone from the hand of a boy with a staff. This should teach us something about God's methods. God CAN save by using prayer alone. God CAN save by using a tool like a sling. God CAN save by using a whale, or a donkey. God CAN save by using water from a rock. God CAN save by using two loaves and five fishes. God's methods might change, but God's faithfulness to save when we have faith does not change. We don't know if God will use a doctor using new medicine, or a church filled with believers praying for our freedom (think Peter in jail). We do know that God will save!!1
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