Haloes! J
“We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in
which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think
we cannot…” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
1 Samuel 17:32-50
David said to Saul, “Let no one lose heart on account of
this Philistine; your servant will go and fight him.” Saul
replied, “You are not able to go out against this Philistine and fight him; you
are only a young man, and he has been a warrior from his youth.” But David said to Saul, “Your servant has been
keeping his father’s sheep. When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep
from the flock, I went after it, struck it and rescued the sheep from its
mouth. When it turned on me, I seized it by its hair, struck it and killed it. Your
servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this uncircumcised Philistine
will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living
God. The Lord who rescued me from the
paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will rescue me from the hand of this
Philistine.” Saul said to David, “Go,
and the Lord be with you.” Then Saul
dressed David in his own tunic. He put a coat of armor on him and a bronze
helmet on his head. David fastened on
his sword over the tunic and tried walking around, because he was not used to
them. “I cannot go in these,” he said to
Saul, “because I am not used to them.” So he took them off. Then he took his staff in his hand, chose
five smooth stones from the stream, put them in the pouch of his shepherd’s bag
and, with his sling in his hand, approached the Philistine. Meanwhile, the Philistine, with his shield
bearer in front of him, kept coming closer to David. He looked David over and saw that he was
little more than a boy, glowing with health and handsome, and he despised him. He said to David, “Am I a dog, that you come
at me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. “Come here,” he said, “and I’ll give your
flesh to the birds and the wild animals!”
David said to the Philistine,
“You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you
in the name of the Lord Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you
have defied. This day the Lord will
deliver you into my hands, and I’ll strike you down and cut off your head. This
very day I will give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds and the
wild animals, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel. All those gathered here will know that it is
not by sword or spear that the Lord saves; for the battle is the Lord’s, and he
will give all of you into our hands.” As the Philistine moved closer to attack him,
David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet him. Reaching into his bag and taking out a stone,
he slung it and struck the Philistine on the forehead. The stone sank into his
forehead, and he fell facedown on the ground.
So David triumphed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone; without
a sword in his hand he struck down the Philistine and killed him…”
“Success is not final,
failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts…” ~ Winston
Churchill
You gain strength,
courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look
fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this
horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
‘n Groot inspirasie vir die week is vir my Dawid… Hy was maar ‘n skaapwagter, baie jonk en sy
pa se oogappel… Almal het net VREES
gesien wanneer hulle aan Goliat gedink of hom gesien het, maar Dawid het op God
gefokus en vir God gesien… Hy het nie
toegelaat dat sy omstandighede hom verblind; bangmaak en onderkry nie… Hy het vir Goliat gaan aanvat met alles wat
in hom was en met God wat BY Hom was… Hy
het reeds gewen voordat Hy by die geveg opgedaag het, want Hy het geweet dat
God hom nie in die steek sou laat nie… Hy het nie toegelaat dat sy grootte teen
hom getel het nie… Hy het dit egter vir
hom laat werk! Want sien, ek dink as ek
Goliat moes wees, en so ‘n klein “seuntjie” kom staan voor my met ‘n slingervel
en 6 klippies, sou ek seker gedink het – “sjoe, ek meen komaan! Gee vir my ten minste ‘n uitdaging!” Maar God het juis vir Dawid gebruik, omdat hy
die “BOLDNESS” en “COURAGE” gehad het van ‘n reus… Hy het nie gekyk na sy “odds” nie, maar hy
het gesorg dat hy die element van verrassing was toe hy vir Goliat aangevat
het…
Ek en jy kan geïnspireer word deur die feit dat GROOTTE
(fisies, geestelik, emosioneel) nie tel by God nie… Al wat tel, is dat jy Hom aanvaar as jou
Hemelse Vader… dat jy Hom liefhet, met
jou hele hart, jou hele verstand en alles wat in jou is… Dat jy weet dat ‘n situasie – hoe
onoorkombaar en moeilik dit ookal mag lyk – oorkombaar is, omdat jy die “Element
van verrassing” aan jou kant het! God is
in staat om meer te kan doen as wat ons hoop of dink… (Efesiërs 3:20); “Niks is
vir God onmoontlik nie…” ~ Lukas 1:37…
Daar is soveel plekke in die Bybel waar ons net oor en oor verseker word
van die ongelooflike God wat ons aanbid…
God wil en GAAN, jou gebruik NES jy is…
Jy moet jouself net oop stel deur wanneer vreemde of moeilike situasies
jou kant toe kom, jy nie op die situasie sal fokus nie, maar dat jy op God sal
fokus… God sal aan jou die oorwinning
gee oor ENIGE iets – oplossings vir onoplosbare situasies; duidelikheid waar jy
net onduidelikheid sien; rustigheid in jou hart oor besluite wat jy moet
neem… Wees net stil en weet – jou God is
ELKE oomblik van elke dag, in beheer…
Blessings!
Anel**
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