Today we will go to the valley of Elah which is where young David killed Goliath. We will stand at the brook where he took the stones. This place is where David declared, “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…that all this assembly may know that the Lord does not deliver by sword or by spear; for the battle is the Lord’s” (1 Samuel 17:45-47).
David took 5 stones but he only needed one. God was with him and we know what happened. David was a shepherd and had a shepherd’s weapon. King Saul tried to make him something he wasn’t with armor and sword but God uses who we are and what we have to bring victory over the challenges that come our way. When you trust the Lord and put what you have in His hands you will He will always deliver a knock out punch!
Today we will also visit a museum in the city and see the actual Dead Sea scrolls. Another knock out punch from another shepherd boy in the Judean Wilderness. When he was looking for a lost sheep he threw a stone into a cave he thought the sheep might be in so he could scare it out. When he did he heard a smash and knew that sheep didn’t go smash : )
As you read earlier his young shepherd boy made a monumental discovery and delivered a knock out blow to the skeptical Goliaths of this age.
Two shepherd boys…two stones…two knock out punches!
Our God is amazing!
Keep praying! More later!