<TITLE>06. Par -</TITLE>L-8-6 David was a hunter and a shepherd, and in the Psalms he wrote of green pastures and still waters, because there he was alone by himself. He wasn't contaminated with the things of the world. God has to get a man away from the things of the world, so He can get him quiet, so he can listen to God, that still small voice. Then once in contact with God, he becomes fearless then. Notice that he don't care what anyone says; he's been in the Presence of God. He knows God in the power of His resurrection.
And then David, we see him. One day God permitted a bear to come in and get one of his sheep. David just took after that bear. No doubt but what he prayed, because a little later on he confessed to it. And he prayed and asked God. He was caretaker over that sheep; he could not lose that sheep, and he must save that sheep at all price. And he grabbed his little slingshot and took after that bear and killed him. He must save that sheep. See what God was training him for?

L-9-2 God wants His shepherds to save the sheep, regardless what he has to be called and what he has to go through: save them sheep. Then He seen that David was gallant over this bear, so He just raised the power of the animal a little greater, and He sent a lamb--a lion in and took one of the lambs, and a lion is a fierce animal.
Oh, in Africa when I was hunting them... A lion can kill ten men before you can say, "Jack Robinson." Oh, powerful great beast, just with a big roar and just men are consumed. And the one who dies under the power of a lion never feels any hurt. It's such a scare to hear that roar as he gives. Those great mammoth feet, just in a second he's tore down a dozen men.

L-9-4 And to think of a little boy (The Bible said he was ruddy; that means that he was just a little bitty fellow.) with a little slingshot (You know what it is--a little piece of leather with a string on each side.); and a hungry lion with already the taste of blood in his mouth, run in and grabbed a sheep. David looked up to God and said, "I can't lose that one, You help me, Lord." And he knocked the lion down with the slingshot, and when the lion rose up against him, that little boy (and the lion weighing about five hundred pounds, or better, and that little boy weighing maybe seventy or eighty), he pulled from his little belt the knife, and when the lion raised up (which would kill ten men in a couple of slaps), he grabbed the lion by the beard and killed him.

L-10-1 Courage: God don't want cowards. He can't use you if you're afraid to take His Word and believe Him; He wants gallant men, won't pay no attention to nothing but what the Lord says. That's the kind He has to move with. Regardless of what the church says, what the pastor says, what the church stands for, He stands for God and righteousness and His Word. That's the man we ne--God will send these days for His revival that His people are praying for.

L-10-2 Later in years, when he went up to meet his brothers at the battle, there was a big old giant up there: fourteen inch fingers. And he bragged and he said, "Now, let somebody come fight me. If you can whip me, I'll surrender (and vice versa) and we'll serve." Ever who surrenders will, of course, will be the one that loses.
That's the way the devil likes to do it. When he thinks he's got the edge on you, he will tell you, "You can't get by with that. You can't preach Divine healing in the Methodist church, Baptist church." Well, you Methodist preachers just get a hold of God one time and find out whether you can or not. You'll never do it with your theology that they teach. You'll have to get a hold of God and know that He is.


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