<TITLE>09. Par 29-32</TITLE>L-29 Look at David. Little David, no doubt raised in a lovely, believing home, his father, Jesse, a great man of God, no doubt gathered all those boys around at night and had family prayer before they went to bed: probably read the scrolls, and talked about great Jehovah that had opened up the Red Sea; and a great prophet Moses had brought them out, following the Pillar of Fire, all these things. That created faith. "Faith cometh by hearing, hearing of the Word of God." Little David got to thinking of that.
Oh, of course, he was kind of the smallest one of the family, so they put him out to watch a few sheep. And he was responsible for those sheep. And one day a lion come in and got one. And he thought, "Now, what am I going to say to my father about this sheep being missing?" And he happened to remember, that, "My father read from the scrolls and told me that, God was a great God to deliver His people. And that He would bless Israel, and He was with Israel. And I'm one of them. And all that's circumcised and in that covenant. God's blessing is upon them. And I'm one of them. I'm circumcised, and God's blessing's upon me. I have a right. One of my father's sheep's gone, so I'm going after that sheep."
And he grabbed up his little slingshot, and went, and brought that sheep back by killing the lion. Why? He was perseverant. What was God doing? Training him. A bear come in and got one. He went and got the sheep from the bear.

L-30 One day when he took his brothers up something to eat, when the armies were one across the ditch from the other a little valley where a little brook run between them... And there was a big Goliath out there, boasting. Perhaps David looked at him, come by and looked around awhile. See?.. He looked up to see who the biggest one was, and the--the largest man in the army. And it was Saul, the leader, head and shoulders above all.
"Well, why don't he go out there?" he thought. Walked on. I imagine he was thinking, "God, My Father, I know if You care that much for one of them lambs out there, how much do You care for the people that's called by Your Name? Now, they're in conflict. They're all afraid." And he got very perseverant. He took right out after Goliath with that same slingshot and won the victory. Why? He believed in what he was trying to achieve. His achievement was right. It was in the will of God, in the Word of God, in the plan of God.

L-31 And if you can find out what your place is in the plan of God, even though you be sick and nearly dead... You say, "I'm a Christian. How could that be in the plan of God?" It might be in God's plan to heal you and give you a testimony that will shake souls to the Kingdom of God. Certainly. He lets those things happen. Maybe you had your ups-and-downs and the enemy scorching you from side-to-side. It might have been that way. That's all in the plan of God.
Look at Job, when he was afflicted, sores all over him. It was all in the plan of God. But Job too, was perseverant because he knowed that he was keeping God's Word. Nothing was going to bother him.

L-32 I could think today of Samson. He was perseverant too. He was perseverant as long as he could see that the promise of God was with him. Every time that the--the Philistines would make a brag, or get him into the corner... Probably little, bitty old skinny arms, and a little sissy-like fellow with seven little locks of hair hanging down, that they all called sissy, and... But he'd feel around to see if them locks was all right. He just let the lions roar, let the Philistines lock him up, do anything they wanted to. He'd take the whole city gates and pack them up top the hill. Why? He was perseverant. Why? He seen, and felt, and knowed that the promise of God hung upon him. Amen. Hm.


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