This Great Warrior, David

January 18, 1955
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The Philistines had gathered their armies and pitched their camp. They were to battle against Israel. Saul gathered his men together and pitched by the Valley of Elah. They set the battle array against the Philistines. With the Philistines standing on one mountain side and Israel on another, only a valley lay between them. Then came a champion out of the midst of the Philistine camp with one bearing a shield before him. It was Goliath, of Gath. He was a giant of a man whose height reached over nine feet. He wore a helmet of brass upon his head. The head of his spear alone weighed 600 shekels (nearly 16 lbs), and he was armed with a coat of mail that weighed 5000 shekels (over 125 lbs). He cried out to the armies of Israel and said unto them,

Why are ye come out to set your battle in array? am not I a Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me. If he be able to fight with me, and to kill me, then will we be your servants: but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us. And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.

When Saul and all Israel heard the words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly afraid. For 40 days Goliath came out from the camp of the Philistines and made this challenge to the army of Israel both morning and evening. He put great fear in the people. But there was one who had no fear. David, the son of Jesse, had come into the camp to bring refreshments to his brethren and to find the conditions of the battle for his father. That morning Goliath walked out, made his great boast again, and said “I defy the armies of Israel.” This time his words fell on the wrong ears. David wasn’t about to stand for it. He wasn’t about to let an uncircumcised Philistine defy the armies of the living God. He asked what reward should come of the man who defeated the Philistine. David was brought before King Saul and said, “Let no man's heart fail because of him; thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine.”

Although they mocked David for his size and lack of warfare experience, that didn’t stop him. He marched out to meet Goliath with the same trust that delivered the lion and the bear into his hands. All that he had was a little slingshot and five smooth stones from the brook, but he knew where he stood. He knew God was with him.

Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied. This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand…

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As Goliath arose and went to meet David, David hasted and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine. He put his hand on his bag and took forth a stone, and slung it. “And when he set that loose, the Holy Ghost got a hold of that little old stone and picked up a speed about a thousand miles per second, struck that giant between the face, and he fell forward.”
PREPARATION 53-1111

One-thousand miles per second is more than 300 times faster than the world's fastest missile, and 23 times faster than the worlds fastest man-made space object. An object moving that fast could travel the approximate 24,900 miles around the world in under 25 seconds. The only recorded thing to travel faster than David's stone is the speed of light. Wow! That’s the Power of the Holy Ghost. No perverted creation of man can compare to the all-powerful hand of God.

The same God that delivered David from the bear, the lion, and from Goliath, is the same God that delivers us from all adversaries. It’s the same God that called us, elected us, and delivered us from this world. Brother Branham tells us that we need more Davids. Listen to this message and you’ll be inspired to be more like God’s great warrior.