Mighty Men Strength From the Uncommon WORD

Mighty Men

Strength From the Uncommon WORD

When David fled from Saul

He stopped at the house of the Lord

He asked for two items

Some bread; he did not get common bread, but Holy Bread

He asked for a sword; he did not get a common sword

He got the sword too big to handle, 

The Sword of Goliath

When you feel like running and hiding in a cave  

You too need the uncommon Bread and Sword

You need the Word of the Lord

Strength From the Uncommon WORD

David had fled and was hiding from Saul.

David, full of faith in God and loyalty to King Saul,

was not rewarded for his faithfulness.

His life had become a life on the run

 with nothing, not even a sword.

The first place he went to was the priest

 where he asked for food and a sword.

The bread was Holy Bread,

not the common bread.

The sword was Goliath’s Sword,

 too big to handle.

When you and I are overwhelmed with life and

we find ourselves on the run,

we are given the same Holy Bread.

 It is not the common words,

it is the Words of God.

The scriptures you read every day

of your life come alive and give you

understanding and strength like never before.

Though you walk by faith and it seems

everything has failed…

 The Bread of God, God’s Word,

gives you a renewed energy. 

His Word opens your eyes even

though you are hiding in a dark cave.

You don’t need the light of day because God is with

you and each word brings comfort and security.

Like David, God gives us a Sword too big to handle.

It is a Sword that brings fear to our enemies but

our strength to handle it last only for a short time.

The Sword, or the Word of the Lord,

God gives to us is not a comfortable sword.

It takes a lot of our energy because

God’s ways are not our ways.

But trusting in what God gives

us will bring down our enemies.

Remember this was Goliath’s Sword.

When David was younger God

equipped him with a slingshot.

After he had conquered his enemy, God had

given him the weapon that worked against him.

 

Next time you feel like you need to run to a cave

and hide, go to the House of the Lord.

Get the Word of the Lord.

It will nourish you like Holy Bread.

It will give you the weapon you need even

though you may feel it is too big to handle.

"It is written: 'Man does not live on bread alone,

but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.'" 

Matthew 4:4 NIV

When you feel like running and hiding in a cave,

you, too, need the uncommon Bread and Sword.

You need the Word of the Lord.

Scripture Reading

1 Samuel 21:1-11 NIV

21:1 David went to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. Ahimelech trembled when he met him, and asked, "Why are you alone? Why is no one with you?"

2 David answered Ahimelech the priest, "The king charged me with a certain matter and said to me, 'No one is to know anything about your mission and your instructions.' As for my men, I have told them to meet me at a certain place. 3 Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever you can find."

4 But the priest answered David, "I don't have any ordinary bread on hand; however, there is some consecrated bread here — provided the men have kept themselves from women."

5 David replied, "Indeed women have been kept from us, as usual whenever I set out. The men's things are holy even on missions that are not holy. How much more so today!" 6 So the priest gave him the consecrated bread, since there was no bread there except the bread of the Presence that had been removed from before the LORD and replaced by hot bread on the day it was taken away.

7 Now one of Saul's servants was there that day, detained before the LORD; he was Doeg the Edomite, Saul's head shepherd.

8 David asked Ahimelech, "Don't you have a spear or a sword here? I haven't brought my sword or any other weapon, because the king's business was urgent."

9 The priest replied, "The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the Valley of Elah, is here; it is wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you want it, take it; there is no sword here but that one."

David said, "There is none like it; give it to me."

10 That day David fled from Saul and went to Achish king of Gath.