(1 Samuel 17:34-37)

***DAILY PERSONAL PRAYER FOR YOU: Dear Lord, as we prepare to celebrate Your birth in a few weeks, prepare my heart to make this Christmas a special time in my life. I pray that the impact of God’s gift to the world will be felt by my, my family and friends, and the world we live in. Thank You for Your love for me, personally, and help me to be able to repay that love as I share it with everyone I come in contact with during this Christmas season. May the evil the penetrates this world today, give in to the JOY of celebrating Your birth! I ask and pray this in the name of Jesus…AMEN!!!

***THE DAILY LIVEPRAYER TV NUGGET: Psalm 91- Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” Surely he will save you from the fowler’s snare and from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings! you will find
refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart. You will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day, nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that destroys at midday. A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you. You will only observe with your eyes and see the punishment of the wicked. If you say, “The Lord is my refuge,” and you make the Most High your dwelling, no harm will overtake you, no disaster will come near your tent. For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways; they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone. You will tread on the lion and the cobra; you will trample the great lion and the serpent. “Because he loves me,” says the Lord, “I will rescue him; I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name. He will call on me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I ! will deliver him
and honor him. With long life I will satisfy him and show him my salvation.”

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***Action steps: 1) Pray for the nation to turn back to the Lord every morning for at least 5 min. 2) Share the Gospel every day with at least 1 person you know is no saved. 3) Every day share something Biblical with everyone you know via email. 4) Every day encourage at least ONE PERSON you know about the responsibility we have to VOTE in November. 5) GET ONE PERSON YOU KNOW TO DO ACTION STEPS 1-4!!!

The confidence to win. I want to share with you today a word of encouragement to help you see victory in whatever battle that you may be facing in your life today. They are battles that have to be fou! ght and loom in your life
like giants. While you have to sit down and formulate a battle plan, a strategy to win, the most important element of all is having the confidence to win.

YOU CANNOT WIN A BATTLE IF YOU DON’T BELIEVE YOU CAN! Let me say that again. YOU CANNOT WIN A BATTLE IF YOU DON’T BELIEVE YOU CAN! Before you sit down to put together your battle plan, you must first have the confidence that you CAN WIN!!!

Over the years, I have watched many teams come into a game and given virtually ZERO chance to win against a superior foe! Had the coaches and players went into that game with that defeatist attitude, there is no battle plan in the world that would allow them to win the game. I guarantee you that every expert in the day of David, gave him no chance to defeat Goliath. Had David went into that battle with that attitude, there is no way that he would have defeated Goliath.

YOU CAN NOT WIN A BATTLE IF YOU DON’T BELIEVE YOU CAN!!!

So the logical question is where doe! s this
belief come from. It comes from our past experiences with God. You see my friend, the Bible proclaims that God is immutable, never changing. It tells us that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. What that means is the same God who led you to victory in the past, is the same God who will lead you to victory today!!!

The great warriors of Israel had NO CONFIDENCE that they could beat Goliath, but David did. How could this young man, a non-warrior, have such confidence? Because of his PAST EXPERIENCES WITH GOD!!!

In the anchor verses for this Devotional found in 1 Samuel chapter 17, David tells Saul that he can beat Goliath because in the past, as he was watching his father’s sheep, he had to kill a bear and lion that had tried to kill the sheep. He simply said that the same God who gave him victory over the bear and lion, was the same God that would give him victory over Goliath.

David had the full confidence in knowing that the same God w! ho led
him to victory in the past was the same God that would lead him to victory now!!!

My word to you today is that no matter what your “giant” is, the same God that delivered you in the past, is the same God that will deliver you today! I don’t care what your battle is, God won’t let you down. Does that mean that you can just sit back and achieve victory? Of course not. You still have to prepare a battle plan, you still have to go out and execute your battleplan just like David did.

The key is, you can go into that battle with the full confidence and knowledge that the same God who led you to victory in the past is the same God that will lead you to victory today!!!

I love you and care about you so much. I hurt today because I know that many of you are facing incredible battles in your life. But I want you to take a few moments right now and remember the battles that you have had in the past. Remember those times in your life when you had to depend totally on G! od and
how He led you to victory.

Encourage yourself today by thinking of those impossible situations that you faced in past years, situations that looked overwhelming. Remember how you called out to God for help, and how God gave you a plan of attack, and as you faithfully executed that plan, you got victory over that situation.

THAT IS THE SAME GOD THAT WILL LEAD YOU TO VICTORY OVER WHATEVER SITUATION YOU FACE TODAY!!!

I will be praying for you today, praying for you to see victory in whatever battles that you are facing. As you look to God for a battle plan, as you look to God to help you execute that battle plan, never forget that the same God that has led you to victory in the past, is the same God that will lead you to victory today. HAVE THE CONFIDENCE TO WIN!!!

In His love and service,

Your friend and brother in Christ,

Bill Keller