ENCOURAGING AND EQUIPPING THE SAINTS

TUESDAY:

JUNE 21, 2021:

GOOD MORNING:

WELCOME:

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:

OUR DAILY MEDITATION SCRIPTURES:

1 SAMUEL 17:32 – DAVID SAID TO SAUL, “LET NO ONE LOSE HEART ON ACCOUNT OF THIS PHILISTINE; YOUR SERVANT WILL GO AND FIGHT HIM.”

1 SAMUEL 17:33 – SAUL REPLIED, “YOU ARE NOT ABLE TO GO OUT AGAINST THIS PHILISTINE AND FIGHT HIM; YOU ARE ONLY A YOUNG MAN, AND HE HAS BEEN A WARRIOR FROM HIS YOUTH.”

1 SAMUEL 17:34 – BUT DAVID SAID TO SAUL, “YOUR SERVANT HAS BEEN KEEPING HIS FATHER’S SHEEP. WHEN A LION OR A BEAR CAME AND CARRIED OFF A SHEEP FROM THE FLOCK,

1 SAMUEL 17:35 – I WENT AFTER IT, STRUCK IT AND RESCUED THE SHEEP FROM ITS MOUTH. WHEN IT TURNED ON ME, I SEIZED IT BY ITS HAIR, STRUCK IT AND KILLED IT.

1 SAMUEL 17:36 – YOUR SERVANT HAS KILLED BOTH THE LION AND BEAR; THIS UNCIRCUMCISED PHILISTINE WILL BE LIKE ONE OF THEM, BECAUSE HE HAS DEFILE THE ARMIES OF THE LIVING GOD.

1 SAMUEL 17:37 – THE LORD WHO RESCUED ME FROM THE PAW OF THE BEAR WILL RESCUE ME FROM THE HAND OF THE PHILISTINE.” SAUL SAID TO DAVID, “GO, AND THE LORD BE WITH YOU.”

1 SAMUEL 17:38 – THEN SAUL DRESSED DAVID IN HIS OWN TUNIC. HE PUT A COAT OF ARMOR ON HIM AND A BRONZE HELMET ON HIS HEAD.

1 SAMUEL 17:39 – DAVID FASTENED ON HIS SWORD OVER THE TUNIC AND TRIED WALKING AROUND, BECAUSE HE WAS NOT USED TO THEM. “I CANNOT GO IN THESE, “HE SAID TO SAUL, “BECAUSE I AM NOT USE TO THEM.” SO HE TOOK THEM OFF.

1 SAMUEL 17:40 – THEN HE TOOK HIS STAFF IN HIS HAND, CHOSE FIVE SMOOTH STONES FROM THE STREAM, PUT THEM IN THE POUCH OF HIS SHEPHERD’S BAG AND, WITH HIS SLING IN HIS HAND, APPROACHED THE PHILISTINE.

1 SAMUEL 17:41 – MEANWHILE, THE PHILISTINE, WITH HIS SHIELD BEARER IN FRONT OF HIM, KEPT COMING CLOSER TO DAVID.

1 SAMUEL 17:42 – HE LOOKED DAVID OVER AND SAW THAT HE WAS LITTLE MORE THAN A BOY, GLOWING WITH HEALTH AND HANDSOME, AND HE DESPISED HIM.

1 SAMUEL 17:43 – HE SAID TO DAVID, “AM I DOG, THAT YOU COME TO ME WITH STICKS?” AND THE PHILISTINE CURSED DAVID BY HIS GODS.

1 SAMUEL 17:44 – “COME HERE,” HE SAID, “AND I’LL GIVE YOUR FLESH TO THE BIRDS AND THE WILD ANIMALS!”

1 SAMUEL 17:45 – DAVID SAID TO THE PHILISTINE, “YOU COME AGAINST ME WITH SWORD AND SPEAR AND JAVELIN, BUT I COME AGAINST YOU IN THE NAME OF THE LORD ALMIGHTY, THE GOD OF THE ARMIES OF ISRAEL, WHOM YOU HAVE DEFIED.

1 SAMUEL 17:46 – THIS DAY THE LORD WILL DELIVER YOU INTO MY HANDS, AND I’LL STRIKE YOU DOWN AND CUT OFF YOUR HEAD. THIS VERY DAY I WILL GIVE THE CARCASSES OF THE PHILISTINE ARMY TO THE BIRDS AND THE WILD ANIMALS, AND THE WHOLE WORLD WILL KNOW THAT THERE IS A GOD IN ISRAEL.

1 SAMUEL 17:47 – ALL THOSE GATHERED HERE WILL KNOW THAT IT IS NOT BY SWORD OR SPEAR THAT THE LORD SAVES; FOR THE BATTLE IS THE LORD’S, AND HE WILL GIVE ALL OF YOU INTO OUR HANDS.”

1 SAMUEL 17:48 – AS THE PHILISTINES MOVED CLOSER TO ATTACK HIM, DAVID RAN QUICKLY TOWARD THE BATTLE LINE TO MEET HIM.

1 SAMUEL 17:49 – REACHING INTO HIS BAG AND TAKING OUT A STONE, HE SLUG IT AND STRUCK THE PHILISTINE ON THE FOREHEAD. THE STONE SANK INTO HIS FOREHEAD, AND HE FELL FACEDOWN ON THE GROUND.

1 SAMUEL 17:50 – SO DAVID TRIUMPHED OVER THE PHILISTINE WITH A SLING AND A STONE; WITHOUT A SWORD IN HIS HAND HE STRUCK DOWN THE PHILISTINE AND KILLED HIM.

1 SAMUEL 17:51 – DAVID RAN AND STOOD OVER HIM. HE TOOK HOLD OF THE PHILISTINE’S SWORD AND DREW IT FROM THE SHEATH. AFTER HE KILLED HIM, HE CUT OFF HIS HEAD WITH THE SWORD. WHEN THE PHILISTINES SAW THAT THEIR HERO WAS DEAD, THEY TURNED AND RAN.

1 SAMUEL 17:52 – THEN THE MEN OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH SURGED FORWARD WITH A SHOUT AND PURSUED THE PHILISTINES TO THE ENTRANCE OF GATH AND TO THE GATES OF EKRON. THEIR DEAD WERE STREWN ALONG THE SHAARAIM ROAD TO GATH AND EKRON.

1 SAMUEL 17:53 – WHEN THE ISRAELITES RETURNED FROM CHASING THE PHILISTINES, THEY PLUNDERED THEIR CAMP.

1 SAMUEL 17:54 – DAVID TOOK THE PHILISTINE’S HEAD AND BROUGHT IT TO JERUSALEM; HE PUT THE PHILISTINE’S WEAPONS IN HIS OWN TENT.

1 SAMUEL 17:55 – AND SAUL WATCHED DAVID GOING OUT TO MEET THE PHILISTINE, HE SAID TO ABNER, COMMANDER OF THE ARMY, “ABNER, WHOSE SON IS THAT YOUNG MAN?” ABNER REPLIED, “AS SURELY AS YOU LIVE, YOUR MAJESTY, I DON’T KNOW.”

1 SAMUEL 17:56 – THE KING SAID, “FIND OUT WHOSE SON IS THIS YOUNG MAN IS.”

1 SAMUEL 17:57 – AS SOON AS DAVID RETURNED FROM KILLING THE PHILISTINE, ABNER TOOK HIM AND BROUGHT HIM BEFORE SAUL, WITH DAVID STILL HOLDING THE PHILISTINE’S HEAD.

1 SAMUEL 17:58 – “WHOSE SON ARE YOU, YOUNG MAN?” SAUL ASKED HIM. DAVID SAID, “I AM THE SON OF YOUR SERVANT JESSE OF BETHLEHEM.”

“GLORY HALLELUJAH, THANK YOU JESUS, PRAISE GOD”

“I MAGNIFY AND GLORIFY EL SHADDAI MY ALMIGHTY GOD FOR HIS GLORIOUS WORD IN JESUS NAME!”

“DAVID LOVED GOD WITH ALL OF HIS HEART EVEN THOUGH HIS BROTHERS AND THE ARMIES WAS AFRAID OF THIS GIANT BUT, DAVID HAD GREAT FAITH KNOWING THAT THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY WAS GOING TO DELIVER THIS UNCIRCUMCISED PHILISTINE GIANT INTO HIS HANDS IN JESUS NAME AND REGARDLESS, OF THE GIANTS WE FACE DAY TO DAY WE HAVE TO HAVE STRONG FAITH LIKE DAVID IN BELIEVING THAT GOD CAN DO THE SAME THING FOR US. I CAN ONLY SPEAK FOR MYSELF I KNOW GOD CAN DO MIGHTY THINGS IN MY LIFE AND I THANK HIM FOR WHAT HE HAVE ALREADY DONE FOR ME IN JESUS NAME!”

“ALWAY REMEMBER: TAKE ONE DAY AT A TIME AND FIGHT ONE BATTLE AT A TIME IN JESUS NAME!”

I PRAY THAT I HAVE SAID SOMETHING TO UPLIFT AND ENCOURAGE SOMEONE THIS MORNING IN JESUS NAME! AMEN.

ALWAYS REMEBER: GOD LOVES YOU AND SO DO I!

HAVE A BLESSED TUESDAY IN JESUS NAME!

MISSIONARY CYNTHIA BENNETT

TUESDAY:

JUNE 21, 2022:

GOOD MORNING:

WELCOME:

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:

OUR DAILY MEDITATION SCRIPTURES:

1 SAMUEL 17:21 – ISRAEL AND THE PHILISTINE WERE DRAWING UP THEIR LINES FACING EACH OTHER.

1 SAMUEL 17:22 – DAVID LEFT HIS THINGS WITH THE KEEPER OF HIS SUPPLIES, RAN TO THE BATTLE LINES AND ASKED HIS BROTHERS HOW THEY WERE.

1 SAMUEL 17:23 – AS HE WAS TALKING WITH THEM, GOLIATH, THE PHILISTINE CHAMPION FROM GATH, STEPPED OUT FROM HIS LINES AND SHOUTED HIS USUAL DEFIANCE, AND DAVID HEARD IT.

1 SAMUEL 17:24 – WHENEVER THE ISRAELITES SAW THE MAN, THEY ALL FLED FROM HIM IN GREAT FEAR.

1 SAMUEL 17:25 – NOW THE ISRAELITES HAD BEEN SAYING, “DO YOU SEE HOW THIS MAN KEEPS COMING OUT? HE COMES OUT TO DEFY ISRAEL. THE KING WILL GIVE GREAT WEALTH TO THE MAN WHO KILLS HIM. HE WILL ALSO GIVE HIM HIS DAUGHTER IN MARRIAGE AND WILL EXEMPT HIS FAMILY FROM TAXES IN ISRAEL.”

1 SAMUEL 17:26 – DAVID ASKED THE MEN STANDING NEAR HIM, “WHAT WILL BE DONE FOR THE MAN WHO KILLS THIS PHILISTINE AND REMOVES THIS DISGRACE FROM ISRAEL? WHO IS THIS UNCIRCUMCISED PHILISTINE THAT HE SHOULD DEFY THE ARMIES OF THE LIVING GOD?”

1 SAMUEL 17:27 – THEY REPEATED TO HIM WHAT THEY HAD BEEN SAYING AND TOLD HIM, “THIS IS WHAT WILL BE DONE FOR THE MAN WHO KILLS HIM.”

1 SAMUEL 17:28 – WHEN ELIAB, DAVID’S OLDEST BROTHER, HEARD HIM SPEAKING WITH THE MEN, HE BURNED WITH ANGER AT HIM AND ASKED, “WHY HAVE YOU COME DOWN HERE? AND WITH WHOM DID YOU LEAVE THOSE FEW SHEEP IN THE WILDERNESS? I KNOW HOW CONCEITED YOU ARE AND HOW WICKED YOUR HEART IS; YOU CAME DOWN ONLY TO WATCH THE BATTLE.”

1 SAMUEL 17:29 – NOW WHAT HAVE I DONE?” SAID DAVID. “CAN I SPEAK?

1 SAMUEL 17:30 – HE TURNED AWAY TO SOMEONE ELSE AND BROUGHT UP THE SAME MATTER, AND THE MEN ANSWERED HIM AS BEFORE.

1 SAMUEL 17:31 – WHAT DAVID SAID WAS OVERHEARD AND REPORTED TO SAUL, AND SAUL SENT FOR HIM.

“HALLELUJAH, THANK YOU JESUS”

“GLORY HALLELUJAH, THANK YOU JESUS, PRAISE GOD”

“I WORSHIP AND PRAISE EL SHADDAI MY ALMIGHTY GOD FOR HIS GLORIOUS WORD IN JESUS NAME!”

“I THANK AND PRAISE GOD FOR DAVID’S AWESOME FAITH IN GOD THAT REGARDLESS OF HIS SIZE HE TRUSTED AND BELIEVED GOD COULD DELIVER GOLIATH INTO HIS HANDS AND GOD DID IT IN JESUS NAME!”

“I KNOW SOMETIMES THE THINGS THAT WE BE GOING THROUGH SEEM BIGGER THAN US BUT, WE HAVE TO PUT IT IN GOD’S HANDS AND LEAVE IT THERE BECAUSE I AM A WITNESS WHEN I PUT THINGS THAT ARE TOO BIG FOR ME OR THINGS THAT OVERWHELM ME IN GOD HAND HE TAKES CARE OF IT IN JESUS NAME! AND ALWAYS REMEMBER: JEREMIAH 32:17 SAYS, AH LORD GOD! BEHOLD, THOU HAST MADE THE HEAVEN AND THE EARTH BY THY GREAT POWER AND STRETCHED OUT ARM, AND THERE IS NOTHING TOO HARD FOR THEE:”

I PRAY THAT I HAVE SAID SOMETHING TO UPLIFT AND ENCOURAGE SOMEONE THIS MORNING IN JESUS NAME! AMEN.

ALWAYS REMEMBER: GOD LOVES YOU AND SO DO I!

HAVE A BLESSED TUESDAY!

MISSIONARY CYNTHIA BENNETT

TUESDAY:

JUNE 21, 2022:

GOOD MORNING:

WELCOME:

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:

OUR DAILY MEDITATION SCRIPTURES:

1 SAMUEL 17:1 – NOW THE PHILISTINES GATHERED THEIR FORCES FOR WAR AND ASSEMBLED AT SOKOH IN JUDAH. THEY PITCHED CAMP AT EPHES DAMMIM, BETWEEN SOKOH AND AZEKAH.

1 SAMUEL 17:2 – SAUL AND THE ISRAELITES ASSEMBLED AND CAMPED IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH AND DREW UP THEIR BATTLE LINE TO MEET THE PHILISTINES.

1 SAMUEL 17:3 – THE PHILISTINES OCCUPIED ONE HILL AND THE ISRAELITES ANOTHER, WITH THE VALLEY BETWEEN THEM.

1 SAMUEL 17:4 – A CHAMPION NAMED GOLIATH, WHO WAS FROM GOTH, CAME OUT OF THE PHILISTINE CAMP. HIS HEIGHT WAS SIX CUBITS AND A SPAN.

1 SAMUEL 17:5 – HE HAD A BRONZE HELMET ON HIS HEAD AND WORE A COAT OF SCALE ARMOR OF BRONZE WEIGHING FIVE THOUSAND SHEKELS;

1 SAMUEL 17:6 – ON HIS LEGS HE WORE BRONZE GREAVES, AND A BRONZE JAVELIN WAS SLUNG ON HIS BACK.

1 SAMUEL 17:7 – HIS SPEAR SHAFT WAS LIKE A WEAVER’S ROD, AND ITS IRON POINT WEIGHED SIX HUNDRED SHEKELS. HIS SHIELD BEARER WENT AHEAD OF HIM.

1 SAMUEL 17:8 – GOLIATH STOOD AND SHOUTED TO THE RANKS OF ISSRAEL, “WHY DO YOU COME OUT AND LINE UP FOR BATTLE? AM I NOT A PHILISTINE, AND ARE YOU NOT THE SERVANTS OF SAUL? CHOOSE A MAN AND HAVE HIM COME DOWN TO ME.

1 SAMUEL 17:9 – IF HE IS ABLE TO FIGHT AND KILL ME, WE WILL BECOME YOUR SUBJECTS; BUT IF I OVERCOME HIM AND KILL HIM, YOU WILL BECOME OUR SUBJECTS AND SERVE US.”

1 SAMUEL 17:10 – THEN THE PHILISTINES SAID, “THIS DAY I DEFY THE ARMIES OF ISRAEL! GIVE ME A MAN AND LET US FIGHT EACH OTHER.”

1 SAMUEL 17:11 – ON HEARING THE PHILISTINE’S WORDS, SAUL AND ALL THE ISRAELITES WERE DISMAYED AND TERRIFIED.

1 SAMUEL 17:12 – NOW DAVID WAS THE SON OF AN EPHRATHITE NAME JESSE, WHO WAS FROM BETHLEHEM IN JUAH. JESSE HAD EIGHT SONS, AND IN SAUL’S TIME HE WAS VERY OLD.

1 SAMUEL 17:13 – JESSE’S THREE OLDEST SONS HAD FOLLOWED SAUL TO THE WAR: THE FIRSTBORN WAS ELIAB; THE SECOND, ABINADAB; AND THE THIRD, SHAMMAH.

1 SAMUEL 17:14 – DAVID WAS THE YOUNGEST. THE THREE OLDEST FOLLOWED SAUL,

1 SAMUEL 17:15 – BUT DAVID WENT BACK AND FORTH FROM SAUL TO TEND HIS FATHER’S SHEEP AT BETHLEHEM.

1 SAMUEL 17:16 – FOR FORTY DAYS THE PHILISTINE CAME FORWARD EVERY MORNING AND EVENING AND TOOK HIS STAND.

1 SAMUEL 17:17 – NOW JESSE SAID TO HIS SON DAVID, “TAKE THIS EPHAH OF ROASTED GRAIN AND THESE TEN LOAVES OF BREAD FOR YOUR BROTHERS AND HURRY TO THEIR CAMP.

1 SAMUEL 17:18 – TAKE ALONG THESE CHEESES TO THE COMMANDER OF THEIR UNIT. SEE HOW YOUR BROTHERS ARE AND BRING BACK SOME ASSURANCE FROM THEM.

1 SAMUEL 17:19 – THEY ARE WITH SAUL AND ALL THE MEN OF ISRAEL IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH, FIGHTING AGAINST THE PHILISTINES.”

1 SAMUEL 17:20 – EARLY IN THE MORNING DAVID LEFT THE FLOCK IN THE CARE OF A SHEPHERD, LOADED UP AND SET OUT, AS JESSE HAD DIRECTED. HE REACHED THE CAMP AS THE ARMY WAS GOING OUT TO ITS BATTLE POSITIONS, SHOUTING THE WAR CRY.

“GLORY HALLELUJAH, THANK YOU JESUS”

“I THANK AND PRAISE EL SHADDAI MY ALMIGHTY GOD FOR HIS WONDERFUL WORD IN JESUS NAME!

“WE MUST CONTINUE TO STAND FIRM IN THE WORD OF GOD BECAUSE THAT IS WHERE OUR STRENGTH COMES FROM. I CAN ONLY SPEAK FOR MYSELF I GET MY STRENGTH FROM THE WORD. ITS TIME TO STOP LOOKING AND TALKING ABOUT THE SITUATION OR CIRCUMSTANCE BUT I WANT YOU ALL TO START BEING MORE POSITIVE MIDED BY LOOKING IN THE BIBLE FOR A PARTICULAR SCRIPTURE THAT ENCOURAGES YOU. I CAN ONLY SPEAK FOR MYSELF I LOVE PSALM 18:1 SAYS, I WILL LOVE THEE, O LORD, MY STRENGTH. PSALM 18:2 SAYS, THE LORD IS MY ROCK, AND MY FORTRESS, AND MY DELIVERER; MY GOD, MY STRENGTH, IN WHOM I WILL TRUST; MY BUCKLER, AND THE HORN OF MY SALVATION, AND MY HIGH TOWER. PSALM 18:3 SAYS, I WILL CALL UPON THE LORD, WHO IS WORTHY TO BE PRAISED: SO SHALL I BE SAVED FROM MINE ENEMIES.”

I PRAY THAT I HAVE SAID SOMETHING TO UPLIFT AND ENCOURAGE SOMEONE THIS MORNING IN JESUS NAME! AMEN.

ALWAYS REMEMBER: GOD LOVES YOU AND SO DO I!

HAVE A BLESSED TUESDAY!

MISSIONARY CYNTHIA BENNETT