19-Samuel-06 - How To Stand For God All Alone

This is THE lesson EVERY NextGeneration servant of the Lord NEEDS to LEARN. We are increasingly marginalized by the worldly culture we live in daily. We are mocked, challenged, and at times, hated.
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What is the temptation? To just float along with the crowd and not resist. What is God's desire? GOD WANTS US TO LEARN to STAND for HIM even if we are the only one doing so. David was willing to stand for God--all alone. And there were few more lonely spots in the history of the universe than the hillside of the Valley of Elah in the 'no man's land' between the armies of Israel and the Philistines.
Haven't we all sometimes wished we could have had a bird's eye view of the titanic confrontation of David and Goliath? That scene in biblical history stands as one of the greatest moments of God's Word.
Let's go back to the crisp, cool air of a Middle Eastern morning three thousand years ago to see David. Two callused feet slipped quietly out from under the warmth of wool fleece and deftly into the sandals left carefully beside the low wooden cot. In the twilight of early morning's pre-dawn darkness the possibly red-headed, teenaged-boy crept carefully out of the stone house on the outskirts of Bethlehem.
With the CONFIDENCE of integrity and the JOY of pu