Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, April 14th.

You probably know how the story of David and Glythe ends.

But today's podcast reveals powerful principles within the story that show us what it

truly means to trust the Lord.

How much faith do you have?

Well, the Bible talks about little faith,

great faith, and perfect faith. Little faith is, I know he can, but I'm not sure he will.

Great faith says, I know he will. Perfect faith says it's as good as done. Now, all of us would like to start off in every challenge and every

battle in life with perfect faith, but it's just not that way because we're progressive in our

faith even in different situations. But there is a faith that conquers over and over and over again.

And what I want to talk about in this message is conquering faith. And what I would like to do is to take the

incident of one of God's choice of servants in the Old Testament and illustrate the seven basic

principles of conquering faiths. I want to encourage you to get a pencil and piece of paper and write them

down. You recall, for example, in 1 John in the fifth chapter and the fourth

verse that John said, for whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that

has overcome the world, our faith. So I want you to turn, if you will, to 1 Samuel, and I want us to take the 17th chapter,

and since we're going to take the whole chapter, we won't read it. I'll just give you a first

of a little brief survey of what's happening here, and then each of these seven principles I would

like to illustrate in the life of David. You'll recall that David was the younger son of eight brothers of the son of Jesse,

and that he was a shepherd boy. He's the one man about whom God said, he's a man after my own

heart. And here is a shepherd boy, and probably scolded and ridiculed by his brothers. And on this

particular occasion, the Bible says that the

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