Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, April 15th.

When seeking spiritual role models, a teenage shepherd might not come to mind.

But David's faith against Goliath offers a powerful pattern for us today.

Here's part two of conquering faith. David's fight with Goliath is one of the most perfect

examples in all the Bible of facing those circumstances and challenges and battles in life.

And of course, every child who knows the scriptures, it all knows about the story of David and Goliath.

The tragedy is that two men and children know it, not enough adults know it. Now, we sort of know what happened, but somehow we read the words and miss the principles.

And what I want you to see in this passage, I want you to see seven absolutely essential basic principles

to make our faith work when we go through difficulties and situations and battles and challenges in light.

Now, for your benefit in mind, why don't we look at it this way?

And that is, whatever you happen to be facing in your life today, whatever challenge it may be,

let's just identify that as Goliath, whatever it might be.

And how do you respond and how do you face those challenges?

Well, the first principle I want you to jot

down is this, and we'll take each one and illustrate them. The first one is this, that conquering faith

recalls past victories. Conquering faith always recalls past victories. Now, it is in the recalling of

those past victories that our faith is strengthened at that very moment.

And what happens is we become aware of the presence and the power of God when you and I look back to say, what did God do in the past?

David's confidence level was based not on what was happening right then.

His faith level was based on what God had done

in him, through him, and for him in the past. And so as he recalled facing this bear and facing this

lion, single-handed and killing both of them and rescuing his flock, he thought about Goliath and and it looked at him with all that arm and shield and javelin and sword and spear,

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