In Touch, the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley.

Next on In Touch, conquering faith.

If someone should say to you, how much faith do you have?

How would you answer that?

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 are 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 and servants in the Old

Testament and illustrate the seven basic principles of conquering faith. I want to encourage you to get a

pencil and a piece of paper and write them down. So I want you to turn, if you

will, to First 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

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

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