today on Summit Life with J.D. Greer.

When God wants to prepare a leader, he always sends them to the pasture.

Y'all, this is so consistent a theme in the Bible.

I would almost say it is axiomatic.

When God chooses somebody, he sends them through a time of monotonous faithfulness

where they have to show whether they're going to be faithful in the small things.

Thanks for joining us today on Summit Life with Jiddy Greer,

pastor of the Summit Church in Raleigh, Durham, North Carolina.

I'm your host Molly Bitovich.

Let me ask you a question that I'm sure many of us have wrestled with.

Do you ever feel like you're just biting your time, doing mundane tasks that aren't really

leading anywhere?

Like you're kind of just spinning your wheels? Today

Pastor Jady continues our look at David's ordinary years in the pasture

before he became king and explains how those blank spaces,

the sections in the Bible where all the activity seems to stop,

are where our hearts are most shaped by God

to be faithful in the big and small things.

Does that alone bring you encouragement?

Let's join Pastor J.D. in First Samuel,

chapter 16, as we consider today

how God might be shaping our hearts even now.

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