The two hands we are given are constructed to hold, control, manipulate and put to use various devices that enable us to function and to build our world.

Our hands can hold implements to build, to construct and to make reality out of dreams and plans.

Our hands hold writing utensils or touch keys to put into words the ideas in our minds.

They can hold, express love, caress and bless those we love.

When we make violence or war our hands grasp weapons of destruction.

Clubs, knives, swords, bows and arrows and guns enable our hands to kill for good reasons or bad,

Weapons can allow our hands to even out or create advantage in a fight.

In a very famous and important confrontation which determined a nations future and began the ascension to royalty of a young boy …….

“There was no sword in the hand of David.”

He was handed a sword that was too large.He was given battle armor which was over-sized and hung on him to such an extent it almost immobilized him.

His life hung in the balance before the giant…..and yet,

“There was no sword in the hand of David”.

The young boy used what he had, what he had a history with and possessing faith and experience built upon on the provision God had covered him with before…

David killed the giant and defeated the enemies of his God…empty handed…. but with a mind and heart full of faith and validated experience.

His hands possessed no usual weaponry but his heart was full of faith.

He was empty handed in the conventional sense of physical warfare…

but the battle was The Lords.

His inner battle was victorious because of his knowledge of and confidence in The God who had provided before…

therefore, his outer conflict with Goliath was merely a matter of acting upon and executing the exercise of his already existent and proven Faith.

“There was no sword in the hand of David”

but there were more viable, though invisible. weapons gifted to him and developed by him which won him the battle.

He executed the physical act of defeating Goliath with his perfect use of the sling. He practiced and developed its prefect use.

He had to execute the exercise….

but God moved in and upon him beforehand.

We, like David, must fight battles and carry out the execution of the exercise…

but God moves in and upon us beforehand.

We may have had to or may have to pick up swords or weapons to defend or defeat in a battle.

However, most of our warfare is not physical….it is, as The Word says… “not carnal.”

In these endeavors there are no swords in our hands.

We, however, can possess what David had.

Assurance

Proven Confident Faith

Exercised and Active Belief

We must fight many battles throughout our lives.

Some physical.

Some spiritual.

Some involve both of these.

“There was no sword in the hand of David”

but he possessed victory in his spirit.

We possess that same victory before any of our battles…

because, like David. our hands may be empty

but we are held in the Right Hand of God.

We may not hold a sword with our hands…

but we can possess…….

the Power of Experienced and Proven Faith

the Position of Established Promises

the Realization of Achieved Victory.

TB

December 2023