FAITHFULNESS & DESTINY

May 27, 2024

1 Samuel 17:17 (NKJV)
“Then Jesse said to his son David, ‘Take now for your brothers an ephah of this dried grain and these ten loaves, and run to your brothers at the camp.’”

We all want our prayers answered, God to intervene, and God to take us to the next level of our dreams and expectations. We all want to go beyond the mundane and enter into something special.

We all want God’s best for our lives. But there is a simple secret that can break our current stalemate, and that is faithfulness in our current assignment.

Yes, we want more, but if we are found faithful in the small, God will use that to open the door for the next thing. That’s the way it works.

Many people are not reliable and faithful in their current tasks, but they want God to give them something bigger and greater.

Yet, faithfulness will make people consider us reliable for something bigger, and that may be the door we are waiting for.

David was a faithful young man. Though he was the youngest of the eight siblings, Jesse trusted him the most.

With the three oldest brothers on the battlefront, Jesse had five sons he could have sent on this errand, and he chose David. Why? Because he was reliable.

If your leader needed someone reliable to do something really important, would he choose you? Are you someone with a proven track record of faithfulness and good stewardship?

God is watching. People are watching. How you act today will determine your lot tomorrow.

Prayer does not solve all problems. Prayer is important, but developing the strength for faithfulness is a key to entering what God has prepared for you.

If you must pray earnestly for something, pray for grace to be found faithful. That’s the key.

David’s fame and prominence became clear because he killed Goliath. But he would never have met Goliath or fought Goliath if Jesse had not sent him to the field. And Jesse would never have sent him to the field if he hadn’t proved himself reliable.

See the connection?

Your destiny waits for you to prove yourself faithful in small things. The pilgrim life is assessed first by faithfulness in little things.

If we can show ourselves as candidates worthy of being trusted with greater responsibility, other doors will open. That’s how it works.

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