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John
Wesley
said,
"Give
me
100
men
who
love
GOD
and
nothing
else,
who
hate
sin
and nothing else, and I will change the world."
Self-Isolation & Social Distancing
Do
you
remember
in
the
Old
Testament
story
where
two
sets
of
fifty
prophets
were
hiding
in
caves
for
three
and
a
half
years,
during
Elijah’s
call
for
the
King
Ahab
to
repent?
1
Kings
18:4.
We
have
all
been
in
our
caves
for
several
months
as well.
Have
you
ever
looked
at
some
of
the
Bible
characters
to
see
how
they
coped
through
their
times
of
being
shut
in
or
shut
out
for
that
matter.
We
all
are
social
creatures
and
need
each
other
as
a
part
of
our
survival.
It
is
a
fact
that
those
who
have
been
sentenced to solitary confinement do not do well.
I
think
of
young
David,
the
shepherd
boy,
who
appears
to
be
shut
out
of
the
family
unit
and
was
over
looked
by
his
father
and
brothers.
On
a
special
occasion
a
national
prophet
shows
up
at
his
father’s
door
step
with
a
horn
of
oil
to
anoint
GOD’S
chosen
man.
Every
one
of
David’s
brothers
were
all
invited
to
this
special
occasion
but
David
was not. “Wow.” Feel left out or what!
1Samuel
16:1
and
Note
in
verse
10;
David
is
still
with
the
sheep.
Samuel
has
looked
over
all
of
Jessie’s
sons
and
chose
none
of
them.
Those
young
men
were
strong,
good
looking,
each
having
stature.
“Surely
one
of
these
was
GOD’S
choice.”
he
thought!
Samuel
was
looking
at
the
outward
man.
How,
many
of
us
have
done
that
and
got
it
wrong?
Samuel
asks,
“Do
you
have
yet
anymore
sons?”
Jessie
says,
“Yes
but
he
is
with
the
sheep!”
When
David
is
called
and
arrives
the
LORD
tells
Samuel,
“Arise
anoint
him for he is MY choice!”
In
the
meantime,
what
do
you
suppose
David
did
with
his
times
in
isolation?
There
were
times
while
he
was
looking
after
those
sheep
night
and
day,
that
he
was
all
alone.
What
did
he
do
with
his
time?
When
he
was
not
leading
those
sheep
from
pasture
to
pasture,
what
was
he
doing?
David
was
preparing
for
his
future!
David
was
practicing
his
accuracy
with
his
sling
shot
to
become
an
expert
marksman.
When
bears
and
lions
showed
up
they
got
stones
planted
in
the
center
of
their
foreheads.
He
couldn’t
hit
them
anywhere
else
to
kill
them
because
they
had
tough
hides.
He
had
only
one
spot
and
it
was
dead
center
of
their
foreheads.
I’m
sure
he
set
up
targets
wherever
to
help
pass
the
time
and
he
would
set
them
in
place.
I
could
only
imagine
putting
a
bull’s
eye
on those targets. In time he became most accurate with his sling shot.
David,
as
the
shepherd
in
looking
after
those
sheep
learned
about
their
temperaments.
He
guides
them
sometimes
with
a
rod,
sometimes
with
a
staff,
sometimes
with
a
nudge,
sometimes
with
a
voice.
In
all
he
has
learned
to
manage
sheep
which
in
later
years
would
prove
to
be
helpful
in
order
to
understand
GOD’S
purpose and patience in his own life as he prepares to be king.
Under
the
stars
at
night
he
learned
devotion
to
GOD
and
sang
songs
in
the
night
to
HIM
of
which
a
number
are
recorded
in
the
Psalms.
It
is
believed
that
David
has
written
seventy
three
Psalms
making
him
a
major
contributor
of
the
Book
Of
Psalms.
David
learned
to
be
a
song
writer,
singer,
musician,
poet
and
a
man
of
prayer.
He
loved GOD and GOD loved him.
Soon
after
Samuel
anointed
him
he
gets
a
call
to
play
his
instruments
and
sing
songs
to
soothe
the
melancholy
King
Saul.
KJV-Proverbs
16:16
Tells
us
A
man's
gift
makes
room
for
him,
and
brings
him
before
great
men.
There
were
those
who
were
in
King
Saul’s
house
who
recognized
David’s
talents
and
recommended
him
to
the
king
and
David
gets
the
call
to
minister
in
the
king’s
palace.
It
would
place
him
right
where
GOD
was
calling
him
to
be
years
later.
This
is
what
he
was
anointed
for.
GOD
all
along
was
grooming David to be king but GOD wanted a man after his own heart.
Ultimately,
David’s
father
sends
him
on
an
assignment
to
bring
provisions
to
his
brothers
who
were
on
the
battlefield.
Upon
arriving,
David
is
astonished
to
find
the
men
hiding
and
in
wonderment
he
hears
the
taunting
voice
of
the
giant
who
is
calling
them out to battle while insulting Israel’s and Davis’s GOD!
Abraham
Lincoln
once
said
after
a
number
of
setbacks
and
failures
in
his
own
life;
“I
will
study
and
prepare
myself
someday
my
chance
will
come!”
David’s
day
has
finally
come.
He
was
suddenly
thrown
onto
the
scene
where
fear
was
charging
the
very
atmosphere
but
it
did
not
overtake
him
because
he
had
a
history
of
bears
and
lions
who
lay
dead
when
they
came
to
attack
his
father’s
flock
of
sheep.
They
tried
to
attack
the
sheep
he
cared
for
and
after
years
of
practice
this
giant
was
an
easy
target.
For
him
the
scattered
army
hiding
among
the
rocks
reminded
him
of
the
frightened
sheep
that
he
cared
and
attended
for
years.
He
was
well
prepared
for
this
moment
and
so
he
descended
the
hills
to
the
battlefield
below
to
remove
the
threat
and
drive
a
stone
into
the center of the forehead of Goliath to terminate his life and bring triumph to Israel.
Without
realizing
it,
all
that
practice
of
firing
those
stones
at
all
those
targets
day
after
day,
week
after
week
and
year
after
year
made
him
such
a
skilled
marksman.
First
it
was
still
targets
then
moving
targets
then
it
was
lions
and
bears.
Who
knew?
It
all
was
all for such a time as this.
So
let
me
ask
you….
with
your
being
shut
in
and
isolated…..
what
have
you
been
doing
with
your
time?
Have
you
dusted
off
all
those
latent
talents
and
polished
them
for
future use?
Does GOD have a purpose in any of this?
I’m
Pastor
Ron
and
we
will
talk
some
more
on
this
social
distancing
and
isolation
that
we have all had to endure these last few months.
GOD Bless
Pastor/Evangelist R.C.H. Wiseman
