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Dear
children, God helps us when we trust in Him. God wants
us to pray to Him for our needs. God can do impossible
things. You all may know the story of David and the
giant, Goliath. Find out how David trusts in God in a
very difficult time.
David was a shepherd boy. He was youngest son in the
family. He was with his parents. His brothers were away
from home. They were fighting in King Saul’s army. So
David took care of his father’s sheep.
 He led the sheep
to mountain pastures. He was a godly young man. He
trusted in God for everything. God helped him to deliver
his sheep once from a lion and once from a bear.
One day David’s father called him and said: “Go and see
how your brothers are. Take this bread to them, and take
this cheese to their captain.” David obeyed and took the
food to his brothers.
While David was talking to his brothers, he heard a loud
voice calling. “Come out and fight me,” said the loud
voice. David looked over to where the enemy soldiers
were standing. There stood a great giant. The giant was
shaking a big spear at King Saul’s soldiers. He was
laughing at them and saying bad words about them and
about God.
“Won’t anyone fight this giant?” asked David. No one
would. All the soldiers were afraid. Even King Saul and
David’s big brothers were afraid. So David said, “I will
fight the giant. God will help me fight him.” David was
fully trusting in God. He was sure that God will help
him kill the giant as he had killed a lion and a bear.
At first King Saul thought David was too little to fight
the giant. So he put on his armour - a coat of iron - on
David. But David could not walk with that as it was
heavy. David told King Saul that he did not need the
armour. He also told him how God helped him kill a lion
and a bear. So after a while he said, “Go and the Lord
be with you.”
Now, David had no sword and no spear like the giant. He
didn’t have a coat of iron either. He had only his
shepherd’s stick and a sling. But David wasn’t afraid.
He believed that God would help him fight the giant.
On the way out to meet the giant, David picked up five
little stones and put them in his shepherd’s bag. When
the giant came out and saw that David was only a boy
with a stick, he laughed and said: “Am I a dog that you
come to me with a stick?” The giant made fun of David
and of God, too.
But David answered: “God will help me fight against
you.” Then David took one of the little stones out of
his bag and put it in his sling. He aimed at the giant
and let the stone fly out of his sling. The stone hit
the giant in the head, and he fell down dead.
When the enemy soldiers saw what had happened to their
strong man, they all ran away. Then the army of King
Saul chased them, and killed many of them. God had
helped David save his people. They praised God for this.
Dear little children, how miraculously God helped David.
God could help David because he was ready to trust God
for the impossible. Let us also trust God in difficult
times for God’s miracle. May God bless you!
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