"One of the young men answered, "Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, who is skillful in playing, a man of valour, a man of war, prudent in speech, and a man of good presence, and the Lord is with him."" 1 Samuel 16:18
David was a carrier of My Presence. Other people could see it in him. This is how it can be in your life too. As you spend time each day soaking in My Presence, you will naturally take that Presence with you as you go about your day. You will "leak" into the lives of all you come in contact with. This is why you need fresh in-filling each day. It is My Presence, not your knowledge that will win people.
As you live this way in your day-to-day life, you are building habits and resetting your default reality from the visible world to the invisible world. Like David, My invisible reality will become more real to you than your "normal" visible reality. Then, when you come up against giants, you will go forward in confidence, knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt that the God of the Angel Armies backs you up.
"And when the Philistine looked and saw David, he disdained him, for he was but a youth, ruddy and handsome in appearance. And the Philistine said to David, "Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?" And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. The Philistine said to David, "Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the field." Then David said to the Philistine, "You come to me with a sword and with a spear and with a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. This day the LORD will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you down and cut off your head."" 1 Samuel 17:42-46
David lived with an awareness of My Presence that pervaded his life. As he faced Goliath, he was essentially saying to the giant, "You come to me in and pride and arrogance, for you live only in the realm of the visible where it appears all the odds are in your favour - your huge size, your superior weapons, your years of experience on the battlefield. But I come to you in confidence, for I dwell in the realm of the invisible, and I can see that the odds are actually overwhelmingly in my favour! The LORD of the Angel Armies sends me. He has GOT this."
When the giant of chronic illness says to you, "You're stuck with me for life. As time goes on, I will invite more of my chronic illness pals to join me in tormenting you. I'm going to make you sick, exhausted and miserable for life!" --
You can reply, "You come to me with statistics and peer-reviewed research, medical expertise and other patients' stories. But I come to you in confidence, for I dwell in the realm of the
invisible, and I can see that the odds are actually overwhelmingly in my
favour! The LORD of the Angel Armies sends me. He has GOT this."
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