The hour is dark And it's hard to see What you are doing Here in the ruins And where this will lead Oh, but I know That down through the years I'll look back on this moment And see your hand on it And know you were here 1 Samuel chapter 17 and we've been considering the magnificent battle between David and Goliath And I know that when you read 1 Samuel 17 and you read of David killing Goliath you're intrigued by the boy, David - his courage, his covenant with God, his shepherd heart and his timely victory but what we don't realize a lot of time is that it was for this moment that Naomi lost her sons and her husband. Her daughter-in-law remained loyal to her and followed her and served her God also and after 10 years Naomi and Ruth returned to Bethlehem and if all these didn't happen she wouldn't have given birth to Obed who gave birth to their grandchild Jesse and who gave birth to David what I'm saying is that it took generations to get David on the stage at the right time and God has been planning this moment and God has been setting up this moment for generations before David showed up and sometimes you come into a moment that God has set up for you but all you see is the moment but God sees the entire process that led you here listen friends, providence is how God sets up purposes in time it is providence that brings about the collision between destiny and time and if David had not obeyed his father and showed up that morning at the battleground he would have missed the moment that God had been setting up for four generations preparation is not something you do because there's an announcement of purpose Your preparation for greatness and for destiny is in your daily routinesDo you have the habit of showing up just like DavidOr do you give excuses for errands?Can you see the divine in your everyday life?Think about 2 Kings 3 verse 11 - the Bible says Jehoshaphat asked, is there no prophet of the Lord here through whom we may inquire of the Lord? And one of his servants replied to the King of Israel that there's Elisha the son of Saphat who used to pour water on the hands of Elijah the prophet you can imagine that Elisha's confirmation and validation of the anointing was found in the things that he did daily before that moment I look at David killing Goliath and I realize that all the questions of Naomi were answered in that moment of David's victory I mean it didn't make sense Naomi would probably have asked why did I lose my sons? why did I lose my husband? and possibly it made no sense but you see providence makes sense of the things that makes no sense and I hope that the next time you say that time will tell you mean we will understand God's will better and better as time goes on friends, this morning you may have just walked into something God has been setting up for generations and all he asks of you is to show up because time will tell Have a blessed day friends.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lightroom/message