This concluding part of the quoted portions of the Jean Lead/Charles Price/Neal Frisby’s alerts lead us to understand the meaning and implication of the Spirit of David arising. If the Spirit of David arises, there must also be a Goliath to overcome; but who is paying attention in recognizing this?

**Therefore the Spirit of David shall most eminently revive in this church, and more especially in some or other selected member of it, as the blossoming root is to precede the day of Solomon in the millennium. These will have might given them to overcome the dragon and his angels, even as David overcame Goliath and the Philistines.— **Jane Lead

Have we as waiters upon of the revival of the Spirit of David fully explored the full dimension of this oft quoted cliché? We had dealt in part on this subject taking lessons from 1 Chronicles 17, we go further taking our theme scripture in 2 Peter 3:12a which speaks:

looking forward to the day of God and hurrying it along. (NLT)

While you wait and earnestly long for (expect and hasten) the coming of the day of God. (AMPC)

looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God. (KJV)

while we anticipate and help to speed up the coming of the day of God. (TPT)

Now compare with 1 Samuel 17:48

When the Philistine came forward to meet David, David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet the Philistine (AMPC)

As Goliath moved closer to attack, David quickly ran out to meet him (NLT)

And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came and drew nigh to meet David, that David hasted, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine. (KJV)

What do you see manifesting here as the Spirit of David? Do you see:

1. An uncompromising and unabated sense of responsibility to get the job done? For our days, it is the preaching the gospel of Christ; we are the one to hasten or delay the coming of the Lord!
2. A fearless, seemingly reckless abandon of his life or was it in fact an unshakeable confidence that the God of the Armies of Israel will rise to the challenge, knowing the battle was not his own?

We see the spirit of David, the forerunner of the defiance of the pride of Nebuchadnezzar by the three Hebrew children thrown into the fire. Do we then understand what the revival of the Spirit of David implies? Are we ready to be the sacrifice for the defence of the faith once delivered to us?

Selah.





Pastor Afolabi Oladele