FIVE SMOOTH STONES - The Five Ascension Gifts in the Heavenly Shepherds Bag

FIVE SMOOTH STONES — The Five Ascension Gifts in the Heavenly Shepherd’s Bag

placement to bring down spiritual strongmen in the enemy’s camp. Why did David choose five stones when there was only one giant?

In order to answer this question, recall that David was a man after God’s own heart, and therefore many of the desires of his heart were the desires of God’s heart. 1 John 3:8 tells us that the Son of God came with the purpose of destroying all the works of the devil. Likewise, when David went toward the giant in the battle, his determination was such to even go past the giant and kill other giants. Goliath, we are told, had four relatives, and, it may be symbolic, but David had five smooth stones to kill five enemy giants.2 Samuel 21:22 “ These four were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by thehand of David and by the hand of his servants. ” It is interesting that although David may have had the heart to go after all of the giants, in reality he only personally killed the first one of them. The rest were all killed by his trained servants 1 , his spiritual progeny. He understood that as a true leader he must have not only the attitude to win the battle, but the war. And if he was to win the war he must raise up others and win through their triumphs as well as his own. This generational thinking was seen in the ministry of the prophet Elijah who was given certain mandates from the Lord. 1 Kings 19:15 “Then the LORD said to him: "Go, return on your way to the Wilderness of Damascus; and when you arrive, anoint Hazael as king over Syria. 16 "Also you shall anoint Jehu the son of Nimshi as king over Israel. And Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel Meholah you shall anoint as prophet in your place. 17 "It shall be that whoever escapes the sword of Hazael, Jehu will kill; and whoever escapes the sword of Jehu, Elisha will kill. ” Now the scripture only records that Elijah actually carried out the ordination of one of these, Elisha. Because of this some people come to the incorrect conclusion that Elijah did not fulfil his ministry, or that he was in some way disobedient to God. We need to understand that the spirit of Elijah was a spirit of spiritual fatherhood, and was able to accomplish the will of the Lord by acting generationally.

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