The God Factor

 "And Saul said to David, you are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are a youth, and he a man of war from his youth." 1Samuel 17:33

"And a champion went out from the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, from Gath, whose height was nine feet nine inches." 1Samuel 17:4

In the story of David and Goliath we read the story from the vantage point of history. But at the time, those viewing and assessing the proceedings would have gotten it wrong by being right.

Goliath was the champion. He was big and strong and fearless. He has a reputation for winning in battle. The army of Saul was afraid of him. Saul rightly assed him as a man of war. 

David was a middle school aged boy. He was small. He had zero experience in war. He had no chance against this monster of a man named Goliath.

But what David was about to find out is that with God, the size of your enemy does not matter. God was the deciding factor in this fight. God made David a hero that day. This story tells us that David was destined to be king one day.

Wayman Mitchell was not a great man. He was not an eloquent man. Before Prescott he had very little impact or success. He was not held in high esteem by his denomination. We look back and see God shaping him by the things that he went through. But Wayman Mitchell went to Prescott not to see revival but to try one last time.

Our Fellowship is a work of God. Just like Foursquare was that we came from in their day, we are today. 

"...He learned obedience by the things that he suffered." Hebrews 5:8

Trying to paint pastor Mitchell as a man of God before Prescott is like trying to paint David as king before Goliath. God was preparing Wayman Mitchell for something that only God knew was coming. To pastor's credit, he learned and he sought and he did all that he could do to fulfill God's will.