Isaiah 9:7
The passionate commitment of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies
will make this happen!
As I have watched the Broncos on their amazing run one thought stands out. When passion and commitment are present great things can happen!
Now, that’s not to say that one team or person has the “corner” on passion or commitment I believe there is more to it than meets the natural eye!
I will call it the “Faith Factor”.
You take passion and commitment and add a strong dose of faith , Katie bar the doors! Anything is possible!!! ANYTHING! Let’s call them… The Fav Three! Corny? Maybe, but hey, it’s my blog! If you don’t like it…. Write your own. 
With an unwavering faith in the Goodness and Greatness of God- NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE!
One of my biggest heroes of the faith is George Mueller. He ran five orphanages in England on pure faith. He never once looked to man to provide his need and that of the children. He cast all his cares upon the Lord!
His testimony has led me to claim the following passage as my “Life Verse” ;
Job 5:8-9
8 “But if I were you, I would appeal to God;
I would lay my cause before him.
9 He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed,
miracles that cannot be counted.
One does not need to look long in scripture to find great examples of the “Fav Three” in action. One of the best known, and one of my favorites is the example of David a shepherd boy, a ‘mere youth’ as King Saul called him.
We pick up the scene in 1 Samuel 17:
20 Early in the morning David left the flock in the care of a shepherd, loaded up and set out, as Jesse had directed. He reached the camp as the army was going out to its battle positions, shouting the war cry. 21 Israel and the Philistines were drawing up their lines facing each other. 22 David left his things with the keeper of supplies, ran to the battle lines and asked his brothers how they were. 23 As he was talking with them, Goliath, the Philistine champion from Gath, stepped out from his lines and shouted his usual defiance, and David heard it. 24 Whenever the Israelites saw the man, they all fled from him in great fear.
25 Now the Israelites had been saying, “Do you see how this man keeps coming out? He comes out to defy Israel. The king will give great wealth to the man who kills him. He will also give him his daughter in marriage and will exempt his family from taxes in Israel.”
26 David asked the men standing near him, “What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and removes this disgrace from Israel? Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?”
27 They repeated to him what they had been saying and told him, “This is what will be done for the man who kills him.”
28 When Eliab, David’s oldest brother, heard him speaking with the men, he burned with anger at him and asked, “Why have you come down here? And with whom did you leave those few sheep in the wilderness? I know how conceited you are and how wicked your heart is; you came down only to watch the battle.”
29 “Now what have I done?” said David. “Can’t I even speak?” 30 He then turned away to someone else and brought up the same matter, and the men answered him as before. 31 What David said was overheard and reported to Saul, and Saul sent for him.
32 David said to Saul, “Let no one lose heart on account of this Philistine; your servant will go and fight him.”
33 Saul replied, “You are not able to go out against this Philistine and fight him; you are only a young man, and he has been a warrior from his youth.”
34 But David said to Saul, “Your servant has been keeping his father’s sheep. When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock, 35 I went after it, struck it and rescued the sheep from its mouth. When it turned on me, I seized it by its hair, struck it and killed it. 36 Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God. 37 The LORD who rescued me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will rescue me from the hand of this Philistine.”
Saul said to David, “Go, and the LORD be with you.”
Wow, I never tire of that story! There is so much wealth in it for us to apply to our lives today! David surely displayed passion, commitment and faith.
By Gods grace and the Spirits illumination I will break it down in Part 2.
Stay Tuned!
Peace, Jonathan
