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2020
Will You Be Our Abishai
by Daneille Gray Snowden
1 Samuel 26:6 "David then asked Ahimelech the Hittite and Abishai son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, "Who will go down into the camp with me to Saul?" "I'll go with you," said Abishai."
David needed someone to go with him to face a dangerous challenge. Verse 12 says the Lord had put a deep sleep on the 3 thousand soldiers plus Saul. David didn't know that, but he knew he had to go down, just he and Abishai.
We all know that David could not allow his cohort to kill Saul, for as David said; "he was God's anointed." So, he took Saul's spear and water jug.
This of course spoke volumes later as David challenged Abner the King's guard for not guarding his King well. Saul's heart was melted because of this and repented and turned away from pursuing David.
Let's go back to verse 6 here; 2 men were named. This is the first time their names are recorded in God's Word.
David asked them both; "WHO WILL GO WITH ME?" One said NOT one word (oh how silence speaks volumes), yet the other man said; "YES, I will go with you!"
Abishai stuck with David for the next 40 years. Through the battles, losses, plus the good and bad times. He never left David. We do not read about Ahimelech and David again.
In matter of fact, as we read on we read about another giant killing. Yes! Most of us only recall David killing Goliath, but there is another in David's lifetime. [Actually, several others! Rd. vs.18-22]
Read: 2 Sam. 21:16-17 "And Ishbi-benob, one of the descendants of the giants, whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of bronze, and who was armed with a new sword, thought to kill David. 17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah came to his aid and attacked the Philistine and killed him. Then David's men swore to him, “You shall no longer go out with us to battle, lest you quench the lamp of Israel.”
The ERV version wrote; "Then David's men told him to not let Abishai go out to battle anymore. If you do, Israel may loose it's brightest leader!"
I personally want to be the one to say; YES to my God when He asks me if I will 'GO' with Him.
No matter how big the battle, how impossible it appears...I want to GO with my God to that place of appointment. Where the battle is turned to great revival; A place of miracles that only God can do.
As fellow warriors in the Army of God; we ask as
missionaries; "Will you go with us?"
"Will you stay with us as we continue to march forward?"
"Will you pray, fight, stand beside us and even help us with your financial support to help us to continue to go on?"
I am sure all of those 40 years wasn't easy whatsoever! There was the intensity of war, there was the waiting time, there was the period of hiding and we could continue on the path David and his men walked, and marched as they pursued God's purpose.
As your missionaries:
We cannot promise you where we will be, how we will be doing it and even how long in one place or the other. I can say, there will be giants that will come against us and even you. They will try to destroy the work God wants.
God can empower us to kill the giants in our way. But, we must do this together.
Personally, I must say; we need you our Abishai's!
Will you go with us?
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