Shoes and Clothing Could Last for 40 Years

  The children of Israel's shoes and clothes lasted for FORTY YEARS! Sorry to yell, but this seems amazing! Could you believe it if we had a pair of shoes or a piece of clothing that lasted for forty years? and we would have to wear that piece of clothing a lot, almost every day. Our clothes would probably go out style, but still the idea of our clothes or shoes lasting that long is...well, awesome
  In the Bible, the Lord reminded the children of Israel, through a prophet, how he had helped them through so many situations. One of the things He reminded them of was how He had kept them in the wilderness. How He had given them angels food, water, and how for forty years he had kept them so that neither their shoes nor their clothing wore out.



This van be found in
*Deuteronomy 8:4
Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.

*Deuteronomy 29:5 
 And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.

*Nehemiah 9:21
Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.

The People God Uses Part 1

  I am sure at one point in all of our lives we felt God tell us we had to do something, but the people around us, our family and friends, said we should not do it because they did not feel it was right; or we were just trying to get something for ourselves.

  Here is a story that most of you probably know where God used the person people did think much about, the person people ridiculed to do the job nobody wanted to do. 

  I am sure felt when he went out to the battle field to give his brothers food. 

  David's father sent him to the battle field to give his brothers food and to see how the battle was going. When David arrived, Goliath, the giant and champion Gath, proclaimed his challenge to Israel as he had done for forty days. When David saw Goliath defy the army of Israel and defy God, he knew he had to vindicate God's name and the army of Israel. David told the people around him that he was going to fight Goliath, but when his brother heard it, he basically told David to get lost. The people relayed what David said to King Saul. Even King Saul and the rest of the people could not believe what David was saying and that he could really do it. David told the king how he had killed a lion and a bear because God had helped him and that the Philistine would be just like a lion or bear. David thought-how could some one who blasphemes God's name live? Saul relented and gave David his armor to fight Goliath. David could not use the armor because he was not used to it; instead, he picked up some smooth stones from a nearby brook and went to fight Goliath.

When he went up to fight Goliath, Goliath mocked and cursed David by his (Goliath) gods. David told Goliath that he and everyone standing there would see that God is God, and it was He who was going to fight the battle.  David put a stone in his sling and thew it. The stone sank into Goliath's head. David went and cut off Goliath's head with Goliath's own sword.

When the Philistines saw that Goliath, their champion, was dead they fled, and Israel pursued them. The Lord saved Israel yet again that day from the hand of the Philistines.

  The Bible says that David was a youth meaning that he was younger than thirteen years old. (According to Jewish tradition, a boy becomes a man when he turns thirteen.) 

  This fact makes this story even more miraculous.

  When the Lord sees able people not do the job He wants them to, He decides to give the job to another person who they believe is incapable.

This story is found in 1 Samuel 17.