{"id":5744,"date":"2026-05-05T09:34:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T08:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/?p=5744"},"modified":"2026-05-05T09:34:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T08:34:18","slug":"seeing-whats-actually-happening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/seeing-whats-actually-happening\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing what&#8217;s actually happening"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1 Samuel 17:45 KJV \u2014 Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Goliath had the height, the military experience, the weaponry, the reputation and the backing and approval of the Philistine army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">David had none of that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He wasn&#8217;t a giant, he wasn&#8217;t in the army, he didn&#8217;t have a sword, he had no status&#8230;and he wasn&#8217;t considered a threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But what he did have was an accurate understanding of the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He wasn&#8217;t going up against Goliath. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Goliath was coming against the Lord of hosts and defying the God of the armies of Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was simply a matter of Goliath violating Divine Covenant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">David was merely the earthly representative who was authorising heaven&#8217;s intervention in resolving this issue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Victory comes when you align yourself with what&#8217;s actually going on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 Samuel 17:45 KJV \u2014 Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied. Goliath had the height, the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/seeing-whats-actually-happening\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Seeing what&#8217;s actually happening&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-salis-blog","entry"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6509,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5744\/revisions\/6509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}