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Everything Depends on Who Leads

The Parable Of David's True Faith

On March 02, 2022
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Real Leadership by Neculai Fantanaru

Have so much confidence in yourself so that your confidence will continue the story of an unbroken destiny. From confidence to destiny, your performance is measured !

Around the time when I was in the third grade, I saw a video of the battle of David and Goliath, an example of true faith. I really liked it. First, because I like movies about winners, and second, because I’ve always been a winner. And I don’t like to lose. Well, Goliath was a huge Philistine warrior, famous for hand-to-hand combat, about four meters tall, victorious in all his battles. David, on the other hand, was thin, of medium stature, hadn’t taken part in any battles, but he knew how to shoot slingshots better than anyone.

Everyone warned David to be careful, because he has no chance of defeating the great Goliath. But more important is what David felt in his soul, ignoring the repeated warnings of others. The seed of faith and holiness planted in his soul by God manifested itself as a powerful impetus to accomplish the impossible: “Goliath is so huge that I simply can’t miss him with my slingshot ! ”

This is a very valuable lesson. You’ll be able to beat anyone who thinks he’s BIG, if you have the right slingshot. And what is the deadliest slingshot in the world now, in the 21st century? Well, TECHNOLOGY is the slingshot that can bring down any Giant, any mountain and any obstacle !

Okay, but you might be wondering: there’s room for everyone. Why win one or the other? One answer to this question: because there will always have to be a David capable of creating a distance between people endowed with enormous faith, and those pranksters, false performers, who make an image and a status of “Almighty” just as Goliath considered himself.

There are certainly too many like Goliath who do not deserve to be considered more than they really are. It’s time for the slingshot to have its due effect and, if possible, the effect to be as quick and as powerful as possible.

Can you fulfill your mission to be strong, in terms of understanding a high-impact image and its meanings that can be deduced from the relationship between what is hereditary and what ennobles you?

A new David will appear with each generation, one whose sole purpose is to remind those like Goliath how weak and helpless they really are. The world will remember those like David, the preachers of the true faith, not the false leaders or the false apostles…

Perhaps in my genealogy there is a distant kinship with David, despite the fact that he was younger when he committed the immortal and glorious deed. Or perhaps, in order to sustain faith in an incarnate God, one needs someone less “huge” to stand out by those special deeds that only faith can accomplish.

Indeed, every man chosen by God is a unique individual, endowed with a certain force of knowledge and having a unique purpose in life: to highlight the result of a supreme will, of a directed faith, with precise purposes. From this perspective, a man of great faith is an original, but also unpredictable, especially through the results obtained: unexpected or unusual.

The point of view of writer Mark Fisher is revealing: “In each of us there is a small voice, which never dies, surviving even in the harshest conditions. It shyly whispers in our ears that the image we project publicly is false and that our true personality remains hidden and unrepresented. The consequences of self-denial and refusal to give the world our best are inevitably frustration and sadness.”

Perhaps this is also the significance of the biblical theme of the struggle between David and Goliath: to bear in mind the lofty purpose of keeping the candle of faith burning in the context of a changing world, or in the context of the reorganization of society, creating the premises for a differentiation between those who have access to divine grace (which transforms character), and those who have no access. When you refer to the status of “conqueror by faith”, you are actually referring to the power of divine truth, which says: “The Holy Spirit is meant to strengthen each one of us.”

Can you manifest a special attachment to a state of consciousness that goes beyond the limits of the normal media act and requires an act of faith, invoking the prediction of an event that triggers new creative energies?

Mindset is a set of perceptions or beliefs that people have about themselves. In my case, I knew that if I wanted to be victorious in any battle, with a good chance of overcoming a mountain, to fight idolatry and false faith, I would have to be different from others, to be myself and not be afraid of anything. Most importantly, I don’t have to be afraid to display my true personality in a world where heroes live dramas of soul imbalance, and are represented only in images that tell stories. By the way, I learned to observe everything very carefully, and from time to time isolating myself from the rest of the world, I learned to be honest with myself, to learn more about who I really am.

Goliath is a metaphor for the darkness of unbelief or idolatry, a landmark of how a charade’s identity crisis works that perpetuates incompetence, creating a great breach in the wall of strong values on which an orderly society is based. Values such as honesty, dignity, temperance, respect, order, perseverance, will, faith in God. And if I were to consider the hypothesis of a differentiation between tolerance centered on the relativity of values, and tolerance associated primarily with the valorization of equality, without underestimating the importance of an inner transformation, I would add that only a precise intention doubled by a spiritual attachment can lead to a positive result.

I understood that transformation must always take place inside, by forming a clear and precise picture of my ambitions and desires (aimed at achieving high performance). But that is not enough to make a difference. At the same time, I must go into the smallest details regarding the exercise of major competencies and interventionist acts to accelerate the progress of science, in order to promote a new vision of the future.

By no means do I want to affirm myself by exerting certain acts of constraint at the level of acceptance of an image that doesn’t even come close to honesty, dignity or greatness.

Great people are the ones who, despite having nothing, manage to achieve amazing results. Little people are the ones who have everything, but can’t do anything extraordinary.

Of course, in support of my actions, I have often taken this imperative into account: “When you have a real intention, 90% of possible obstacles tend to go away on their own, and the other 10 percent can be easily controlled with the tools at your disposal. The power of intention is almost unlimited.”

The latter is also the conclusion of the complicated demonstration of power in which, slowly, I inscribed my intentions to communicate a spiritual message: “A man of great faith is a man who has given himself with great passion to science and art, to support innovation and its wide dissemination throughout a demonstration of authority in the field.”

Leadership is your demonstration of power done by invading a territory that is accustomed to lying and bad faith.

The Parable Of David’s True Faith shows me only one landmark of verticality: serve no false idols, that is, to trust only in myself, and never to put anyone above my power. But I need to know exactly what I want to be, where I need to go, and turn my desires into intentions – formulating them as clearly as possible.

In fact, the struggle between David and Goliath highlights the difference between truth and falsehood, between authenticity and appearance: it is one thing to be really strong (by faith), and quite another to consider yourself BIG without having God on your side).

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