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In today’s society money is power and size is everything, is it not? That is the way leadership and politics were looked at in ancient times until a poor Shepard boy named David set out to do something no one thought he was capable of doing. In the books of I and II Samuel David does the inevitable for his people. At the time, a ten-foot tall Goliath of the Philistine’s was sent to challenge David’s people the Israelites. It was said that Goliath would fight an Israelite warrior and the losers people would become slaves. When no one volunteered, little David stepped forward to meet the challenge, despite people telling him that he didn’t have a chance. David replied to Saul, “Your servant has been tending his father’s sheep, and if a lion or a bear came and carried off an animal from the flock, I would go after it and fight it and rescue it from its mouth. And if it attacked me, I would seize it by the beard and strike it down and kill it. Your servant has killed both lion and bear; and the uncircumcised Philistine shall end up like one of them, for he has defied the ranks of the living God. The Lord,” David went on,