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KILLING YOUR GIANTS

 

OPENING COMMENT:  WE HAVE TALKED IN THE PAST ABOUT HOW WILLING AND ABLE GOD IS TO BRING VICTORY, HEALING AND DELIVERANCE IN YOUR LIFE, AS DEPICTED IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 8. HOWEVER, THERE IS A GODWARD SIDE OF THINGS WHERE HE MOVES IN A SITUATION AND ALSO A MANWARD SIDE OF THINGS WHERE PERHAPS OUR OBEDIENCE IN REQUIRED OR WE ARE REQUIRED TO ACT OR MOVE BY FAITH. WE ALL HAVE “GIANTS” IN OUR LIVES AND IF NOT, I CAN PROMISE YOU THAT IN THIS CHRISTIAN WALK OR FIGHT, THEY WILL COME BECAUSE THE BIBLE SAYS IT. IT TELLS US THAT WE WILL HAVE AFFLICTIONS, YET THAT HE IS ABLE TO CONQUER THEM ALL. HIS WORD TELLS US THAT WE WILL HAVE STRUGGLES, BUT THAT THEY WILL NOT BE FLESH AND BLOOD ENEMIES….EVEN THOUGH ON THE SURFACE IT MAY LOOK LIKE IT TO YOU….BUT RATHER THEY WILL BE OF SPIRITUAL WICKEDNESS INVOLVING PRINCIPALITIES AND POWERS IN HIGH PLACES. IN OTHER WORDS…THE STRUGGLE WILL BE AGAINST SATAN AND HIS DEMONIC SPIRITS DESIGNED TO STOP AND DEFEAT YOU. SO HOW DO WE KILL OUR PERSONAL GIANTS THAT COME TO INTIMIDATE AND DEFEAT US?

 

1.  SCRIPTURE READING:

 

1 SAM. 17: 1-11; 21-24; 26;31-37;38-40;41-54

 

2.  DAVID & GOLIATH

1.  WE SEE IN VERSES 1-11 THAT THE ENEMIES OR GIANTS OF YOUR LIFE CAN APPEAR VERY INTIMIDATING. IN THIS CASE, GOLIATH WAS NOT ONLY INTIMIDATING IN HIS APPEARANCE, IN THE WEAPONS HE USED, BUT ALSO IN THE THREATS HE MADE. EVERYTHING HE DID WAS DESIGNED TO BRING FEAR…MUCH LIKE THE DEVIL DOES IN OUR OWN LIVES. AND HE HAD SUCCEEDED TO A POINT.
2. VERSES 21-24 – DAVID COMES ON THE SCENE, HEARS GOLIATH’S THREATS AND SEES THE RESPONSE OF FEAR AND FLEEING OF THE ARMIES OF ISRAEL.
3. VERSE 26 - DAVID IS INDIGNANT AT THE ENEMY, AS WE SHOULD BE OF THE DEVIL. HE SAYS, “WHO IS THIS UNCIRCUMCISED PHILISTINE THAT HE SHOULD TAUNT THE ARMIES OF THE LIVING GOD?

1. DAVID DID NOT CARE ABOUT GOLIATH’S HEIGHT, HIS WEAPONS OR HIS APPEARANCE.
2. ALL DAVID SAW WAS THAT GOLIATH WAS AN INTRUDER WHO HAD NO AUTHORITY OR POWER TO DO ANYTHING! HE KNEW THE ARMIES OF THE LIVING GOD DID NOT NEED TO TAKE THAT TYPE OF INTIMIDATION AND HE SAID SO. ARE YOU TODAY A MEMBER OF THE ARMY OF THE LIVING GOD?

4. VERSES 31-37 – DAVID DECIDES HE IS GOING TO CONFRONT THE ENEMY, GOLIATH. BUT HOW DOES HE GO ABOUT IT?

1. FIRST, WE SEE IN VERSE 33 THAT SAUL TRIES TO DISCOURAGE DAVID BY TELLING HIM HE CANNOT WIN OR PREVAIL. OFTEN OUR WELL MEANING FRIENDS MAY EVEN DO THE SAME TO US.
2. IN VERSES 34-37 DAVID “RECALLS” HOW GOD HAS DELIVERED HIM AND BROUGHT HIM VICTORY IN THE PAST AND HE IS STRENGTHENED IN HIS OWN FAITH BY PAST EXPERIENCES ON HOW GOD BROUGHT HIM THROUGH THOSE TIMES.
3. HE DID NOT CALL OPRAH OR DOCTOR PHIL TO GET SOME DIRECTION AND COUNSEL. HE UNDERSTOOD THE WORD OF GOD AND HAD FAITH BASED ON GOD’S PROMISES THAT HE COULD AND WOULD PREVAIL.

5. VERSES 38-40 – THE DR. PHILS AND OPRAHS OF THE WORLD THINK AS THE WORLD THINKS AND WE SEE THE SAME WITH KING SAUL. HE TRIES TO CLOTHE DAVID WITH A SUIT OF ARMOR, BUT IT DOES NOT FIT. DAVID DOES NOT NEED THAT SUIT OF ARMOR. WHY? IT DID NOT FIT. AND IN PARTICULAR, IT DID NOT FIT THE CIRCUMSTANCES AT THAT MOMENT EITHER FOR DAVID. IT WAS SAUL’S WAY TO FIGHT AND DEFEND HIMSELF, BUT GOD HAD A DIFFERENT PLAN AND METHOD FOR DAVID AND WE TOO HAVE TO TAKE THE FIGHT TO THE ENEMY USING THE WEAPONS THAT GOD HAS GIVEN US. IN THIS CASE, THE WEAPONS WERE DAVID’S PAST EXPERIENCES WITH OTHER ENEMIES AND A FAITH AND TESTIMONY WHEREIN JUST AS HE HAD PREVAILED THEN, HW WOULD PREVAIL NOW. HE GRABBED HIS SLINGSHOT AND SOME SELECT STONES AND WENT OUT TO CONFRONT GOLIATH. HE RELIED ON PAST EXPERIENCE IN GOD WHERE HE WAS VICTORIOUS AND WE TOO MUST OFTEN REMEMBER, IN KILLING OUR GIANTS, WHAT GOD HAS PREVUOUSLY DONE FOR US.
6. VERSES 41-54 – HERE IS THE GREAT CONFRONTATION. THE ENEMY YELLS, FRONTS, POSES, INTIMIDATES IN AN EFFORT TO GET AN EDGE AND BRING ON FEAR. 

1. BUT DAVID, IN VERSE 45, MAKES THE EPIC STATEMENT THAT WHILE GOLIATH COMES WITH HIS OWN WEAPONS, DAVID COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD. YOU COME ALSO IN THE NAME OF THE LORD AND HAVE THE POWER OF JESUS NAME IN YOUR BATTLES WITH THE ENEMY.
2.  IN VERSE 46 DAVID MAKES HIS OWN PROCLAMATION OF VICTORY.

IN THE END DAVID DEFEATS GOLIATH. HE DID IT BY FAITH IN GOD. HE HAD THE RIGHT ATTITUDE. HE DID NOT WALK IN FEAR. GOD HAS NOT GIVEN YOU A SPIRIT OF FEAR EITHER. HE REMEBERED PAST VICTORIES AND SHARED HIS TESTIMONY TO ALL! HE REBUKED GOLIATH TO HIS FACE AS WE SHOULD TO OUR SPIRITUAL ENEMIES AND CIRCUMSTANCES ALSO. HE STATED HE BELIEVED GOD INSTEAD OF FEAR AND CIRCUMSTANCE AND SPOKE HIS ASSURANCES THAT GOD WOULD BRING HIM VICTORY. WHAT YOU VOICE IN TIMES OF BATTLE ARE VERY IMPORTANT.

 

DO YOU HAVE A GIANT OR A GOLIATH IN YOUR LIFE TODAY? THESE ARE KEYS IN “KILLING YOUR GIANTS”.

By Evangelist Mischa Safdie’

 

 

Mischa Safdie’ Ministries

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