Power To Face Your Giants

“POWER TO FACE YOUR GIANTS”

1Sa 17:1 Now the Philistines gathered their armies for battle and were assembled at Socoh, which belongs to Judah, and encamped between Socoh and Azekah in Ephes-dammim.

1Sa 17:2 Saul and the men of Israel were encamped in the Valley of Elah and drew up in battle array against the Philistines.

1Sa 17:4 And a champion went out of the camp of the Philistines named Goliath of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span [almost ten feet].

1Sa 17:32 David said to Saul, Let no man’s heart fail because of this Philistine; your servant will go out and fight with him.

WHAT ARE THE GIANTS THAT YOU ARE FACING TODAY?

• UNEMPLOYMENT

• DEBT

• DESEASES

• DEPRESSION

• DANGER

• ABANDONMENT

• ABUSE

• TRAGEDY

• BILLS

• WEAKNESSES

• REJECTION

• BROKEN RELATIONSHIP

• INABILITY

• ADDICTION

• HABBITS

• TEMPTATIONS

• DISCRIMINATION

• FEAR

• PAST FAILURES

• DISCOURAGEMENT

• ANGER

DO YOU HEAR YOUR GIANTS SHOUTING?

• You are not qualified for that job!

• You are not good enough!

• You can’t pay your bills!

• You can’t save your marriage!

• You are losing your kids!

• You cannot stop your vices!

• you can’t refuse pornography!

• You can’t stop your forbidden relationship

• You can’t shake your past failures

• You don’t have a bright future!

• Your life is a mistake!

Stand up now and face your giants by the same tactics that God has given to David!

David taught us how to face our own giants. Now, are you ready?????

• To say goodbye to defeat and start victorious life with God? Are you ready?????

• To discover on how to face the giant challenges that we are facing today? Are you ready????

• To know the weapons that God prepares for us and claim the victory? Are you ready???

• To join the battlefield called life and be confident of God’s presence? Are you ready???

• To cut off the enemies head and overcome totally all the deception of the devil in your lives? Are you ready????

I. PLUG IN TO THE SOURCE OF POWER – v 37

1Sa 17:37 The LORD who delivered me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine. Saul said to David, Go, and the LORD be with you.

David did not say the he delivered his flocks from the lion and bear. But he Said, “THE LORD WHO DELIVERED ME”. The Lord is the source of David’s power. All our electronics appliances will be useless unless connected to the source of electrical power. Our life is also useless if not connected to the source of our power no other than God.

God’s people in the bible had been empowered by God through the outpouring of his anointing power

THE EMPOWERMENT OF SAUL:

1Sa 10:1 Then Samuel took a flask of oil and poured it on Saul’s head and kissed him, saying, Has not the LORD anointed you leader over his inheritance?

1Sa 10:6 The Spirit of the LORD will come upon you in power, and you will prophesy with them; and you will be changed into a different person.

Later, this anointing power of God to Saul had been forfeited due to deliberate commission of sin against God.

1Sa 16:1 The LORD said to Samuel, "How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him as king over Israel?

1Sa 16:14 Now the Spirit of the LORD had departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD tormented him.

THE EMPOWERMENT OF DAVID:

1Sa 16:13 So Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers, and from that day on the Spirit of the LORD came upon David in power…

1Sa 18:14 In everything he did he had great success, because the LORD was with him.

THE EMPOWERMENT OF CHRISTIANS:

Act 1:8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

Paul testified:

1Co 2:4 And my speech and my preaching [was] not with enticing words of man’s

wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:

1Co 2:5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

II. CHOOSE THE RIGHT WEAPONS – vs 38-40

1. The Stone of The Past

1Sa 17:37 The LORD who delivered me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.

1Ch 16:12 Remember the wonders he has done, his miracles, and the judgments he pronounced,