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Facing Giants?

1 Samuel 17:45-47 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. 46 This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. 47 And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the LORD'S, and he will give you into our hands.
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Life comes at us hard...sometimes in an overwhelming calamity or just the feeling of oppression that we can't shake. Sometimes the "normal" seems to reach out and bite us at every step and every decision we make is apparently wrong. Sometimes our situation even seems hopeless, but we can take hope in our God.

David was in much of the same situation when he faced Goliath the giant. By the world's standards, this young boy had no chance of surviving the onslaught of an 8 foot giant. The entire army of Israel was afraid including King Saul, yet David went forth to meet Goliath. David did NOT go wearing Saul's armor as Saul had tried to get him to do -- David went forth with the LORD!

Our Lord God, our Heavenly Father, our Master and the creator of the universe is always with us when we have Jesus in our hearts as our Savior. Jesus promised us that He would never leave us nor forsake us and we can take that promise to the bank!

So, what do we do when we are facing the giants in our own world, we tackle them face to face, head on, but not in our own strength or our own righteousness or our own means: we face them in the name of the Lord of hosts. When we come at them with God on our side He will deliver us from even the most hopeless of situations and deliver them into our hands. As Paul said, "If God is for us, who can be against us?". In every battle that we face we should turn it over to God and allow Him to make it HIS.

Remember, Matt 11:28-30...Jesus' yoke is easy and His burden is light, BUT we have to come unto Him first.

Pray with me that we rely completely on God for all of the issues of life...




Email me (Pastor Jim) at pj-brown@sbcglobal.net or visit our website at: www.calvarychapel.com/hcfw

posted by Pastor Jim @ 12:30 PM