Fighting the giants in our lives!   

27 Jul Fighting the giants in our lives!   

“For the Lord does not see as man sees;…man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”

🎯We often tend to judge people and situations by appearance …

💥We look at what’s on the outside and form opinions based on what we see – and lots of time we’re wrong.

🎯For 40 days, Goliath issued the same challenge to Israel: ‘Send me your best fighting man, and I’ll kill him.

I’m the champion. I’m the greatest.’

🎯Pastor Chuck Swindoll wrote: ‘Fear and worry…don’t come just once; they come morning and evening, day after day, relentlessly trying to intimidate.

💥They come in the form of a person, a pressure…a worry…fear that hammers on your heart…day in and day out, yelling across the ravine in your own personal valley.

💥Few things are more persistent and intimidating than our fears and worries…especially when we face them in our own strength.’

🎯Goliath was a giant with a booming voice and lots of bravado – three traits designed to intimidate and instil fear into even the bravest heart.

🎯But God wasn’t impressed or intimidated by him.

🎯He saw who Goliath really was, and He gave David the ability to see Goliath through His eyes.

🎯From God’s perspective, Goliath was easy to defeat, and because David didn’t battle the giant in his own strength, but in God’s, he was able to defeat him.

🎯That kind of thinking applies to every giant we encounter in life.

🎯Once we start seeing the giants in our lives from God’s perspective, they lose their power to immobilise and intimidate us.

🎯Let’s turn to God and draw on His strength whenever we’re feeling fearful.

– With Bob Gass Ministries