Facing your gaints

2 Corinthians 10:3-5¹ NLT — We are human, but we don’t wage war as humans do. [4] We use God’s mighty weapons, not worldly weapons, to knock down the strongholds of human reasoning and to destroy false arguments.

[5] We destroy every proud obstacle that keeps people from knowing God. We capture their rebellious thoughts and teach them to obey Christ.

A giant in life is a formidable adversary that challenges and defies your strength. Giants in life mock your testimony and dare you to prove your strength. Gaints in life are situations that seem to mock and taunt you consistently and for  a protracted time.

The Bible tells a classical story of dealing with giants in 1 Samuel 17. It is important to understand that the Bible is divided into books and chapters. One of such books is first Samuel, which talks about the kings of Israel and their reigns. We find a classical example of dealing with giants in the life of David at a time when Saul was king; he fought and defeated a giant called Goliath. We understand that David was just a youth and was ruddy, and e withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to but Goliath was a giant and experienced in life. Goliath had been a fighter all his life and had been mocking Israel for days; until David appeared on the scene.

Every man at the battlegrounds that day was running away from him; but a little boy, a youth that had been trained by God in the wilderness emerged to challenge Goliath. David had been in the wilderness with his father’s sheep. His fingers had been trained to fight and his arm to war. This youth had gathered enough experience and trained himself to face life and its challenges.

I don’t know and can’t fully understand what you are facing in life. I may never be able to fully comprehend what you are going through but I am sure of one thing; giants do fall, the bigger they are the harder they fall. You must face your giants and see them fall!

If you really want to face and defeat giants:

1. Allow God to train your fingers to fight and arms to war. Before David faced Goliath, he had fought bears and lions! Exercise yourself daily unto godliness!
2. Take time to understand the problems and the rewards that come with solving the problem. You must fight for a godly cause; fight the good fight of faith. When David was accused of being bloody; he was quick to point to the cause justifying his actions.
3. Use weapons and technology that you have proven in the past. David used what he had proven not what was in vogue. Though Saul was willing to give him, his armour, David declined because he had not proven them.
4. Trust in the Lord with all your heart; lean not on your own understanding. There are spiritual causes and forces behind many giants; you need to face them from a dimension of the Spirit.

Today’s Prayer

1. Let us lift our hands and voices to bless the Lord for His mercies and grace.
2. Pray that every giant that is mocking and taunting you shall fall and fail in the name of Jesus Christ! May the Lord be your defense and release grace upon you in the name of Jesus!
3. Pray that anything mocking your testimony shall fall now! Sickness, smallness, and scarcity shall fall in the name of Jesus Christ! Receive grace and stay blessed!

Today’s further reading

1 Samuel 17:1²ff, Psalm 13, Luke 11:20-27³

Referenced Scriptures

1. 2 Corinthians 10:3-5 (KJV): For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; ↩︎
2. 1 Samuel 17:1 (KJV): Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle, and were gathered together at Shochoh, which belongeth to Judah, and pitched between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephes-dammim. ↩︎
3. Luke 11:20-27 (KJV): But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you. When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace: But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils. He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth. When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out. And when he cometh, he findeth it swept and garnished. Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked. ↩︎