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It only takes a pebble sized faith to defeat the Goliaths in your
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Are you up against a Goliath in your life? Oh yes, they still exist, they just come in
different forms and fashions. Are you
standing there with legs trembling, feeling really small against a Goliath who
is lording over you? Every common sense
worldly view of your situation leads you back to the present problem; your natural, physical reaction is to RUN! You’ve got those flight hormones pumping
through your blood, your heart is racing and there appears to be NO WAY
OUT. This is where worrying tries to
invade your mind filling you with every thing that is opposite to living a life of faith (fear, anxiety and all those feelings that
distract you from what it is you really need to do).
What is it you need to do?
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Even if you only have a teeny, tiny little mustard seed size faith and you just can’t see any solution to your current situation. Perhaps the point
is, you are not supposed to! This is
where the rubber hits the road. God did
not create you to be able to handle ALL situations on your own. You are NOT God.
“Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you
can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move. Nothing
will be impossible for you." (Matthew 17:20)
Maybe your head is telling you something along the lines to
what was reported (according to the US
Archives website) Something similar to what an employee of the Titanic once uttered:
“Not even God Himself could sink this ship…” Only your head is telling you, “Not even God
himself could help me with this Goliath situation I am finding myself in….”
Listen – that is a lie from the pit of Hell. God is concerned about you and wants you to
realize that you need Him. There is no
shame in that. In fact – say it out loud.
“God I NEED You!!!” Say it again…
“God I NEED You!!!” one more
time… “God I NEED You!!!”
Hmmmm – I don’t know about you but me, I feel a lot
better admitting that… Why? Because it's the God honest truth!
It is when we don’t realize that, admit it or don’t believe it that
we are truly in a Goliath type situation. The truth is, we can trust that if we go to God sincerely in
prayer, He hears us and Instead of going
into “worry mode” go into prayer mode – bringing whatever it is before your Heavenly Father.
"Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock,
and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who
seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. Or what man is
there among you who, when his son asks for a loaf, will give him a stone?”
(Matthew 7:8-9)
No other man would fight Goliath, that’s because they
realized that they could not win any fight with him with their own physical
strength… David’s faith in God was the
only thing that gave him the strength to stand before the giant. David was very much aware that unless God
fought the battle for him, the battle would not be won.
There are certain Goliath situations that come up into our
lives for us to realize that we can do nothing in and of our own accord. Nor were we meant to. That is our biggest mistake. God did not make
Adam and Eve independent of Him. That
was never the way things were supposed to be.
We were created to be in fellowship
with God.
“Oh Lord, I am
surrounded by Goliaths in my life… Every
which way I turn I run up against them. I can’t fight them on my own, and I
know that is not Your will for me, so I
come to You in prayer knowing that YOU are greater than any Goliath-size
problem I face. Help me please Father to
become victorious over these situations that YOU may be glorified. I take my mustard seed size faith and I swing
it into the midst of this situation, believing that YOU will multiply the size
of the seed and cause the situation to fall down and have the plans of the
enemy defeated. I stand knowing that “Greater are YOU that are in me than he
that is in the World” (1 John 4:4) and that “I can do ALL things through Christ who strengthens ME.” (Philippians
4:13) Thank You Father that I can come to You in prayer, I thank You by
faith for Your provision, Your grace, Your mercy and Your favor in these
situations . In Jesus’ precious name I
pray.
AMEN
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