How to fight Goliath
When we look at the life of David, and
his triumph over Goliath, we see him believing in God, and God bought him the
victory. This in a nutshell is true, but for us to get the same results that
David got, we need to if you examine how David actually won, because not
knowing this detail will leave us in limbo, when facing an enemy. As we do not
know how to apply the principles, and take the victory.
Imagine you are David, your dad, who
doesn’t think you are war worthy, because you are a kid, tells you to bring
some bread to your 3 elder brothers who are at the war. You are the youngest of
the 8. As you walk towards the camp, you hear from the distance Goliath challenging
the Israelites, you walk closer, and you see thousands of man in your camp in
fear, not responding to the enemy on the other side. The mockery continues to get
louder, you get closer to the field, and you see this tiny guy, and a huge guy,
across the field, and you are thinking something is wrong with your eyes, for
surely that guy can’t be that big!?
So you go to your elder brothers,
and they are talking amongst the older people, King soul has promised big bucks
to the man who kills Goliath, and you get to marry into royalty and wait there
is more! You score big points with all the relos, because your father’s family
won’t be needing to pay any taxes!
Your brothers tells you to shut up,
because you are causing a commotion, and you might get yourself killed if you
speak any louder. You continue to ask, is this true? no taxes for the rest of
your life? The way you carry yourself, you are the only one in the camp that
actually looks to have any hope, because everyone is scared, there is not even one
person that looks like they will have the courage to step up. The thought that
no one actually volunteered, surprises you. In your mind you are thinking, don’t
you guys know we have a covenant with the God who created this world? Like how
the people feared Abraham, they should be fearing us, why is this riff raff paying
our God disrespect, and no one is going out to shut him up? Did they not hear “you
don’t have to pay taxes!” The situation is so dire, that Saul the king, actually
sent someone to see who David is. Knowing you are in the presence of someone who
can actually call some shots, you tell the king, “Your majesty, something is
wrong with this picture, no one should be afraid of this guy, I will take him
out.”
Like any king, who has some sense, in
all sincerity tells what he thinks is a naive young kid, “no, how could you
fight him? you’re a kid, this Goliath guy has been a soldier all his life!”
Pause! Lets take a moment, and think
if you were little David. What is going on in your mind. I mean literally, you
are seeing this huge war monger looking giant on the other side of the field. Your
side of the army with grown men, in armor is scared stiff. No one is even trying
to make a noise, incase someone picks them out to fight. What goes on in your
mind ?(your mind, not david’s mind). Surely you would think even David will have
some carnality in what he is thinking based on what he sees. (or he doesn’t and
if he doesn’t, why?).
I am about to share something
profound. The reason he is not fazed by this, is NOT because he beliefs
God is for him, and hence who can be against him.
The reason he is not fazed is because
he beliefs God is for him, and has given him superior fire power, hence who
can be against him?
This is profound, because we would generally
think “well yes, David had experience fighting the lion and the bear, hence he has
confidence about killing another enemy.” This is true, but the “experience”
here is more than an “experience of happen stance”, where David happened to
kill 2 types of fierce animal. And think as I was able to do that, I will probably
do it again. There was no “probably” here. It was a confidence that he had 100%
the means to kill a lion or a bear, and is 100% confident that if another bear
or a lion was to appear, the result will be the same. Just think, if you were
locked in a cage with a lion, what goes on in your mind? Do you have the same
confidence that David has? No? Why not? May I suggest the reason we are not confident,
is because of a lack of fire power.
Imagine, If you had an automatic, and
you had a force field around you. Will you see the same scenario differently? The
reason David was not scared, was not just because theoretically God was with
him, and he knows that in his mind. It is because experientially, he has seen
the fire power of the supernatural, he has experienced the confidence that comes
from the holy spirit, the dunamis power, and the equipping for him in these
fights. He had operated with the sling shot with precision. And if he was to
miss he knows that he has dunamis to pull the lion by the beard.
The point to note is this: David did
what he did, is an example for us today. The reason he had the confidence, but
also the means to do so, came from the following points:
1) God equipped him with a weapon. He was not expecting lightling
to strike dead Goliath.
2) He was trained in an effective use of the weapon. This was not
his first rodeo. He has been doing this for a while. Although he is a kid.
3)
The weapon was superior, and
the weapon worked. It was a range weapon, Goliath
didn’t even came close to the fight, we imagined Goliath came at David, and David
dodged and jumped and then he shot a rock into his head. No it wasn’t as dramatic,
it was David picked up a few rocks, and then shot him. he was knocked out. And David
cut Goliath’s head off as the fatal kill.
Question: with the Giants that we have
in our life, what weapon has God equipped us with?
God has given us the weapon that kills giants
in our arena. This is not talking about physical warfare, but it is an effective
and mighty tool to take down our true enemy. The enemy in our carnal mind.
It is dealing with imaginations, anxieties, depressions, lies that come against
us. And how do we know which thoughts are the enemy? Anything that is contrary
to what we know of who God is, and what he does. We use the weapon by bringing
those imaginations and thoughts captive. This is a proactive activity that we
need to do, it is not done by happenstance, it is done with intention, and it
is done with discipline. We are to bring those thoughts under the rule of God,
that we rebuke and dissipate the lie, by replacing it with the word of God. And
by doing so, and renewing our mind to what the creator of the universe has said.
It shall be done. So the key is, you change the external by fighting in the
internal. The physical world follows the spiritual. When you win the picture
within, you revenge the external disobedience that acts against the word of
God. The word of God said we are the head and not the tail, we are blessed and
not cursed, and we have the power to create wealth, heal the sick, raise the
dead. Anything that is contrary to these saying. They are not of God. and must
be revenged. (forced to align with the word of God).
12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing as under of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Hebrews 4:12
The word of God informs us which are God’s thoughts and which are Carnal
thoughts, we are to distinguish them, and extinguish those by bringing those
lies, to the truth of what God has said. This is the weapon God has given us to
win over Goliath. Be active and capture the lies.
We are to dispel them by the truth of God’s word. The Sword of the
spirit.
