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HOW TO DEVELOP A DARING, BOLD & AUDACIOUS FAITH:

We all know well the story of David and Goliath; it’s one we grew up with from Sunday School.

It’s a story which catches a popular vein.

It’s the story of the underdog winning, winning against the seeming unsurmountable odds.

We probably all have some feeling for the underdog, say in a sporting event, and enjoy seeing the supposed champion of champions knocked off his pedestal, or a seemingly hopeless team winning it all.

I am a cubs fan!!

Goliath was over 9 feet tall, wore 125 pounds worth of armor, had a Javelin with a 15 pound spear head.

He was a fighting champion.

His mistake was that he thought all of the people were just servants of Saul.

some had faith in the one true God and did not let things of this world shake their faith.

(NLT) — 19 David’s brothers were with Saul and the Israelite army at the valley of Elah, fighting against the Philistines.

20 So David left the sheep with another shepherd and set out early the next morning with the gifts, as Jesse had directed him.

He arrived at the camp just as the Israelite army was leaving for the battlefield with shouts and battle cries.

1. Refuse to listen to your critics.

(NLT) — 23 As he was talking with them, Goliath, the Philistine champion from Gath, came out from the Philistine ranks.

Then David heard him shout his usual taunt to the army of Israel.

Evil is always trying to get you to make a deal instead of take a stand and will tempt an taunt you relentlessly.

2. Lean heavily on your past faith victories not your past doubt in failures.

(NLT) — 28 But when David’s oldest brother, Eliab, heard David talking to the men, he was angry.

“What are you doing around here anyway?” he demanded.

“What about those few sheep you’re supposed to be taking care of?

I know about your pride and deceit.

You just want to see the battle!” 29 “What have I done now?” David replied.

“I was only asking a question!” 30 He walked over to some others and asked them the same thing and received the same answer.

31 Then David’s question was reported to King Saul, and the king sent for him.

32 “Don’t worry about this Philistine,” David told Saul.

“I’ll go fight him!” 33 “Don’t be ridiculous!”

Saul replied.

“There’s no way you can fight this Philistine and possibly win! You’re only a boy, and he’s been a man of war since his youth.”

34 But David persisted.

“I have been taking care of my father’s sheep and goats,” he said.

“When a lion or a bear comes to steal a lamb from the flock,

35 I go after it with a club and rescue the lamb from its mouth.

If the animal turns on me, I catch it by the jaw and club it to death.

36 I have done this to both lions and bears, and I’ll do it to this pagan Philistine, too, for he has defied the armies of the living God! 37 The Lord who rescued me from the claws of the lion and the bear will rescue me from this Philistine!”

Saul finally consented.

“All right, go ahead,” he said.

“And may the Lord be with you!”

Goliath “If anyone can defeat me one-to-one, we will be your servants, but if I win, you will be our servants” To the Israelites and to Saul, their king, this looked like a lose-lose situation.

What hope had any of their warriors against such a one as Goliath?

Goliath “If anyone can defeat me one-to-one, we will be your servants, but if I win, you will be our servants” To the Israelites and to Saul, their king, this looked like a lose-lose situation.

What hope had any of their warriors against such a one as Goliath?

Goliath is a Philistine giant, he’s over 9 feet tall, he has a massive suit or chain-mail armour, and a spear of mind-blowing size.

He had come out against the Israelites with a challenge.

“If anyone can defeat me one-to-one, we will be your servants, but if I win, you will be our servants” To the Israelites and to Saul, their king, this looked like a lose-lose situation.

What hope had any of their warriors against such a one as Goliath?

Our battle is with what we tell ourselves about what is going on around us.

They thought there was no way to win and therefore fear had the best of them.

Maybe you fear something bad could happen again?

Maybe you fear someone bad can happen again?

Oh Im preaching to someone in here tonight I know it!!

Tony Evans Faith is acting like something is so even when it is not so in order that it might be so simply because God said so.

David on the other hand, when Goliath’s challenge comes, had had other thoughts.

Clearly, David saw the challenge of Goliath from a very different perspective to the rest of the Israelites, differently from the King.

The key to David’s understanding of the situation lies in those words: “For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?"

David saw everything from God’s perspective and not from that of human understanding; of human wisdom.

Humanly, yes, David had no hope against such a mighty warrior.

Yet David knew a truth that only the great men of God in the Old Testament had known: “The battle is the Lord’s”.

3. Focus on the Power of God not the size or strength of your enemy.

(NLT) — 40 He picked up five smooth stones from a stream and put them into his shepherd’s bag.

Then, armed only with his shepherd’s staff and sling, he started across the valley to fight the Philistine.

41 Goliath walked out toward David with his shield bearer ahead of him, 42 sneering in contempt at this ruddy-faced boy.

43 “Am I a dog,” he roared at David, “that you come at me with a stick?”

And he cursed David by the names of his gods.

(NLT) — 40 He picked up five smooth stones from a stream and put them into his shepherd’s bag.

Then, armed only with his shepherd’s staff and sling, he started across the valley to fight the Philistine.

41 Goliath walked out toward David with his shield bearer ahead of him, 42 sneering in contempt at this ruddy-faced boy.

43 “Am I a dog,” he roared at David, “that you come at me with a stick?”

And he cursed David by the names of his gods.

44 “Come over here, and I’ll give your flesh to the birds and wild animals!”

Goliath yelled.

45 David replied to the Philistine, “You come to me with sword, spear, and javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies—the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.

46 Today the Lord will conquer you, and I will kill you and cut off your head.

And then I will give the dead bodies of your men to the birds and wild animals, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel!

47 And everyone assembled here will know that the Lord rescues his people, but not with sword and spear.

This is the Lord’s battle, and he will give you to us!” 48 As Goliath moved closer to attack, David quickly ran out to meet him.

49 Reaching into his shepherd’s bag and taking out a stone, he hurled it with his sling and hit the Philistine in the forehead.

The stone sank in, and Goliath stumbled and fell face down on the ground.

50 So David triumphed over the Philistine with only a sling and a stone, for he had no sword.

HOW TO DEVELOP A DARING, BOLD & AUDACIOUS FAITH:

44 “Come over here, and I’ll give your flesh to the birds and wild animals!”

Goliath yelled.

45 David replied to the Philistine, “You come to me with sword, spear, and javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies—the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.

46 Today the Lord will conquer you, and I will kill you and cut off your head.

And then I will give the dead bodies of your men to the birds and wild animals, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel!

1. Refuse to listen to your critics.

47 And everyone assembled here will know that the Lord rescues his people, but not with sword and spear.

This is the Lord’s battle, and he will give you to us!” 48 As Goliath moved closer to attack, David quickly ran out to meet him.

49 Reaching into his shepherd’s bag and taking out a stone, he hurled it with his sling and hit the Philistine in the forehead.

The stone sank in, and Goliath stumbled and fell face down on the ground.

50 So David triumphed over the Philistine with only a sling and a stone, for he had no sword.

The Devil will always try and make us think in fear and doubt.

The Devil will always try and make us think in fear and doubt.

Remember the words of God did not give us a spirit of timidity but of power and love and self-control.

Remember the words of God did not give us a spirit of timidity but of power and love and self-control.

The Devil will always try and make us afraid Remember the words of God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Do we then go out on a limb for God?

If we do are we prepared in our mind for the Devil’s attack and all his dirty schemes?

Do we hang in there in faith in the God who gives the victory?

gives the victory?