You can defeat the giant of your life (Part 2)
Verse of the day: 1 Samuel 17: 10 "And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together"
I must first recall that the Philistine giant called Goliath represents any problem that seems insurmountable and even scaring. If you read in the same chapter from verse 4 to 7 (1 Samuel 17: 4-7), it describes how he was scaring by his greatness, his bronze armor, his bronze javelin between his shoulders, his spear that was like a weaver’s beam…which is a spiritual symbol of a terrifying situation created by the devil.
By the verse of the day, the Philistine provoked God's people by saying: “I defy the armies of Israel this day! ". Since the day you accepted Jesus as your Savior, the devil defied you and it could be that you are still in a weak position. Jesus said that the thief comes only to steal, to kill and to destroy (John 10: 10) and Peter said in his letter that we should be sober and vigilant because our adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour (1 Peter 5: 8).
In these two verses, it is clear that the mission of the devil is not only to block us or to bother us in what we do, but he wants to kill us, to destroy us and to devour us. Paul in his letter to the Ephesians says that we have to wrestle against the rulers of the darkness of this age and against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. (Ephesians 6: 12).
Let’s study a bit on 1 Samuel 17: 8 “Then he stood and cried out to the armies of Israel, and said to them: Why have you come out to line up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and you the servants of Saul? Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me ". In other words, he told them that he represented everybody from his people, and if he died, Israel would have defeated all the Philistines.
Later in this teaching, you will notice that when Goliath will die, all the Philistines will flee spiritually ... this means that when you manage to defeat the giant that opposes you spiritually, all the problems (physical and material) related to him will flee immediately. We will talk about it later.
The mission of the giant’s words is to sow fear and the passage says that when Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly afraid (1 Samuel 17: 11). Spiritually speaking, the giant words are negative thoughts thrown by the devil to show you the possibility of disaster in order to generate fear.
In part three, we will see the strategy of the devil to discourage us by sowing fear in our hearts.
Chris Ndikumana
