SLAYING THE GIANTS IN YOUR LIFE - PART 2

     All giant slayers are learners.  Leaders are always in student mode all their lives.  They’re always ready to learn and all giant slayers are learners too.  They don’t just stay and get comfortable where they are because who they are is measured by what they do when no one is looking but God.  B.F. Westcott says, “Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards, they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooke_Westcott The occasion doesn’t make you, the occasion says this is who you are silently and imperceptibly as we wait or sleep, we grow strong, or we grow weak and at last some crisis shows us what we’ve become.”  So if you’re not a Christian today, there is going to be a time in your life where you will want and need God’s help.  Mark my words, you will, all of us do.  I would suggest that rather than wait for God to have that crisis come to you and THEN go looking for God, to get ready now and start getting the Lord into your life so that you’re ready for those giants when they come.  Some of you have gotten ticked off because you did something in the name of God in a church someplace and it seems like nobody cared and you didn’t get strokes for it.  You’re frustrated, but God was preparing you for something bigger, getting you ready for something greater than you’ve ever dreamed of that God can do for your life because the best is yet to come.

     Moses told God all he had was a stick, God said ok, I’ll use the stick and he did.  He used it to part the Red Sea, he used it to get water out of a rock, it’s really cool! 


     We need to do what God wants us to do using what we have.  You don’t need what somebody else has.  We often think, if we had something else we can get though this, or if we had more money, but do you know the more money you have the less you have left over?  The grass is greener where you water it.

     God said, stop telling me what you don’t have, tell me what you do have and I will use all that you have, your background, your training, who you are, those gifts, those talents, your ability.  He’s given those to you and wants to use you for his glory.  You don’t have to be somebody else, you just need to be someone who surrendered to God.  Amen?

     Everybody needs help in life, we all face different giants.  The question is how are you going to face it? With just your five senses? Or are you gonna start looking at God to help you?  If you decide to be a giant slayer, you will be able to pass what you thought was impassable. (continued tomorrow)

Until tomorrow... Love one another!