Defeat Your Giant

1. BEFORE YOU CAN SLAY GIANTS, YOU GOTTA SHEPHERD SHEEP!

So he asked Jesse, “Are these all the sons you have?’ ‘There is still the youngest,’ Jesse

answered. ‘He is tending the sheep.’ Samuel said, ‘Send for him...”

1 Samuel 16:11 NIV

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

1 Samuel 17:20 NLT

2. WHAT YOU ENTERTAIN, YOU LET ENTER IN!

“...do not let the sun go down on your wrath, nor give place to the devil.”

Ephesians 4:26-27 NKJV

“Then David said to the Philistine, ‘You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. This day the LORD will deliver you into my hand...”

1 Samuel 17:45-46 NKJV

3. IF YOU’RE NOT KILLING IT, THEN YOU’RE WILLING IT!

“Then David put his hand in his bag and took out a stone; and he slung it and struck the

Philistine in his forehead, so that the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the earth. So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone, and struck the Philistine and killed him. But there was no sword in the hand of David. Therefore David ran and stood over the Philistine, took his sword and drew it out of its sheath and killed him, and cut off his head with it.”

1 Samuel 17:49-51 NKJV

VICTORY GROUP QUESTIONS:

1) What are some fundamentals or small things that you still need to work on in order to

defeat your giants? Share.

2) Give an example of how you’ve entertained giants in your life? What happened and what

did you learn from that experience? Share.

3) What is a “giant” in your life that you’ve allowed to linger because you have yet to kill

it? How do you plan on “cutting off its head”? Share.

4) What is something you’ve taken away from the message? Share.