Facing Giants: Trusting God in Life's Challenges

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"Now, thank you. Thank you. Thank you all. As we talk about Goliath this morning, we are going to symbolically, and I'm not going to talk about this a lot. Now we'll talk about it a little bit more at lunchtime. We're going to symbolically compare, uh, the remaining debt we have. We talked about this five smooth stones project. Um, and actually not a huge giant. We're down to about $110,000 debt on our church building. We're going to compare, uh, that giant to something we want to knock out. Okay. So that's why we've called it the five smooth stones project. But this morning I want to talk just about our everyday lives. Friends, there are all sorts of giants that we must face in our lives today. Amen." [00:06:08] (44 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


"Friends, there are, there are, uh, health giants that come along sickness, whether it's cancer or some disease or something, maybe that one of your parents has faced. There are mental health giants that people face those things of depression and anxiety and other mental health things, problems that people struggle with. There are family problems. Maybe right now there's a marriage problem in your home that nobody else knows about. But to you, it is looming like a giant in your life." [00:06:52] (33 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


"Number one, friends, we can learn how to have victory, how to defeat the giants in our lives by realizing that the giants in our lives are not obstacles. Listen, you run up to a huge man, a mammoth of a man like that, like, it can seem like an obstacle, but they're not obstacles, friends. They are opportunities to trust God. The giants in our lives are not obstacles. They are opportunities to trust God." [00:08:52] (28 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


"Friends, whatever kind of giant you are facing in your life, I would encourage you to look at that giant. Look at that problem in view or in light of God. Not from our perspective, we're looking up on the giant. Can I just tell you something? God is looking down. God is bigger than any problem we can ever face. You say, Pastor, what do you mean to look at my problem in light or through the eyes of God? Listen, let me ask you one question. Who allowed that circumstance in your life? God did. Did it surprise him?" [00:18:01] (39 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


"God will always test you in small matters before giving you responsibility in big matters. And the small things, the small stuff friends is where we learn how to trust God first. Amen. It's where we learn how to trust God first. How do you handle the small things? How do you handle everyday frustration? If you don't handle everyday frustration well, when something big comes along, no wonder you panic or you blow up. Learn how to turn those everyday frustrations over to the Lord." [00:22:40] (39 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


"Friends, if you don't handle the small, you say, well, you know, they're just little bitty things. They don't even really bother anything. No, but there are opportunities God's giving you to trust him. How do you handle those small things? Do you pray about it? Do you, do you put small matters into his hands or you just say, you know what? I can handle the small stuff, pastor. Friends, how are you ever going to be able to trust him with the big things if you leave him out of the small stuff?" [00:23:17] (28 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


"Friends, remembering how God has worked in the past will help you trust him in the future. I have to admit to you that sometimes I forget all the things that God's done in my life. Sometimes I don't talk about it enough to myself or to others, but I want to share with you. just a couple of things that in the life of kind of me as your pastor and our church here of how God has worked. And I could go on and on with many of them." [00:28:46] (33 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


"Friends, God wants us to trust him. He wants to prove himself faithful to us. He is faithful. Amen. Whether we trust him with our problems, God is faithful and he, he, he, um, never fails. So why do we doubt him? Trust him with whatever issue and problem you have. Listen, we, as a church, God's going to give us victory. Amen. He's going to continue to work in us and through us and do miraculous things. Friends. He also wants to do that in your life. If you've never surrendered it all to him, I want to encourage you to do that today. Let's pray." [00:47:38] (45 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)