Slaying Emotional Giants

​Gigantic problems.
 
2020. A year so far riddled with one serious problem after another after another. Stacked up problems are putting immense emotional pressure on all of us. Emotional giants of anxiety, fear, depression, tension, uncertainty, division and unrest are stalking the emotional landscape, screaming at us, mocking us and taunting us to negatively react to our situation.
 
If you are facing a huge problem that is discouraging and disheartening you right now, turn to I Samuel 17. This true biblical story of the colossal confrontation between David and Goliath will get your spiritual motor running!  A young, rudy-faced shepherd boy takes out a nine-foot tall, seven-hundred pound, belligerent, boisterous, battle-tested enemy of Israel. Have I captured your interest?   
 
Goliath, a Philistine warrior and champion, was a physical giant. An intimidating, taunting, trash-talking mountain of a man. For forty days and nights, his God-mocking, blasphemous-spewing mouth kept King Saul and God’s army at bay, fearful, shaking in their sandals on the sideline.
 
Shepherd boy David showed up. Sized up the situation. He decided to do something about this uncircumcised Philistine who was mocking the living God. Full of faith in the Lord he served, David boldly countered Goliath’s mockery and taunts about him and his God. He told the giant he would be bird food before the sunset. Go David!
 
David didn’t use swords and spears to take Goliath down. David took a rock to a sword fight. Knowing the battle was the Lord’s, David, with faith in heart, took him out with a slingshot and a stone.
 
The giant being dead, David relieved Goliath of his head. “Then David ran and stood over the Philistine and took his sword and drew it out of its sheath and killed him and cut off his head with it. When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled. “
 I Samuel 17:51
 
No more trash talking from his mouth. Hard to talk without your head! David held up Goliath’s head in triumph, showing it to king Saul. As the now deceased giant’s blood dripped from his severed head, the Israeli army rallied and routed the stunned, fleeing Philistines. Without their menacing champion Goliath, the Philistines were soundly defeated.   
 
David was recognized as a hero and a worthy man to take Saul’s place as King of Israel.
 
I don’t know about you, but I would have loved to see David hoisting high in the air slain Goliath’s lifeless head for all to see!
 
What a day when David killed giant Goliath for the glory of God!  
 
So, what does David chopping off Goliath’s head have to do with you and me?
 
You and I are taunted and trash-talked by spiritual/emotional Goliath’s.
 
Fear. Worry. Doubt. Unbelief. Lack. Depression. Low self-esteem. Lack of confidence and many other emotional giants raise their big, bad, ugly heads and scream at us. Mock us and our faith. They try to intimidate us into retreating from our walk with God. Emotional giants shout us down. You and I have heard their voices before. Unfortunately we have often cowered and caved in to their hollow threats.
 
I minister to people all the time who are standing in fear on life’s sideline, shaking in their shoes, because an emotional Goliath is stalking and talking to them. Their giant is pushing them around, paralyzing their faith, and laughing at them for not fighting back.
 
David had the right perspective and attitude. Like David, God’s people, you and me who know Jesus Christ as our personal Lord and Savior, are to prevail over Goliath.
 
Israel believed Goliath was too big to hit, David believed Goliath was too big to miss!
 
How about you? Is your emotional Goliath too big to hit or TOO BIG TO MISS?
 
How To Slay Your Goliath And Cut Of His Head
 

• Identify your emotional giant. Fear…Worry...Doubt…Lack…what? Call it out for what it is.
• Face your Goliath. Run toward it, not from it. Boldly charge your giant with faith in Jesus Christ.
• Use the weapons of warfare (spiritual sling shots) that God has provided. You have every weapon you need according to Ephesians 6:10-20.
• Knock Goliath down. Then cut your giant’s head off with its own sword.
• Rejoice that your emotional giant is headed for the graveyard. Praise the Lord for the victory He has given you!  
• Share with others that you have slain your Goliath. Others will be inspired by your personal story of victory over a giant.
• Encourage others to slay their emotional giants in Jesus’ mighty name! They will be motivated to kill their giants because, with God’s help, you killed yours.

 
Please hear me. If you are being emotionally harassed, it is time to shut the mouth of emotional giants. Do not tolerate Goliath speaking into your life. Rebuke and reject his lies, false accusations fabrications about you. Cut his head off. I am not talking about cutting off the heads of people who taunt and trash talk you. If you do that, you will go to jail!
 
What I am saying is face the voices you hear that attack you spiritually and emotionally. Fight back. Shout them down in the name of the Lord. Leave no room for anything but a decisive, complete victory. Take their head off. Silence negative giants. Put them in their place (the cemetery).  Defeat them in the name of Jesus and with the Word of God.
 
Maybe a Goliath has kept you shaking in your shoes for days, weeks, months or even years. Isn’t it about time to take him out in the name of the Lord? Why let Goliath keep troubling you when he is the one who should be troubled?
 
So, what are you going to do about your Goliath this week? Why not go head-hunting!
 
“The horse is prepared for the day of battle, but victory belongs to the Lord.”
                                                                                                                  Proverbs 21:31
 
A Word For Your Week: Take your trash-talking Goliath out by taking his head off.