Defeating The Giants

The Spies

Num 13:25 And they returned from spying out the land after forty days. 30 Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, "Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it."31But the men who had gone up with him said, "We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we." 32 And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, "The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature. 33 "There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight."(NKJ))

Ten of the spies saw themselves as grasshoppers in comparison to the giants. But Joshua and Caleb had a different vision. They saw the Lord, their helper. And when they saw Him the giants looked like grasshoppers in comparison to the Lord. If the Lord is your strength then your problems and challenges look like grasshoppers.

Giants stood for great difficulties just like the challenges we face today. They are giants or challenges in our families, in our churches, in our finances our jobs our health and in our own hearts. But do we see them as giants or as grasshoppers.

Ten of the spies did not trust the Lord, but Joshua and Caleb, the men of faith, said “They are bread for us, we will eat them up.” The ten must have been part of the group that murmured and complained while they were in the wilderness.

The fact is, unless we have overcoming faith we will be eaten up, consumed by the giants in our path. We our faith is in the Lord, the giants in our lives will begin to look like grasshoppers.

Some believe that the power of God in our lives will lift us above all trials and conflicts. The fact is, the power of God always brings a conflict and a struggle. The big difference in a Christian is. The Lord is on our side. And “If God be for us, who can be against us.”

Paul

Paul faced many giants in his life. 2 Cor 4:7-11 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. 8 We are hard pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed—10 always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body. 11 For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. 18 while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal. (NKJ)

Rom 8:35-39 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (KJV)

2 Cor 12:10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong. (KJV)

David

1 Sam 17:42-50 And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdain him: for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair countenance. 43 And the Philistine said unto David, Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. 44 And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field. 45 Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied. 46 This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. 47 And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the LORD's, and he will give you into our hands. 48 And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came and drew nigh to meet David, that David hasted, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine. 49 And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth. 50 So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword in the hand of David. (KJV)

In your life, do you see giants, or do you see the One who is more powerful. Do you see the one with whom there are no limitations, no giants bigger than He. No problems that He cannot handle. No sickness that He can’t cure. No financial problems bigger than he.