Giants

God said to me today: “God wouldn’t place a giant in front of you unless he knew you had what it takes to defeat it” 

My Giant: Mental Disorder

The Israelites had giants in the promised land, they decided they didn’t want to encounter them and they wandered in the desert for 40 years. If they had just fought to take the land, they would have been victorious. There wouldn’t have been giants in the land unless the Lord was going to defeat them through the Israelites.

Goliath stood tall against the Israelites, a giant. If David hadn’t stepped up in faith to face Goliath, the Israelites would have become slaves.

What giants are you facing?

What giants have you wandering through the desert? What giants have you enslaved?

It’s time to fight back!

But how do I fight?

The Israelites weren’t confident in their ability to fight their giants, but those that stepped out in faith were victorious.

This is not a battle of flesh and blood.

Mental issues for instance are 80% spiritual, & 20% physical, according to Jesus

You have a spiritual enemy. You are not in a fight against your neighbor, or your circumstances, you are in a fight against Satan and his army of demons.

The only way to defeat your enemy is through first knowing Jesus, and then praying.

In Romans 12 MSG it says, “Don’t quit in hard times, pray all the harder!”

Don’t quit when a giant appears, if you do, you’ll miss the promised land, and you’ll walk in a desert.

Many of us are in a desert. A dry and uninhabitable place. That’s why suicide occurs.

Pray! Pray all the harder!

I recently started praying through a prayer list in the morning. I made a habit out of going to get coffee at 5am and sitting in the parking lot with my coffee and going through my hour prayer list. I have seen giants fall because of this. And it’s led me to be able to do so much more!

I was laying on the couch recently and I was so drowsy as I am regularly accustomed to, so I was going to pass out and not accomplish anything. I blame it on my mental disorder, but mental disorders are 80% spiritual. As I’m laying there I suddenly see in my mind a black figure laying on top of me, this was after establishing a habit of praying 3x per day 1 hour the first hour praying through my prayer list and 30 minutes for each subsequent prayer time going through a Christian idea version of Jewish temple service, and reading my Bible in addition for 30 minutes, and speaking in tongues for 10 minutes, worshipping God for 10 minutes, silence with God for 10 minutes, thanking God for 10 minutes, memorizing verses for 10 minutes, which I might need to increase, and I’ve been using an app for the verse memorization but I’ve been feeling like I should use physical flash cards instead. There are other things I do, like cleaning and spending time with each family member. I use an app called Streaks from the App Store to keep track of my daily tasks, that one works wel for me.

After making all this a habit, I saw the black figure laying on top of me in my mind, so I said “Get off of me!” and it lifted off. After just a little bit, I was wide awake, incredibly awake, so awake that I accomplished everything on my list that day. That black figure of course was a demonic entity of sloth, and God had me recognize it, and tell it to get gone! I didn’t do that in my own strength. I would have never been able to really see it so I could command it to leave had I not charged myself up spiritually through God through spiritual disciplines.

So I guess it’s not all praying, but it’s all the spiritual disciplines combined and prayer helped me get there. Prayer I believe is the most important. Even when I couldn’t do anything else, I could pray from a list. I don’t have to think I just say what’s there, and I’ve seen lots of prayers coming true for me and others.

If you feel like you can’t do anything, pray! Write down what you’re praying for, and then read it. If you can’t do anything else, read your prayer list. Keep reading it. Make a habit out of it.

📖 Acts 10:1–6 (Cornelius prays regularly)

"At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion in what was known as the Italian Regiment. He and all his family were devout and God-fearing; he gave generously to those in need and prayed to God regularly.
One day at about three in the afternoon he had a vision. He distinctly saw an angel of God, who came to him and said, 'Cornelius!'
Cornelius stared at him in fear. 'What is it, Lord?' he asked.
The angel answered, 'Your prayers and gifts to the poor have come up as a memorial offering before God. Now send men to Joppa to bring back a man named Simon who is called Peter. He is staying with Simon the tanner, whose house is by the sea.'"

Pray, and make a habit out of it. You’ll come out of your mental disorder and that giant will fall, I guarantee it. just don’t give up, and pray all the harder!

Zechariah 4:6 New International Version
So he said to me, “This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the LORD Almighty