Lessons from David: How to Be a Giant Killer by Andrew Wommack Read Free Book Online

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    As David arrived at the Israelite camp to see his brothers, the armies lined up as Goliath, this Philistine champion, issued his challenge once again. Then he cursed the Israelites and called them cowards as they fled from before him (1 Samuel 17:23-24). After David saw and heard these things, he asked, “What will be done for the man who kills this giant and takes away our reproach?” Instead of running away and being afraid like everybody else, David was saying, “This guy needs to be stopped! What are they promising the fellow who will go out and defeat this giant?”
    The Right Way to Think
    Remember, David was still a youth at this time. Most scholars believe he was around seventeen years old when he was anointed to be king. Therefore, he was probably eighteen or nineteen at the time he heard Goliath’s challenge. He certainly wasn’t very old. All of the seasoned men of war were bigger, stronger, and more experienced than David, yet they were standing around, full of fear. They were all shaking in their boots, but David challenged them saying, “What right does this man have to say these kinds of things?”
    What made David able to fight this giant, kill him, and bring this great deliverance? He wasn’t bigger or stronger than anyone else. It wasn’t because he had been trained in a military school and had natural combat knowledge. It wasn’t anything in the natural at all. The difference was David’s heart—specifically the attitude of his heart. His heart was sensitive to God, therefore, he was fearless. He didn’t see things the way other people saw them. They were looking on the outward appearance, but David knew that God looks on the heart. That’s why he was chosen!
    David not only saw himself the way God saw him, but he also viewed other things—including giants—the way God saw them. Goliath’s heart was not right with God. He was not sensitive to the Lord at all. So in that sense, David already had him beat. It was an unfair fight, it really was. Goliath didn’t stand a chance! Most people who consider outward appearances would have said, “David doesn’t stand a chance. It’s an unfair fight!” But when you look at the competitors from the inside, it was absolutely lopsided. David was the one who had the right heart, was anointed, and had the covenant relationship with God. Goliath had nothing. He was powerless. Now that’s the right way to look at things!
    What I’m saying here is different than the way most people think. That’s why most people run and hide from their enemy behind rocks, in holes, and in caves. They don’t think this way, but this is how the Bible will teach you to think. It’s the right way to think!
    A Word-Dominated Attitude
And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?

1 Samuel 17:26
    David was expressing an attitude that was exactly opposite the rest of the Israelites. He was saying, “This guy is nothing. He’s a nobody. He’s easy!” Everyone else was saying, “He’s so big and powerful! I’m nothing. I’m a nobody!” David had an entirely different attitude. Where did it come from? He stated it right here:
Who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?

1 Samuel 17:26
    When David used this term “uncircumcised Philistine,” he was saying that Goliath didn’t have a covenant with God. Circumcision was a sign of the covenant God had made with the nation of Israel. He was saying, “We’re superior. Why are we letting somebody who doesn’t even have God on their side intimidate us?” David’s attitude came from the covenant, the Word, and the promises of God.
    Do you want a different attitude? Do you want to stand apart from all the people who are so