With Him on your side, YOU are a giant slayer! If we can learn from and apply the keys to David’s success against Goliath, we can learn how to bring down our own Goliaths. We can face these giants with confidence and become Giant slayers.

Let’s look at these specific things from 1 Samuel 17 and see if we can learn from David to become a giant slayer!

1.  First of all, you must be submitted to authority. You have to get under what God puts over you, or you’ll never get over what God wants to put under you! You can have talent, calling, and anointing, but if you are not submitted to authority—such as parents, teachers, spiritual leaders, you will not see your giants fall. Submit yourself to the authority of godly people who God has put you around and opened the door for you to learn from. Submit yourself, and if they’re wrong, God will deal with them. But as you submit, it empowers you to slay giants.

2.   the Bible says in 1 Samuel 17:20, “David rose early in the morning.” If you’re going to defeat your giant, you’ve got to rise up early. You have to put some things first. This speaks of discipline. Are you disciplined to make time to read your bible, to pray, to spend time in worship? You must first be disciplined before you can slay your giant. Otherwise, it’s like competing in the Olympics without ever practicing.

The other thing rising up early in the morning speaks of about David, is that he GOT UP! Your enemy will always show up when you’re in the trenches. When you’re down in your lowest place. The Bible said when David arrived the men were in the trench. Sometimes we dig a safe place to hide. We find a level of comfort to live with that protects us from what’s going on around us. But when you peep out of that trench, looking up to face your enemy, all of a sudden that 9-foot tall giant appears to be 15-feet! But if you’ll get up, you’ll see the enemy is not as big as you thought it was!

3.  Next, when Goliath stepped forward, they got up out of the trenches and started shouting for the battle. If you’re going to kill a giant, you can’t be silent. Giant killers shout. Giant killers praise. Giant killers say to themselves, “I will bless the Lord at all times. His praise will continually be in my mouth.” You have to lift your voice for victory in your family. Lift your voice in prayer. Lift your voice in the confession of God’s word. Shout the promise is bigger than the lies the enemy is touting. The enemy wants to silence you. He wants to silence you with fear and judgment and defeat. But Joshua said shout, for the Lord has given you the city. And Ezra said shout grace, grace, because God has already laid a foundation. Shout your promises. Speak your truth. Do not be silent.

 4.  Number four, David wasn’t focused on the battle; he was focused on the reward. “Tell me, what will I get if I win this battle?” Twice in 1 Samuel 17, David asked what would happen if he killed Goliath and twice the reward is repeated. I believe God wanted to make that point clear. Everyone else was focused on the battle – may be afraid of what would happen if they lost. But David wanted to get focused on the prize. When you get in the battle, the enemy wants you to focus on the wrong thing. Focus on the reward. Get your eyes on the prize. It’s worth all the struggles and the things that we go through to get our families to Heaven. It’s worth fighting for. It’s worth living right. It’s worth keeping your family in the church. It’s worth the fight. Focus on the reward. No more sorrow. No more pain. No more death. Get your eyes off of the risk and on to the reward. Heaven is going to be worth it all.

5.  This one is very important. If you’re going to slay your giants, you have to be the same in the dark as you are in the light. You have to defeat your personal lion and bear before you can go out and defeat Gol