A sermon on facing your biggest fears as a David-and-Goliath battle. The speaker argues courage only exists when fear is present, and that God gives power, love, a sound mind, and self-control to fight what you've been avoiding in family, marriage, health, and peace.
This is your David and Goliath moment. Do you know what's on the other side of this battle? Do you know the victory that you're even being called into? See, at this very moment in your life, you're looking at this giant in your life, something that you don't believe you can defeat. But this is the moment where courage is utilized. And what is courage? See, courage cannot exist in the absence of fear. Courage cannot exist in the absence of fear, meaning in order to be courageous, you have to be afraid. And this is the moment where you get to put on the full armor of God and you get to go fight this battle— that's an honor! It's an honor for you to go fight this battle for your family. It's an honor for you to go fight this battle for your marriage. Just an honor for you to go fight this battle for your health, for your mental health, for your sanity, for your peace. The greater the battle, the greater the victory. Do you know the victory that you're about to walk into? And see, here you are, and you're trembling in the face of adversity. You're trembling in front of this battle that you need to face. And what you're doing is you're standing on the front line, and you're not ready to go to war. You're not ready to go to battle because you're living in fear. You're living in trepidation. What it's time to do is stop eliminating the fear and enact courage. Utilize the courage that God has given you. God didn't give you a spirit of fear. He gave you a spirit of power, love, a sound mind, self-control. Why are you not exhibiting that? Why are you not leaning on that? Why are you not pushing into that? You're on the precipice of victory in your life. But you're afraid and you think that the goal is to eliminate the fear and eliminating the fear is somehow going to mitigate the risk. What's worse, that I avoided the battle or that I showed up and at least I fought regardless of the outcome? What are you afraid of? Stop avoiding this fight. Stop avoiding your David and Goliath moment, the opportunity. Because sometimes, in order to know who we truly are, we need to have proof. And within the pitfalls and the pain of life, within the adversities of life, we are given golden opportunities to prove to ourselves who we truly are. What am I learning about myself through this? How am I proving to myself what I'm truly made of, what God put inside of me? Because if God put it in me, it can't be wrong. And so why are you doubting your intrinsic and innate ability to defeat the giants in your life? You need to go bold in this moment. Stop sitting on the sideline and waiting for the war to end.
