Bigger Than You Think - Bishop T.D. Jakes

We are going to enter into the word of God take your bibles from wherever you have them get it out of the way take your bible first samuel chapter number 17 verse 17 to 29 there we will contemplate the scriptures that the lord has given us today it is our custom to defend the reading the word of god we respect his word we esteem it above our necessary food we honor it even above our leaders our preachers our pastors our presidents we defend them we are going to defend god again first samuel chapter number 17 verse number 17 when have, say amen and jesse said to david his son, take for your brothers and ephah this toasted corn and these ten loaves and run to the camp to your brothers and take these ten cheeses to the captain of his thousand and see how your brothers fare. and now saul takes his promise and they and all the men of israel were in the valley of elah fighting with the philistines and david got up listen to this and david got up early in the morning and went to the sheep with the keeper and took them and He left as Jesse had ordered him and arrived at the trench while the army went out to fight and shouted for the battle for Israel and the Philistines had turned the battle into a lightning army against army and David left his chariot in the hands of the keeper of the chariot and he ran to the army and came and greeted his brothers and while he was talking with him, behold, the champion appeared, the Philistine of Goliath by name among the armies of the Philistines. who speak the same words and David heard and David heard them and all the men over Israel when they saw the man fleeing from him and they were so afraid and the man of Israel said: have you seen this man who has come up surely? to challenge Israel he rises and it will be that the man who kills him the king will enrich him with great riches and will give him his daughter and will set his father's house free in Israel and David spoke to the men who were standing next to him saying What What will be done to the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the disgrace of Israel?

Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should challenge the armies of the living god and the people responded to him after this man says, so it will be done to the man who kills him so it will be done, so it will be done and a lie was heard from his elder brother when he spoke to the man and Elijah's anger was kindled against David and he said why have we come down here and with whom have you left those few sheep in the desert. I know your pride and the evil of your heart because you have come down so that you can see the battle.

You should go home where you belong and David said, What have I done now? Isn't there a cause that can? you say amen you can say amen again look at someone and say it's

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father in the name of jesus i thank you for what you're about to do in the middle of your people I thank you because the flower fades into the grass with us but the word of the lord remains forever work is steamed on its necessary food dave and said it was a lamp to my feet and a light to my path oh god the centurion said speak just one word and my daughter will be healed, that's all we want you to do today is tell us the word and allow us to examine our perspectives, our ideas, our philosophies and challenge how we live with your eternal word.

I believe in you to increase today in the invincible eternal immutable name of Jesus Christ our king and all the believers in the house said amen someone should say amen again you can sit in the presence of god it is an interesting text the one we have before us today is not the normal text that we would consider falls short of addressing the magnanimous and powerful demonstration of God's power through his instrument that defeated Goliath's enemy, and yet it does not even examine who David is in the full potential of his power and his prophetic value, the thinnest of The text I have chosen to discuss with you today begins in the most simplistic and mundane way.

It only has meaning for us because we know how the story ends and we know the story, but I want, I want. that you indulge me in a moment and imagine if you were David and you didn't know how the day was going again imagine if you were David and you had listened to your father that night giving you instructions what you should do now understand everything about your older brothers they are in battle they have swords and fancy uniforms they have shields they have put on all this armor they have red velvet garments and capes that adorn them because they are the army of Israel and you are just a young upstart my grandmother would say a whiffer sniper they left at home to tend the sheep he is the child yes, he is a child and I want to talk to you about that because he is the child he is the little one and little things matter and then he has given a small task to the child he is given a small task and he does it with this attitude and he decides that in the morning I will get up early and assign my well-being to taking care of my sheep. someone to be a substitute pastor in my absence while I do this little errand for my father and I put in my hands this ifa of corn or wheat or whatever substance and ten loaves of bread and I run down here with a small lunch and in essence david is a delivery boy it's a little it's a small thing that he set out to do you must understand when we start talking about this that david has no idea what will happen at the end of the day it's not the powerful majestic moves of God that we need help to managing them are the ordinary mundane ritual days that stand between the mountaintop experiences we live in most of the time we have more days of normalcy and complacency than of spectacular displays of power.

This is just another morning for David to get up with yet another task to do and he cleans his face and brushes his teeth and grabs his bag full of food and decides that I'm going to go there to be in a particular place to do what that my my father told me to do what I want you to understand, although despite the simplicity of the task, despite the smallness of the task, despite how small it is, despite how small the task itself is David, even though he is so young and too young to be in battle I want you to understand that the little things matter I want you to understand that the little things matter and until you understand that the little things matter you will never be able to fulfill your destiny in the Over the course of our lifetime discussion I'm going to give you some lesson tips that I want you to write down and I want you to remember what separates the giant killers from the giant watchers these principles these transferable truths are as relevant today as they have always been De In fact, the first thing I want you to write is: great people who do small things with excellence. great people who do small things with excellence.

Great people don't just do big things with excellence, they do small things with excellence and understand how important it is. Doing normal things, in fact, is a sure sign that you're going to end up somewhere great when you put great detail into the little things, when something goes wrong and it bothers you when you want to make sure everything is okay. Even though you don't have a title and you don't have a position and you don't have recognition and you don't have prestige but you have a standard that you hold yourself to it's not about them it's about a standard you hold yourself to and the standard is a standard of excellence excellence does not begin when the lights come on excellence does not begin when the crowd gathers excellence does not come when everyone is watching excellence is nurtured in mediocrity on ordinary days when you begin to appreciate the power of words before nothing in this story warns us of the meaning of this day there is no warning there is no warning label god does not put any warning label on greatness he does not tell you that when you meet this person he will change your life he does not tell you that when If you walk through this door you will never be the same.

He doesn't tell you that this little job, this little task that you are going to perform will be the catalyst through which your destiny is released. He doesn't tell you any of that. David is the baby of his family. You have a small task to do It's just an ordinary task You have a small task to take care of You have to manage your normality and still perform a small task God has given you practice in handling responsibility because it is preparing you for greatness. I don't know who I'm talking to, but God is preparing you for greatness.

I know it doesn't look very good right now. Not your wallet. It's not looking very good right now Your house isn't looking very good right now Your car isn't looking very good right now Your situation isn't looking very good right now People push you around trying to reach great people, but God is preparing you for greatness if you can't handle the small things you will never be able to handle the big things if the small things overwhelm you if you complain and collapse over the small things you will never be ready for the bigger things god is about to do in your life but the lord told me to prepare someone i don't know who it is but god told me to prepare you if it's you you should give him a praise god told me to prepare you despite how small it seems now it's bigger than you think Despite how small you seem right now you are bigger than you think David doesn't know who he is he hasn't yet realized the full strength and power of what he is about to be David hasn't been recognized as a king, he doesn't really understand the magnitude of his position, he thinks he's just an errand boy, he thinks he's just going down to deliver lunch, he has no idea he's going to be in the fight of his life, he would.

He would have prepared differently if he had known he was going into battle, but he came there to do a small thing, oh, but it was bigger than you think. David didn't know he was entering a battle and David didn't even know it. who was goliath many of you have not met your goliath yet but your goliath is coming your goliath is coming and that's why I have to prepare you for it you don't even know that your goliath is coming and he is coming without warning and he is coming without invitation and he is coming without you having preparation it's just that everything you've been through in your past has been preparing you the little things have been preparing you the small task has been preparing you the lion that attacked the the cub is preparing you the bear that came down after you your sheep is preparing you they don't come with a sign on their neck that says I'm preparing you for goliath but these light afflictions that are only for a moment are getting ready for the fight of your life so that when you enter the fight of your life does not feel like the fight of your life because all the fights that followed will make you face this fight with another level of confidence and strength that is why you should rejoice when you have been afflicted rejoice when you have been under attack rejoice when all hell breaks loose has unleashed in your life because god has you in the training chamber I want to talk to someone today who is in the training ground of greatness oh, you are in the training ground of greatness because you are bigger than you think and you don't even You don't even know it and God is about to blow your mind.

Someone logged into this stream today because God is telling you. I'm getting ready to blow your mind. Shatter your way of thinking. Destroy your perspectives and your attitude. Shatter how you define greatness. Destroy how you define responsibility. Destroy what you call pressure. I'm exposing you to pressure because I'm increasing your tolerance. because where I am preparing to take you what was precious, they will become your normal and I have to recalibrate you and train you in the way you think, yes from Ephesians chapter 3 verse 20 it is now read to him who is powerful to surpass. and abundantly above everything we can ask or think that god is capable of doing more than everything we can ask or think according to the power that works in us in other words god will not live in the cell of your mentality he will not live limited to being imprisoned for your ideas in other words god is about to blow your mind he said I'm bigger than you think this day is bigger than you think it is this moment is bigger than you think it is go ahead and take your tin buns and get on your camel and saddle up and go ahead and put your little quilt on the back of the camel and go on to the camp because you think this is normal but it's bigger than you think because I'm able to do a lot more than everything you can ask or think.

My thoughts are above your thoughts. My ways above your ways. As high as the heavenly is above the earth. Thus are my thoughts above your thoughts and my ways above your ways. And just because it starts small doesn't mean it ends small that's why the Bible says don't despise the day of small beginnings because every time God prepares to do big things in your life he tests you in small things I said he tests you in small things Until you are faithful in a few you cannot be faithful in many until you can be trusted with lunch you cannot be trusted with lunch to the giants oh, I want to talk to someone who cannot be trusted with lunch because you are waiting for it. big and when the big thing comes you're going to be amazing until then you're lazy and slow full and relaxed and taking things easy and you don't understand that it's how you handle the little things that determines what's nextin your life, get your head right today. today is an opportunity for you to understand well today people ignore the performance of small things waiting for the next big event, but the next big event is a small thing.

I'll say it again, the next big thing is a small thing. if David had fallen asleep he would have been too late and if he had been too late he would have missed the most important moment of his life five minutes later and none of that would have happened 20 minutes later and he would have missed this earth. -a devastating experience that was going to happen in your life, suppose David was late for lunch, that's why you're not ready to be great until you think everything is important, until everything matters to you, if David had been late, he would have missed it if David had shown up. getting up early would have been premature the timing has to be right tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock with god it's all about timing with god it's all about timing there's a time to cry and there's a time to laugh and there's a There is a time to cry and there is a time to plant and there is a time to harvest and there is a time when God wants you to be there with lunch and does not tell you that lunch is a trip switch that will connect you to your destiny, he just tells you it's lunch and sees: will you be there on time? look at your neighbor and say, be on time, oh my god, time for trouble, David showed up as the fight was starting, he was exactly where he was supposed to be when he was supposed to be there, that's absolutely amazing, the cataclysmic explosion of fate and time collide when David leaps from his camel and appears just as the battle has turned into a raid and the Philistines have begun to march to attack Israel.

David appears. at that exact moment because it was predestined it was predestined it was predestined from generation to generation to generation god has been preparing things I don't know who I'm talking to but you're about to enter something that god has been preparing for a long time my second lesson that I want showing up for battle is half the battle just showing up for battle is half of just showing up just being in your place just being where you're supposed to be when you're supposed to be there is half of it of the battle you don't have to have all the answers you don't have to have all the solutions you don't have to have the favor of the army you don't have to have the support of your brothers just show up that's why the devil doesn't want you to be where you're supposed to be when you're supposed to be there because half the battle is determined by being on time someone shout hallelujah now i want you to understand for david it's just another morning it's just another moment for israel it's just another battle for the philistines it's just another fight but for god for god this is a careful orchestration of god's providence when we begin to understand god's providence providence is timely preparation for future eventualities timely preparation for future eventualities when you talk about god's providence, you talk about things in The ones that God has been working on before David's father met his mother, the ones that God was working on this morning, right?

Listen to what I tell you, it is only on this trip that we realize why David's great-great-grandmother, Naomi, had to leave her home and go to Moab, because she simply had not gone to Moab and there she found her children getting married. the more I bite this name ruth and if she had not lost her children and if she had not lost her husband and if she had not spent 10 years in Moab and if she had not decided after 10 years I will return to Bethlehem and if ruth had not decided to go with her mother-in-law back to Bethlehem, she would not have met booz and if she had not met booz they would not have made the baby obey and if they had not made the baby obey they would not have had the grandson Jesse. and if they hadn't had jesse, they wouldn't have had david, everything that god has been working on for several generations and it was important that david's great-great-grandparents went back to boaz, boaz, boaz and ruth, that they would meet and that they would fall in love and that they would mate and that through their lennies David would come because God is positioning David to be king on the throne and he has to start the kingdom with a child that he has been working on. for years and even though this morning feels like a normal morning, just another, oh God, I have to go, daddy wants me to take this one, if he hadn't gotten up that morning, he would have missed the moment God had been planning for four generations.

I don't know who I'm talking to, but now you're coming to a moment that God has been preparing for four generations, setting the stage for you to be in the right place at the right time, first of all, that you would be the first of everything that you would be and then you would be in the right place at the right time and this is the moment that David now crosses paths with destiny. David descends to meet Saul, not as his successor, he descends to meet Saul as it were. running super service with lunch god has strange ways of connecting you in the right place at the right time oh hallelujah, that brings me to lesson number three providence makes sense from the meaningless things in life providence makes sense From the meaningless things in life Naomi couldn't understand why my husband died, why I lost my children and why I left Bethlehem to escape a famine and went to Moab for 10 years only to discover that the people who They remained in Bethlehem and did not die.

First of all, it wasn't really famine that brought her to Moab, but rather it was God orchestrating her life so that she could bring Pieta into the lineage so that God could show us that He had a plan that included the idolaters, the Gentiles, the unworthy that in Jesus' lineage would come amoribitus and when she returns home to Ruth she just doesn't understand it, she is bitter and upset because many things you are trying to understand today may take years or generations for you to understand. understand why you had to lose what you had to lose who you had to lose when you had to lose him no one teaches about providence but providence lets you know that your god is a strategist he said I lift this one up and I knock that one down I am god and apart from me there is no other I decide who goes up and I decide who goes down I am the potter and you are the clay and you have to trust me even when it doesn't make sense you have to trust that my Providence is putting together something that your great-great-grandchildren will benefit from.

I don't know if you can handle that, but I'm preaching to someone. I'm preaching to someone right now that this is how it is. It doesn't have to make sense to you Naomi. I don't have to explain why I moved you. I don't even have to explain why you lost your husband. I don't even have to explain why you lost your son, but in time you will see that I never lost control of your life even for a moment, good Lord almighty, I never lost control of your life, even when I felt that your life was out of control, when I felt like the devil was running, when I felt like the devil had the victory. when I felt like you had completely failed I never lost control I walk all things according to the advice of my own will and I move this and I move that and I move the other and I bring this and I take out that because I'm working on something and it's going to be bigger than What you think, it's going to be bigger than you think, I've been working on this for generations, it's going to be bigger than you think, so when David comes walking onto the battlefield with lunch, he thinks it's not about lunch. it's about your lunch it's about your legacy it's not about the bread it's not about the food it's not about the cheese that was just what god used to take you to the field of your destiny like your great-great-grandfather- Grandma was gleaning in the corners of the field.

I orchestrated her to be in the corner of the field so that Boaz would look and see her and she would get her attention. If she had been late, she would never have met him. God will put it. be in the right place at the right time because he is doing all things according to the counsel of his own will and he will make you love who you love and like who you like and know who you know and be attracted to who you are . attracted because what God is doing is bigger than you think, no, David is down here bringing lunch to the legate and he comes down just in time to hear the prince of hooves, can't you hear the hoof prints of the Philistines coming? and they are going out against the armies of israel and david comes with his lunch and he rushes and checks his camel for someone to take care of his things and he runs to the battlefield to talk to the men and see how his brothers are carrying their lunch , but it's bigger than you think.

Just as they see the Philistine army come out from behind the front rows of the Philistine army, this giant named Goliath appears and David happened, happened, happened to be. there, at the time when Goliath was first introduced and the Bible says in verse 23, he spoke with them and behold, the champion appeared, the Philistine of Gath, called Goliath, from the army of the Philistines, and spoke according to the same words. and david heard them when goliath came out speaking evil david heard them now everyone heard them but the bible does not mention who else heard them because they heard it but it did not affect them like it affected david when david heard him say that david thought now women now women who is it this uncircumcised philistine who should insult the armies of the living god and then david starts asking what will be given to the man the boy asks what will be given to the man who kills goliath and it seemed crazy to me because david was so small and goliath was so big and now you have to fight when you have a big challenge and a small stature the dichotomy between the two who have taken the stage is so wide that it seems insurmountable how something so small can chase something so big someone has a great vision and a a little money someone has a big calling and a little church someone has a big dream and a little help the dichotomy between the smallness of the child and the height of the giant is an opportunity for god to show himself strong don't you think god could have used a big man against a big man?

Don't you think god could have raised up a great man? giant against giant but god said my strength is perfected in weakness so I will choose the nonsense of the world to confuse the wise I want to talk to someone who is listening to me right now and who has felt inadequate I want you to see the dichotomy between the giant big and tall and the little boy I want you to understand that Jewish historians suggest to us that David was only about four ten maybe five feet at most just a little boy just a little boy four ten not even five feet on the other hand some They have suggested that Goliath was up to nine feet tall, so in essence he was twice the size of David, a little boy, a huge giant, and anyone standing outside would think how big God would be. with the big guy but no god god good god almighty god is with the little guy I will never forget when I started pastoring everyone made fun of me and called me the pastor boy and I was preaching in montgomery west virginia and I had about seven members and they said That guy was going out to preach and they were trying to make me feel bad about myself, but I fought back.

I said that David was a child when he killed Goliath, but that didn't make him any less dead. God will do it. he wears a little thing so the enemy is trying to make you feel inadequate because he wants to defame your potentials and your possibilities and deactivate your faith and your courage and he is using how things see you to intimidate you so that you don't think. You're the right woman for the job, so you don't think you can preach well enough so you don't think you can sing well enough so you don't think you're worthy of where God is. about to position yourself so that you don't think you are worthy of hanging out with the crowd you are about to enter and you are entering the situation from a perspective of smallness because if the devil can convince you that you are small you are already defeated the bible He said that we were before his eyes like grasshoppers and we were also on our side whenever you think that you are a grasshopper you are not ready to possess the promised land you have to know who you are despite your height you have to understand who you are despite your wallet you have to know who you are despite your studies you have to know who you are despite the fact that your husband left you you have to know who you are and what you have I rebuked the spirit of inferiority I eliminated the spirit of insufficiency I eliminated the spirit of incapacity little is a lot when God is cited of all the people in Israel God uses a good little thing God of mercy God owner of heaven and God of the earth who could have sent the angels from heaven God who could have sent Michael and Gabriel chose a little boy to get into a big fight I want to talk to someone who is in a big fight right now and the odds are against you and that doesn't look good and you're trying to gain confidence and you're trying to gather strength and satan has so much afraid that youyou feel capable that will make your own brother, your own brothers, rise up against you. and belittle you in front of everyone and there was David, the little boy facing something big, something that was twice his size, you would think his brothers would have supported him, but the enemy used his brothers to try to deflate him even further.

His confidence Elias said what are you doing up here I know you are a fool and you are a deception why don't you come home Eliot is reinforcing David's spirit of inadequacy I want you to identify your Elias what everyone has all these lives in their lives people that you let in that you thought people would support you that you came to help and instead of helping you they knock you down you see that you still don't understand david was coming to bring lunch to elias and instead of being alive and grateful for the launch that elive is trying to knock down, have you ever tried to help someone who wasn't trying to help you?

Have you ever tried to encourage someone who wasn't trying to encourage you? Have you ever had someone who was trying to bring you to your knees and make you feel inferior in front of people, open humiliation, said, where are those sheep that few sheep that you are supposed to take care of? He could have understood it if it was anyone else, but his brother could have understood it if it had been any other soldier he could have understood it if it had come from the Philistines he could have understood it if it had come from someone in the community he could have understood it if it had come from the camp but from your own home you are attacked a liar confronted you and I came to talk to someone who was hurt by someone you love I wanted to come talk to someone who already had to fight against the feeling of inability and instead of getting some help from the People who love you reinforced your insecurity, laughed at your dream and told you that you don't belong at the level where you are.

Well, I came to tell you that if you didn't belong here, God would. I have not put you in this and if you did not have what it takes, God would have brought you here to this fight and if you did not deserve to be here, you would not have been here, you were called for a time like this. this and this moment this moment here this moment here this moment right here god told me to tell you it's bigger than you think it's bigger than you think it's bigger than you think it's not about the bread it's not about the cheese it's not about the seed it's not about the grain this thing that's happening now is bigger than you think that's why your life is trying to discourage you because you're on something look at someone and yell that you're on something David didn't plan on fighting that day was not what he saw, it was not what he planned, it was what he had in mind and when you just looked at what he saw you would see how he could feel inadequate, he is no match for Goliath, he is not the one the size of goliath he has no weapons like goliath has no military backing like glass if you look at what he saw you would resign but the bible does not emphasize what he saw the bible emphasizes what he heard it does not say when he saw david what does it say when he heard that in reality the phrase is so simple and david heard it because We do not walk by sight but by faith and faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God this is a fight between sight and hearing is that you?

Are you going to believe what it seems or are you going to believe what you heard and David had it? Why does he say that David heard him? he heard goliath that's how he heard goliath that's how he heard it he heard it as an outrage he heard it as an insult he heard it as a mockery he heard it in a way that said I won't let this happen he heard it as a consolation as a challenge heard as something to get irritated with and how you hear things determines how you respond some people may hear it and run everyone else heard it and were horrified david heard it and got hot watch how you react to what you hear because it's an indication of what that you have been authorized to change.

You can't change what doesn't insult you. you can't change it until you hear it right until you hear it as a challenge until you hear it as an insult until you hear there's something to fight against that's lesson number four lesson number four is this write this down what you believe will always overcome what you see what you believe will always trump what you see I don't I don't care what you see, I don't care how bad it is, I don't care how dichotomous it is, I don't care how ridiculous it is, what you believe will always fight against what you see someone is at this moment. fight and everything you see says this is impossible and it's ridiculous and I don't have the resources and I don't have the support and I don't have the education and I don't have the money and I don't have the training and I feel so small and I feel so inadequate no I asked you how you feel I asked you what do you believe David believed that God should not be trifled with David believed in the God of Israel David believed in the armies of the living God David believed that he was greater than the enemy David believed that he had victory David believed that he was a victor david believed that he was more than enough david believed that if god sent him he was more than the world sent against david believed so much that he could do it that even without the help of Elijah, without the support of his friend, without the support of his family, David said, "I'll fight him, come on, let's go for it, let's go down, you're messing with the wrong black man." time, come on, you underestimate me just because I'm four foot ten, don't look at what you see, you need to look at what's inside me, greater is the one in me, that hallelujah, who am I preaching to you? underestimated your whole life you have always been told what you can't be and what you can't do and what you can't have and what you can't become but the devil is alive this is a defining moment in your life life this is a moment for god to show himself strong in your life this is a moment for god to appear and despite how you feel that god is going to do what you believe, so speak with your feelings and repeat to yourself that you must control yourself Speak with your emotions and call them in order.

Talk to every negative voice that says you belong in the sheep camp and say no. I'm going to fight today. I'm going to fight today. someone said. I'm going to fight today. I'm going to fight that's what they said I'm going to fight today I'm going to fight today win or lose shoot or dribble I'm going to fight today hallelujah you won't get the victory you and I will defeat me you're not intimidating me you wouldn't hold up I behind older is he was standing there with his self four feet there he was standing with no sword or shield there he was standing with no training or background he wasn't even enlisted in the army he wasn't even in the service but he made a decision, I will fight you, I will fight you and despite his stature, god brought him before the king, your gift will make room for you and take you before the king, whoever has heard of such a thing that a child would be brought to the king as a solution to a national crisis above the entire army , they brought this boy and said: this boy down here is talking about hitting while the army is running, he is talking bad now the army seems big, but David was big on the inside he was small on the outside but he was being on the inside and if you are the Big enough on the inside They'll take you before kings They'll put you before princess They'll take you to positions of power If you know who you are If you walk into the room like you're supposed to be there, people start paying attention and all the soldiers that should have been there In the field they brought David before the king and the lord told me to tell you to leave. ready for the shift get ready for the shifts get ready for the shift i know you're scared but get ready for the shift i know you're nervous but get ready for this shift i know you feel incompetent but get ready for the shift i know you have insecurities but get ready for the shift change.

I know you feel insufficient, but prepare for change. He will take you before the king and he sent me here to tell you that he is bigger than you think and here David is standing before the king and he brought him before the king and the king told him what you would come to do he said I came to kill goliath now look at this whoever killed goliath would gain saul's daughter whoever killed goliath would become financially richer whoever killed goliath his family would never have to pay taxes for the rest of his life david is fighting for a family that doesn't even like him You haven't fought until you've fought for someone who doesn't even appreciate you You haven't fought until you've fought for someone who thinks they don't appreciate you He doesn't even belong where you are, but the reason David was on the field battle was that if he killed Goliath, his father, who didn't even like him, he would no longer have to pay taxes.

Sometimes you have to fight even when people don't. I don't like you and David comes in the room and says I'll take it and he said I'll kill Goliath. Killing Goliath will change the lives of David's family. Killing Goliath changed David's life. Killing Goliath changed the way the army viewed him killing Goliath. to be positioned to be king as I prepare to reach the end of this message I want to warn you that every time god is about to elevate you there is always a goliath in front of you goliath is always the guardian of god's next move that am I talking up to that you find your Goliath?

You will not find your throne when you are near your throne. I am telling you what I know from my personal experience when you are near your throne. Goliath will always defend his. ugly head to fight you he is always an alarm system that you are close to the treasure satan always leaves a goliath to guard your treasure when you find your goliath you have found your treasure wherever the giant is that is where destiny calls you and when You see the giant, don't run away from the giant because if you run away from the giant, you will run away from your destiny while everyone else ran away from it.

David was running towards him because he knew that the giant was the key to the next dimension. in your life now listen to me I feel a prophetic influence coming upon me right now that goliath that you see right now is proof positive that he is guarding your treasure when you take it out god is going to open something incredible for you do not run from the giant run to him run straight to him now you have to understand they tried to give david saul the armor david put it on but it didn't fit you can't fight your goliath as someone else you have to fight your goliath as yourself because it was you who god brought to the place no appear as a stranger who I'm talking to don't appear as anyone else it's you who god bless you it's you who god called it's you who god anointed it's you that god Leave aside, it's you who God prepared for a time like this, you appear as yourself and he took off Saul's armor and said, "I can't, I can't fight in your armor," and you know what I always made the mistake every time I read. this text I thought that David left the house with five smooth stones but it wasn't like that, he said wait a minute the only thing he had with him was a bag, a shepherd's bag and I had to go down to the stream and bring him some stones because you have to realize that David didn't even come there to fight so this was an emergency and in an emergency you have to use what is at your disposal in an emergency you have to use what is at your disposal in an emergency you have to go back to the basics in an emergency you have to go back to your roots someone said how the hell after 43 years can you stand preaching in an empty church I said because I started in an empty church and in an emergency I know how to get back to your shelter I know how to get back you mess with the wrong one because I know how I got out of the tent I know how to stand alone and preach the pure word of God David knew how to fight with stones I didn't know anything about shields, I didn't know anything about swords, I didn't know anything about catapults, I didn't know anything about horses, all I knew fighting was stones, but whatever you are good at, God will do it. use something you have god will use something you are used to god will use something you are familiar with and david there david was the would-be king of israel he is on the riverbed like a child looking through the crabs choosing rocks I want that one that is very hard I want that one here and that one there and he made him a weapon he made him a weapon it wasn't even a sling it was a shepherd's bag converted into a sling It was a bag, it was a rag and a stone and he ran towards that field and said : what did you say?

He ran onto that field and the dichotomy was so strong that Goliath laughed and laughed and said that everyone could sing against it. me today and that boy with that rag and I brought him this was not going to kill me what am I a dog that you sent this boy here to kill me the enemy was insulted that God sinned so little after so much but what The devil didn't know is that it is bigger than you think. Donald didn't know that's what he doesn't know about you. He doesn't know you any more than he thinks.

He doesn't know that you are bigger than he thinks. He doesn't know that God is going to use you in a greater way than he thinks despite how you grew up despite what happened in your childhood despite your background despite your difficulties despite your insecurities the message that God gave me for you is that it is bigger than you think and I closed this message today I want you to understand this, whatever it was that you had in mind, that God was going to do, bring it out, whatever it was that you thought was going to happen , get rid of it, whatever it is.

What God could do in your life is too small. The Holy Spirit said this is bigger than you think. He raises his hands, opens his mouth and says yes to greatness with your ball of foot. Hallelujah with your worried self. with your selfinsecure and intimidated. Let God listen. your voice because what he's about to do in your life is bigger than you think and I know he lied and I know they didn't treat you right and they didn't welcome you and I know they didn't do what you thought They would do it when you thought they would , but the Lord sent me here to tell you that the reason he has caused all his commotion in your life was to put you in position because what he is preparing to do is bigger, no, no, no, it's bigger. that think again is bigger than that is bigger than you think what God is preparing to do in your life is bigger than that so I rehearse this for you number one, great people do small things with excellence , number two, showing up for battle is half the battle number three, providence makes sense from the absurd and number four, what you believe will always surpass what you see.

Hey, through that little rock on Goliath, I could barely see it, but it was bigger than I thought. He hit him on the head and knocked him to the ground and then we see why David didn't have a sword because God used Goliath's sword to kill him. God is going to use what your enemy is trying to use on you. God is going to use it with him and David was and Goliath. He was beheaded by his own sword I want you to praise God while your goliath bleeds you will prevail and you don't have to be taller and you don't have to be richer and you don't have to be bigger wiser or smarter because you're bigger than you think because God is bigger than you think because your little weapons that you pulled out of the gutter that look like nothing more than a child's toys are bigger than you think, don't be afraid to throw it away it looks small but through it it looks small but inverted it seems small but planted because your little seed may be very small but it is bigger than you think because of what you are believing that God will do it seems paradoxical to all that you are trying to do but the Lord told me to tell you and it is bigger than you think it is no coincidence that you are hearing this message today this is the Sunday that puts in order the armies of the living god and things are about to change for you despite how you feel you have been feeding your feelings all your life your victory is not in your feelings darling your victories and your faith and david heard it among all the people who heard it when it was the right one one heard it said: you are going to fall today you are going to fall today and everything that was promised to him he ended up with Saul's daughter he ended up rich and wealthy his family ended up not paying taxes and he ended up with the king's throne because this day no one preaches about this lunch no one preaches about these ten loaves no one preaches about this eve full of corn the one that no one preaches they don't preach about it because they don't think it's big no I don't preach about traveling and getting up early in the morning to bring lunch because they don't think it's big, but when I read it, God told me it's bigger than I thought. what do you think.

He left you those words, teach them to your children. they are bigger than they think share it with your spouse you are bigger than you think show it to your ministry you are bigger than you think I know the odds are against you and things don't look good but God said so It's bigger than you think, can I pray with you right now? I want to have an honest moment just you and me, an honest moment with people who don't feel enough and who, late at night, when everyone else has gone to sleep, feel like they're an impostor in their own life who people respect you more than you respect yourself and they believe in you and they expect things from you that you don't think you can do yourself because they see greatness and you measured yourself and you know you're only four feet tall I want to pray with the people who have shied away from challenges because you gauged yourself that you don't know how to receive praise because you gauged yourself that you don't know how to take on new challenges and You feel strange in big rooms with new people because you feel so vulnerable, so insufficient. , less than I want you to be honest and let me enter that room that you don't show to anyone so that you and I can touch each other and agree not to.

I want to pray for who you pretend to be I want to pray for you, four feet tall, who are standing in the field looking at something that is so high you can't see the end of it. I want to pray with the part of you that shrinks. away from the opportunities that makes excuses when you have opportunities the part of you that tries to stay silent and be invisible in rooms because you don't feel like you are enough and you never have been, but today God wants to heal you and he is going to help you. use this word to do it and I know that the people who should have built you up didn't build you up and the voices that should have told you who you were laughed at you and told you to go home and take care of yourself. your sheep but that's why god sent me to remind you despite how you measure yourself you're bigger than you think and as you and I pray today the holy spirit said don't be afraid, you're standing on the precipice of a great opportunity no. lose it don't make an excuse to run high because of your feelings of inadequacy you have always thought you were inadequate and you have always been wrong I touch you and I agree with you right now in the name of Jesus that comes from you that lying and abusive voice that has always tormented you would be reputed by the power of god and that once and for all you are defending the integrity of who god says you are that once and for all you would run after what is running after you with stones in hand because you know who you are once and for all when you and I touch each other and agree that you would recognize that your god is bigger than your biggest doubts and your biggest fears and your biggest worries and because he is in you both are bigger than you you think if I don't rebuke this spirit it will kill your life it will kill your ministry it will kill your opportunity it will kill your marriage it will kill your family it will kill your career it will kill your company I am coming against that four footed you you are a giant killer and you don't even know it I speak to those of you who have been surrounded by ordinary days and have stopped being the best version of themselves because they don't I don't think it matters, but the little things matter the way you walk the way you talk the way you present yourself the way you you speak the way you dress everything matters god use these ordinary little days as precursors to the greatness that is about to burst into your life don't waste another little day because every little day is bigger than you think.

I challenge you right now without worrying about who is looking or what they think or how they might judge you to raise your hands, open your mouth and let the holy spirit come in let the holy spirit come in and touch the ball of your foot you the ball of your foot you the scared one the tired you, the you who makes excuses and the you who hides and the you who runs and the you who feels inadequate and the you who argues with people and barks and people so that they don't see that behind that barking dog you are just a puppy scared raise your hands raise your mind raise your thoughts the word of the lord has come to you today you are greater than you believe this is the word of the lord from the potter's house to your house this is a prophetic statement about the mediocre and mundane days that you let slip away each one of them is bigger than you think your lunch is your legacy in the name of Jesus amen you