Confronting a God-Sized Task in Faith

Scripture reading:  1 Samuel 17 

But David said to Saul, “Your servant has been keeping his father’s sheep. When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock, I went after it, struck it and rescued the sheep from its mouth. When it turned on me, I seized it by its hair, struck it and killed it.  Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God.  The Lord who rescued me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will rescue me from the hand of this Philistine.”  1 Samuel 17:34-37

1. All that you are to do comes from who you are in Christ!
1. Servant
2. Comforter
3. King
4. Conqueror
5. Leader
2. God prepares you to do all that you are to do in him through your experience of Him!
1. Shepherd
2. Protector
3. Provider
3. God’s work in you is not dependent upon the words or the work of those around you!
1. Shirkers: Brothers
2. Watchers: Soldiers
3. Counselors: King
4. God’s Victory for you will be accomplished uniquely through you!
1. Your gifts: Sling, Stone, No armor and no army
2. Your beliefs about God!
3. Your beliefs about who you are in God!
4. Your past walk with God!

Summary:

1. All that you are to do comes from who you are in Christ!
2. God prepares you to do all that you are to do in him through your experience of Him!
3. God’s work in you is not dependent upon the words or the work of those around you!
4. God’s Victory for you will be accomplished uniquely through you!

SO WHAT?

• Are you a follower of Christ?
• What particular work is Jesus doing in your world?
• What had Jesus done in your life?
• Can you sense ways that those two things intersect to indicate God’s invitation to you to obey Him?
• Step out in faith!!!