Facing the giants

I want to encourage both young and old and off course everyone in between, men and woman alike; I am pleading with those who hunger for success, you may think that if I have enough money I know that I will succeed, if I have allot of talent, if I become popular and so on, money can not do everything, talent is a bonus but it will only take you so far, but if you work at knowing, loving God and working with God, who and what will stop you. STOP, Pause, consider, think deeply on what I have said to you up to now, once you have meditated and contemplated on this section above read the following scriptures and let God's word become the source of your joy.

Heb 13:5-6 AMP  Let your character or moral disposition be free from love of money [including greed, avarice, lust, and craving for earthly possessions] and be satisfied with your present [circumstances and with what you have]; for He [God] Himself has said, I will not in any way fail you nor give you up nor leave you without support. [I will] not, [I will] not, [I will] not in any degree leave you helpless nor forsake nor let [you] down (relax My hold on you)! [Assuredly not!] [Josh. 1:5.]  (6)  So we take comfort and are encouraged and confidently and boldly say, The Lord is my Helper; I will not be seized with alarm [I will not fear or dread or be terrified]. What can man do to me? [Ps. 27:1;118:6.]

1Jn 4:4 AMP  Little children, you are of God [you belong to Him] and have [already] defeated and overcome them [the agents of the antichrist], because He Who lives in you is greater (mightier) than he who is in the world.

Jer 17:7-8 AMP  [Most] blessed is the man who believes in, trusts in, and relies on the Lord, and whose hope and confidence the Lord is.  (8)  For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters that spreads out its roots by the river; and it shall not see and fear when heat comes; but its leaf shall be green. It shall not be anxious and full of care in the year of drought, nor shall it cease yielding fruit.

Many times in life we go through process that we do not understand nor enjoy but in the end it develops character and courage, you know David was looked down upon, his family did not think much of him, after all he was not even considered or invited to the meeting when the prophet Samuel was sent to select and anoint one of Jesse's son's (David's father) as king over Israel. The good news was that where David was taking care of his fathers sheep and at time struggling with danger, he learned to kill a lion and a bear, with face to face confrontations. 1Sa 17:34-37 NKJV  But David said to Saul, "Your servant used to keep his father's sheep, and when a lion or a bear came and took a lamb out of the flock,  (35)  I went out after it and struck it, and delivered the lamb from its mouth; and when it arose against me, I caught it by its beard, and struck and killed it.  (36)  Your servant has killed both lion and bear; and this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, seeing he has defied the armies of the living God."  (37)  Moreover David said, "The LORD, who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, He will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine." And Saul said to David, "Go, and the LORD be with you!"

Learn to face every situation that life throws at you, because these are tools in your hand that prepares you for greatness, stop running away from the challenges, grab hold of God and ask Him to shape you so that you can better face today and so that you can grasp the future fearlessly, get to grips with your life in Christ and allow the Holy Spirit to develop the warrior in you.

You are able to do all things through Christ, He will strengthen you, He is Lord of Lord's and King of king's, He has already made a public spectacle of the works of darkness and He is inviting us to overcome our situations in Him, now look at the following scriptures

Joh 16:33 NKJV  These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world."
Col 2:6-8 NKJV  As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,  (7)  rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.  (8)  Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ.
2Ti 1:7 NKJV  For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.