From the Living Bible I will discuss about overcoming challenges of life.
Firstly, challenges are what limits our life expectations.
Judges 1:17-19, 27-29.
It certain in life that there will be challenges, It is either you overcome the challenge or it overcomes you.
For one to face challenges and win over it, fear must not be entertained.
God gives the victory:
The children of Israel failed to acknowledge that the can still be victorious when God is with them, no matter how fierce and big the challenge looks. Presently, Israelites are still facing the challenge of wars between countries because the failed to completely drive out other countries in the old time.
Judges 1:28 "when Israel became strong, they pressed the Canaanites into forced labor but never drove them out completely".
What is the challenge that christains face! It is certain that challenges will come but christains shouldn't fail to acknowledge that there is great victory in Jesus Christ.
Goliath was a challenge:
1 Samuel 17:4-11. "A champion named Goliath, who was from Gath, came out of the philistine camp. He was over nine feet tail, he had a bronze helmet on his head and wore a coat of scale armor of bronze weighing five thousand shekels, on his legs he wore bronze greaves, and a bronze javelin was slung on his back. His spear shaft was like a weavers rod, and it's iron point weighed six hundred shekels. His shield bearer went ahead of him.
Goliath stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, why do you come out to and line up for battle? Am I not a philistine, and are you not the servants of Saul? Choose a man and have him come down to me.
If he is able to fight and kill me we will become your subjects but if I overcome him, you will become our subjects and serve us.
On hearing his voice the Israelites will afraid and dismayed".
Goliath defeated
1 Samuel 17:45 -51.
Despite how big and powerful Goliath was, he was defeated by a boy named David by the power of God.
Confrontations of life will ask the christains the questions; who are you? Who is your God? Where is your God?, but it takes understanding of the word of God to answer and overcome the confrontations.
Summary:
It only takes a man of faith and understanding of the word of God to overcome and have victory.
Don't see your challenges to appear bigger than you can conquer.
I charge christains to always know that no matter how fierce, hard, big the situation looks, God is able to deliver and give victory to his own.
Always trust God for victory!
