Welcome to this weekend's In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley.

Our study of First Samuel continues today with the timeless story of David and Goliath.

Stay with us to uncover powerful principles that can help you when facing life's foes.

When I think about Goliath in this particular passage, and I want us to look at it from David's point of view and the things that went through David's mind as he faced the biggest test in his life up until this point, though he had wrestled with a bear and a lion.

Here he was facing a man who was something to behold, nine feet, nine inches tall, dressed in armor, 125 pounds,

a tremendous javelin, a brass javelin, and more than likely David knew how accurate he must

have been because he was challenging anybody and everybody that would come and fight him in the

whole army of Israel. And you see, what had been happening was the nation of Israel and the nation of Philistines had been fighting back and forth, back and forth, over and over and over again.

So it's in that context that David comes upon the scene.

But when I think about Goliath and think about Israel, here is Israel, the God who brought them out of the land of Egypt. Listen, if their God

could part the Red Sea, if their God could feed them from heaven for 40 years, if their God could

dry up the Jordan while they walked through, if their God could break down and destroy the walls

of Jericho, surely he can trip up a fellow like

Goliath. But you see, when the spirit of God is not in control of your life, you become

afraid of things that you have no business being afraid of. What about that habit that you just

can't break out of? What about that relationship you can't break off? What about that habit that you just can't break out of? What about that relationship you can't break off?

What about that attitude in your life that you can't seem to get loose from? What is it in your life that is to you tonight like a Goliath?

You're frightened by it, you're defeated by it, you're hung up over it, you can't seem to be making any progress

because every time you move out, there is that thing in your life that you can't seem to deal with.

So I want us to look to see in this 17th chapter, some things that David did, the very things

that he did that will help us face anything and everything it comes into our life.

And the first thing I want you to notice here is this. And this is a key to the whole

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