Had David not gone for the lion and the bear, he would not have been prepared to go for Goliath.

We got to be willing to fight the smaller battles or we're not ready for the big one.

Listen, in the middle of your big encounter with Goliath, you want to be prepared for that battle.

You've got a calling on your life, but you're going to have to learn how to defend it.

I can tell you that. You've got a calling on your life, but you're going to have to learn how to defend it. I can tell you that.

You've got a calling on your life that is equipped by the very grace and grace gifting of God.

But battle takes some skill.

It is gifting. It is supernatural strength and supernatural power.

But he wants you and I to get in the place where we are skilled with the use of the word of God and warfare, where we are skilled about the things of warfare. Not that we're just, I mean, yes, we're already gifted,

but are we skilled enough to know what to do with our gift?

I need somebody to get this one with me.

Anybody?

We've got to know what to do.

Never think to yourself, there's no place for skill.

There's no place we're really getting educated.

We've got everything.

We're all good to go right here. No, what wisdom is knowing what to do with knowledge. It is the skill to be able to execute

in the time of need, in the time of war, what is appropriate for the moment. We've got to learn to be deliberate. We've got to

stop winging it and start slinging it. Anybody know what I'm talking about? Y'all, listen to me.

We're going to have to trade in some of our slingbacks for slingshots. I know no other way to say it.

Because, you know, we are, a lot of us really, really girly girls.

I get it in every way.

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