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Coming up today on a new beginning, Pastor Greg Laurie offers some good reassurance

for the growing tide of challenges people often face in their lives.

We all face problems. We all face obstacles. We all face

challenges and we all face giants. But can you see them in the light of who God is?

Don't look at God in the light of your problem. Look at your problem in the light of God.

It's all how you look at things.

When you're driving clear across the country, you might encounter the Rocky Mountains,

a huge mountain range. Pike's peak alone jets up more than 14,000 feet into the sky.

But when you fly over those mountains on an airliner, it kind of looks like the same ground

you saw an hour ago, but with more texture.

Well, so it is with differing perspectives. And today on a new beginning,

Pastor Greg Laurie brings us God's reassuring perspective on our mountain-sized problems.

Turning your Bibles to Numbers, Chapter 13. In the title of this message, it's all how you look at

things. Now, maybe as you're listening to me, you are facing a gigantic problem.

And as the days go by, your giant just gets bigger. For instance, it could be a giant

affair. You're afraid right now. And no wonder you look at an uncertain economy. You look at

riots in the streets and something else that might be frightening right now.

Some challenge your facing of some kind and you are paralyzed with fear. Or it might be a giant,

if you will, of some kind of a personal sin. A certain area of your life that you fall in over

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