Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, January 16th.

The story of David and Goliath captures a timeless theme.

Who doesn't love seeing the underdog win?

Today, we can go deeper into this story to uncover powerful principles to help us conquer the giants in our own life.

All of us face those circumstances in life.

At times we feel overwhelmed and things are out of control and we feel threatened by

defeat and threatened by embarrassment and threatened by despair.

And when we face those kind of battles in life, our greatest defense is strong faith

in the living God. Not just faith, but faith in the living God based upon the foundation of the

Word of God. When my faith is built upon this book, it is possible for me to be victorious and to conquer in every single circumstance of life.

And that's what I want to talk about in this message, the faith that conquers.

And I want you to turn, if you will, to First Samuel.

And in First Samuel, there is the story, the most familiar one probably of all the

stories in the Bible about David, is the story of David and Goliath. I want us to read just one

part of this 17th chapter. What I would like for us to read is beginning in verse 45 and read

David's declaration of what he was going to do

to Goliath the giant. This is a tremendous expression of faith on his part and I want you to read

along here. Listen, verse 45, then David said to the Philistine, you come to me with a sword, a spear and a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of host, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have taunted.

This day, the Lord will deliver you up into my hands, and I will strike you down and remove your head from you and I will give the dead bodies

of the army of the Philistines this day to the birds of the sky and the wild beast of the earth

that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel and that all the assembly may know

that the Lord does not deliver by the sword or by spear,

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