21 Days of Prayer & Fasting - Day 1
Day 1
1 Samuel 17:10-11
Goliath’s voice was loud, intimidating, and public—meant to shame God’s people into silence and retreat. Saul and Israel heard the same words everyone else heard, and their response was fear, dismay, and paralysis. The giant didn’t have to swing a sword; he only had to shape what they believed about what was possible.
This is where the sermon meets us at the start of a new year: the battle often begins in what you agree with. Fear can look like wisdom, and intimidation can disguise itself as “being realistic.” But when we measure our future only by what we see in front of us, we forget what God has already proven behind us.
Before you can overachieve by faith, you have to name the voice that’s been defying your hope—at home, at work, in your health, in your mind. God is not asking you to pretend the giant isn’t there; He’s inviting you to stop letting the giant define the terms of the fight.
Goliath’s voice was loud, intimidating, and public—meant to shame God’s people into silence and retreat. Saul and Israel heard the same words everyone else heard, and their response was fear, dismay, and paralysis. The giant didn’t have to swing a sword; he only had to shape what they believed about what was possible.
This is where the sermon meets us at the start of a new year: the battle often begins in what you agree with. Fear can look like wisdom, and intimidation can disguise itself as “being realistic.” But when we measure our future only by what we see in front of us, we forget what God has already proven behind us.
Before you can overachieve by faith, you have to name the voice that’s been defying your hope—at home, at work, in your health, in your mind. God is not asking you to pretend the giant isn’t there; He’s inviting you to stop letting the giant define the terms of the fight.
Points To Consider
- What “giant voice” has been shaping your expectations for this year (finances, family, health, fear, regret)?
- Where have you felt “dismayed and greatly afraid” recently, and what did that fear keep you from doing?
- List three ways God has already brought you through in the past, and read that list aloud in prayer.
- What is one specific decision you have been delaying because you feel outmatched?
- Today, choose one verse, worship song, or prayer you will use as your response when intimidation speaks.
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