Goliath Must Fall: Winning the Battle Against Your Giants

by Louie Giglio

The premise is that Jesus’ desire for your life and my life is that we would have life to the full.

Wanting to steer toward great outcomes is noble. But trying to control the world is disastrous. In time, controllers crack under the reality that none of us are in

Comfort isn’t wrong if we’re talking about genuine rest that refreshes us. But comfort can become a huge problem if it morphs into complacency or entitlement.

Our feelings have a way of hurting the relationships that matter,

Jesus offers an abundant life to everyone who follows him. “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy,”

Jesus said; “I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full” (John 10:10). Jesus didn’t come to earth to die on the cross and be resurrected from the grave so we could settle for a reduced amount of God’s best. Jesus intended for us to “really live” (1 Thessalonians 3:8). And that means we can live freely in the power of what he has accomplished for us.

may look as though the six-fingered, six-toed, furious, foaming, fearless thing coming at us can’t be beaten. But through the power of Jesus, whatever needs to be overcome can—and will—come down.

The message of this book is that God extends his grace and favor toward us to allow us to experience his supernatural power. It’s about us agreeing with him and letting his Holy Spirit work in our lives to put us on right paths, right ways of thinking and living.

Jesus is David in the story of David and Goliath. Jesus is the giant killer. Does that fact not wake us all up? Hello? We are not David. You are not David. I am not David. Jesus is David! Jesus fights the battles for us. Jesus stares down the face of impossible odds. Jesus takes up his sling. Jesus selects five smooth stones. Jesus takes aim at the giant. The giant falls because of the work of Jesus.

God wanted victory to come simply because one young man trusted in him.

Worship is simply a shift of attention that allows

us to see God better. Worship is like corrective lenses for our souls, bringing God clearer into view. That’s important for all of us, especially when life goes off the rails. Worship puts God in focus. When the Almighty is in view, our giant’s power over our thinking begins to flicker and fade.

Real change began to creep into the equation when the roots of control and approval were dislodged and disrupted.

That belongs to God.

need someone bigger than my giant to set my gaze on. Otherwise, I listen needlessly to a dead Goliath when the Maker of heaven is holding me in his hands.

But Satan can still wriggle and squirm and make the hairs on our necks stand up. If we step on Satan’s fangs, he can still poison us and cause serious harm.

Satan was defeated on the cross.

Your giant is dead. And yet . . . Your giant is still deadly.

Satan has been defeated, yet he is still dangerous. First Peter 5:8 describes it this way: “Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.”

Resisting means we make a stand against temptation.

we truly want to change, then we need to understand our dependency on the all-sufficiency of Jesus Christ. Our change is more about trusting and less about trying. We’ve got to make this paradigm shift in our minds.

“His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness” (2 Peter 1:3).

Christ’s grace is readily available to us, yet in its entirety it’s so amazing it’s unfathomable.

Paul wasn’t doing “all things” because of Christ-plus-something. It was Christ-plus-nothing.

See, whenever a problem is concealed, it finds power in the darkness. But when a problem is confessed, it loses that power. Confession brings the light of Christ to shine upon that problem.

Victory starts with changing our minds and believing that Jesus fought once and for all, and our giant has fallen.

fear grips us whenever we believe that apart from, or in spite of, our best efforts, something undesirable is going to happen and we can’t stop it. Sometimes fear is irrational, and sometimes it’s rational. But no matter what kind of fear it is, it always affects us.