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Louie Giglio
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April 28 - July 28, 2019
Jesus is fighting for us, and he has won the war, defeated the Enemy.
Father is the one true God. He is just and the Justifier. He’s the one who can save, the only one who can bring your heart to life again. My Father is the only deliverer, the only one who can bring salvation to his people. He’s the only one who can break the chains. He’s the only one who can open the doors. He’s the only one who can shut down the lies. He is God, and there is no other. He is a God of grace, a God of kindness, a God of compassion, a God of love, a God who would sacrifice his own Son for you and me. He is the Lord, and there is no other God.”
Change isn’t the result of a formula.
Victory starts with changing our minds and believing that Jesus fought once and for all, and our giant has fallen.
that same Jesus leads us into victory. Praise God. Not only will Goliath fall. He must fall. He must fall so Jesus can be exalted in this world.
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
In Scripture, the commandment repeated the most is the commandment to fear not.
Fear doesn’t always look like fear.
the giant of fear can taunt us, but it doesn’t have the ultimate power. Jesus has the ultimate power.
the giant of fear is already dead. It’s done for. It was conquered by Jesus on the cross. In the name of Jesus, the giant of fear must fall.
The opposite of fear is faith.
Fear is a symptom of a deeper cause.
Fear comes from our conditioning.
Fear comes from our concealing.
Concealing will drive us crazy. Mistakes and sins and imperfections were never meant to be bottled up. We need to shed those feelings of impending doom at the foot of the cross.
Fear comes from our controlling.
The antidote to fear is faith, and the soundtrack of faith is worship.
“Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God”
When we see and hear God in and through his Word, the Word allows us to hear that Jesus is enough and to see that God is bigger. That builds up our faith, and our faith becomes the stone that shuts up the giant that’s already defeated, the giant called fear. When we hear and see Jesus, things change in our lives.
‘Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.’”
“It’s okay. I’ve got you—even in the midst of this storm. You have nothing to fear.”
We remind ourselves that God is able.
God is able. Period.
God can work instantaneously.
Yet God often works through a process.
Our words are powerful.
my God is able to save.
That’s exactly how God’s Word works. As we soak and meditate on his words, we replace in our brain what we are afraid of. A storm might be raging around us. A giant might be taunting us and demoralizing us. But we can saturate ourselves in the truths of God’s Word and remind ourselves that God is able. He is always able. He is the Lord, and there is no other who can save but him. What he has purposed will happen, and what he has said will come about.
We set the Lord always before us.
“I have set the LORD always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken”
But God was bigger than the giant.
God is present in our lives too.
Jesus lives in us when giants taunt us. Jesus lives in us when we are in the midst of a storm. Because Jesus is at our right hand, we will not be shaken.
That giant has fallen, my friends. God is able. He is always able.
anxiety is not a thing in and of itself.
To be free from fear we have to specifically name the things that are keeping us up at night.
But you, O LORD, are a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter of my head. I cried aloud to the LORD, and he answered me from his holy hill. I lay down and slept; I woke again, for the LORD sustained
will rest secure.” When Jesus is in view, worship can flow unobstructed from our mouths.
he has always come through for us and that his mercy has never failed us.
Worship and worry cannot occupy the same space; they can’t both fill our mouths at the same time.
The antidote to fear is faith, and the soundtrack of faith is worship.
When we deliberately and purposely focus our attention on Christ, we are reminded that God is able. We know he is always present with us. And we also know he is always good. We say with David, “I have set the Lord always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.”
Jesus has already taken the sling and the stone and slain the giant. The giant of fear has already fallen. The work is already done by Christ on the cross. Our responsibility is to have faith. That’s the antidote. God is able. Jesus is enough. When we set our eyes on him, we will not be shaken. We will rest secure.
You are worth Jesus to God.
All people battle with some sort of rejection.
we all began miraculously—fully loved and fully accepted—in the mind and heart of almighty God. We are all God’s creations. Masterpieces.
if social media is the place we get our value, then we’re sunk. If we live for people’s approval, we will die by their rejection.
If we are not careful, then we will forget we were miraculously created by God for a purpose and a plan that he set in motion for our lives. He didn’t ask us to compare ourselves to other people or run someone else’s race. He said, “Run your race.” Period. He didn’t ask us to work on someone else’s timetable. He wants us to work on his timetable. God wants us to believe and know in our souls that “he who began a good work in [us] will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus” (Philippians 1:6). Jesus wants us to understand where we came from and whose we are. When we lose sight
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