Bringing Down Your Foundational Goliath

1 Samuel 17:26-27, 40-51*
He said again, “Can I ask you a question?” I replied, “Yes.” He asked, “How many wives does Solomon have?” I said “700.” He asked again, “Is he not the wisest man that lived?” I replied, “Yes, that is what the Bible said.” He said yet again. “I am not asking for two or three, just one.” I said again, “Professor, do not do so.”

He still did not listen. He went to marry this strange woman. I do not know what prayer the woman at home prayed, but a week before the wedding, the strange woman died. You would have thought that since that woman had died, that would be the end of everything. But the family of the strange woman said to him, “Since your wedding is on Friday and your wife is already dead, we have to go ahead with the wedding.”. The man asked, “How?” They said, “We will wed you with the corpse.” He protested, saying, “That is not good.” They maintained, “You have to do it.”

And as if drugged, the professor went with them to the cemetery, and there they wedded the living with the dead. And from that day, anywhere the professor went, he would be seeing the dead woman. In the lecture room, he would be shouting, “Get out of the room; you are dead.” His students would say, “Where? There is nobody here.” He said, “Can you not see her?” Then they grabbed the professor and took him to the psychiatric hospital, and started giving him drugs. What the drugs did was to multiply the woman to three. He used to see just one of her, but after the drugs, they became three.
It was then he remembered that he had come to me. He then came back. I said, “But prof, I warned you.” When there is Goliath, we will know who the true kings, soldiers, and professors are. Goliath looked down on Israel with contempt. But he made a mistake. He did not know that there was another factor to be considered. He was not aware that he was confronting covenant children of God, and David understood this as the covenant mark of the circumcision. So regardless of the strength, knowledge, or intelligence of the opposition, David knew he had an advantage.

I am sure Goliath would get up every morning and say to himself in the mirror, “I am going to shake up those Israelites today.” However, David did not see Goliath the way Goliath saw himself. As the giant roared against David, David was not impressed. He said, “Who is this uncircumcised Philistine? Who is this one?” David looked at him from a different perspective, which is how believers should look at the powers of darkness. “Who is this useless coven confronting me?” “Who is this occultic grandmaster talking against me?” As far as David was concerned, the giant was uncircumcised and had no covenant with God.

So you could see that David had a very big view of God, and he measured everything by that view. He had seen enough of God to cut everything else down to size. Goliath may be a giant foe, but he must fall before the living God. Unfortunately, many of us see our Goliath before we see God. Many hide before the enemy and expect to defeat the enemy. But David was not impressed. He said, “What kind of rubbish is this? What sort of nonsense is this?” So our greatest need, beloveth is to see the greatness of our God. David said, “This Goliath is small before my God.” David looked to God rather than to man. To recognise that all those forces facing us are nothing before God is a way to start the battle. What is your own uncircumcised philistine today?

●I decree by the decree of heaven: it shall fall after the order of Goliath, in the name of Jesus.
The book of Zechariah said, “Who are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel, thou shall become a plain.” He queried the mountain. So the spirit of Goliath uses threatenings, weapons, armour, and giant size to harass people. But I have a word of prophecy for somebody today. I do not really know that person.

● Your terrifying strongman shall fall down today, in the name of Jesus.One ingredient that you are going to need this morning is holy anger. Holy anger is for when you want to right the wrong, when the enemy has gone beyond his boundary.

NOW, WHAT IS THE SPIRIT OF GOLIATH?
The spirit of Goliath represents:

∆∆ The confident enemies.

∆∆ Armoured enemies, they feel they are protected. They feel they have godfathers and godmothers.

∆∆ Unrepentant and stubborn strong man.

The loud enemy.

Powers that defy our faith and prayers.
Powers mocking our prayers.

Enemies with fearful credentials.

In one place I worked many years back, they feared one man seriously. One gardener annoyed the man, and I heard the man tell the gardener,

“You, this man, you do not know me. The last time I cursed a person, the person was eating raw wood. The last time I cursed another person, the person jumped into fire without knowing. The last time I cursed a person, the person drank poison and died.” He then began to curse this gardener, and the man began to tremble. I then said to the gardener, “Are you a Christian?”
He said, “Yes.” I asked, “And you kept quiet?” He said, “Can you not hear what he is saying?” I said, “That is the voice of Goliath. Go and look for him and offer a response.” David did not keep quiet when Goliath was talking. He responded. The Bible says, “Any tongue that rises against me shall be condemned.” I said, “Go back there and tell the man, You might have cursed people, but my case is different. Every word you have said, I multiply it by seven and send it back to you.” He did so, and the man replied, “You will see.” The next day, this evil man could not come to work. His weapon had backfired.

● I am praying that any power boasting against your life, your career, your family, your staff of bread, and your children, with an angry 7-fold amen, I command them to die, in the name of Jesus.

Goliath represents:

Mocking enemies.

Madam, are they mocking you in that place? Brother, are they mocking you?

● Those mocking you shall celebrate your breakthroughs, in the name of Jesus.

Giant problems.

Big problems.

Boasting problems.

Persistent problems.

The Bible said that Goliath was coming every morning and evening to threaten people. He did it 80 times. I want to pray this prayer, and the answer will come to people who can shout the loudest amen they can shout.

● I decree that any power that does not want to give you peace: today here is their burial ground, in the name of Jesus.

● I am praying for somebody again, that the fear of you will fall upon every power of darkness assigned against you, in the name of Jesus.

● Receive the anointing to be a terror to the kingdom of darkness in the name of Jesus.

I want you to understand this very well.

Problems that instill fear into the mind.

That thing that is scaring you is the spirit of Goliath.

Well-trained enemies. When David went to Saul and said, ‘I want to fight the man,’ Saul said something interesting. He said, “Thou art but a youth, but he is a man of war from his youth.”

Well-trained enemies.

Enemies who will stand and cook up lies against you.

Cursing enemies.

Any power cursing you shall receive their curses back on their heads, in the name of Jesus.

The threatening enemies.

The “I will deal with you” enemies.

The proud enemies.

Proud competitors

Proud opponents.

Proud opposition.

Proud aggressors.

Proud betrayers.

Proud contenders.

Proud foes.

Proud rivals.

Proud molesters.

Get yourself ready this morning. There are some anti-Goliath prayers to pray this morning. So, if the spirit of Goliath represents all these and it has started to battle you from your foundation, then you need to violently deal with it. This is why this passage opens our eyes very well.

There are deep passages to learn from this story. If you study it closely, you will learn that:
With God, you can do the impossible.

>You must make use of what you already have. The stones in the hands of David were what he used.

You should not underestimate your capabilities. You never know what you can do until you try and put your faith into action.

We should be bigger than our fears.

You should know that giants are not always as strong or powerful as we think they are. Every Goliath, no matter how big or strong they are, has an unprotected forehead where you can throw your stones. All these lessons are in this passage. You can preach on this passage for one year.

No matter how big your giants are, God is bigger.
Just because somebody has not done it before does not mean it cannot be done. Nobody had destroyed Goliath before; David was the first to do it.

We should fight our battles in the name of the Lord.

You must never underestimate what God can do through you. Fear comes when we take our minds off God. When Peter took his eyes off Jesus, he began to sink.
To have faith, do not rely on your senses. When it comes to the things of God, you cannot measure it by your academic brain. The best of brains cannot cope with the mysteries of God.

The battle is not yours; it is the Lord’s. And when God appears at your warfront, your battle is over.

You must know your spiritual weapons. If you do not have the book ‘101 Weapons of War,’ go and buy it. David had five stones, and he had calculated that if he missed like four, at least one stone would catch Goliath.

Do not talk about how great your battles are; talk about how great your God is.

Your enemies are always spiritually prepared against you. So if you are naive and do not understand anything and think because you have not offended anybody, because you are a nice person, therefore you have no enemies, you are a fool. If I slap your face, you are not a wicked person by slapping me back. But when I have not touched you at all and you are slapping me, that is wickedness.

You do not need to offend anybody before a war can be declared against you.

You do not use the armour of a sword; use your divine protection. All these lessons are in that passage.
you send curses back to the senders. Goliath said he would destroy David. He cursed David by his gods. But David did not keep quiet. He replied, “It is me that will kill you today and feed your flesh to the birds of the air.”

You must learn to pronounce the curse of God upon what you do not want in your life.
Goliath died already before he died. Immediately David said, “I come against you in the name of the Lord of hosts whom you defied.” That was the end of the battle.
Last but not the least, a closed mouth is a closed destiny. David did not keep quiet; he fought back.

PRAYER POINTS.

1. Arrows of envious witchcraft, pointed at me, backfire in the name of Jesus.

2. Powers that stopped my parents, you cannot stop me: die, in the name of Jesus.

3. Stubborn enemies sitting on my glory, summersault and die, in the name of Jesus.

4. Miracles that surpass explanation, manifest in my life in the name of Jesus.

5. Goliath in my foundation, hear the Word of the Lord: die, in the name of Jesus.

6. Inherited Goliath, you are a liar; die in the name of Jesus.