Many of us are looking up to God for a major breakthrough and somewhere in our mind, it looks so distant away. There is a way we compare what it is we are trusting for and then match it up with how God will do it. Imagine somebody approaching you to pray for someone who was just diagnosed of cancer? There is a whole lot that would run through your mind as against when the patient is only suffering from headache. As humans we tend to begin to feel we need to do more so as to combat the greater problem. So, I want to briefly share with you on how to win the bigger battles.
Before we delve into that, let me clear that battles are not really big or small in reality. The definition of big or small is relative; it is only a function of where you are seeing from. A fisherman sees nothing really challenging with crisis that are related to water because he has become so used with water related hazards. However, a fisherman could see confrontation with a snake as a big deal. So, what you define as big may only be according to your level of exploration. The essence of this message is then to take you further in your adventure of conquest.
David was in the woods taking care of his father’s sheep and tending them well. In the course of discharging his duty, he had times lions and bears threatened to take away the lambs from him but he contended with the predator and was victorious over them. He was very faithful in doing what was committed into his hands. He had a tool in his hands that he had been using in winning the battles of the woods; his shepherded staff and sling but not without trust in God.
Facing lions and bears to David was not really a big battle any longer. He was already used to the system in the wilderness. It was not something making the news. It was a normal battle for David. He never knew all of this conquest in the wilderness was a preparation for the day of the great battle that was going to confront not just him but the entire army of Israel.
A strong soldier of the Philistine army had challenged the whole of Israel army and gave them an ultimatum of providing who will face him in battle or the whole of the Israel army become his slave. Days passed by and no one, not even the king of Israel, could rise up to the occasion.
As God had planned, David was to go present gifts to his brothers who were on the battle field to see how they were getting along. There and then he discovered the whole of the Israel army were on panic mode. There was a Goliath who was looking too big for them to battle with. David asked questions and when he got to know about the situation, he volunteered to face Goliath. His volunteerism wasn’t because he had the best tool or skill to face the bigger battle. It was because he had always practiced trusting God in the woods with what he knew to use.
Immediately, Saul ordered that they wear him his armor so he could battle with it. This armor of Saul wasn’t a bad idea but for David at that point it was not the best fit because he was not used to it. The only instrument he had always used to win the smaller battles where no one saw him was what he needed to give him victory with Goliath; even though it looked small and insignificant. The battle didn’t make him get out of that zone of his trust in the tools of war becoming higher than his trust in God.
He went to Goliath with his shepherd’s staff and sling, picking five stones alongside. He walked towards Goliath and finished him with the sling and stone. He would have failed when his biggest battle came and decided to change the tools based on the perceived “bigness” of the enemy. The enemy doesn’t change the capacity of God’s power. The same tool that won the small battles will win the bigger once, as long as you trust God for the process.
You wonder how to go through a particular situation that even everyone agrees with you is the toughest? Just like David, don’t make the mistake of taking Saul’s armor which you have never tried before, the same method you applied when God used you to heal a headache patient is the same tool he’d use with you to pray for a cancer patient, believing in Him. God doesn’t panic based on degree of a problem, only humans do. You have the power within you; don’t be pressured to shift your focus on the tools. That is when you hear statements as “this particular problem will require ten days of prayer or the presence of an “anointed” man of God because it is a bigger one”. The devil uses that to shift your focus to the tools from the actual game changer- trusting God.
What does the miracle is trust in God. Your method may look simple, but, trusting God, you are winning the bigger battles.
“For the scripture saith, whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed” Rom 10:11
Have a victorious week.
Be Innovated
Olufemi Ibitoye
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