Experience Victory In Life By Recognizing Your Enemy And Knowing Your God

INTRODUCTION Therefore My people go into captivity [to their enemies] without knowing it and because they have no knowledge [of God]. Isaiah 5:13 If you are reading this book, chances are you would like to experience the power of God in your life, you are tired of being defeated by the enemy, or you are going through a tough situation in your life and you want to know how the enemy and God fits into all of this. Either way, I have good news for you. This book is going to provide answers to many of your questions, and also challenge you to get to know your God in a more intimate way. It will also help you recognize the enemy behind the scenes in your situations. My key purpose for writing this book is to share the word of God and my own personal experience so that I can provide a clear picture of how great your God is and how little your enemy really is. Let's start with a familiar passage in the bible (this is a lengthy passage and I will skip around a bit to cover some key points, to get the full passage read the entire chapter of 1 Samuel 17). 1Samuel 17: 4-10: And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span. And he had a helmet of brass upon his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass. And he had greaves of brass upon his legs and a target of brass between his shoulders. And the staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam; and his spear's head weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and one bearing a shield went before him. And he stood and cried unto the armies of Israel, and said unto them, Why are ye come out to set your battle in array? Am not I a Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? Choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me. If he be able to fight with me, and to kill me, then will we be your servants: But if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us. And the Philistines said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together. This passage provides a clear description of Goliath the philistine. It describes his height and according to his armor we can conclude that Goliath was huge; there was nothing puny or tiny about him. Not only is Goliath huge, strong, and courageous, he wants to put the Israelites to a challenge. How would you respond in this situation? After all, Goliath is a giant and appears to be big enough to carry out his threat. Let's see how the Israelites responded in verse 11: When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid. Now after seeing Goliath and hearing his challenge it would seem pretty logical for the Israelites to be afraid. However, in reality should the Israelites have allowed fear to overtake them, although nothing had happened? Besides, God had already performed great miracles for the children of Israel, would God abandoned them now? Take a moment and look at your situation, I mean get a good look. If you are going through something very difficult right now, it could be a life threatening diseases, divorce, job loss, homelessness, loss of a loved one etc; I want you to know that God is bigger than all of this. Yeah, I know that you are saying this is easier said than believing and if you are feeling this way right now, I understand because I have felt the same way. However, I would like the word and the love of God to change your life in the same way that it has changed my life.