welcome today to morning glory our
midweek bible study
today we're going to talk about killing
giants praise the lord
let's open up today with prayer heavenly
father we thank you for your word
as we jump into it today let it come
alive by the anointing of your holy
spirit
thank you father god that it be our
spiritual food our daily bread
father we give you praise thank you for
the anointing of your holy spirit
that will quicken your word to us in
jesus name we pray
and around the world we say amen
praise god very briefly i would like for
us to look at a theme verse
for the year found in isaiah chapter 54
verses one through three and then we're
going to move over to our
text for today but let's look at this
verse just for a moment
several verses one through three verse
one
sing o'barren you who have not borne
break forth in the singing and cry aloud
you who have not labored with child
for more are the children of the
desolate than the children of the
married woman
says the lord this my friends is the
year of
more get ready praise god verse 2
enlarge the place of your tent this is
the year of
more this is the year of enlargement
enlarge the place of your tent and let
them stretch out the curtains of your
dwellings
do not spare lengthen your cords this is
also a year of
lengthening for you shall expand
to the right and to the left this is a
year of expansion
whoo praise god for you shall expand to
the right and to the left
and your descendants will inherit the
nations and make the desolate cities
inhabited praise god now
as we journey on throughout this year
eventually by god's grace
we will reach the end of it
what in your heart and what in your mind
would qualify at the end of the year
for you to look at these verses and say
this was accomplished in my
life what would need to be done what
prayers would need to be
answered what miracles would need to be
manifested in order for you to stand at
a place
at the end of this year where you say i
have truly experienced
more i've experienced enlargement i have
experienced
lengthening and strengthening and i have
experienced
expansion truly these verses have
manifested
fruitfully in my life what would need to
be done
oh well pastor stephen i have a few
ideas
good i'm sure that you do and we want to
talk about those today
and more importantly we want to
have a heavenly strategy in order to get
to that place
of fulfillment and that is what i would
like
to share with you today now let's take
our bibles and go to first samuel
chapter 17 first samuel chapter 17.
now what i'm going to want you to do is
i'm going to
want you to write down i want you to
write down
these things that you are believing god
to do in your life this year not in the
year 2058
not in the year 2083 but these are the
things
that i want you to write down that you
are believing god to do in your life
this
year so that you can truly say the
things that i were believing
were things of enlargement or increase
we're lengthening and strengthening
i want you to write those down praise
god
and of course you and i would have to
admit we're not talking about a 10 cent
an hour raise we're not talking about
things like that we're talking about
making the in the kingdom impact
that god has planned for you praise the
lord
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thank you jesus so you're going to want
to write that
down and it's not going to be more
than five and i want to explain why in
just a moment
but you're going to write them down and
you're going to take them with you
throughout this year and here
is the strategy from the lord
that i would like for you to take
and implement into your life immediately
within the next 24 hours
because days have a way of turning in
the weeks
weeks have a way of turning in the
months and before you know it
you're at the end of another year so
we're going to take a
kingdom strategy a heavenly strategy
we're going to implement it
and when you stand at the end of this
year
you're going to have accomplished some
amazing things
watch you're going to have killed some
giants
and you're going to have seen amazing
breakthroughs now
verse 39 a first samuel chapter 17
david fastened his sword to his armor
and tried to walk
for he had not tested them and david
said to saul
i cannot walk with these for i have not
tested them
so david took them off praise god
hallelujah you have to stay
in your anointing you have to be true to
who
you are in the lord i can't try to
preach
like r.w schambach i'm not r.w schambach
i can't
i can't preach like that i i don't want
to god didn't make me to be like that
i can't i can't uh do some other things
i can't do this or that but what i can
do
i'm going to stay consistent with it
because i can do what others
can't and i'm going to stay on that
anointing and i'm going to develop
that anointing and continue to move
forward with it because that
my friends is where your greatest
effectiveness
is and you know others may try to
mold you or change you and and try to
make you into something else
you know for those of you that are not
in ministering
you may not understand that in in the
traditional schools of ministry
i'm talking about uh not so much maybe
what we would call pentecostal type
ministry schools but in your standard
evangelical
ministry schools where they uh you know
pop out ministers
they teach them and train them methods
of preaching where you literally you
stand behind the pulpit
and you're not supposed to use your
hands you're not supposed to have
movement
you it's all of this stuff that really
strips you
of uh the identity of who you are
and when you read in scripture about the
apostle paul it often makes
reference when he's ministering about
how he would use his hands
can you imagine telling paul now paul
don't use your hands because that's not
the way you do it
so it really is interesting how there
will try to be
you know circumstances or others that
try to put you in a mold
uh of not what you are it's just not who
you are so stay
in your uniqueness praise god and david
you know he's like hey i
saw you know saul thanks for letting me
you know use your sword and your armor
but i this is not the way i've i've done
this before so i can't
suddenly change overnight and i'm going
to have to go back
with what is proven and what works best
for me
now over the years i have learned
that if i just stay with the word and i
stay on the basics with prayer
faith in god and you just keep walking
with god
these wonderful things unfold in your
life so we're not going to try to
reinvent the wheel
praise god we're going to stay with what
works thank you jesus
verse 40 then he took his
staff in his hand and he chose for
himself
five smooth stones
from the brook and put them in a
shepherd's bag
in a pouch which he had and his sling
was in his hand
and he drew near to the philistine
i'm going to give you a heavily
instruction
to do something that will transform you
into a giant
killer this year i would suspect
you have probably never done in your
life
what i'm about to tell you to do but
there's a reason why i'm going to
instruct you to do
this heavenly act of wisdom
praise the lord the things that you are
believing god to do
i want you to write them down yes pastor
stephen i'm ready to write
good i want you to write the number one
thing that you want god to do for you
on stone praise the lord now these are
some stones i picked up
on the beach of all places and uh i want
you to just
get a stone or two or three but upon
that stone
i want you to write on each stone like
stone number one
i want you to write the number one thing
that you're believing god to do now of
course don't write it with a pencil
and don't write it with the pen it's
going to probably come off
you may want to use a sharpie of course
you can't use the big ones because
they're too thick you can't write much
but you have these little ones and they
have even ones that are thinner tipped
than this and trust me if you write it
on there with that
it's going to be there and you need to
write it uh
with something like a sharpie because
you're going to be carrying these with
you
in a shepherd's bag for the entire year
praise the lord so if you have
three primary things that are upon your
heart
that would qualify for an isaiah chapter
54
year versus one through three of that
would represent
great expansion great increase okay if
that's three things then you're gonna
need three stones
if there's five things you you're going
to need
five stones if it's just one thing
well praise god all you need is one
pastor stephen where do i get on that
i trust that you can figure that one out
praise god they're everywhere hallelujah
they're at your feet
hallelujah just grab what uh you know
would work
and if you need five then get five well
pastor stephen
why did david get five well they got one
for goliath
and he'd uh you know i heard a preacher
say well he got some extras just in case
he
maybe he missed no goliath in scripture
we find
had four brothers and the brothers were
all giants
just like him so you know a lot of times
these family feuds
uh it does turn into a family event so
david was probably thinking
well you know what if the brothers you
know they that they really get worked up
then i'm just gonna have to take them
all out today
so five smooth stones i would like for
you to get
five smooth stones right
on one stone one thing that you're
believing god to do
and then put them praise the lord in a
shepherd's back
just like that if you have four things
then you need four stones whatever it is
okay
no more than five i mean you're not
going to be carrying around like a
bowling ball
or a bag the size of that weight but you
you're going to put them in here why
pastor stephen why
because as the year goes by
and as each day goes by you're going to
take those five
smooth stones or two smooth stones or
whatever it is
you're going to take them out of your
shepherd's bag whenever it's prayer time
and you're going to look at them and say
god i lift this before you in the name
of jesus
and uh let's say it's for the salvation
of your daughter or somebody like that
or
salvation of your son lord i lift up so
and so to you in the name of jesus
father god
and you begin to intercede for that
person and the pray and then you pull
out the other stone representing
this other thing that you're believing
god to do and father i i bring this
before you in the name of jesus praise
god
and what is it what is this pastor
stephen
this in essence is your point
of contact it helps you to release your
faith
so that you can hold it in your hand
before the lord
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and you can go before the lord praying
and see when you're praying in the
spirit particularly when you get over it
primarily just praying in tongues
while you do pray in tongues and your
mind
does not understand what your spirit is
uttering to god
nevertheless your mind is not being
dormant you
visualize with your mind as you're
praying in tongues
this desire and this burden of your
heart to see god
move in this area yes you can say it in
english oh god i'm asking you to do this
and i'm praying with all my heart
believing that you will grant me this
request
and so you can get that out there in
english and then just go off in tongues
after that as you keep holding that
stone in your hand oh god in the name of
jesus
yes glory to god what are these
giant killers
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giant killers pastor stephen do i have
to carry with me all year
maybe not maybe in three months
one of them is answered and one of the
giants falls
and a mighty prayer request has been
answered and
you don't need to carry that one anymore
why it's done there it is praise god
but until the bag is empty until all the
prayer requests
are completed then you know you you keep
the the unanswered prayer request still
in there until
it's done praise the lord but i'm
believing that before the year is out
the bag will be emptied and each giant
was hit see what we're doing
is we're being strategic on purpose
it's different from like shotgun type
strategy
now a shotgun is very effective in the
sense that if you load it with uh
what's called shot it's just a whole
bunch of little bitty pellets
and you know you pull the trigger and
it's going to send a blast
in a circumference area that that's
pretty big
and anything within that circumference
circumference is going to get hit
and uh may not you know it may not kill
what you're aiming at but it's
going to inflict a lot of uh destructive
pain
uh you know that's why a lot of times i
use it when hunting birds
because a bird you got to be very
accurate with especially if it's long
ways off if you have a shotgun
just you know you shoot it with a
shotgun or something's going to hit it
you're
all those bullets are our little pellets
are just going to spray everywhere
and it's probably going to get the
little squirrel or bird or whatever
you're trying to catch
but you know we're not going to use that
strategy of just hoping we hit something
no we're doing more of a targeted rifle
type spiritual exercise where we have
written
on the stones specifically what we are
believing god for
and has crystallized within our spirit
as being an
accurate prayer request that reflects
maturity and wisdom in our asking
praise god and we've written it on the
stone
and god's going to do it you know
when you when you read the life story of
reese howells
one of the greatest intercessors to ever
walk on the face of the earth
he prayed uh and interceded
for uh you know for the victory
for the allied powers in world war ii
and
miracles happened because of their
prayers
but he also prayed in other areas for
his ministry
and god answered some of the craziest
prayer requests where he would
get these properties particularly where
he would pray for properties that would
be
impossible for him to buy but he would
buy them and not only was it impossible
for him to buy oftentimes he would be up
against a bidder
that had unlimited buying power and it
would just seem like well
first of all there's no way he can get
the property he doesn't have any money
and second of all even if he did get
some money there's no way he would have
as much as
you know who he's competing with but he
would just pray
and pray and pray and to take hold of
god so much in prayer
he'd end up with the money and he'd end
up with the property and before you know
it he's
he has now purchased another phenomenal
piece of property
but you have to be very uh when you get
good at prayer you still have to walk in
wisdom that
you don't go after something just
because you think well this is a good
idea
there were um
well there was probably one property he
didn't even really need
i think when i read the story about it
that
it was probably even a wrong request of
what he was going to use the property
for but you know what
he prayed so strong and he prayed so
hard he still got it
and you know all paid off and everything
so there is this element you can get
really really good at prayer and it's it
yeah a lot of it has to do with intense
focus and you stay
on it and you stay on it and you just
keep bringing it before the lord and you
keep bringing
it before the lord and what this is
mainly is a
way of having a point of contact where
every time you have this in your prayer
time
you're on target you're focused and
you're you just stay with that over and
over and over
well pastor stephen it's been two weeks
i'm going to throw this bag away and i'm
going to start over with with some new
stones in the new back no no no
you're in for good you're you're locked
in praise god and you're like lord this
is it
i'm i'm in faith and i'm bringing this
before you
and it will really help you to focus
praise the lord
now remember the woman with the issue of
blood she said
when i touch the hem of his garment i'm
going to be healed
and when she touched him of his garment
uh what was going on there it was a
point of contact
a point of contact for what for her to
release her faith
and the moment she released her faith
and touched the anointing from jesus
flowed into her see there's no shortage
of god's power or god's anointing
so we have to get our faith up and we
have to contact
the power the lord in a way where that
anointing flows the prayer is
answered so her touching him of his
garment
that was her point of contact this is
yours
and you can take it with you throughout
the year
now rocks are plentiful stones are
plentiful get some stones but don't get
more than five you don't want to be
carrying around 30 stones
uh i mean that's kind of like uh
you're not going to be able to get
dialed in if you get a whole bunch of
things you don't need that
plus we're also staying with a biblical
precedent
he only got five he only got five well
pastor stephen i have 22 things i really
well
let's get the five first okay then
reload with another five
but let's work biblical principles
these are your giant killing stones
praise god
verse 49 then david put his hand in his
bag
took out a stone and he slung it
and struck the philistine his forehead
so that the stone
sank into his forehead and he fell on
his face
to the earth now david you know
uh making it ultra dramatic goes and
takes
goliath's own sword and chops his head
off
but the truth be told goliath's dead i
mean uh
those that are snipers or those that are
in law enforcement
that are uh sharp shooters in other
words if there's a hostage situation
and you have a bad guy and the bad guy
has a gun to the head of the hostage
person and
is even kind of standing behind the
hostage and has a gun
right to their head the
the snipers know that if you were to
shoot the bad guy
in let's say in the upper body his
finger is on that trigger
and that's going to cause a muscle
reaction where
even if you shoot him here or somewhere
and you you should just shoot him 20
times and you kill him
he's still going to be able to pull that
trigger but there's only two spots
where the snipers know that if you shoot
the bad guy instantly he's out it slides
out instantly
he it slides out so fast he can't even
pull the trigger
and that's right here and that and the
other the
other part is in the back on the back
area of the head but right here
and that's right where david's rock hit
the giant and it was lights out
immediately it shuts off the nervous
system completely
you there's no muscle spasms nothing all
you do is fall
if you're leaning back you fall back if
you're leaning forward like goliath was
because he was running and david was
running
you're gonna fall flat on your face
because it was like
it was like he got shot with a rifle
that that stone
sunk into his forehead right here and
that's the one spot
the snipers know get them right there
because if you get them right there
they they fall and they can't even if
their finger
is taped to the trigger or wrapped with
um
you know some of these bad guys have
even used um
duct tape and they've got the gun taped
to the head of the hostage and they've
got their hand taped to the gun
thinking well there's no way anybody's
going to kill me because i can still
pull the trigger nope not if they get
them right
in one of those two spots it's instantly
game over
so um the lord knows what he's doing the
holy spirit
knows what he's doing we are being very
very strategic
we are praying along this line and my
friends
this is mountain moving faith
whoo praise the lord and this is
this in a sense is the spirit of elijah
moving upon the hearts of god's people
to pray praise the lord james chapter 5
verse 17 elijah was a man with the
nature like
ours in other words he was human had to
eat
oh sure he did he did some fasting
sometimes there was one time
he was fed angel food and off the
strength of that food he was able to go
you know 40 days 40 nights no food with
you know supernatural super
super human strength but outside of that
you know still a normal person
that you know he had to shave he had to
you know comb his hair and everything
else it's not like he was floating
off the earth whenever he uh walked he
had he had quite a few supernatural
experiences
but he was still a man elijah was a man
with a nature like ours
and he prayed earnestly that it would
not rain
pastor stephen the president is the
highest man
on the face of the earth oh really well
uh you'll find out real quick who the
highest man on the face of the earth is
uh when a prophet prays and says it's
not raining for three and a half years
unless i say
so well the president will override that
well let him try
let the prime minister try let the king
try
you'll find out really quick that uh the
politicians and all this and all that
they have their place they have an
executive place and god god honors that
god establishes these offices
you'll find out real quick though who's
um who's the one that can really call
the shots if it comes down to it
if it's necessary and god makes such
directive decisions
that could shut entire nations down and
there is no governmental
solution the only solution is those who
know how to pray and trust me when
elijah said it's not going to rain there
is no other key
anywhere else on the face of the earth
that can unlock the heavens
well now we're just going to go talk to
him nope you're not going to find him
god's hitting
and you're not going to kill him god's
hitting praise god hit him right under
the king's nose really in some ways
they thought maybe he went off to
another nation king sent bounty hunters
all over the place looking for him
trying to kill him
take him out and there he was hiding
down by the brook cherith
praise god and he prayed earnestly that
it would not rain
and it did not rain on the land for
three years and six months
and he prayed again and the heaven gave
rain and the earth produced its fruit
i don't think there's anything written
on anybody's
stone that's watching me that says no
rain over the whole nation for three
years
i don't think so so i think you should
feel really good about the potential
success
of your prayer request getting answered
and he prayed again and the heaven gave
rain and the earth produced
its fruit praise god praise god
go out and find some nice stones
praise the lord i've actually got some
cool ones here that
when i was in ireland i was on the beach
and i thought oh these are nice stones i
picked them up and brought them back
with me
and they're perfect i'm going to write
on them and uh they're in my bag
and i'm going to have five in my
bag praise the lord and i'm going to
carry this with me all throughout the
year
until each one is answered praise god i
would like for you to do the same thing
this
is a heavenly instruction
that i have received it is based on
biblical principle
and i believe that your five smooth
stones
your prayers they're going to sail
through the air
with holy spirit accuracy and you're
going to hit your target
hallelujah and god's gonna answer
your prayers in the most remarkable way
and in
in quite a few of these cases there will
absolutely
be miracles involved
lift up your hands i want to pray for
you heavenly father i pray for those
that are watching
that are going to go out and get their
smooth stones and they're going to pray
they're going to pray and they're going
to pray and they're going to pray
and we thank you father god for the
miracles that you're going to do
and father i i sense that your people
are going to do more praying this year
than they've ever prayed in their lives
before
any other year they're going to do more
praying this year than any other year
and that's
that's why the miracles are going to be
so smooth
and it's not going to surprise them at
all when the miracle
manifest because of their great faith
and their strong prayer life now father
we thank you
that miracles are our portion
we give you praise we thank you in
advance
thank you father help your people to get
their stones and they get their
shepherd's bag
father we thank you that we don't need
to learn
calculus we don't need to figure out how
to
get to pluto and back all we have to do
is get five stones in a little
shepherd's bag and pray
thank you father god hallelujah glory
glory to your name father we thank you
that the gospel is never complicated
that these are child-like
principles of faith that we give you
praise father let us work them
let us work them to great results we
bless you
thank you in jesus name
amen praise god hallelujah glory
glory glory to god amen
if you're watching today's program and
you don't know
the greatest giant killer of all his
name is the lord jesus christ he's the
one that took the devil out
oh yes the devil's still alive i mean
from the purse perspective
he's still around but
jesus dethroned him and
if you'll put your faith and trust in
jesus he'll move you from the kingdom of
darkness he'll move your heart
from a place of spiritual death to a
place of
spiritual life and that includes your
sins being forgiven
and receiving of the new life of christ
if you would like to receive jesus right
now
pray this after me say jesus
i'm a sinner but you died
for sinners like me jesus i believe that
you went to the cross
to redeem me from my sins
thank you for this jesus come into my
heart
right now wash all of my sins away
give me your new life jesus
write my name in your book of life and
from this day forward
step into my life and lead me and guide
me
in all that i do thank you jesus
i accept you as my lord my savior
and my king in your name i pray
amen and amen welcome
to the family of god whoo praise the
lord
all of you giant killers out there get
ready praise god
whoo the spirit of elijah
resting on you the righteous are as bold
as a lion don't be writing on any don't
be writing on a stone i want a dollar
raised don't
be doing silly stuff like that don't be
writing
little bitty uh uh kindergarten stuff on
your stones
you have you have some weighty stone
david took out goliath
we need to have some giant killers
around here pray we need some real
testimonies around here praise the lord
pastor stephen i've got a new pair of
shoes that cost 49
that's nice but we don't need to put a
49 pair dollar shoes on stone
praise god thank you jesus
we need some giant killer testimonies
praise the lord
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woo glory to god amen let's take
communion together today
grab some unleavened bread
and grab some grape juice and let's pray
father we thank you for the bread the
juice
we pray over it now and we consecrate
this we set it apart
as being holy and through this prayer
this is now the
body and the blood of christ
our savior father as we receive the body
of jesus
let our request be accurate
father the shaft of an arrow had to be
extremely polished and straight
so that it would not veer off course
let a request be approved by the holy
spirit
written upon the stone in faith
and let fervent prayer be made we thank
you father god
that this is a year of increase
expansion strengthening
lengthening and so much more we give you
praise in jesus name
amen let's receive
heavenly father thank you for the blood
of jesus
we ask that if we have committed any
sins that you would forgive us
and father we forgive anybody anyone who
sinned against us
we thank you father we ask that you
would lead us away from temptation
we ask that you would deliver us from
the evil one we thank you father for
yours is the kingdom and the power and
the glory forever
father we pray that you would be greatly
glorified
through the answer of these prayers your
kingdom would be increased
souls would be saved thank you father
god
and that the saints would be
strengthened father we bless you we
thank you
thank you for the blood of jesus in his
name we pray
amen let's receive
praise the lord glory to god my friends
thank you for joining me today
go out and get your stones get your
shepherd's bag
technically this is not like you know a
bag that i got from a shepherd
i just found that sitting on a shelf
here in the ministry center wasn't being
used
had some other things in it i took them
out took those out and put my stones in
here praise god
i've got to get a couple of other stones
to go in here
but go get your stones get your bag and
then just start praying
pray all the time worship the lord let
the stones up
get them out speak it out bring them
before the lord that's your point of
contact
hallelujah i look forward to hearing
about your miracles that you're going to
receive
have a blessed day i'll see you back
again real soon bye-bye