Touré Roberts - Slay Your Giant

God gave me three words for you—three words. If all I do is say these three words and we pray, and you catch them in your spirit, we’ll be good. Three words: «Slay your giant.» Slay your giant. I think, in life, we get distracted; we want the rewards of a slain giant before we slay the giant. We want the recognition, we want the increase, we want the prosperity, we want what’s on the other side of the kill, before the kill. Oh God, oh God, oh God! I–I—well, hold on to that thought for just a second. There’s this quote I stumbled upon on Instagram. There’s a quote about giants, and it says, «Find your giant, and you’ll find your doorway to promotions and destiny.» See, we want promotions and destiny—come on, somebody! We want to blow up without killing something. We want respect. People won’t respect you unless you kill something. I–I got to—Dexter! We get mad when life doesn’t treat us like rock stars when we haven’t killed any Goliaths. There are certain things that only happen when you slay your giants. We get distracted. And I said, «Slay your giant.» I didn’t say slay what you want your giant to be. You don’t get to choose your giant; you just look up, and you’re standing face to face with it. Are you tracking with me? Sometimes we don’t want to deal with our giant because our giant isn’t glamorous. Do you think Goliath was glamorous? If you study it, this dude was scary—really scary. He was huge; his weapons were huge, and he was strong. It was not glamorous. Sometimes there’s a giant that God wants us to kill, and we avoid that giant because we’d rather face a different one. Let me show you something else. I’m getting to my point, I promise. I posted something on Instagram the other day regarding our desire for respect. Just read this for a second: «When your work commands respect, you’ll never need to demand it.» Then I put a little caption there: «Stop fighting for recognition.» Oh, what? There it is! Alright, I’ll let you read it: «When your work commands respect, you’ll never need to demand it. Stop fighting for recognition and accept it. Slay your giant, and the world will come running.» I came to stir up some giant slayers tonight. You may be seated. Let’s look at the Bible real quick. Stay with me, gentlemen. Yes, just for a second. Let’s go to 1 Samuel, chapter 17. I want you to see something. «And David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem, but he put his armor in his tent.» When Saul saw David going out against the Philistine, he said to Abner, the commander of the army, «Abner, whose son is this youth?» David was obscure; no one knew him. He seemed insignificant. But all of a sudden, he slays his giant, and now the king is looking for him. I feel like there are some people in here right now who feel insignificant and feel like nobody sees you—I feel the Lord. You feel so small. You go into some places, knowing you have like four followers on Instagram—your sister, your cousin, and a spam account. Seriously! David had no reputation; he had no influence. He was insignificant, but he was serving. He had a great heart. He was serving his father and had a few victories in his background, but nobody knew him. He was so insignificant that when God sent the prophet Samuel to his father Jesse’s house to anoint the next king of Israel, he wasn’t even brought out. He was totally off the radar. Is anyone off the radar right now? You came here to get on the radar, but you’re so far off the radar that you didn’t even know there was one. This is where he was. Now, all of a sudden, this moment arises—a moment that he didn’t create, a moment he found himself in, where he is now facing the giant of his moment. He slays that giant, and everything changes. Pause. I want you to take a minute and think about what giant is in your life that you’ve been avoiding. What giant has been in your family’s life? I feel the Lord; there’s a whole new respect coming to you. People are going to seek you out because you killed something. When Saul saw David going out against the Philistine, he said to Abner, the commander of the army, «Abner, whose son is this youth?» Abner said, «As your soul lives, O king, I do not know.» That’s how obscure he was! He kills a giant, and they still don’t know who he is. So the king said, «Inquire whose son this young man is.» And then David, as he returned from the slaughter of the Philistine…