Part One: "Fear" (Awakening The Warrior Spirit) Series

1 Samuel 17:22-24 David left his things with the keeper of supplies, ran to the battle lines and greeted his brothers. As he was talking with them, Goliath, the Philistine champion from Gath, stepped out from his lines and shouted his usual defiance, and David heard it. When the Israelites saw the man, they all ran from him in great fear.

See, the difference between the wimp and the warrior is that when faced with intimidation, the wimp runs away from the battle, the warrior runs toward the battle. The warrior in us says “I am not going to be intimidated, I am not going to shrink back from what God is doing in my life and what God wants me to do with my life. Greater is in me, in Christ Jesus, then in the world!” “I’m not giving up or shrink back, I am moving forward.”

And you know something, intimidation can come in all kinds of forms can’t it? I mean just the physical presence of some people can be intimidating. The complexity or size of a task can be intimidating. For Nehemiah, the project was so big.

Insinuation can be intimidating… this will never work, you can’t do that, your not old enough, you are not young enough, you aren’t smart enough, it didn’t work before it won’t work this time, you’ll never have another man, you’ll never have another women. Saul told David, you can’t face him, your just a boy. Intimidation often begins with two words, “Your just…”

And if David had given into the intimidation, he we would have shrinked back and done nothing at all, excepting defeat before ever getting into the battle, that’s what intimidation does it tries to get you to accept defeat before you ever get into the battle, to give up before you ever give it a try.

But for David, fear awakened the warrior not the wimp, because when faced with intimidation, David replaced retreat with action, he replaced playing the victim, to taking responsibility to doing something about the situation, see wimps conclude they are powerless, warriors discover they are empowered.

If you are faced with the giant of single mother hood…you got to determine today, that you are not going to run in retreat, and wallow in your challenge, but you are gong to get into the battle, you are going to be the kind of person that when given lemon, you make lemonade. You are going to see single motherhood as a calling not a catastrophe. You are going to take your stand, you aren’t go to run away from it. You are going to be the best single mother you can be. You are going to take your stand.

The Bible speaks of that when you face evil, your need to take your stand. Some of you here today, are so close to giving u because of intimidation in your life, well today you gotta take your stand

If you are faced with the giant of some kind of failure in your life, maybe a relationship, maybe a bad decision you made. Whatever it may be, you have to determine today that you are going to face it, and you are not going to let that failure determine your destiny, you are not going to let that failure dictate your future, you are going to learn from your mistakes instead of repeating it and you are going to let the past be the past, you are going to take risks, instead of being frozen by failure.