Writing your Own Ticket with God ! ! !

Writing Your Own Ticket with God : David knew you can have what you say. He knew you can write your own ticket with God. David is writing it here. He knew God would do anything he would believe Him for. God will do the same for you, to. The only reason He has not done more for you is because you have not believed Him based on what he has already said ! In fact, all you are and all you have today is the result of what you believed and said in the past. Someone told Saul what David had said. He sent for him. Saul wanted to give David his armor, but David wouldn't take it. "And David said unto Saul, I cannot go with these; for I have not proven them" (v. 39). David went out against Goliath armed only with his shepherds sling and staff. When the giant saw him, he disdained David "for he was but a youth, and ruddy." Goliath said, "Am I a dog, that thou comes to me with staves ?" Goliath cursed David by his heathen gods and threatened him. David let him talk. You can't stop the devil from talking. Let him blab. But when he gets through, you have something to say AND DAVID SAID (he's still writing that ticket), "thou comes to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, who now has defied" (v. 45). In other words David took unto him the sword of the Spirit, which is the Tongue ! David is not through yet ! David told Goliath, "I will feed your carcass and the carcasses of the hosts of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beast of the earth." How could a teenager country boy say that ? He was not a soldier. He had never been trained to fight. Yet here he is confronting a giant. Many of you when you are confronting your giants and your storms, or simply saying the wrong thing ! How tall was this giant ? I did a little research. The Bible tells us that Goliath was six cubits and a span in height. According to the famous Jewish historian, Flavius Josephus, a cubit was measured differently at different times in Israel's history. If measured by the shorter length, Goliath was almost 10 feet tall. If measured by the longer length, Goliath was about 11 feet tall. What did David do ? He did the opposite of what people are doing today, David did not look at the situation from the standpoint of "how big I am" or "what I can do from the natural standpoint." He looked at it from the standpoint of "my God can do it." David was measuring the giant by the size of God. It did not matter if Goliath were 11 feet tall. Compared to God, that is not even the resemblance of ant to an elephant--- not even the tiniest ant. When you begin to measure your problems like this, your situations look different. You see, giants look big when we measure ourselves by them. What did the children of Israel do when they were sent to spy out the land of Canaan.