David & Goliath | Against All Odds | Pastor Rob Koke | Shoreline Church | Message
In a world full of giants, how do you stand in faith when the odds are against you?
In Part 2 of our Against All Odds series, Pastor Rob walks us through David and Goliath—not just as a moment of victory, but as a roadmap for defeating the giants in our own lives. This message shows us that real breakthrough doesn’t come from faith alone or effort alone—it comes from faith and stones.
When your heart is right, the Spirit is empowering you, and your actions align with your belief, even the impossible begins to fall.
It takes both faith and stones.
Authentic faith and Spirit-empowered action bring down giants.
Key Scriptures:
1 Samuel 16:7, 13
1 Samuel 17:26, 37
1 Samuel 17:38–39
1 Samuel 17:45–49
Acts 10:38
Acts 13:22
James 2:26
Good morning again. We want to welcome at this time everyone who's watching online from around the community and around the state also those who are part of our shoreline South congregation. Come on, let's give it up for those who are watching online. We'd love you guys so very much. Let's all of us stand to our feet. We do this every every service. We wrap our understanding around a collection of phrases that we call our shoreline creed. It just helps to remind us at the end of the day that Christianity is not just about principles, even though there are wonderful principles and wisdom thoughts throughout all of the pages of this book. Primarily, it's the story of God doing for us what we could never do for ourselves. And we celebrate that in our creed. And so if you're here for the first time, you can read along. The rest of us, we're going to say this with some enthusiasm and passion. You guys ready? Here we go. I am loved by God. I cannot earn it. I cannot lose it. I am forgiven and made brand new. In Christ, I live with passion and purpose. I am empowered by the spirit to be the church in the world
and to live this love revolution. Come on, let's give God praise for that. And you may be seated. So we are in a collection of talks around the idea that we can be inspired by these epic stories in the Bible. So the title of the series is Against All Odds. And today's specific focus is on faith and stones. That's the title, faith and stones. You know, if you go to the cinema, you will often be inspired by, you know, stories. Maybe somebody wrote them and created them. Some of them are true life stories that inspire us. Men and women that were facing incredible obstacles and challenges and circumstances that seem so, you know, powerful in terms of, you know, the adversarial impact. And we watch these movies, whether it be a Rocky or Braveheart or Sound of Music or whatever it is, against all odds, we get inspired by these stories. And it's kind of interesting that the Bible is filled with these kinds of stories. And today we're gonna talk about the story of David and Goliath. And I probably need to tell you upfront, you know, and this is a little bit spoiler alert for you. I want you to know that David actually slays Goliath. I know some of you, you know, why did you tell me? I didn't know, but I'm sure that most of you knew. And in telling you that, I know I run the risk
of removing the tension from the story. And I wanna build that tension back. Um, Goliath stood approximately 10 feet tall on 5'11". So you do get this sense of overwhelming. This is a life-size cutout of Goliath. And he came out from the ranks of the Philistine army every single day for 40 days. And challenged the children of Israel. So the children of Israel are on one side of the valley, the Philistines on the other. And every single day, not just one day, not just two days, not just a week, not just two weeks, but every single day for 40 days, he comes out and he curses God and curses the armies of the living God. And I want you to recognize that the consequences of failure for the children of Israel are huge. This is not just like a, you know, a little video game. And if it doesn't work out, no big deal. If they lose this battle, they might die on the cross. the battlefield, but if they don't die on the battlefield, they'll be enslaved by the Philistines. So their very freedom is at stake in this moment. So it's a big deal, both the amount of days that the Philistine taunted the armies of God and the eventual consequences of failure brought an unbelievable amount of tension to that moment. That's true that the Bible reveals to us. And the reality is that this serves as an incredibly accurate metaphor for some of the challenges that we face in our lives.
Sometimes it feels like we're facing a Goliath that is so outsized in his power and ability to influence our circumstances. Sometimes we're facing a challenge in our health that feels like a Goliath. And every day we're feeling the symptoms day after day. It's not just a day or a week, it's weeks and weeks and months and months. We're feeling the symptoms that mock us like a Goliath was mocking the children of Israel. Sometimes it's a financial thing. And we're looking at the trajectory of our finances and the slow drip of the reality that our expenses are exceeding our income. And we know that somewhere down the road, it's gonna really crash and it feels like a Goliath. Sometimes that Goliath is a relational dynamic, maybe a son or a daughter that's not making wise choices and it's causing havoc in the home. Maybe even in the marriage relationship or maybe it's on the job. There are giants that we face. Sometimes the giants that we face, we actually are the ones that created it. We made some bad choices and the consequences of those choices are Goliath like. Sometimes other people bring challenges into our lives. Sometimes it's an attack of the enemy and many times it's just the by-product of living in this fallen world that we live in.
But we're all facing giants. But this is one of the most inspiring stories in the Bible. And I believe that we can learn from this particular story today, some really important truths that we can apply to our lives. And if you're not facing a giant in your life today, I'm pretty sure you will at some point in time. For those of you facing giants, you'll be able to apply this immediately. For those of you who maybe this isn't a season like that for you, you can file this one away because you'll need it at some point in time. We all face giants, but David shows us how to defeat them. A good place to start would be 1 Samuel chapter 16. King Saul has made a mess of things and God speaks to the prophet Samuel and says, I want you to go down to the house of Jesse. One of his sons is going to be the next king. Normally the king would transfer his power to his own son, but God said, no, he's disqualified himself. We're gonna bring in a new king. And so Jesse brings seven of his sons to stand before the prophet. The first one, Elib, looks like someone who could be a king. He probably has, you know, that military bearing. He probably has some authority. He probably looks like a courageous young man.
He probably, you know, is built strong and to the eyes of a human being, he probably thought, Samuel probably thought, this is the one. And he stands before Elib and God says, no, that's not the one. The next son, that's not the one. The next son, that's not the one. Goes through all seven and none of the seven sons are the one that God has chosen. So the prophet turns to the dad and says, is there anyone else in the family? And he said, yeah, there's David, but he is tending the sheep on the other side of a mountain. And the prophet says, go get David and bring him here. One of the things that kind of strikes me is that David was tending sheep. And in the eyes of his own family, he wasn't even an option. He was so unremarkable that they didn't even bother to have him a part of the process. And I just want to encourage you that sometimes in life, we do get overlooked. And maybe you have been overlooked by your family or your friends or by culture or by your neighborhood or people in the workplace. And I just want to challenge you, don't let the overlooking that has happened in your life determine your destiny in God.
Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. All right, I'm preaching a little bit better than you're clapping. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Don't let someone else determine your destiny. Don't let someone who overlooks your potential to determine how you see yourself. We often get overlooked in life. Don't you dare allow that to determine your destiny. For the Lord speaks to Samuel in chapter 16 and verse seven and says, do not consider the appearance of his height. The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart. If you are going to slay the Goliaths that come into your world, you're gonna have to embrace the reality that God doesn't look at the things that people look at.
He looks at the heart. He sees what's on the inside. Elib had the stature, but David had the spirit. He had the inside. He had the heart. I was reading this story. Normally, I don't like to brag on Alabama football players because hook them horns all the way. But this is a story that kind of bears a little bit of clarity for us. Devante Smith, pound for pound, was one of the most fragile D1 football players ever to even enter into the process of being considered to play football at the college level. He stands six feet tall, but he's so skinny that pound for pound to his height made him the most vulnerable, especially to fierce defensive backs and the competition that is a part of D1 football. But what he lacked in stature, he had in spirit. And even though all of the coaches were concerned about his durability, someone saw something on the inside of him that was different. I use him as an example because he is a Christian and a fully devoted follower of Jesus, but there was something on the inside that stood out so much so that he destroyed the competition with his fiery spirit and eventually won the most coveted award
that college offers, the Heisman Trophy. And while I'm a Dallas Cowboy fan and he plays for the Philadelphia Eagles, he's now in professional football, not because of what was on the outside, but because of what was on the inside. And that should be really good news for all of us here because you might look in the mirror and see that you might not think you have what it takes, but I'm here to tell you what's on the inside is more important than what you see on the outside. There's nothing wrong with having a strong bottom line, but God does not determine your success by how much money you have in the bank. It might be a good idea to dress appropriately for an interview, but the truth is, you don't always dress for success. There's something on the inside that matters more than the appearance on the outside. And David had the spirit. When I think about how I got Laura to marry me, Absolute testimony to this point, what's on the inside is more important than what's on the outside. The heart is the most precious thing about you. You could have come into church here this morning and raised your hands and sang a few songs and you could have been just going through the motions and maybe the person on your left or your right wouldn't know that in reality,
you weren't really worshiping, you were just kind of going through the process. But there is someone who does know, God knows. God knows what's going on on the inside. Everything great in your life will come when your heart is aligned, when your heart is right. Great leaders lead from the heart, great moms and dads parent from the heart, great friends connect from the heart. And David's heart was so legendary that it actually made its way all the way into the New Testament. His story is buried deep in the Old Testament, but even in the New Testament in Acts chapter 13, he's mentioned God testified concerning him. I have found David son of Jesse, a man after my own heart. He will do everything I want him to do. Can you imagine God saying that about you? I bet he does. Nothing great is ever done out of the head. It always comes from the heart. When I think about something like church, churches don't get big because you have a vision for a big church. Churches get big because you have a vision of helping as many people as you can become fully devoted followers of Jesus. Not I'm gonna build a great business, but I'm gonna serve as many people as I can. Not I'm gonna write songs so I'll be famous,
I'm gonna write songs that touch people's hearts. Not that I'm gonna teach to be respected, I'm going to invest in the next generation. Your heart is what matters. And when your heart is aligned and your heart is in the right place and your heart has the right motivation, things like this happen. First Samuel chapter 16 and verse 13. So Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers. And from that day on the spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon David. Listen, I want you to know your degrees are fine. It's incredible to get the education that you get. When you develop your skills, that's an awesome thing. Your talents and abilities and your experience will serve you well. But nothing is more important than this. We need the supernatural power of the Holy Spirit. And you might be surprised, but Jesus, when he walked on this earth, he didn't do what he did because he was the son of God. He did what he did because he was anointed by the Holy Spirit. One of the beautiful, almost mysterious realities of Christianity is that when Jesus was born in that manger, he was 100% God and 100% man. The 100% God part made him the perfect lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world.
The 100% man part is to redeem us and become as a human being the way he would want, God would want all of us to live. And so when the Bible talks about what Jesus did, he didn't do miracles because he was God. He did miracles as a human being empowered by the Holy Spirit. Acts chapter 10 and verse 38, how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit in power and how he went about doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil because God was with him. This is what all of us need because here's the reality, without him, we can do nothing. The apostle Paul taking that truth that Jesus actually said and applied it to churches as he was writing letters, this very popular scripture verse, we just know it to be true, that I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength. That's the same. statement and sentiment communicated from the positive. Without him, we can do nothing, but with him we can do all things. We can't defeat the giants alone. The giants are too big. The dreams are too big. The needs are too big
and our self-sufficiency is not big enough. We need God's power. It's when our natural becomes supernatural. Every once in a while, after service, as I'm in the lobby and just greeting people, someone will come up to me and say, pastor, that was really anointed. And I used to enjoy that because, you know, the idea was they're saying that because they were impacted and they were touched by the message and that's always good to hear. But then it dawned on me one day that what they were really saying is, we know you and there is no way that you could possibly do what you did today unless God was with him. And the truth is, that's the reality for every single one of us. We look in the mirror and we know we don't have what it takes. We know the giants are too big. We know the needs are too big. We know our self-deficiency is too big. We need supernatural help. We need the power of the Holy Spirit to do what we do. And when your heart is aligned, God anoints you. So one day, David with his heart in the right place, anointed by the Holy Spirit,
he goes to visit his brothers at the battlefield and the Philistine comes out and starts shouting and starts cursing and defying the armies of God. And David is stunned because that's what happens when your heart is aligned and when you're in relationship with God and His Holy Spirit is empowering you, you do get sincerely offended about things that aren't right. And so here is David, he comes up to this battlefield and he says, who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God? And I gotta tell you, his passion stands out because everyone else is cowering in fear. David, something different on the inside. He doesn't run, he doesn't give into that fear, he's passionate. And I just want you to know that when your heart is aligned and you're in relationship with God, you're gonna carry some passion in your heart and that's a good thing. Passion is always in the right way, a good thing. The devil comes with his sickness, with discouragement, with negative circumstances, with financial reversals and something stirs on the inside of you and you say, who is this uncircumcised Philistine in my life? And that's a good thing, that passion. Finally, somebody who's willing to speak the truth.
Finally, someone with courage, with faith. And David's courage and faith gets the attention of the king and somebody tells the king, well, there's a young man who's there on the front lines and he's not intimidated and everyone else is and he stands out and so the king says, fetch David and bring him before me. And David tells him the story about the lion and the bear because the king looks at David and says, you're a youth. I mean, there's no way you can fight against this Goliath. And David tells him the story about how when he was a shepherd, one day a lion came and he defeated the lion. Another day, a bear came and he defeated the bear and we get the tail end of that conversation when David says in 1 Samuel 17, verse 37, the Lord who rescued me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will rescue me from the hand of this Philistine. And there's a lesson to be learned here. You gotta be faithful with the lions and the bears in your life before you face your giants. Some people will blow off the small things and then expect to win in the big things. And I just want to encourage you, the small things matter. You have made the decision, you guys watching online, you guys here in our sanctuary this morning, you made the decision to come to church and you might think, well, that's a small thing, but it's not a small thing.
Being faithful in small things like this give you the courage and the strength to make the decisions that need to be made when the big things show up. When you gather on a Wednesday night with your small group and you say, hey, I'm opening up my life to the influence of other brothers and sisters in Christ, that might seem like a small thing, but it's a big thing. When you open up your Bible and have your devotions in the morning, and maybe it's just 10 minutes or 15 minutes and you think it's just a small thing, it's not a small thing. Sometimes those very decisions are the ones that set the course for your day and determine the destiny of your life. Do you know what David did after he was anointed to be the next king of Israel? Imagine this for a moment. Here's David, he's standing before his brothers, all of them rejected, he's the one that's chosen. The great prophet Samuel anoints him with oil and says, you're gonna be the next king of Israel. You know what David does? He doesn't go to the tailor and get some new robes. He doesn't get his head measured for the crown. He doesn't go to the nearest chariot dealership and get himself the latest model. He doesn't start bossing his brothers around. You know what he does?
He goes back to the sheep. He is faithful doing with what's right in front of him. And I wanna encourage you, if you wanna defeat the giants in your life, you gotta be faithful in the small things. Picking up trash which no one else sees, serving your family, doing the right thing when nobody's watching. You gotta be faithful when no one's watching and then God will promote you. Take care of the one client you have and God will give you another. Steward that $1 you have and God will give you another. Take that first step towards health and nutrition and God will give you the strength for another. Be faithful in the small things and God will open up big opportunities. David's simple faith and contagious optimism wins Saul over. Then Saul in verse 38 dresses David in his own tunic. He put a coat of armor on him and a bronze helmet on his head. And David fastened on his sword over the tunic and tried walking around because he was not used to them. And because he wasn't used to them, he said, I can't wear these. He said to Saul and he took them off. Now there's a point to be made here in this particular story. Saul's armor didn't fit
because it belonged to somebody else. The victories that were won in Saul's armor belonged to Saul. But David couldn't appropriate to himself the victories that belong to someone else. You can't win your battles with someone else's testimony. You can't win your battles with someone else's faith. You can't borrow the faith of your mom and dad and just try to appropriate it for your own life. You've got to have your own faith. You can't use someone else's gifts and talents. God didn't call you to be a second-rate Saul. He called you to be a first-rate you. Be who God made you to be. There is nobody else on this planet earth that's just like you. We don't need you to be a imitation, a copy of someone else. We need you to be the authentic you. Be who God made you. And then after David takes off the armor, he goes back to the front lines. Goliath shows up. And here's the interaction that takes place. And this is like, we're getting to the climax here, you guys. David said to this Philistine, this 10 foot tall warrior, you come against me with the sword and the spear and the javelin, but I come against you in the name of the Lord Almighty,
the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. And I want you to notice what he says, because he could have stopped there, but he goes all in. This day, the Lord will deliver you into my hands and I will strike you down and cut off your head. This very day, I will give the carcass of the Philistine army to the birds of the air and the wild animals and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel. And all those gathered will hear, will know that it wasn't by the sword or by the spear, that the Lord saves for the battle is the Lord's and he will give you into our hands. I love that. Because that is what faith does. Faith speaks and looks at the giants that you have in your life and says, you know what, this battle is not mine. This battle belongs to the Lord. And you can always find out what's in your heart when the giants show up. Is there fear? Is there anxiety? Is there this cowering sense of fleeing? You can always tell what's in the heart when the giants show up. And David, he speaks his faith. And it takes faith to say what David said. Let's be honest. He could have just said, hey,
I'm trusting the Lord here and then shut up. But he didn't. He says, I'm gonna kill you and I'm gonna cut off your head and I'm gonna feed your body to the carcass, your carcass to the birds of the air and the wild animals. And not only you, the whole Philistine army. He goes all in. It takes faith to do that. It takes faith to look at a destroyed marriage and say, I'm going to see God restore this. It takes faith looking at sickness and disease and saying, I am the healed of the Lord. It takes faith to look at a situation that seems hopeless and bankruptcy and say the Lord will provide. It takes faith to look at a city like Austin with only 15% of the people going to church and saying, you know what, in my town, in my city and all the surrounding towns, we're believing for revival. It takes faith. In the natural, David could have looked at the giant and said, he's so big, there's no way I can win. But you know what faith says? Faith says, he's so big, there's no way I can miss. You got to admire that. Now I need to draw your attention to the reality that if you're going to speak to giants that way, if you're going to talk to a 10 foot warrior
and say today, I'm going to kill you and then I'm going to cut off your head and we're going to feed your body to the carcasses of your carcass to the birds of the air and the, you know, the animals, the wild animals. If you're going to say that, you better be sure of two things. Number one, that there is a God and number two, that you have a relationship with him that he's willing to come if you ask him. That's what you need. When I was in junior high school, I got into a fight with a neighbor up the street. We were friends and then we were enemies. You know how that happens. And it started with, you know, just name calling, but then it got to, you know, we were throwing rocks at each other and I chased him up the street and he ran into his house and apparently he told his older brother, you know, that there was a guy outside that was bothering him. So his brother comes out of his house and stands on his front porch and he says something very similar to what David said to Goliath. He said, he's going to kick my, you know what? And I say, yo, you got a big mouth, you know, you're just talking and you're doing that because, you know,
you got your big brother, but I've got a big brother and I'm going to meet you tomorrow afternoon here. And the kid said, great, tomorrow afternoon. I was walking away and I thought to myself, I better be sure of two things. Number one, that I have a big brother. And number two, that he'd be willing to come if I asked him. I had a big brother, but I wasn't sure of the second part. So I went up to Pete and I said, Pete, listen, this is what's happening up the street. I need your help. At this particular point in time in Pete's life, he was doing drugs and dealing drugs. And he had lots of friends with people who might enjoy what was about to happen. So I told Pete about it and he said, I'll be there. And he tells his friends and he's got a posse the next day, I'm walking up the street with 12 of the fiercest looking guys you've ever seen in your life. We go up to that house and they call the police. Kind of just dissipated after that. But if you're facing a Goliath and you speak to that giant, you better be sure of two things. Number one, that there is a God. And I'm here to tell you guys, there is a God. There is a God who created this world and he's all powerful. And number two, by grace, you have a relationship with him and he will come if you ask him. Faith speaks.
But faith doesn't just speak, faith runs to the battle. As the Philistine moved closer to attack him, David ran quickly towards the battle line to meet him. This is like the defining image of faith in the Bible. His heart might've been beating out of his chest. His head probably was telling him how foolish he was. But faith runs to the thing that terrifies everyone else. Fear retreats, passivity freezes, but faith sprints forward. And that brings me to the conclusion of this particular story and the message and the title of the message. That it takes faith and stones. Reaching into his bag and taking out a stone, he slung it and struck the Philistine on the forehead. The stone sank into his forehead and he fell face down on the ground. The Bible says he picked five smooth stones, put them in a bag. And he took one of those stones out. He said, well, why did he have five stones? I've heard some people say, well, he was just being cautious and if he missed with the first one, he'd grab a second one. I like what someone else said. They said, he chose five stones because Goliath had four brothers and he was not messing around. Yeah. But he took that stone and he put it in a sling. He put the stone in the sling
and I'm not gonna do that today because I don't wanna kill anybody. And if I don't kill you, I'll probably knock out a screen. But he put the stone into the sling because this is something that we need to realize. God could have just killed Goliath, but he didn't. David had to run to the battlefield and he put his faith in God. This battle is the Lord. He made that clear. His faith was in God, but he also took out his sling and put a stone in his sling. And he began to twirl that sling above his head. And when he released that sling, it released the stone and his faith guided that stone and hit Goliath right there in the center of his forehead. And I just want you to know, it takes both what you believe and what you do. The sling and the stone matter. It takes faith in God and it takes action divinely inspired by God to defeat the giants in your life. James put it this way, faith without works is dead. It takes both the faith and the energy. Abraham walked out the promised land. He said, God said, I'm gonna give you the land, but Abraham had to walk it out. Moses had to lift up his staff and then the Red Sea part. And I get it, raising the staff is pretty small compared to the Red Sea parting,
but there's still something for us to do. Peter had to get out of the boat in order to walk on water. To save your marriage, you need faith and some romance. To raise godly kids, you need faith and some quality time. To have success on the job, you need faith and hard work. You wanna get into shape, you need faith in God, but you need to be willing to put in the effort. You can't just pray, oh God, you know, get me in shape. You use your faith and he supplies the strength. You wanna be blessed, it takes faith and the planting of seeds in God's kingdom. It takes both. Every week, we stand before the Goliaths in our lives and we realize that faith and stones matter. I do what I can so God does what I can't. And the giants you might be facing today, there might be a financial giant, there might be a relational giant, there might be, you know, a health giant, there might be some emotional giants, maybe it's an addiction giant. I'm here to tell you, the way to defeating the giants in your life are laid out by the story of David. Have your heart aligned. Connect in your relationship with God so the anointing of the Holy Spirit is upon you. Be faithful in the small things. Speak your faith and reach into that bag of stones and add action to your faith. And your giants, my friend, your giants will fall.
And you know what the Bible said? He fell face first. And your giants will fall just the same. Could I hear a good amen? Let's pray. Father, we thank you so much for the opportunity to be in church today. And Lord, I know we all face giants. Maybe we're facing one today. And Lord, I pray that these words would inspire us to put our trust in you. And Father, if we're not facing a giant, Lord, I pray that we would file this message away for that season that we know will come at some point in time. That you would give us the courage and the strength to align our hearts, to be faithful in small things, to seek your anointing and grace, to speak our faith and run with our faith, and to reach into our bag of stones and do the right thing empowered by your spirit. Help us, Father, to do what we can do so you can do what we can't for your glory in Jesus' name. If you don't mind, just please remaining in an attitude of prayer for just a moment longer. If you came to church today and you say, pastor, I'm not living right, I'm not doing right, I'm not where I ought to be with God. Maybe you came to church today and you'd say, pastor, I need to give my heart to Jesus.
Or maybe you have never invited Jesus into your heart and you need to make him your Lord and Savior for the first time or to rededicate your life to serving him. If you wanna meet him for the first time or rededicate your life to him, would you please raise your hand quickly and boldly wherever you are? That's your part, that's the small part, that's you taking a stone out of your bag. He did the big part. He died on the cross for you. All you need to do is receive it this morning. All of you with your hands raised and so many hands up today, it's so beautiful. I wanna lead you in a very simple prayer to invite Jesus into your heart. And I want everyone else as a reaffirmation of your faith in God to join them in this prayer. Let's all of us pray out loud together as a reaffirmation of your faith, let's pray. Heavenly Father, I thank you for sending Jesus. Jesus, I ask you to come into my heart. Forgive me of my sins. I put my trust in you. And I will live for you from this day forward by your power, for your glory. In Jesus' name, amen. Would you give them all a great big hand clap? Amen.
Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. We're gonna be dismissed in just a moment, but all of you. to raise your hands. I want, when we're dismissed, I want you to go over here to our West Entrance. Pastor Oscar has a sign made brand new. We wanna give you some information, give you a Bible, get you on a track where you can learn to live out this commitment, this relationship with God that you're initiating today. So we want you to be a part of that. So please make your way there. We also have prayer partners that will meet you up here at the front after we're dismissed. If you have a giant in your life and you'd like prayer with somebody to help slay that giant in your life, I wanna encourage you to come forward after we're dismissed. And we also have these invite cards that are available at every single exit. They just give you the opportunity to invite your friends. You know, we're not gonna win this city to Jesus unless we are willing to extend some information. That's the part, extend some invitations for people to come and be a part of what God is doing. So please grab those.
And then don't forget, we have small groups on Wednesday night, and we'd love for you to be a part of that as well. Let's all of us stand to our feet as we close. And I just wanna tell you, God bless you. Thank you so much for being here today. Have a fantastic week, and let's slay the Goliaths in our lives, amen. God bless you. We'll see you next week, and we'll see you on Wednesday night.
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