Facing Your Giant

1Samuel 17:4-NKJV
And a champion went out from the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, from Gath,

1. THE WRONG FOCUS CAN BRING DISCOURAGEMENT …IN FACING THE PROBLEM.

I Samuel 17:8-11-NKJV

8 Then he stood and cried out to the armies of Israel, and said to them, “Why have you come out to line up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and you the servants of Saul? Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me.
9 If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then we will be your servants. But if I prevail against him and kill him, then you shall be our servants and serve us.”
10 And the Philistine said, “I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.”
11 When Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly afraid.

Dismayed: feelings of anxiety or distress, typically at something unexpected; to lose courage.