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    Giants Will Fall
    Giants Will Fall
    Giants Will Fall
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    Giants Will Fall

    By Chip Kawalsingh

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    Sometimes life punches you in the gut... but within all of us is the ability to defeat every giant.

    We all face giants in our lives: situations and struggles that appear so big and intimidating that they leave us feeling broken and confused, wondering if we’ll ever be able to get past them.

    Whatever you are going through, God promises you the victory. If you learn to trust in Him and rely on His power and grace, you will find your greatest success in the midst of your greatest storm.

    No matter what you’re dealing with, this book will encourage and inspire you to face your giants head-on and watch them fall. You were created to be a giant slayer; it’s your true calling.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarvest City Media
    Release dateJan 15, 2019
    ISBN9780956141583
    Giants Will Fall
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    Chip Kawalsingh

    Chip was born in Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean, educated in the USA, and has lived in the UK for over 20 years where he is the pastor and founder of Harvest City Church, a growing multi-cultural church based in Leicester.Chip regularly speaks at churches and leadership conferences worldwide, and has authored several books, including Giants Will Fall, An Extra Shot, God a Mocha & Me, Formation Leadership and the Partnership Guide. He is also the co-author of Building Churches with Apostles and Prophets and Keys to Building Great Churches.Chip is married to Sarah and they have three children: Brandon, Dylan and Trinity.

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      Giants Will Fall - Chip Kawalsingh

      Suc­cess is not fi­nal, fail­ure is not fatal: it is the courage to con­tinue that counts

      WIN­STON CHURCHILL

      1

      AND SO, IT BE­GINS...

      So­me­times life punches you in the gut. You know the feel­ing: one minute you’re happy and everyth­ing makes sense and the next minute your world is up­side down and in­side out. You’re adrift and sink­ing with no help in sight. This book will show you that there is not just hope, but a guaran­tee of bet­ter days ahead.

      I hit one such mo­ment a few years back. Life was good but I felt run down and tired all the time. I put it down to be­ing over­worked, however I went to the doctor’s for a check-up. They drew some blood and told me, to my shock, that I was on the verge of be­coming type 2 dia­betic. It was all very mat­ter-of-fact and routine for the nurse who was trying to talk to me about how to live with and man­age the con­di­tion, but for me it was dev­astat­ing. I re­mem­ber it vividly. My heart sank like a lead bal­loon. A gi­ant had stepped into my path and was taunt­ing me whilst I sat paralysed. I was like Saul, the Israel­ite king, hid­ing be­hind his fear­ful army whilst the gi­ant, Goliath, laughed in his face.

      The thing is, I’m a Christian, a be­liever in the Lord God Almighty. I’m called to be the head and not the tail. I’m not meant to be Saul, passive in the face of a chal­lenge. I’m David, the man of faith who ran to con­front the gi­ant head on.

      In that mo­ment I had a choice to make, the same choice that we all have to make when – for whatever reason – the world as we know it falls apart: al­low dis­courage­ment and des­pair to take root, or pick up my sling and join the battle.

      I chose not to let that gi­ant con­quer me. I thought, ‘Nah, not me! I’m not called to live that way.’ I listened in­tently to the nurse as she told me about all the ways I could im­prove my lifestyle and from that day I changed the way I lived my life. It was hard, but with God’s help and strength I did it. I stopped tak­ing sugar in my cof­fee. I rad­ic­ally changed my diet. I started walk­ing and, later, run­ning. A friend who is in great shape reached out and I joined his gym and we began to work out to­gether three times a week. It might sound trivial to you, but to me it was a com­plete re­in­vention of who I was.

      A year later I had an­other blood test. Usually I get the res­ults over the phone but I was called back into the surgery. That’s only ever bad news! I sat down with the nurse, fight­ing the neg­at­ive thoughts that were trying to creep into my mind. She told me that all the tests had come back nor­mal but be­cause of my med­ical his­tory the doct­ors be­lieved that the res­ults were wrong. She started question­ing me about what had happened since my last test and I replied, ‘I just did ex­actly what you told me to do.’ She was shocked! She looked at me and said, ‘Nobody ever does that!’ I had fol­lowed her ex­pert ad­vice, changed my mind-set and ac­tions, and the threat of a life­time of de­teri­or­at­ing health had disappeared. Now, a few years on, I’m still walk­ing in that changed lifestyle and my health is bet­ter than it’s ever been.

      This ex­per­i­ence made me think about how we re­act to situ­ations. I’ve been a pastor for over 16 years, and in or around church all my life. I’ve lost count of the num­ber of people that I’ve seen come up against their own per­sonal gi­ant and crumble. It doesn’t have to be that way! I’ve also seen count­less lives trans­formed, des­tinies un­fold and fam­il­ies re­stored by the power of the gos­pel through the Holy Spirit!

      The sim­ple truth is this: it’s not our gi­ants that de­feat us; it’s our mind-set. I have preached for many years that ‘at­titude de­term­ines des­tiny’, and I’m con­vinced that if we can all truly un­der­stand what that means we’d see far fewer broth­ers and sis­ters stumble and lose their walk with God.

      Every be­liever will face gi­ants. It’s cer­tain and in­ev­it­able. We all have days when we feel like throwing in the towel, but we have to get up, get ready and face the world. To do that we need to let God em­power us. The key word there is let. Christ already lives in us; His grace and strength are al­ways avail­able to us. But it’s up to us to take hold of those blessings and be­gin to shape our lives as we want to see them.

      One of my favourite scriptures in the Bible is found in the book of Jude, where we are told to con­tend in the faith (Jude 1:3). The word ‘con­tend’ means to strive in opposi­tion or against dif­fi­culties, or to com­pete as in a race. We have to fight to move forward in our faith. It’s not a given. God won’t do it for us. He wants us to act­ively seek Him and the peace that He of­fers.

      Whenever Je­sus in­ter­ac­ted with people in the Bible who were sick or had needs He al­ways asked them to do so­mething be­fore they saw their an­swer. When the wed­ding hosts ran out of wine they had to get jars and fill them with water (John 2:1-12). When Peter needed money to pay the tax he had to catch a fish and take the coin out of its mouth (Mat­thew 17:24-27). The blind man needed to go to the Pool of Siloam to wash his eyes (John 9:1-12), and so on.

      Did Je­sus need Peter to catch the fish to show His power? Of course not! But Peter needed to catch the fish to ex­per­i­ence and appre­ci­ate how God works. Are you like me, strug­gling with an ill­ness which is rooted in your lifestyle? God’s prin­ciple is sim­ple: we’re not to just sit around and wait for a mir­acle. God ab­so­lutely can heal you, but don’t give Him a reason to! Make the choice to trust and obey God, and change your life for the bet­ter. God gives us the power to take con­trol of our lives.

      Don’t get me wrong, I’m not talk­ing about a ‘self-help’ approach to God and I’m not saying that every is­sue can be resolved with hu­man ef­fort. There are some gi­ants that are en­tirely out of our con­trol, and when we’re faced with them we just need to be still and know that He is God (Psalm 46:10). However, it takes faith and dis­cip­line to be still, and those are things that we can work on. We have to con­tend in our faith and do our part – be it chan­ging our lifestyle or at­titude, or some other physical ef­fort, or sim­ply getting on our knees and hum­bling ourselves be­fore God in prayer – and trust God when He says that He will do the rest.

      You may feel alone during your struggle but God wants to crowd you with his power. As a pastor, I see a few key gi­ants that people stumble over again and again; the gi­ants of delay, doubt, dis­courage­ment, des­pair, and dis­il­lusion­ment. Even the most fer­vent be­liever will come up against gi­ants. For some people these gi­ants are mo­ment­ary – like my dis­courage­ment when I was told how ser­i­ous my health situ­ation was – but for oth­ers they can be con­tinuous battles. Gi­ants Will Fall ex­plores how God gives us the strength to over­come in each of these situ­ations.

      When we feel like we are at the end of our rope, when we feel that we can’t cope, that we are beaten down and ready to give up, that’s when God’s grace kicks in. He gives us the abil­ity to dust ourselves off, stand tall and face life again. God never says that life will be easy but He promises that He will be with us through the storms (John 6:33). My prayer is that as you read through the pages of this book and see how God worked in the lives of some of the her­oes of the faith – great men and wo­men like David, Job, Moses and Joseph – you will be­gin to un­der­stand that God de­sires for His people to walk in His ab­so­lute best, and that we shouldn’t settle for less be­cause noth­ing but the best will do!

      Ask the Holy Spirit to rest on you and speak to you. Let Jude’s com­mand ring in your spirit like the bell at a boxing match. Place your trust in Je­sus and see what it means to con­tend in the faith and see your gi­ants fall.

      Don’t say, I’m too young, for you must go wherever I send you and say whatever I tell you

      Jeremiah 1:7

      2

      La­bels and Lim­its

      Too Young, Wrong Col­our

      I en­joy what I do so much. I pastor some of the most lovely and passion­ate people you’ll ever meet and my greatest blessing is to be part of a church where we regularly see lives changed, fam­il­ies re­un­ited and people come to know Je­sus as Lord. But it hasn’t al­ways been so good. Pastoring can be a dif­fi­cult job. I’m West In­dian, from Trin­idad and Tobago in the Carib­bean, and my wife, Sarah, is from Wales. When we first started pastoring Harvest City Church I was just 27 years old. Our wel­come to the job was someone telling us that we wouldn’t last long as I was too young and the wrong col­our!

      The church didn’t have a build­ing so we held our meet­ings in a col­lege. It was a dingy, smelly place. It wasn’t very nice but God used it as the mat­rix for our church. Early one Sunday morn­ing I was in a classroom chan­ging my youngest son’s nappy. It was a multi-purpose room with a blue parti­tion screen for privacy, so no one knew we were in there. Two wo­men from the church came in and began to talk about me – and not in a nice way. In fact, they were using foul and ra­cist lan­guage. These were people I knew, shook hands with, spoke to and ate with! As they were wax­ing lyrical about me, my son squeaked and they real­ised I was in the room and had over­heard everyth­ing. I fin­ished sorting his nappy and came out from be­hind the screen, greeted them with a smile, shook their hands and left them to stew over what had just happened.

      That was such a tough mo­ment for me. To start the church we had

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