Giants Will Fall
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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.
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
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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
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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