Free Lessons from David: How to Be a Giant Killer by Andrew Wommack Page A

who listen to you will be able to believe it with all of their heart too. That’s a great lesson from the life of David.

Chapter 9
The Power of God
And Saul armed David with his armour, and he put an helmet of brass upon his head; also he armed him with a coat of mail. And David girded his sword upon his armour, and he assayed to go; for he had not proved it. And David said unto Saul, I cannot go with these; for I have not proved them. And David put them off him.

1 Samuel 17:38-39
    At first, nobody believed in David. They judged him based on his external appearance. People stacked up his physical stature against Goliath’s so they didn’t believe in him. Finally, David spoke with such conviction, authority, faith, and power that he won the people over—including the king. They finally said, “Well, okay. Go! We’ll trust you.”
    They wanted to arm David with Saul’s armor. Saul was the largest, tallest, biggest, and strongest of all the Israelites. He had all of this armor and weaponry, yet he was still hiding. He had never fought Goliath. If Saul’s armor wasn’t going to grant him victory, what made him think it would give David victory?
    Can you imagine David putting on Saul’s armor? Here’s this little runt of a guy, swallowed up in the armor of the largest man in the entire nation of Israel. David could probably turn around in the armor without ever moving it. This armor was burdensome to him. David had enough wisdom to recognize that this wasn’t the way it was going to work. He said, “I can’t do this.” It’s not that the armor itself was evil, but David was trusting in the Lord. The issue was that David had never proved the armor. He wasn’t familiar with it. It wasn’t what he had used before. He wasn’t trusting in some physical thing to overcome Goliath. His confidence wasn’t in the protection the armor could give him. David knew it was his faith in God that would put him over. So he had enough sense to refuse to go into battle with something that had never worked for him before.
    Stick with What Works!
    People will try to talk you out of serving God. They’ll say, “You’re fanatical. You can’t do it.” But if you persist, they will finally say, “Well, okay. Do it. But at least do this.” And they will then try to give you their theories about how it should be done. But their theories aren’t working for them. They aren’t doing anything. There’s no victory in their lives, yet they’re quick to tell you what to do. “Here, put on my armor that isn’t working for me!”
    God may have spoken something to you and you may be trying to obey Him. You are taking a step of faith, but the truth is that you aren’t going with what’s in your heart. You aren’t doing what God told you to do. You’re trying to live off of somebody else’s revelation. They may mean well, but you can’t go by what God has told someone else to do. You can’t just attend some seminar and figure out how another person grew a church or business and then go back and do it that way, thinking if it worked for one, it’ll work for another. You need to hear what God is telling you. You can’t just be parroting things. You need to get in the presence of God and develop your own relationship with Him. Don’t just take what He gave someone else. Hear for yourself what the Lord tells you to do, then go with it!
    Andrew Wommack Ministries has given away millions of cassette tapes, not to mention CDs, books, DVD’s and audio message downloads (most of my teaching series are available free as MP3 files at our website). That’s no gimmick! The majority of the people who contact our ministry never give us a dime. Yet we send them CD’s, DVD’s, books, and other things. How does that work? It’s the blessing of God!
    There was a time in my life when I couldn’t buy the Word. My wife had gone two weeks without food. She was eight months pregnant, and we were struggling. I looked at a man’s tape table and