Wed.'s Devo - Slay Your Giants

Read 1 Chron 20
The first few verses of this chapter are about the capturing of Rabbah. Rabbah means "abundance". In 2 Sam 12:27 it calls Rabbah the city of waters. Water has to do with spirits. It was also the royal city or the seat of authority for the Ammonites. Spiritually this means that this was a spiritual stronghold of great demonic power. David didn't even fight this battle he sent his captain, Joab to do it. This is what we do when we send forth God's ministering spirits to do God's work in the spirit. We don't fight the battle, the battle is the Lord's. David took the enemies' crown of precious stones and placed it upon his own head. That is like taking the enemies curses and turning them into blessings. He also got tremedous spoil from the city. The people of the enemies were sawn in two with saws, iron, and axes. These people were the subjects of this king (the demons of the principality) All the weapons used to do this had to do with laying the axe to the root which is what we do with curses. We cut them out by the root by finding out what brought the curses (the root) and applying the axe of God's Word to it.
The next verses are about the battle against the Philistine giants. The Philistines are those who wallow in the dust: self-pity; wallow in sin. These are the same people that were in the land when the 12 spies came to see the land God had promised them. Their fear of the giants caused them 40 years in the wilderness. They could have gone in with God and defeated the giants then. They had another chance when Goliath challenged the Israelite army and had the Israelites frozen with fear. Young David walked in and slew the giant with a stone. David, a type of Jesus, showed them how to defeat the enemy with the Word (the stone). They are finally using this courage to fight the giants and win.
God will train us for spiritual warfare with progressively harder battles. If we win, we get promoted to a bigger battlefield which usually means a trip down memory lane to kill giants of our past. That is what happened here, but this time they won. The last giant sounded just like Goliath with 6 fingers and 6 toes. Jesus has slain Goliath, the Devil, we just need to stand on that confession.