Facing Your Giants: God Still Does the Impossible (Discover More About the King David of the Bible and How to Defeat Your Goliath. Perfect for Fans of House of David)

Written by Max Lucado

Narrated by Ben Holland

Learn how you can face and defeat your giants, just like King David did.

How long has your Goliath dominated your days and pilfered your peace?

Like David, you know well the presence of Goliath. Your Goliath doesn't carry a sword or shield; he brandishes blades of unemployment, abandonment, or depression. Your giant doesn't parade up and down ancient hills; he prances through your office, your bedroom, your classroom. He brings bills you can't pay, addictions you can't resist, a past you can't shake, and a future you can't face.

How long has your Goliath stalked you? Invaded your first thought of the morning and last worry of the night?

David knows a little something about facing giants. The shepherd boy seemingly had little to offer against the nine-foot, nine-inch Goliath. You could read his story and wonder what God saw in him. Throughout his life, David fell as often as he stood, stumbled as often as he conquered.

But for those who know the threat of a Goliath, David gives this reminder:

• Focus on Giants—You Stumble.
• Focus on God—Your Giants Tumble.

 

Are you ready to face your giant? Let David's story inspire you. The same God who helped him will help you.

A study guide is available in the audiobook companion PDF download.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson
• Release date: Apr 7, 2020
• ISBN: 9781400222971

Max Lucado

Since entering the ministry in 1978, Max Lucado has served churches in Miami, Florida; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and San Antonio, Texas. He currently serves as the teaching minister of Oak Hills Church in San Antonio. He is the recipient of the 2021 ECPA Pinnacle Award for his outstanding contribution to the publishing industry and society at large. He is America's bestselling inspirational author with more than 150 million products in print. Visit his website at MaxLucado.com Facebook.com/MaxLucado Instagram.com/MaxLucado  X.com/MaxLucado Youtube.com/MaxLucadoOfficial The Max Lucado Encouraging Word Podcast

Reviews for Facing Your Giants

[Olga de Juana · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Provided a fuller understanding of David and all that he faced. Given a refreshing view of how to face the giants in my life.

[MissMariel · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Excellent book, it narrates the life of David and relates it to current and everyday situations that one can identify with. Perfect gift for someone who is overwhelmed or facing a difficult situation. (Translated from Spanish)

[elinderzambrano · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Face your giants. A book whose author uses the story of the challenger, small David, against the great muscular giant Goliath. This book typifies and exemplifies all the giants in our lives, thereby showing that they are products of our illusion and that with the inner knowledge of ourselves, of that self that surrounds us, there is no giant that can even challenge us. (Translated from Spanish)

[jerseygirl21-977813 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I learned a lot about David that I didn't know.

[blessdb_ond · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

"Focus on Giants-You Stumble. Focus on God-Your Giants Tumble." Max Lucado once again writes a great book helping us to see that no matter what we face in this life God is there to see us through. David a man who made many mistakes in life was still seen as "a man after God's own heart" because after the poor decisions that he had made he would always repent and refocus his life on God, his creator. Many lessons can be learned from this book.

[moses917_1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

In Facing Your Giants, the author Max Lucado impresses once again with his devotional style study of the life of David with his failures and successes. He is a Biblical figure whom God himself proclaimed “a man after his own heart” (Samuel 13:14). David, first King of Israel, has been the subject of untold works of art, painting, sculpture, cinema, poetry, and prose, from Michelangelo to Bible cartoons. some describe his weakness; all describe a truly incredible life.

Lucado is known for his encouraging books, and this book is no exception. The book works as small biography, showing us chronologically how the events in David’s life happened. While most of the chapters are each a self contained lesson it does permit us to how one event lead to another. As usual he chooses a catchy theme for Christians to follow.

Too often in our lives, we focus on the overwhelming stresses in our lives, fear, failure, doubt, a shady past, etc. Whatever it may be we all have giant hovering over us in our way. He uses the life of David to vividly illustrate this truth. In the beginning of the book, Lucado the word-smith paints a portrait of tiny David and how he stood firm against a nine-foot giant, against all odds, in the midst of others’ doubt, and dropped the behemoth with one stone hurled from a sling, the simplest of weapons. Lucado cleverly and effectively shows that David’s focus was on God, not the towering threat that loomed over him. This is how we should live our own lives, with our focus on the Master, on the one who sits upon the throne and guarantees our success if we just trust in Him.

Max Lucado very rarely brings anything new to the table. That’s certainly the case here. There is very little I haven’t heard before. But he always puts such a fresh, encouraging spin on things, I always see things in a new light. And even when admonishing us, he still does it gently. I appreciate Lucado’s ability to take a minimal narrative that’s found in Scripture and paint color around it. He’s able to inject life and emotion into people that can be minimized when you read the straight text without taking time to ponder. In addition, he easily moves the historical event into today’s world and relates it to situations more familiar to us.

It’s full of many small one-liners and brief sentences that are POWERFUL! Lucado’s style is easy to read and can be done in a devotional type format. applying to anyone who has a ‘giant’ still lurking around. One of the trademark saying from the book by Lucado is, “Focus on your giants, and you stumble. Focus on God, and your Giants tumble.” There are some helpful study questions with practical applications in the back of the book. Overall, Facing Your Giants is an encouraging and helpful “applicational biography” of a very famous life.

[wiseasgandalf_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

David, first King of Israel, has been the subject of untold works of art: painting, sculpture, cinema, poetry, and prose, from Michangelo to Veggie Tales. Some describe his greatness; some describe his weakness; all describe a truly incredible life.

But what does David’s life mean to me, today, in the midst of the pressures and pain of the 21st century? That is the subject of this great read by Max Lucado. Each chapter of the book is a chapter from David’s life, from his encounter with Goliath to his life on the lam to his victories to his downfall with Bathsheba. With each glimpse into David’s strengths and weaknesses Lucado winsomely shows how we can apply insights from his life to our own. The truths presented are all Biblical and God-centered, although he sometimes draws out a point he wants to make a bit beyond where the Bible actually points.

There are some helpful study questions with practical applications in the back of the book. Overall, Facing Your Giants is an encouraging and helpful “applicational biography” of a very famous life.

[libvictor · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Based on the biblical story of David and Goliath in the Old Testament, Max tells us that we can face the giants in our lives just like what David did. After you have read this book, you will feel that all your PROBLEMS are not problems at all!

[jsgreen_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

The kind of book you can sink your teeth into! We all have so many giants we have to face, only God can walk along with us to help face and "beat" your giants down.

[million_billion · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

A Very Good Read.