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Day 1: Get Your Hopes Up (Introduction) 
Day 2: The Three Most Powerful Forces in the Universe (Ephesians 2:12) 
Day 3: It Matters Which Hope You Choose (Philippians 1:20)
Day 4: Painting an Inner Image (Hebrews 11:1)
Day 5: Imaginations (Psalm 146:5) 
Day 6: Trusting God (Isaiah 43:26) 
Day 7: Taming the Tongue (Hebrews 4:14)
Day 8: Break Through Barriers (2 Thessalonians2:16-17) 
Day 9: Love Is Power (1 John 4:8) 
Day 10: Defeating Giants (Romans 15:13) 
Day 11: Launch the Counterattack (Romans 15:4) 
Day 12: Hope Set Before Us (Proverbs 13:12) 
It’s THE Way of Life (Guide) 
Prayer of Salvation/Recommitment 

Day 11
Launch the Counterattack (Romans 15:4)  

“For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.” Romans 15:4 (KJV)

No matter what comes against you, keep talking the victory. Keep speaking The WORD to your circumstances. Whatever mountain you’re facing, it will talk to you as long as you let it. That’s what Jesus meant when he said that we’re to have the faith of God and speak to the mountain—not keep listening to it speak to us. As you learned yesterday, Goliath talked to the armies of Israel every day for 40 days, and they said nothing in response.

They let the giant intimidate them. That giant had a big mouth that defied the armies of Israel and the living God. He cursed them by his gods and roared abuse and intimidation against them.

Your situation will do the same to you, until, like David, you tell that mountain, that giant, what God says, and then act on it. It will be removed and cast into the sea—as if it never existed. You have God’s WORD on it!

I experienced that firsthand. One night, I was walking down my hallway in the dark when I accidentally kicked a big ottoman. How it got in the hall, I don’t know, but I kicked it hard. The pain instantly shot up my leg, and I started hollering, “Oh, praise God, praise God, praise God! By His stripes, I’m healed!” I knew that what I said in that moment would trigger the hope inside me.

When difficulties come, we can either set the hope before us from The WORD and believe for something good; or look at the situation, believe what we see and feel, and receive something bad. I wasn’t going to receive a broken toe. When we say we believe something, that mechanism inside us goes to work, just like our digestive system kicks into action when we take a bite of food. It doesn’t wait until we say, “I need to get my stomach going.”

It simply does what it’s designed to do. The spirit man is the same way with spiritual matters. If you say, “I believe I’m catching the flu,” well, you’ve just invited it in. It’s already headed to your household to take you over and put you in bed as long as you’ll stay there. The entire time I was earnestly, intensely expecting the manifestation of healing for my toe, I was talking the victory. I was following David’s example.

The more he talked about defeating Goliath, the stronger he became. He began by shouting at the giant, “Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the Name of The LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied” (1 Samuel 17:45, KJV). Notice he didn’t stop talking to listen to what the giant had to say.

He kept talking his faith: “This day will The LORD deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcasses of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel” (verse 46). 

David was full of faith in his covenant with God. He ran toward Goliath, put a stone in his sling, shot that stone, and it sank into Goliath’s forehead (verses 49-50). In verse 51, it says, “Therefore David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut off his head therewith.” Why did David cut Goliath’s head off? Because Goliath wasn’t dead, only unconscious.

Through his previous experiences, David had learned not to let the enemy get up again. He had learned the lesson of the counterattack. Don’t let the devil fool you into quitting your offensive just because you start experiencing a little victory. If you are believing for your healing, it’s not time to sit down and watch TV just because you are feeling a little better.

It’s time to praise The LORD. Keep hammering the devil with The WORD until he decides he isn’t coming back a second time. More battles are lost by believers in the counterattack than in the original attack because they relax the offensive. The temptation is to drop your guard when you begin feeling better or you can see there is a little breakthrough. The devil will come back with his attack.

The second time is worse. If you allow discouragement to enter in and say things like, “Oh, I thought I had my healing, but I guess I didn’t,” you’ve played right into the devil’s hands. Instead, run toward the enemy, like David, and mount a renewed offensive with The WORD of God. When you’ve won the first round, take the sword of the Spirit and cut the head off that problem before you quit. Be like David. Even after he took off the head of that giant, he was still talking the victory (1 Samuel 17:51-57)!

The Philistines saw that their champion was dead, so they ran, with the men of Israel chasing after them. They chased them all the way through Goliath’s hometown of Gath. Can you imagine those Philistines running back through Gath shouting, “Goliath is dead! Goliath is dead!”? That kind of victory is comparable to telling everyone you see: “They diagnosed me with cancer and said I had to die.

But I’m here today to tell you I’m not dead, and I’m not going to die. I am healed and well!” That’s when you have the devil’s head in your hand. That’s when you have cancer or any other disease or challenge by the hair of the head, and you’re slinging it in every direction. You’re letting people know you overcame the enemy by the blood of the Lamb and the word of your testimony (Revelation 12:11).

David did just that. The more he talked, the stronger he became, until he finally got right in the devil’s face and started talking to that mountain. That same victory is yours as a Covenant child of Almighty God, filled with His Spirit and His WORD! What I’ve described to you in the life of David is what real gospel hope is. David had an earnest, intense expectation of victory.

He was fully persuaded because of his covenant—the bloodsworn oath—he had with God. He got his hope from The WORD—the same place Abraham and Jesus and Paul and James and John got it. It’s where New Covenant believers get it. The same victory they got belongs to you. God is no respecter of persons (Acts 10:34). He has given you His sword (His WORD), His Name, His blood, His armor, His authority and His very Spirit.

He said He would be with you always (Matthew 28:20). You’re fully equipped and commissioned. Meditate and dwell on The WORD for your victory. Build strong hope. Speak your faith against the mountain and water it with praise until you see your Goliath lying on his back instead of standing there telling you you’re not going to make it!

Paint the Picture (Journaling):
What are you standing for?
Have you seen the manifestation of your miracle?
How will you continue to stand even when your breakthrough comes?
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Day 11 the mountain and water it with praise until you see your Goliath lying on his back instead of standing there telling you you’re not going to make it!

Points of Hope:
» Don’t let the devil fool you into backing off from your offensive just because you start experiencing a little victory.
» The WORD is the key to winning any battle. When you see evidence of your breakthrough or miracles, keep standing on The WORD. Like David, run after your enemy with the promises of God and refuse to let up.

Prayer
​Father, I continue to thank You for Your provision. I will not give up. I will continue to stand on Your WORD. It will fill my mind and my mouth even after I receive my miracle. I will give the enemy no place to attack. Your WORD stands true, and I praise You for it! In Jesus’ Name. Amen.