Get Ahead of Yourself

In Get Ahead of Yourself, Pastor Gary Adduono connects two moments from David’s life: the day he defeated Goliath with a stone and the day, years later, when Goliath’s sword was waiting for him in the house of God.

David could not have known that the victory he won in one season would become provision for another. Through his story, this message explores how today’s prayers, obedience, worship, generosity and faithfulness prepare believers for tomorrow’s battles. What is developed in private may one day provide strength in public.

The message also points to Jesus, the greater David, who defeated death through death itself. Because Christ has gone ahead, no believer faces the battle alone.

The foundations laid today become the weapons waiting tomorrow. What someone fights through today may one day fight for them.

1 Samuel 17:40–54

1 Samuel 21:8–9

Psalm 23

Psalm 27:4

Psalm 84:10

Romans 13:1

2 Samuel 24:24

Hebrews 2:14