Graduation Speech: Pick Up Your Slingshot And Stone

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Pick up your slingshot and stone

In our lives we all face trials, hardships and brokenness. Sometimes we have extremely big obstacles we face that seem absolutely impossible to overcome. we have to remember that our God is bigger than any issues we face.

The story of David and Goliath comes to mind, David was a boy and through God's anointing he took down a HUGE giant over nine feet tall, named Goliath that no one else would take on! That's faith with just a slingshot and a stone he took down the mighty giant!! Can you imagine? I would have been terrified, but he knew God was bigger than that giant. Same goes for you, you may not be face to face with an actual giant but you might have a giant coming against you right now, whether that be

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