Every battle you fight you can win if you will keep your mind renewed with the truth of God's Word. "But, Pastor, you don't know how much opposition I'm facing. There are giants!" If there are giants, then God has given you the means of defeating them.

He has put His Spirit and Word inside you, and you know you are supposed to fight and win this battle. You know you are supposed to be a winner and not a quitter—you have an inheritance in Jesus Christ to possess.

When I found out about my inheritance, I said, "Wait a minute! Those giants are sitting on my stuff! That land belongs to me." If the children of Israel had lined up their imaginations and thoughts with God, they would have realized that He had had those giants prepare everything for them. Those big guys had built beautiful houses with atriums and gardens, and they had plowed the fields and had grown all kinds of wonderful fruits and vegetables to eat. God used those giants to prepare everything for His children!

The problem was, the children of Israel did not see their potential in God, and they did not see the giants as God saw them. Instead, they had a grasshopper image of themselves and saw those giants annihilating them.

The men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we. And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.

And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
(Num. 13:31-33)

The other ten spies brought back an evil report. They measured their lives by their natural abilities instead of God's Word and power. They saw themselves as grasshoppers, and God called that evil.

Personal Experience
I had a similar experience when God called me to quit my job and go into full-time ministry. I had a great job that paid well and had good benefits. I had a family, a mortgage, and the cars to pay for. All my bills seemed like giants to me. How could I quit my job and go into the ministry? That was where my thinking was at that time. My imagination was filled with pictures of me ministering full time in failure, poverty, and defeat.

I began to wrestle with these images in my mind. The Holy Spirit was telling me to leave that job! In desperation I began to meditate this verse of Scripture:

Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's, But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.
(Mark 10:29-30)

Now I began to question the limitations and boundaries the world had placed on me. The more I meditated on and thought according to the Word of God, the less I was manipulated by old, ungodly thinking. I began to see myself prosperous and fulfilled as a minister of the Gospel.

The day came when I had such a clear picture in my mind of how fantastic it would be to serve God in full-time ministry that ministry was all I wanted to do. I became completely dissatisfied with my job even though it was a good job and everyone treated me right. One day I just picked up the phone, called my wife, and said, "I'm quitting my job!"

She said, "Well, praise the Lord!" God had already prepared her heart, and we were in agreement that it was time to take that step of faith. I shudder to think what might have happened if I had not meditated on God's Word and never allowed Him to change the picture I had of His faithfulness and my potential in Him. You see, I could not go where I could not see!

From this day on, let God fill your imagination and thought-life with His Word and His will for your life. Choose to be programmed by Him instead of the world around you and the enemy behind it. I promise you that you will be able to move forward in all He's called you to do with supernatural wisdom and ability you never dreamed possible. One day you will wake up and look back to see all the things you have accomplished and marvel that everything God showed you in your heart, with the eyes of your spirit, came to pass.

Source: Transform Your Thinking, Transform Your Life by Dr. Bill Winston
Excerpt permission granted by Harrison House Publishers