The phenomenon of a victorious life is a powerful attraction and believers are in a good line when they have expectations about deliverance and protection.  The narratives of the Old Testament deliverance and protection (D&P) are often not fully consistent with the Messianic signature.  In fact using many of the D&P situations can be shown to be fraudulent and deadly.  The extent to what extent financial or interpersonal adversity can be likened to Goliath or the walls of Jericho is negligible.  Comparing a thinking human being to an object or a common problem is a sign of mental decay or at least thoughtlessness.  I am absolutely certain that huge loads of debt, mental or physical illnesses, whatever their causes, are not openly defying the God of salvation and creation. There are are definitely no Davids adorning the 21st century with the iconic five smooth stones.

Your servant has struck down both lions and bears, and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be like one of them, for he has defied the armies of the living God.” 1 Samuel 17:36

The modern Goliaths are common problems; little things that do not change God’s expressed love for the miracle seeker. People insulting God with irreverent and uninformed logic are not giants of any kind. So the miracles of five smooth stones in waiting will fizzle like butter meeting a hot knife.

I shudder to think of the so-called entities that people call Goliaths and Jericho. People are often obsessed with annihilating adversaries and bypassing the common encounters with adversity, which we conscientiously conclude are experiences designed to teach and strengthen us.

As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” Romans 8:36 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. Romans 8:37

Believers with problems are blowing hot air into the refrigerator. Just suppose that conversion was a miracle we prayed for and working together was pure human genius, tell us how many of us are rank fools. We are not even healing a few sick individuals, much less performing the types of signs the Lord did, and did with such frequency that the world itself could not hold the books written to document them. So let us please spare ourselves the problem of being recognized as lacking courage.

Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written. John 21:25