Defying the Odds!

As some of you may know I am the Youth Pastor at a Church in Ramsey MN. The School that most of my students attend is Anoka High School. Two of the Seniors in my Church play for the Anoka High School Girls Basketball Team! This season for them has been a season to remember! They finished the regular season with a record of...

2 and 24!

They also have not won a postseason game since 1999! I was 11 years old! Most of the players on the team were in diapers!!

Now you might be thinking to yourself, "wow Tyler way to encourage the team." But this story is not over! These girls defied the odds!

In Minnesota State High School League every team is entered in the Sectional Tournament. This is where the story gets cool! These girls won the section tournament! So today My pastor and I are going to the game at the Target Center where they play the number one seed!! This is the first time EVER that Anoka has been to state for Girls Basketball!

Talk about defying the odds!

I love the story of David and Goliath! This is a story about defying the odds! Goliath was a huge scary man, and David was believed to be in his teens! I don't know about you but when I was a teenager I was a scrawny little dude!

But David had faith! David believed that HIS God! Yahweh was greater then anything or anyone! He believed that God could and would defy the odds!

1st Samuel 17:45-47

⁴⁵ David said to the Philistine, “You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the LORD Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. ⁴⁶ This day the LORD will deliver you into my hands, and I’ll strike you down and cut off your head. This very day I will give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds and the wild animals, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel. ⁴⁷ All those gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the LORD saves; for the battle is the LORD’s, and he will give all of you into our hands.”

And you know what...He did!

What about you? What is your giant in your life? Job Loss? Marriage Problems? Drugs? Porn? Lack of Purpose? Just life overwhelming you? What ever is your Giant do you believe that God can defy those odds?

I know that in the heat of the moment it is hard to say God is in control! But I tell you what it is so freeing! To know that it does not all rest on your shoulders! God is in control! Cry out to God! God please defy the odds in my life! God I know you are bigger then the Giants in my life! God you are in control!!

Way to Go Anoka Girls Hoops!!! Good Luck at State!!