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Do you ever feel like you are in a battle that you cannot win no matter what you do? How
do you go about finding the strength to go on and finish the fight with out being defeated?
Lets look—
In His Word!
First know that you are not alone, and second if you are in a battle with God on your side it is okay! He's got this! Now go read this blog from 20 years back and see that its not the first time, God was there for you then and He will be there for you now!
…Today you are on
the verge of battle with your enemies. Do not let your heart faint, do not be
afraid, and do not tremble or be terrified because of them; for the LORD your
God is He who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save
you. Deuteronomy.
20:3-4
This day the LORD will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you and take your head from you. And this day I will give the carcasses of the camp of the Philistines to the birds of the air and the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. Then all this assembly shall know that the LORD does not save with sword and spear; for the battle is the Lord’s, and He will give you into our hands." 1 Samuel 17:46-47
Blessed be the LORD my Rock,
Who trains my hands for war,
And my fingers for
battle --
My lovingkindness
and my fortress,
My high tower and
my deliverer,
My shield and the
One in whom I take refuge,
Who subdues my
people under me. Ps
144:1-2
For though we walk
in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our
warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting
down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of
God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, and
being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled.
2 Corinthians 10:3-6
Hey guess what? When you are in a
battle and you feel like you can’t win no matter how hard you try you probably
can’t! But you knew that already, so did I. If we admit defeat we generally
have been defeated and thus will loose the battle.
Why do we have battles in the
first place?
If we look at the world for a
moment we can see many reasons for battles. We grow in battles. There has been
some sort of conflict or another going on in our known world for as long as I
can remember. Most of us have lived through at least five wars, which were full
of battles. If you asked a president or prime minister why we have wars and
battles they would say it is to keep peace, or to provide freedom to us in the
world.
Now we will look at the Biblical
reasons. In 1 Samuel 17 you can read this week about David and his battle with
the Philistines. His purpose was to give God glory. He just watched as did the
rest of the crowd of men and soldiers until he heard the Lord slandered! That
was enough to get little David’s back up! How dare that jerk insult his God,
His Lord! That was all it took to put
David, a little shepherd boy into battle mode. David grew to a man that day!
The Lord Himself called Israel
into battle many times in order to put at right the evil of the world in their
generations. They grew as a nation with
each battle they won!
When we are in a battle we can
only see a few things, but when we come out the other end we can look back and
see how much we have grown!
In the battle we
see-
The enemy.
Know your enemy! We need to seek out and find our enemy and
watch him just enough to know his weaknesses.
We also need to figure out our own weaknesses and shore them up!
Sometimes it seems that the battle is full of the enemy winning because we were
not prepared. Face it we all have weaknesses,
Lets take one step
back and remember that we need to be
prepared. Remember the scriptures we read about the Armor of God, we need
to have our gear together before we step up.
We also have to know the purpose of our battle. When we
seek out our enemy we can remember that we do not wrestle against flesh and
blood but the true enemy is satan. Sometimes we do not even really see who is
causing the problems we are struggling with, other times we look at the person
involved. We need to remember its not the person, we are angry with its the
issue. Keep it real!
It is not our
neighbor we are angry with, it is not the friend who is messing up her life, it
is definitely not God we are mad at; but it is the devil who we are angry with.
We are fighting for
the purpose God has given us to fight. For the glory of God, and the
furtherance of His kingdom!
Know why you want to go into battle.
Also it has been
said we need to choose our battles.
I could get upset at my kids not making their beds and ground them, or I can
encourage them to do the right thing and go back and teach them again how to
make their beds.
If your battle is
heavier than this, get on your knees and ask the Lord to prepare you, read your
Bible and get the right scriptures to back you up, to encourage you… to prepare
you!
The Bible is full of scriptures encouraging you to keep your mind on Him… Rom 10:11 says if we believe in Him , or Proverbs 3 says to trust in Him, and He will make your path straight. That includes in battle and out of battle. The battle belongs to the Lord! That is what we have to remember, it is not about you or me, but about His goodness, His glory, His purpose in our lives. I know I sound like a broken record sometimes, maybe I am the only one who is not getting it?
God wants us to know that He is in control, He is in charge. After all we gave Him that job when we accepted Him into our lives. When we made Him our Lord and King we gave Him authority over all our battles. We made Him our ‘Commander in Chief’! Another battle story I like is Gideon’s story. He listened to God as He prepared him for battle by reducing what Gideon thought he would need to win. God sometimes will reduce what we think we need in order to prepare us for a battle. What we have to remember is that God is in control.
See, broken record, but it is so true!
When you are weary
and full of fear,
Call on the Lord,
for He is near.
When you are
faithless and wondering why?
Call on the Lord,
He’ll hear your cry!
When you are
wounded, and full of tears,
Call on the Lord,
He always hears.
When you are lonely
and in the dark,
He’ll turn the
light on, with a spark!
When you’re
defeated, feeling the end is come…
Just call on Jesus…
the Battle is already won! Teresa Wilson
Suggested Readings for this week;
Monday: Romans 10-1-21
Tuesday: Deuteronomy 20:1-14
Wednesday: Revelations 3:1-13
Thursday: Psalm 35-all
Friday: Psalm 22-all
Weekend readings: Read 1 Timothy 5-6 this
weekend..
in His love,
Teresa M. Wilson
www.teresawilson.com
Copyright © 2005
by Teresa M. Wilson.
Rom 8:24-25
For we were saved in this hope, but hope that is
seen is not hope; for why does one still hope for what he sees? 25 But if we
hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance.
NKJV