Victory by
faith!
Verse for Today: Thursday, April 25, 2013
Exodus
14:14 - The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.
Life
seems to be a platform for perennial warfare among various forces. The world is
full of fights and intimidation in the quest for winning at any cost. Satan
with his agents of flesh and the world fights God’s children as part of his
warfare against God. God’s children have warfare against their own flesh as
well as against Satan and the world. Christian life is a series of battles where
our enemy tries to ruin our life of faith. We are often terrified by the fierce
battle in which the enemy uses subtle and cunning tactics and weapons against
us. But we are comforted today because our Lord fights our battles for us. He sends
His message of reassurance to His children time and again that He will lead us
from victory to victory. Whenever God delivers His children out of bondage and
hindrances, the enemy gets more and more agitated. So he increases the
intensity of his attacks on us and uses newer tactics against us. He uses emotional
weapons like fear, hopelessness, loneliness, anxiety, confusion and distress on
the one side and confuses our situations on the other. He will bring in
situations like red seas, thirst, hunger, Jordan and armies of the underworld
to hinder our pathways. Simultaneously he will try to close in from behind with
his a very powerful army of demons. Thus he creates a situation of hopelessness
and fear in our minds and tempts us to plunge into grumbling. But God’s message
of confidence comes to reassure us that we can face our enemies boldly because
He fights our battles. He enables us to trust in His mighty power and rest in
His promises. He gives us His armor to wear which will keep us secure during
our battles. He uses us as weapons in His hands to fight the enemy. He leads us
from victory to victory day by day as we submit our situations to Him.
Dear
friend, are you being terrorized by the enemy through bewildering circumstances?
Are you losing courage and confidence to go forward for fear of the enemy’s subtleties?
Remember, your Lord has gone before you
to ward off the hindrances of fear and anxiety from your pathway. The enemy
will not overpower you because the Lord fights for you. He invites you to
confide in Him and rest in His promises. Your enemy will never directly fight
with God, but will use you as a proxy and try to defeat you so that he can
cause embarrassment to God’s plans for you. But God wants to strengthen your
faith today and gives you the assurance that you can find rest and peace in the
midst of the battles in life. He is in control of your circumstances and will
remove all barriers and hindrances for you to go forward. He has promised to
take you to your destination through victory day by day. None of His promises
will go void and it will all be accomplished at the right time. When the enemy uses
hindrance to cause discouragement and phobia, God wants you to consider it as a
time of testing of your faith. The entire heavenly hosts fight for you. God
will not permit one of His precious children to be destroyed by the enemy.
Today you are invited to go to His presence and appropriate victory, peace and
rest even when you face the enemy with all his subtleties. You need to be still
and silent, rather than cry out of fear, and march on with faith and trust in
the Lord and in His mighty power. Your battle belongs to your Lord who will
lead you to victory which you can claim by faith today and live in peace and
rest.
Psalms 18:32
– It is God who arms me with strength and makes my way perfect.
Thought
for Today
God’s children
dwell in peace and rest amidst the battle cry of the enemy because their God
fights their battles.
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