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Verse for Today: Friday, December 07, 2012
2 Chronicles 14:11 – Lord,
there is no one like You to help the powerless against the mighty.
When God is with His
powerless people, He becomes their power and makes them powerful and mighty.
When He empowers His children, they are fit to fight spiritual battle against
the enemy of their soul. He gives them the necessary skills to fight the enemy.
He trains their hands to use His armor. The modern war strategists will only
find God’s instruments like sling, small stone, mud pot, torch, shouting and
staff as silly and meaningless. But When God empowers His children against
their enemies, these silly instruments make the mighty to fall. He is their
Lord and Master who has designed their destiny. He goes out to the war along with
them. God knows our crafty enemy with his cunning and subtle strategies. The
enemy strikes in the most unexpected manner at the most unexpected time. His
darts come from totally unexpected corners. But our God stands between us and
our enemies so as to defeat the tactics of the enemy and keep us safe and
secure. But His help presupposes our willingness and humility to depend upon
Him and Him alone. If we depend on our own personal strength and expertise, we
will not be able to get His strength in us. Self-dependence is our message to
God that we can fight the battles on our own and will win with our tactics. This
is the sure way to defeat. But if we confess our incompetence and weaknesses,
our God will come to fortify us and put up His fence around us. In fact, our God
Himself is our fence around us. But we need to perceive dangers which loom
large before us through God’s Spirit and seek help from Him at the earliest. If
we fail to seek God’s help, we will face the enemy squarely, get defeated and
face all the consequences. Today our God is waiting for us to seek His face in
the wake of enemy attacks and get deliverance and victory.
Dear reader, are you
aware of the fact that you are passing through the enemy territory? The enemy
is at war with you and you are passing through a spiritual battleground. The
enemy is out there to obstruct your sojourn. He defeated eminent persons like
Saul in the battlefield of envy. Some like Gehazi, Balaam and Demas have fallen
in the battlefield of covetousness. Some others like David, Solomon and Reuben
have fallen in the battlefield of lust. There were others like Absalom who lost
in the battlefield of power and Nebuchadnezzar who fell in the battlefield of
pride. Diotrephes fell in the battleground of prominence, Miriam fell in the
battlefield of jealousy and Moses fell in the battlefield of anger. But our
Lord was faithful and He revived those who repented and went back to Him seeking
His face. But those who had no repentance faced the consequences of their fall.
No matter what battlefield we are in today, if we go to the Lord in utter
contrition, He will pick us up and lead us into victory solely through His
power and might. He knows our frame and our weaknesses and shows mercy and
grace to us. If we call upon Him in confession and brokenness as we falter, He
will answer us and come to rescue us from our lowest ebb. There is deliverance
in His presence if we are in the battlefield of anxiety and frustration. We
must confess our inability to win over the emotional battlegrounds of
depression, hopelessness, loneliness and friendlessness. Then our God will come
to help us fight these battles and give us victory. He will give us what we
lack in our lives to keep fighting the battles and will lead us to victory over
all our emotional, spiritual and social battles. We will march from victory to
victory in and through God’s strength and power.
Psalms 18:39 – You arm
me with strength for battle; You made my adversaries bow at my feet.
Thought for Today
When we declare and confess our utter inability to
fight, our Lord will strengthen us with His Spirit to fight and get victory.
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