“When all hope is gone and your word is all I’ve got, I have to believe you still bring water from the rock…” (Spirit Lead Me – Influence Music)
Weapons will be fashioned against you (Isaiah 54:17). And God prepares a table for you before the enemy (Psalm 23:5). Although the weapons are formed they will not prosper and God is with you when you are in the presence of the enemy. Fear not! The battlefield is not a place to run from, but to face with God.
I keep finding myself coming back to the song “Spirit Lead Me” especially when I have been found on the battlefield. A declaration of trust and belief that God can do the impossible (water from a rock) no matter how impossible it might look in the natural. When we are found on the battlefield circumstances will often look impossible, like the rock. But God is in the business of doing the impossible. In fact I believe He delights in doing the impossible because it is a demonstration of His immeasurable strength and actions beyond comprehension.
God has taken me on an incredible journey this past year as I have worked on a new writing project, about spiritual warfare. When I started writing the book in January I thought such a book might put a target on my back and I would need to walk through what I would write on – spiritual warfare and being on the battlefield. I have walked through spiritual warfare throughout my Christian journey, but none like this year. But would I have not written the book and taken the possibly easier path? Not in a heartbeat. For I now know what it means to stand in the midst of darkness but be filled with light and life, to be broken to the core but be held together in Jesus’s arms, to trust so much deeper than I have needed to before, to stand firm in the some of the fiercest battles I have known. My faith, my resolve, my relationship with God and my husband, my determination to not surrender and not compromise has been strengthened immeasurably and I say yes it was worth it. It is in that declaration that I can stand victorious, the enemy has been defeated. His schemes to derail me, have instead strengthened me.
Recently I found myself on the battlefield, surrounded by darkness, engulfed in fear and grief. I went to my prayer closet (the shower) and began to pray. God asked me what weapons I needed to pull out and take aim at the enemy with. I reflected on all the different spiritual weapons I had written about over the past year. “Declarations, worship and thanksgiving,” I uttered from my lips. Then I began to worship God in the shower, offer up praises of thanksgiving for all He had done for me and all He was doing and speak declarations of His goodness, His sovereignty over what I was going through declarations of prophecy that He would use this battle to impact others.
Through the battles I have walked through this year, I have learnt to find rest in the battle. I can sit in peace at the table God has prepared in the presence of my enemies without fear. I can stare my enemies in the eye and know they have no authority, right or power over me. Yes they may prowl nearby and try to take me out, but their attempts will not prosper. They will simply push me closer into the arms of my Saviour and witness to the world my relationship with God.
Do not fear the battle or the enemy. Embrace the battle and embrace your Saviour. Resist the enemy and he will flee (James 47). God is your place of refuge of shelter, even in the presence of your enemies you are safe and God has the victory no matter how much the enemy may prowl.
Weapons will be fashioned against you (Isaiah 54:17). And God prepares a table for you before the enemy (Psalm 23:5). Although the weapons are formed they will not prosper and God is with you when you are in the presence of the enemy. Fear not! The battlefield is not a place to run from, but to face with God.
I keep finding myself coming back to the song “Spirit Lead Me” especially when I have been found on the battlefield. A declaration of trust and belief that God can do the impossible (water from a rock) no matter how impossible it might look in the natural. When we are found on the battlefield circumstances will often look impossible, like the rock. But God is in the business of doing the impossible. In fact I believe He delights in doing the impossible because it is a demonstration of His immeasurable strength and actions beyond comprehension.
God has taken me on an incredible journey this past year as I have worked on a new writing project, about spiritual warfare. When I started writing the book in January I thought such a book might put a target on my back and I would need to walk through what I would write on – spiritual warfare and being on the battlefield. I have walked through spiritual warfare throughout my Christian journey, but none like this year. But would I have not written the book and taken the possibly easier path? Not in a heartbeat. For I now know what it means to stand in the midst of darkness but be filled with light and life, to be broken to the core but be held together in Jesus’s arms, to trust so much deeper than I have needed to before, to stand firm in the some of the fiercest battles I have known. My faith, my resolve, my relationship with God and my husband, my determination to not surrender and not compromise has been strengthened immeasurably and I say yes it was worth it. It is in that declaration that I can stand victorious, the enemy has been defeated. His schemes to derail me, have instead strengthened me.
Recently I found myself on the battlefield, surrounded by darkness, engulfed in fear and grief. I went to my prayer closet (the shower) and began to pray. God asked me what weapons I needed to pull out and take aim at the enemy with. I reflected on all the different spiritual weapons I had written about over the past year. “Declarations, worship and thanksgiving,” I uttered from my lips. Then I began to worship God in the shower, offer up praises of thanksgiving for all He had done for me and all He was doing and speak declarations of His goodness, His sovereignty over what I was going through declarations of prophecy that He would use this battle to impact others.
Through the battles I have walked through this year, I have learnt to find rest in the battle. I can sit in peace at the table God has prepared in the presence of my enemies without fear. I can stare my enemies in the eye and know they have no authority, right or power over me. Yes they may prowl nearby and try to take me out, but their attempts will not prosper. They will simply push me closer into the arms of my Saviour and witness to the world my relationship with God.
Do not fear the battle or the enemy. Embrace the battle and embrace your Saviour. Resist the enemy and he will flee (James 47). God is your place of refuge of shelter, even in the presence of your enemies you are safe and God has the victory no matter how much the enemy may prowl.