A Word to Warriors

Yesterday was a real day for warring in the spiritual realm.  The details are not important.

 

At first I was hurt and upset by what I could see & feel with my human eyes.  But I asked the Lord for guidance and just waited, prayed, and kept my mouth shut, and set my mind to move on.  And I did pray in the Spirit yesterday and night.

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In my Bible reading last night, (I was reading 1 Chronicles 12) I noticed that when the tribes that battled for David were listed, there were interesting “side notes” that to me, were not “side notes” but inserted there for a purpose.  After the the tribe’s name and numbers of warriors, it states:

They were Brave warriors

Men who understood the times and knew what Israel should do

They were experienced warriors prepared for battle

They had every type of weapon

They helped with undivided loyalty

They were ready for battle

They were experienced soldiers

They were armed with every type of weapon. 

Hmmm.  Think the Lord was trying to tell me something?

 

God wants us to be the right kind of warriors, prepared for, and experienced in battle.  He wants us to be equipped with ALL the weapons he makes available to us.  He wants us READY at any given moment.  He wants us to be BRAVE.  He wants us to understand the times and know what we/the church body should do and how we should respond.

 

I realize that in the midst of the battle was not the time when the individual warriors should be going to David to ask him what they should do in the situation.  They didn’t have time for that in the battle.  And so it must be for us as we do war in the spiritual realm.

 

We must not shrink back.  We must not run, but be brave and fight.  We must use the weapons we’ve been provided, ALL of them!

We must be loyal, so that the enemy cannot lure us away from our purpose and task.  God says that we are to have no other gods – because if we do, we then can be “bought” with those gods.  So therefore we must have singleness of heart, singleness of mind, dedicated and not love our lives so much that we shrink back from death.

 

We must fight now and tend to our wounds later.  :O)  There is no time for that when the battle is fierce.  Every moment counts!  We must deny ourselves (our feelings as well) and push ahead.