The Spiritual in Christ Jesus is nothing like the natural of
human nature. People are here today & they are gone tomorrow! It is the One
true God who has the eternal knowledge and the experience to lead us in the way we
should walk. For man can blow hot one day and the next blow cold, he can
change quicker than the weather can, and he can know you one day and forget your name in the next day! But
now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the
blood of Christ.(Ephesians 2:13)We are in Jesus, we have everlasting life with no
death. For sin we have been given salvation, and from hopelessness we have
eternal joy.
Let's take a look at a waged war: 2 Kings 13:14-19 Elisha had become sick with the illness of which he would die. Then Joash the king of Israel came down to him and wept over his face and said, “Oh my father, my father, the chariots of Israel and their horsemen!” 15 And Elisha said to him, “Take a bow and some arrows.” So he took himself a bow and some arrows. 16 Then he said to the king of Israel, “Put your hand on the bow.” So he put his hand on it, and Elisha put his hands on the king’s hands. 17 And he said, “Open the east window.” And he opened it. Then Elisha said, “Shoot” and he shot . and he said “The arrow of the LORD” deliverance and the arrow of deliverance from Syria; for you must strike the Syrians at Aphek till you have destroyed them.” 18 Then he said, “Take the arrows” so he took them. And he said to the king of Israel, “Strike the ground; so he struck three times and stopped. 19 And the man of God was angry with him and said, “you should have struck five or six times; then you would have struck Syria till you had destroyed it! But now you will strike Syria only three times.”
This king Joash was facing WAR! He had come to the prophet who was sick and also dying!
And the most interesting thing here in this passage, is that God using Elisha, gave instruction to the king and the instruction also included from verse 16 is "put your hand on the bow" and then Elisha put his hands on the king's hands. Most certainly God was in the house, was in the midst to cause victory to come to the King and the nation. In this, it was God putting his hand onto that of the political of king Joash of that which was required. We see this today where the Lord has put his hands on that of our president.
But even within this instruction, we are told that Elisha told "the king" to strike the ground and the king only struck it three times. The word then was: you should have struck five or six times; then you would have struck Syria till you had destroyed it! But now you will strike Syria only three times."
I wonder how many times, we as individuals go limp in our walk with the Lord? I wonder how many of us get lazy and will not continue to give thanks to God for His goodness to us? I wonder how many of us do not get a song in our heart and pull it out to be heard that will wage the war when we are slow in our step, slow in responding to God, when the victory is here and now!
Hebrews 12:12 Therefore strengthen the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees, 13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that which is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed. 14 Pursue peace with all people and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord: 15 looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble and by this many become defied.
Another who waged a war was David! And he, David Waged War with His hands and His fingers: Psalm 144:1 Blessed be the LORD my Rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle---2 My loving kindness and my fortress, My high tower and my deliver, my shield and the One in whom I take refuge, who subdues my people under me.
Psalm 18:32
It is God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect, 33 He makes my
feet like the feet of deer, and sets me on my high places. 34 He teaches my
hands to make war, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.
1. David blessed God by giving thanks
2. David also waged war in the
spiritual realm when he played with harp for King Saul who was plagued with
distressing spirits
3. God made David’s feet swift in
action
Then 1 Samuel 19:9 Now the distressing spirit from the LORD came upon Saul as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand. And David was playing music with his hand. 10 Then Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he slipped away from Saul's presence; and he drove the spear into the wall. So David fled and escaped that night. 11 Saul also sent messengers to David's house to watch him and to kill him in the morning. And Michal, David's wife, told him, saying, "If you do not save your life tonight tomorrow you will be killed."
Jehovah Elohim:
Creator of the heaven and earth, Who was in the beginning
Jehovah Tsidkenu…
our righteousness
Jehovah—Shammah
who will never leave us nor forsake us…You are our Helper….we will not fear nor will
we be terrified….What can man do to us?
El-Elyon: the most High God, the First CAuse of everything, the Possessor of the heavens and the earth. The everlasting God, the faithful God, mighty God who is truth, justice, righteousness and perfection.....El-Elyon.......blessed be His name forever!
You are Great I Am in our midst….Greater is He Who is in us than he who is in the world…..
For what will appear in this end of this year, where elections are on the agenda of many minds and certain agendas in the hearts of those who greatly desire to change God and His rule, still God is in our midst and the waged war cannot win against that of the LORD! Our Creator is aware, alert and ever mindful of us. He is truth, justice, righteousness and perfection. He is God. He is Christ the Lord and you and I have Jesus Christ in our hearts, Who will never leave us, nor will He forsake us. We shall not be terrified, what can man do to us? We are on the side of God Who is great! Amen.
New teaching at: Voice of Prayer
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