Battles

I woke in the night with a song in my head, It may look like I’m surrounded, but I’m surrounded by You, This is how I fight my battles.

Yesterday in church, after the message, there was an extended time of prayer. I spent time with God as well, praying for people and situations dear to me. I was grateful for the extended time of quiet to lift up my concerns while in church. There is something holy and powerful to be able to pray in that space.

Prayer does not fit us for the greater works; prayer is the greater work. We think of prayer as a commonsense exercise of our higher powers in order to prepare us for God’s work . – Oswald Chambers.

The enemy doesn’t want us to pray, he wants us to worry, to fret, to go to others about our problems. He wants us to try to find the answers ourselves, to ignore it and hope it goes away. Anything, but go to our Father in Heaven about it.

Prayer is the key that brings us to the very Presence of God. When we come to Him we are going to the Source of our hope, our strength, our very life. This is where we plug in and get charged.

The last thing the enemy wants is for us to connect with God.

This is the very first thing God wants for us, to connect with Him. To come to Him and to bring any and all of our concerns, our sorrow, our joy, our everything to Him.

When we go into battle with the enemy, we are not to go alone. We are to be armed, to be equipped, only then are we dangerous. This is what the enemy fears.

Our battles are not fought with our own physical might, they are fought in the realm between Heaven and Earth. They are fought between the Heavenly forces and the enemy’s forces, (see Ephesians 6:12). We see the person or situation from the finite space of our life that we can touch, but there is so much more that we cannot see.

So we fight our battles on our knees, (Ephesians 6:10-11, 13-18).

The saint who advances on his knees never retreats—Jim Elliot.

This is more than Clark Kent changing in a phone booth. The power and authority of Heaven is being engaged when we pray. We change from within and become the warriors in a battle that is already won.

The victory is won by the very God we have come to with our concerns; not because of ourselves, but because of Him.

Oswald Chambers continued, “Prayer is the battle; it is a matter of indifference where you are. Whichever way God engineers circumstances, the duty is to pray. Never allow the thought — “I am of no use where I am”; because you certainly can be of no use where you are not. Wherever God has dumped you down in circumstances, pray to Him all the time.”

Best Beloved, are you ready?

Let’s get on our knees and run into the battle.